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Agreed with mohawk, just buy an external enclousure and a drive. Most common failure for external 3.5 HDDs are the el-cheapo power supply(often wall-warts) they ship with them. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256076 I'd suggest that if you want a 3.5" enclosure, that does USB 3.0, 3TB HDD support, and is a reasonable brandname. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817379024 Another 3.5", bit expensive but features USB 3.0 and eSATA, and is an excellent brandname. If you want to do a 2.5" HDD I'd suggest something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817379022 I don't really know if it matters if you wait 3 months or so, you might seen some price reductions but probably not too much last I heard they were forecasting at least another 6 months before prices wind down back all the way to normal, if not a year. As for the brand name of the HDD, for a 3.5" there is only two choices, WD or Seagate. I'd suggest buying a Seagate LP(low power) or a WD Green for heat factor, don't buy an Hitachi as they will cease to exist soon, which always leads to questionable future RMAs. If you want to do a 2.5" drive you've got Toshiba/Samsung/WD/Seagate, personally I'd probably stick with WD or Seagate.

Haven't played the rest, but World of Goo is well worth $5 and its charity.

Heh. Thingy.

I've used the Linksys E3000 before no problems, not the NetGear model tho. The E3000 is an updated version of the 610N which was fine(the original 600N shipped with broken DNS on the wired ports - last I checked still not fixed). Quick Break down by feature Both sport 4x gigabit, USB 2.0. Looks like the NetGear allows you to do Windows Shares(SMB/CIFS), while the Linksys features Windows Shares and a builtin uPNP server which may be something you use. They both sport the same amount of RAM and Flash, while the Linksys supports both DD-WRT and OpenWRT, while the Netgear only sports DD-WRT - tho there is plenty of other firmwares out there that may support it. The Linksys looks have 3x3 MIMO vs the Netgears 2x2 MIMO. For the cost and the fact it sports an extra radio/attenna along with broader firmware support I'd go with the Linksys. EDIT: Formatting, meh.

Oh sorry boiler, can't read apparently. But yea the 560 is just a 560 Ti with 48 cores disabled/8 shaders disabled, it sits close in performance. The video card you posted requires two PCIe 6pin power cables, which his PSU has. Its an Antec SmartPower as well, a good brandname and line.

wolfsblood: That is a clever way of getting around the hardware dongle, I like it. Also, death to hardware dongles. zd: Wasn't trying to be competitive. If a user doesn't understand how a switch works simply calling it a 'hub' isn't going to help him understand it any better, if anything it'll lead to confusion as it already as a well defined meaning.

Intel Core i5 2500k: 95W TDP Z68 chipset: 6.1W TDP - maybe 10-15W total for the MB GTX 560: Ti - 170W TDP Memory: 10W-15W HD: 10-15W So at the heaviest of loads you'd be sucking maybe 350W off the mains- your power supply should be fine unless you wanted to do SLI in the future. If you prefer AMD to nVidia you could do a 6870(A bit cheaper than the nVidia 560 Ti, 150W TDP, and a bit slower) or a 6950(a bit more expensive, a bit faster, and a bit hotter than the 560 Ti).

The raspberry pi is a cool little piece of hardware, but you in no way would want it for a full time media center - maybe one for the kids. It's GPU only capable of decoding h264, anything else like DiVX, XVid, MPEG II it'll puke, and probably just h.264/MPEG 4 AVC at bit rates lower than 6MB/s. From the video it appears the only container supported by the xmbc port is quicktime (questionable as to whether that is a hardware or software limitation), and no mention of supported audio codecs. If you were planning on doing all your own low-bitrate rips of DVDs/Blu-Ray this might be acceptable, but not if you're looking to download video. Its CPU is an older ARM7 core that would be lucky to perform at 3/4s the speed of an Intel Atom at the same clock for most tasks, and forget about any sort of serious web browsing, HTML5 or Flash. Not knocking the device, very cool hardware, but certainly not a lot of power.

Haha, that's a good way of dealing with the stupid hardware dongle.

The switch will act like a "switch", as that is what it is a layer 2 switching device does. A "hub" is entirely different piece of hardware that is now rarely seen, not good to just throw that word out there. The printer also lacks gigabit connectivity, not even the HP 6xxxx series monsters sport 1000Base ethernet probably because it wouldn't do you any good, even 100Base with a 512MB print buffer(massive) you'll fill it in less than a a couple of minutes, far faster then the printer can print.

Only thing I will say is it doesn't matter if you use a gigabit switch if your main switch(es) are 100Base, and if you want to get it up and running dirty without waiting push and hold the reset button the WRT54G for 30 seconds or so when its powered, run a cable from a PC to one of the "LAN" ports on it, set the PC's addresses to 192.168.1.2, go to http://192.168.1.1 login ID will be blank, password will be "admin". Disable the internal DHCP server, and use the four LAN ports on the back which will act as a simple switch now.

http://digiex.net/minecraft/mcvtool/ Download that, click options and download any version you'd like to, then at the mainscreen pick whatever .jar you want to launch. You can place whatever jars you want in your .minecraft/bin folder, so if you have some different mods that are incompatible with each other you can just make seperate jars and choose which you like.

