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Can you list the programs that did and did not work? I think it would be very helpful to share that information. Here is a really good 3 part series written by Mark Russinovich on some "under the covers" changes in Vista, its not all cosmetic...

Not sure what you mean by "it uses one router", it doesnt use (need) any routers but in your config you would have to permit the traffic through both routers (punch holes in your firewalls or port forward in the routers) which wouldnt be the most secure setup. According to the FAQ the...

Why wouldn't it? Are you saying the protocol that it uses doesn't route?

http://www.buy.com/prod/iogear-miniview-micro-usb-audio-kvm-switch-2-port/q/loc/101/10383829.html

I have never seen that behavior (OS saying it found new hardware every time you switch back and forth) - the switch should be spoofing the OS into believing a keyboard & mouse is attached at all times - it sounds like this is acting like a physical switch where the unused machine thinks the...

Prices are dropping fast, look how cheap 2 and 4GB USB drives are. Yes, you can boot from them. Some SSD's are packaged to be compat with existing disk interfaces and form factors (looks like an ATA drive and mounts like one) Some are based on NVRAM like flash drives are (so you dont have...

You may find this article (and the papers it references, especially this one: http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html) interesting. It shows that many preconceived notions about drives are wrong: http://storagemojo.com/?p=383

Replace your pair of 10K's with a solid state drive and you will notice a difference.

I guess I still don't see your point Gregarious. Yes, using faster drives and RAID will give you faster disk access - who would dispute that? I could just as easily say having more or faster processors will lower your % CPU utilization and adding more memory will lower your % memory...

Nope, and if what you are concerned about is running a stable platform and not trying to overclock it for bragging rights then those bios adjustments are not needed. Is that really the best you can come up with to justify why your motherboard is better, custom BIOS settings? The point I was...

No, they are cheaper because they are mass produced rather then the small quantities that the niche motherboard manufactuers produce. I have built PC's from scratch using ABIT and ASUS motherboards in the past but I dont waste my time doing so anymore because they are commodities. What do you...

Thanks. I have an IB account too but I spent a lot of time developing code wrappers for the MBT API, I'd hate to have to throw that away and start over again with IB/TWS.

You are wrong, you do not have to pay off another credit card to take advantage of credit card balance transfer checks. What you are suggesting isnt new, lots of folks do it routinely (take a zero percent loan using credit cards) Read: http://www.fatwallet.com/t/52/632935/

You are the one that suggested using a balance transfer check: But I agree...its a bad idea you had. BTW, if you buy something using a credit card that gives you rewards and then return that item then you dont get the rewards.

Here's a better idea: Take a credit card balance transfer check. Write your name on it. Deposit it at your bank. Now you have accomplished the same thing with a lot less work. You do know that you can use those balance transfer checks for anything, not just paying off other credit...

CrapUSA sucks. I'm sorry if that offends you but if your most constructive comment is to suggest that someone should go there then you have no business giving anyone advice relating to PCs. Seriously.

Exactly. There is nothing special about the computers that you get from a local computer shop. The fact that Mschey thinks his motherboard, memory, processor and hard drive are "better" then what you get with someone like Dell is laughable consider how few manufacturers there are for those...

I get it - you don't know anything about computers - its all magical and mysterious to you. Keep letting your "local guy" build top quality machines with all those pesky bottlenecks eliminated for you if that's what makes you feel better about your inability to understand what's really...

The speed of your hard drive should not be a factor for a trading PC - everything should be running from memory, your hard drive IO utilization should be low enough that it doesnt matter if the drive is 7.2k or 10k. If the hard drive speed makes any substantial difference then you should be...

To me, a clone backup is when you take a source disk and make an exact copy to another disk (clone disk) using a disk to disk copy so that the clone disk is a drive that you could physically swap for the original without any extra steps (its ready to go). The process overwrites the clone disk...