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Surely, I've passed closer on once or twice on the train....

Since when has having all identical drives been a must for a RAID array?

Picked up an Asus x205 for ~$150 a couple of months ago. Already taken it on one trip, and it works. Other than more onboard storage, the only thing that I've missed so far is an ethernet port. Might pick up a USB dongle to cover the rare situation where I really need it.

The battery appears to have suddenly pooped out on my trusty Lenovo S10-2 netbook. It was literally working fine two weeks ago and now won't work without AC power. The machines is already pretty long in the tooth, and the replacement battery is going to be something like $80; that's way more...

One also needs to keep in mind that more and more data is being kept in the cloud and not locally. People need less and less local storage. We're weirdos for needing multiple disks in a desktop computer.

Just a reminder that Christmas is twelve days, starting on Christmas Eve and ending on Epiphany.

Why are people putting spinning disks in "cold" storage, instead of using tape?

Is there really a market for this? How many people can they get to rebuy the same movie because it's now in 4k?

Why aren't chips becoming noticeably cheaper? This feels like what has been happening with storage.

I picked up one of the Cree 100W equivalent bulbs last week. It's definitely brighter and throws the light better than the 24W 4U CFL that it replaced, but it's certainly not "daylight." I have cool white bulbs that are far less yellow.

I'd expect that lower capacities will be achieved with platters that didn't quite meet the QC for the high capacity drives. That may or may not lead to fewer platters, but it will increase usable yield on a new technology. Based on this read-rewrite situation alone, I think that we may be...

Is this different than the chicken pox vaccine? The two illnesses are caused by same virus.

I think that a lot of folks who live elsewhere fail to realise that there are earthquakes every day here in California. The North American-Pacific plate boundary runs through the landmass of the state.

Frankly, a website minus the ads often looks ridiculous. There really is nothing gained, and the awkward layout is distracting. I don't read CNN, as they're such a poor place for news; but I haven't found any large content website that doesn't use a number of external providers for services...

A 30hz refresh rate?

1. False. There are non-intrusive ads. Web pages are, for better or worse, designed to have the ads in them. Eliminating ads often just leaves an empty space. So, nothing is gained. 1a. Irrelevant. 2. False. The Internet carries a risk of malware. You do not block the entire Internet...

Adblock is poorly designed. It doesn't scale well with large numbers of rules, and you basically load another copy in each tab. If we weren't limited by the amount of memory that Firefox can address, I wouldn't be problem. And, frankly, ads aren't a problem if they aren't intrusive. We...

I've actually been looking for ways to drop Adblock Plus. It's a memory hog.

I run Plex on my FreeNAS server. The Plex server port to BSD seems to be a bit of a hack and definitely is not official. The FreeNAS plugin is, of course, a bit of hackery on top of that. Just make sure that you keep your files in datasets outside of the jail.

Maybe you should look into recipes from the Seventh-Day Adventists.

This is -- How should I put it kindly? -- false. All cells in your body run on glucose all of the time. The Krebs Cycle, which is used, among other things, to burn fat, doesn't even run if glycolysis (the breakdown of glucose) isn't. Cells in your brain don't run on anything other than...

Anyone here use Ghostery? I've been taking it for a spin and liking the results so far.

I sometimes tell people that BSD is generally slow and steady, while Linux tends to be more like the wild west. I also point out differences in licensing (which is less of deal today than it used to be). BSD can be used in proprietary software, such as MacOS X; Linux work generally must be...

Angie's List is a terrible place to start. It's like paying for the yellow pages. Not only can a company pay to rank higher in searches, they've been reported to remove negative reviews of their advertisers. And you have to pay for it.

I will also mention that, in any company of size, there's consumer gear where there should be enterprise stuff, simply because it's cheaper or employees brought it in themselves, as they wouldn't get approval for something appropriate.

You might as well go with SSDs.

When I've ordered from a third-party shipped by Amazon and had a problem, they (Amazon) have either paid for a return or just refunded me. Then I have to reorder myself. I don't even contact the seller.

I think that you're chasing paper dreams here. Spinning disk market is commoditized. All drives are garbagy.

You make it up in volume....

Try creating a new profile and see if that works.

I would hazard to guess that Beats headphones will still be no better than any other brand, but now cost even more.

I think that the key with Amazon is to buy only from sellers who ship from Amazon. That way, returns are much easier. A to Z should protect you every other way.

Range isn't really an issue for me, as my apartment simply isn't that big. It's the interference that's the real problem. And the first piece of 802.11ac equipment I'm likely to get is a phone, which certainly wouldn't need the bandwidth. Only thing bothersome that I see is that refurb is...

It's too much effort for manufacturers to try to shaft you so subtly. They'll hand out refurbs before new drives, but that's about as far as it gets.

This was a really good tip, Merc. I'm scoping a Netgear R6200 right now. Any thoughts?

So, really, this is just going to make drives cheaper. Not a bad thing, but I don't see this moving the dial very far until you get to large capacities.

As far as I can tell, the only difference between the SV35s and Barracuda drives that I have is the firmware, the label, and one more year of warranty on the SV. Basically, the additional cost of a drive with a longer warranty is you paying the manufacturer for the insurance of a replacement...

$80 was more than I was hoping to spend, but I'd be interested in any examples you've found.

Recommendations on a dual-band 802.11n access point? I have two basic problems: I'm trying to cut the cord on my Roku and the 2.4Ghz space around my apartment is waaaay too crowded. The 5GHz band is pretty much wide open. I realise that 802.11ac is here, but it's a bit pricey and I have...

I'm skeptically skeptical. I don't think that this means much for the desktop. Performance wise, how far up in the server load scale would you have to go for this to be really meaningful?

Aren't Toshiba's 3.5" drives just Hitachi's yesterday technology?

I've never liked Wladimir Palant. He's a bit of an ass and not a great programmer. Unfortunately, with the device of the original AdBlock, ABP became the best option. Using a hosts file is a blunt instrument. Can't whitelist sites easily.

I have a couple Seagate SV35 drives. They're meant for video surveillance, but I haven't found any meaningful performance difference from the Barracuda drive on which they are based. All else being equal, I get drives from Amazon. Never any shipping problems, good customer service. If...

I don't see how they can say that. As much as I can tell, Palemoon is just an optimized version of the ESR release with a few options set by default. Unless they plan to seriously fork from the Firefox code base, it's just going to stagnate feature-wise. Or, they will eventually have to move...

So, is the location of the screw holes not a written standard?

Looks like we're going with a basic L440. Splurging for Windows 7.

Can't this be fixed by just displaying blank white for an extended period?

As I understand it, all that they're doing is eliminating overage charges. If you already have a plan that costs per minute, text, or kilobyte, then you don't have overages on those. I would guess that your current plan pays for text and data per use and, therefore, the only gain from this...

That makes infinitely more sense. Way, way out of the budget, however.

The price difference between the L and E series looks to be small enough that I'd be able to get them to go with the L. Any word on the X-series?