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    Wootoff 20091208

    Wootoff started tonight. http://www.woot.com/
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    Eagle Tech CA-EC2 HTPC case - $40AR @ TheEgg

    Link from the Egg: Eagle Tech CA-EC2 Case $100 Rebate? Ouch. More reviews over here, without the rebate: More at the Egg Seems to get OK reviews as an inexpensive case, with iffy fans and PS. Fortunately, just picked up a 500W CoolerMaster at Fry's for $10 AR, so I'm kinda covered...
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    Remote Caching Fileserver proxy

    We're a small, engineering R&D oriented company (35 employees), with 3 main offices (East Coast, West Coast, somewhere in the middle). Our IT is outsourced to a bunch of alien mutants with brains the size of peas, so we have some issues. Site #1 is in the boonies on the East Coast. They can...
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    Recovering Win2000 Mirrored volume

    Ok, so lightning hit the other day, and among other things took out my Windows 2000 Server home server. Opened up the machine, and found the (I think) southbridge with a crater blown out of it. This machine is never gonna boot again. I moved the pair of 120GB drives out of it onto my...
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    Topology of Phone cord twist

    OK, it's at least an amusing question... I have a phone on my desk with a coil cord between the handset and the base. About halfway down the cord, a discontinuity in the twist has developed. A loop has developed, where it appears that the twist has reversed from left-handed to...
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    Installing multiple NVIDIA cards causes lockup...

    OK, don't laugh... At work, I have this nice little Dell 2.0GHz P4 running Win2K SP4, which came with an NVidia Quadro 2 FX AGP video card. Works fine at 1600x1200 for all the code hacking I get to do. From home, I brought a older GeForce2 MX PCI card with TwinView to install as a secondary...
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    Turbo Disks

    Just reading the piece over on /. about the latest 300GB hard disks, with 4 80 GB platters. It got me wondering about speed.... What would happen if a manufacturer implemented 8 read/write channels such that all 8 could be used simultaneously? You should be able to stream data to/from the...