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I took a huge pay cut last year at my salaried job. I have no benefits or retirement plan. I love the job I have; it's well-suited to my skills and talents, but I hate where I live and I'm not sure how much longer my company can stay afloat given current conditions anyway. Last night someone...

Newegg reviewers generally aren't people you should listen to about anything. They don't buy enough parts to have any basis for evaluation. Some guy gets a drive damaged in shipping or fucks up a motherboard he's never tried to use in a build, and he gives it a bad review. If I see 300 people...

That's light for me. Some of my machines have had some of the same tabs open since before Firefox 2.0 was released. 80 - 100 open tabs is not atypical. Over the holidays I went around and did what I was meaning to do with those tabs on a lot of machine so that I could actually close them. This...

And after a reboot and reload of all 44 tabs, Firefox memory use jumped as high as 460MB during mass page load and dropped to 320MB once all the tabs finished loading. So there's an issue there somewhere.

Hm. On the other hand, Firefox is using 1.3GB of RAM on the machine I'm sitting at and I only have about 50 open tabs. That seems a touch excessive, especially since I just rebooted a couple weeks ago.

Generally speaking, I convert BDs and DVDs to fairly high bit-rate MP4 or .mkvs with Handbrake or Nero Vision (Vision seems to be faster, Handbrake has tons more options for quality), or RipBot264 for BDs. I preserve special features and store them with the main movie file and attach director's...

I've heard basically nothing about the HD3, except some stuff that links back to one Chinese site. HTC usually does refresh its phones annually, so it's certainly possible. In the US that phone is only available to T-mobile (and I guess ATT if they wanted to swap a SIM card). The CDMA version...

The overall lowest standard 500 minute + 5GB/month plan is T-mobile. IIRC they offer something at $39.95 a month. There was a chart on Consumerist.org about that last week. All Windows Mobile phones that offer 802.11 can be made to act as access points through a program called WMWifiRouter...

14 open tabs, 328MB RAM used. Do you perhaps have a bunch of flash shit going on?

I have yet to hear of a person who was actually happy with Vonage service, including people who do basically nothing else with their internet connection besides Email.

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It's Sanitary Naptacular!

I did in fact blow the tea I was sipping out my nose when I heard "ipad." Now I have to clean tea off my Thinkpad. :\ Anyway, Apple is releasing a seriously misguided overlarge cell phone with a hilarious name. I'm interested in this. I'm really more partial to Windows Mobile, but a 4.3" OLED...

USB monitor?

I've been using Linux softRAID a lot longer than that. It's worked beautifully for years, though LVM wasn't particularly polished and I don't think there was much in the way of install-time support for it.

They're still selling the same products that they sell to consumers. I'll bet they have the same support organization as well.

The fact that it's a Sony computer product means that it's oriented toward consumers, since they don't have a business computer unit to begin with. I hope you like 90 minute phone calls with five different East Asian Individuals just find out that they class your BD-ROM as non-user-serviceable...

Features that make things pretty don't make their products not consumer grade crap, and I probably don't need to remind you of my experiences with Sony's hardware support organization.

I don't go on vacations. When I was with my ex I generally couldn't afford it or she couldn't take time off school anyway. The girls I know will point attractive women out to me and talk about their lives a lot more frankly than maybe a guy wants to hear. It's a stereotype, but most of my...

You didn't know them well enough. They're crazy, it's just different crazy from how straight girls do it. Also, and I say this from multiple experiences, when they're at the wrong point in their cycles (they eventually synchronize; it's a hormonal thing I guess), you need to wear a helmet and...

I'd say that's a real problem if that's not what you want to do with your life.

No but I lived with one for five years and they make up most of my real-life social circle.

Slackware is VERY Unix-traditional. It's probably not a good choice for someone who doesn't want to invest time in really getting to know the Unix way of doing things. Personally, I use Centos on my home Linux servers, but my configuration at this point is pretty bare-bones. I've been using...

I couldn't begin to tell you what the issue might be with that. I'm not an Ubuntu fan. It has too many Debian cooties (Debian people being the FSF "It has to be GNU/Linux and not just Linux" morons). Hopefully you made a partition for /home and another for everything else. Anyway, if you...

