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An E3 Xeon compares very favorably with an i5, which is actually the place I was heading with that thought.

Might as well buy a $200 SSD. The 3TB Hitachi drives I was getting for $110 are selling for $220 on Newegg right now. I've been suggesting the Xeon E3 + Asus P8B combination for higher-end users. Yes, it's a more expensive than normal motherboard, but I think the argument for an 80W i7-class...

Needs a more than 20TB option.

Plex is another interesting new development and yet another fork off of XBMC. Boxee has a social aspect in that you can tag videos to watch later and share what you've been watching with your OrkFaceSpace friends. Plex is a media service that lets you share your library through its media hub...

Great. Now I have to wipe this tea up off my monitor.

This is entirely apropos. Particularly definition #2. Note in context that the term was coined by an African American writer/cartoonist and given voice by none other than Samuel L. Jackson.

I have discovered one of the reasons I haven't been as enchanted with the Boxee box: While it has (some) support for uPnP, it's not actually DLNA certified. Apparently that is the cause of my weirdness with playback and browsing performance. It's better with SMB, which is fine other than the...

You know iOS is barely capable of printing and even then it only works if you buy the goofy-ass printers that have been anointed to support the gimmick, right? Here's the list. There's an ipad 2 and a 17" Macbook Pro on my desk right now. I'm going to see how long I can leave them boxed up and...

Who the hell actually WANTS snow? That's like wanting gangrenous dick cancer.

In a normal month, I probably charge $2500 for stuff and pay it off at the end by the due date. I'm at least two months ahead on any bill with a recurring charge; I'm a whole year ahead on my power bill. I don't like owing people money or interest payments, and stay ahead on bills is is a...

I'm not made out of money. My living expenses are well within my means and the "extra" money I get from contracting work is the money I carry around all the time or use to buy my toys.

4. Water Cooling is a complete pain in the ass and not something I want to use for a system I expect to run 24x7 for the next few years.

My banking needs are met by ATMs. I don't see a reason to stand in line or bother a human being with my deposit-making needs.

Why not? The fact that Sandisk players support FLAC is probably the single biggest reason I bought one.

Probably. Office updates usually don't have the gravity of Flash's or Java's. I tend to ignore them.

Charter school so... both public and private, I guess. The school does things like block off access to our parking lot for about two hours a day, including times when our students and customers would normally be trying to visit or leave, and use an intercom system throughout the day that is...

theRenamer is actually quite functional. I set it loose on some of the videos I've acquired from the internet and I found that it mostly worked well. In a few cases I had to switch the database it was using to pick up something or other. Files with truly idiosyncratic naming I found I could...

I'm actually doing something similar. One of our classrooms is completely unusable during the day because of noise from the middle school that's on the other side of wall. So now I have a dedicated space and explicit approval to work on loud-ass rackmount equipment in that room. I used to have...

... yeah. The one I could actually find was $55, which seems like a waste for a CPU that probably sells for about $15 these days. I was planning to get a nice Prolimatech HSF to stick on my game machine but there's something to be said for being able to use the 32TB of hard drives I have stuffed...

The thing I keep telling my students is that restore time is nothing compared to losing the last decade of digital photos or financial records or for that matter the collection of music they spent two or three years either painstakingly ripping one disc at a time or slowly stealing using the...

Yup. You can have Core if you don't need all that fancy GUI stuff. There's nothing like TinyXP for Server 2008.

Thinking of ddrueding's setup, I think I'd want 4 switched ports to support three servers in some kind of clustered configuration (is that Vsphere?) plus a backend storage server containing the guests. Isn't the point of getting all the VMware stuff in a high availability environment so that the...

There are some 10Gb Ethernet NICs on ebay for $120 right now. If I could get four of those and even 4 actual 10Gb switch ports, I'd be thinking long and hard about finding a place for iSCSI instead of local drives.

Yeah. I did find a Thermaltake LGA771 cooler that operates at 30dbA and supposedly fits in a 2U enclosure, but I don't know if I want to spend $55 on it or if I'd be better off with different 80mm fans.

