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There's also an issue with the staggering array of hardware configurations on Android, particularly for differing screen resolutions. Apparently developers are regularly surprised by tiny differences that make their software unusable on some device or other.

I build mine through the WAIK. It's only a total pain in the ass the first time you do it. Once you have an image, you can do all kinds of things to it. I can even run an image in VirtualPC and (un)install or update an app that isn't supported for direct upgrades.

That's a good deal right now, yes. I suspect that 'round about Xmastime, we'll be seeing 512GB drives below $300 though.

I finally caught up, having listened to every episode from #1 up to the most current one, as of a few weeks ago. I was listening to them on my walks. Now I'm using a podcast downloader to grab stuff like the Savage Lovecast and APM's Marketplace and I listen to that stuff instead.

This American Life had an awesome segment on 419 Scam baiting. Well worth the listen if you have 20 minutes.

I think it reads from a gyroscope that's built in to the host device, not the disk drive itself.

The T420 I have technically does not have an Ultrabay. It has a slot that's exactly the same size and shape, but lacks the release lever. I was able to install a different drive bay in mine (one that I had owned for years), but I had to take a couple screws out of the bottom of the notebook to...

Technically, it's not supposed to be that hard, but at the same time there really isn't anything I want to do with an Android device right now that I can't do. In the overwhelming majority of cases, I can do it for free. One of the biggest annoyances I have isn't the inability to develop...

I believe there's something about magnesium in the chassis covers, but IIRC the structural components inside are titanium.

Perhaps it's becoming disabled because the sensor is in some kind of error state? Do you know if the program works when it is installed?

I've watched Thinkpads bounce off concrete floors after three foot drops and not even stop running. They have magnetic-tipped power cords to prevent a snagged cord from pulling the notebook off a desk anyway. At a time when I weighed 330lbs, I put my full weight on a (closed) T20 and did not...

I'm also wondering if some of the software features being touted for the updated Fire models will be back-ported to the original.

You can install Go Launcher within even having to root the device. I read the instructions for doing that and actually did it in the parking lot within 90 seconds of unboxing it. The lack of a decent keyboard option is a little bit harder to deal with, but I was able to find Aldiko, AndSMB...

Rolling it off seemed like cheating. I wanted to pry it off.

When I was a little kid, I found something the size and rough shape of a shotgun shell in my dad's office. It was some kind of rare Earth magnet. I found that out because, as I was rolling it over his wooden desk, I got a wee bit too close to a steel file cabinet and the magnet made the rest of...

I doubt very much that it matters. Whatever you're getting will almost certainly be a reference design. If you want something that's been customized and seriously validated, you're almost certainly looking at a rebadged LSI controller at this point. Both the Dell and IBM controllers mentioned...

It is just a regular old Kindle Fire, not one of the new ones. Sniff. I just got it and it's in a glossy retail box. I didn't know they could be purchased that way. BUT, Lunar, from a specs standpoint, the Fire 2 looks really interesting. They're 7" or 8.9". The larger one has a 1920x1200 16x10...

The Marvell 9120 controller on my Asus P67whateverthehell here will at least see a 4TB drive that's plugged in to it.

This thing.

I thought it was sufficiently random.

I found a tool that lets me download tumblr sites in their entirety about a week ago. Since then I've downloaded about five and a half million pictures.

Diaspora is a Battlestar Galactica game based on the FreeSpace 2 engine. It has a pretty good Bear McCreary-esque soundtrack and honestly it looks to have a lot of potential. It's being distributed via torrent and it is free.

You could be leaving tags on existing frames so that they can pass to another switch in that state.

That is not outrageous, except for the part where someone can buy four M1015s for what an H700 costs. Since I almost always use SoftRAID systems and since my applications are not terribly write-intensive and since I have good UPSes, I'm more than willing to make that tradeoff.

Well tagging and untagging is just about maintaining VLAN membership where it needs to be maintained and stripped off where it has to be stripped off (e.g. when it's headed to your ISP). So you have a default VLAN that your switch assumes you're using for everything. You've created a couple...

Here's a fun and handy tip for everybody: Windows Defender will re-write your hosts file for you. If you have an entry for something like facebook.com (as I do) or DoubleClick.com, Defender will do a DNS lookup and re-write your hosts for you. You can get around that by either turning Defender...