Has nothing to do with SOPA/PIPA, DHS's ICE has seized hundred's domain names with no warrants/court/due process, including multiples one which weren't doing anything illegal and waiting for a year to return them with no money paid for lost profit. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/ice-admits-months-long-seizure-of-music-blog-was-a-mistake.ars, one of many examples. SOPA/PIPA will allow copyright holders to claim infringement and have an entire website taken down with no due process, example if I linked to the Pirate Bay they could seize the entire GC domain without warning, even if I provided a link to a link to a link to a link that eventually ended up in "pirated material". Currently copyright holders have to issue a DMCA(which you should have written your senator/house member about when it was up) take down notice and the website has so much time to respond to fix it. I'm sure everyone has seen youtube videos that are no longer available because of copyright infringement, that is from DMCA notices. Even better SOPA/PIPAs wording is very ambiguous as to what could be done with it, due to our congress's complete and total incompetence when it comes to anything technology related("It's not a big truck, it's a series of tubes" ring a bell), rather just listen to the copyright lobbyists and push forward a bill that they wrote. The same lobbyist groups that tried to make TVs, VCRs, cd/dvd burners, cassette tapes illegal - any form of new media which they felt would threaten their bottom line, the same reason you pay a tax on every blank CD you buy that goes to the RIAA. Side note, what MegaUpload is accused of is all kinds of bad and I'd say true. Here is a good explanation: http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/oo5px/the_real_deal_with_megaupload_put_down_your/ I prefer tinkled.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/482147-11100-jan14-reis-minimap-v30-01/ That's Rei's Minimap, replaced Zan's. Lots of other options but this does plenty and doesn't allow cheating.

New bukkit(which needs to be matched against the MC server) isn't out yet other then development. Need to wait for Bukkit 1.1 to roll out and we'll move to 1.1.

Fairly certain you know I'm fine with a new map, as you just deleted my new home and trap. jerk.

From what san found on the hosting company forums they will allow dynmap to run with its builtin webserver(so it'll be http://(SERVER_IP:8123) and they don't seem to mind/charge for it. If we want hi-resolution renders I'd be happy to render/host them if needed, they just won't have web chat(which we might not get anyways)/player locations and will only be updated periodically like every day or week.

Corrupt enough where the server console log grew to 355307(30MB) lines in less than a minute of running with the unfixed version. Fixed version is way better and only throws warnings instead severe, but has missing chunks and entity problems.

I have a friend with a box full of these for reliability testing against some FusionIO $10k+ cards for some large DB servers. He rather likes them, cheap and hasn't had issues yet. Just a side note thats not an "actual" PCIe SSD. The card is a Marvell SAS controller and two SandForce 22xx based SSDs. In other words you bought a SATA 3 controller(SAS) and two SSDs all on one card, along with some custom software intergration. So if you would have done it the other way you would have bought a 2 port SATA/SAS 6G card($50), and two 120GB SF-2200 drives($220). It would have cost you more money and you wouldn't get TRIM support and slightly lower performance. There are some other SSDs which dont use a SATA/SAS layer and are even(much) faster but nothing in the consumer market . Also, that is a *beast* of a SSD. The only bad part is while the card supports TRIM but Windows 7 doesn't support TRIM over SCSI/SAS drives(to be more techincal Windows 7's SCSI/SAS stack doesn't support the Unmap command, the equivlent of ATA's TRIM command). I'm curious to see how much the card slows down with time as you use it, and if Microsoft will release a patch to allow TRIM/Unmap to SCSI/SAS devices.

Some other good bits on 1.1 when bukkit gets rolled up. Leaves have a chance of dropping red apples Golden apples use gold nuggets instead of bars to craft Bow Enchantments(more on this!) Quicker brewing time Super-flat world generation option Pirate language! Sheep eat grass and regrow their wool Fixed fence gate collision box(super annoying) Redstone can open/close fence gates now Walking on crops doesn't trample them now Melon/Pumpkins grow on dirt instead of farmland(fully automated farms are possible now!) NPC villages have a "treasure" chest at the blacksmith Thats most of the good stuff, some bugfixes and new bugs as well. The bow has four different possible enchantments, Punch I and II(pushes the mob back), Power I II III IV V(does extra damage), Flame(self-explantory), and Infinite(unlimited ammo).

Looks like the terrain generation engine has changed once again, and that beaches are generated again. http://i.imgur.com/OMDJ5.jpg

Good work, you've pulled a san. Now you can do what he did if you're running windows 7 and simply rollback the file.

One of the problems with the anti X-ray plugins(like orebfuscartor) is they're all very resource intense, even LogBlock(which logs every player action so anything can be reverted) is less resource hungry. I wouldn't mind seeing locking chests(like LWC), simple to setup, minimal resources and some basic safety. Bukkit itself doesn't provide anything, but there is many plugins for doing what you just described. Just look through http://plugins.bukkit.org if you're bored well over a thousand plugins for doing what ever you could want(even a super lame Call of Duty one).

I'd suggest you order your HDD now, as the Thailand flooding is supposed to make prices hike. The new OCZ Octane SSD comes out Nov 1, the "quoted" specs on it are more than decent starting at $166 for a 128G, I'd guess actual price will be closer to $140/150.

If you wanted more storage on the SSD the OCZ Vertex Plus 120G are like $140 now. You lose the peak read speed of the C400/M4 as its SATA II, but performance other then that should be similar as the 64G version of M4 is rather neutered. Anandtech's Vertex Plus review. I'd stay with the i5 unless you feel like blowing some extra money, and I'd go with a AMD 6950 vs the 560 in a heartbeat. Lian-Li makes some of the nicest cases around, tho I haven't used that one in particular. I would say that hard drive cage does not look at all removable so you might want to check and make sure whatever video card you go with will fit.