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This is all work crap. People ask us about this stuff all the time and we're planning to hold classes in all of it, but it's one of those deals where no one else actually wants to take the time to learn anything. I think I have to figure out all the weird things about the various devices and...

As with many things that translate from Arabic, I believe both spellings are acceptable. Originally I was going to state that it and its products are the corporate equivalent to pederasty but the text field isn't that big.

Not everyone wants a smartphone all the time. MagicJack in particular looks like it was made to be marketed to the same demographic that's big on Rascal Mobility Scooters, Craftmatic Adjustable beds and any other product with an "As Seen on TV" logo. Yeesh.

The mystery is how one company can be so wrong about so many things and yet continue to operate as a business. This statement also applies to Apple, Adobe (the person I know who works there was laid off today in advance of end-of-quarter), Symantec, nVidia and S*ny as well.

I'm genuinely, legitimately drowning in gadgets right now. I'd like to spend more time looking at what's different between the Galaxy 7", 8.9, Xoom, Nook Color, Fire and ipad2, but to date everything I've done with any of them is just about getting the devices set up with the standard...

Usually I wear a pair of thin wool gloves under a pair of mittens. That lets me have dexterity if I need it, but it doesn't help for "slide to talk."

Nope. Most of those things just need an AC outlet and some kind of LAN connection.

I have a Fire here but it's still in the box. And look, the Fire is primarily designed to be an e-Reader. I think that's the part they want to get right. That's very different from something like an Asus Transformer or Motorola Xoom, that has to be awesome at everything to justify the cost of...

I try to walk outside if there isn't snow on the ground. Last year I got to a point where I was wearing three pairs of socks and three pairs of gloves though.

A lot of libertarian separatist-types have taken up in eastern Oregon and Washington, Idaho and Montana.

I wonder if the data collection policies on the iphone were changed back when everyone was talking about how much the iphone spies on its owners or if it's always been that way.

Al Franken is pretty much my favorite congressman.

Unfortunately, it's also removing a kind of useful troubleshooting tool, since SATA ports always work the same way and USB ports don't.

Personally, I deal with wind chill by wearing layer after layer of clothes and not taking any of them off while I'm out of doors.

OK, my brother's deal was that he felt the recurring subscription fee for MagicJack did not represent as good a value as one time fees on the Ooma, rather than a complaint about the quality of service.

I have a brother who telecommutes 100% of of the time. He lives in Prague, Czech Republic and has tried every VOIP setup known to man. I know he tried Vonage and Magicjack and a half dozen other services before eventually settling on an Ooma as his Telco bridge device. I want to say that it's...

I believe the non-standard-compliant Logitech Play.Link devices I used to buy claimed 10 and got about 5Mbps, but they explicitly weren't Homeplug, either.

Handy's name says "nVidia > AMD" under it right now. Is that a user-editable field that could be exposed to us?

See subject. Newegg's daily email shows a Zyxel Homeplug kit that they claim does 500Mbit. That's pretty damned reasonable for AV applications if it's a real-world number, unlike 802.11n.

Looks like a compelling argument for re-rooting my phone. But honestly, even if they're logging keystrokes, there's nothing that interesting happning on my phone anyway. I don't enjoy Swyping so much that I'd try to have any kind of extended conversation via email or (much more rarely) GChat...

I'm sure there's a compound in Idaho that would be happy to have him.

Is there supposed to be some sort of link that goes with that?

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People do need to use their phones in cold weather. It's a real issue and the right answer isn't special gloves, either. That's just BS.

Can a SAN actually match an SSD's low latency?

$1000 SSD vs. $50,000 in Fiber Channel infrastructure. Hm...

Happy birthday. I'm sorry I missed that post earlier.

I've pretty much expected that something like that exists for every smartphone from every carrier. It's really no surprise. I don't know if I care or not. The worst thing I might do on my phone is look at the occasional porn tumblr. My email is encrypted and my phone is encrypted, but unless...

