Recent content by Bookmage

just adding my half cent battery purchase experience from amazon reseller... on 2 instances, the "new" battery bought at half off showed up as 95% for about 20 minutes, then abruptly died. No amount of charging or discharging caused that rating to change, so i kept them as 20 minute UPS. the...

drives go double letters... unknown what happens if u get to ZZ :-) who wants to spin up a VM and find out? 53 50MB drives? :-p

Anyone with the older 50user limit Gmail App know if you can transfer/replace that with a new domain? ie had www.coolwebsite.com on the older 50 user limit and wanna swap it to www.newcoolerwebsite.com ? Or would that require a new signup w/the 10 user limit?

i've used join.me and teamviewer

what type of videos did it not play? it's supposed to play all just like XBMC... i'd rather build a small mini-itx HTPC or pickup a barebones dual atom w/ION and run Boxee/XBMC on it... you can buy the remote separately...

You get 60 days to try all the features of ESXi... the free license removes all the paid features like vMotion... For local computer testing, I use Virtualbox but run a couple free ESXi servers for stuff... :-D

From your selection the popcorn hour is the more popular one cuz it plays everything.... havent heard of the vortexbox... ill have to look into that... For the record, Ive used the WD Live and the Brightview Cinematube. http://www.brite-view.com/cinematube.php The WD Live has a nice smooth...

The DEll H200 works with the latest firmware... so will the Dell External 6Gbps SAS controller... Im using it with an HP SAS expander and 10 x hitachi 5400 3TB drives... previous firmware only read 2.2TB. All of the LSI 2008SAS controllers will read the 3TB drives with the newer firmware...

heh, the wonder of SMB and CIFS... I had something similar, but only with Windows XP and only when copying from windows to linux via a mounted share on windows. when i mounted the windows shares in ubuntu, it was slower, but not that slow... I used the netgear GS108T Windows Vista was faster...

I like the Norco cases... but they're pretty cheap and available in the US... We use that HEC compucase at work... I hate it... it works, but the design and layout is so 90s and i dont like the hot powersupply blowing hot air out the front of the case while all my other new servers intake air...

that folder stores the comparability files needed for various programs and specifically the versions needed for those programs. supposedly, it's as big as it says it is since it keeps one version of the file and hard links various versions to it for stability purposes...

interesting... I have a couple Sil 3132 using ESATA on a linux box... It works, I can read all 5 drives in an enclosure using ubuntu... I did test it with windows 7 and it did read after I downloaded the drivers from Silicon image and updated the firmware from silicon image. I think it was a...

stick in a basic modchip, xenium or xecutor2/3... pick up a solderless adapter if you dont wanna solder. Once modded, you can load it up with emulators and play those old arcade/nes/n64/snes games. install XBOX Media Center and u can use it as a media box that does 480p and surround sound. Use a...

One thing I've learned from torrenting is that speeds are never constant and that you have to be lucky to get anything decent. Torrentspy may or not be the original tracker and you can easily get random torrents that use external trackers. Torrents have many variables and I've gotten various...

so much information.... brain overload... I've been looking at a new system for a while, but the timing doesn't seem right... I will have to take all this into consideration... Especially the SCSI stuff, since I was thinking of upgrading/expanding my TB video servers... So many toys... so...