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Both are SATA, sticking clear of SAS, too expensive. Thanks for the heads up on the drives, looking now. cheers!

I have decided to upgrade my server, and I ended up with this. Good UK price for a complete bit of tin. It will end up with 2TB drives as a pool to provide some decent backup/storage @ 8TB. The old server was ok, but could only cope with 1TB drives under Windows and was struggling to run all the crap I was throwing at it, like ARMA and Vegas 2. http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/HP_ProLiant_ML110_G6_Tower_Server_585458-035/version.asp?PID=768 Anyone got any views on which 2TB drive to go for? Lastly will a Linux build work around the controller/drive size issue on the old server or am I living in a vain hope with that one?

Downloading boss

Are there any users of WHS here, and has anyone tried the Vail beta? I ask because I am interested to see whether anyone has had any experience with the driver extender add-ins that are going to be necessary if I am going to upgrade from the current version. For anyone interested a good link to a wintel storage pooling app is here... http://www.drivebender.com/drive-bender

Some of my best landings have involved trees

John Lewis are doing a 'special' on a single sandwich, sandwich toaster. I really think you need to see this Zeno. http://www.johnlewis.com/231087931/Product.aspx

Good tactic P, throw them off the scent, it was you wasn't it?

Pah, gimmicks frippery with added smoke and mirrors. What you really need is one of these. Bomb-proof, as about as attractive as a multiple vehicle accident and even useful for home defence - you whack someone around the head with one of these and my money is on the keyboard coming out better. - what more could a man ask for? http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.htm Custard has one, though I am not sure he will thank me for mentioning it. On a serious note the OLED ones are absolutely brilliant, but at that price I will stick with my 1940's outlook.

Unless you are actually running any part of your network at above 100Mbit/s then no. I doubt the modem to linksys is higher than 100Mbit/s. If it is free you could use it, but it won't make a difference.

It is with a heavy heart and sense of deep sadness that I have to bring you this news. Floyd was last seen donning a woolly hat, and a 1970's snorkel jacket and walking towards 'The Shops' Sent on this perilous mission by the sensible other half he was heard to mutter through several layers of scarf, 'I am just going for a walk, I may be some time'. At this point in time our thoughts are with his family, who may have to go without chocolate until Tesco home delivery can resume. Please keep a lookout for a staggering, snow covered figure on the western edge of London Village. If you do see him, please laugh.

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Ebden, yes that is a mighty fine machine - actual workstation rather than PC. If you really need a workstation rather than a PC then I would make the following observations: 32bit compatible, but not very future proof for memory - limited to 3GB If you can cope with 64bit go for more memory As you are doing a workstation get a proper raid configuration for the disks, as default I think they stripe that which is a nightmare if you lose a disk All that grunt deserves a decent sized screen to play with Can you IT department make it virtual compatible so you can run multiple operating system instances

Video of a sentry gun built by WETA and gracing the Valve HQ area.......

Happy birthday bloke, mind you don't go blind in this thread.

Understand your sentiments, unfortunately the BBC will tell you that Topgear is not no longer a Motoring update show, it is now an entertainment vehicle(no pun intended) and if you want to know detail about cars, watch another show. They actually revel in taking the piss about people who complain about the direction the show has gone - whether you like it or not, their viewing figures are greater than when they were a pure magazine programme. I am not defending them, just clarifying that they hit their target audience and their show format is meant to be as is.

Here is my take on it. UK Top Gear is heavily crafted/scripted pre-planned. Almost nothing that happens is an accident. The trick is they try to make it look as casual as possible. If you take any a-b races they do - do you really think they set up 20 million cameras on the route to capture the drive-past. They have to stop, set up cameras and record the simple drive past. Clearly there is no real race, no matter what you think. But the programme is always defended as an entertainment vehicle it is no longer a motoring magazine, and whilst I find some things a little too co-incidental, you can't help admire the way they portray the schemes. The reason that Topgear works is their attention to detail. Other motoring programmes would dearly love to get at the assets and production budget that the BBC can throw at it. If Topgear UK had done that challenge, they would have had some idea of some something to say during the drive, mentioning pimps. drug dealers, the state of the car etc, plus some witty comments on voiceover. I felt they just laughed, and hadn't really got a plan. I may be doing them a dis-service - if so I apologise.

Class 43 FTW!

That'll teach me to vote prior to reading your posts

I will be hanging around looking shifty tonight, prepared to lose against anyone who fancies a knockabout. I generally am not patient enough so i am the charge of the light brigade. We can explore some evenly matched maps.

Yup - same as. IE8 and 9 are now unusable on my 64build. Reinstallation doesn't clear the issue. Time to spread your wings for another browser. There are plenty out there.

Downloaded - rusty as hell, but happy to have a bash Rob.

Do they sell NFS Shift there mate?

Sorry to hear that mate, I was going to make an inappropriate comment about the error code indicating a refusal to co-operate due to non-loading of NFS, but it probably wouldn't go down that well. I have an old 8800GTS hanging about if that is any use?