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I have four or five socket 939 Athlon x2/4600 or 4800 CPUs sitting around that I wish I had boards to mate to. I'm sure that if i stuck one of those in a standard office PC, no one would have any complaints about 'em.

The one in Oak Brook had a great deal of returned merchandise on the shelf the one time I visited. I wasn't terribly impressed. There's nothing Fry's has that I can't get at the Microcenter that's two miles away.

You have a firewall that's basically set to deny all traffic and you're impressed that it denies all traffic?

If you open Disk Management or diskpart, you should be able to tell which disk is which. They are enumerated there.

As far as dynamic disks go, I won't even use them for RAID1 in a production setting, something you would think it would be difficult to screw up. I'm fine with setting them up for quick data dumps with my Windows servers at home but that's about it.

Well that's just a kick in the nuts.

I have a commercial tool that removes passwords from most common data formats. I bought it to crack a protected .MDB but I've used it a couple times on .zip files and .pdfs.

I'm not the person to talk to about the relative worth of Blizzard games either.

Enough people buy it and all you'll do is encourage them to make another one.

There's a perl script called mybench that you could try.

Many versions of Linux are both LiveCDs and installers. Ubuntu, for example.

I still occasionally play a game of Nethack. Not often, because it's very hard to get started in a game with proper conditions for actually having a chance to win, but I've played enough to have won it around 20 times, one of those times using a Wishless Tourist. I've recently started playing...

Do you have any quantity of representative test data to play with? Have you considered trying MySQL and a benchmark script for that?

I've never been a huge fan of KDE. I typically run Afterstep as an alternative to GNOME.

Or the original Castle Wolfenstein, which beat Zelda by a few years at least.

Oh, and Duke Nukem Forever is finally available, or something. I feel like this is a moment that should be observed somehow.

Master of Magic would be at the top of my list. Alpha Centauri would also be way up there. So would Starflight. A new, 2D version of Scorched Earth would be quite nice as well.

Vista and 7 can be installed from a Thumb drive. Microsoft even has a tool to set up the drive for you if you're one of those people who think diskpart is scary.

It's a notebook. How much serious time-sensitive writing are you going to do?

Stick one of those little MiniPCIe drives in and there wouldn't even be a subjective weight difference.

I want to like this, but it is a trick to get me to purchase something that will eventually be branded a Seagate product. Work is progressing apace on my 1TB MRAOPCR. With only a few minor breakthroughs in teeny-tiny needle technology, my revolutionary 1TB digital storage system will soon weigh...

Are you still buying OCZ?

I've personally experienced, and I've read a number of accounts from others, issues with Seagate "green" drives in RAID arrays. Seagate certainly does not certify them for use in that role. There are some theories that suggest that modern 5400rpm drives drives have some aspect of their firmware...

In contrast, I haven't had to toss one in a few weeks so I'm feeling more inclined to be charitable.

As a rule of thumb, an investment in an NYSE index fund returns around 7% annually (yes, yes, plus minus and it's by no means guaranteed). At that rate you can figure that your investment will double in value in approximately ten years' time, though its real value after inflation is another story.

On second thought I might be doing that with Astro. It starts with "A", dammit.

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Why can't you just browse to a folder and play whatever music you want? I can't say I've bothered to play video on my phone but I know I can play music that way.

It was 83F in my apartment when I woke up at 5:00. Air temperature outside is 81F. We're going to hit 100 today, I think. :P

I have three cats. There's only one management company locally that will allow me to keep all of them. No apartments in my area that offer central air allow any pets at all, and all of those are luxury places with much higher rent anyway. My father's hobby is home improvement. There wasn't a...

My last place was a duplex managed by a condominium association. I don't want to maintain a home at all, especially not if there exists even the remotest possibility that I could be on the hook for "Whoops, this was built improperly and it's going to fall down around you no matter what you do"...

I typically buy Optiarc drives because they're quiet and don't do stupid things when you try to rip DVDs in the way that Sony and Toshiba branded drives do. I've had very few issues with Optiarc drives over time. Other than a couple people I know who steal movies (and kill drives) like fiends, I...

I still have at least one Travan drive that I got in 1994 and a DC2120 that is even older than that. Now I'm kind of curious to see if I can recover any of my old homework from those tapes.

Of course, that's 100 years for archival media. I suspect that the sort of discs most people buy for data storage (as opposed to audio or video, which have different error correcting schemes) probably exhibit bit rot after just a couple years.

Yes I am.

All my windows face southeast. My AC is a window unit. I have two portable AC units but I'm not allowed to vent them out of my apartment (it would be "unsightly"). I'm also not allowed to replace the AC I've been given by the landlord with a larger one and for some reason my particular apartment...

He does say the data set will grow with time, something that legitimately favors tape as the capacity increases. Most vendors claim stable data storage for 25 or 30 years.

I'm currently arguing with Fedex over the definition of a "reasonable" delivery attempt to my workplace. They said they made their first delivery attempt at 8:16PM on Thursday. At my office, mind you. That's eight at night. They said they made their second attempt at 3:28PM on Friday. The...

Airflow in my apartment is such that whether I ran the AC or not, I would effectively only cool five square feet around the air conditioner. My apartment faces southeast. Air simply does not move within it. I've tried doing complex arrangements of fans but that really doesn't help either since...

Tape is indeed the best option for your circumstance. Since you'll need the data potentially for decades, you'll probably want to purchase at least two devices that are capable of reading your tape format, or perhaps you might need to avail the services of a company that can transfer to new...

My apartment will be 90F+ until probably late September.

The problem with that, or with any modded firmware on that tabliet, is that you lose hardware support for Flash and Divx. Viewsonic only wants to support their build of Android 2.2 and according to them anything else voids the warranty.

The Usonian and Mission cases in the first link are definitely on the right track. I like oak and cherry wood with lots of geometric stylings, especially vertical lines.

Ew.

Mine would be a lot more tasteful than any of those.

Viewsonic's notoriously bad 10" tablet is today's woot deal. Apparently the thing was so bad that Staples yanked them from stores and sent back its entire order, which is why they're easy to find at fairly low prices ($270). They're good hardware, but they have to have a third party Android...

If I designed a case it would look like mission-style oak on the outside and be full of 3.5" hot swap trays.

I basically don't have open 3.5" drive bays anywhere. If there is a bay, it has a drive in it, whether or not that drive is actively cooled and regardless of how close it is to other drives or components. Despite the fact that I own many dozens of hard disks, actually losing one is vanishingly...

Yes. I have a customer looking for a pink case. Is that one purchasable?

Google knows full well what it is then!