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I would like to make the case that a machine with a 1GHz CPU and something north of 256MB RAM would have been a desktop machine worthy of drool just 10 years ago, and having that computer in an SMP configuration would have been godly, especially when it's tapped in to an always-on 2Mbps internet...

I don't actually have any SSDs doing anything important, now that I think about it. They're boot drives that connect to my local storage configuration, which is triple-redundant and spread out over dozens of drives, plus I have tapes.

I thought the standard was just to use mineral oil.

I shall henceforth refer to the collective Hitachi/WD as "Ass."

TotalFark. The guy I'm talking to is a BSD contributor and former EMC employee. Our conversations to date have suggest that he's done meaningful firmware work in the past on pretty serious storage products and kicked the tires on open source filesystem implementations. I wouldn't be surprised...

16GB is plenty for an install of XP, Office, a decent web browser and a meaningful amount of end-user data. My sysprep install for XP SP3 + Office 2003 and a ton of extra drivers clocks in at just a hair over 1.5GB, less the swap and hibernation files.

Turns out, I know a guy on another forum who actually does work on Intel SSD firmware. Given the exchanges I've had with him in the past year, I have no reason to think that he's lying or joking about it. He's very down on Intel MLC products. Very down. He's suggested without confirming that...

MMO fangirl.

This girl wants a 6800-series Radeon, actually.

Coug, I'd just like to point out that there are some pretty awesome things in this world that are pink and if you don't know what those things are I suggest watching more porn. Or, y'know, getting some special lady time. Either way. I need an all green case though, not mostly black with green...

Yes. Those are exactly the things I would not tell anyone to buy, ever.

USB speakers do.

In one of those weird cases of synchronicity, I've been asked by two different people in the last couple days about the possibility of getting a computer in a color other than black or beige. One of them wants a neon green case, the other wants pink. Yes, pink. Yes, it's for a girl. I'm not...

Klipsch speakers sound boom-y and awful, pretty much the opposite of how I want speakers to sound. Speakers need to be at least capable of subtlety. Most of the time I'd rather set up a home theater system to handle sound anyplace where I actually care what I might listen to. I like having a...

My apartment's power bill is nearly $200 a month now. Most of that is just leaving PCs on all the time, especially the four file servers. I'm not expecting that cost to go down, but at the same time I still want those systems to be on and operating when I want to use them. ddrueding, why not...

Good luck, Lunar. Enjoy being in a decent country for once.

One of my customers just moved to new office and chose to switch to a Comcast business package that included phone service. His phones were working over the weekend while I was setting up his racks and crap. Monday: No dialtone. He called Comcast, they did tests, said they'd send a truck. These...

This is the chick Greg is always talking about, Diana Lee. This is sorta safe for work, or at least not any worse than stuff on MTV. It's 17MB. This is the whole long video, which is tame even by Playboy Standards but still not safe for work. 120MB. Source is VHS cassette captured at 320x240...

Comcast has won every year so far.

I don't think the 5400rpm drives are reliable enough for general use. I think they're made from manufacturing rejects or something, based on the staggering failure rates I've had with them across Seagate, Hitachi and Samsung models. I should not have to RMA 20% of any model of drive I buy, but...

Coug, do you have a sample of that thing or know where I can infect something with it? I want to see what my removal practice does to it.

timwhit, are you aware that the brewery that makes your 312 Ale recently got sold to one of the huge domestic breweries?

If I remember, I'll try to host a safe for work clip of Diana Lee from her Video Playmate profile, just for Santilli's benefit. She was and probably still is, knowing how Asian people usually age, a fantastically beautiful woman.

I already knew how to do that. It's just that I'd rather advise other people to use a tool than do command prompt stuff.

I've never seen Search Conduit. It looks like it infests one's Firefox Profile, and if that's the case the best thing to do is probably just nuke the profile and start over.

I got my father to switch to a Trackman when his wrists became bad. In the end, he did have to seek a surgical solution, but he did find the Trackman much more comfortable than the mouse he had been using previously and he still uses one.

Looks like you can. Even if you're just working with the shell, most of commands are things you're going to run once and then just let the device sit and be an appliance.

That's how I got my 802.11n card.

You just buy mini-PCI cards. There are lots of choices. You should be able to get away with an Intel or Broadcom-whatever.

Why are you fucking around with Readyboost on a machine that already has 12GB RAM? Also: Why are you using Internet Explorer?

Here's my old thread. They don't sell the products I used any longer.

I built my own WAP/Router using an ARM-based system and a couple mini-PCI NICs. I essentially followed a guide someone else wrote to get it up and running with a custom Linux install. It cost about $600 to get all the hardware but it's been utterly reliable. I've heard good things about...

I have Samba acting as NT4-type domain controllers out in the world, almost entirely to sync passwords across workstations. It's great for that. I played with Active Directory on Samba for a while but in the end I got annoyed when weird things didn't work, and I couldn't really convince anybody...

Basically nothing that happens in trade press is actually journalism, SD.

No idea. It went in a build I had to get out the door.

When I try to be tidy about cabling, I use binder clips. They're cheap and come in different sizes for different tasks.

The more I think about it, the more it really pisses me off that troubleshooting this was so difficult. Direct Metabase editing was supposed to be similar to editing httpd.conf for people who didn't want to bother with the IIS admin console (which sucks in and of itself, because that's what I...

I received a 160GB X25-M from Newegg yesterday that was in its approved packaging yet contained a functional install of Vista Home Premium.

Samsung says it was that guy's particular antivirus package giving a false positive StarLogger to a SLovenian language package. They reproduced it and everything.

Restoring the Metabase seems to have fixed it, but I'll be damned if I could see a problem with what was there.

No. I have Godaddy-assign SSL certificate in place because he was talking about doing Ecommerce, but the stuff he's doing redirects to another server now for shopping cart crap. The /OMA is set to use Basic authentication. /Exchange uses NTLM. Most everything else is just plain to IUSR-blah...

Did you try a different mouse?

I really don't like the way XP Mode works for much of anything besides MS Office. With Office, it's seemless and everything is perfect. Yay. When I try it for the crufty old Win32 database apps my customers use for their businesses, I run into all kinds of weird issues when they try to run the...

I think XBoot just uses a Linux boot loader. That doesn't necessarily mean that a Linux kernel is loading.

I have one Exchange Server left in my life. It belongs to one of my least favorite human beings, a man who hates Google Apps Premier and enjoys making my life miserable. His public facing IP recently changed, and when it did, Exchange OMA (the thingy that does ActiveSync, the whole reason he...

Awesome.

It's SSDmas at Intel today. Faster drives and lots of price cuts but I hope nobody was saving up for an X25-E.

In the random, but good column: A map of the world, coded by average bra size.

Firmware-level incompatibility? I've run into older 1.5Gbps SATA RAID cards that don't want to work with 3Gbps drives a couple times. That one always surprises me a little, because the specifications are supposed to be backward-compatible.

The Amazon App store for Android is kind of interesting. They offer a paid app for free every day. So far, they've mostly been stupid little games, but I have to say that I've made it a point to check what they have on offer pretty regularly, unlike Android Market.