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I just had a help call from someone I've never even met, asking what his wireless passphrase is. He was indignant that I didn't know so I walked him through resetting his wireless router instead. I'm helping!

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S3 owners: Are you guys noticing any particular sluggishness with the Google Calendar app?

The Stinson Scale is applicable in a vast array of situations. I've found myself using it in my classes a few times as well.

I still buy the occasional Asus motherboard. I just don't expect to be able to RMA one. I can only imagine what twisted world would lead to someone wanting a Xeon CPU with three or more SLI-compatible PCIe slots. I'm going to pretend it involves something with CUDA and Photoshop.

That's weird. It comes right up for me.

Some motherboards have to have PCI graphics manually selected in the BIOS; they don't auto-detect like you might expect.

Trading on Google halted over early release of earnings report after shares fell 10% in minutes. I think it's fair to say that the doofus who is responsible for making billions of dollars evaporate can safely be called a doofus for the rest of his natural life.

The advice that I've consistently given is that the benefits outweigh the risks. Add an SSD, but keep your important data backed up.

Slashdot had an interesting discussion earlier in the week regarding SSD reliability and associated behaviors. I only just got around to look at it and of course it's largely anecdotal, but Slashdot's comments are usually a lot higher quality than, say, Youtube's.

IPMI support would probably limit you to Intel, Supermicro or Tyan. You're probably talking about ECC RAM at that point. For extra throwback points, the cheap integrated video on this guy is a Matrox G200. Remember those? Ditch the IPMI and you can talk about something like this instead.

Those do look completely sweet, but they're about $20 apiece too dear for me.

I have a couple 500GB ones. Subjectively, they're not game-changers compared to other 7200rpm drives, but they do help when powering on or resuming the machine from hibernate.

1. I already had to have the "No, the $500 thingie looks like it could run your line of business app but it's not really Windows"-conversation with one of my customers. Just today. 2. Understanding that I work for a company with just four employees and in the context of Surface Tablets since we...

While I'm here and thinking about it, Android games I've enjoyed: Bubble Shooter - Basically Frozen Bubble, but a good implementation with lots of puzzle levels and good replayability. Rebuild - Zombie Apocalypse turn based game. Needs more randomness, but it has a very tense, atmospheric...

I've tried a couple from Belkin that have been less than impressive, but this one from Targus seems interesting, particularly since it has USB3 and HDMI support.

You know me. Always happy to help. I have a strong preference for single-player gaming experiences in the first place, but I have Dungeon Defenders on my tablet. I don't think it's as much fun as Orcs Must Die. Maybe someday they'll port Orcs 2 to Android so I can experience it without needing...

My brother did a lot of very odd tasks through some internet sites when he went through a period of unemployment. Nothing quite so odd as pictures of restaurants, but weird nonetheless. Cool flash mob video. In explaining the level of coolness, it should be noted that a full size harp like...

There's a humble Ebook bundle now as well. Which looks pretty cool. They just added a bunch of webcomics collections to it, too. So anyway, here's more evidence that Steam is awful. Because it's not like I wasn't going to mention it. I actually got Orcs Must Die from another recent Humble...

OK, the last of the parts went out today. If anybody wants or needs to see accounts of how money was spent, let me know and I'll provide them. jtr should be a happy guy come Monday.

$500 for a 16GB device, no support for legacy Windows apps and no unified content delivery. Oh yes. This thing is going to set the world on fire.

CIFS, NFS and iSCSI support have been baked in to Windows Server since at least Server 2003 (I'm not sure about iSCSI on Server 2000 - I think it was an extra download). The couple of interesting storage-related things on a fully functional Windows server are probably dfs support (sync and...

Just so we're clear, I was addressing Clocker there, not Handruin.

Personally, I'm not convinced you need a US$200+ motherboard in the first place. I'm also going to say that Intel's enthusiast-series boards are an unknown quantity to me. I've only seen a couple systems built with them. They seem like quality product but they probably ARE compromises compared...

Depends on the version. It's not installed by default, but it's an optional component you can add through Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features. Once it's installed, you screw around with a command-line tool called nfsadmin to set up client access. I never remember how to do it so I wind...

An AMD A10-5800k and Asus F2A85-V PRO are presently on their way to NYC courtesy of the collective contributions of Storageforum's members. Another box with a few other trinkets will be shipped separately.

Yes, that is the one you sent me.

I think the Asus board might be a problem, given how fucking hard it is to get an RMA from them in the USA. Maybe the Mumbai office is better in that department.

The biggest problem I have with The Walking Dead is... I've been reading the monthly comic since issue #2 was on the stands (they're up to around #103 or #104 now). Robert Kirkman cannot write denouement to save his life. He can build tension upon tension upon tension and the Walking Dead...

I am terribly sorry for your loss.

FreeNAS performance over SMB is kind of crummy, mostly due to the fact that Samba is a single-threaded application on FreeBSD. It does considerably better with NFS, but NFS can be a hassle to get going on Windows. FreeNAS does support DLNA via its plugin interface. It's relatively simple to...

Any Green/Eco-friendly badged drive from WD or Seagate has been deliberately crippled to not work properly as part of an array. The drives won't respond to controller commands in a timely fashion and are then marked as missing by the controller. Samsung and Hitachi drives don't have that defect...

OK. I have dd's stuff here now, so I'm going to try to get physical items shipped out in the next couple days.

ActualTests.com has a Storage+ download available, but that isn't so much a study aid as a representative sample of the live question pool.

Isn't that what Google Local does?

I never wear suits, but I just purged my closet of XL/2XL clothes and now I'm trying to have a wardrobe, so I've been hitting thrift stores for things that I could get away with wearing someplace-or-other. I'm kind of keen on vests and sport coats, because one of the problems I have is that even...

Found a Brooks Brothers herringbone suit that fits me really well at the Naperville Goodwill today. $20 for a $1000 suit? Yes please.

I did not find the WD EADS drives usable with ZFS on FreeNAS. In fact I spent quite a while playing with those and I really never found any array configuration that worked right with "green" drives. Instead, I have 24 of them (yes, 24 WD drives. Me. I know. In my defense I did not pay for them)...

Amy's plate while she was in med school was "MD2B"

For my personal machines I usually just set the pagefile to 4GB and never think about it again.

HTC leaves US Tablet market. That's basically fine. I suspect that the Android tablet market is going to follow other commodity hardware on a race to be essentially profit-less and that might not be so great for a company that's already shrinking to a shadow of its former self.

Locally, I've seen Indiana plates GLADOS and NOZOMBIS.

Can I just say one more time here and now that there are whole bunch of fuckwits on Newegg who are just looking for a reason to complain and no real basis for comparison. I look through star ratings and reviews to see if a specific product has some easily-apparently gotcha or misfeature, but...

You'd be better off with more RAM, but it's not really the end of the world if you don't have it. You'll just wait a little longer for a ZFS-shared folder to populate in Windows Explorer, and copies of little tiny files by the thousand will be a bit slower.

I'll throw a PCI parallel port card in with what I ship you.

I suspect that the infrequency of magnitude 6.3 quakes in NZ compared to 6.3 quakes in California might have something to do with the difference.

Is it odd that the first thing I thought was that it would be a natural fit with WD? Before you dismiss that idea completely, OCZ's downfall in my opinion is customer service, which is absolutely the only thing WD does right. OCZ has craploads of (basically undeserved) goodwill in the...

I wonder where you're being throttled. All my customers are on Comcast Business Cable and I usually see upstream speeds between 600 and 1400kB/sec aggregate between machines that are backing up. I want to say it takes maybe two or three nights to copy over around 200GB data during an initial upload

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