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How do you attach the P4 power connector to one of those? How often do they die from having crappy external transformers?

I think it's a case where still waters run deep. There's a level of un-ironic enjoyment of something that really is innocent and lacking in pretense, combined with the specific irony of adult fandom; or the post-ironic and almost academic discussions about the moral philosophy of Ponies and...

Today I was at Microcenter with plans to buy a few Ivy Bridge CPUs. Microcenter will only sell a person one CPU at a time. They claim they even track it across locations. There is a one per month limit on CPU purchases. I've never run into that before. Fortunately, I had someone with me at the...

I've seen the Avengers five times now. I've seen the IMAX 3D presentation twice, regular 3D once and the normal version twice. I continue to feel that 3D doesn't add enough to the movie to be worthwhile, especially since it's at the expense of better color contrast. The non-3D presentation is a...

Actually, I know that because she was talking about it online yesterday. She said it was AWESOME. It was pretty funny because she's seen all the Marvel movies more than once but doesn't know anything about the comics. So the whole way back to Indiana we had a big long conversation about the...

The gesture of My Little Pony solidarity is called a brohoof. A brohoof is basically just a fist bump, but of course ponies don't have fists, they have hooves. The brohoof has an emoticon. It looks like this: /)(\ My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans have generally adopted the term "Brony"...

She's fine. We had a nice time.

I have individual customers who might very well send me 50 or 60 messages a day, all one sentence long at most and devoid of definite nouns so that I have even the least idea what they're writing about. Given those habits I guess I could see SOMEONE doing that. Someone I would wish a shameful...

At one time there was an L, an SL and an S. They were all entry level Thinkpads. I think the SL was made with sustainable materials or green something-or-other.

Someone who is typing 1000 e-mails a day on a phone is definitely using the wrong tool for the job regardless of the phone they've chosen.

Well since I *have* seen the Avengers, I can safely say that it's at least been a couple years since I've seen a movie I've enjoyed so much. The movie has all the Marvel movie cast in it, most especially Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) in it, and it was...

Well since I *have* seen the Avengers, I can safely say that it's at least been a couple years since I've seen a movie I've enjoyed so much. The movie has all the Marvel movie cast in it, most especially Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) in it, and it was...

RIM announced its new products today. I doubt anyone cares. I don't know anyone still using a BB. They can go sit in the Corner of Irrelevance next to Nokia. Apparently they're really proud of their new video camera capabilities, which would probably have been awesome and interesting in about 2008.

Stripper tonight. Avengers tomorrow. And probably also stripper again. I suspect it will be a memorable day or so.

I totes meant their FAH points production. TOTES. The chrome makes it go faster you know. It would be even fasterer if it had a cherry-red PCB and a little pair of Truck Nutz(TM).

Everybody's dog is their great pal. My community turned a disused baseball field by my apartment into a dog park. I love going over there to say hi to all the dogs. Sometimes I bring them treats, and I keep a ball in my coat pocket. My apartment complex doesn't allow dogs but at least I can go...

I suspect that people who are buying $1000 chrome-plated video cards are really looking to make up for their shortcomings in other areas.

It's a bullshit thing. These systems are going to sit on manager-types' desks. They get higher-spec machines for more-or-less no reason at all. They aren't concern with their power bill, at least not that they've told me.

I installed the nightly tester tools and told it to never check plugin compatibility again. That solved all my issues with outdated plugins. xmarks works everywhere, though I do have two different accounts so that I can switch between a more employer-friendly set than I would otherwise use.

When I was looking at Verizon's phone offerings a couple weeks ago, I was actually surprised by how few Samsung options were available compared to some other handset manufacturers. Verizon is all about the Motorola product, basically.

I have understand the whining about version number inflation and how that plays hell with corporate common operating environments. Of course, that's something Chrome does too. I will say that I'm quite happy that both Firefox and Flash have moved to silent updaters. That's incredibly useful.

"We spent millions on a heat sink fabrication process and cosmetic improvements, so we're going to cheap out and use a $.75 fan that end users can neither replace nor service."

I'll take the top three things off your hands.

It's my experience when dealing with server-anything that you do what the specs say you do. You buy the RAM they want. You use the rails they tell you and you don't guess as to the acceptable dimensions for boards in the chassis.

