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The third film in the first volume of the Spider-Man franchise was very poorly received. The director wanted to make a wildly different movie from the one the studio wanted and the result was a sub-par movie. Given that Spider-Man 2 is likely going to show up on anyone's top 5 list of favorite...

I'm boycotting it. Everyone else should as well. The Spider-Man rights need to revert to Marvel.

I sincerely doubt that it will.

... Today I learned that FreeNAS knows my email address and will happily tell me when a drive drops out of an array.

d'ya think they let antipodeans such as time have copies of Southern Living? Is it really Northern Living when they're down there or do you think they take their styles from the heart of the Antarctic?

I really didn't care for Dark Knight Rises. I think it might take an entire essay to explain the fullness of my objections, but the short version is that the movie tries so hard to be grounded in realism that anything that doesn't follow along with that becomes jarring; I shouldn't be sitting...

I like for a mirror to have a frame and to be located someplace where it will multiply natural light. Not very much. There was also a period when I was about six years old when my father's renovations required that the outer wall to the one bathroom in the house be removed for about five...

One of the most misbegotten things I've ever seen was a Windows Server set up by an MSSQL DBA. He had managed to configure four drives attached to a RAID controller as RAID0 (for performance!, though I suspect they were delivered from HP in that configuration because I don't think he knew what a...

Many strippers are 20 years old and they still manage to be a lot of fun.

That's VERY related to the topic, though unfortunately that little quad-core ARM looks like it's stuck with USB for expansion and that's kind of crappy.

You need the equipment on both sides to support 802.3ax, which is a feature you're pretty much only going to find on a managed switch. I think there are some configuration options for that on Intel NICs with PROset installed but since I don't have anything with a dual NIC running Windows I can't...

Not disagreeing. On the other hand, I know've met assloads of developers and DBAs who don't know the first thing about general purpose IT. DBAs in particular seem to have problems with things you'd think they would pay attention to, like network latency and disk performance, let alone concepts...

Bought a ThinkStation S20 off Ebay for a customer. The unit I was shipped has a pair of 300GB x15s and a Quadro 4000 in it. Also, Coug, I got that. :)

Will ESX obey a soft shutdown when it's not in maintenance mode?

So far, what I have learned from this experience is that my coworker can't comprehend what vsphere is or how to shut down an ESX server in a way that does not involve a power button.

I've just noticed how ridiculously affordable TVs have gotten in the last short while. I have two friends who simply do not own a flat-panel TV. I was able to find new 40" 1080p displays for under $270, less than I had expected to pay for a 32" set. My local Sam's Club has a mammoth 65" Vizio...

14.01 is out now and it's still semi-retarded with Flash. Of course, I blame Adobe. "Plugin Container for Firefox has stopped working" is pretty much my computer's favorite phrase these days. So that's awesome. Anyway, I saw this and it is cute.

I'm sure there's a republican someplace massaging his boner to that idea though. Anyway, so far the drives have stayed in my zPool. I'm kind of impressed. That's longer than they were able to run in a SoftRAID1.

I've found Synology devices to be a good, stable option for network storage. I've been dealing with them for a couple years without any real issues.

How about a VW Beetle? Or my toaster. Which is entirely distinct from similar vehicles like the Qube and the Scion. Most mid-size cars aren't terribly distinct. That audi doesn't look much different from a Volvo, either.

I don't think the changes are quite that severe. Activated copies of Windows and Office should maintain their activated status even after the license expires. I base that on how I know MSAA stuff works. You just won't be able to activate new copies on keys that come from a lapsed Technet account.

Perhaps it would be better to say that it's unremarkable in its appearance. The overall body shape doesn't seem to have any distinct styling. It's very similar to a lot of other present-era sedans or coupes or whatever the hell mid-size cars are called these days.

In overall shape, it doesn't look that different from a Camry to me. the grill on the front is the only thing that seems distinctive. It's a pretty generic-looking vehicle.

Actually it's not an A5. It's a 2013 rs5.

I stuck four of the drives into my FreeNAS setup this morning. We'll have to see how that works out.

The way I read the document, that only applies to new memberships, not to existing ones.

