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So, OK, somebody puts a gun to your head and tells you that you have to recommend a laptop for gaming. The gun is loaded and you do not have any action movie Kung Fu moves. The gentleman with the gun is not amused by suggestions that you buy a gaming desktop and a decent tablet, either.

Boot the VM with something like a Hiren's BootCD .iso. Run something under the "partition resizer" category, then resize the disk with VMware's editor?

I believe it had 30k or something of all highway miles. Though that just looks like they'd need to replace a few body panels to me.

I figure I can't throw any stones about audio setups. The speakers in my living room cost more than the MSRP for my car.

Today I'm wearing a Tshirt, a heavy cotton henley and a button down shirt. I have on hiking socks under a pair of dressier socks. It's not THAT cold outside, but the feud with our landlord is at such a place that when I came in to the office last Monday, they'd had the heat to our part of the...

I thought the 2700k was 3.4/3.8GHz, but that's off the top of my head.

OK, see, this is the kind of crap I mean when I think about how crappy modern gaming is. EA has the power to lock people out of their own games because they used naughty words on EA's official forums.

My Element wasn't totaled and it was WAY worse than that.

I'm weighing the possibility of finding community support from the *BSD crowd vs. Solaris, especially Solaris in the hands of Oracle, and to me it seems like going with Oracle would be betting on the wrong horse. Nexenta does look interesting, but there are a lot of open distributions of one...

Oh and these guys are still LGA1155.

MOAR new Intel CPUs, coming Q2 '12. These are the mainstream guys. The i7-3770k is the top end chip and it's a whole 100MHz faster than a 2700k.

You would understand if you spent any amount of time with them.

I always like to remind my parents that they were married on Hitler's birthday.

I don't think Mad Men is that good, actually. It's interesting as a period piece, but I'm not invested enough to care what happens to any of the characters. Ennui and interpersonal estrangement are definitely part of the atmosphere they're trying to capture, but the plot of the show seems to...

At this point I'll probably have to wait until another weekend to play with it any more. I don't actually think there's an issue with the hard disk itself. I'm wondering if there's an issue with controller emulation or a driver conflict or something. I was able to create a native install of the...

For all the recent trumpeting of Chrome as the successor to Firefox, two things are still true: 1. Firefox has a better add-ons infrastructure. Add-ons will probably keep me on Firefox for a long time to come. 2. Chrome uses a great deal more RAM with more tabs open. I suppose this isn't a huge...

OK, but where's the problem? I have no counters on the ESXi machine that relate to disk activitiy; the CPU and RAM are where they're supposed to be, and this is still the initial start-up after conversion. I haven't even seen a desktop yet. The source machine is still running and it performs as...

Hey the "Activate Windows" prompt finally came up. That's different.

I have misgivings about ongoing support for OpenSolaris, which makes me shy away from anything that relies on it. Most of the features of ZFS that BSD is lacking are either on their development roadmap for the reasonably near future or not available in an open implementation in the first place.

I only have the one ESXi server on site. Though, just to prove a point, I downloaded the .ISOs, installed SBS2003 and verified that Exchange functions in another guest on that machine since my last post. The converted guest hasn't changed from "Applying Computer Settings" in all that time...

Hair removal comes and goes out of fashion and has for centuries. Usually when times are lean, fashion swings to being furry. In good times, we take off more hair.

6.8.8.0. I've used it for many other discs and it is the current version.

No and no. My host is a 16GB Xeon E1230. The only guest running on it right now is the converted 32-bit Windows 2003 machine configured with the same 2GB RAM the source system had. The guest has a physical drive all to itself.

HBO actually allows streaming of its original content through HBO Go, but only to people who already have HBO subscriptions. I suspect this was a deal made to keep its sweetheart status with cable and satellite providers; when I last had HBO I essentially had to pay for every other thing Comcast...

Unrelated to anything going on in this thread but... Doug, do you happen to have any idea why I'd be seeing six hour+ boot times on a Server 2003 machine after a vCenter Converter live migration? When I've done conversions in the past with VMware Workstation or P2V converter, it's taken a while...

I ripped from two different drives on two different machines in the first place.

I have the raw, unencrypted files from the BDs that I copied via AnyDVD HD. I'm able to transcode via Handbrake in Linux, but my Linux machines are C2Ds and the process is rather slower than I'm used to.

Handbrake's most current nightly build has an option to do DTS-HD passthrough. I don't think I've seen that option before.

I've seen refurbished Ooma Telos sell for $100.

What Santa's workshop really looks like. Or at least the place where all the things I buy are just before I buy them.

If you have $8,000 handy, you can now be the proud owner of a Samsung SUR40, aka "that cool thing pong game in front of the Kinetic demo at your local Microsoft Store." But anyway, yeah, MS Surface. 40", Eight grand. Whatevs.

Handbrake is normally very good to me. It's very scriptable and has tons of fiddly options for me to play with if I want them (which normally I don't). Hopefully at some point it will be able to properly handle the structural defects that media companies use to deter transcoding.

... and ClownBD puked. Dammit.

Yeah, I've been looking at that. I really had high hopes for the Xilisoft package, especially since it offers GPU assisted transcoding, which led me down the path of looking at commercial packages in the first place.

MakeMKV and MultiAVCHD both just bomb out. I think there's something weird going on structurally with the files from the discs, but no one else is complaining of problems with these titles. It's impacting all of them and they were ripped from two different drives. A nightly build of the Linux...

I've automated the crap out of copying DVDs. Blu-Ray discs are still annoying. Normally, I want a movie-only copy that I can obtain from the largest file in the \BDMV\Stream folder, and I just run batch conversions of those files through Handbrake. That much can be quasi-automated. When I...

Only SBS2011. It's still Server 2008, just with newer versions of Exchange and SQL Server and a ton of retarded new licensing options.

Thank you for keeping the site available and for being here to talk to, everyone.

When am I ever positive about anything?

I like that it can change. Fuzzy is OK sometimes and so is none at all. Part of the fun the surprise. And I don't see what the big deal is about not shaving armpits. Who cares?

Yes, and also disembowel themselves.

That did not exist, so I was forced to create it.

Hey, a little trimming is just common courtesy.

I have no idea. I buy drives and stick them in enclosures myself. But in any case it's just another in a long line of insults to the consumer.

It's not impossible to find but you have to know what you're looking for. A lot of porn that's targeted to female audiences is more grounded in reality, or at least more believable than the average romance novel.

It's not impossible to find but you have to know what you're looking for.

Not that I know of, and I'm pretty up on my porn.

It's absolutely a reason not to buy a drive. Drives that can't be plugged in to a proper disk interface can only be described as defective.

My crusade will only be ended when everyone who has ever owned stock in or worked for Western Digital issues a collective apology in the form of seppuku.

They made drives that are unreasonably incompatible with other drives. That's not an improvement.