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I can play video files with no lag or dropped frames over a VPN connection to my home file servers, if the internet connection where I happen to be is fast enough. :D

Youtube does offer 1080p streams, ddrueding.

I'm installing FC13 right now on vmware server 1.0 directly from the source .iso. It's working just fine for me.

Short of games, I don't see how you people use that much space for non-OS software.

No snow implies California or some redneck shithole. Are there any other options? Honestly, I don't think it matters very much. "Home" is where my stuff is and all the outside is to me is the twenty feet of space between my car and someplace I actually want to be.

I've been in BP's North American Crisis Response center. One of the things I remember is that the guys who had diplomas hanging on their office walls in that area had degrees in Economics and Psychology, and that there were lots of MBAs. What I thought was striking at the time was that they...

I can attach the same /home to multiple Linux installations if I so choose; I haven't done that for a while, but it used to be nice to switch between SuSE and Fedora on the same machine. I can segregate user data on an entirely different drive (yay!) for ease of administration, in particular...

I don't think that's an exactly ideal set of parts to work with. That's probably overkill in the video card department, for one thing. I'd probably look at something I could fit in an Antec NSK-2480, for starters. My current HTPC just has a simple Gigabyte G31-based motherboard and an E5300...

I'm willing to buy one. If it makes my non-SSD-having Thinkpad faster, that can only be a good thing.

I support my brother. That's not the same thing.

Just something on Sunday. Most of this weekend, I'm helping my parents pack for their move to one of those states where they still fly confederate flags and haven't discovered shoes yet. My parents are moving to a home that cost three quarters of a million dollars and my dad still won't pay for...

When I install Linux, I always separate /home and /var from everything else. It makes a lot of sense to me to be able to make user data, logs and email distinct from other OS data.

Why not just use Linux as your day-to-day machine for doing work if you're really concerned about viruses and malware?

I'm looking in to registering as a Sprint Small business customer rather than an individual. That will let me get an EVO with service for $45/month instead of $80. Unfortunately, other than some statements by the Small Business Service, no one at Sprint seems to be able confirm that price point.

I've never played Pac Man either. Getting to go to an arcade was a very rare treat when I was little and Pac Man didn't have any space ships or explosions, and therefore seemed a poor use for a precious quarter.

I suspect I'd be equally miserable anywhere else that is not my apartment. This is why I do not take vacations.

I hate Louisville with the passion of a million exploding suns. I have seen Iron Man 2 nine times and Robin Hood twice.

In non-design fields, just having your resume in a non-Word format is reason enough to reject it.

I think the main reason high resolution notebook screens are hard to come by is that baby boomers don't like wearing their reading glasses.

Turning things into discs is something I gave up on quite a while ago. You could always try stealing a copy of a prosumer package like S*ny Vegas or the like and trying that. I have to think that if you've been at it this long, a couple hundred dollars for something that actually works is...

My needs would presently be best met with an LTO changer of some sort. Sob.

What use is four measly terabytes?

I sincerely hope you have some plans for moving forward. Maybe it's 'cause I'm living in 15%+ Unemployment-land, but right now I have to think a steady paycheck is worth a hell of a lot of aggravation. One way or the other, I hope stuff works out for you. I'm pretty sure my own job isn't going...

I did say "apparently." Presumably it's a bug they'll work out at this point.

That seems like a lot of money and a lot of work. What I found out when I got my system noise to satisfactory levels was that there was nothing I could do about the noise from my fridge, from the road outside my apartment or from the train tracks a few blocks away. Also, since I've had a...

Also the new version of Skype apparently supports group video chats.

I do some work with Polycom telepresence systems. They're really, really nice if you want to put something together that's more serious than a $60 webcam and a copy of Skype. Entry-level camera setups are maybe $1000 but Ebay has them for more like $300. On the other hand, a $60 webcam can look...

Best Buy is offering the EVO for a flat $199 with a contract signup. No rebates or crap to fill out. And yes, I am, and there's no way it makes financial sense to give it up, jesus phone or no.

It's not my fault that Adobe is gunning for status as the worst technology company on Earth. Those twunts really, really, really need to get some religion on the idea of making secure software. It needs to happen yesterday, and then they need to perform an apology in the form of a single-stroke...

Anyone think it's possible that they'll release those beasts at a sub-$250 price point?

The Sprint EVO will be out on June 4th. I spoke to a couple of Sprint CSRs to be sure, and they're basically mandating that anyone who is not on a service plan that is currently offered by Sprint move to a current service plan, plus pay a $10 surcharge on top of that, purportedly for access to...

I bet you could get a proper Thinkpad for that.

My network connection appears to be throttled at 384kbps. RDP is unreliable and it's looking like I get at most maybe 10 HTTP requests at a time. Tomorrow is election day, so the state office where I'm working will be closed. I found out there's a Six Flags amusement park and I got all excited...

I stopped when I went off to college. Honestly, it was just because of one person's shitty comment. But I haven't ever felt like I needed to go back to it, either. The place where I live is not very bike-friendly. My brother probably gets run off the road every other week or so and he's been...

I don't really do wild. I'm taking 1.5 TB of videos and ebooks and I guess I'll watch some of the stuff I've been dutifully copying for years. I guess I can vpn if I need anything else, assuming the hotel wireless doesn't suck.

I thought it was hilarious that "horse porn" had like 10 page views. You know, if you guys are THAT hard up I can send you all a little 2.5" drive full of regular naked women. The kind without horses. Unless you wanted to see the horse part. In which case I can't help you.

They're getting to the point where they're truly inexpensive. I realize you value resolution over size, but there's something to be said for surface area as well.

Avatar looks really, really cool on a big TV in 1080p.

CoX is historically not a game that scales well to the multi-GPU setup. I don't know if I want to buy another $500 video card, either. Of course, I could always turn off the effects, but given the system I'm using I can't believe I have to turn down anything for a six year old game.

City of Heroes just did a major revamp to its graphics engine, to support more world detail. My ATI 5870 went from being able to deliver 60fps@1920x1200 100% of the time to only displaying 12 - 25fps. And now I want a faster graphics card.

Nope. Perhaps I will take to eating them every day in an effort to drown my sorrow over having to spend May in the land of no shoes and very few teeth.

I have a lot of Noctua 900rpm fans.

It's not about agreement at this point. We all know Flash is a pile of suck. Anyone who doesn't make a living kneeling in front of Adobe's collective zipper knows this. However, in this case, Apple devices are losing out on a lot of functionality they really should support, and that's a...

Two more for the chainsaw rape machine.

There is nothing else that can be done to, for or with Western Digital drives than bash. Another company on my list for a jolly good chainsaw raping.

er, wait. You CAN'T report monitor issues through the web site. Derp.

Dell monitors should all be advance replacement. The more fun part of the problem is getting connected to the right department to initiate the RMA. You can only report monitor issues through Dell's web site; they don't have some code or other that's on other Dell products that is required for...

As far as photography, I've come to the conclusion that it's not worth the effort.

I actually know a young woman from there. I'll probably meet her and her boyfriend one night. But other than that, I'm not seeing anything that seems any more entertaining than spending a great deal of time in a hotel room.

I was taking pictures of the Wrigley building in downtown Chicago. A city cop got exceptionally belligerent about the fact that I was taking pictures of a building. Honestly, that's the experience that soured me most. I like buildings and people. People get all paranoid if you take pictures of...