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What's so hard about playing a bunch of sequentially named files in a directory that represents the contents of an album?

My favorite webcomic on the subject of cheap booze. Half the lines in this strip are funny even without any context.

In a lot of cases, simple rules exist because they're easier to understand and enforce for an audience that may not understand or tolerate nuance or complexity. I'd draw parallels to religion but it's probably unnecessary to do so here.

Apparently it will be a while before the Micron drive will be available to consumers anyway.

There's plenty of internet communities full of retards. Free Republic or the comments section on any widely-viewed Youtube video ought to prove that.

Micron just released a new mini-PCIe SSD. SR has a review posted. I'm glad that form factor is still being supported, particularly since it looks like a considerable improvement over my current Intel 310.

Newegg has a 2TB 7200rpm Barracuda right now for less than it's selling a lot of 1TB drives. Weird pricing anomaly.

No way to add an internal drive at all, sort of splitting off an external USB port and running a cable inside the case. There weren't even extra internal USB headers. I thought we had moved past systems like that, or at least started putting them in boxes where no one would think they could be...

I have a hard time believing that any beverage is worth the same amount of money as a 1TB hard drive.

Both HP and Acer appear to have exited the WHS Appliance market. Home Server 2011 is a relatively new product but it doesn't look to me like any tier-1 OEMs are supporting it these days. Has anyone tried the 2011 version? I have a SOHO customer looking for remote desktop access to machines...

Lifehacker had a pretty decent article about XBMC yesterday. It's REALLY NOT that hard to work but it dips in to plugin repositories and stuff that's not immediately apparent just from looking at the program.

Someone brought me a Compaq CQ-2713 this morning. I haven't seen a box this vomit-y in ages. They wanted to install a second internal hard drive and couldn't figure out how. I figured it was probably going to be one of those deals where the guy wanted to put an old IDE drive in a new desktop...

So you want wireless earbuds? I think that a lot of what you'll find as earbuds will be more like volume amplifiers or cellphone/gaming headphones. Maybe that's what you want. I've been told that Sennheiser's wireless headphones are pretty decent, though a lot of other quality headphone...

Yeah. That's the idea here too. I meet her at her, er, office, but not until she's back in civilian clothes and ready to head out for the day. And since I "belong" to her the other chicks there don't bother me. I might buy the girls who are working a shot or something but that costs me all of...

I hope we don't have a repeat of 2004. That's absolutely the first thing I thought when I read about the quake. Is safety just a matter of getting to some minimum safe distance from shoreline?

I have an internet to tell me how to make things and also I think most guys would say that getting a tipsy, horny stripper to come to their apartment would mean things were going according to plan. :D

The deluxe models just have three. The mind boggles at the fourth option.

Maybe he's doing video and the crap on his DSLR isn't set up for that? I have seen it happen though.

What I came up with as "basic bar" is: Gin, Rum, Whiskey, Vodka and maybe Tequila, plus a few things to mix in. Vermouth, Bitters, Tonic Water, Lemon and/or Lime juice, Cranberry Juice, Coffee Liqueur and cola seem to be the big ones. I figure "mid-shelf" is good enough since it's not like I'm...

That Sometimes an outfit needs a person at a location and their actual skill set is less important. I know I got work because I was a "techie in Northern Indiana" a few times. Sometimes an outfit needs somebody at a site or to be a first responder to cover contractual obligations or something.

I've only ever seen her drink vodka and fruit juice. She distinctly wanted something on Saturday and there was nothing to be had. Strippers be thirsty, yo. On another level, it comes up a few times a year for me that somebody wants a drink and I never have anything to offer.

This made me laugh. I've seen people doing this at comic conventions and stuff.

I have been informed that grown-ass men who receive lady callers need to have booze in their apartments. So what goes in a basic bar setup?

You can make fonts and stuff bigger, but there's no other way to get back a couple hundred missing vertical pixels. I think of 1366xwhatever as "shitty laptop resolution", as in, if I see it on a laptop I know it's a POS. A lot of software nowadays is just designed for 800 vertical pixels and...

It's my understanding that absolutely no one offers decent customer service on flat panel TVs. That's all anecdotal, but I hear stories from my students all the time. "My X-brand TV died with four days left on the warranty and they just sent me a $100 off coupon for another one. I'm never buying...