I've never had employer provided insurance either. I have catastrophic coverage only. I have no idea where or who gets corporate IT jobs other than those on contract basis, and I vaguely suspect that in the future more and more jobs with be defined-length contracts rather than permanent...

Well, the Zipang 2 is definitely silent. It's also parallel to the plane of the motherboard, so there's no uncertainty about which position or orientation I should use for the fan. It does overhang my DIMM slots more than I'd like, but I can reach under it, so it's not a big deal. Not bad for $35.

Acer does not fit. Ever. Toshiba has business products and business support, but their business products are still too crappy to merit consideration. I know a couple people who SWEAR mainstream Asus notebooks are good products, but I've only seen a couple non-Eee examples and they didn't seem...

Most boards with multiple integrated video ports only support using one at a time. The last time I went looking for something that would run integrated DVI + Integrated VGA, I wound up with an oddball Asus board based on very specific wording in the product specs that indicated that it could use...

Before you go off blaming Linux, why not try a platform with a different installer, like SuSE or RedHat/Centos?

To me, anything that gets consumer rather than business class support (and to the best of my knowledge Sony does not have a business support division for computer products) is consumer garbage. The HP Envy branding is (or at least was) used for gaming products, which is its own special...

The stock HSF for an i7 is frustratingly not silent, so today while I was out and about I bought a Scythe Zipang 2 cooler with a 140mm fan on it. I'm just getting ready to take this PC down to fit it, but I was wondering if anyone else is using a non-stock cooling solution for their i5/i7...

Let's see... RAID, Volume Management and Encryption. Short of using an alien filesystem like HFS, I can't actually imagine a more complicated setup. You admit to not having *nix experience and you're not really asking for help. Maybe a setup like this should not have been your first choice?

I keep an application repository so I don't need or care about discs for longer than the first time I touch them, and most of the software I deal with reaches my hands as .ISOs in the first place. If I have a need for entertainment viewing, I can make use of the gigabytes of unused space on my...

Make a new boolean value called extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 and set it to false.

Yes but that was hours ago. :P

Meh. I've been running 3.6 for a couple weeks on at least a few machines. I can see an improvement in page rendering on pages that have a bunch of scripts (Fark and CNN are both in this category), and personas are kind of fun to play with. I don't like that new tabs are added immediately to the...

I suspect you'll have a PCIe x1 option for that. You could also look around to see if there's an ethernet-to-parallel print server on Ebay or your local equivalent. The motherboards whose printer ports I'm familiar with (mostly Intel boards but also SOME Gigabyte boards for this purpose) have...

It sounds like the Gigabyte adapter is barely supported in the first place. The PCI cards I buy (here in the US) are low-profile cards made by Syba. They retail for US$14. Generally, I find myself connecting older HP laser printers to them, but other than remembering which driver I need to...

For about the same price, you should be able to find a PCI card with one or two parallel ports on it, kencol.

Probably not for a while. They're claiming lower resource utilization and faster scanning speed. I don't actually use Avast on any of my personal machines so I can't tell if that's real or not, but it's certainly a good thing if they aren't exaggerating. Microsoft Security Essentials does seem...

AOL is a walled garden that can only be accessed to its members. There's some different stuff that's available to AOL people, and for a lot of things that we understand as web sites there's a particular AOL interface. Basically, AOL users who never use any other software do not understand...

Suck

I think it's better than AVG or Avira for a free product.

You aren't dealing with 60 year old steelworkers' wives, either.

Today I was asked to install AOL 9.5 on an i7 notebook. I think I died a little bit just from hearing someone ask me to install AOL.

That Yamaha receiver is probably pretty nice. What I did when I wound up with spare audio stuff was set up my office at work.

There's more to it than that. It has all the drawbacks of using a Business/Professional copy of Windows (10 CALs) with basically none of the advantages of Server; single sign-on seems like it would be a no-brainer but it's not there. There's also nothing to make it back up another storage...

There's a new version of Avast today and the default appearance no longer looks like a goofy car stereo.

The backups are file based, but WHS will only store a single copy of a file, which means it's efficient for multiple machines for the same version of Windows. It supports bare metal restore from a boot CD that loads the WHS client. I'm not as enamored of it as some people are, but being able...

I made most of my DVD-Audio discs in to six channel FLACs but I haven't finished the process yet, and sometimes I just wanna listen to a disc, that's why. :P