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Until I can de-couple the games from Steam, and until they tell me exactly what data they're collecting about me and my activities, it meets my definition of malware. I'm sorry, but I don't want that on my computer. I do have a Steam account that I use to send legal copies of games to other...

I have four Thinkpad X201 tablets on my desk right now. 8GB RAM, 2.13GHz i7 CPUs, ultra-bright screen, six hour battery, 3.5lb. weight. Not exactly affordable, but after spending the morning with an Acer Aspire, I certainly am glad that not everyone wants a $300 portable computer.

Sir Terry Pratchett, famous author of the Discworld novels, went out and forged a sword for himself immediately after being knighted.

I had Half Life 2. I have used Steam to give away game codes I've gotten from buying hardware, but I do that on their web site. I'm not going to install their client until I'm sure I can uninstall it without impacting any of the games I want to play.

I'm shocked that your A7N8X still works.

I gave it a chance. I'm not giving it another.

Apparently gog.com died over the weekend. That is really too bad. I was really hoping they would continue to grow and to suck less than Steam.

At least I'm not the only one.

It's quite handy, depending on your application. If nothing else, it's nice to get a "ding" to know a backup or something is done.

I feel like I should say something crass about dickmarks, but I can't think of anything that is not also completely gross.

Well, dd /if=/dev/[whatever the disk device or array is] conv=noerror,sync | bzip2 > blah.bz2 Would in theory make a complete copy of the array, presuming there's a USB drive or something big enough to hold blah.bz2. Then maybe you can run debugfs against that.

That's still a teensy bit lame without sound though, isn't it? At this point I kind of wish I could have a 1080p tablet to be a remote control for my HTPC. Maybe that new AMD IGP will get us there.

Knowing how Enterprise hardware is, I sincerely doubt they'll bother to fix any potential issue with 4k clusters for anything short of a new product line. Hobbyists aren't exactly the target market for serious RAID cards, and the people who are the target market probably aren't upgrading their...

ddrueding doesn't seem to think it's working either. Maybe it's just not a good tool.

They say it should run fine on Server 2003 as long as it's 32 bit. I don't have another Server 2003 machine to test and they've got deeply obnoxious copy protection in place so I can't even set up a test environment (and in fact, the copy protection is the whole reason they need RDP to begin...

Congratulations to people who have had birthdays or gotten jobs since the last time I've had a chance to read this thread.

I agree. I wanted to implement their setup as XP VMs back when I set it up, but they have a quarter-IT guy on site (he's also their electrician, plumber and diesel mechanic, if that gives any indication what I'm dealing with) who was afraid he wouldn't be able to handle that setup.

As near as I can tell, yes to both. Seems to happen if I VNC into the console rather than RDP in. So I don't think it's specifically the result of it being RDP. I'm just trying to make sure I've got my ass covered before I start pointing fingers at the developer.

Yeah. That doesn't match up with my circumstances.

I have a Windows Server that a client is using for remote access to a particular application. Most of the time it's completely fine, but when they run certain reports, RAM utilization balloons by 700MB per report and that RAM is not released when they exit the app or when they disconnect/log...

I suspect that it will activate just fine. Anecdotally, my brother just had to re-activate a US OEM Vista system in the Czech Republic and that was OK.

Greg, your derp is showing.

I can say with absolute certainty that the 5400rpm 2TB Seagate drives don't like being in arrays, though I suspect that wasn't their intended application to begin with. I've had one out of eight 1.5TB 7200rpm drives fail in 10 months and two out of 16 1.5TB FreeAgent drives I've purchased have...

In your case the issue is that you would actually give serious consideration to buying something like that. A machine like that is basically only necessary for some kind of ridiculous database or high-volume E-mail server, or as a massive collection of VMs. A guy I know on another forum uses...

I suspect that would depend a lot on why you need something in that form factor. It's probably a decent ebook reader, for example.