It looks to me like the Asus board is too long. Even if you can somehow wedge it in there, something tells me you'd be better off with something you wouldn't need the Jaws of Life to get in or out of the chassis.

I have four i7/9x0s sitting around. Two of them even have nice, expensive motherboards (1366 boards are STILL ridiculous) that have barely been used, to the tune of perhaps 50 power-on hours. Another board I have had a lot of power-on time before I retired it a few months ago. I have a nice...

I get that "Zelda" is a Nintendo reference, but I never had or got to play with a Nintendo until I got a Wii... that I gave away to a neighbor because I didn't use it for two years. But the same chick did this, which I like quite a lot more.

The Kindle is dirt cheap compared to a Xoom, Transformer or Galaxy tablet. It also has the marketing muscle of the biggest internet retailer behind it (IIRC the Fire is the best selling item on Amazon... and it exists as a platform to sell more stuff from Amazon). People who are buying a Fire...

You might want to have those looked at by a physician.

I'm slightly annoyed by that. The Fire is definitely a sub-par Android experience. The hardware is fine but I spend a lot of time trying to explain to my friends and students how to work around the limitations of Amazon's app selection and the irregularities of its custom shell. I know everyone...

I can't remember if I posted this or not. Whatever. It's a funny picture.

I do not want to talk about Audis or home lighting systems. I want to talk about what really matters. Which is pornography. And how awesome it is. Also super heroes. And how awesome they are. Case in point: Vivid Video's Avengers XXX: A Porn Parody. Note the use of a CG flying Iron Man and the...

LM, your mind is entirely too sufficiently elevated from the gutter.

The problem with Microsoft stuff is that it ties in to EVERYTHING Microsoft. Your Live ID is tightly integrated into Windows 8 just like an itunes username is all but required to make some OSX craps work.

While the metric assload does have an official SI value that can be derived from fundamental physical constants, I prefer the more precise, institutionally-derived value of 1.10233 WDs per Assload.

There are metric assloads of people who would just be happy to figure out that they have a place to store things at all. I'm convinced that 2/3rds of all people who use computers every day don't even know how to make directories.

I'm sure they can. The bigger issue is the massive number of people who won't be so sophisticated as to do that.

Apparently the terms of use on Google Drive are slightly odious. Google gets the rights to use your uploaded files for its purposes, which can include publication. This does not seem to be a good move for a company whose slogan is "Don't be evil."

Dropbox works just fine for a lot of people, though as I recall it tops out at 2GB for free accounts. I'd certainly rather have Google's version of the same thing, if only because I trust Google to be more available.

I'm sure he had a far better life with you as his person, Bozo.

What is it that you want this VMware certified guest OS to store? Operating systems store data and there's a nifty compatibility matrix right on VMware's site. Are you looking for a compatible backup product or something? Do you want something to manage storage on other systems? "Storage...

I had to restart Firefox on this desktop and now I see that it's version 12 for some reason. Hurray for version inflation. Also, for reasons I cannot even begin to guess, Chrome quit working on this machine. I'm not sure why. It's definitely still installed. It just doesn't start any more. Weird.

Unfortunately, that option isn't going to exist in a lot of OEM BIOSes... I had a Dell XPS machine several months ago that had something similar happen with it (no drivers for USB keyboard or mouse). And it was XP Home, so there was no option to remote. I upgraded it to Windows 7. That made the...

I've been trying dating sites for years. The best explanation I have for when they work is whether or not someone has a zillion other ways to meet people. People who do find that dating sites work better. People I have met via eight years on dating sites: 16 year old, borderline psychotic...

Actually, I'm a bit more disappointed that I don't see an L-series Thinkpad on that list. Have they moved the suffix-less T into the budget model category?

Didn't you meet her on OKCupid?

I wonder if he means something that can do iSCSI for containing VMs?

Well there was something of a tragedy with his previous fiancee, as I recall. She is new relative to that one.

I'll have an opportunity to test the e3-1260 and the e3-1225 over the next couple weeks since I'll have one of each sitting around. Of course, my predominant interest is video encoding, so that's what I'll test. I might keep the e3-1260 as a replacement for an older i7-920 I'm still using.

I can't see Lenovo doing that for T-series Thinkpads. The keyboards are as famous a component of their construction as the rollcage. The X-series models are too damned small to type on anyway, which I could see as a reason to de-emphasize the keyboard. Or maybe they're trying to tear a page out...