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Android 2.2 is being pushed out over the air for the EVO now. I'm told that it breaks a few things, but fixes a memory leak and improves battery life somewhat.

I'm generally building computers that I can sell for $350. That's pretty low end.

You have a power supply that's testing bad in a big, big way that's very easy to verify. You really need to double check that first. And then blame that Western Digital hard drive.

I can justify the slight additional cost of the Intel-based system because of the somewhat more robust Intel-branded motherboards and generally lower power consumption. With USB3 on AMD but not Intel, I might look again, but given my audience, I doubt it's much of a selling point right now.

It wouldn't surprise me. If nothing else, power saving modes are enabled by default in 7 that are not in XP.

I usually deal with budget systems, but AMD stuff has been off my radar for at least a couple years. Coug and Tannin are probably AMD people though.

Er, why not just use the side that isn't angled?

I was talking to co-workers and we put together some information we each knew as individuals, like the fact that our owner is at the moment covering all expenses and obligations from her own checkbook and looking to finance ongoing operations with debt, but can't get anyone to give her a loan...

I'm thinking my company is about six weeks from going under. I guess I should probably decide what I want to do next.

The places where having "Server" Windows makes any kind of practical difference to your computing experience are pretty minimal. Antivirus software is probably the only one most people would notice.

I've been within walking distance of timwhit's place a few times without ever meeting him.

I'd say the larger issue was the humidity. My parents live on top of a mountain overlooking the valley comprising Alcoa and Maryville. Their front porch includes a vista of the Great Smoky Mountains. The sun and moon rise through the peaks. So that was nice. I'll get back to you about enjoying...

Well... maybe. I'm great at lecturing and answering questions, but I can honestly say that does not work for the way everyone learns. My co-workers mix up for individual exercises and crap that I can't be bothered to do. I drove to Knoxville over the weekend to see my parents. The cost of...

We defrag servers now?

Most of the stuff I teach is stuff that I genuinely, hard-core KNOW. But in a lot of cases, I do want my notes handy because my notes usually have the best foundation I've found for explaining a topic to someone else. This is really important if I'm lecturing on, oh, encryption technologies or...

How about a barcode reading program? I realize it's been done, but it seems useful and non-trivial and there's probably all sorts of goofy applications that could spring from that.

In all the time I've been dealing with them, I've only seen one lose its settings and force me to turn everything off again one time.

Congratulations!

Every kitchen I've ever had, except the one in my former house, has had light wood-tone and/or pale yellow surfaces. I don't have anything else to contribute, it's just something I realized from reading all this.

Why not buy a Perc5 from Ebay?

I'm in the camp that it doesn't matter most of the time. The cable modem is going to get whatever programming it needs from your ISP and that's going to set your cap. I don't think you're going to see download speeds in excess of 100Mbps any time soon, especially not on consumer cable services...

You're taking lots of risks. Power failure, hardware failure, human error, some kind of security compromise... Moving to multiple systems has down sides in terms of ease of administration and obviously greater costs for hardware, but I think it's worthwhile to gain some redundancy. Personally...

SAS expanders can be internal cards or external boxes. They use a single cable connection from your SAS HBA to add X connections to your SAS bus. There's an internal card from HP that's pretty popular with hobbyists, for example. Unless you deal with Enterprise storage in your day job, you're...

Xmarks is a cross-browser tool that does the same thing Firefox Sync does. It works for FF, IE, Chrome and Safari (for Mac, at least). I would not be surprised if they did not have an iphone application for it in the near future.

You can stick a couple Dell Perc5s in a system. That gives you the ability to handle 16 drives for around $200. I actually do something similar, synchronizing around 19TB of data across two sets of file servers with rsync, but I do keep my data in a software RAID6 with hot spares.

Have you considered implementing WebDAV? Novell has a client that's quite nice, essentially allowing Windows users to treat files made available in a web server as if they were shared through SMB.

Are they paying for your phone? Because if that's what you're using the phone for, they should.

Oh? So you don't have neighbors that let off loud fireworks every 30 seconds from the last week in June until the third week in July?

I fucking hate fucking the fucking fourth fucking of fucking July. Fucking. I've gotten a total of about four hours of sleep so far this week. And Bozo, taking a stab at making an engineer into a well rounded human being is far from useless. If your son just wanted a job he could have gone off...

Why would a big corporation allow regular employees to set up Exchange sync on their personal phones in the first place?

No, but that looks like it would be a really handy thing to show my students.

Just for comparison, a semester at Purdue University here in Indiana in 2010 is $10 - $15000 as a public institution, not inclusive of housing, books or extra fees. Our health care and gun laws aren't the only things here that are fucked up.

I'm almost positive it's 400Mbps.

That city ordinance did nothing to take away the ability to defend oneself. There are all kinds of ways to defend oneself without using a handgun. You do understand that, right? Also, where the hell do these people live that there are marauding bands of home invaders that justify the use of...

I fully support making handguns and ammunition as difficult to obtain as humanly possible, Pradeep's edge case of sport shooting aside, there's no reason to have a handgun except the desire to hurt or kill another human being. Chicago's law was correct and it is unfortunate that the Supreme...

I've seen at least two Thinkpads take desk-height spills on to concrete with similar results. And Thinkpads have up to date hardware. Here are some comments by a blogger paid by Lenovo regarding Thinkpad durability; basically, standard-model Thinkpads compete very well with semi-rugged Panasonics.

You could try Total Commander, too.

76 and breezy. Pretty nice for people who go outside. Also, hi flagreen.

The only comment I can make here is that I've likewise found NFS to be slower than SMB, regardless of implementation or platform. Windows, or at least Server 2008, does seem to be faster than Samba for file transfers. NIC teaming on Windows is mostly a function of drivers rather than an OS...

Some lighter fluid and a match would probably make it less boring.

'Cause that's his house now. Congratulations, ddrueding!

There hasn't been any. Very aggravating since it's a legal issue holding up the game rather than any technical or development problems. Why does Half Life 2 need a 64 bit native executable?

Maybe there aren't any? I'd probably use Spinrite as well. Or whatever else might be on Hiren's bootCD.

Sure, but as an IT guy, I have options to give my customers for those circumstances (he says, looking under his bed, where there are two T41s, an R41, and an R60). Indiana State troopers carry Toughbooks. They're obnoxiously heavy and a bit underpowered. Sure, they're well built and durable...

What exactly is the performance problem?

Ghostbusters has a couple funny moments, but Bill Murray REALLY phoned it in. Also, it has a bad case of console-portitis. I'm still impatiently tapping my foot and waiting for Mechwarrior 5.

For features and specs, it's in desktop replacement territory, but weight is reasonable/tolerable at maybe 2.5kg. There's a high quality screen, a superb keyboard and a titanium rollcage for a frame. Accessories tend to be cheap and readily available ($15 for an extra AC adapter on Ebay) and...

Take a look at this.

That's on my list for the near future. I watched all of Breaking Bad on the advice of someone I will no longer trust to make judgments about anything, based on his favorable comparisons to The Wire. I found it to be mediocre and essentially un-compelling, though I did stick through all three...

I use oversize Scythe Zipang coolers on my i7s, but overall I think the stock cooler on current Intel CPUs is actually a pretty solid product. I think ddrueding went with a Scythe Mugen before he started screwing around with watercooling. Both of those are pretty exotic compared to that...