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They ran my cables to a shallow utility closet. The closet is exactly as deep as a as a 24 port patch panel is wide. Wanna know how I know that? Because the panel is installed on the side wall of the closet. That must be covered in one of those "special" EIA specs for structured cabling.

"Master plan." Ha. You're funny. My zealous followers might spare you.

One of my co-workers had a stamping-her-feet-on-the-floor-jumping-up-and-down-red-in-the-face temper tantrum yesterday because I said I didn't have time to move our servers and infrastructure hardware over to our new office today. I don't have room for a rack. My installation is going to be ugly...

On the day when I decide who lives and who dies, the rivers will be awash in the blood of the unrighteous and the earth thereupon shall be sown with salt, that nothing might arise from the the fetid carcass of depravity. Note to zealous followers: Purchase salt. Also, plows.

While I am not fully certain that this represents any real contrition on Chewy's part, I am willing to provisionally withdraw my call for punitive moderation. Of course, I cannot be held responsible if any of my more zealous followers undertake violent actions against Chewy, his family or...

I am exceptionally offended by the content of this post and demand punitive moderation.

Chyna is up to some dude dressed up like Thor.

Well, yeah. Of course. But I wonder if it's easier to manage things like spill proofing a chiclet keyboard or something.

I've had to RMA one graphics card with an AMD GPU in the last 12 years (not counting the misbegotten Jetway card I got with none of the surface mount ICs soldered on). I can't even count the number of nvidia cards I've tossed.

The Avengers XXX is not as good as the regular version in most respects but then on the other hand at least the Black Widow does the thing you really want her to do in the porn version.

Yes, because the only thing I like better than using a graphics card is waiting two or three weeks for some fuckstick to process my RMA and send me a new one.

I've been told it's basically down to "check a box" in CCC these days. I figure it's not worth it if there's any more work than powering the card and maybe a one-time config. Last time I screwed around with SLI, I was having to configure individual game profiles where sometimes both cards...

In other news, Tx20-series Thinkpads won't be out of the retail channel until probably this time next year.

Has anyone messed around with Crossfire setups recently? I'm trying to decide if it's worth tracking down another Radeon 5870 vs. getting a newer card. I don't know if I need my game system to draw an extra 200W just to play City of Heroes, but I can buy a lot of electricity for the $250 price...

It gave me something to do when I wasn't playing Nethack.

When I was an undergrad I wrote an ncurses version of Freecell after I saw it on a Windows 95 machine.

I don't think I could recommend a single product for every environment. FreeNAS certainly is easy to get up and running though.

I don't think anybody else here has a RIM device, MaxBurn.

How did I miss this whole exchange? Anyway, I am sure that the association of tata with teh boob0rz has been going on for centuries as well, seeing as how men can call 'em yabbos, sweater puppies or bags of sand and we all still know what is being discussed. Anyway Lunar, no, I got mine from...

The thing is, it's ridiculously easy to make a decent file server. I understand that WHS doesn't really cost more than Win7 Pro, but the only compelling argument for it is the automated backup. It's a little like a solution in search of a problem to solve.

There are no other games like City of Heroes. Champions Online uses an open power selection process that effectively results in absolutely everyone making the same character (why make anything else when you can make a tank-mage?) and DCUO is first of all flawed for using DC intellectual property...

I had the opportunity to test WHS 2011. A few things to say: 1. It seems to disable HDMI audio on every reboot. Which is hilarious for something that could potentially be used for a media center. Whoops. 1a. It's happening on both Intel and ATI hardware, so I don't think it's a "ha-ha bad ATI...

Wow this crap was a lot simpler before Oracle got involved in it.

I don't like Steam. I don't like rights management software the restricts my ability to operate my computer or to play games I have purchased. Those two things by themselves remove probably 80% of my options for gaming, yet they have nothing to do with games themselves. That is a distinct issue...

I don't think I've ever played a Blizzard game that I've actually liked.

Repetitive Strain or Stress Injury. It's what happens when people play Diablo.

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... or software contracting in general.

I really hate the keyboard on the Edge and on my MBP. I do not approve of this change.

Yes. I do. I really do. To a ridiculous degree.

I do it all the goddamned time on Android. It's not built in, but it's ridiculously simple to find SMB clients.

I'd love to see the eldritch, non-Euclidean pixel geometries Apple would have to use to make 1280x720 fit a 4:3 aspect ratio.

WM6 was much more file and document centric in a way that I found helpful. Seemingly no major mobile OS has really stayed on that path; everything is apps and widgets now.

I don't shave every day, which certainly helps with that figure.

I picked up some products from "The Art of Shaving" a couple weeks ago. I'm trying out different shaving creams and soaps right now, just to see if I can find something that works better. Supposedly, the one $22 jar of shaving cream I bought will last 8 to 10 months, versus going though a $7...

I honestly think WM7 was completely the wrong direction. I was legitimately happy with my WM6.5 device for the span of its life. I was able to use it to do work. The feature set of WM7 removed a lot of the tools I was actually using; WM7 is much more like an entertainment device than a tool. I...

A better question is, why isn't that stuff encrypted by default?

Sony has Spider-Man and characters related to Spider-Man. Fox has X-men and characters related to the X-men. Fox also has rights to the Fantastic Four and related characters, which explains why the aliens in the Avengers are Chitauri and not Skrulls. This also means no Dr. Doom, Galactus or...

Insanely useful thing: Restore dozens, possibly hundreds of Windows settings to their default values. All in one shot if need be.

They do eventually lose their stickiness, but yes, you can mount things vertically, including smartphones and hard drives. I guess they have to be washed every so often to maintain their stickiness. After I slapped one on the dirty exterior of my car, I found that it didn't hold as well.

Not so much firing up as "stopped dead in their tracks." Windows on ARM doesn't seem that interesting to me. It's feature incomplete compared to real Windows, and just the fact that I now think of it as "real Windows" is problem enough. It's not going to be able to participate in a domain and...

What is it about me that makes you think I would ever ride in a 4x4 on a rough dirt road? Please. I live in one of the states that WON the Civil War.

I was showing it off to my coworkers. We've determined that while it will stick beautifully to the very textured wallpaper in our office, it does NOT stick to the dashboard of either my boss's or her son's Audi. Wood? Yup. Plaster? Yup. Glass? Yup. Leather? Yup. Ford dashboard? Yup. Honda...

A couple months ago, I saw a news post somewhere or other that introduced me to the Grippy Pad. It's a little mat of just-sticky-enough stuff that you can more or less slap on anything and will more or less hold anything that's placed on it. It's meant to do things like hold cell phones and...

As I understand it, Silverlight is basically a dead technology at Microsoft now. Microsoft is awesome at communicating its new tech to devs, but boy does it suck the way they roll things out and just drop them.

As I understand it, Apple negotiates deals that disallow customization away from the Apple standard.

Costumed super-heroes have been part of our culture for 80 years. We've had comic books, radio dramas, movie shorts and TV shows about them. Some are so thoroughly ingrained in our culture that most people can name secondary or even tertiary characters in a hero's supporting cast (Jimmy Olsen...

Our largest single carrier (and also our third largest carrier) don't support GSM. And our largest carrier also customizes firmware on all the feature phones it sells to provide a consistent interface at expense of features that might otherwise be available to those phones. The US Cell Phone...

Plenty of MDs and PhDs put their names on woo-woo fad diets. The interesting thing here is that it was published by ORA, which normally publishes highly regarded books on IT and software engineering topics.

I got my copy of Fitness for Geeks today. I should have some kind of review in a couple days.