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Apparently I'll have a return box tomorrow and they're saying a week to two weeks to get it back. The troubleshooting and RMA process involved speaking to four different people and took about 45 minutes. I'm not terribly impressed.

The Perc and IBM controllers are both some form of rebranded LSI controller. They're generally not used so much as pulled from systems and replaced with other controllers for one reason or other. "New system pull" is a very common condition to find them, anyway.

Powered on the MBP this morning for the first time in a couple months... and the screen didn't. It's fine on an external display and that's lovely and everything, but the laptop is basically seven months old and has barely been moved or used in most of that time. Now I'm on hold with Apple. Huzzah.

Basically the whole rest of the world has one standard. Just not the USA.

I'm trying to think of a place where I would use that. Nothing is immediately coming to mind. Maybe it could be used to move backup files from one system to another over a VPN or something.

I just switched my office to Vocalocity's VOIP service. We're using various Cisco phones now, or I can swap in a software based phone that runs on Windows. I can manage all my phone numbers and extensions from the web or from a tool that runs on Android and iOS. I can configure calls to ring...

Last time I picked up my ipad, iOS was still a POS that seemed to exist entirely to get in the way of me and my data, and there is no way to fix that problem. Conversely, I don't really think Android versions matter all that much to end users. I have Gingerbread and Honeycomb and ICS devices...

The IBM M1015 supports modern (larger than 2TB) drives, unlike a Perc5/6. It also supports Expanders so you can plug in to one of those cheap 4-bay SiL things or an HP SAS expander. There's a firmware hack that essentially disables all the RAID features of the card. That is useful since most...

It's getting on toward winter down there. It wouldn't surprise me if the chimp pops in again once Tony has climbed out of the bush and taken a weed whacker to his beard.

Putting aside my well justified thirst for justice with regard to WD, it's been my observation that neither WD nor Seagate "green" drives work all that will for anything other than single drive bulk storage. Why is your drive a dynamic disk? Is it part of a softRAID or something? I've observed...

I feel sorry for those cursed with the burden of improper hand preference. As with so many things, the majority is simply wrong.

I did say "with an AMD GPU", not "AMD card." To the best of my knowledge, there have never been straight-up nVidia consumer-class video cards. Which is fine. Because they would probably catch fire and molest puppies. Which would make the puppies catch fire and die. Which is actually a blessing...

I had a closet full of them, but I've deployed them all. I should probably buy five or ten more but I don't want to pay $80 apiece for them and I've not has good experiences with the wireless version. I spend ~15 hours a day on computers and these things are the best and most comfortable pointer...

You probably lack the particular cultural literacy to properly digest the awesome that I have linked to, but for everybody else, this is the radio play version of Star Wars as read at a comic book convention by Pinky and the Brain, Zapp Brannigan, Yakko and Wakko Warner, Batman, Yosemite Sam...

Have an hour and a half to kill? Watch or listen to this, because it's awesome.

Kinky.

When I take days off I wind up spending tons of time on the phone or responding to emails because someone doesn't know how to do something and that invariably leads to some kind of emergency. Besides, there really isn't any place I want to go or anything I really feel like I should do other than...

My answer to that is to not go on holidays.

The smegma-eating unclefucking dildobreaths at Logitech have stopped manufacturing the most perfect pointing device in the history of the universe, the Trackman Wheel. I can buy the shitty RF wireless version for only about twice as much or I can find another decent trackball. Needless to say, I...

So this thing about how to get to the boot menu in Win8 seems like it might be interesting. Maybe it's just me, but a boot menu I can't access without an already-started instance of Windows seems, I dunno, kinda idiotic. But then, 2/10ths of a second is plenty of time to press F8 five or six...

Your wife does not like strippers or high speed networks. Why the hell did you marry her?

NICs aren't that bad if you just want to run a crossover between two machines. I've seen 10GbE PCI-e cards go for $75 on ebay.

Coming soon: Freeagent drives designed by FA Porsche.

Two words: 4k Porn.

