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I think it's automatic and shouldn't be used unless 3D stuff is actually happening.

That's still a Silicon Image chip.

Basically everything that lives outside and comes from Oz can kill people anyway. I've read that even cuddly little Koalas are vicious bastards, let alone Nature-Guide killing fauna and carnivorous plants.

There's only one place to put a card in a 1U server. If the card has internal SATA ports but not an eSATA port, there's no place to put a plate with an eSATA port on it. The card would need the eSATA port. All the internal drive bays and ports are in use.

I haven't seen any that have onboard eSATA ports.

All claims about battery life are lies. I can an uninterrupted get 6:45 out of my SSD-equipped T61 if I disable the NICs and Bluetooth, turn the display brightness down to "3" and use both the nine cell and ultrabase batteries.

Tyan says it's not their fault, and I don't have ready access to test another of that particular variety of GT20. But given my past experiences with Silicon Image, I'm not willing to discount the possibility that everything with one of their chips in it might be garbage.

Not yet. Every time I'm there I'm under the gun to get crap done in the maintenance window. It's statistically improbable that I got three bad cards from three different vendors, though.

No. Yes. Yes. The drives work fine. The enclosures work fine when connected to a different machine on a native eSATA port.

Distances are different up in Canuckistan. They're in some weirdo frenchy measurement system for one thing and for another we're all convinced that your currency is based on beaver pelts and poutine and that everything north of Toronto, Windsor and Vancouver might as well be Nunavut.

Funny that this thread is at the top of the list. Now that the UPS man has come for today I have a 12" Edge, a 15" Edge, an L-series, and two SL-series in my office. I like the SLs best.

In theory, yes. In practice, I doubt it.

This one. It looks very intense.

I've thought about doing that, but of course you know how much Windows likes having the disk controller for the boot drives changed. I also looked in to getting a one or two drive external SAS enclosure and moving to a grown-up storage system but I can't find one for anything less than four...

I manage a server where backups to a USB drive have gotten to the point where they exceed the window of time allotted for daily maintenance due to the server's production schedule (one hour a day, seven days a week). To this point, backups have been written to an external USB2 drive. I need the...

SAS doesn't work like that. Fiber Channel does.

Near where I grew up in Illinois, there were Hope, Faith and Chastity, one right after the other, each with a single-digit population. There's also a Hell, Michigan.

What's real world battery life like?

The trailers for Battle: Los Angeles are all supremely awesome, especially the third one. Why had I not heard of this movie?

Dealnews has a link to a really sickening deal on an X201. i7/2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200rpm drive, 9 cell battery, 12" screen and 3lb. weight. $850 including the shipping.

The biggest weakness with 3.5" single drive enclosures is the crummy power brick. Antec makes a really nice single drive eSATA enclosure, but I don't want to pay what Antec charges for it. This is the one I've been buying.

For my birthday, yes. My friend is doing better now, though she has another month of recovery before she's off all her medical restrictions.

GDI printers have actually crept in to laser printing, so unfortunately you aren't always safe with laser printers any more, either. Are there any modern postscript printers that don't have LAN functions built in?

I'm looking for a less bulky system for my living room, and I'm curious about the build quality of the unit. If I don't like it, I'll sell it to one of my coworkers, probably for the full purchase price.

I bought one of the little X100s that is today's woot.com item. I'll be very curious to see how it stacks up to a 12" Edge.

The news reports I had heard have all discussed northeastern Oz as a disaster area, rather than simply Eastern Oz, which is where Brisbane is. Between this and the flash fires a couple years ago, I suspect Oz is feeling rather put-upon by the weather lately.

No it really isn't. I might buy a couple.

I have a setup where one of my machines at home logs in to a remote machine via SSH and copies whatever stuff TrueImage put on its removable drive that day. Those backups are fairly small, maybe 250MB/day. The copy still takes a half hour. I wouldn't want to try to pull gigabytes of crap...

I use DLink. I've got maybe a dozen of them out in the world.

I can say that out of all the 2.5" USB enclosures I have, the 1TB Samsung drive doesn't fit in any of them. I didn't really expect it to but it would've been nice.

I'll take the EVGA card off your hands if you haven't sold it already.

I tried a whole bunch of amps and preamps and a bunch of receivers. I went to audio-specialty stores in and around Chicago after I had exhausted the selection at giant electronics chains. I had a mix CD with eight or nine tracks in a variety of styles I'm extremely familiar with and did a lot of...

Twitter can be used as a replacement for RSS if you follow a lot of blogs ("Just made a new post at...) and in some cases can be useful if you're closely following breaking news. I wouldn't pretend that any ordinary person needs to tweet though.

There were large metallic stickers on the boxes of several motherboards my students purchased for the last computer building class I taught. I distinctly saw them. Two Asus boards, one Gigabyte. "Sandy Bridge" compatible. Big letters. Hard to miss. Now, I don't know if a reseller slapped them...

Perhaps the LGA1155 chip fits in a 1366 socket without modification? I distinctly saw a bullet point on some boxes indicating they would be compatible with next generation CPUs.

Text messages cost money to send and receive. They're very limited in terms of what they can express and they're tied to telephone and the highly uncertain states that go along with them (Is it on? Is it in service? Is the recipient looking for a text message?). There's no reason for anyone who...

That's been my impression for a long time, yes. Audio stuff is tough because there's so damned much pseudoscience crap out. In the end it's all subjective. Don't buy stuff just because someone else thinks it's awesome. That person might be a nutjob who thinks wooden handles make amplifiers...

It is worth getting upset over at the point that someone tells you that you HAVE to have a facebook account to interact with them. The dickheads at Blizzard were talking about requiring users to link forum posts to a facebook account, for example, and I've actually heard this sentence out of an...

It does. As far as I can tell, facebook is now the dominant form of interaction between adults.

Probably. But I've seen it with my co-workers, my relatives and the group of gay chicks I occasionally spend time with. On another forum I belong to, there's actually three levels of meta-commentary going on, since there's the forum, members who are friends on facebook and talk to each other...

We could also call it a "Looming data loss event" and be just as accurate.

Both Gigabyte and Asus have been advertising compatibility on new-ish LGA1366 boards. It's midnight and I don't feel like looking which specific models, but they were in the $300 range.

Small business customers love them because they still have parallel ports. At least every second or third machine I deploy in a small office, I get a call asking why they can't hook their 20 year old Laserjet back up.

I'll buy whatever is cheap. Basic business systems be basic, yo.

This week's episode of On the Media was very enjoyable.

It's possible, but I don't think the marginal improvement is worth the investment. Chasing the last 1% that stands between what I have and some magnificent audio perfection is what distinguishes my brother from me. I have a great setup (less the HDMI I know I don't have, but my stuff is ripped...

Most of the fine tuning I've had to do in relation to volume control was as simple as bumping the volume for my center channel.

Handy, I have fantastically expensive speakers. Speakers that cost more than my car. They're REALLY nice. And my receiver can make them louder than I could ever hope to play them. I'm not my brother the audiophile nutball, but I'd say that if your aim was to get better sound, you'd be better off...

The preamp is basically just going to make the speakers you're using it with louder. That's cool and everything but I'm not sure it's needed with a decent receiver.

I really, really hate, nay, despise the way that every gathering of adults I have been to in the last three years or so turns into a discussion about what other presumably adult persons do with their time on Facebook.