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Greg, you do understand that because of protocol overhead, reported connection speeds over 802.11 are pretty much the biggest load of crap ever, right?

Break open the enclosure and look?

I think the idea is to not have to add any cards ever. I sure do buy a lot of parallel port cards these days.

Wow. Gateway/Acer or HP. Especially in that heavy and completely impractical 17" form factor. Really? That's like choosing whether you want pustulent warts on your dick or on your asshole. You could just, you know, buy neither. Sure, you'd have to make do without a shitty laptop and/or...

For a machine that's just going to sit on some secretary's desk, I don't think that's a deal-breaker.

I can't imagine that anybody would be buying Dell Precision Workstations without a service contract, but that's apparently what happened. Dell wanted $650 for a new motherboard and apparently it was easier for his business unit to just get a new machine than fix the old one.

One of my students just handed me an i7 980x. The motherboard it was on went bad and is out of warranty, and he doesn't think it's worth the money to buy another one. Sweet.

XP users can still move up to IE8, and then never click on it. That's probably the best IQ-retaining option. :)

CoughBullshitCough Though I'll happily admit that I'm fine with describing IE6 users as having IQs around 80 regardless.

Refurb Nook Colors are $180 on Deals.woot.com today. The NC has a particularly retarded Android build, but who leaves stock firmware on an Android device to begin with?

Contact sync still only happens through Activesync. I know that much.

Saying "We will not give even one single inch until you are 100% supporting our ideological position" does not exactly suggest that yours are a people willing to be led.

The scripts I use to deal with my music collection generates .m3u and .pls files for me. I almost never remember to use them.

Here's what's been happening since Obama took office: Legislation is proposed. That legislation is immediately assigned an ideological bent as either part of the liberal or conservative agenda. If the bent is liberal, Republicans move in lockstep to oppose it. Democrats make real attempts to...

I'd just like to make the case that there was no reason to expect any different outcome as the result of allowing the republican party to have a toehold of political power in the current climate.

I had very good experiences with Gateway prior to the Acer buyout. They had excellent support for a consumer outfit.

She really only knows how to deal with Microsoft products. I've been beating over the head for years that she needs to get her head out of Access and VB and SQL Server, and she did finally break down and build an ASP.NET application, but every time I bring up working with Python or PHP with a...

I think she's basically working from the assumption that expensive, not-free SQL Server is better than free SQL Express, and no matter what I show her, she isn't going to be convinced. But that also means that the cost for her product is going to be massively higher for the database and CALs...

Yes, but I'm not testing them at the same time, either.

ESX. The reason there's no performance difference is that her application is basically just a web based time card system. Even if 200 people all submitted their forms at once, it's still just maybe 50kB per transaction.

Toshiba Satellites are really close to bottom of the barrel, too.

I have four older-ish Gateway notebooks sitting here. They're all T6330us. One of my students bought them gods-know where, but they're in immaculate shape and the idea is that they're going to go to his kids. None of them have hard drives, but they still have the Vista stickers on the bottom...

I've got an i7 940 in my office right now that I'm trying to use explain to my co-worker why she doesn't need to specify full-blown SQL Server for this application she wrote and wants to re-sell. I basically put in the most ridiculous collection of parts I had on hand, including a 120GB OCZ...

There's a Primavera consultant right next door to be right now. Do you need implementation help? Because I'm pretty sure he needs money. And if you pay him, maybe he'll pay me.

I'm told that the Roku box is the thing to have if for some reason you want to watch sports. I don't know a damned thing about sports but apparently it streams wankball and baseball and stuff. Remote controls for a lot of these things really, really suck.

All we can do at this point is pray to whatever it is we worship that Seagate completely re-tools its product lines in Samsung's image.

Oh. Big, important step to not forget to do: Make sure you copy your partition information for your array with sfdisk before you pull the drive out of the array.

You could try starting with mdadm --remove /dev/md3 /dev/sdf1 Then re-add mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdf1 And then assemble again. I'm going to go ahead and guess that you're dealing with a RAID of 5400RPM SATA drives, right?

