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This thread was looking lonely at the bottom of the pile so the US Government is apparently ditching BB in favor of ithings and green robots.

There's really very little difference between a Nook Color (800MHz single core) and a Galaxy Tab 7.7 (1.4GHz dual core) for about 85% of stuff you can be doing on a tablet. It matters if your habits include a lot of multitasking or decoding HD video, not so much if you just browse and watch...

No. The Xoom, Galaxy Tab, Thinkpad Tablet, Asus Transformer and Toshiba Thrive all have some legitimate claim based on a tiny number of characteristics that distinguish them. The Samsung tablets are ligher and have nicer displays but crappy storage options. The Asus has the battery in the...

I don't know if it's necessary or not. I suspect that we would all continue to use the forum as a forum regardless. When we had the news site, I still chose to land on the forum page and go look and/or comment on news as something secondary to the forum. I guess it might be nice to have posts...

I have a page open on one of my PCs at home that basically says there's zero difference between any headphones that cost less than $100. Which is pretty much what we all think about computers that come from retail outlets, so I suspect there's some truth to it.

I refuse to believe that anyone who can work a web browser can't figure out ways to listen to this person's music without paying for it. Even my mom knows she can wander over to Youtube and find somebody's video playlist if she really wants to.

I suspect that's quite unlikely. Most Android systems are built from off the shelf hardware, and panel manufacturers largely think in 16x9 these days. Given the choice between 1280x1024 (290,000 pixels more than 1280x800) and 1600x900 (416,000 more pixels), I think I'd still go with the raw...

Technically, the ipad is a 10" tablet. It doesn't seem like it's 10", because the current display is missing 230,000 pixels that other larger-than-7" tablets have, and because it uses a 4x3 aspect ratio rather than 16x9. I don't have any problem with the extra vertical pixels, but the overall...

I keep one of those in my car. They're horrible to type on.

I've made that observation as well. That doesn't make up for the fact that their drives fail as a foregone conclusion, but at least they're good at getting you another shitty drive.

Portlandia is funny in a sort of low key way. Which I suspect is precisely the point. It's pretty amusing that the whole town seems to be in on the joke. The sitting mayor of Portland makes appearances on the show, for example.

I've been recommending Radeon *770 cards for mainstream gaming for years. It's nice that they're consistent enough in their naming that the capabilities continue to match up to that. Your customer should be fully aware that his system precludes high-end gaming. Get him the card he can get and...

Apparently the iPad3 will sport a 2048x1536 display, enough pixels to handle 1080p video with room to spare and a reasonable resolution for PDF and web page viewing That will at least be some justification for being so goddamned porky.

It looked to me like LSI firmware was pretty well understood by third parties. The bigger issue is that you'd be putting your hardware in a configuration that isn't supported by Intel or LSI, so there is some risk involved with making those changes.

Ah. OK. So if I'm accessing Sharepoint on SBS2003 via a Server 2008 machine, that's a reasonable test of functionality? Because that works fine for me. I don't have any actual Terminal Server licenses, but I can still RDP.

I found a 16-year-old Kohl's credit receipt this morning. It was barely legible but they still honored it.

Youtube has a video of 1080p gameplay. I looks acceptable to me. The 6750 is just a touch slower than the Radeon 6770, and those are generally pretty capable for midrange hardware.

Nah. Gay people are people. They just like something you're not interested in, in a way that impacts your life not even a tiny little bit. Likewise with Glee fans. Among other things, Jane Lynch was the boss character in "40 Year Old Virgin."

As someone who had two hours of choir plus another two or three hours of music lessons a day all the way through high school and who has liked Jane Lynch in essentially every role she's ever had, I actually liked the pilot episode of Glee. Unfortunately, I think it became a victim of its own...

I bought myself a couple new laptops, rotated up most of my desktops and added a new file server. I bought several tablets (most given away as gifts) a number of hard drives and quite a few USB doodads. Most of my new kit was obtained by barter rather than direct purchase.

The most aggravating part about Foxit is the ongoing UI changes.

We've trusted your judgment regarding forum software for this long. If nothing else, the money should pay hosting costs for a while. Speaking of, Imma need your paypal address or something, man.

Handruin, At this time we, the members of StorageForum would like to take a minute to express our ongoing gratitude for the considerable time and effort that you have undertaken on our behalf. You have provided us with friendship and community for more than a decade now, and to express our...