I think that's the point where you start actually paying for the ecosystem and getting the management tools. VMware for me is "I need to continue running a server system that was on old-ass hardware" not "I need to run dozens of single task guest systems with an iSCSI back-end and...

No doubt. Let's just say that I have $550 more in my pocket today than I had on Monday.

Last time I was at an actual computer store, I saw that somebody is making an ithing to RS232 adapter, presumably for console sessions on network hardware. Also, remember that IBM (Lenovo) is a big player in POS systems, where RS232 is very much a living technology if only because there's a...

The first thing that comes to my mind is that they're buying relevance in future storage products. Sandforce clearly has found itself a nice market with huge growth potential and a commanding if not dominating presence. That's not a bad thing and it match up well with the other parts of LSI's...

I'm not even remotely interested in cars. They're right up there with sports as far as things I don't give a crap about.

I have a pair of Xeon E5320s, quad core 1.86GHz chips with a very reasonable TDP of 80W. They're meant to have passive heat sinks on them with cooling from massive 7k to 15k 80mm cube fans that are normally situated in the front of the case. I replaced my i7 with the original Supermicro board I...

Because beer. Or the devil's weed marijuana. Or perhaps black tar heroin.

I've not observed this issue. I have the same phone and carrier as Will. The only time I turn on 802.11 is when I need to do a site survey.

People give me cash all the time, so I always have tons of it. I never use it. It's not all that unusual for me to have several thousand dollars in my pants pocket. I go to the ATM to deposit it at the point where the pile of bills gets annoying.

unetbootin + bootable .ISO file = Bootable thumb drive.

I'm the opposite. I've never spoken to a teller inside a bank branch or at a drive up. I do everything through the machines.

I don't think you can discuss awful printers without mentioning Lexmark. I've had generally positive experiences with Samsung printers other than some difficulty sourcing toner cartridges. Brother has been my first choice for a while, though I normally try to convince businesses to look at...

'kay.

A little. But historically, prices go up in the fall and into the new year. I've always assumed that was due to demand on the supply chain leading up to the Xmas bonanza plus a lot of new annual technology budgets. Anyway, money has a time value and buying RAM that won't be used for six months...

I have an Amex. I use it for a lot of stuff. But a lot of places don't take them. And my Debit card is a Visa. Which everybody takes. So sometimes it gets used. Oddly enough, I accidentally threw my debit card away on Saturday. I knew I did it right away, but rather than dig through a trash...

I'm not clicking on a Fox News link to anything.

It does not.

That is an assload of work for a 10 year old motherboard.

WinSXS on the notebook I'm using at the moment is 12GB. This install is perhaps 15 months old. But I've seen Vista machines with 70GB WinSXS directories, which makes me think that the potential for massive directory bloat exists.

A Windows 7 install that is regularly updated will eventually grow larger than 50GB thanks to the WinSXS folder. It will certainly fit in that space initially, but over the course of a year or so, maybe not.

I have come to the conclusion that it's just not possible to get a 2U rack system to anything like quiet. I didn't mind so much when it was warm enough that I needed the fan in my bedroom running on high all night, but now that it's cooled off I can definitely hear that machine all the time in...

Personally I think SF is perfectly usable on my phone as it is, but if we're talking about improving the site, I can kick in some cash for that as well.

Yahoo answers is one of those things like Youtube or Digg comments sections that will just make you hate humanity the more you look at it. Best to avoid it except for the occasional laugh.

It's an incremental step to getting my array of punched card readers up and running. :P

At a guess, I'm going to say there might be a CSS fail going on there. The rest of the page is fine. There's clearly more text on the Nexus screen even in spite of the weirdness in that one part of the page.

I was unsure about a 4.3" screen when I got my Evo. I knew I wanted as much real estate as I could get, but I thought perhaps it might be awkward to hold or put it in my pocket. It's not. It's fine. 5" screens would probably also be just fine. 7", the size of my Galaxy Tablet, yeah, that's too...