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My one and only drive to die was the Caviar Blue that died back in April. Everything else I've got has been working fine for years on end, except for the 500GB that's in my laptop of course. I realize that you're all talking about server arrays that probably get the crap kicked out of them...

The price tag made my eyes bleed, but that's what you pay when you live on the bleeding edge. Not that that's a bad thing, mind. If you've got the money, by all means use it. Those two guys don't look like they'd take any crap from anything. Crysis? Pfft, child's play. We get Office 2013...

Congrats on reaching 4k posts, Howell. I'm a bit late to the party, as usual. No one's commented on my glasses yet, but I'm pretty sure that's because people at my school just don't care what you look like. As long as you're taking care of yourself, they don't care, and that's how it should be...

No, I never said that's what I did - just that I see these sites all the time and that I'm surprised that Google hasn't shut them down. Internet herpes could refer more to the viruses/malware/everyone calls the whole shebang a virus so I might as well too that are mere annoyances, while some...

What I find really funny is just how easy it is to get cracked apps for Android online. Even getting cracked programs for PC isn't as easy as this. Just Google "x apk" where x is the app you want, and you find an appropriate package, download it, and install it. You do have to enable installing...

Why is it that more and more keyboards are omitting the useful word processing keys (that somehow find a use within the GUI, as well)? Do they just think that not enough people use them to justify it? I'll admit, I only started using the special keys a couple years ago, but it made typing a much...

Ohoho, this may just be what the NT platform needed. What are the chances that they'll make a graphical front-end for it, so it's usable for the average bear? Just the package manager in general sounds like a really good idea, one that, honestly, they should have implemented years ago. The fact...

I will say, however, that if we by some miracle get some streaming service I will probably look into a dual boot with Raspbmc.

Raspian, probably. Apparently I'm getting a small TV for my room this Christmas. I've told them over and over that I don't watch TV, but they seem adamant. I figure that I could use it as a secondary monitor, and hopefully one capable of doing 1080p natively. Built in speakers = bonus. But the...

I guess its an option, but not right now. Our insurance barely covers glasses.

EA has just been terrible all around. Simcity (the new one) sucks and from what I've heard is still difficult to get into at times. There are areas where "always online" can be almost tolerable, but a city simulator of all things is not one of them. I wouldn't know personally, if I had the money...

Thanks for the tip.

Smaller as in it's no longer scaling the resolution to the entire TV? Is there a black border?

I got new glasses a couple days back. Went with some with more vertical space, so I look even more like your stereotypical "nerd" than ever. Mom says they make me look like Hank Hill, and keeps trying to get me to say "I sell propane and propane accessories." It's a lot to get used to, but being...

All considered, I think you did as well as one could with the restrictions. Budgets just suck all around, but restrictive ones suck even more. I can't say I'd do any better. In fact, I'd likely do a bit worse.

I'd hook him up with a mid-end AMD APU based machine, and if he doesn't do very much in the world of 3D, keep him on the more-than-adequate integrated graphics. Either 4 or 8 GB RAM, but if you're going with 4, make sure it's only one DIMM so it isn't wasted if/when the leap to 8GB is made...

T-Clock is a replacement for the standard taskbar clock in Windows. Don't quote me on it but I think it works with XP/Vista, and it is confirmed to be working on 7/8/8.1/10. It allows for much more customization than the standard clock does, much in line with most panel clocks offered by the...

I'm wanting to look into a RPi as a recipient streaming device, for streaming 360p MP4 video from some kind of network share. Being able to experiment with it would also be very cool and it's cheap enough (and powerful enough for being so cheap) that it piques my interest.

Recent XKCD strip that I thought referenced this:

Can you use an RPi for a streaming device, or is it too slow?

Okay, that's bullcrap. But, it's Microsoft-manufactured, so of course they want to make sure that you can run absolutely nothing other than Microsoft Windows on it.

These flagship tablets look absurdly nice in comparison to my lineup. Well, flagship anything is going to look absurdly nice next to my stuff, but that's beside the point and we've already been over that. It's sad that you can buy a PC (even a laptop) and have it stay somewhat relevant for...

I prefer Android for its customization capabilities and the openness of the platform. Sure, Google markets their own version of it, but the core of it is open and you are free to change it and/or distribute it. To my knowledge, at least. That would be why we have successful Android "distros"...

I don't do streaming in general, too hard on our data limit. We hit it almost a week ago and its unbelievably slow. It's significantly faster than 56k, but that hardly matters when it's still slow enough for connections to time out. It's a cool concept though, one I intend to get into when I'm...

Why should it be? Why can't the world shift to *nix and be somewhat uniform? All of the major OSes (except Windows, and even Windows lifts some features off of it) are some form of *nix. Well, okay, I say major, but really, Windows holds almost ~90% of the Desktop OS market share. WINE and Cider...

Puberty all over again? How about no. No. Just -- no. So much nope. Not doing it again. FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, I'M NOT EVEN FINISHED WITH THE FIRST ROUND YET! (sound of a blowdart being, well, blown) No -- I.. will not...

Didn't edit fast enough. 'cat scaling_available_frequencies', even when in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq, returns a "No such file or directory" from cat. 'cat cpuinfo_cur_freq' returns, under no load, "600031". 'cat cpuinfo_max_freq' returns "2900000". Whatever, as long as nothing...

