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I would like to do that. Especially Washington state, which I understand is beautiful. But by then she'll be back in Wyoming.

It's not familiar to me. The one reason I know as much as I do is that I was looking at the relevant IMDB pages.

Well, I had a 240GB Vertex II. For about four days. Guess I'll be seeing the replacement round about spring. Fuck you OCZ. Fuck you in the neck.

Tron also had a very unique soundtrack. There was one track from a band called Journey, and Journey is heard in the new movie as well, but the rest of the movie was scored by Wendy Carlos, a pioneer and virtuoso on the incredibly obtuse Moog synthesizer.

Well this was welcome news for no particular reason that clearly does not relate to me in any personal way.

Because it came out in 1982 and was a Disney movie. My father took me to see it on opening day. At the time he told me that some day every movie would be like Tron and I didn't understand what he meant. Now we're doing effects on TV budgets that would have been jaw-dropping to see in a movie...

Kind of. You generally don't see desktop systems that support redundant PSUs or ECC RAM or advanced hardware RAID, but all that stuff gets too hot, uses too much power and makes too much noise for my application so these machines are just fancy desktops with nice parts. I did discover that my...

I was hoping to get 8GB DIMMs but they're still $300 apiece.

Exactly. It's not like a normal hard disk is going to be bottlenecked by PCI. I'm actually thinking about the fact that a lot of the servers I have out in the world don't have PCIe slots. I can buy eSATA portable drives but I'm thinking that, going forward, it'll be a lot easier to find a USB3...

I met Ernie Hudson once. In a Denny's, of all places. I saw Tron Legacy in a 3D IMAX showing. Much like the original, it's more an exercise in art direction than a movie, but wow is it neat looking. I hope you've had a good birthday Doug. :)

Last I talked to him he was divorced and he decided to switch to pure lurk mode. I don't know if he still lurks or not. That was a few years ago.

You would need to break out some kind of protocol analyzer. I guess you'd need a relay agent on another client and you'd need to isolate things so they're only talking to each other. In theory the packets on one port should be the same as the packets on the other, right?

I had a Windows 2000 Server running until early this year.

I have one customer with two physical locations and $1200 a year for a secondary backup system is... harsh.

Washington State. He's neighbors with P5.

OK, but time is time, not Time.

The, uh, possible candidate is getting an ovarian cyst removed, oh, right about now, actually, and she probably isn't going to want to think about any amount of christening. Plus, she is all the way over by Groltz so it would have to be a very large bed if I wanted to do something like that.

My parents want to pay for it now.

I put 24GB of RAM in one of my quiet servers today, just because I could. I can't keep it like that but it was pretty sweet just to see it running like that on a commodity motherboard.

All the "PCI" cards I can find are mislabeled PCIe.

Apparently I get to go bed shopping next week. Finally.

Anyone know where I could get a PCI USB3 controller? I haven't looked very hard but I could use one.

I have a cheap pair of Sennheiser in-ear monitors that I use when I'm in server rooms and high noise areas. I think they're CX-500s. Cost about $35. They work very well as hearing protection even if I'm not listening to anything.

Several of my customers would love to do off-site online backups for their servers, but at $.50/GB/month, that is not a very sane option.

There have been several different versions of WRT54G, but more than that, it's going to depend on your expectations for how much torrenting you're actually doing and how fast your intertubes are.

It's probably reasonably simple to port linux software for handling the format but I'll bet there isn't anything in the Android Marketplace that will do .raw.

My mini-keyboard has a vastly more reliable connection than my bluetooth keyboards. I don't find myself having to reconnect it every couple weeks, which is a way of life with Bluetooth. Unfortunately, it doesn't have great range. 15 feet, maybe. That works for my needs most of the time but if I...

Torrents kill lots of cheap routers. That's not a problem unique to DLink.

My mom needs something to read email and use Pandora, so I went looking at Android tablets. Almost all the models I can find under $250 are Android 1.5 or 2.1. At this point I might just be better off getting her a cell phone that can handle 802.11.

It doesn't. The piracy tracking services have memberships on them, too. A lot of the people who have gotten hit for downloading Daredorm.com and Hustler stuff were on Private trackers, too.

When I paid off my Element, the quote BofA gave me for the amount to put on the check was apparently only valid for some tiny amount of time, like eight hours. So I mailed my check in and thought I'd get my title in the mail inthe next short while. Nope. Three months later I got a call asking...

Vegas might not have been. If I still had the source file I'd try it again.

Windows Mobile and Palm devices can use them. I'm sure Android will run on them, too. They tend to be clocked a lot lower than ARM but it's a respectable architecture.

I noticed a subjective difference for AVCHD to MPEG2 conversion going from a Samsung "green" drive as the location for the source file to doing the same work on an internal 7200rpm model on the same machine. Maybe 15% faster? Not huge, but noticeable.

I just bought a couple Asus multifunction devices. I'll be interested in seeing how horrible these things are.

If I might make a suggestion, Hitachi's 5-platter, 7200rpm 2TB drives are hovering around $115. Tons of space, high STR, not a WD. All the qualities you should be looking for. "Green" 5400rpm drives actually do pretty OK for a lot of stuff; they're great for backups and bulk storage, but from...

They're ARM or MIPS CPUs, Coug. The nicest ones you can get are dual core and operate at speeds in excess of 1GHz, but the ones in less expensive tablets are more likely 300 - 500MHz, just like most smartphones.

If you purchased from an online retailer this would not be an issue.

I've not known webcams to need drivers either.

It is? It's the same driver model that XP uses.

I don't think Android tablets are ready yet. The low cost models have pretty serious drawbacks; slow CPUs, running older versions of Android, no access to the standard App download service, shitty battery life etc. What I want to see is a full 1080-wide touch screen. I don't care how big the...

I believe that if you go through old threads about AP/router recommendations, I've said several times that DLink tends to have crummy firmware. I'm kind of surprised that it hasn't gotten any better, but it seems like the long-term status quo.

Is this a wide problem with that model or just with the one you have?

I use Btguard. I still don't download movies or popular music on my connection, either.

Not at all. I have no need at all.

Why would I need it?

Server 2008 is pretty solid for file/database stuff, but I have yet to meet an application server that didn't need to be administered into a bloody pulp on a fairly regular basis.

Important cards from from Etsy, and I buy a lot of blank inside cards that I pick up from Barnes and Noble or Borders.

I was working with a drive that I've used to boot before and I was working with an Intel branded board. Booting from pen drives is definitely inconsistent. My ancient-ass Thinkpad 560 can boot from USB but I've found Gateway desktops that won't detect my TrueImage boot drive.

My overall argument has been in favor of softRAID rather than the drive extender all along, but there's a certain appeal to being able to stick a random combination of 1.5, 2 and 3TB drives in a system and use that space as contiguous storage. I'm not going to look at anything on a WHS system as...