Re: Workstation recommendations
I prefer building my own as well. I've found that the low- and mid-range systems tend to be cheaper if you buy a brand (you'll be locked in, but those systems probably don't have a lot of shelf life anyways), but for the high end, you can get some serious bang for your buck building your own - I recently built a screamer (7.6 WEI) for $1500 (SSD, 4 1TB drives in RAID 10, 8GB Corsair memory, i7 2600K) - I bought it at MicroCenter, and probably could have shaved off a couple hundred bucks if I gone with NewEgg. Billy Cravens bdcrav...@gmail.com On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: I am more of a fan of building it myself. Most boards are plug and play. So no jumper or bios settings changes are generally needed. You can put together a pretty powerful system for less by going that route. Places like TigerDirect and NewEgg offer barebones kits that are a good starting point. Eric -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:mgw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:45 AM To: cf-talk Subject: SOT: Workstation recommendations My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. Dell? Lenovo? Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? Acer? Gateway? Others? Thanks, -Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Workstation recommendations
But those guys at various computer repair places would say anything to make a sale, especially the large one which has a squad full of geeks. They pray on the uneducated and was hoping Peter was one of them... -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:james.hol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:42 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Workstation recommendations You know the hardware has absolutely nothing to do with getting a virus, right? -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 8 September 2011 09:28, Peter Donahue pdonah...@satx.rr.com wrote: Good evening everyone, This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing is a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be displayed and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347311 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Workstation recommendations
Hello Jacob and everyone, We were also getting reports of there being bad sectors on one or more hard drives. Since she does work from home a new machine would definitely be in order. Now if I could interest her in learning CF so she can help me with my Web and other projects. All the best. Peter Donahue - Original Message - From: Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:35 AM Subject: RE: Workstation recommendations But those guys at various computer repair places would say anything to make a sale, especially the large one which has a squad full of geeks. They pray on the uneducated and was hoping Peter was one of them... -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:james.hol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:42 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Workstation recommendations You know the hardware has absolutely nothing to do with getting a virus, right? -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 8 September 2011 09:28, Peter Donahue pdonah...@satx.rr.com wrote: Good evening everyone, This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing is a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be displayed and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347313 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Workstation recommendations
For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell. If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the satellite). -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:mgw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:45 AM To: cf-talk Subject: SOT: Workstation recommendations My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. Dell? Lenovo? Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? Acer? Gateway? Others? Thanks, -Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347284 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Workstation recommendations
I am more of a fan of building it myself. Most boards are plug and play. So no jumper or bios settings changes are generally needed. You can put together a pretty powerful system for less by going that route. Places like TigerDirect and NewEgg offer barebones kits that are a good starting point. Eric -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:mgw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:45 AM To: cf-talk Subject: SOT: Workstation recommendations My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. Dell? Lenovo? Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? Acer? Gateway? Others? Thanks, -Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347294 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Workstation recommendations
I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before they finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen. So it had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but I will never buy another Asus product. Dan For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell. If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the satellite). My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. Dell? Lenovo? Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? Acer? Gateway? Others? Thanks, -Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347295 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Workstation recommendations
sent from my ASUS Transformer ;-) On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 19:41 -0400, Dan Crouch wrote: I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before they finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen. So it had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but I will never buy another Asus product. Dan For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell. If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the satellite). My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. Dell? Lenovo? Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? Acer? Gateway? Others? Thanks, -Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347296 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Workstation recommendations
Good evening everyone, This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing is a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be displayed and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files. The tech we took it to said that this is a very malicious virus and is difficult to clean. You might as well say that the computer was Dead on arrival at the shop with no chance of being revived. We have one HP and two Dell machines here. The machine that was infected was a Dell desktop. This HP I use is rock solid. Mary has had a Gateway and a Dell both of which died an early death. The Gateway was fried several years ago due to an over-loaded surge protector. The virus killed the Dell. Here's hoping the next machine we get will withstand anything thrown at it and will last her for many years. Surge protectors and viruses aside both of these brands are great and we'll get a new desktop that's one of them. Here's hoping everyone is able to resolve their computer and workstation woes in the coming weeks. Peter Donahue - Original Message - From: Dan Crouch stario...@yahoo.com To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Workstation recommendations I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before they finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen. So it had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but I will never buy another Asus product. Dan For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell. If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the satellite). My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. Dell? Lenovo? Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? Acer? Gateway? Others? Thanks, -Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347297 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Workstation recommendations
You know the hardware has absolutely nothing to do with getting a virus, right? -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 8 September 2011 09:28, Peter Donahue pdonah...@satx.rr.com wrote: Good evening everyone, This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing is a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be displayed and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Workstation recommendations
Well, malware like the program you describe can usually only harm you if a) you aren't running an antivirus program, and b) you actually install the malicious program. So first, you need to install some sort of antivirus software (I use AVG). But even beyond that, unless you tell whoever is using the computer not to just run random executable files, nothing is going to stop this from happening again. People bust on Windows because of it's sad record of past security (though it is far better now) and the range of virus threats due to its dominant market share. But the reality is that simply not installing unknown software will prevent virtually all these problems, even without antivirus. I've had Windows systems for 20 years and I have never had a virus. I've never even had my antivirus program intercept a virus. Ever. It's really not difficult. So I don't say this to make you feel bad, but just to point out that with a small amount of precaution the next time, you can make this an extremely unlikely scenario. Brian On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Peter Donahue pdonah...@satx.rr.com wrote: Good evening everyone, This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing is a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be displayed and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files. The tech we took it to said that this is a very malicious virus and is difficult to clean. You might as well say that the computer was Dead on arrival at the shop with no chance of being revived. We have one HP and two Dell machines here. The machine that was infected was a Dell desktop. This HP I use is rock solid. Mary has had a Gateway and a Dell both of which died an early death. The Gateway was fried several years ago due to an over-loaded surge protector. The virus killed the Dell. Here's hoping the next machine we get will withstand anything thrown at it and will last her for many years. Surge protectors and viruses aside both of these brands are great and we'll get a new desktop that's one of them. Here's hoping everyone is able to resolve their computer and workstation woes in the coming weeks. Peter Donahue - Original Message - From: Dan Crouch stario...@yahoo.com To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Workstation recommendations I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before they finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen. So it had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but I will never buy another Asus product. Dan For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell. If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the satellite). My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. Dell? Lenovo? Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? Acer? Gateway? Others? Thanks, -Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347301 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
