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  1. timwhit

    Something Random

    If you sell the Audi then you could get that elevator. I don't know how you'll get around though. Are there buses around you?
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    Nichia Develops 60 Lumen Per Watt White LED

    €575 for a flashlight? Seems a bit ridiculous to me. What is something like that even used for?
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    None of these points, other than it being a laptop were mentioned in your original post. To solve your backup dilemma, can you add another drive to this laptop? If so, schedule something to backup the boot partition nightly. If it's Windows, one of the Acronis versions would probably work, it...
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    There's a compatibility pack that allows me to open 2007 documents in 2003. It will even support Office 2010 documents. No reason to upgrade with this.
  5. timwhit

    Intel/McAfee

    What's this from?
  6. timwhit

    PDF editor?

    Or do it in a VM and take a snapshot prior to installing said application. Then restore your snapshot.
  7. timwhit

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Then do backups. I tar my root partition nightly and keep around 10 days worth of backups. If something happens, I can just restore it to another drive.
  8. timwhit

    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Learn the keyboard shortcuts and it won't matter where they move things.
  9. timwhit

    ZFS FOR MAINSTREAM LINUX FINALLY!

    It's still per core as far as I know.
  10. timwhit

    Intel/McAfee

    This is baffling to me, does McAfee make any software that doesn't suck? They should have bought Sun last year for about the same amount.
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    ZFS FOR MAINSTREAM LINUX FINALLY!

    I think I would switch to Linux rather than screw around with Oracle.
  12. timwhit

    Audio Equipment

    How about these? http://www.roundsound.com/reference-35-speakers.html
  13. timwhit

    Something Random

    CVS, SVN, or even Google Code.
  14. timwhit

    Dust is a killer

    How heavy is it?
  15. timwhit

    Running cat 6 cable

    Interesting, maybe I could run Ethernet to my living room this way and get rid of my crappy wifi/powerline networking solution. Where did you buy it?
  16. timwhit

    Audio Equipment

    Out in the open, standing on the floor.
  17. timwhit

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-3d
  18. timwhit

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    Is there a reason you can't run a virtual machine to play these games? I thought certain virtualization software package supported OpenGL and DirectX.
  19. timwhit

    Something Random

    Home Depot or Menards didn't have anything?
  20. timwhit

    Something Random

    Northwest Indiana is part of Chicagoland. A couple people in my office in downtown Chicago live in NW Indiana.
  21. timwhit

    USB Power

    Charging a cell phone, laptop, netbook, etc when not near any other power source. If you are always near a power source, it's probably useless for you. Could be useful for camping, backpacking, and other outdoor activities.
  22. timwhit

    USB Power

    Here's a better price on a rechargeable battery pack. Deal is one day only.
  23. timwhit

    Something Random

    Fushigi lives in Illinois. Mercutio lives in Indiana.
  24. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    Mine has never randomly rebooted. If it keeps happening I would attempt to exchange it.
  25. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    Froyo (2.2) definitely feels faster so far. I really wish they would include a tabbed browser. The default browser still can only open 4 windows at a time which is quite limiting.
  26. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    I uninstalled Solitaire and it updated on mine (I had one I didn't like anyway).
  27. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    I tried this, but it still only shows two apps.
  28. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    Install worked, but only 2 of my apps appear under downloads now. Although, from what I can tell they are still available under all apps. The couple I have tried still work as well.
  29. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    I checked again and now the update is available. Installing it now.
  30. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    Still not available for me.
  31. timwhit

    Something Random

    ~4.5 hours now. I doubt I will break your 90 minute "record."
  32. timwhit

    Something Random

    I'm getting married in 17 hours. Then it's off to Jamaica (Montego Bay) for the honeymoon.
  33. timwhit

    Android: The Legend Begins

    I have the SDK installed and Eclipse setup, I just haven't come up with an interesting idea of what I could create yet.
  34. timwhit

    Android: The Legend Begins

    I think it's a great concept, especially for kids. I haven't tried it yet, but I wonder if it's possible to view the generated code?
  35. timwhit

    Synchronizing the Cloud

    Glassfish is an enterprise Java application server, I don't see how it would be useful for what Time is asking to do.
  36. timwhit

    Decent Inexpensive Headphones?

    I have a pair of Sennheiser CX300-B, I like them pretty well.
  37. timwhit

    Something Random

    Where is everyone today? I need some entertainment.
  38. timwhit

    Something Random

    Other accounts here? Or on other forums?
  39. timwhit

    Why is the site always slow?

    Cityk, have you tried specifying a DNS server directly on your machine?
  40. timwhit

    Something Random

    I use both brakes as much as I can. I would say I use the rear brake more than the front though. There's much less of a chance of going over your handlebars when using the rear brake. I wore out all my brake pads in less than 5000 miles. If you have 20 year old brakepads they are probably useless.
  41. timwhit

    Mac and HighPoint RR 2220

    Linux and BSD are completely different kernels. Just as different as say Solaris and Linux. Mac OS X is based on an older BSD kernel, the fork happened around 13 years ago. Here's a nice diagram of Unix history.
  42. timwhit

    Why is the site always slow?

    In Windows: ipconfig /flushdns In Linux: restart nscd
  43. timwhit

    Something Random

    On my road bike I have Continental Ultra Gatorskin Tires 700x23. Since I got them in September 2008 I have only had 2 flats. I have ridden close to 3000 miles on them. You don't need airless tires to not get flats, just get a good Kevlar tire.
  44. timwhit

    Internet speed test

    Most or all internet speed tests require some type of binary executable to run. There are several ways you can run these in a browser: Flash, Java Applet, Silverlight, ActiveX, or JavaFX. Flash and Java are the most ubiquitous plugins that people have installed, so that is why you need to...
  45. timwhit

    iPhone syndrome

    I opened my work email today on my phone and got a message saying: "The Exchange server requires that you enable security to continue synchronizing..." Basically, they changed the Exchange security settings and I was forced to enter an unlock pin (8 characters, 1 number) in order to continue...
  46. timwhit

    Internet speed test

    In which case I would type yum install open-jdk java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 and hit enter. Real fucking hard.
  47. timwhit

    Internet speed test

    That's not true, the jvm is available for Linux.
  48. timwhit

    Internet speed test

    It's not hard to install: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
  49. timwhit

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    You may not think that a 64-bit application will perform any better than a 32-bit, but you are wrong. x86_64 has twice as many general purpose registers as x86, this alone should give a nice performance boost to most applications. An application compiled for x86_64 will have to swap far fewer...
  50. timwhit

    Something Random

    That sucks. What company did you work for?
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