The terms for new subscriptions to Technet changed today. Some of the more important changes: * Product keys will only be activated within the subscription period * "Home"-class products removed * Products out of the support lifecycle were removed * Standalone installers for single MS Office...

Most of those women aren't really attendees but models or booth babes. Which is not to say that there aren't hot chicks at comic book conventions. In fact there are tons of them. It's just that those chicks were pretty much all paid to be there. Just about the only time I've seen pro-grade...

Whatever. It doesn't look much different from the Toyota she parked next to.

My boss got an Audi A5 for her birthday. Whatever the fuck that is.

I'm under the impression that my Evo charges very quickly from a wall charger and very slowly via USB.

Home improvement is my father's hobby. I grew up in houses that were always at least half-torn apart. I spent a portion of my teenage years with no interior walls in my bedroom. Many of the projects my dad did carried on for YEARS. The result of this is the firm belief that do it yourself...

Bread is absolutely insane. I tend to think about things that I eat in terms of how many slices of sandwich bread they equate to and how much time I have to spend walking to work that off. At the pace I walk, a slice of bread is maybe 12 minutes of walking. That REALLY gives me pause over...

I know. Seriously. Some day Apple will invent a glorious new downloading arbitrary things from file servers technology and on that the technology press will mess its shorts over the awesomeness. :hurl: Christ. I'm even going to use a second smiley. :beer: That one's for you, MaxBurn.

I pretty much could never get fired. However, I also can't tell anyone else what to do with their stuff or how to do their job. As far as this one computer, I'll extract the value for whatever I give her in other ways. Like, hey, someone randomly putting a carton of 2TB hard drives on my desk.

The T430s weighs under 4lbs, has an ultrabay that can be adapted to hold a second hard disk and a 1600x900 screen. Why is it not in contention again?

That's a lot of money just so you can keep up with time, dd. ;)

She's getting a pair of 5400rpm 80GB drives. I'm basically doing this out of my own stock of spare parts so I can turn off a bunch of machines that are presently running in my office.

I assembled the Q6600 in this enclosure and the stock HSF. Added 8GB of DDR2 and set it up with a 300GB Raptor just to be sadistic. Loaded ESX. Then I loaded four VMs onto it and reconfigured all of them to be 1 CPU/1.5GB systems and set them about converting folders full of .Flac files into...

Google says drive heat does not matter. I don't remember the last time I encountered a 7200rpm drive that I thought was legitimately loud and hot. It was probably a SCSI drive though.

OK so anyway: Google builds a neural network that is fed a diet of Youtube videos. After three days, they find that it likes cat videos the best.

I don't know. Squeegee seems like an acceptable and just-as-functional primary use for an ipad2.

You know you have too many Android tablets when you decide that one of them is going to be dedicated for reading in the bathtub.

Gosh. The light weight and insane battery life must be a terrible burden. ;)

My experience with Shuttle machines is that the power supplies invariably die an early death and are ridiculously expensive to replace. I already have a couple options for non-Shuttle enclosures. I have a Thermaltake chassis in mind that I'm probably going to mate with either a 2x 2.5" in one...

So I want to put together an ESX machine in an mITX shoebox. The goal here is to deal with the fact that my coworker absolutely refuses to replace or part ways with the nine year old 17" P4 boatanchor notebook she uses for dev work. This machine needs to be at least portable enough for her to...

I'm curious to know your opinions on the keyboard. I'm a little annoyed about my T420. I rest my left thumb on the space bar. That's what I've ALWAYS done. The plastic on my T420's keyboard is so soft that I've visibly worn away the plastic where my thumb sits in just six months. I don't mind...

Two and Four drive configurations are very common for low-end NAS setups. Entry level disk controllers often have four SATA ports. FreeNAS likes (or at least its developers strongly encourage) adding disks in groups of five. It's probably more reasonable to target more common configurations...

I believe I've read that the average grade at a US university is now an A. College in the US is now most the a testimony to the fact that someone was willing to pay $10,000 a year to an institution for long enough to be granted a degree. Credential inflation really, really pisses me off. But...