Pfft. You just do a chargeback on your payment method a half hour after you finish snarfing all the content on the site in question.

Given the way you treat chassis, perhaps you could just mount the board on some reinforced concrete instead. :)

The HP Probook 4530 is in your price point and I recommend them mainly for the fact that they are inexpensive business products. They have a ridiculous load of crapware on them, but the hardware is decent enough. You can also find brand-new previous generation Thinkpads on sites like Amazon.com...

The HP Probook 4530 is in your price point and I recommend them mainly for the fact that they are inexpensive business products. They have a ridiculous load of crapware on them, but the hardware is decent enough. You can also find brand-new previous generation Thinkpads on sites like Amazon.com...

It might be worth it just to fuck with them. My boss didn't like my idea of putting mold cultures in the drop ceiling.

I have a four-outlet inverter in my car that has my GPS, phone, phone-I-use-for-music-storage and a Thinkpad AC adapter plugged into it. And then there's an audio cable from the stereo to the music storage phone as well. My dashboard kind of looks like Cthulhu threw up, what with all the wires...

Intel has Blue Men, not blue gorillas. :)

It was fine. I've just think that "You're welcome" is the proper response to being sincerely thanked. This thread has been read nearly 50 times now and no one else said it.

I suspect that a lot of EE CPUs are purchased because someone has a budget that says computers should cost $X and the only way they're going to get to $X is with a $1000 CPU. That's certainly the the case with the steel mill most of my students come from.

I'd have to make a 150 mile round trip to visit a Trader Joe's. Which is not impossible. I know where all of the Chicago-area locations are and I make it a point to stop if I'm near one. They really do have awesome stuff. I love their foil packaged spiced soybeans and I've never found anything...

Sometimes, it's good to be able to compare in person. The menu system on a TV, the arrangement of drawers in a fridge. time once discussed at-length his experience comparing keyboards on notebooks. I don't know what the right answer is, since I'm almost always going to buy from the place that...

I didn't build it, but I had a setup like that at one time. It was on an outdoor antenna and I actually sold it back to the guy who did build it after I moved out of that place. I suppose that if I just wanted to be a total dick I could plug in as many working 802.11 routers and APs as I could...

I am actually thinking more about TVs and appliances than I am computer gear. Other stores may have a selection of those products, but what other US retailer has 25,000 square feet devoted to either?

Yes, but "budget" chipset will fill the needs of some ungodly percentage of desktop systems at this point. I suspect, though I have no evidence to support this assertion, that 90-something percent of extreme edition and k-series processors never get overclocked or paired with a dual GPU...

Starting around the beginning of this year, I've seen a lot of press suggesting that US retail electronics giant Best Buy is in serious trouble. It's fairly obvious to anyone who buys any sort of electronics that online is a better option for almost everything anyway, but once I start to see...

A LOT of hardware just doesn't support 5GHz. Most cheap notebooks, phones and tablets only support 2.4GHz. My Galaxy tablet sees both, but my Motorola Xoom and HTC Evo only do 2.4GHz. In a lot of cases there's just not a decent option except to try to carve out some kind of niche in 2.4GHz; it's...

I suppose that the only thing that should be said is that you're welcome to whatever help that we can offer.

People are always more likely to report difficulty than success, or what fraction of drives are being reviewed, or how many drives the reviewer had experience with prior to review. I have a co-worker who has carried around the same POS Dell Inspiron for seven years. It's a POS. It was a POS...

The school that occupies the rest of the building where I work apparently tripled or quadrupled the number of access points they're using. And they're all on "automatic" channel selection. It is no longer possible for me to have a 2.4GHz WLAN in my office.

Apparently EMI withdrew its licensing for Grooveshark today, leaving it with no support from any of the major record labels. I'm not too interested in streaming music for myself, but I understand that it works perfectly well for a lot of people. I'd rather build a library of my own content...

At least the Deskstar/Ultrastar brand names still exist. RIP Spinpoint.

I doubt many people are listening to a lot of orchestral music with Pandora. Audio compression artifacts are ridiculously easy to hear in recordings of brass instruments.

Spotify requires a Facebook login to use its service and that is unacceptable.

So I'd have to pay for Pandora to get decent audio quality. No thanks.

Everything else at Mozilla seems to be secondary to their browser.