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Good luck and best wishes with the new lady, Handy.

I certainly can. I have around 3 weeks before I need to. But if somebody here wants a pretty decent deal on a Thinkpad, I'm making the offer.

... and of course tomorrow Verizon, ever the master of finding new ways to charge people for crap, will start shaking down existing customers for an extra $30 every time they actually do upgrade their current phone and sign a new service contract; there's no longer going to be a "free" phone...

Seat belts were optional to the best of my recollection until sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s.

I purchased the e3-1225 for the relatively high per-core clock speed (gaming system) anyway. It does still support the e3-1260, which is cost-equivalent the baby i7 I was referring to. I had my doubts that it was going to work with a consumer board and consumer RAM, but lo-and-behold it did.

Reminds me of a funny thing: My uncle retired last year. For a retirement present to himself, he went out and bought the car he lusted after in his youth, which is some kind of late 60s-era Dodge musclecar (Charger?). The one he bought was in showroom perfect condition with all original trim...

I have for sale one Thinkpad T520 model 4239-46U. It's a pretty bare-bones model as far as T-series Thinkpads go, 2.5GHz i5-2520. 320GB hard drive, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Professional. I figure if one of you guys buy it, you'll probably wind up sticking in a different hard drive and adding more RAM...

If you re-take, you lose your permanent certification status and you'll have to re-take every two years thereafter. A factor to consider in this is that CompTIA tests are really expensive for professional certification exams. Security+ cost me around $225 and Network+ is the same. There are two...

I only have a couple production Server 2008 machines. A complete Server 2008 infrastructure can do some amazing things when working with Vista/7 clients, but no one wants to bother when their apps are certified to work with Server 2003 and frankly those machines are still just fine. I just...

You're using file servers that aren't bumping into the licensing restrictions that come from running on Win7, then?

I stuck an E3-1225 on a DH67BL this morning and it works just fine. Which means I have board + CPU for about what a baby i7 CPU normally costs. I fail to see how this is anything but a good thing.

Are your fileservers running on VMs, dd?

At least some parts of Oz are, uh, hospitable: Most awesome worker's comp claim EVAR.

You know, I always thought a crack or chip in a windshield was an instant-fix, no-big-deal issue for one's car insurance. Is it not like that everyplace?

I'm in the very northwest corner of Portage these days. It's a lovely place. Delightful, you might say.

The sad thing is, those calls all come from the same outfit. And they never call from the same number twice. I don't understand how they stay in business. The call blocker on my phone is set up to send any call I get directly to voicemail unless I've whitelisted the number and it's really...

We don't have those guys where I live. I get asked to buy cammed bootlegs of movies that are still in the theater, for random directions to weird places (e.g. Boise, Idaho) because my gas station is basically at the intersection of three arterial highways and occasionally I'll get free passes...

... And Windows 8 Server is officially Windows Server 2012. Which really shouldn't surprise anyone given the last dozen years of Server product names.

Yes. :) But sechs has moved a couple times I think. dd, Buck, Santilli are all well north of LA. Lunar has never actually sent me anything (even though he said he would) and I think sechs has hopped between coasts at least once.

Putting aside the issue of drive capacity for a moment, what do you all think is a reasonable configuration of drives for a basic file server? One drive, OS + data? One drive for OS and data + a backup target? One drive, cold spare + backup target? One drive for OS, one drive for data, backup...

Do we HAVE any members in LA?

CompTIA, the people who bring us the vendor-neutral A+, Network+, Server+ and Security+ certs, launched a Storage+ certification this week for storage professionals. I'm vaguely intrigued, though I suspect the emphasis will be on SANs or other technologies that I've only barely gotten a chance...

I quite like Draw Something. I'm lfbn on it if anyone wants to play.

A dangerous bird.

Some of my friends who are ladies do read SF. Two of them, anyway. Both of them are down with the strippers. One of them is decidedly pro-stripper.

A subscription to SexyRagoons.com is normally $19.99 a month but right now you can try it for only $14.99.

You read it your way and I'll read it mine.

That is how you know you married the right one. ;)

There will be additional future outings. I'm trying to convince her to go to my special screening of the Avengers but it's on a night she normally works. For that matter, I'd probably have to take a half day just because of where and when it is. Maybe we can crash at timwhit's.

I have a factory sealed OEM 300GB Raptor sitting out in my car. I'd sell it but I'd feel guilty about inflicting it on another person.

No such beverages have been consumed.

I got a 27++ 9 cell slice battery to add to my T420. It's a small, flat bar that's about 2" wide and plugs in to the docking bay port on the bottom of a T-series Thinkpad. It weighs around 1lb. I just plugged it in and took my laptop off charge and right now my battery meter indicates that my...

I shall modify my initial comment and say that there was no Gunsmithing.

The podcasts usually include a very brief statement about sponsorship as well. I just finished listening to this week's On the Media and heard one. But 15 seconds over the course of an hourlong program is pretty inconsequential and even after years of listening it's unusual to see anything like...

The term you're looking for is homonym.

I don't recall DFI motherboards as being exhaustively documented, but your board supports manually selecting a CAS latency of 4 or 4.5, and based on BBB's comments that might be a place to start.

That is why there is public radio.

One suspects you could find a US proxy for it. I'm less sure about the binary compatibility. It would be awfully silly to run a VM just to listen to Pandora.

If Lunar's charming malapropisms were corrected, some of the flavor would be lost. We all know what homoleds and hibachis are. :)

I said no comment. There is no reason to infer any additional information from that.

She lives 2.5 hours from downtown Chicago and in a different time zone. And she's not particularly nerdy. As to the second question, no comment.

What are you doing that would even tempt you to buy one of those? I mean, I guess it would be cool to end all disputes as to who owns the sweetest PC, but on the other hand what you'd more than likely find is that some other component or architectural aspect of your system is now forever the...

Yes. Caffeine, while useful in the short term, does not constitute a long-term treatment for one's need to slumber.

I won tickets to a ridiculously early pre-screening of the Avengers today in a comic convention panel about geek dating. Ironically, now I have to find a date for that.

Facebook does something and it's wrong. Film at 11.

As I understand it, the biggest issue with Quickbooks is usually people not setting things up right in the first place. People start using the wrong modules and the problems cascade from there.

You're unlikely to run into an administrative emergency on day 1. Ages ago when I had Sun machines to take care of my biggest problem usually came down to something or other hitting a disk quota or a random failed backup. The configurations were all scripted and thoroughly automated by a couple...

I haven't found very much value to Pandora for that purpose, but of course I have the peculiarities of my perspective; it wasn't all that long ago that Pandora had absolutely nothing to offer me at all.

I know a quickbooks certified instructor whom you might be able to ask.

Does your home network not have VPN access?