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Granted, it's fixable, but most people won't know to change or know how to change ABP's settings to turn ads off, which is of course the proper and expected behavior of an ad blocker.

Right now it's two 15TB RAIDZs. I guess I'm going to have to add a SAS expander.

New fileserver is full. :(

Two drunken RIM executives terrorize a plane full of people. I particularly like the bit about chewing through their restraints.

I know the source drives are good. The destination drives might have have 300 power-on hours at this point. I suppose I'll be grabbing disk counters in the near future. I'll be damned if I can think where else there could be an issue.

It's doing the same thing. The VM has been "Applying Computer Settings" for an hour now.

I came home from the movie with a soda in a cup with a straw. My cat has never seen a straw before. He wants the straw SOOOOO bad. He's trying to stalk my drink.

With nothing better to do since my VM conversion was heading in to its 36th hour, I went to an 11AM showing of The Muppets today. Know what? It was a good movie, with real laughs and some good songs courtesy of Jerome Clement, the dark haired half of "Flight of the Conchords." It would have been...

I suspect I'll get the Czech equivalent next time my brother comes back for a visit.

I have a wool officer's trenchcoat that was Communist-era Czech Army surplus. Now I just need my furry hat.

Yes but it's covered in cheese curds and brown gravy, in the way of his people.

Beginning of the end. Sob.

Coug already displays better habits for English spelling and grammar than the overwhelming majority of Anglophones on the internet. Let he who is without occasional typo cast the first stone.

The only answer there is depends on your personal habits. I regularly exchange emails with 25kB walls of text and/or 2MB attachments but even at that I probably don't hit 250MB of SMTP-only traffic on my phone in any given month. Likewise, "limited browsing" means different things to different...

Honestly, I don't any more. I have a headset I use with my phone as infrequently as possible and that's about it. The bluetooth experience on Windows is just too damned inconsistent.

Conversion attempt #2: Heartened by ddrueding's now-transparent lies about performance, I take another shot at using the vCenter converter. 11 hours later, this machine, which has otherwise been completely idle, sitting at 2 - 5% CPU utilization, 20% RAM and > 2% of 1Gbps LAN for the whole time...

And well he should. id games are largely tech demos but it sucks that their next gen toolkit is built in that way. Coug, man, don't blame your monitor for what are clearly your desktop's failings. Kick the tower, not the screen. Also, switch to nice, thick Supermicro chassis. Since I use a...

I'd just like to say that in spite of the staggering amount of pornography, the fans in my computers are all fine.

I administer computer systems, handle help calls, write documentation and training materials, fix PCs and teach. If I don't have any pressing emergencies and all the other stuff is done, it's basically down to just the "handle help calls" part, which means spending time in an office with a full...

The ridiculously high end X220 uses a 1360x768 IPS panel. They also weigh about 2.5lbs and support full speed mobile CPUs. I thought about going with one of those, but I really wanted the extra screen resolution and ultrabay compatibility. Plus there were bigger discounts on the T-series.

Yeah. My end statement was "I won't recommend anything but this is what you should look for."

As I understand it, Rage has a bad case of Consoleportitis.

Live conversion time on my 8 year old server: 17 hours and 52 minutes. Using different physical drive than the first attempt. Transfer rate 1.7MB/sec. Sob.

I won't absolutely say no Asus or nVidia for someone else. If I'm going to give a personal recommendation, I'd prefer that it be something I'd actually, you know, be comfortable recommending.

We used to be able to count on id, Epic or, hey, Crotean, to deliver showpiece 3D engines for PC games. The market for PC games has gotten bigger in the years since, not smaller. It shouldn't be THAT hard to get one out the door.

Supposedly, Asus rates very highly for reliability but I've a truly nightmarish time sourcing batteries and fan assemblies for them. It's not a brand I really gave any serious consideration.

Because they were the cool phone for businesspeople for like four years and now inertia keeps them around.

I suppose there's some kind of analogy between the average gaming PC and some kind of 16-cylinder, 2000 horsepower engine (that's a thing, right?) in a car that has to drive 60mph and no faster because that's as fast as Chevettes go. There are vanishingly few things that can upper-tier cards...

Goddammitsomuch.

I went to Lenovo. I picked the options I wanted. I waited two weeks for it to be configured and delivered. I normally buy -CTO machines directly from Lenovo since my configuration options are kind of idiosyncratic; wanting the cheapest drive and Windows edition and the least RAM combined with...

I think Fallout 3 suffered from its association with games that are truly great. On its own, it's a good enough title with some modest nagging down sides. Unfortunately, I had expectations of getting another Fallout game, something that mixed in trademark humor and the ability to perform a wide...

As a clarification: How much do you think the game engine was held back by the fact that it still has to work on texture memory and feature-limited platforms?

Coincidentally, that's just about how long I waited for my converted VM to boot before I gave up on it.

OK this is also pretty cool. And it's not hot chicks. And the 4k source video is being made available, too. Not that I'm looking at videos all day.

Yeah. I have a decent set of Sennheiser earbuds that I carry and use when I'm in server rooms or out walking, but I don't care to wear either circumaural or earbuds for any extended amount of time. But then, I live by myself, so it's not like I have to make a concession to anyone else's...

Looks like she did some modeling for MetArt, Twistys and DDgirls. Solo sets, no toys (that I could see from a skim of my collection), and no performing with a partner of either gender. Basically people took pictures of her standing around being hot. That makes her more of a nude model than a...

If she did porn, I don't recognize her. Hm. Now I'll have to watch it again. Shucks.

I wish that there were headphones I felt comfortable enough using for dedicated listening. Pursuing a high-end audio experience with headphones is way, way cheaper than buying speakers and components.

It is time for a hot chick break. Why no, there isn't anything going on in my office. Why do you ask. Anyway: 1. This chick is hot. 2. She does push ups in ways that I have never seen them done before. 3. She has a hot accent that's probably relevant to ddrueding's interests. 4. Did I mention...

Understand that the first posts in this thread are eight years old. But in the time since, I've yet to have a positive interaction with an Alienware machine. What I ended up telling my customer is that I can't recommend a laptop for gaming. There simply isn't a sane middle of the road option...

My Thinkpad T420 came in yesterday. A few thoughts. The MBP has a generally nicer screen. Even in spite of the gloss finish. I'd say it's a matter of comparing an exceptional screen to a very good one. The T420's screen is a big improvement over my T6x-series notebooks and looks amazing on AC...

They changed the layout like, oh, maybe last Friday? Something like that.

The way used laptops sell on Ebay, he probably made out like a bandit.

Sadly, you don't really know how much the graphics engine was retarded by the fact that it had to run on PS3s and Xboxes.

Slow day at work today, so I'm working through the piles of hardware I have sitting around. I've got two Core 2 Duo and one Turion laptop working well enough to boot Linux off a thumb drive. Which is cool because, hey, free laptops.

That game looks way too much like Fallout 3, a title that suffered horribly from consoleportitis and left out all the stuff that was fun about actual Fallout games.

Cars are to me just slightly ahead of drying paint in terms of my level of interest, but since we're on a car wreck theme this week, here's a bunch of pictures of some Ferrari pileup that happened in Japan. If you like red Italian sports cars, it might hurt to look.

I'm not going to recommend an Alienware laptop to anyone.

If you can get it to take less than 20 hours to do something, I think I'd like to know that.

HP has its Envy line. MSI and Asus make, I dunno, something or other. I imagine I could go find a generic Compal design decent specs from SagerNotebooks... I've had exactly zero positive experiences with Alienware. Ew. Ew ew ew.