I went with the tried and true "stack crap on my fancy new desk" method. I figure that I have a laptop and the sofa in the lobby is pretty comfortable.

They ran my cables to a shallow utility closet. The closet is exactly as deep as a as a 24 port patch panel is wide. Wanna know how I know that? Because the panel is installed on the side wall of the closet. That must be covered in one of those "special" EIA specs for structured cabling.

"Master plan." Ha. You're funny. My zealous followers might spare you.

One of my co-workers had a stamping-her-feet-on-the-floor-jumping-up-and-down-red-in-the-face temper tantrum yesterday because I said I didn't have time to move our servers and infrastructure hardware over to our new office today. I don't have room for a rack. My installation is going to be ugly...

On the day when I decide who lives and who dies, the rivers will be awash in the blood of the unrighteous and the earth thereupon shall be sown with salt, that nothing might arise from the the fetid carcass of depravity. Note to zealous followers: Purchase salt. Also, plows.

While I am not fully certain that this represents any real contrition on Chewy's part, I am willing to provisionally withdraw my call for punitive moderation. Of course, I cannot be held responsible if any of my more zealous followers undertake violent actions against Chewy, his family or...

I am exceptionally offended by the content of this post and demand punitive moderation.

Chyna is up to some dude dressed up like Thor.

Well, yeah. Of course. But I wonder if it's easier to manage things like spill proofing a chiclet keyboard or something.

I've had to RMA one graphics card with an AMD GPU in the last 12 years (not counting the misbegotten Jetway card I got with none of the surface mount ICs soldered on). I can't even count the number of nvidia cards I've tossed.

The Avengers XXX is not as good as the regular version in most respects but then on the other hand at least the Black Widow does the thing you really want her to do in the porn version.

Yes, because the only thing I like better than using a graphics card is waiting two or three weeks for some fuckstick to process my RMA and send me a new one.

I've been told it's basically down to "check a box" in CCC these days. I figure it's not worth it if there's any more work than powering the card and maybe a one-time config. Last time I screwed around with SLI, I was having to configure individual game profiles where sometimes both cards...

In other news, Tx20-series Thinkpads won't be out of the retail channel until probably this time next year.

Has anyone messed around with Crossfire setups recently? I'm trying to decide if it's worth tracking down another Radeon 5870 vs. getting a newer card. I don't know if I need my game system to draw an extra 200W just to play City of Heroes, but I can buy a lot of electricity for the $250 price...

It gave me something to do when I wasn't playing Nethack.

When I was an undergrad I wrote an ncurses version of Freecell after I saw it on a Windows 95 machine.

I don't think I could recommend a single product for every environment. FreeNAS certainly is easy to get up and running though.

I don't think anybody else here has a RIM device, MaxBurn.

How did I miss this whole exchange? Anyway, I am sure that the association of tata with teh boob0rz has been going on for centuries as well, seeing as how men can call 'em yabbos, sweater puppies or bags of sand and we all still know what is being discussed. Anyway Lunar, no, I got mine from...

The thing is, it's ridiculously easy to make a decent file server. I understand that WHS doesn't really cost more than Win7 Pro, but the only compelling argument for it is the automated backup. It's a little like a solution in search of a problem to solve.

There are no other games like City of Heroes. Champions Online uses an open power selection process that effectively results in absolutely everyone making the same character (why make anything else when you can make a tank-mage?) and DCUO is first of all flawed for using DC intellectual property...

I had the opportunity to test WHS 2011. A few things to say: 1. It seems to disable HDMI audio on every reboot. Which is hilarious for something that could potentially be used for a media center. Whoops. 1a. It's happening on both Intel and ATI hardware, so I don't think it's a "ha-ha bad ATI...

Wow this crap was a lot simpler before Oracle got involved in it.

I don't like Steam. I don't like rights management software the restricts my ability to operate my computer or to play games I have purchased. Those two things by themselves remove probably 80% of my options for gaming, yet they have nothing to do with games themselves. That is a distinct issue...

I don't think I've ever played a Blizzard game that I've actually liked.