Apparently I won a Kindle Fire from the place where I get my hair cut. Since I won't get it until Friday I'm guessing it will probably be a Fire 2. So I might have some impressions of that later in the week.

Not kill so much as pound some tiny bit of understanding that their objectivist ranting has no basis in reality when they magically discover that they do in fact need assistance from the government to survive. But you're right: I wish nothing but misery on anyone with your particular political...

Optimized Firefox builds have a tendency to fall by the wayside. I suspect that there's little or no subjective difference between this one and the official binary.

I understand the usefulness of Twitter for serious journalism or as kind of a replacement for RSS feeds in breaking news of interest to some group of people. I still don't have any fucking clue what a regular person needs twitter for.

Actually, it's not that difficult to do with Vista and 7: Just untick the box for "Use Default Gateway on Remote Network." The problem comes from workplace policies that say someone has to send all their traffic through the VPN to the corporate proxy server or something regardless.

GM suspends production of the Volt.

They might not be able to properly implement it. QoS doesn't do shit if you can only use it for originating packets. The upstream router needs to understand and respect your QoS needs as well, which often means dealing with an ISP or a corporate WAN guy who doesn't give a crap what you want.

Three people, unlike the many temporary occupants of Tampa, who will be on the correct side of history.

Yes, because I love it when my 50Mbit home internet connectivity has to be piped through to an office that only has a 5Mbit connection and 49 other people using it.

I liked it better when it was heading for Tampa.

Because criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot. No, really. Bruce Wayne was scared by a bat as a kid and he decided to make other people afraid of them, too.

I think Chrome is just OK and only for people with light browsing needs. It gets worse and worse the more tabs that a user keeps open, but the builtin flash and PDF support make up for a lot of issues. I usually recommend K-meleon (based on FF 2.0) for a lightweight browser. No modern browser is...

I'll use whatever I'm given, but I like the layout of Swype best, even when I have to hunt-and-peck because I'm entering a lot of funny characters. Which is often, unfortunately. Credit to time as well. I absolutely did not realize how god-awful the OEM mail clients for Android were until I had...

I have all 24 of those drives connected to a nifty little Server 2008r2 machine. I'm using Drive Bender to maintain a quasi-array and I'm using the drives as a target for file synchronization. I've only been powering up that machine once a week or so to copy over new stuff. Drive Bender worries...

MaxBurn, have you experimented at all with different text input systems on Android? I like Swype and timwhit is fond of SwiftKey. You may find that one of the alternatives is better for your editing needs.

They basically pulled all the rich client apps out of Windows when 7 was released because relatively few people actually use that stuff. OEMs put all of it back in on their consumer-class machines by preloading Live Essentials, but it's handy to not have extra crap by default if you maintain...

Essentials is just the freebie apps they used to throw in with Home Versions of Windows for free. It's nothing special. SkyDrive is a cloud storage implementation. OneNote can be useful, depending on your workflow. If you find yourself needing to make free-form notes a lot, it's great. If you...

I've been trying to sell some of the Set top media center stuff I have sitting around. I can't find anyone trustworthy to sell it to. Part of my problem is that I'm part of the Chicago metro area, which stretches all the way to Wisconsin. I had someone from Craigslist offer me $30 for a device I...

Ebay has many, many problems. Let's start with the fact that at this point you have to compete with companies like Buy.com if you want to sell anything. Of course, Craigslist sucks too, but in a totally different way.

Sci Fi channel original movies hardly make anything synonymous with anything. Nick Fury as a character is kind of a strange fusion of a lot of different influences, including fighting in WWII and a sort of 1960s psychedelic James Bond science fiction cold warrior. Much of the regular comic...

There's been a decent torrent release of it since at least the middle of May. That's where all the awesome animated .gifs came from. Comics cost me $2.60 apiece on average, with cover prices ranging from $3 - $4 these days. Fables #100 was released last year with a cover price for a single...

Those are WD drives. They don't count.

The playlist I imported from WMP shows up on my device in both WinAmp and Google's Music app. So it does appear to use the same playlist store.

Also: Black Nick Fury does have an in-comic precedent. Marvel has a second comics line called "Ultimate Comics", which features modernized takes on classic characters. Hulk isn't just a brute who wants to be left alone, he's a monster that's ruled by his id. In his first appearance, he eats...