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Thank you Sol and TheSwede. That is very helpful, actually.

Honestly, if the differences are that big, I'll probably just buy another one and find a home for the older one. I doubt it will be that big or that the discounts for the older stuff will be meaningful. Older i7 motherboards are still plenty damned expensive.

To answer a question that absolutely no one here was asking: the Seagate Momentus XL is a speed boost over a standard desktop drive but the value doesn't seem to be linear with the cost. I found an excuse to expense a couple of them and stuck them into my desktop at work and the Thinkpad T61 I...

Proper dev environments put that stuff in .rc files where they belong!

I would think that depends on exactly how deep the hole is.

I believe all the 2.5" 1TB drives are taller than the 9.5mm standard so they may or may not work for typical 2.5" drive applications or enclosures.

The deluxe one has more SATA 6Gpbs ports as I recall. And some spiffier heat sinks.

It is not possible to upgrade a 32-bit Windows system to a 64-bit Windows installation. The installer doesn't support it even if everything else does. You're essentially going to have to do a clean install of Windows 7 x64 and then migrate user profiles from one machine to another. Windows Easy...

Who says he wasn't?

I'm updating my gaming rig. I don't particularly want to stick an expensive disk controller in that machine but it has three 3-in-2 3.5" drive bay adapters in it that I can use for occasional bulk storage in case I'm doing something silly with my file servers. The math going on in my head is...

Does having a thin client solve anything? Even assuming that it's a fanless SFF machine of some sort, it still has to be ruggedized for the environment.

Sudden shift of magnetic poles, mondo-EMP, gamma-ray burst from undetected celestial object, Yellowstone's epochal mega-eruption, Tunguska-like event, zombie apocalypse... We'd have bigger problems, yes.

I bought an Asus P8P67 Deluxe, mostly because it has enough SATA ports. If I hate it in the way that I usually hate Asus boards, I'll sell it to some other sucker.

There is still a living WWI servicewoman, believe it or not. My grandfather was a WWI vet, but he passed away in 1975.

Ew. Back when I was a Honeywell employee, I got on a bunch of mailing lists for Industrial Computing hardware; something with an airtight corrosion-resistant chassis, fan-less systems and the like. They do make hardware that can survive that crap if that's what you need.

My brother is helpless about this crap. He speaks Czech but not well enough to shop for a smartphone. He wants me to tell him exactly what to buy and from whom, even if it means going to Germany or something to get it. So I have to figure out what's supported by Euroland carriers in the Czech...

What we can take from this is that i7s are completely ridiculous in terms of CPU horsepower.

I wound up buying an Asus board yesterday because Gigabyte isn't answering my RMA requests and Intel's boards don't have enough onboard eSATA ports for me. I'm going to build a machine that can actually use all 20 drive bays in one of my big rack cases. :D

As I understand it, that's not a really good way to implement things because you're making a fundamental assumption of the security of the host OS that contains the physical network interfaces. Why do you want to do that?

LTO4. I have a tape library and 60 tapes.

I leave BD encodes running while I play Dragon Age Origins. It's never anything but fluid regardless.

Cough

I have that where I live. If I leave a window open I can see what the wind was like because that's where the layer of industrial effluent will be on the surrounding surfaces. It's disgusting.

My brother lives in the Czech Republic. I'm going to make him buy one that he can get with some kind of insurance policy since he has staggering abilities to destroy netbooks (he's on his fifth one now) and he won't buy anything that isn't at least that portable.

A friend of mine from Fark teaches English classes in Japan. She's 5'7" and has some voluptuousness going on. She says old women walk up to her on the train all the time and just grab her boobs. So apparently "felt up" is a possible option.

I looked at a couple Gigabyte, Asus, MSI and Asrock boards on Newegg and it was reporting 1 year warranties last night until I hit $225 boards.

I have one because I put Snow Leopard on someone's Macbook Air a few weeks back. I don't know where they got it and they didn't really want the disc that they can't use back. But anyway, I can't seem to make it work either. I'm not giving up but it's quite annoying because I had a functional...

I notice that the warranty terms on almost all the new P67 motherboards, even $200+ products, are one year. I don't know if that's the result of a long term policy change from the usual gang of idiots or just an early adopter penalty but it makes an upgrade substantially less appealing.

Isn't Portal 2 based on a six year old game engine that wasn't even that sophisticated when it was new? Is that really anything more than a statistical blip in terms of your output, or do you actually shut down the FAH client while you play?

I have a retail OSX DVD.

xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d updates all files that are newer on the source directory than the destination. I can do the same thing in powershell but my code looks retarded because I don't know it very well.

I would be kind of happy to have an iOS virtual machine today as I troubleshoot calendar sync issues on a phone I don't own or physical access to. In fact, I bet a lot of people would be happy to get one of those. So I'm going to try to make one following these directions. Also, Apple can...

Disney really has it in for their main characters' parents. Pinocchio is the only one I can remember who had one of them survive to the end of the film.

I don't like it here either. Unfortunately, it's not all that simple to leave.

Have you tried the Cygwin version of rsync or just Deltacopy?

Yes but then he has a facebook account, which might be even worse.

My phone gets plugged in to a wall outlet rather than a computer, because that's where my charging station is. I have a 32GB card in it, and it's rather nice to be able to copy music to or from it without having to futz about with cables. I could move the cables easily enough, but since my...

Motorola actually has phones that check to see if the boot image has been altered and write back the default one on power-on.

Looks like I'm going to wind up teaching this as a class. Bleh.

I like being able to run Samba on my phone, enable tethering and turn on the 802.11 hotspot capability. Also to remove some of the cruft that came with my phone, like a Nascar racing application and the Facebook app, neither of which could be removed prior to obtaining root privilege.

Game of Thrones is set in a fantasy world where magic has kind of dried up. Most of the characters belong to one of four noble families. Three of those noble families were involved in a civil war that took the kingdom away from the fourth family. The last two members of the fourth family now...

In theory, the boot image should be disposable. You can make a Sysprep image if not a one time re-deployable backup. You can redirect a user's important folder to a webDAV share or something to make sure their documents get backed up. There's just no chance I'd trust an end user with an extra...

I suspect you're right.

I don't have that much faith in any laptop user I support.

re: Android Phones and battery life. Mine (a notorious battery hog) lasts about 36 hours of casual use if I don't charge it at night and it'll go more than 60 hours if I entirely forget that I have it and don't use it for a whole weekend. I just charge my phone when I get home from work.

Ooh! Ooh! Was it everything in the first two sentences?

I suppose it won't work in a laptop configuration, but on the other hand, what laptop user is going to bother to plug in another disk drive to keep his or her backup refreshed enough to actually minimize downtime?

Why not just enable RAID1?

But not all of the C2D chipset implementations support dual outputs from G31 and G41 onboard video chipsets. I'd be more surprised if the Sandy Bridge stuff did not at least handle two monitors.