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It's not going to get above 30F outside any time in the next week. It's all in nice insulated boxes out on my balcony and I'm sure it will be fine.

Ha. Even if I did, in the entirety of my experience, any woman that shows me any degree of personal affection is either openly gay or about to come out. Which, due to its implications, is not a line of thought I like to pursue.

It doesn't work. I think I'm going to donate it to a food bank.

The power consumption on whatever form of ARM CPU is in your phone is probably only a ninth of what's in your notebook, too.

One of my customers is a commercial butcher that supplies high grade steakhouses. As a holiday gift, they brought me 60lbs. of USDA Prime-grade beef, including a dry aged standing rib roast that must be a foot long. I don't even have a freaking grill.

I've personally witnessed my ex's girlfriend kill the battery on a fully charged Evo 3D in under two hours, just from non-stop SMSing.

My love keeps me warm. Also: It was around 55 F during the day the whole time I was in central TN last week, since we're comparing temperatures that are in places.

Apparently the current software version of Boxee will be the last one. I'm not sure if the project is open enough for anyone else to pick of the banner, and it's an xbmc derivative anyway, but find that annoying. The Logitech Revue is down to $80 now, so I finally ordered one. I figure it will...

Yes but I don't go places or do things and I like naked ladies quite a bit.

The WiiU looks like it will have a similarly retarded (in the sense that it creates an obstacle, though I suppose the other definition fits as well) level of graphics horsepower, with the big gimmick that it comes with some kind of weak-ass quasi-tablet built in to its controller. On one hand I...

I have several times 500GB, but by "and stuff" I really meant pornography. :D

Kind of. Mine can go about 2 days without charging if I don't mess with it very much. Leaving on all the radios hurts it a lot, but most people know to shut them off. In my observation, the people who have the biggest problems with battery life are people who do the most SMSing, Gaming and...

I settled on sticking an empty 2.5" SATA bay in mine. The door thing just got too aggravating. Looks like they cost about $15 on Ebay if you don't have one already but for that matter, who doesn't want to carry around an extra 500GB of music and stuff?

I don't think I was aware of that. Thanks!

In the last couple weeks, I noticed that Lenovo was discounting SSDs pretty heavily in more expensive Thinkpads. As far as I know, they still use crappy Samsung SSDs that I wouldn't say are worth the purchase price, but at times I saw T and X series models with 128GB drives for basically the...

I really like Amazon's market on my Evo. It seems to have more interesting stuff than the official app store and the free app a day is genuinely appreciated. On my Kindle Fire, I'm aggravated to no end by the poor search function and weirdly limited selection of applications. I rooted and...

That seems surprisingly useful to know, actually.

December is the month when absolutely no one bothers to do anything but go to holiday parties and talk about going to holiday parties, as near as I can tell.

One of my customers sent me to look at their accountant's (not an employee, just some guy who does their accounting) PC today. It was a high end Dell XPS machine, but the guy was probably 60 years old and it was pretty obvious that the only thing he knew how to do was run Quickbooks. Anyway, he...

Also they're yanking the Harry Potter discs after the new year so they can make a new extended set for next Xmas. If you were planning to buy them, better do it soon. The theatrical editions seem fine to me but at least the Netflix version are really barren of special features. They don't have...

The BSG Blurays were HEAVILY discounted for the holidays. so were the extended editions of Lord of the Rings. I paid $250 for BSG when it came out but I saw the whole set for $60 this year. I don't really mind. I'm glad someone made so much good entertainment affordable.

Basically, if you have Wii Sports, you already have the only decent thing that's available for Wii. Everything else might as well be a Gamecube game but with some stupid motion control gimmick. I gave my Wii away a few weeks ago after I realized that I hadn't even had it plugged in for over...

I can't speak to that model specifically, but Asus routers and APs usually have pretty obtuse firmware. Not as bad as Buffalo, but bad enough that I feel like I should mention it before you go buying one. At the end of the day, Home Routers are one of those things where there's just no magic...

There are actually people I know whom I no longer communicate with because I don't have a facebook account. It might not be a huge deal in the Philippines but the amount of data mining that is done on US and European Facebook users is completely sickening and I don't want any part of it.

I celebrated our shared African unity by going to JC Pennys and buying a pair of shoes and some chinos that were on sale.

RDP only allows a single viewer per console. If you want something other than that you're really talking about doing something that's based on VNC somehow.

I'm not impressed at all by Airport Extreme blahblah. They don't even appear to have good compatibility with Apple stuff in my experience.

The problem with Remote Assistance and VNC is that both require firewall configuration that are beyond the reach of most users.

Kwanzaa doesn't start until tomorrow.

Crossloop and Teamviewer are both good. You can also use Showmewhatswrong.com, which makes a video you can look at, for some things.

I started point #7 twice and then carriage returned and forgot about it. No big deal. That thought became point #8. I legitimately prefer a 7" screen and the paperback-sized form factor to overlarge and heavy 9"+ screens. I emailed myself a few .epub files and they read just fine.

Hey, if you want a bunch of that stuff on YOUR credit card statement I'm not going to stop you. I'm sure I could find a nerd girl who would be happy to have it. :P But anyway, there's a lot of power and potential in some other photo manipulation applications, like Paint.Net. The biggest...

OK Kindle Fire time: 1. Fuckers don't include Google applications. And they aren't on Amazon Marketplace. I'm going to have to sideload Youtube, Picasa and Gtalk. That's a HUGE annoyance, as is the lack of direct integration with Google services. 2. The Amazon interface is inconsistent. Home...

One tiny annoyance with the T420: It's very easy to pop the optical drive open. I've accidentally done it probably a dozen times in the last 24 hours.

Branchcache is the only new feature introduced in Server 2008R2 aside from the updated UI stuff that I can think of. All of Microsoft's training materials focus on the core Server 2008 product anyway so I tend to think of the extra stuff as optional. There might be some other things but they're...

All of Purdue's UNIX hosts are configured to properly handle NTP queries. In cases where I've needed it, I've pointed hosts at addresses there for years.

For my M1505, I was able to find a set of instructions for enabling and changing some firmware functions that were disabled with the IBM version of the LSI card.

FreeNAS doesn't even really install. When I stuck it on a drive I just used dd to write an image of it to a drive. I don't know what's going on with your stuff but as I recall there's an Intel toolkit that lets you check the drive and there might be a firmware update for your drive like there...

I really can't even begin to care what you think you need it for. If you're paying for it, and I sincerely hope you aren't, you're supporting something that does not deserve to exist, let alone your money.

Chrome is fine for some applications. Firefox's add-on infrastructure and better memory management with large numbers of tabs make it the superior browser for my needs. I like to use Chrome on Virus-infected systems so that I can otherwise uninstall outdated Adobe shit, since it has its own...

Point of order: You can get a WSAPI plug-in for Winamp.

I'll have to give that a listen. For the most part I divide audio into "things I'm going to enjoy critically and needs to be .flac" and "things that I just need to be able to hear and can be 64kpbs .mp3 for all I care." One of my personal annoyances is that my phone will play .flac just fine if...

There's really very little functional difference between the two.

Even if I didn't think that the UI was total shit, I'd still thing Photoshop is worthless shit by association. And the UI is total shit that has unfortunately contaminated every other program with similar functionality. Fuck Adobe and everyone who works there or supports its products.

Comics are just like any other form of literature. They can be juvenile but they can also be a wonderful vessel for adult storytelling. It's not all super heroes and funny animals and even in those genres there is material of real literary work; Alan Moore's Swamp Thing (yes, really) or Brian M...

Did you not get a 20GB SSD with the board?

I've been using Server editions of Windows on desktop machines for a long time. Yes, Adobe crap runs on Windows Server.

Usually I run into that when there's something stupid like a printer with a built in card reader plugged in.

You can make the drives non-removable and do it, but it's really not a good idea, since Windows will mark the drives as not responding at the drop of a hat. You'd do better with eSATA or Firewire. I've played with it on Linux and found that something stupid like unplugging a thumb drive can...

Care to elaborate on your experience?, I'm planning to mess around with custom ROMs more in the coming weeks, but I'm curious why you ditched it. Lunar, I can't comment on problems with your email system, but I can say that my phone and email program will open attachments just fine.