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That's what Readyboost is supposed to be for in the first place.

I sincerely doubt the tri-channel RAM is worthwhile. The cheaper motherboards are quite appealing, but it's still kind of galling that Intel is going to be supporting three CPU interfaces for at least the short term, particularly when they're saying that only one of those sockets is going to be...

Having had a couple Syba cards fail in obnoxious ways, that's not a direction I'd be willing to contemplate.

We all know dual channel RAM is largely for benchmark wanking, let alone a third channel. I doubt it has much of an impact, either. I do note that releasing the new socket has not impacted pricing on socket 1366 boards. Which is unfortunate, because that's really the one thing that's keeping me...

Audacity? I like the Nero Wave Editor interface a little bit better, myself; it's what I use when I teach people to record LPs to CDs, but Audacity is often suggested in guides for doing the same thing.

I use this Adaptec controller. The $75 Promise card is flakey under Windows.

Intel's new i5/i7 stuff is available now on Newegg. Looks like the new CPUs use another new, incompatible CPU interface, drop the tri-channel memory supprt and have vastly cheaper motherboards. CPU pricing for the new guys looks to be very similar to the current i7s, with $300 and $500 models...

Nope.

My Thinkpads have Intel Turbo memory on them. Windows 7 doesn't want to use them as Readyboost memory, so I have them each formatted as a 1GB drive.

Yup. I have capacity enough for about 24TB with 100% redundancy at the moment. I'm WAY lagging that in terms of actual data I need to store, and I will until I get around to pulling a bunch of my old stuff off tapes.

Ghetto method: xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d Of course, that's at the file level rather than the block level, but for most purposes that's probably OK. Or if you have proper Windows Servers you can manage replication with dfs.

Nothing to say at the moment. I'll see a different doctor on Friday.

I saw people make bad decisions involving alcohol while I was growing up, so I choose not to partake.

With or without PSU?

I don't drink alcohol. At some point I might have some at a special occasion but I'm sure it won't be beer.

A couple Newegg reviewers comment that they did get low profile brackets with their cards.

Hot Dogs are part of the baseball game experience, right? I'll probably buy 'em at Wrigley. Where they'll be $8 apiece or something... But yeah there was official confirmation that I should be thinking of this whole outing as a "date", which is kind of a big deal for me even if it's only a...

Managing audio sources in post-XP Windows is a royal pain in the ass. I'll probably buy one of those AuzenTech cards as soon as I get around to buying a Receiver with support for HDMI.

It might be an artificial differentiation of the products, but even that's kind of silly given the marketing for Thinkpads. I worked on the insides of a new Dell E5500 today. I was genuinely impressed with how easy it was to swap out a noisy fan. There is one screw holding down a large access...

My work here is done.

I've seen people on Slashdot claiming to have CF-based Linux appliances that have been running for four and five years without issue. Completely anecdotal, but if that's the case then the wear leveling problems might have been fixed for some time.

There are express trains but only during rush hour and, like I said, I've never been on the EL. It might be an adventure all its own, for all I know. I'd rather take the train than deal with the headache of parking but on the other hand, the South Shore schedule can be a little goofy at times...

Are you looking at one Group Policy setting or a Resultant set of policies? Are you looking at the RSoP for a Domain User account or an Administrator account?

Did you get the newer screen on your T400, Tannin? How do you like it?

Mine are all the older one. But still, how often can you say you have a computer part that has appreciated in value?

Those are the ones I have, too. Now, I just looked, and for the R-series and the T60 but not the T61 or Tx00, DVI-D is not supported regardless of graphics chip. The newer guys in the T-series, it works just fine. I'm guessing it's the difference between a GMA945 and a GMA3100.

She knows about it. I don't know how well she likes me, exactly, but at least enough to come visit some guy she's just talked on the phone and emailed for a year and a half. She's over six feet tall. And I met her through another forum site, really because of a couple of goofy things that...

The fact that the image is not loading right now is all the indication of quality I need to see for a WD Passport.

The T6x docking station has DVI regardless; my notebooks are all Intel graphics and I've used DVI with them. I thought it was a universal product for Thinkpads. Does digital out just not work with some models?

I am escorting an attractive, young and freakishly tall woman to a Cubs game.

27MB/sec is basically the real world throughput limit for USB2.0. If you can get anything over 25MB/sec you're basically set.

The good news is that it will be Friday, during the day. I hardly ever drive on the North side, but the game will probably finish someplace in the 4PM - 5PM range, and I'm thinking I'm thinking that trains or car are going to save basically nothing as far as traffic misery. I'm not sure what to...

Great. Do you have any idea where I can park when I'm up there? Last time I went to a Cubs game I was about 11 years old and I think my dad paid like $25 to park in a vacant lot like 6 blocks from the stadium. This is a female type person who might very well be more clueless about this stuff...

I got a, I don't know if "date" is the right word, but a female-type person is driving over 1,000 miles to visit me next month. And go to a Cubs game. Anyway, whatever that is, I got one today.

A good starting point would be to throw out any drives that don't support Readyboost.

The infections on my neck are quite painful and have implications for my ability to turn my head (and therefore to drive) and lay my head on a pillow. I couldn't ignore them even if I wanted to. The fact that they continue to appear on my neck, where they're very close to lymph nodes and some...

Hey, I've got four 80GB X25-Ms if anyone wants to make a deal...

We use Xerox solid ink printers to print our manuals in-house. A typical manual might be 100 - 250 pages long and has color on every page. I don't have the exact paper use right here in front of me but our costs for consumables are staggering. I've also advocated for PDF and/or an additional...

The GP just wanted me out of his office. No question about it. I went and got some tea tree oil, which is supposedly a natural antibacterial, and poured the whole bottle in with my body wash, and I spent $40 at a laundromat washing all my clothes and bedding again. At this point I'd just like...

I did some math and figured out that my company would save about 3% annually on ink if we printed our manuals in Garamond rather than (sob) Comic Sans and almost 36% if we quit printing everything in color. My company spends more for ink than it does on any individual's salary, so this is not...

PowerDVD 8 and 9 have an option for that.

Around here I think nonpayment might be a big problem.

... and yet I still watch...

I don't have real insurance (catastrophic, yes, but not anything that would actually help), which means I have to find doctors who are willing to see uninsured patients (not all of them will), willing to see new patients, and willing to see patients in a timely fashion. So I called the...

My ex is telling me I need to see an infectious disease specialist. The doctor I saw said a dermatologist. My ex's concern is how close my wounds have been to lymph nodes and now to my carotid artery and says I need to do something Real Soon Now. I'm really feeling like I'm getting a mixed...

Make sure you grab drivers from Acer's site. In the past I've found that even Acer can't tell what hardware is in any particular model of their notebook.

I can connect to nine open APs right now from my bedroom. I do, in fact, swipe bandwidth from my neighbors late at night. Makes the torrent seeding go faster.

RAID is not a backup technology. It is a data integrity and availability technology.

I think he's still on dialup.

The new code is 15x faster. I would say that is rather significant.