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Greg, I'll be happy to hook you up with an ISO of whatever you need. You're on your own for a product key though.

I thought it was well-known that T and R61s are 1.5Gbps-only. I might be wrong but that fact was mentioned in a large number of notebook-based reviews for SSDs a couple years back. As I recall Dell and Apple notebooks of that vintage also had a 1.5Gbps limitation. One of my T61s has a 1st-gen...

I have basically the same problem. I have veggies but don't eat nearly enough of them. I *think* my biggest dietary problem is actually salt. Pretty much all restaurant food and most prepared, packaged food are way, way high in sodium. I've gotten a lot better about making choices with lower...

Turns out my ex bought one. So I do know someone who owns one. Since she has an uncanny ability to screw up Windows computers with malware, I kind of support her if it means less working on her other machines. Unfortunately, the reason I know she got one is that a bunch of things she wanted...

I'd rather store my data on $25 Chinese knock-off pen drives.

There was a thread on Slashdot a few months back complaining about the lack of serial ports on modern hardware, but honestly, they're only used for specialized applications at this point, and that space is better spent on more USB ports or display outputs or something. The only other input I...

Either it works and I get a 128GB drive or it doesn't and I'm out $25. I'll take that chance.

It's flash memory. It either holds data or it doesn't. Yeah, I bought one. 128GB is enough to hold all my prepared install images on one drive.

There seem to be a number of Ebay sellers offering 128GB pen drives for $20 - $30 at the moment. I'm not sure what the scam is, or whether there is a scam, but since those drive normally retail north of $250, I thought I'd share it with you all. Here's a sample auction. There are others.

I got my mini wireless keyboard over the weekend. It works as advertised to a range of somewhere between 15 and 20 feet. It really is as small as it looks, about the size of a cell phone with a QWERTY keyboard plus a little for the touchpad. The device is lightweight but does not feel...

Who cares? Buy both. It's $60 at Target.

Goddammitsomuch

Walmart was closed. Target was closed. All three of the major grocery chains were closed. I wound up buying milk and bread at a gas station.

I'm thinking I need to build a retro-gaming machine. Something with Windows 98 and a 4:3 monitor. I can play a lot of games I like in DOSBox or something similar, but a lot of late-90s titles have just enough 3D that they won't run in a VM and either hate NT-based Windows or have restrictions on...

I will probably eat one at least once, just because I have long wished for a protein and grease-based bread substitute.

I didn't know it was Easter until I tried to go buy groceries and couldn't find a store that was open.

I'd actually be kind of impressed by a shit big enough to share with 700,000 people. Unlike an oversized ipod.

Do YOU want to buy and/or dig out the USB floppy drive you'd need to do that on XP or Server 2003?

The HD2 has a bigger screen. It's thinner, lighter and faster. The only thing that would make me consider that hardware would be the hard keyboard, but that's something I explicitly don't want for myself.

99% chance you just need to turn off AHCI mode in your BIOS, Greg.

I just got my copy of Windows 7, the Missing Manual. I sincerely doubt anyone here actually needs it or anything like it, but holy cow is it fantastic as a guide for the non-nerds of the world. Totally, completely recommend the book if helping people with Windows 7 is something you have to do.

You can recognize an ad hominem argument but not a straw man, Stereodude?

If you actually look at those links, you'll see that there are multiple phonetic pronunciations, probably from other dumbshits who don't have any idea either.

Whoops. It was in March. My thing isn't until NEXT month. Oh well. What goes on at a PAX, anyway? My friend from Wyoming swears she's the person who introduced whichever of the Penny Arcade guys to the term "yaoi" (Japanese romantic gay porn cartoons), an experience which wound up in an...

VMware might not be the best solution if, for example, the machine needs to run some dedicated process control hardware. I have customers with machines that still need DOS and ROX (obscure realtime OS that installs from two 3.5" floppies), respectively, to run something they do. Anyway, get...

I believe the Iridium stuff is not maintained. Those satellites are eventually going to fall out of the sky without any replacement.

