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Pricing could change come October/November if the rumors about Sprint offering unlimited data plans for iPhone 5 are true. ArsTechnica link (Random) Just another reason to avoid ATT: ATT cell towers disabled during San Diego blackout. My Verizon service was fine the entire time.

ACK!

One of the few boards that can run 4 dual-slot video cards.

MSNBC has better coverage. This could be a huge advance if it pans out. At least they will probably get enough funding to do a proper clinical trial.

Did you mean other than those listed by Gigabyte?

Especially considering their front page touts their power arrangements:

See post #48.

This Buffalo is decent, especially after the price drop. DD-WRT out of the box and the gigabit ports actually do gigabit transfers. I paid $90 or so at the time, and it has been well behaved.

Digikey.com has a good selection and decent service. Something like this one?

I think FF5 went gold today. Edit: Yup; press release.

Tannin, put on some latex gloves, hold your nose, and try the process using Internet Explorer (might even need to use compatibility mode).

Why settle for write-once? Move up to the mid-20th century with the Massively Arrayed ScanTron Electronic Readers. Mind you, you are gonna need a truckload of number 2 pencils and Art-Gum erasers.

Edit time expired: Of course, I meant expanding a partition on a basic disk. I expanded the C: partition on a basic disk from 60GB to 100GB just before replying to ddrueding; I couldn't remember if my rescue mission involved dynamic or basic disks, so I made sure before posting.

The basic disk I just expanded would beg to differ. You can expand basic disks on the same physical drive, subject to restrictions. Quote from here.

Bummer. What a PITA. I didn't have expansion fail in approx 80 tries; but that was on essentially new installs (IT 'consultant' used 45GB partition image to set up new computers, then disappeared* - I did the final config on the DL for free as a favor to a panicked friend). *I mean disappeared...

If Win7, the built-in partition expansion works well (so long as you back up and delete the neighboring partition).

Double whoops. Looks like EOL was only for some non-US models.

Maxburn's post reminded me that I installed this Cisco in a 6 computer office at least a couple of years ago. Hasn't given any problems. I haven't needed to use VPN, so I can't say how it performs in that respect. Whoops. Cisco declared it End of Life as of 1/31/10.

Yeah, but they changed the name. Also, the last (known) US vet died this year.

This look (@JonnyGuru) at the Kingston DT Ultimate has ATTO shots, if anybody is interested. Has both USB3 and USB2 results.

Same for IE9 and Chrome. [/pedant mode]

I don't know about actual quality, but advertised quality is better; Ultrastar error rate is 1 in 10^15, while Deskstar is 1 in 10^14 ( 1 in 113TB vs 1 in 11.3TB) and 5 year warranty vs. 3 year.

See post #1, #2, #3 :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A#Religious_connections

Remap the key?

Didgeridoo? :)

Random thing #2 details: Lucasfilm owns the droid trademark, and (I suppose) licenses it to Verizon.

WinXP/Vista/7 (and 2k) can remap the keys so maybe KeyTweak would help? I've used it in the past for my annoying wireless keyboard that has a del key where ctrl should be...

Original post link My Patriot 32GB SSD that I bought 11/2008 probably died this week. I really cannot complain - it ran 64 bit Vista 24/7 for around 2.5 years without incident. I did move the temp and swap files off of it (to a HDD) early on, so it really didn't get slammed. I thought it would...

Not using the ice-cube office for now, so the extra heaters are off. If it doesn't get unusually warm this spring I'll need to restart a couple in April. Might even get a 2600K running by then...

Doomsday Clock

XCPU hasn't updated in a while, AFAIK. I'm using the pages at extremeoverclocking.com.

"This is errant pedantry up with which I will not put."

That seems way to far; why would I want to watch my 120" screen from 20 feet away? Also, wouldn't different aspect ratios call for different distances? Edit: At least some agree with me; some say optimal might be as low as .84 of diagonal. (Wikipedia link)

My 83+ year old grandparents have used their Panasonic 42" plasma for 3-4 years now without developing burn-in. You can be damn sure they aren't taking any special care; grandfather leaves CNBC on for hours most mornings.

Old school name for the numeric keypad.

In any case, the protection provided is rather minimal; looks like all the buyer needs to allege is that the item was substantially different than described. Then the burden of proof seems to shift to the seller to prove otherwise. One hopes that PayPal uses an objective standard for...

You are not covered by their seller protection policies if you ship to an address not verified and associated with the payment account.

2x Phenom II 940 @ 3GHz 1x Q8200 @ 3GHz 1x i5-750 @ 3GHz 1x 1090T @ 3.2GHz I didn't think that the 1090T would be able to complete the -bigadv WU in time, considering they want 8 cores. Hmm, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try a WU once the current unit is done... Edit: That's what I thought Coug.

SMP only here. Fastest is AMD 1090T. If Intel hadn't FUBAR'd the SB chipset, I'd have an additional 3 -bigadv capable systems running until spring.

Been adding boxes as they complete their Prime95 assignments. I think I still need to add a Q6600 and I might bring two Phenom 9500s out of retirement depending on their FaH performance/watt ratio.

Yuck! A while back (1997-8?) my boss' daughter did the same to our color Okidata. Only one sheet and I was able to rescue the printer by printing about 500 blank pages via the straight paper path. Smelled awful for about a week.

HotSwap ?

Adjusting or even turning off "interrupt moderation" (if such a setting is available for your NIC) can help also boost XFER rates. My early Intel desktop 1000BT NICs perform much better with it off.

If you replace a run of Monster Cable (speaker wire, IIRC) with a wire hanger, people can't hear a difference. I don't remember if the experiment was well constructed or not.

I'd say more competitive than addictive, but I am sure somebody is addicted to amassing points. EDIT: Whoops, just re-read my previous post and it could be interpreted as dissing Folding; it wasn't meant to, as I do consider Folding useful.

:oops: Only temporary, I'm afraid. I like my space heaters to do something useful.

Yeah, I had to text him to make sure it was the same model! He wanted timbre matching across the front speakers, and didn't want to waste the extra speaker. I am not up-to-date on HT stuff, but my old Technics D/A converter from 1995ish had a mode to play surround through the L/R fronts; just...

Just heard a HT with those this weekend. There were 2 pairs installed as L CC R plus 80fx surrounds. Sounded decent and with good dialog rendition, but I am probably too old now to make any critical listening judgments. Owner stated that he used the Polk enclosures after discovering that his...

From Adaptec via ixbtlabs.com: