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It's very clean and well regulated in Euroland. Montreal apparently has a trade as well.

Nope. It's there to be used.

You are wrong and furthermore you can do the repair with any disc that has the same license (OEM, retail, VL) that is at of the same service pack level as the install you are repairing. And if Adobe CS3 breaks from that it's not the fault of the repair system. I do repair installs all the...

I'd bet anything there's a rootkit at the vase of this. Here's my current scan procedure.

Both. I buy drives in quantities of 10 or 20 all the time, though.

I saw a deal for a Creative Vado HD for $129 yesterday. They record in 720p and aren't much bigger than a cell phone. Buy direct from Creative with code VADOHDFRIENDS to get that price. If I had the tiniest need for a video camera, I'd consider that. Sadly, I have no need for a video camera.

I prefer to buy enough drives at once that I get manufacturer packaging anyway. :D

My monitors that aren't TVs are Dell 22", 24" and 27" screens. None of them are TN panels (even the 22", which surprised me since it was so inexpensive). I believe they're all mid-grade sorts of displays. I don't notice any issues with color fidelity, but of course my needs aren't geared to...

It's very much a standard Antec case, only with the PSU situated at the bottom rather than the top. I actually like the open design of the Three Hundred better than the compartmentalized P180. The system I built has seven 1TB drives and one Intel SSD in it and the cabling isn't quite as much of...

I can take a picture of that cable reaching if need be. I still have that system sitting here.

Who cares? OEM drives are sold without a data cable, a disc with some worthless software on it and no pretty box. They have the same warranty and are otherwise the same product as the retail units. The only times "OEM" are an issue are CPUs, where OEM means no HSF and no warranty, and for...

I would think the main thing you have any operational control over would be NTFS cluster size. The files are 16kB apiece, there's a 16kB cluster size option. That would be the first thing I'd try. That certainly will be the most efficient use of disk space, but I'm not sure that it will lead to...

That sounds like an awful lot of image thumbnails to me.

I just built a system with an Antec 300 case and a Seasonic 380W PSU. It was more than long enough. My generic motherboard choice of late has been the Intel DG31PR. I've been able to find them for around $50 and I don't have any particular objections to them. I would really, really avoid that...

In my home and in my parents' home, computers are situated such that noise is largely baffled and unnoticeable. Normally, the only thing that makes enough noise to be problematic is the optical drive, but that's only an issue for a few seconds when a movie starts playing. And I can hear most...

The one I built for my father a couple months ago used the MSI version of that Gigabyte board, a Via Envy HT sound card, an LG HDDVD/BDROM drive, a 500GB Samsung boot drive and two HD103UJs for video storage, a Motorola Bluetooth dongle and a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard for PS3. I went with...

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Every Samsung drive sold in the US has a three year warranty. As I recall their warranty service is handled through an address is New Jersey.

Meh. I suspect they're one of the many, many sites that have been hit with that javascript/Acrobat advertising network exploits recently. People have been infected from ads served off CNN and Fark.com recently, too.

Industrial effluent. Five of the largest steel mills in the United States are within 10 miles of my apartment. They skirt environmental regulations by releasing the majority of their airborne waste at night. Anyway, I'm sure that your ho-hum landscape would be a huge step up from what it is I...

paugie, you live on a tropical southeast Asian island. I live in a place where, if I leave windows open, I get a 5mm coating of soot on every horizontal surface.

I believe it just moves data to contiguous blocks of free space, which would typically be farther out than inner blocks that are used first. From watching defrags, I know that it also moves data back in as it frees up space on the inner parts of the drive. Or at least it used to; I don't see a...

Watchmen was an exceedingly faithful translation from the comics to the big screen. The only weak point for me is Silk Spectre's acting. Rorschach is brilliantly psychotic and the Comedian is an utterly charming asshole. I've seen it twice already. I got a great big old kick out of the showing...

I don't think I'd mind Steadystate on my windows machines, if it worked on Windows Server.

Legal brothels in counties below a certain population threshold. They're unbelievably expensive. Prices aren't fixed, but the girls have to pay rent and expensive to the, uh, management, so $500 - $1000 for a "session" is pretty typical. This is why my brother chooses to buy a $500 plane...

It's a serial interface. One wire to send, one wire to receive. I am thinking it will.

I do mirroring with rsync. It's not perfect but mirroring is an availability solution not a true backup.

I went to the opera today. Well, not really. But something close to that. The movie theater in my town set aside a theater for this afternoon to do a live telecast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. So for $22, instead of the ~$150 it cost the last time I went into Chicago to see a Lyric...

Any sex worker in any city that has ever hosted a gathering of political parties will tell anyone who asks that republicans are also voracious consumers of sex services: strippers, massage parlors that offer "happy endings" and prostitutes. This is in no way news. My take is that...

End-to-end seek time on LTO4 is something like two and a half minutes. That seems pretty damned fast to me. I remember using a floppy-interface Travan drive as a random access device on my first Linux system. It was... substantially slower than that.

Yes, there is. There's not enough demand for desktop drives that can reliably operate at 15k and still have the capacities and costs expected of mainstream products. There's a reason that Raptors didn't take the world by storm, man.

I threw away a lot of big parts. I still have lots of little ones like that.

I just looked, and apparently, Sprint has drastically changed the requirements for a SERO plan. You need an Employee ID number now, so the $35 a month 500 minutes + unlimited data package I enjoy is no longer available except to actual Sprint employees. This frankly sucks. Anyway, I'm using...

Also, who doesn't have hundreds of parallel port breakout cables sitting around from the pre-ATX days?

There's an inch long cut inside my right nostril. It bled profusely and dried to a big, chunky scab. It's not painful but it is incredibly annoying.

I use an HTC phone because I like they larger screen as compared to the Palm, RIM or Samsung options. My phone has GPS, but I don't ever use it. Nor do I use the hard buttons on the slide out keyboard. I think the Touch is the current equivalent to my phone.

IBM generally has a low-cost limited feature model in addition a midrange business notebook and an ultraportable. I think the SL is a swipe at some of the dollars that have been going to Vostro notebooks, but Lenovo has such a tiny mindshare in the small business world that I need to spend 10...

I got to use an HP Mini last week. It was a bit of a slug with XP on it, but it has a decent-ish keyboard. The RAM upgrade was quite clever, a screwless system that involves using a ball-point pen or something similar to slide a lever and open the panel concealing the memory. My main complaint...

I have a great deal of difficulty understanding the appeal of services like Myspace and Facebook. Of course, I don't have any friends except the ones I keep up with on Internet forum sites like this.

I've run into an awful lot of printers that don't work with those, mainly HP Photo printers. I just keep a bunch of PCI cards around.

Never trim your nose hairs with a nose hair trimmer that's low on batteries.

My brother's company issues Ideapads for some reason (they also don't know how to set up their Exchange server but that's another story), and a couple of my customers have them for personal machines. There's nothing wrong with them. They're solid machines with nice keyboards and good screens. I...

They say Apple on them. That's like $1500 right there. I'd like to say they're just offsetting the cost of developing the design of the Macbook Pro, but it's a gouging. There are content creation people who will pay whatever price Apple puts on a Macbook Pro, to get the high end screen and...

A Thinkpad - or possibly a Macbook Pro, if you swing that way, is only expensive if it's not a professional tool for you. I'm perfectly willing to spend US$2500 on a notebook, knowing how I'm going to use it and how much I'm going to use it. The biggest problem I have these days is people who...

Those look like Ideapads that have been upgraded with a subset of Thinkpad features. I don't think Ideapad are awful as far as consumer hardware goes they're probably on par with Inspiron/Vostros from Dell and a step up from Toshiba or Acer.

Those look like Ideapads that have been upgraded with a subset of Thinkpad features. I don't think Ideapad are awful as far as consumer hardware goes they're probably on par with Inspiron/Vostros from Dell and a step up from Toshiba or Acer.

Ulead Moviefactory is very easy but it chokes on projects over two hours. Nero Vision works well but sometimes it won't allow certain video quality settings for no reason that I can see. I think every simple application I've tried for DVD authoring is buggy somehow.

Back on topic... both Quicktime Alternative and VLC will play Quicktime without any added modification, but neither of them quite behave in the way that end users expect when visiting web sites that offer streaming quicktime, particularly movie trailer web sites. If Media Player does Quicktime...

Hit or miss is very much my experience with recent Seagate drives. I've relegated the 750GB units I have exclusively to online backup. A low heat two platter unit sounds great and I hope a better drive company gets around to producing one soon.

Really, most of them. Most of the USB hubs I have are $8 generic POS something-or-others, and I can't say full speed is normally a problem. Maybe the port is going bad or something.

When you quote uda, I have to look at his posts, and that is annoying.