Most of the really low end ones have ARM CPUs and run Android or Windows Mobile. They're real. K-mart (no, really) had a $150 tablet about three weeks ago. Most stores sold out right away and they don't expect to get more. I suspect there will be a few decent low-cost competitors to the...

Ugly. I was thinking of something more like a dual Xeon 5680 setup with 192GB RAM, a RAID10 of X25-Es and 24TB or so of local storage on some kind of decent SAS controller. Spend a bit to get some silent cooling and redundant PSUs as well. I'm sure an ATI 5970 will cover graphics adequately...

I suspect that got better with the advent of modern notebook chipsets. He has a Thinkpad T510, after all.

Unfortunately, almost everything I get these days comes from the New Jersey warehouse. I don't understand why anyone is on facebook.

It seems like someone could do better. I suppose the stopping point for computer hobbyist magazine wankery is the requirement for SLI/Crossfire.

MacGruber was based on a Saturday Night Live sketch. I think awful was supposed to be a big part of the point. Expendables was deeply moronic. I liked Scott Pilgrim a lot more than I thought I would.

Looks like they're playing on Xboxes, or at least Xbox controllers.

The laptop that doesn't have an SSD, at least.

Gah. I have more than 200GB of music on my laptop.

I really like homeplug, except for the price of the hardware. It works really well for a lot of low-bandwidth applications like console gaming. I know everyone and his brother has 802.11 now, but there are a lot of places where it's not the right answer to the problem, as timwhit can undoubtedly...

I downloaded the entire content of FTVgirls.com once, which includes a great deal of 8000kpbs video. In one shot (one very long shot; the torrent took months to finish... and maybe I shouldn't be talking about "shots" in this context), I downloaded well over 500GB of, uh, stuff.

Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't make a decent trackball and therefore is in my eyes disqualified from consideration in my input device purchases. One thing that I really don't like about expensive mice is all the stupid extra buttons. It pisses me off to no end when I find a seven button mouse...

I'm shocked that you were able to find any Thinkpads at all. They aren't available to normal electronics retailers in the US at all, as far as I can tell.

It might not even be a kickback. It might be that these guys sent a hot chick over to buy some poor guy with authority over procurement a nice lunch. That's a really frustrating situation to be in, though.

I've seen quite a few broken netbooks. Lots of damaged screens and keyboards. That might just be the result of people using them in places or situations where they wouldn't have considered using a traditional notebook, but I'm not particularly enchanted with any of the common brands that are...

Interesting thing to note: there are at least two different vendors making keyboards for Thinkpads now. I don't know the difference and Lenovo doesn't distinguish, but there's a good one and a bad one. The only reason I know is that I have two T60-series notebooks and their keyboards are...

Those same kinds of experiences are a big part of the reason I'm such a cheerleader for Thinkpads. Latitudes aren't bad either, but they're not quite in the same class for durability or industrial design. The people I work for bring me Acers and Toshibas and consumer class HPs, and they're all...

172.16.0.0/16 never gets any love. Also 192.168.0.0 is also defined as a /16, despite being on the wrong side of the traditional Class C boundary.

Well, 127 is halfway between 0 and 255. And the whole block is technically available for loopback needs.

By the time this sees the light of day we'll probably be able to get 20TB drives for $99 at Walmart.

I can almost certainly get you the .iso. If you really need one now I can remote in to a system on your end and grab it from Technet.

Some database systems have a provision for doing online backups. It's not impossible to manage. I do make use of RAID 1 on systems where I feel it's appropriate, mostly for critical business data on servers.

It's about getting the applications and workflow the creative-types actually want to use. I very carefully did not say that Windows does not have applications that do the same things. I'm pretty sure Pro Tools is cross platform these days, for example, but there may very well be some truth to...

LGA775 has had a surprisingly long life.

Audio production is an area where Apple's OS has the advantage for creative types. That is not incorrect. MBPs probably suck less, but I doubt it's worth what what they cost to her. She'll wind up using external hardware for all the things she'll be doing so I'm not sure a notebook is the right...