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Venture Bros. is a take off on a different subgenre and has a different sense of humor, but there's probably a lot of crossover between people who like both. Adventure Time is like watching an eight year old kid play with Action Figures. I really don't get a stupid stoner vibe from it. It's not...

... and I get annoyed these days when I have to drive 75 minutes to get to a customer site. Cripes.

I was sitting in Denny's this morning. I overheard a guy bitching about the Droid Incredible he got for his job and how crappy it is compared to his (personal?) Blackberry. Apparently he thinks Androids don't open PDFs and he doesn't like that it syncs phone contacts with google accounts. That...

The 2600 is about 30% faster. It's quite significant, but for the vast majority of users, it's just going to be more time the CPU spends idling. The only way I can really push any i7 in a significant way is with media encoding, and that isn't exactly an everyday desktop-user task.

I just got turned on to "Adventure Time", which reminds me of playing with action figures by way of Candyland by way of Dungeons and Dragons by way of Gamma World. It's weird in a way I really like. I can't remember if I've mentioned "Archer" before, but the season 2 DVD set came out last...

That machine needs $200 worth of rebates to be $100 more expensive. And my box has better overall hardware anyway (quality PSU, real graphics hardware, nice chassis) vs. that one having a bunch of RAM the end user isn't going to need and a BD burner they'll never use.

Speaking of oral surgery and dry socket and painkillers and other unpleasant stuff... When I was 12, I had a tooth removed so that a badly-impacted tooth that was essentially growing from the roof of my mouth could be anchored and moved down to where it was supposed to go. During the oral...

A dentist I've done work for in the past told me that dental insurance is pretty much never worthwhile. The amounts that the insurance will pay on claims haven't changed significantly since the mid-80s, but the premiums have increased many times over. It's extra-special scam-y even for insurance.

I've basically been telling people who need drives replaced that now is the time to move to an SSD.

I would be shocked if we didn't see some interesting systems in mITX or picoITX with some kind of fast ARM CPU and a reasonable subset of I/O ports not long after Windows 8 is released. I did go and take a quick look, but the only products I can find only enable the USB portion of the mPCI-e...

It most certainly has an HDMI port, 'cause I've been using it for about six months. What should happen when you connect a device that fails HDCP negotiation is that a low-resolution version of the picture should be displayed instead of the full-resolution version. I see that sometimes with one...

Lore Sjorberg wasn't nearly so impressed with Ultraviolet.

This might very well be an interesting technology. I wouldn't dismiss it completely. Drive extender does kind of suck, but based on my experiences playing with ZFS it is clear to me that storage pools have all kinds of interesting potential. Just as libraries were the huge feature that made...

Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood (which is terrible, granted, but has quality T&A and girls like it). Basically, I'd watch a drama that was on HBO just because it was on HBO. Showtime has Dexter, Shameless, Californication (again, T&A), and in the past they had Weeds and Bullshit...

I built a MIPS system that has a couple miniPCI slots for NICs (they've been changed several times; I believe they're Atheros-based at the moment), boots off a CF card and has just enough Slackware on it to do what I want to do. I actually suspect that its CPU is actually a bottleneck for my...

I do it more than occasionally. I suspect that if you're trying rsync or something similar, you're probably running the system out of RAM. My big server has 16GB now, and my older file servers have 8GB or 12GB each. I usually do my initial file copy with normal operating system tools and don't...

The greater Chicago area is north of 50 and supposedly will hit 60 tomorrow. It was 61 degrees today in North Dakota, one of those places that might very well report a January temperature of -60.

It's an idiot button for the people who can't be bothered to learn to work their hardware.

Dry socket is a sucky, sucky thing.

My lunchtime taco lost structural integrity shortly after my second bite. Now my shirt smells like taco. It's not wholly unpleasant, but my shirt is making me hungry.

I've plugged in a Logitech Revue, my Evo, a WD TV Live, a Boxee, a generic HDMI switch and a Pioneer VSX-920 so far. It works when I plug it in to a Radeon 5750's HDMI port. That's all I can say.

There's very little that's exciting in the world of desktops and notebooks other than the possibility of a new form factor. "Ultrabook" is the new buzzword. Mobile stuff is exciting because nothing is actually settled right now. Did anyone suggest it might be possible that the same little girl...

