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Holy mother of fuck Avatar was cool.

My office has a couple el cheapo Mustek 11x17" scanners that we use with a Canon large-format printer. You could probably buy that combination ten times over for what that copier costs.

While I'd love to use a sock puppet for some of my client meetings, I doubt it would go over very well at the office.

I think the expectation for corporate Windows is that there's an IT pro responsible for the server and that is where important data lives. We're sort of taught (through focus on rapid deployment) that client machines are disposable.

That's true for me as well.

April. I offered to go see her during my down time or to go someplace else with her but she doesn't want to. I think she wants to pay her own way.

Or an IBM T221. 22" 3840x2560 They're like $3k used on ebay.

Synctoy takes too long to run for anything useful.

I absolutely cannot imagine anyone with that much of an attachment to a Wii. They could have made the fucking things with Wii Boxing in ROM and not bothered to put the retardedly loud optical drive in it and it would have absolutely identical functionality.

Amazon sent me an e-mail about it it six months ago when it was first announced. I'll probably buy both editions and a second set of EEs for my friend.

Newegg product reviewers are about a quarter step above people who comment at Youtube or Aintitcoolnews.com - they're morons with no idea what the fuck they're talking about. "i bought one mutherbard and it didn't work but it shipped fast and im never buyin that kinid again newegg rulze and dont...

And no, Windows Server doesn't have that capacity built in, and the backup client that ships with newer versions of Windows is whole-drive only. Boo.

You can do TrueImage Server to automate backups and even to pull data from clients, but it's not a cheap system to implement. It'll probably wind up being a couple thousand dollars for software licenses ($800 for the server, $100 for the corporate client). ATI 2010 does file deduplication and...

Books and knitting supplies, actually. I had a hilarious conversation with someone who did not understand how someone could find her store from 1000 miles away. I'm going to wait on the kimono; it seems forward and it turns out the place I want to buy from is a pain in the ass for...

I love how Server 2003 kicks in that extra 2GB for a pagefile.

Let's see: 32" Samsung LED, 40" Samsung LN40A650, 52" Sharp Aquos. I also have two 27" and one 24" Dell Ultrasharp screens. 32" is really the upper limit for what it's comfortable to sit in front of. Bigger than that and reading text is kind of obnoxious at desktop distances. The 52" screen is...

My standard build at the moment is an E5300 (2.6GHz) with an Intel G41 motherboard, 4GB RAM, 2x 250GB drives and a Compucase mini-tower case. In some cases, I'll swap the Intel board for the Gigabyte version, since it still has parallel and serial ports and I seem to have plenty of clients who...

Higher frame rates, support for newer revisions of DirectX and additional monitors, better cooling solutions...

Why not turn thumbnails off? Use something like Picasa if you want to browse pictures.

OK so... 5850s are damned hard to find, will only be awesome for a couple of years and are kind of impersonal. She'll use it and like it, but kind of like sending flowers, it'll eventually not be worth a crap. A kimono might be the wrong message. But it will last a lifetime and she'd probably...

Xmas present for an enormously nerdy chick? * Authentic Kimono and associated accessories * Radeon 5850 (assuming I can find one and yes she games enough to appreciate it) * Heirloom quality set of Lord of the Rings book I await your input.

I did look, and I have a retail disc of Win98 and even the 98 Upgrade, but not 98SE.

Kaspersky does very well at detecting new virus-like threats. It's a good choice for someone who is paranoid about viruses. Generally I recommend NOD32 for those willing to pay money for something. Among the free products, I generally prefer Avast to Avira. They both have their drawbacks, but...

Vista and 7 use a different boot loader than earlier versions of Windows. If it's screwed up it can be a total PITA to fix. Microsoft makes a poorly documented command line tool called bcdedit to do it, but by far the easiest way to put things back the way they were is to use EasyBCD.

There's an application called EasyBCD that can probably fix that for you, LM.

If you're gaming at 1920x1080, how much AA do you actually need?

