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The work of HP Lovecraft is basic cultural literary at this point.

For all you know, they could be having trouble getting battery cells or the specific LCD panel they use. Stuff happens.

Losing a drive is still lame either way.

They are having trouble sourcing one or more of the components and they're feeding in logistics number from their suppliers. They're not going to go months without shipping any product.

It is actually kind of neat to see some of the weird stuff in the dictionary. Cthulhu is in it, but so is "Jay-Z", whom I understand is a rapper. Anyway, it's good fun.

My fun new game: Swype lottery. I email my friend a stupid/inappropriate picture and draw a squiggle in swype to pick the subject line. She does the same. Best random word wins. Today's winner: Cthonic

If you're too lazy to click the link: they peter out at around the lower end of Intel's mainstream lineup and they're still to hot to use in a lot of applications but the "free" mid-range GPU isn't anything to sneeze at. Does anyone get the feeling that AMD's target use case at this point is a...

I don't think you're going to see affordable 4k monitors any time in the near future. I think we'll see exotic 27"+ 4k screens soonish (probably Dell, Apple and HP offerings) and they'll be stratospherically expensive. 2560xwhatever screens are still well out of the mainstream even though...

Trends among the groups near my ZIP code: Libertarianism, Conversativism, RON PAULism (seriously? Two different Ron Paul groups), African-American Empowerment, Single Mother Support (somehow this is not stripper related? I guess?), Entrepreneurship , "Leadership Development", Horse-Ownership. My...

... yeah. I just don't have friends that I do stuff with.

I don't have the sort of social circle that works for that. I've never even been to a wedding. My in-person friends are all women. Nearly all of them are part of a couple, which means that there are a minimal number of occasions when it's acceptable to socialize without being disruptive to a...

Maybe the plan is to balance it with all the vintage filter crap that comes from Instagram so that the actual photos taken wind up looking, y'know, normal. ;)

As a data point, WD (Hitachi) released its 7200rpm 4TB SAS drive last Friday. Enterprise definitely lag consumer models for data density.

They're not going to be buying 10TB consumer drives for that application regardless. At least, not in 2014.

A $7,000 camera probably qualifies are "prosumer", right? I can't really think of anything else that could drive demand for 10TB drives. Even a single 4TB drive represents an absolutely mind-boggling quantity of compressed x.264 video. Uncompressed BD images, maybe, for the tiny percentage of...

I had that class when I was in my second year CS program, too. ;) From an audio standpoint, that video reminded me quite a lot of present-day minimalist composer Steve Reich's tape loop or synthesizer compositions...

Generally speaking, I try to match the tone in the profile. I write messages that are intended to start conversations and indicate that I have read the other person's available profile. I can cast a nation-wide net on multiple sites, including several that require paid membership, including...

Dan Savage is a Sex & Relationship advice columnist who whose work mostly appears in alternative weekly newspapers. He has a different way of describing the same phenomenon. He says that there is no one "The One" perfect person for everyone. Instead, there are tons and tons and tons of people...

You are missing something fundamental: There are no discussions. On sites that allow users to track visitors to a personal profile (I know that you're familiar with OKCupid, for example), it's actually incredibly unusual that a message, regardless of how formal, casual, conversational, florid...

I sort of see it as a failure of my basic humanity that I'm not appealing enough to be worthy of a relationship. That sort of mindset is the result of spending years and years and years of doing the needle in a haystack thing, but try spending four or five hours a week trying to make a...

Ask Handruin how he feels about ATI video drivers. :) Somehow I doubt that the low-level interface is the source of potential bugs.

AMD has a habit of supporting legacy sockets - AM3 CPUs in some cases will work in AM2 boards with a BIOS flash and willingness to accept slower hypertransport links, but it's disingenuous to suggest that a discrete card has no added value over and above onboard video. Most motherboards that...

Cooler Master Elite 120 Advance mITX. 3x3.5" or 4x2.5" drive bays, 5.25" bay, supports full size video cards, one front USB3 port, uses a standard PSU. And they're $50.

That sounds about right. 3TB drives have been around, what? Two and a half years? I'd be willing to bet that price pressure will have sub-$5000 4k TVs on shelves by then (currently around $25k), and I'm likewise sure that the usual suspects will have prosumer cameras as well.

The harm would be the loss of a stable full time job that I actually do like. The short answer there is that, in the short cast of characters in my life, her job often dictates the circumstances surrounding our interactions; her actual name isn't terribly meaningful and using it would probably...

Virtual PC actually does wind up being a better deal for my usage scenario. It shares the Documents library with the host PC and inherits its printers as well, which means less crap to manage and a smaller image file. For people who think a 60GB SSD is too small for Windows 7, my classroom Win7...

