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Did anyone try Rage? I'm not going to play it. I understand it has retarded DRM. But it's an id title and probably represents the height of graphics stuff for the next few years so I feel obligated to be at least interested.

When I was messing with it at first, I was happy to just have a flat grouping of files, but with almost 19,000 video files it's not going to fly like that. I do see that music works in a somewhat more acceptable way. Some of my nicer appliances can browse SMB networks natively, but none of...

It's fun just to try. Honestly, most MMOs are fun to try. The hard part is finding one that stays engaging for any length of time. I was a beta tester for Everquest and I've played Dungeons and Dragons Online, Everquest 2, Guild Wars and Lord of the Rings Online. I gave a long, hard look at...

Well, they added an "End Game" of endless new tiers of special abilities that homogenize characters and reward people for running the same "raid" content over and over, for the people who didn't do enough of that in every other MMO. The raids are certainly pretty damned cool the first couple...

That reminds me: I need to move my phone back to Cyanogenmod.

Oh, the folder structure if there. \TV Shows\Show Name\Season#\files \Movies\Genre\Series\files etc. Mezzmo just doesn't seem to present it through DLNA. My choices for browsing are "All Files", "File Type", "Recently Added", "Year" and "Last 50 Played."

Perhaps my customer's issue was having to enable Push then. As I recall, the way push stuff works without Activesync is kind of a hack in the first place. Something about invisible SMSes or the like.

I have an OpenSuse desktop at home. Flash has never been very good on Linux. I don't think that's Linux's fault. I have to admit that I'm not entirely on top of software updates on my home machines. I dislike closing Firefox so I'm lazy about keeping some things up to date.

Oddly enough, Sam's Club has a whole aisle for those.

And so, a little over two days after I started, Mezzmo finally presents the full list of stuff on my little WHS via DLNA... Which means dozens and dozens of files that are named "S1E01 - something" without any organizing folder structure. I must be doing something wrong with setting up the...

As stale as things are in the world of desktops and notebooks, it's interesting to note that while there's plenty of news in the mobile sector, it's almost all due to litigation rather than legitimate innovation. Samsung and Apple are feuding. Microsoft is bullying handset and tablet makers...

Does your Google Calendar sync in real time on the phone?

Costco is a large supplier for everything Greg needs. Except Xeons.

One of the reasons I'm probably not a very handy person is that my father has the kind of brain where he can just go grab pieces of wood, cut them and assemble a finished product without even a hint that there were any plans or diagrams. We built my loft (a desk under a bunkbed with shelving...

Calendar Sync on iThings works with actual Exchange but only works with gmail if you have paid Google Apps. When you have Android, your calendar is just synchronized, period.

City of Heroes has gone free to play. You should all stop playing other, inferior games and play City of Heroes now.

I've worked with the 7" Galaxy quite a bit. Specs-wise, it's basically just like my phone but with a larger screen. I have not used the 10" version. I don't imagine it's much different.

I suspect we've all wanted to play a proper Aliens game since the first time each of us saw that total conversion .wad for Doom.

Could be. It looks like it's only offering the stuff that had files in top-level folders though.

Either Mezzmo doesn't work very well when you throw 7TB of movies at it or else it can't handle a nested folder structure.

The dual core Atom D510 is also a significant improvement

Since it's an AMD, it should have decent onboard video processing and I'd imagine that 720p will be fine. The Athlon 170u is indeed an ultra low power chip that's meant to be used in the same sorts of applications as the Atom. Unfortunately, that's not going to stop companies like Compaq and...

I would think that such things would be better off in a cluster configuration where each x CPU cores would have its own access to a pool of RAM. Even with 2TB of RAM, there's only so much bandwidth available to access memory, and anything that's going to work well in parallel across 80 cores is...

I've got a couple different USB3 enclosures and I've been using them a little bit for the last couple days. One of them seems to top out at around 60MB/s and the other around 70MB/sec. That's... disappointing.

Exchange murders RAM and disk I/O. It's not really that rough on CPUs. But 80 CPU cores and 2TB RAM seems to me like it would be pushing into mainframe territory. I have no idea what mainstream application that would have besides hosting virtual machines. And it would probably be cheaper and...

Funny you mention deer: My uncle lives just outside an Illinois state park. He hits a deer on average once every 18 months. My uncle retired back in May, and as a retirement gift to himself he bought a completely restored '69 Charger with 19,700 miles on the odometer. Basically the car he...

Not really. I think I got an email about it back at the beginning of the year.

1. 1280x1024 is 5x4 2. The thing you want to find are the high end model Dell Ultrasharp displays that were made circa 2006. They sold zillions of them. I have a classroom that has them, and they look infinitely better than the crappy HannsG displays I've been buying lately.

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A decently appointed i7 Latitude is the same $1500 that a decently appointed T420 or Macbook Pro are, as far as I can tell. What special deal are you seeing?

Not on a server. Nowadays I just have temper tantrums until someone pays for real backup software.

I've now tried a Xeon E1220 on two P67 and one Z68-series motherboard (one Asus, two Gigabyte). They all had updated BIOSes and they all work with an i7-2600k. None of them will boot with the Xeon. Boo.

They're offering us one month's rent to leave and no moving expenses to vacate a lease with four years left. I think we're staying put and open just to spite those people.

No, but my employer's an eternal optimist and I haven't gotten anywhere from resumes I've sent out.

It's work I don't want to do and it's all going to get piled on me. Bleh.

Apparently, I now have to decide on and purchase a wider range of technology. Rather than replacing classroom machines like I wanted, my company is instead buying a bunch of tablets, cell phones, cameras, X10 equipment and other toys. Maybe I can at least put some notebooks in there.

Yeah. Your instructor wants to see diagrams. As an IT certification instructor, I'd like to make it clear that we are some lazy mofos. Which is why your guy is telling you to use Cisco's thing that he's familiar with rather than something you're legally able to use, too.

You're not missing anything. They're a terrible pain in the ass, especially with the inconsistent handling of app opens and closes. Win7 can display a single Virtual PC emulated app as if it were a native Window, but what the user sees is a weirdly long pause during initial app startup because...

The alternative is to recommend an Adobe product. It's a little like asking which testicle you'd prefer to have run through a garlic press.

You can kind of roll your own sort of thing if you feel like messing around with high-end NASes. Synology products are all kinds of extensible, for example.

S*ny Vegas. The UI is tremendously less retarded than Premier. It's also cheaper and does all the same stuff.

Yes. That.

For the $450 I paid for one, I have to say it's definitely a solid machine. The only thing I really don't like about it is that they have a numeric keypad, which means that hands are off center from the screen when typing. The battery is a little weak. I only got about two hours out of it while...

Maybe it depends where you are. I know a guy who did Dell on site service work under contract. He said all he had to do was pass a Dell-specific qualifying exam.

HP shares were up yesterday. Since this BS is all about short term share prices anyway and not preserving whatever shred of good will that might have existed for the HP brand I'm sure nothing else matters.

My first thought is that someone, somewhere has an Exchange system that needs more RAM than that.

You have to look ahead or eventually something will eat you up because you didn't see it coming.

Honestly, I don't think it will. I suspect that the sorts of overzealous OEMs that dislike people messing around in the BIOS (e.g. Acer) on consumer hardware will be the only ones who actually lock anything. Commercial systems and white boxes will probably have a jumper or something to enable...

At a guess, anyone who has passed their qualifying service tech exam, or a corporate representative thereof.

This morning I found myself writing up a guide to putting together a new computer, specifically for the tasks that needed to happen post-Windows install. It strikes me that this is a conversation we've never had, so let me ask you all what you guys do before you consider a build finished. The...