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The standard argument I get (on another forum) is that I should relax and let itunes decide how best to manage my music collection, so I don't have to think about it any more, that it works eleventy times better on OSX than on Windows, and that any kind of application errors, database errors or...

I really hate gmail's presentation and the "no email to yourself" rule, and I've yet to find a sync system between it and a local email or calendar client that I actually like.

I deal with contacts by remembering their phone number and email address. This works pretty well.

Four machines using Centos, two (essentially identical) Server 2008R2 machines. The Server2008 machines are my living room gaming system and my bedroom gaming system, and they're set up the way they are so I can play with Libraries, Indexing, Homegroups and Dfs. I'm using a mix of onboard...

I just spent the better part of a week upgrading my storage systems and the media sorting and indexing software associated with it. End result: four 12TB RAID6 arrays and two 6TB RAID5s. As I add music, the .id3 tags are broken down and multiple sets of symlinks are created so that I can drill...

Apple people will quickly tell you anything you think is wrong with itunes is your own fault. The largest collection I've ever had to work with was about 450GB, at which point it became an absolute dog, performance-wise. I'd hate to see how it would mangle 1.5TB, but since most of my stuff is...

Hobby Lobby and/or Walmart.

I'm about 99% positive that everything that's been sold in the last five or so years does those things as part of the built-in firewall crap that's in pretty much all consumer-class routers. Being able to forward L2TP is an example of something that would be present in a business-class product...

n gives you additional range and DOES offer better throughput than g, even if the 300Mbit connection is bullshit. 802.11 is shared bandwidth (and worse, overhead claims about half the protocol's specified speed), so while you won't get that 300Mbit, you might get a couple legitimate 50Mbit...

There are 80 Samsung drives in my apartment that are 1TB or larger. I have no complaints about any of them.

Good drives say Samsung or Intel on them.

Nice to see you again, JoJo. :)

Wow. That's phenomenally retarded.

WPA2-PSK and WPA2-Personal are the same damned thing.

The PS3 also has limited playback support (no six-channel .flacs, for example, and I suspect the majority of h.264 container formats are also problematic) or support for regular web-based content. PS3 users on Fark.com were jizzing their pants a couple months ago over Netflix streaming, putting...

I purposefully select Hibernate, because it's normal for me to more than a day between using my laptops. I don't want them to waste power in sleep mode.

Actually, it's acceptable. It's not ideal, but you're well below what the CPU can tolerate. And for what it's worth, I have yet to encounter hardware that will properly hibernate or suspend and resume under Windows 100% of the time. My Thinkpads under Win7 don't resume maybe one time in six...

I just recently found this, which I found to be all kinds of interesting.

I have a 13U rack in my living room that's full of stuff that doesn't make any noise at all as long as the door is shut. Both my T60 and T61 are more audible than any desktop or rackmount machine I own, unless I've been playing games for a while and a video card is running its fan on high, I'm...

I switched in my Radeon 4870, and it's fine under the same conditions as the 5870. Weird.

Look for a grounding issue. Take his crap out of the case and run it that way.

They're hard locks. No BSOD.

I've always had problems with downloads from Asus. Including a whole bunch of times when their whole tech support site was 404-ing. I've also never successfully completed an RMA with Asus, and that's not for lack of sending them hardware. Gigabyte's download service also sucks. I get faster...

I've had a several system hangs. Curiously, they've all been while playing full-screen streaming video, both Flash and Silverlight. So I can play Dragon Age for hours at a time or recode DVDs with perfect stability, even when overclocking, but fucking Youtube can crash my PC. Weird.

Trendnet has always been one of the more trouble-free brands for me. Coug had a bad experience with their stuff too though.

I have three customers that I know to have iphones. Two of them have at some point also told me that they had to make changes to their home network setups because their iphones wouldn't talk to equipment they already had. Both of them mentioned Dlink. One of them also claimed to have problems...

I've only had to put up with a couple of them, and only once when they were both in the same place where I could subjectively compare the two. I thought the PS3 was louder, both for drive and for fan noise. No I don't know what model it was.

Could also be a filesystem error of some sort. I'd probably run a chkdsk before I bothered with the memory test.

I will remember that for the next time my iphone users are being deranged. Are you using 5.8GHz?

All the home consoles are objectionably loud to me, even the Wii. Based on my experience, I'll say PS3 > Xbox > Wii, but that's fairly subjective. I'm at a point where even the noise from optical drive mechanisms annoys the crap out of me, but PS3s and Xboxes are both about as loud as a typical...

802.11N offers superior range, which is particularly useful for 5.8GHz devices.

You're either lying or need your hearing checked. PS3s are obnoxiously loud.

More expensive N devices have faster CPUs, more RAM and nifty things like built-in torrent clients and USB ports for network attached storage and/or printers. I have a WRT300N sitting in my office that I like quite a lot. However, from what I've been told by my customers who are iphone owners...

I can have Google Maps, my E-mail and a web browser with a couple tabs open, not unlike what I would do on a desktop machine. And I can copy and paste data between all those programs. It's quite handy.

Happy Kwanzaa! You have your made up holidays and I have mine. Anyway, for the least possible political correctness and EXTREMELY not safe for work language, I give you... A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa.

My phone had a two year warranty, so... yeah. And it's on a better network and it can run more than program at a time.

I have a phone that's durable in the first place.

ext3 has used 4k blocks for as long as there's been an ext3, in case anyone was wondering.

... which is great until a mission-critical system that someone is using as a workstation gets a virus or can't install an update because of some userland application... This is why my home file servers have NOTHING else on them but Samba and Apache.

I'm more likely to have Nero installed. Windows Movie Maker under XP only supports retarded formats. The versions that ship with Vista and 7 are much nicer but still not as nice as any commercial app (Ulead, Nero Vision, Pinnacle etc).

I think 3D took away more than it added.

They were red and green.

I really didn't like having to wear an extra-clunky pair of glasses.

I didn't know about the 3D part. I thought I was just getting IMAX.

I went to an IMAX 3D showing. I think I need to see it again without the 3D, because when I took off the lenticular glasses the colors were eleventy times more vivid. Probably 95% of what's shown on the screen is CG and I swear I sat through the whole movie completely immersed in the reality of...

I'll just have to be content with my 4GHz i7 with 12GB RAM, 6TB of local storage, pair of X25-Ms and the fastest video card money can buy (at least until the 5970 is actually out).

It looks like the new drivers are only one version newer than the ones that shipped with my card, so it's not like I have a whole bunch of options here. I'm rather annoyed by the 1/2" border of not-display on all sides of my screen, here.

The drivers that came with the card say "Catalyst Control Center is not supported with this graphics adapter" and will only show basic info about my card. The driver + CCC file currently on ATI's site installs, but CCC just crashes when it loads. The separate driver and CCC currently on ATI's...

Let's be abundantly clear: It doesn't work and I don't even see an option to enable it, nor does there appear to be a command line option or something that can invoke it. It has worked in the past, but now it doesn't. Since I don't have advanced mode I also don't have a way to adjust my...