By throwing money at Alzheimers reserach and on a more personal level by doing all he can to remain as mentally active as possible.

It is worth noting that many believe the cause is now identified and that large pharma companies are working on getting treatments through trials.

I seem to recall a headline on /. linking high blood sugar to the memory loss effect. Hopefully this shows that more research is shedding more light on the condition.

He said gaming, not retro-gaming.

SM2.0? Welcome to five years ago.

I'm another in agreement with this - but will say I still do not have passwords enabled and solely use key based authentication for SSH.

I understand the argument against security through obscurity, but also believe that given a simple opportuniyu to decrease your attack surface it should definitely be taken!

Confession... both of the above changes were made after a really stupid day giving my GF access to my music via Samba lead to me creating an account with the username "mp3", the password "mp3" and forgetting that it would by default have an SSH enabled account. The machine was scanned and brute forced within about 3 days (surprised it took that long TBH).

sshblack is also really against stupid attackers (ie anyone except the distributed attackers in the articule).

Yeah that was actually one of the deciding factors for me too - I have an older (around 2000) motherboard from them which has caps that are bloating at the top.

Once Asus and Gigabyte went all solid state I think the other manufacturers in the mid-range had to follow suit.

I was pleased to see it on the Abit - it was definitely a "top of the mid-range" board, so was not something I automatically expected it to have.

On the other hand I have a friend who always buys cheap components, cheap motherboard at the top of the current AMD cycle, spends about half as much and accepts the fact it might just break.
Assuming less than half of the systems break, cost wise, he's doing better. Definitely not something to be doing for high reliability though.

Ah yes, there is an issue with that - when JEDEC specified the DDR2 specs, the SPD info on the RAM can only go up to 800 MHz, so in the official spec, there is no way for newer DIMMs to indicate that they are 1066 MHz modules.

This has been overcome to some extent - nVidia have created an unofficial extension to the SPD specification, called EPP. The problem is that manufacturer support for this is very patchy.

Almost all newer nForce chipsets boards support it, but amongst other manufacturers it is very hit or miss. Most likely on an Intel chipset board, you will have to set the RAM speed and the timings yourself.

I've found Corsair's forums quite useful - there's a lot of posts with tights timings for the Dominator RAM on most motherboards.

Oops I lied.. there's also XMS2 Dominator, which IS what I have. You can tell cos there's a D on the end and big fat heatsinks. The page for that is here...

http://www.corsair.com/products/dominator/default.aspx

Erm, I have XMS2 Dominator 8500C5, which is guaranteed up to 1066, however it will only do this above the stock 1.8V, it is intended to be used at 2.1V. There are different XMS2s though, check Corsair's website for the spec on the exact model number. http://www.corsair.com/products/xms2/default.aspx

Originally I had to drop the multiplier on my CPU to achieve this, but now have got it stable with the multiplier intended for 800MHz ram by upping the core voltage a little (1.4V instead of 1.35V) and bumping most other ICH9 voltages by 0.1V, then putting a better fan on it.

But I really loved my A7N8X Deluxe - I was gutted when its replacement didn't work with fast RAM.

I loved it so much I still have it as a toy file server - shame it eats more power than a C2D for a lot less performance!

I just started at stock speeds (ie DDR2 @ 800) with a standard multiplier and checked system stability with OCCT (better for multicore) to make sure everything was fine at stock and the temps were good.

Then just keep bumping it up nearer to 1066.
OCCT has been really helpful for identifying issues quickly for me, faster than Prime95 / memtest86+.

Yeah, the last Asus that worked well for me was an A7N8X Deluxe and even that had BIOS troubles in the early versions.

I had TWO Asus P35 based boards since then and both were returned as their DDR2 interfaces were not happy with Corsair Dominator XMS2 @ 1066. Admittedly, the Gigabyte board has the same issue - the Abit on the same chipset does not.

I'm gutted too, I currently have an Abit IP35 Pro, which is the only P35 chipset based board I could get to work with the Dominator DDR2-1066 I use!

I will be sad to see them go, I really like their recent parts. My motherboard overclocks fantastically, taking an E6750 from 2.66 GHz to 3.3 GHz with rock solid stability without having to shell out crazy money for the X38, X48 etc.

Notice what happens if you rotate an L shaped piece into an already occupied position?

Another great win for JavaScript.