It must be, because under Ubuntu it says my minimum frequency is 498 MHz, and it reports that under Debian as 600 MHz. And "cat /proc/cpuinfo" returns a bunch of stuff, but I found the line 'cpu MHz' and under heavy load it goes up to 2900 MHz, so either the system itself is lying or Intel is...

What's pretty cool is that it's the FAHClient that's maxing out my cores. I only have one slot assigned, and it's using both cores to their maximum (which is apparently 2900 MHz). FAHClient seems a lot smarter about using my CPU when set to full under Debian than under Ubuntu. I can use most...

Conky on my Debian install reports my turbo-boosted clockspeed, Ubuntu doesn't. Also, my turboboosted clock speed on Debian is 2900 MHz. Normally it maxes out at 2400. How is this possible? Is it even possible? Is Conky lying to me? Under Ubuntu, Conky would always report my clockspeed when...

A couple of YouTubers have made music by passing MIDI along to floppy drives. Take a listen. MrSolidSnake745 Sammy1Am

And running Metro apps in a window! Don't forget about that - *cough*ModernMix*cough*. Whoever did it first, this time, I think MS did it better. For once. That start menu is more to be excited about than you think, Merc - this marks the first time (that I know of, at least) MS has gone back on...

Its WM doesn't do GPU compositing, which I kind of need if I'm going to run the res as high as I am.

Something similar has stricken me - my touchpad doesn't work at all. I haven't disabled it in software, though I probably would have if it was working. Maybe see if you can find an older version of the driver, uninstall the newer one and install the older one in its place. That's all I can...

Saving in docx has so far fixed my formatting issues. Thanks for the help! Switched to Cinnamon from Unity. Unity is bad, and Canonical should feel bad. Cinnamon is not just more stable than Unity, it is also more customizable and lighter on RAM. It still does GPU compositing, and it's still...

No, I have not. Yet. Will be doing that ASAP. Merc, I don't use Google Docs (oh, sorry, Google Drive) because, at least in my experience, the connection drops far too often. It may just be that I have particularly crappy internet service (I mean, it is satellite after all), but on the whole I...

As a matter of fact, I do have the MS core fonts. I have Times New Roman set as the default font so I don't have to go through and manually select it (all of our papers for everything must be in 12pt Times New Roman, double-spaced). I probably could use ODF, everyone at the school has Office...

I have checked the margins and such -- they all look just fine, even in a side-by-side comparison. I don't know if I get the same result by saving in docx or RTF, which is why I'm trying those now. And ODT is not an option to me, as these documents are for sending to my instructors. Apparently...

When I save a .doc document and then open it in MS Word on a different machine to print, the last couple lines or so are cut from the document.

Virtual desktops are an interesting concept, I'll admit. I just have no use for them, as of yet. I'd much prefer having a larger amount of workable space on a single display at a single time, but that's just a personal thing. I figured out how to make the script run at startup, and I don't even...

Holy crap guys, it worked! Well, okay, there was a minor hiccup... the script was designed with the fact in mind that the integrated display would be connected to a bus called LVDS1. It's not. It's actually connected to a bus called eDP1. A quick search-and-replace had me up and running. The...

I agree, but this is a stop-gap solution. I'd much rather get a fully 1080p-capable display, but Dad won't give his up (though he rarely if ever uses it, and he always runs it at a lower resolution than it's capable of) and I don't have the money. I figure this will do the job until such time as...

Again, I'm not too concerned about having my stuff look good. I just want the larger workspace afforded by such a resolution. I can get a similar effect in things that support zooming by, well, zooming, but then the titlebars and taskbar seem far too large. So what I'm going to do (and the...

I don't care if they're watching me. What they see on my screen is their fault, not mine. :-D I will not be held responsible for their burned retinas. Transformers slashfic? I'd like to see someone pull that off. I know I'm certainly not a good enough writer to do so.

Apparently it is possible to scale a higher res down to a lower res display -- but only on Linux, using some kind of XRandr script. I don't think I can adequately tell you just how much bullcrap I think this is - Windows is a much more... populated platform than Linux, so these sorts of little...

Okay, that's kind of scary. But they pretty much have to remove that from the retail release, don't they? Otherwise isn't it considered a violation of privacy? Oh, I get it. They put it as an obscure clause in their EULA and then count on nobody reading it. I get having the feature in the name...

Well, that's not certain. My current display (as stated, a Dell SE198WFP from '07), which is an LCD and whose max res is 1440x900, is currently displaying at 1920x1080 with no issues. But you're probably right, Toshiba probably used the cheapest panels they could get their hands on. Still...

Yes.

I've tried to go this route, but the "CustomModeApp.exe" hiding in my system32 folder (part of my Intel HD driver suite, unaccessable by its control panel but still there if you want to use it) refuses to run. Like, I don't even get a sort of notification that it crashed or anything. It just...

Well, not exactly. If it's not listed in the list of supported resolutions (ie. the ones you can select normally anyway) it won't show up. Wonder if I can trick my laptop into pushing 1600x900 through its built in screen... probably not.