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You guys have always had the good fortune to have a number of different, viable parties. We basically don't. At this point I think there are several compelling arguments could be made that the US has only one national party.

If you're willing to spend about $40, you can get a little print server appliance that will work to keep your old printer working. I'd also bet any amount of money that printer works fine with CUPS on Linux.

My Macbook Pro has an actual, honest-to-tits layer of dust on it.

Do you back up on any of the other machines to that share?

Earlier in the week there was an article on Gizmodo or Engadget called "How do I select a laptop?" The only thing anyone from the site did was debate which Macbook Pro to get. This is really how people think now.

Usually not, in my experience.

Why would you boil your nuts in a plastic bags for a day and a half?

On the contrary, it will probably be retarded for PC gamers because their shit will have to run on Xboxes.

File ownership issue?

The problem I have with Seagate's RMA process is that it doesn't accept my shipping address and won't allow me to submit a return via the web form. Their address-validating doohickey says I'm either providing an incorrect ZIP code or street address. If I want to do a Seagate RMA, I have to phone...

You could use a G-series Pentium or an AMD Llano CPU and perhaps a passively cooled modern video card and have a perfectly satisfactory office machine that supports HD video decoding. My HTPC uses a Core 2 Duo E5300 and a Radeon 6450; it has plenty of horsepower to handle video playback.

Decoding VP8 or x.264 is something that's supported by every modern GPU from Intel and AMD. If you've got something that has a Radeon HD 3x00 or its equivalent (that's a ~4 year old chipset), it's baked in. Intel is in a little different boat, since the older and still common GMA3x00 series...

It's not an issue. I was doing that on lameass machines that came with Vista Basic years ago. Didn't even occur to me that people might not know it's an option.

Yes. I'd feed both CPUs a BluRay in Handbrake at the same encoding settings and see which finished first. Since that's the task that primarily concerns me, it's a completely valid real-world yardstick. The time it takes to re-encode that content is measured in hours and a 25% improvement in...

Usually I look at benchmark scores as wankery of a particular sort. I tax CPU cores by video encoding. If I genuinely care how fast a CPU is compared to another one, I'll encode some video. For the most part the only time I see subjectively meaningful differences is when I compare CPUs of...

It's not really something that needs to be benchmarked. Either your computer can handle modern compressions and resolutions or it can't. Video decoding in most cases is a matter of having hardware support in the GPU; the only edge cases are when you're dealing with something that doesn't support...

I'm trying to decide if I want to go to a midnight showing of the Hunger Games. The book is a fun, quick read. I really like going to the theater when there's something I want to see. Because of my viewing habits, almost everything I see is in a deserted theater anyway. Personally I feel that...

You do know you can do an Anytime upgrade and swap up Windows editions without having to reload, right?

MAC + presumably CPU ID or possibly disk volume ID.

There are different classes of licenses and different mechanisms for dealing with activation. Microsoft encourages companies that have the infrastructure to do so to use KMS licenses that provide an accurate count of licensing more-or-less all the time. It's in the company's best interest to do...

Nits once said that I'm charming.

Your copies of Windows are almost certainly using a volume license key and reporting to a Key Management Server. The process of dealing with activation is simply invisible to you in your current role.

I also have good personal hygiene and excellent penmanship.

I suspect the thing that normally trips product activation is that the VMs need to have a different MAC and changing the MAC address is something that pretty much always triggers product activation. I don't know if virtual CPUs have different virtual serial numbers but I do know that the way the...

In a big company you'd be using a local activation server to track your usage and I suppose you'd be billed according to what the activation server says you're doing.

Mark my words: Greg's war on proper English will one day kill us all. You could have stopped this, Handy. You could have stopped this.

An activated license with Hyper-V does count as a product activation, so it must need a license separately. The Microsoft Partnership agreement my company operates with gives me ridiculous numbers of volume-licensed server installs, even setting aside MSDN subscriptions. MSDN is by far the...

I bet you say that to all the boys. :P

How do you know I wasn't blowing my nose or, um, OK, we'll leave it at nose-blowing.

Great. Now I have to clean my monitor.

I mean I am talking neck stretch marks here.

The housewives of Northwest Indiana, when in their bathing attire, make presumably forced homosexual analingus with jelly or syrup seem like an acceptable possible alternative for a male who has been detained at the California Institute for Men in Chino, San Bernadino county, California for a...

BSG's music in particular has a brilliant and rather unique talent behind it. The young man, Bear McCreary, who composed practically everything used in the series (and he is YOUNG; I don't even think he's 30 yet) worked with both Western and non-Western musical traditions and at times dozens of...

I know you have crappy internets but this is the context for that. It's a bit of Hindu Scripture.

Clear throat. Sing a few bars: oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ / tát savitúr váreniyaṃ / bhárgo devásya dhīmahi / dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt. GODDAMMITSOFUCKINGMUCH So say we all.

True story: My company is relocating. For the first time I will have an office with a window. Even better: The view out that window is of a water park that's relatively close to the road. Disappointing addendum: Midwestern housewives in bathing suits are enough to make guys who just finished a...

"The Muppets" came from Netflix today. I won the Netflix release-day lottery.

I always tell my parents that some day I'm going to make my fortune by being the first person to bring amazing "shoe" technology south of the Mason-Dixon line. They don't think that's as funny as I do.

I'm just trying to save some innocent commas and apostrophes. ;)

If I log in to Sprint's web site it tells me. I have no idea what Verizon or AT&T do.

Didn't everyone with two IQ points to rub together already know that was going to happen? I have a student who managed to get a $350 Verizon bill because he went over the data cap on his LTE service by some utterly ridiculous amount. Basically he played movies from Netflix 8 - 10 hours a day...

There is a trailer up for Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. It looks like Michael Bay made sweet sweet love to Bourne Movie fight-sequence editing and it is filled with some kind of shitty not-Bear McCreary music but rest assured that both Ronald D. Moore and Bear McCreary are listed...

As an improvement to Storage Forum, I'd like the ability to edit Santilli's posts for readability.

I think the whole United States should be dissolved. At the very least the Jesusland sisterfuckers need to be separated from the rest, but I think there's a compelling argument to be made for smaller regional nations rather than the enormous collective we currently have; the needs of New Mexico...

Can't you boot to runlevel 1 and set your password?

As an owner of a 17" Macbook Pro, I am going to say it's a goddamned boat anchor. You might as well give up and call it a desktop. Thunderbolt is only interesting if you'r willing to pay the huge Apple Tax markup on available hardware. People seem to be astonished by Apple's service, but in my...

I believe the Lotus suite is free now.

Here's a discussion I've had several times over the last few months: "I really want to get a Mac. Everyone says I should get a Mac. iTunes works better on Macs and there's imovie and everything is easier, right? But I have all these Windows programs and none of them are for Macs and what Mac...

I should have a couple 4TB drives by the end of the week. I'm going to pull them and use them as internal drives as well. As usual I am far more interested in capacity than performance. They're probably going to get thrown in my FreeNAS anyway.

I really think anyone who needs to ride a bike with an amplified exhaust system should be castrated and used for some kind of painful medical experimentation. At least the asshats who weave in and out of traffic tend to eliminate themselves from the gene pool just fine on their own. I found a...