Mahn-yee Coors?

Does anyone know how to pronounce Mangy-Cours? I'm assuming it's something like "Man-yee Coors" but francophones are sticklers for pronunciation. I figure Coug will know.

4 cores at 5GHz can't be economically manufactured and you know it.

Something like 60% of guests and commentators on NPR programs are explicitly right of center. Lots of Cato Institute and American Enterprise Institute talking heads wind up on NPR. If you look at PBS, Newshour had a rightward bias for years. Both NPR and PBS are frequently cited for maintaining...

For future reference, I'm more or less always interested in excess SATA cables. I managed to get 100 for $50 from an Ebay auction, but then I had to pay $15 for shipping and suddenly that didn't seem reasonable any more.

Seems like a draw overall, though I guess a draw is actually good news for AMD at this point.

Thinkpads also use magnetic connections for quick-release, so that extra play might be part of the overall design. I think the idea is to prevent a snagged cord from causing a notebook to take a tumblel the cord just pops out instead. Again, it's a tiny detail but it makes a huge difference.

The best radio broadcasting in the USA is commercial free National Public Radio. You're probably close enough to the border to get a CBC station, too. Even Newt Gingrich, once a champion of de-funding PBS and NPR, has come around to the value of their programming.

That's fine, until you want to have the content of more than one list. I use four subscriptions (two for mainstream ads and two more for adult content). and all of them are updated regularly. People DO want ad blocking. They want it from the moment they become aware of it. I've seen this first...

As I understand it, the phone companies are there now. They've adjusted their thinking from "circuits" to "packets" and the engineers doing the work do know what they're doing. QoS is hard. It needs to operate in both directions, and involves the cooperation not just of the communication...

Opera has a lot of things I'd consider half-finished ideas. In a couple cases, I can see the use (the zoom feature, for example), but a lot of the other things, I either don't see the appeal (gestures, the built-in web server) or don't think the tool is useful enough (Opera's content blocking).

It's deeper than that. Adblock Plus is subscription based, meaning that every time the maintainer updates the block list, ABP updates, too. So as more ad servers are brought online, ABP kills those ads. Opera can import a block list, but doesn't check for updates. As I recall, the process of...

Take that, Hyperthreading! Actually, eight real cores for $266 is not outlandish, though it'll be interesting to see what each of those cores is actually capable of.

That is what I was thinking of, yes. I'd love to know why they don't all do that.

Does Opera have subscription-based ad blocking? That's a minimal criteria for me to take a browser seriously at this point. Chrome recently grew up and joined that club, though it's still missing most of the other features Firefox's addon system provides. Chrome is a good choice for machines...

Opera has consistently refused to follow UI conventions, both in screen elements and keyboard shortcuts. It's never been right.

Diet soda is still very acidic. Last time I was at the dentist was September 11th, 2001, but I brush four or five times and floss at least once a day.

I've never been on Facebook either.

If you'd care to go back and look, I've ragged on Opera's UI for as long as there's been a Storageforum.

I can't believe it took Tannin this long to realize that Opera has an utterly shameful UI.

I don't support ownership of handguns to begin with, but then there's this special class of people who deserve as much scorn and disgust as I can possibly communicate. I'll be direct: I think people who carry handguns in public are largely some combination of stupid and/or paranoid. Those are...

I do not trust the judgment of a person who feels the need to carry around a firearm in public. Legal concealed carry just enables people who have some paranoid gun-nut fantasy to live in whatever delusional world they're in that they think they need a handgun everywhere they go. I'm not...

There's a different product group that works on Thinkpads compared to the unit that deals with Ideapads. Ideapads are less sophisticated products, missing little touches like channels in the keyboards for liquid spills, hardened frames, gyroscopes for hard drive protection and removable internal...

I don't give a shit about criminals. They're criminals. They'll get caught and they'll be punished. I have sincere reservations about the responsibility and judgment of people who are presently legal handgun owners.