One interesting thing about ZFS is that it supports cache drives. You can add SSDs to a storage pool, mark them as cache and that's how ZFS will use them, while maintaining the monstrous storage capacity from whatever spinning disks that happen to be in the same pool. You can also do link...

I haven't watched network television in at least that long. To be completely honest, I'd rather watch naked ladies just being naked than hardcore porn with the hairy tattooed guys who look like they just got out of prison. But I have a nice collection of that stuff already.

For the most part, a razor is a razor. Though if you want to talk to southern region hair-removal experts, you need to talk to someone doing a male to female gender transition. I know a couple. I have stories. You do not want me to tell them.

As long as you can bring up the Windows Recovery environment you can in fact restore a backup from it.

Plenty of businesses just have one NAS and think that means they have a backup. We had a thread about it earlier in the year. The only thing I can think is that if you're managing your volumes so that you have something like a RAID10 or RAID51 setup + spare disks and a spare PSU, you're probably...

In normal circumstances, NFS should be faster than SMB. I've run into cases where it isn't, but in my experience it generally is. I'm not normally worried about transfer rates except while I'm doing bulk copies, but everything important on my LAN supports dual gigabit connections (Intel...

No one makes resistive touch screen phones any more. It pisses me off.

It's ridiculously easy to get it up and running. There isn't even really an OS install. I just used dd to write the image file on to an 8GB SATA SSD I had sitting around. The documentation on the FreeNAS web site mentions a few VMware specific gotchas that are apparently pretty common. You're...

It has been pointed out to me that while Gillette Mach 3 blades are normally around $2 apiece, they can be had on Ebay for $1.25 - $1.50.

Because situations like this come up all the goddamned time and computers are notorious for providing USB ports that operate at something other than the expected standard; either they don't work at full speed or they don't provide power like they're supposed to.

Windows built is essentially full backups of the whole system only. It doesn't offer any flexibility for backing up files of specific types, specific directories only, differential or incremental backups, scheduled verifications, email-on-error etc. The built in backup in Windows isn't...

I really don't know what that is.

I can almost sort of squint and see that, but why take the effort to make the different PCB in the first place?

Someone brought me a WD "My Passport" 500GB 2.5" USB hard drive today. It's not working, or at least not well enough to take any data off of it, and its owner says there's important stuff on the drive. OK fine. SOP for something like this is to pull the drive out of the enclosure and plug it...

Photoshop CS5 Extended Teacher edition. $150 from Amazon. Today only. For the times when you'd rather wait an entire month to get a copy of Photoshop than take a half hour to pirate it, I guess.

I remember 1984 quite well, Greg. I've read it a dozen times. And while it deals with an authoritarian political system and a general lack of economic mobility for the members of the working class, it never explicitly addresses taxation. You seem to be conflating a valid and reasonable fee...

I suppose it would qualify as a stupid stocking stuffer, but since I just had the experience of having to take my gloves off to answer my phone, I'd like to mention that pairs of capacitive gloves are available on Ebay for $3.29 per pair.

I was pleasantly surprised that the server's onboard SATA ports do in fact recognize and properly address 3TB Hitachi drives. I have 11 of them in that machine now, and I've played with FreeNAS enough to be comfortable with it. Growing a ZFS pool is kind of a monumental PITA at the moment...

Could be. I feel awfully silly talking to my phone and even more silly making my phone talk back to me. I can see that it would be handy at times.

Cluzee supposedly has a similar feature set to Siri and was released for Android phones today. It's poorly reviewed at the moment, but it's free for Android people to try out.

I'd really like to know how the issue of sales or use taxes relates in any way to George Orwell's 1984.

Well, yeah. That would be nice, but that won't happen. Someone with deeper pockets will undoubtedly acquire whatever dried out husk is left. Palm had HP, Nokia is in bed with Microsoft, Motorola's gone to Google. I don't know who is left with designs on that space, but I don't think it's going...