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Why bother with AAC in the first place when you can do FLAC and know you're getting audio identical the PCM source?

Those people are wrong. It would be bad to get me started on the matter. Superman and the rest of the static and indistinguishable Mad Libs collection of DC Comics characters really haven't added anything positive to super heroic fiction since their creation in the 1930s. Anyway, this is the...

Does anyone even know what version Chrome is on off the top of their head? Do version numbers for non-sucky browsers even matter any more?

You shut your whore mouth when your betters are talking.

The Thinkpad X130 looks like a pretty solid buy, once they're finally available. They have a proper i3 CPU and I'm sure they're up to snuff in other respects as well. It might be worth the price premium.

Synctoy is hugely inefficient for large numbers of files. It also generates a tremendous number of very small (1 byte? 1kB? Don't remember) temp files that can create a large overhead in the filesystem and also annoy the piss out of you when a sync fails.

Catwoman pals around with the Superfriends. She's a DC character. DC characters pretty much universally suck.

Windows Server has dfs, if your files are hosted there.

They started building the legend of Kim Jong Un (Une? Whatever) several years ago much as they did for Kim Jonh Il. I'm sure this won't result in any measurable change for the people there.

Yes, the T420 and yes I configured it as the only drive in the machine. There's no subjective weight difference between having the mechanical drive and not.

The only thing I can say is that I had no issues cloning the Lenovo disk image onto it. It's fine. Windows 7 loads up in ~16 seconds and everything is nice and zippy in the way that I'd expect. It might be a bit low end compared to more modern SSDs but it's fine for my application.

I quite liked Community.

That's the conclusion I came to as well. I still have to stick with HEC cases that include a bundled PSU most of the time, but if I'm building a reasonably nice computer, that's what I'm going to use from now on.

I didn't start buying them until November 2010, after a string of problems with 2TB 5400rpm drives. They were priced low enough that I could get a comparable amount of storage (4 1.5TB vs. 3 2TB) for the same amount of money. So far I haven't had any issues with them. Given my recent experiences...

Been there. Universal restore is normally helpful.

I have an existing machine that is apparently conversion proof. I've tried using the current VMware converter and tried converting from a VHD and from a TrueImage backup. I guess my fallback is to try the old standby P2V converter that I've used in the past but so far my results have been the...

Recent-ish drives I know to be reliable: Samsung drives 1.5TB 7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda 7200.11* 2 & 3TB 5400 RPM Hitachi Deskstar Drives I know to not be reliable Any Seagate or Western Digital "green" drive. In fact, every 3.5" Seagate drive that isn't a 1.5TB 7200.11 Every WD drive ever...

Happy Bday Doug!

Another weekend, another terrible experience in attempting a migration with current VMware tools. You know it's shit when you're happy about a sub-120 minute boot time.

I believe the 20GB card is meant to act as high speed cache for motherboards with an optional mSATA slot using the z68 chipset.

MLC. It's an Intel 310. I understand that pretty much makes it an X25M with a weird connector. Haven't gotten around to installing it yet, though it is tiny.

One wonders how that will impact what are currently Hitachi products.

At a guess, run it out of RAM with animated wallpapers and widgets and crap?

I've seen people whine about issues that they blame on Android but not anyone whose opinion I'd consider remotely credible and usually in the context of advocacy for some other mobile OS. Which, honestly, is largely pretty stupid. I have a philosophical disagreement with Apple's closed...

I've never had my android phone lock up. I've seen some cheapass Android phones (e.g. the HTC Aria, most early Samsung phones) such that it wouldn't shock me that it might be a problem with some hardware.

The Incredibles and The Iron Giant are both awesome films. I respect the hell out of Brad Bird. But I'll be damned if I give Tom Cruise any money. The new Sherlock Holmes movie was entertaining though. I saw it this afternoon.

Fangirls need to be thrown the occasional homo-erotic bone. I wouldn't begrudge them that. There is a theory that I subscribe to, that most girls who are interested enough in science fiction and comic books and fantasy novels are at least bicurious if not more-than-curious. They're cool with...