Usually Sapphire or Powercolor. I really don't think it matters. In what way could a 5870 possibly be inferior to a 296GTX?

I'm rather ambivalent about babies, but if it makes you happy then I'm happy for you, A.D.

At the moment, I'm going with "These are out of warranty and not worth fixing 'cause they use retarded/obscure parts that I'm not willing to track down." Anyway, I've been trying to get a couple Radeon 5850s for a couple months now. They sell out instantly at Newegg every time they're in stock...

And apostrophes. Bob the Angry Flower has some important information for you. Anyway, as many people have continually and repeatedly told you, the magic of SSDs has more to do with latency than data transfer rates. The magic of having a faster computer also has pretty much everything to do...

Maybe they altered a board to line up with the serial number you sent in for warranty tracking purposes? I have to admit I've never checked or really even cared what they send back before, as long as it has the same north bridge.

I think if you turn off security and use WDS mode you end up with a wireless bridge. There was something funny with the security settings and WDS, anyway, but that's what WDS is for.

Smart cars are small enough to park perpendicular to the road in a parallel parking space. If you live someplace like the north side of Chicago, I can see how that would be a real advantage. On the other hand, there's some dipshit in my apartment building who drives one of those six-wheeled...

.1ms access times are slow all of a sudden?

That, and they want to be able to say that the adoption rate is through the roof as a marketing/sales thing. It was X% better than Vista so buy our stock or suchlike. Overall I'd say Vista was a huge black eye and they'd really like everyone to forget about it.

Wait. I've gotten those to work before. I think I have one of those in my office. Don't you just have to tell it the network it should be propagating and type in the security info? timwhit, your building may be all steel construction that just messes with 2.4GHz signals. Seems like you just...

Were they Dells with BTX power supplies?

Apparently Dell BTX-based systems have an expiration date, and that date is December 1st, 2009. I have five of them that people have brought me in the last week. I don't think I had been inside five BTX systems in my life before this week. Also, it should be illegal to sell computers that don't...

These machines have 2GB. I upgraded them myself. Also, in what can only be a facepalm moment, the way these things came into that client's office has absolutely everything to do with the fact that HP makes them available with a pink chassis.

I haven't had to deal with HP's business support in years. HP Business Computer products in the USA actually cost more than Dell or Lenovo and based on my limited knowledge their support isn't as great, but I do know another IT guy who swears they're most bulletproof things out there. Which at...

I'd like to see an HP do this.

HP Mini 1000, 90 minutes is what my users are telling me. I have four samples. One says 60 minutes, one says "maybe a couple hours." The screens don't seem unusually bright and the HP netbook doesn't have any distinguishing characteristics besides asstacular battery life.

I still don't think of 2GB RAM as a limitation, either. The only time I get close to that amount on my machines is when I'm running a high-end game plus Firefox with 100 open tabs.

I've tried it. I wasn't too impressed by it as a tool for end users. It's decent if you just want zipped up copies of files someplace and you're comfortable with the concepts of making backups yourself, but overall it's not all that different from something I could whip together with a set of...

1.5.x won't update past a certain point. If you have 1.6.x, it'll offer to update to 1.6.2 for you, but if you have 1.5.something, it just updates to the last set of updates for 1.5.

I dealt with a system on Friday where the printer drivers had to be installed in a particular order or the Print Spooler service would fail to start. The system had five local printers, including two parallel port printers (Oki ML320 and a Zebra label printer) and one serial printer (barcode...

Big problem with HP Netbooks: The batteries are abysmal. I'm talking 90 minutes of battery life, here, on something with an Atom CPU.

I see no reason to recommend HP over Lenovo. I think discrete graphics are a big waste in most notebooks. They're a source for waste heat, they drain batteries and they're another point of failure. Aero works on 945. You get something called "Aero Basic" if you have a GPU that doesn't fully...

Every printer where I have seen that issue, I've been able to resolve it by moving to Postscript drivers. Just sayin'.

I worked all weekend.