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I'm pretty sure I'm still winning; mine's just distributed as a number of 6TB arrays.

I have a nasty two inch slice across my palm from trying to open the package a memory card came in so I'm really getting a kick out of this discussion.

I have that here, too, except that my apartment complex usually takes care of the bit by the door before I wake up.

Every time I've purchased WD drives on purpose and of my own free will, they have failed catastrophically and in an unreasonably short period of time. I gave them a chance back in ~1995 - 6 and lost four out of four drives in a seven month period, all drive less than 14 months old. I gave them...

That's only an issue for people who think that "going outside" means doing something other than walking 10 feet between a door and a car.

Coug, I'll trade you in a heartbeat. You get unabashed pluralistic culture, a functional economy and a working health care system, and our college kids can buy Windows for $10 if they go to a state-funded school. I think you win.

"Real" schools here get Office and Windows for $10 through a technology sharing agreement. That's one of the ways I deal with putting together cheap computers, since I put together a lot of machines for college kids.

My understanding is that MS charges tier-1 OEMs $20 - $30 for Vista right now. I can match the total machine price but any attempt on my part to earn a profit on hardware is going to kill the sale. So I don't even try. I round up to the nearest $10 and that's what I charge. Probably 85% of the...

It's not the technology, it's the douchebags who think they need it.

mwave was one of my favorite internet resellers for several years before I started shopping at Newegg. They've always been a solid vendor. The fact that I still look at their sale Emails should say something, I hope. That really is a pretty good deal on that drive. I paid $350 - $380 apiece for...

Blackjacks and Sidekicks do indeed suck as PDAs, but it is only douchebags who think they are so fucking important that they need real-time connection to their E-mail instead of waiting for their phone to poll a POP/IMAP mailbox, oh, every five minutes or so, who really need to wash the slime...

MWave has 80GB X25Ms for $279. with code X25MSSD.

Most clock radios have a headphone jack. Most geeks have computer speakers sitting around. I think you see where this is going.

No but in college I had my PC hooked up to my massive audio system and set a cron job to start playing audio at a fairly high volume if I didn't get up to kill it beforehand.

Pink ball of what?

We had a rather interesting thread about Bose's crap very early in the life of SF. You might enjoy taking a gander at that and all the links to sites about how Bose actually operates.

Imma get a HTC Touch Diamond 2 when they get released next month. No stupid hard keyboard I won't use, 2/3 the thickness of my current phone, an ounce lighter and a 480x800 touchscreen (compare that to the Pre or the iPhone 3GS, both of which are 320x480). Yum. Also, it is my professional...

Can I get your server people to come talk to some of my customers about their data storage? Getting preventive drive upgrades is like pulling teeth!

I have some 800s and some 1200rpm SilenX fans. Yes, the smell goes away, but it's still a characteristic I associate with them. I also have an enormous stack of the 3-speed Antecs, since I bought sixty NSK-series cases that came with an extra fan.

Seems like there would be a market for that sort of thing. I'd really like to tell my customers "Stick one of these in drive bay #4 every day" to cover their backup needs.

It took me about 45 minutes to figure out the whole stupid mess once I started working on it. I've only seen it once.

Get a Supermicro chassis with 2.5 bays?

Silence of the Foxes: Creates a custom Firefox installation including Add-Ins and themes.

rsync doesn't look so silly now!

Now they're just teasing us.

IIRC there's a cleanup procedure for that. It comes from installing the drivers out of order from a Windows update that enables support for multichannel audio. You have to manually delete files and registry entries so things can install properly.

Not working, even wired directly to the modem without involving his router.

Paugie, you've been married a very, very long time. Congratulations. I remember when I was fairly young, my father decorated our house and took the family out to a special meal to commemorate the date that my mother his surname longer than her maiden name. Yes, there wasn't much love between...

860. I don't have any more DDR3 at home like I thought I did so I can't build it today. I got a Gigabyte P55-UD5P or it. That machine is going to go at my desk in my bedroom, where it will probably spend a lot of time running VMs and doing documentation work; the machine that's there now has a...

If the machine runs all the time, the battery doesn't get used and loses its ability to hold a charge, I think. Some of my machines do that, too.

Well, I wound up in Westmont today on a completely unrelated matter, so a stop at Microcenter has left me $420 poorer. Now I have to decide whether I want Server 03 or 2008 R2 or just plain Windows 7 on this one.

I'm not sure I saw a P4 with a metal retention clip. That's too bad because all the ones I can find are broken. Did P4s do anything right?

Birthdays are probably better than the alternative. Hope you got cake. :)

Accredited schools can get Academic Alliance subs, which amount to the same access as having an Action Pack.

Also, there's a royal.sys based Activation hack for Windows7 already. It works. I tested it.

The whole thing is, the guy has a couple web-based apps that make extensive use of Mailto: links to automate customer management. He's got an @sbcglobal.net webmail address now that he can check through Yahoo (seemingly without POP3 access) but that doesn't let him use Mailto: and it doesn't...

They block 578 also. I tried that before I did anything else. How completely bogus.

The donkey raping anime fucks that also have a license to some of the models are trying to get the trailer pulled right now. I don't know if anyone who works for Harmony Gold speaks English, or is in fact not functionally retarded, but I suspect once they realize that there's an actual game...

I kind of have access to all of the above. Yes, that does work. And if you want more licenses than they're immediately willing to give you, you can call them and they'll approve you for more. I've never had them NOT approve more licenses. It's very handy. Also, even though you're theoretically...

I can't see any other reason for this, but at a customer site today I found that connections to Google's SMTP servers on port 465 were being denied over AT&T DSL. I could tether my and run the same mail configuration and everything worked just fine, but not through AT&T. I can't see any...

If you turn off safesearch you get some nice pictures of Gianna Michaels, who personifies the term rather well.

You people are lame.

I don't hate you. I just think you're criminally misguided.

Supposedly there's a 32GB microSD card someplace out in the world. If that's the case, my phone just got a whole lot more interesting.

Rockbox seems to fix a lot of what's wrong with iPods, though it doesn't run on all models.

Apropos of nothing, "stacked" is a great thing to type in to Google Image Search with Safesearch off. It's quite... uplifting.

I can't believe you're doing this much work for a six year old RAID controller.

I probably have a few someplace, but I can't be bothered to go look for them. I'm not sure if they're the style you want, anyway.

I bought 10 of the Samsung 5400rpm units about a month ago. I still haven't gotten around to putting them in yet, though. I'm fairly tempted to run over to the Westmont Microcenter this weekend for a $220 i7, though. I doubt we'll see them that cheaply again until after xmas.

I re-use the hell out of high-end motherboards. If I'm buying a $150+ board, it's probably going to live in three different machines over three years, and in that time there will probably be at least one CPU change for some reason or other. Remember that it's comparatively easy for me to find...