That's going to be an ongoing thing, actually.

I haven't watched it yet, but I've been reading the comic book since issue #3. I knew someone in college who was active in Doctor Who fandom on a national level. Understand that this was 1994, during the long hiatus of the series. If you took all the worst possible stereotypes about science...

I'm not a big fan of police procedurals, but I like Nathan Fillion enough to sit through season 1 of Castle. It's unchallenging, by the numbers network TV fare that lets Nathan Fillion be Nathan Fillion and that's the appeal as far as I can tell. At some point I probably will watch the whole...

SuperMicro makes one, if you're willing to put up with LGA1366 and Xeon E5500-series CPUs. Supermicro SM/X8DTL.

I should have my Intel 310 miniPCIe SSD by the end of the week. The miniPCIe guys seem to be a bit of a dead end. Not many notebooks use them and the largest capacity I can find is 120GB. I bought an 80GB model. Hopefully it will be good enough for my purposes.

Wait. Burn Notice was good at some point? Basically I watch that because Bruce Campbell + regular doses of eye candy. There is no deeper level than that.

Well, the SFF8087 supports four drives per cable and 4 x 6 = 24 so I'm going with math fail on Intel's part.

A dual core Atom can transcode h.264 in real time, at least a single stream.

I managed to get through an episode and a half of Parks and Recreation. Which, granted, is about an entire episode more than I made it through either version of The Office. I quite enjoyed 30 Rock, which apparently hasn't started its new season yet. Shameless has a very entertaining first...

FreeNAS RAIDZ performance is definitely bound up by RAM. With a total of 20GB RAM, I'm seeing 130MB/sec writes over NFS with dual gigabit. This might be of some interest to folks who get here from Google, given my previous post on the matter.

ddrueding did. But a 4TB drive in an external enclosure with undoubtedly shitty power regulation just seems like a great way to lose 4TB of data.

Sure, but if your experience with tapes involves DC2120s or Travan, it's a completely different deal. Besides, we're talking about backups. Access times aren't normally relevant for that application.

Wall-E was excellent, especially for being so ambitious as to have a nonverbal main character and very little dialog in the first half of the movie.

LTO can fill a tape in a little over 10 minutes if the drive can be fed fast enough. I'd say that compares quite well to USB. Best I've seen from USB3 is around 80MB/sec.

I've had terrible luck with external drives. I don't mind using them with small customers but it really seems that > 1TB 3.5" externals are too delicate to be trusted for anything.

You could've gotten a proper tape drive for what those four disks cost.

Honestly, if you aren't at least watching the Pixar Studios movies, you're really missing out on some special films. Except the Cars movies. Those blow goats. But if you go look at the Toy Story movies, Finding Nemo, Up, the Incredibles, Ratatouille, Monsters Inc et al. on Rotten Tomatoes or...

A lot of projects are run by assholes. Maybe it's just part of the psychological make-up.

I didn't like the way Wladimir Palent usurped development of the original Adblock, but from a functional standpoint, building in the subscription updater is a big enough carrot to put up with one dickheaded developer. But recently ABP has incorporated or gotten commercial funding somehow and...

When drives get reasonable again, I'll buy an Intel RES2SV240 ($200) and stick it in a secondary chassis. That Expander is specifically compatible with the LSI9240/IBM M1505, supports 24 drives @ 6Gbps SAS and can be installed in a 2U enclosure. Though from what I've read, forecasts say that...

It's not as much as it sounds. My file servers were over capacity for months, so the excess was spread out to arrays on some of my desktops. The new arrays just gave me a place to centralize all my storage again and now that everything is copied back, I can see that 15TB arrays aren't really...

Russia has gone from one crushing autocracy to the next spanning back most of its history. It's part of the national character.

If you poke around on the site, they say one of their top priorities is to bring parity to the Chrome version of ABP. Though at the same time, ABP was an offshoot of the original Adblock. Hopefully someone else will fork a proper adblocker if these settings are not easily changed.