You might have to remove /dev/sdf1 from the array and re-add it since it appears that it dropped out of the array.

As I recall, flagreen, Clocker and me are the lowest number non-admin users on SR because we were people who contributed financially to SR prior to the MBF. Other people had to re-register.

Let me say that one more time in case anyone missed it: Between Microsoft's new security product and a four year old SAV Corporate install, I have more issues with the people who are using Microsoft's product. Some of that might be the personalities of the people at those workplaces, but at the...

Personally, given the tremendous number of failed 1 - 2TB Seagate drives I've seen, I think it might be a wider issue with the product line and Apple might've just gotten to a tipping point with support issues.

What is mdadm telling you when you try to start the array?

I believe you're failing to understand the distinction between an action which is reversible and one that is not. If the state kills an innocent man, it has no mechanism with which to repair the harm caused by doing so, and it has in effect committed murder as well as a miscarriage of justice...

There's a big list of Android-based tools for direct sync with Outlook at SyncDroid.net. Most of them are paid apps. A few are free. MyFunambol is a client-server tool that uses SyncML to move stuff between lots of platforms, including iThings, Android and desktop Windows. Those might be...

I think MSE is a lousy product. I'd only use it for someone whom I believe has zero likelihood of encountering a virus in the first place, lack of savvy for keeping Avast up to date and a relatively new computer. Likewise, I see absolutely no reason for anyone to install a third party firewall...

Howell seems to like Vipre and NOD32 is a decent choice for being easy on system resources. I've been told that new versions of Norton AV are not as bad as older ones, but that's a claim I'm not even willing to investigate.

Well, yes and no. Capital Punishment cases consume vast resources in the legal system. There are actually jurisdictions in the US that refuse to try them just because they're so expensive in terms of legal resources. The other thing is, death is permanent and irrevocable. Legal mistakes are...

Groltz was Groltz. He was an SR member and something of a regular, and he was part of the original group of emails. I genuinely don't recall ddrueding from SR. He must have had a different handle before the MBF.

Really? I wouldn't think it would come up in any kind of normal environment.

The one and only time I was angry enough to actually see red, I suspect I was on the ragged edge of passing out. I felt completely disembodied. I hurt a couple people. They both deserved it, but having that experience was enough for me to make a huge change in my personality.

Civilized countries do not have a death penalty. Actually, as I recall from a documentary on the subject, penal systems in Scandinavian countries are progressive to an almost hyperbolic degree. But with any luck, the bomber will get put someplace unpleasant and never see daylight again.

Well at least the New York Times cares about Dwarf Fortress, even if the rest of you don't. :P

I suspect you were part of the first group of SR regulars that was contacted and informed of the site. Stereodude was the first person I told once it was decided that we were open for business. Probably because his name was at the top of the list on SR's Computers Forum at that moment. I do...

My longstanding stance is that I will not purchase RAM that doesn't operate at JEDEC specified voltages. That RAM is defective, even if the manufacturer claims that it's +eleventybillion% faster than RAM that's actually in spec. Goddammitsofuckingmuch.

I'm usually able to find Via Envy cards on Ebay for $6 - $10. Usually they ship from Hong Kong but the only seller who has any up right now is in the UK. They're a big step up from the typical RealTek crap and they have both TOSLink and SPDIF connectors on them.

Well there you go. I ran into that when I tried to maintain my classroom machines on a domain. They'd all lose their ability to talk to the DC after after the fourth time I restored their baseline image, or roughly eight weeks. I did some investigation and found out that there's a hard...

How old was the backup? If it was more than 60 days, there can be an issue with crypto the keys used by Windows Authentication going out of date and leaving the machines unable to talk to each other even though everything else is the same.

Why would they build a machine like that and not use something that supports multiple NICs?

I can tell you that with my setup I absolutely give not a single crap about I/O performance. As long as it's fast enough to play video files without stuttering, I don't care. It's just kind of missing the point of having that collection of drives.