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My next effort will be to boot into the toublemaker using an Acronis disk and image the sucker, then go into a blank VM and restore it.

That depends on what you are Googling for I suppose.

Is it just this one machine you are having problems with? All of my recent issues surround a single VM; everything else is rock solid and very quick.

Fearless Leader sounds about right....

All my phones are still v1.5 (Cupcake) with no upgrade path in sight.

Happy Birthday Handruin!

HPCS...the current theory is "HP Cloud Services" doing a test run of some kind.

I use and maintain a couple dozen of what is undoubtedly the crappiest Android phone out there (Motorola i1) and have never had one crash or lock up. And this is with really unfortunate users who will install just about anything off the Android market. I have no idea what you would have to do to...

Never even heard of this, and I have plenty of exposure to Android phones.

Those were my thoughts as well, though not with that degree of conviction. I enjoyed the first one as well.

The Fresh Air movie critic (who I normally trust) said I should watch the new Mission Impossible movie (directed by Brad Bird of The Incredibles) in IMAX. Not sure about that, but apparently some of the scenes are very grand in scale.

There is an alignment thing, but I have never worried about it and haven't had any reason to complain. My current work system was imaged using an older version of Acronis, and performance is the same as others on the web.

Indeed. But at least it simplifies the buying decision.

I just need to ride a few hours earlier. Today I went out at 6PM and it was fine.

I know, but with the wind going by I can't hear a thing anyway.

I'm honestly over the brand thing at this point. I don't trust any of them more than the rest.

Had the riding shorts on with jeans over that. A thin long sleeved shirt with a fleece over that. Long fingered gloves and TripleFi 10s for the ears ;) The skin on my legs was burning, except for my left thigh where my cell phone was.

...yup. Adobe CS5 installed on an SSD, 5 18MP RAW images copied to either the SSD or 4TB SATA drive. +/- <5%, and honestly the HDD seemed faster. Once they were open there was no speed difference, and saving was about the same speed as well. No point in complicating her life with the copy...

If you have enough RAM (and 4/6GB is enough in this case) having the picture on the SSD isn't going to help that much. Once you open the image, it is in RAM one way or the other until you save it. I'll try to do a test on this right now...

The thing that is making my life most miserable is that after the transparent update, on next start up my users are seeing a screen they don't understand. I have deployed ABP on every machine I've built in the last several years with at least 1,000+ still in operation by people who won't...

Call me a wuss, but that was a very cold ride. ~38F, 18 miles @ 16mph.

That is harder and harder these days. Even if you have been reliably paying your LoC for years. We've had many of our accounts switched to cash only, with many of the rest wanting a credit card to secure POs.

That is what the credit card is for ;)

Having the same problems as with 3TB drives, but more severe. Ended up connecting the drive to the SATA2 native to the X58 southbridge and setting it to "IDE" in the BIOS...AHCI was a no-go.

Drive jacked. The enclosure they ship it in is not conducive to re-assembly; plastic tabs everywhere. Label is very basic: Barracuda XT 4000GB PN 1C5160-570 Mfg Date 07/2011

"...manufacturer of music reproduction systems..." Forgot how to spell "Linn"? ;)

My guesses: 1. Your friend is overclocking 2. Your friend has a dead BIOS battery. NTP is a PITA that I've abandoned. I set the domain controller manually (which I set from my cell phone), and everything pulls from there.

If she is doing one photo at a time (not batch operations), then having the images saved on a HDD and just having the apps on the SSD wouldn't be that bad.

Helping people with their holiday shopping. I have sent so much business to ThinkGeek ($1k+ just today)...I better get something cool.

I'm pretty sure that Exact Audio Copy is still the way to go. If you wan't truly bit-perfect rips I believe you need an optical drive with a specific feature set. I'm sure SD will be around with the details.

Good might be an overstatement. Entertaining? Something my wife and I could agree on? We stopped at the end of season 2, so it was better before that.

Seconded.

Leverage, like Burn Notice and Heroes, was excellent when it started and would have made a great mini series. By dropping or adding onto the initial large plot arcs they have basically spoiled it.

not if you use all 4 drives to hold copies of the same 3.2TB of data ;)

I'm still unfamiliar with tape. I like being able to directly access the contents of media on any computer without using a special program. It also happens that a complete copy of the data is 3.2TB, so 4TB disks make it very easy to take a copy and store it somewhere.

I have 4 4GB Externals on their way; I'll crack at least one of them to see if there is a proper SATA port in there.

Real change is not going to happen in Russia. The people really don't want it. Even now 80s music is really popular with the young and old; nostalgia for better times.* The only people I met that prefer the way things are now are the crooks and the corrupt; no gulag any more, money can get you...

Would one of those be good enough long term for the bigbeta units?

The standard way of disabling this new feature does not require about:config...they've put it right in their preferences page.

My brother-in-law went to the protests in Moscow against the rigged election, we haven't heard from him yet.

I got it for ~$900 on Amazon; probably a refurb, but flawless minus some cables.

Interesting. I just had the new drive (Corsair Force GT 480GB) on the new machine (Intel DX58SO2) disconnect from ESXi in mid flight, only corrected after shutting down all the VMs on the box (installed on some Intel 510 SSDs) and rebooting the whole thing. Same VM I was having issues with...

Ouch. I'm fairly certain that my previous problems were related to a bad HDD (newish Intel SSD), though I suppose it could have been controller related (haven't done the testing yet).

Arrived today, replacing a P-series 24" as my secondary at work. The U2711 is at home, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison. At work the monitors are Sharp 42" -> Dell U3011 -> Acer 27" progressing off to my right along the wall with the 42" as primary.

I thought the U2711 had a high resolution. This U3011 is nucking futs. I know the older 30" is better, but it was also twice as much.

Do you want one with a proper red star on it? I picked one up last time I was in Moscow.

i used to punch my 24" CRT without issue. fortunately I moved past that before i went LCD.

wearing mine right now.

Finished an hour early....averaging 18MB/s over the network from a 5200RPM WD drive.

I can see that, and I would love to have maximum eye-candy, but I can't see it being a decent business proposition. How many rigs like ours are out there? Enough to fund a top-end game?