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Speaking of Pandora, I flipped it on for the first time in many months last night. It sounds horrible and over-compressed to me. Like maybe a 64kbps MP3? BAD. Does anyone know what it actually delivers?

The only Thunderbird Add-on I use regularly is one that syncs Thunderbird and Gmail contacts. I do find it ironic that there's no decent way to set up two-way calendar sync with outlook and gmail without paying for something-or-other, but I'm not a calendar-using person in any case. At any...

If it's a derivative of open code, Apple didn't make a decision to open a goddamned thing.

I'm about 98% sure that Webkit was a fork of the already OSS Konqueror project.

Oh yes. That's terrible. Only supporting the $200, 8 thread Xeon i7s. Shucks.

The first motherboard Bozo mentioned, the DP67DE, comes up at $58 on Google Shopping.

Apparently OS/2 is 25 years old today. Methinks there was 40oz. poured out on the curb somewhere in Ballarat. Or a 1 litre. Aussies still pour out things for their homies, right?

... except that some random $60 Intel "media series" board apparently supports them just fine.

I believe that -WS label indicates a workstation class board. When I tried an LGA1155 Xeon in a P67-based board, it wouldn't boot at all.

There is an open-source .aac codec called FAAD2. .aac itself really isn't widely supported outside of Apple products and Apple more or less doesn't belong in any discussion of openness ever.

There's always third party utilities.

Amazon's Cloud Music services work on Android (but not iOS). You could've downloaded to your phone and copied from there as well.

I purchase discs. I rip them to .flac if I can (SACDs can't be ripped unless I feel like blowing $400 on a Playstation 3 with a particular firmware revision). Every so often I buy a downloadable from Amazon.com, usually because it's a single track or only available in that format. Very little of...

The thing about Six Feet Under is that by the middle of the second season I hated all of the characters so much I actually wanted awful things to happen to them. Once I realized that I quit watching. Game of Thrones starts again on Sunday, by the way. Which Coug would love. Except for one...

That's the same drive. I have no idea how fast it spins since it's not relevant to my needs, but ddrueding has one he might be able to check.

Actually I think I paid $209 for mine but I just got them from Newegg. Pretty sure it was in one of their daily emails a couple weeks ago. I've seen them for $199 in sales flyers from Best Buy so it's at least possible to get them that cheap.

It can't be that obscure if so many of us got it.

Santilli, I fail to see any signs of logic in your last post. I do see a misused apostrophe, but that's par for the course at this point.

$199 is a much better price than $349. The drives are simply part of the redundant storage pool on my NAS anyway. There isn't any content on them that is not duplicated at least three other places.

I don't think you can get the bare drives and even if you could, they'd cost significantly more because internal drive pricing is still retarded right now.

All the Seagate enclosures I've seen in recent memory are tamper proof so that they can't be disassembled without someone knowing about it. Since the warranty on Seagate drives is so short anyway, I don't think I'm giving much up by trashing the shitty enclosure.

As I recall, LogMeIn is basically just an extension to VNC anyway. VNC is pretty much always going to be dreadful on anything that isn't at least 10Mbit. Even tightvnc is nothing like RDP in terms of responsiveness.

There WAS just a patch to RDP to fix a well-known vulnerability. And now that I think of it, that might explain why I have two different OSX people whining about RDP connections that look to me like they should work. Hamachi also underwent a change in service terms recently, so that if you have...

I'm guessing... drugs?

I'm using Windows 8 with three monitors. Since it took me forever to figure out, you CAN move a Metro app to another screen. You do it with Win+PgUp/PgDn. Sort of analogous to the Win+left/right shortcut to re-arrange non-retarded applications in Win7.

xbmc makes HTPCs usable. The addon system is kind of retarded since addons break all the time, but at times you can have a single interface for local content, Youtube, Vimeo, Netflix, Amazon streaming etc. It will also scrape your files for online metadata if your filenames aren't all jacked...

It seems that both controllers were fine with it. I'm using the same IBM M1015 I've discussed earlier. The zPool is usable and has already been populated with redundant data.

I added two 4TB drives that I ripped out of Seagate USB enclosure to my FreeNAS machine with no incident. One of them is on one of the native motherboard ports, the other is on RAID controller. As usual, I was more interested in bulk storage than performance, but I can definitely say the drives...

I know maybe two people who would be impacted by that. For the most part, when I explain what media center is for, people still say "Why would I want to hook my computer up to my TV?" and then look at me funny. And for everyone else, there's XMBC.

As far as I can tell, Apple's decision matrix for doing everything comes down to: 1. Can we make it with fewer buttons? 2. Can we put more brushed aluminum on it? 3. Can we make it so it doesn't work without itunes? I don't know where lack of proper LTE support fits into that. Maybe the chips...

Presumably because they're not using the radio spectrum Europe set aside for LTE?

You know, I used to think the same thing about Half Life.

Vanilla Android is vanilla Android. The UI extensions various manufacturers use are of dubious value. I'm not a huge fan of Touchwiz, at least the collection of stuff that makes up SenseUI is useful. Someone who just knew one interface or the other might have problems with a different...

New SimCity to be sold pre-fucked for your convenience. Translation: Wait for the warez release. It'll probably be less buggy and more functional anyway.

Craigslist or Freecycle, man. Of course, where I live, Freecycle is just people whining that they need free disposable diapers, but presumably in civilization it's different.

You can't expect consumers to know. And from the carriers' perspectives, they're used to consumers not caring. How long did Verizon get away with replacing the default UI on feature phones with whatever retarded Verizon UI (to the non-US people: our biggest carrier would actually ship modified...

Linking to this so Maxburn doesn't have to: Score card for device manufacturers and Android update availability. Basically, Acer and Asus are good (that is a string of characters I never thought I'd type), HTC is "not too bad" and everyone is kinda crappy at best. Apparently the reason my Xoom...

Just watch: someone will come up with a firmware hack in a few weeks to fix whatever is retarded about the new GPUs.

Hunger Games was good as a movie, but the books are written from a first-person present perspective, so the movie is missing a lot of the interior monologue of the main character; the movie depicts the possibility of a budding romance where the book focuses strictly on a pragmatic survivor. I...

Depends on the person and the activities involved. It actually sounds REALLY weird but I'm kind of acquainted with a BBW (i.e. "Big Beautiful Woman" - a 230lb. 23-year-old) camgirl. She actually has to work out and be careful with her food intake because her freaky genetics let her be...

I didn't really pay any attention to this but one thing you have to be very careful of if you're listing Xeons for sale is the processor series, which you don't specify in any easily identifiable way.

Have you tried mounting your shares via iSCSI? I believe those show up as local drives for all intents and purposes.

When I was a lowly user on a hugely multi-user system, I'd abuse the crap out of /tmp and /var, since I had permission to write there. I actually unpacked my home directory out of my mail spool and stored it on /tmp so I could bypass the 2MB disk quota on /home. I kept refining my script until...

That is not enough rocket launchers.

There are actually some pretty well known tools for looking at this stuff. I've used FileLight, which makes a lovely graphical display of usage. On the other hand, your script looks like it would work perfectly well.

Is the poron the indivisible element that makes up a porn?

This is the dust of not having a single damned use for the notebook.

Something I value enough to swear to, unlike invisible sky wizards.

I had no idea Xerox even made GDI printers. News to me. You clearly don't understand the application or need for workstation-class hardware. We've tried to communicate the implications of doing so for years. Your natural inclination appears to be to overspend. We are mostly trying to prevent...