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And who here doesn't? If you need to keep more than 2TB locally, it's time to figure out where you are going wrong. Backups or versions? Neither of these generally needs to be local. If you're afraid that bandwidth is a problem and wouldn't use network accessibility, you can always go with...

I just got some GU10 LED lights and am quite impressed about their performance versus the halogens that they replaced.

I'm not sure what you're asking, but the suitability of an illumination pattern depends largely on the application.

Generally, five years is about what consumer CFLs are rated to last under "normal" conditions. One must keep in mind that, although CFLs are getting cheaper and better, those two things don't necessarily go together. I don't usually put new CFLs in bathrooms, as other conditions there tend to...

This doesn't sound like a server. Perhaps you should consider why you need all of these ports.

Neither is nVidia. Perhaps the problem is Windows.

I don't think that you understand what I said. I wish that Firefox could address more memory. That would allow it to keep more information in RAM.

More importantly, why try to make fun of religious stupidity and get it wrong?

I've never seen it use more than 2GB; I don't think that the Windows compile has large addresses enabled. Memory usage isn't of much concern for me, except that I wish that it could use more.

No, because 3GB is the upper limit on the amount of memory it could address. However, if the amount of addressable memory was larger, then the memory cache could be larger.

Is there a 64-bit version of the Flash plugin for Windows? I can't find it.

I would suspect in Firefox's case, it is the additional memory. I've never seen an optimized version of Fx noticeably faster than release binary from Mozilla.

Windows is getting that Star Trek kind of feel, except that it's the odd ones that are good.

Talk about mixing your metaphors. I think that you mean to compare with the Great Schism between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, where the Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople each excommunicated the other, ostensibly making, officially, the churches that each lead heretical to the...

Punch cards?

Their tech has to do it to keep the warranty valid. Since Thinkpad manuals are freely available, there's really nothing that I could not do on one. It's parts that can be problematic. Personally, I'm a little skittish to send my personal information off to who-knows-where.

Have they figured out how to use 32-bit plugins on 64-bit Firefox? There's been 64-bit versions of Fx for as long as I can remember, but plugins were always a problem. I figured that spinning the plugins off into their own process was the step needed to make this happen, but I haven't heard...

It looks like they've worked around the geometry problem by using a piece of glass. That makes me worry about heat rejection.

Let them go to someone who will use them plugged-in most of the time.

They'll fix it in the next version. When is Windows 9 due out?

In my experience, they dispatch a contract repair man to my location the next day. Getting the on-site warranty pays.

I swear, I only hit the button once....

I wouldn't really be concerned about on-off cycling in the life of the light. I turn my CFLs on and off when entering or exiting a room, and they usually last at least five years. I've even put one in the refrigerator, which is terribly bad. My last CFL that failed was almost ten years old...

At last check, it's Sapphire. Neither company actually makes its own chips. So, why bother making the cards, as well?

This is for UEFI only, right?

One might think that this is really a way to make some bucks by offering the classic keyboard and a price.

How slow will these platters have to spin in order to get a reasonable error-free read rate? I imagine that even pokey high-density drives will continue to have a place in data centers, where there is redundancy and back-up.

I will note that neither AMD nor nVidia makes cards these days. If you have a problem, there's a reasonable chance that it has nothing to do with whose GPU is stuck on your card.

I've been doing a lot of work on my Minesweeper game.

If I recall correctly, Paramount retained the release rights in North America; Disney has the rest of the world.

Everything but the memory is gone. I'll sell it for $10 shipped, just to not have it hanging around anymore.

I will just point out that, unless you're looking directly at your lights for some reason, then all of the light that you see in an office is reflected and has interacted with the internals of the space in some way. My point was that sun light really should be the benchmark, and daylight should...

Marvel (and, therefore, Marvel Studios) is owned by Disney.

Basically, you're saying that daylight is not neutral in an office. It's too cool.

I'm guessing that this is because you are comparing them to your sickly yellow ones. Your eye and brain will automatically white balance whatever light you are seeing. All of my CFLs are 5500K or higher, and when one of those is next to a 6500K lamp, I can tell how much yellower the the cooler...

I imagine that this has something to do with them regularly offering CPUs as loss leaders. Frankly, I'm surprised that the Microcenter in Santa Clara is still in business, with all of the savvy tech shoppers here.

The Avengers: A Disney movie even Merc can love.

Is this now the "Best movie you've not yet seen" thread?

How much does this thing weigh? Also, I really hate those center fan designs, as they vent half of the hot air back into the case. Maybe it's time to break down and go with triple-slot cards for a reasonable cooling solution.

I still bookmark stuff, but the only ones that I use are on the toolbar. Most of the time it's faster to use the location bar to either enter the URL or search my history.

Argh. Sold the Vertex and the Barracuda last night.

After putting together my new FreeNAS box, doing some upgrades, and other stuff, I have some spare parts. I'm assigning rough prices, so take them with a grain of salt. Spinpoint F3 1TB, still under warranty - $60 OCZ Vertex 60GB, still under warranty - $40 Barracuda 7200.12 250GB, OEM - $10...

I'm gone for a few days, and you guys go right to Pussy Galore.

It just sounds like you're trying to justify money that you've already spent. You don't have to pay Pandora, let alone any other source, to suggest music to you. Pandora isn't a charity case. They had about $139 million is revenue last year; almost 90% of that was from advertising.

And, yet, it's not as as good as the human brain for making suggestions. I imagine that it's susceptible to payola, as well. Then again, if a radio station isn't playing music that you like, you can just change to one that does....

If that is a goal, then you can listen to radio. I found that free samples and word of mouth are a far more valuable way to find new music.

Google Music? I was streaming music from my computer back in the days when one had to worry about having enough bandwidth. I don't do that now, as it's totally unnecessary.

I think the issue here is that you don't have a music collection that you manage, anyway. That's additional work for you. The only time that I spend managing my music is when I add something. I don't spend any time creating playlists, sorting, or shuffling (there's a player function for...

It's not even news. Facebook does so much crap, it's ridiculous.

I had all kinds of goofy problems running FreeNAS in a VM. There just isn't a lot of push to optimize, let alone fix bugs, for a virtual environment. Runs great on real hardware.