That is my suspicion. I guess my monitor could support HDMI 1.2 and all the stuff in my office could be 1.3 or 1.4? I don't know offhand if down-level compatibility is part of the spec or not.

Given how complex home routers have to be and how thin the margins are for products in that space, it's not any wonder that we associate those products with crap. Of course, almost no one wants to pay for "decent", which limits our choice to a $50 hunk of crap that will die four months after you...

That only makes sense in the context of RIM's current offerings. It needs to be better at something more than just e-mail at this point.

It's kind of a tough call, but those horrible sweatshops and terrible working conditions will eventually create a real middle class. The worst of the worst will move elsewhere seeking even more disadvantaged people to exploit and the cycle will begin again.

Since I can give directions to my apartment by the number of strip clubs and adult bookstores one has to pass to get there, I have a feeling that my whole community would be avoided by such a thing.

I just found out that while my U2711 works fine with HDMI when connected to a PC, it works with absolutely nothing else over HDMI. I simply don't get a display. That's a little aggravating for a $1000 monitor.

I've always viewed WPS as suspect. "Automatic" and "security" don't seem like concepts that readily go hand in hand.

Because I pretty much always buy 8GB kits and most people don't need more than that.

... for Windows Vista and 7, which isn't what he was dealing with.

I was offering the i7-920 in a system with 8GB RAM, a 1.5TB 7200rpm hard drive, Antec Sonata (the original, adjectiveless model), 430W Seasonic PSU and a Radeon 5750 (1GB DDR5) and either Vista Ultimate or Windows 7 Home Premium for what I thought was a very reasonable $700.

Did anyone happen to hear This American Life over the weekend? The episode is called "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory", a first person account of a Mac Fanactic who made a pilgrimage to the Foxconn factory in Longhua, China. It's really a pretty mind-blowing indictment of our consumer culture...

Do you just want board and CPU or a complete rig?

Aldiko is nicer than some of the readers I've tried. One of the features I really would like to see is the ability to pick the background and text colors myself. I usually like a muted grey, blue or green background with black letters, or the inverse of that for night-time reading and...

Movie Explorer grabs movie rip metadata from imdb for people who don't have other tools for doing that. It's a work in progress but I can see how it might be handy.

It's supposed to be nearly 60F here during the day this week. Here. By Lake Michigan. In January.

I actually had the same problem and in the same quantity. I managed to buy used CPUs for mine - $150 and $180 for an i7 920 and an i7 940, so now I have two nice, complete systems sitting around waiting for someone to buy them, but the older they get, the less they're worth. I'm sure that...

I also think high end video cards have a lower standard of reliability. I haven't personally experienced any issues lately with high end ATI hardware but then I don't really see all that many systems with $200+ cards, either. Of course, I wouldn't be me if I didn't mention that I've probably...

That is what I don't want to do, since this work isn't really billable time and I'd have to actually go over there and do it.

The first thing I did was try to reinstall the HAL. I've done that before. I suppose I could do a repair install but that would involve me driving all the way back over there and thus is unlikely to happen, especially for something I wouldn't really be getting paid to do. I also have some dim...

Nope. Adding /numproc=4 to my boot.ini (the GUI wouldn't let me) did not change the number of available CPUs after a reboot.

Standard, 32 bit. It's not a big deal. It's just not a behavior I've ever observed before. I figured Windows would auto-detect the proper number of CPUs and it doesn't.

I have a Server 2003 system where I just upgraded the CPU from a dual core Xeon 5000 to a quad core one. Ordinarily, I'd be replacing the whole machine, but my customer can't really afford a whole system and I already had the CPU. The machine has been using the ACPI multiprocessor HAL since...

HBO has HBO Go. Most TV networks and movie studios have some kind of stake in Hulu and broadcast networks stream through their web sites.

I feel sorry for the storage pools that have 300 simultaneous virus scans. Your CPUs can take a pounding like that but that sounds like a great way to kill a mechanical drive or 10.

Media companies have figured out that it's a cheaper and more stable revenue to stream to support streaming and they each want a bigger part of the pie. Of course they're going to stop playing nice with Netflix.

YGPM

Looks like it would be about $40 to ship one to Great Britain. And the power adapter would probably be wrong.

Well that's painful.