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Zoltan works for either gender. Or Spatula. Another fine name.

All the good short words have been taken by .coms.

It's not too early to start the lobbying to name it Zoltan.

Sometimes you just make friends with them and they crash on your couch because they're drunk after work and want to watch Harry Potter movies on a big TV.

Your stripper?

Remember too that this is going to be an MMO, so it behooves the developers to make something that's playable on a wide range of systems. CryEngine3 is clearly capable of some breathtaking stuff, but it might not be the best idea build a game that needs to find a customer base right now using...

I'm not sure what you're objecting to. They're doing a lot right now in those videos to showcase their maps (they show off three in the footage) and the accuracy of their mech models compared to previous depictions. One of the interesting things about this iteration of Mechwarrior is that the...

Metro is retarded but I barely see it. I leave a cmd.exe window for starting most of the things I need.

It's a CryEngine 3 title. Unfortunately that is probably the limit of my ability to comment at this time.

Here's the Youtube Channel for Giant Robot SMASH.

Microsoft just posted a bunch of ebooks on its MSDN blog. Stuff about Windows and Office, but also SQL Server and dev tools. Might be handy.

Anand is still harping on how much of a crime against humanity Sandforce is, I see.

Congratulations, Handy. Be sure to hold out for registration at Newegg and Microcenter. :D

Dammit. That should be plastered all over their main page. >:(

My relatives tend to do the courthouse thing. One of my cousins was married for two or three years before anyone noticed she had started wearing a ring. My other friends are mostly gay chicks or internet people who don't get married. Facebook lost money because it's built on a scam and it's...

Basically the only one of my friends who can even legally marry is Nitsirk and she's against the idea.

You know, I've never been to an actual wedding now that I think of it.

I see now that there's just no way to make Server 2012 run on ESXi 4. I thought maybe I was just using an unsupported disk controller or somesuch, but no. To do Windows 8 or Server 2012 you need fully patch ESXi 5. I might as well dedicate real hardware to it as bring down all my crap to do an...

Actually, thanks for coming by and letting us know what the deal is.

Never mind. I was thinking of somebody else's weirdo quasi-proprietary RAID deal anyway. I've been reading white papers on everybody's different tech for doing this while I look for something to do with my stack of WD20EADSs and it's kind of all blurred together.

Basically the Synology RAID is as I recall a variant on RAID4. So there's one disk dedicated to parity information. Since Parity isn't calculated for all writes, only for the parity disk, it's going to be faster than RAID5.

Sure, but in my experience I wouldn't hold out for 10m.

XBMC is kind of a swiss army knife media player front end. It integrates with internet services, supports ridiculous numbers of file formats and it's standardized across almost everything that can run it... which is almost everything with a general purpose CPU and a reasonable amount of RAM at...

A couple random things: 1. Enable Dreamscene on Windows 7. One of my students asked me where it went since it was a big special feature of Vista Ultimate. 2. Soft2Base. Kinda like Ninite, only there's no restriction on commercial use. Interestingly, the authors support the Firefox Adblock...

I thought this was an interesting idea. Stick the board in a static bag and tape it to the back of a TV. Wham. XBMC.

Yes. I have one of those. They work, but their range isn't fantastic. The do have flexible firmware that allows them to be used as range extenders or 802.11 to ethernet bridges though, so at least there's some extra utility.

Not in my experience they don't. You need Nero or Roxio or Ulead software to extract the video if absolutely any edits (e.g. commercial skips or multiple titles on the same disc) have been made on the discs.

Actually, those things don't work great. Those things make a weirdo disc called a DVD-VR that has very limited compatibility with anything other than another set-top recorder.

Why not an Intel-branded system? Bozo has certainly expressed reservations about Supermicro parts recently and with Intel OEM stuff you know there's a serious support organization behind it. If you're going to roll your own systems they're probably at least worth a look.

Isn't Diablo 3 a special award winner in the field of retarded shit in the first place?

I don't think I care what the people who make Steam think about anything. Games I get from Microsoft aren't going to require constant check-ins to run once I download them.

I've never been particularly amused by the Three Stooges. The Marx Brothers, yes. But not the Three Stooges.

Presumably the administrative cost of logging and archiving all of it, combined with easy security leaks over IMs.

I probably will move at least a couple machines to Windows 8. I dislike the Metro interface, but I use Windows 8 on my work desktop and I really don't notice it very much unless I'm trying to figure out what the fuck they did with something that used to be in Control Panel. I still spend all my...

It's a JBOD. I assume that in traditional JBOD fashion, it will write the disk #0 in the array first and until that drive is full, then move on to writing on disk #1, then #2 and so on. That's what JBODs do. Given your concerns about data integrity, it's probably not a good answer for you.

My brother had to declare bankruptcy.

I played with the trial version last night. What I can say right now is that it makes a quasi-JBOD where the disks can maintain their identity as an independent drives or be addressed as a unique volume. Drives that already have content merge into a single directory structure within the volume...

I use imo.im to handle instant messaging, mostly because it supports Skype without needing the bloated-ass Skype client. Somehow Skype became a standard for communication for a few people that I deal with. Since it's owned by Microsoft now, I wonder if it will be integrated in Exchange or...

My local Craigslist is an awesome resource for people who need used $50 off-brand VCRs.

Giant robots SMASH.

So I murdered all those penguins for nothing but their delicious drumsticks?

Actually, I think I'm going to try Drive Bender instead of screwing around with WHS. It will install on Windows machines I already have and if it works OK, the license is only $20.

ejabberd looks ridiculously easy to get running and seems feature-complete for your needs. I can't say I've needed to do it but given about five minutes I think I could.

I imagine a high-gloss mag with a monthly column devoted to Penguin taxidermy.

I dunno. Antarctic Living seems it would have a small but very devoted readership. ;)

I would think that testing across different video hardware would be sufficient to determine that the problem is not with specific video acceleration features. Hilariously, Flash works about as well as ever on Linux (i.e. not well, but better than Windows has been for the last few months).

After this weekend, I'm basically down to just using these drives in WHS.

I've removed Flash from all my Windows machines. I stooped to using Opera, since it uses the same Plugin as Firefox to see if it's a specific issue with Mozilla software. It's not. It's also not a video driver issue since I've tried all three of nVidia, Intel and ATI-based systems. I don't know...

I dislike things that require me to be a Facebook or Twitter user.

I have been blessed with most excellent hair.