That phone is basically an Evo 3D. It has a different camera from the Evo 4G (the phone that timwhit, Will Rickards and I all have), slightly better screen resolution and two cores rather than one. I don't have much problem with the on screen keyboard on my phone. On the Evo 4G, the microSD...

Still no mainstream press regarding Address book security in iOS. You're right Maxburn: This is getting pretty ridiculous.

The Nook Color weighs more than my Galaxy and needs a rooting every bit as bad as the Kindle Fire. Fortunately, it is a straightforward process. BN even tolerates third party Android builds loaded off the SD slot.

NitroPDF is really nice. It has a nicer UI than Foxit and doesn't install crap. One of my clients has a site license for it. Since the UI for Nitro looks like Office 2007, the fact that it's better than Foxit might say something about how retarded Foxit has gotten. Either way it's still better...

It doesn't molest the source PC other than the resource drain required in its operation. On the other hand, based on my limited experience I could not get it to make an image that was actually bootable, either. I had better luck with the old fashioned p2v assistant.

You can add aliases to an existing domain. That's completely valid. Several of my customers have done that in order to claim domain names in the various new TLDs that have come along in the last couple years.

I'm completely psyched for Lord of the Rings Lego. Legos were what I played with as a kid. I didn't have GI Joes or Transformers. I had the Lego castle sets. Lego Moria and Weathertop would've been eleven-year-old me's wildest dream that didn't involve boobies.

Sometimes it takes a few days for outrage to build. Wait for it to hit BoingBoing or Slashdot.

OK, going with just the plainest of plain vanilla configurations I have in separate VMs a 32-bit SBS2003 system with SBS 2.0 and Office 2010 running on it and as far as I can tell it's fine if I connect to it through RDP and make blank documents and stuff. I have Server 2008 R2 with Office...

Did you have a Windows Server at the time with an ungodly amount of RAM?

flagreen would play the "Left Behind" game.

That's something I'd really expect to see out of a decent file server.

Ironically, I'm having some difficulty rooting one of my Evo 4Gs. I suspect it's because it's never been activated as a phone. Anyway, it did two updates from whatever the hell the original shipping version from HTC was to something that's still Android 2.2, and it refuses to acknowledge that...

Actually, something like a desktop widget that shows CPU/RAM/Disk Queue length in some format that's prettier than Performance Monitor would probably be enough for my immediate need, though I'm sort of curious as to what people do on their own for professional work as well. One of my customers...

Every time I've spoken to anyone about it, I've come away thinking that people have NO IDEA what they're giving up by using Facebook. I'm not surprised at all to find that to be the case. I guess you should feel fortunate that you can do anything at all about it, though I suspect at this point...

Does anyone have any server monitoring tools they prefer to use over others? In particular, one of my customers really wants something he can look at on his desktop to see what's going on with his three server systems. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to like simple Performance monitor graphs.

My local Walmart has a boxed set called "Popcap's Greatest Hits." It sells for about $15 and includes Bejeweled and Zuma. I bought five copies of it with the idea that I will give them to 60 year old divorcees who keep bringing me their PCs that are full of spyware from the shifty online game...

Windows Media Player has or at least used to have some pretty bad drawbacks. It used to not support ripping directly to MP3 without purchase of a Windows Plus pack and would instead rip to .WMA, a format that isn't very compatible with much of anything outside the Windows ecosystem. While I...

I'd like to read that sentence again, but next time in English.

Documents, once put in Sharepoint, are difficult to get out. Once you start working in a Sharepoint framework, it's very hard to turn around and stop using it. Which means that you'll forever thereafter need someone to administer it and the servers it runs on. It also has it's own underlying...

I'll try to build something and test it this week. Have you looked at your IE add-ons at all or tried working in IE's safe mode?

You just need a recipe for Sexy Pancakes.

Somewhere in my office there are five 32GB MicroSD cards. Very possibly on my desk. Damned if I know where though.

I wouldn't store passwords on a mobile device if I could help it, but there are password managers like lastpass that could do the job if you really needed such a thing. I mainly use the stock Android browser, though I do keep Firefox installed. Every once in a while I find something that's...

Didn't we already know that Intel was going to do that?

Which version(s) of Sharepoint are we talking about? I can probably set something up to test with. I don't have Sharepoint installed on any 2008 servers, but that doesn't mean I couldn't.

I know a little about Sharepoint 2 and 3, but mostly I have learned that the proper answer is "don't use Sharepoint", which probably isn't very helpful.