A Promise controller may not properly support optical drives. I seem to recall problems with them and I know I made it my practice to avoid putting an optical drive on one. As I recall, I specifically had problems with bad burns on CD-Rs that were solved by moves to native controllers. USB...

Corsair Force GTs and Samsung 830s are kind of my personal go-to options for SSDs right now. I just paid for several Intel 330s, but that's a fleet purchase where I expect the two-day turnaround on RMAs to be more important than anything else. OCZ Agility (not-super-fast) series SSDs are very...

There is little to nothing here, but I have absolutely no evidence that moving anywhere else would improve my fortunes. I'd also like to say that sex work is a job, not a personal indictment. People can be manipulative pieces of crap whether or not they take off their clothes for money. Most...

While I was looking in to MSVPC on Windows 7, I found this nifty little tool: XP-More, which allows users to quickly duplicate and manage Virtual PC VMs. Interestingly, it's hosted on Microsoft's Codeplex site, which means that Microsoft is at least theoretically aware that one of its uses is to...

It might be noted that I'm actually a pretty wholesome guy. Not religious or simple minded, but other than my enjoyment of naked ladies I really don't have any vices to speak of.

180GB is not a ton of room once VMs and a backup image are included. I've not tested a restore using TrueImage; the version I have licenses for is 2010, and that doesn't work with Windows 8. I'm a little worried that it won't restore properly, and because of the dual boot setup I can't use...

Here is the problem with looking for functionally weird: The women who are geeky/weird tend to be a lot younger than me - think like 20 year old anime and xbox fiends - and they tend to live in places where they already have craploads of options for finding guys like Chicago or Urbana or...

I'm open to suggestions but remember that my options are ridiculously limited here.

Wow. That is the complete opposite of hilarious.

I just had a weird phone call. Over the weekend, the strip club where my friend works had its 20th anniversary. They were doing giveaways for customers who got dances. My friend apparently used my name and phone number to enter, because I won an ipad. Which is obviously hilarious, because it's...

My impression of relatively recent Lenovo business (Thinkcenter/Thinkstation) desktop products is that they're relatively solid and similar to what I would've built anyway. I don't know if that's true of consumer desktops but I doubt that there's as much difference between desktop products as...

I've noticed that MTP-based sync fails A LOT when there are non-US-but-still-Western-Alphabet special characters. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I had the issue syncing playlists with every application I tried. It might be a limitation of MTP on the device, since all the syncs failed in...

Both Newegg and Amazon are doing weird things with shipping now. What they're actually trying to do is get shipping that is as fast and as local as possible. About a third of my Amazon deliveries now come from one of two companies that literally just hires "some guy in a car" to drive to a...

As I said, the thin client thing is not happening. I have a proof of concept machine dual booting Win7 and Win8 (haven't decided how I'm going to handle the VMs) right now that I need to show to other instructors.

There is actually a standardized all in one form factor now. It's called Thin Mini-ITX and here is a brochure listing OEMs who are building them.

One of my iphone people just started using it since he moved to a Galaxy S3 instead of an iphone 5. I'm sure I'll hear about it if it does anything other than "just work."

I'm all set in that department.

<.< >.> One of Newegg's email specials this morning is $10 off on a Hitachi Magic Wand, with offer code EMCNAHB65.

Why are you bothering with KVM in the first place? Why not RDP or VNC? The phone/tablet situation really bugs me. I see a lot of people who have both devices out, smartphone and tablet. I can only assume it's because they're using SMS on their phone. Why isn't there a worthwhile...

Dirty Jenny sounds awesome though so maybe that's less of a problem.

It helps if you turn it off or at least remove audible notifications for most things. My least favorite thing in the world is explaining to people that I. Do. Not. Do. SMS. Ever. (OK that's no 100% true, but the three people who can send me them are white listed and only allowed because they...

One of my customers still has a Netware 3 machine that runs some portion of his POS system. Another one has some CNC systems that demand to talk to x86 computers running something called ROX (Copyright 1989) that's installed from 720k floppies. I've never been able to find anything out about it...

I don't know how many people this applies to, but I am actually so blessed as to have multiple computer systems that I can (if I so choose) use every day. What I'm thinking about right now is the ways that all this stuff has changed how and what I do. I still prefer to use a desktop when I have...

A lot of those "Android Head Units" are like the one I was describing, where they have an app to interface with the head unit, not a head unit that can control stuff on the device. A few of the expensive ones essentially have a $50 tablet for an interface, but looking at the specs on those...