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VMware just makes a virtual NIC on your existing PC and bridges it to the emulated one. I would be surprised if you couldn't do the same with Microsoft's version.

The last Latitude I looked at, the physical switch to turn wireless on and off was broken, but I could turn it on and off in the BIOS. Given that your PC is an Inspiron, the antenna might just completely suck, or you may have been trying to use a form of encryption (WPA2, perhaps?) that your PC...

I use a product called Spot Shot.

No, 2TB is not the maximum size for an NTFS volume under XP. It is the maximum size of a FAT32 drive, and many hardware RAID controllers don't support arrays larger than 2TB, but Windows itself can handle NTFS volumes much larger than that.

You probably just need a newer install CD. SP2+ has drivers for most SATA drives on standard southbridge SATA controllers, unless the drive is in AHCI or RAID mode, in which case you'll have to slipstream an install disc to include the drivers or else load a textmode driver off a floppy.

The hacked versions of OSX run very well on lots of stuff. I'll probably switch my Acer notebook back to being OSX, if only so I have a machine to look at when I need to look at OSX. I don't really have a reason to have OSX other than to be able to support the handful of Mac users I know...

Do you have 4TB of data that you just don't like?

I believe there was a Dilbert cartoon about 10 years ago that suggested employees were the seventh most valuable assets for a company, right behind paper clips. Sounds about right.

Yes, that one. I'm carrying 250GB 5400rpm Samsung drives for miscellaneous storage (USB or in the second drive bay of my notebooks) right now, and they're both pretty full. I don't really want to buy a Seagate but I probably will buy a 500GB drive or two when the 250s are full.

I might buy a 7200.4 for secondary storage in my T61s.

I have a DIR-615 in my office right now. I note that it has the same retardedly over-simplified firmware as every other DLink I've ever used. I can't even do something as simple as change the autoconfigured DNS server on it.

... and by "Premium" you meant Ultimate, right? Because no Home Version of Windows has ever had downgrade rights. I can't say I've ever installed a retail copy of Vista Business, but I am shocked that it's not covered for downgrade. I didn't realize that.

Windows 7 appears to default to doing a scheduled Defrag at 1:00AM on Wednesday, at least on the two machines I have here that are running it. I finally ran a notebook out of power under Windows 7. It just completely shut off. No warnings or attempts to hibernate beforehand. I was briefly...

The boards I bought have a SPDIF and a TOSLink connector, and I think the total per board worked out to $11 apiece including the international shipping. The digital I/O plus the very high quality of the sound chip make them a natural choice for media PCs; I don't want to inflict Creative drivers...

Yesterday I went to visit a gentleman named Bob. Bob's partner was a computer collector. Bob's house is filled with perhaps two or three thousand boxed copies of Apple II, Atari, Commodore and Macintosh software, much of it still in shrink wrap. There were a few games (Temple of Apshai, made...

The big problems with trying to get three years out of a used notebook: 1. Battery. A used notebook's battery will be basically shot. A new battery will cost $150, or you can maybe get a knock-off for $80 or so. My feeling is that if you don't need the battery, you didn't really need a notebook...

Anyone out there have recommendations for decent-quality spare or replacement parts? I recently bought 20 Via Envy-based PCI sound cards from some vendor in Hong Kong, because I know that chipset is all-around superior to anything that's shipped for onboard sound on a motherboard under $200...

I've never understood the "freeze your card in a block of ice" idea. How hard is it to memorize a few 16 digit numbers?

Or, like, ask me nicely for one of the dozens of legit XP licenses I've acquired over the years... Dell is basically charging you $100 to downgrade a copy of Vista Business to XP, over and above the cost of Vista Business on its own. More power to them. They're getting the money for it. Lenovo...

I use Recode, Vision, the Sound Editor and both the full and express versions of Nero. The media player that ships with Nero 7 will play HDDVDs and BDs if you have a drive that supports those formats. However, I always do a custom install and don't add any of the other stuff.

T4x-series were the first notebooks produced after the Lenovo changeover. They have less of a stellar reputation than T20s or T60s, though I have had very few problems with them. Anyway, the huge, huge, huge thing in purchasing a notebook is to get one that is sold and supported by a Business...

I like beta Windows 7 better than the full OEM copy of Vista Ultimate that came with my Thinkpad. I especially like the part where Explorer doesn't crash, even if it does say it's going to take 14 hours to copy some files. Also, the last day that the public can download the beta is February 10th.

Also, send back the Inspiron and demand a proper notebook instead of a POS.

OK, my next point of interest: My Thinkpad has a 320GB drive partitioned as 50/50/200something GB. I was planning to have it share between Windows 7 and Server 2008, and to locate the Documents and related profile folders on the 200GB partition. In XP or Vista, relocating the Documents folder...

I cannot believe that Microsoft can't get something as simple as a fucking file copy to work properly. XP will be supported by everything for at least another four or five years, but windows games will move to DX10 in that time, and major security software will probably ditch it in that...

... and just to piss me off even more, another explorer window shows that the files are nearly completely copied, but the file copy dialog still shows 0 items have completed and I have 13 hours to go. I wonder how long the box will stay up? Also, the "Send Feedback" button appears to be broken...

Windows 7 is presently showing that it is going to take 14 hours to copy 36GB of files from an external 7200rpm USB drive to my Thinkpad . And, in case you are all wondering, it has shown this for the last 20 minutes, and has only decremented the counter by about 17 minutes in that time.

If you're dealing with a Jmicron controller the problem isn't that the controller is on the secondary interface, it's that the Jmicron chip routes IDE connectivity through USB rather than directly to the southbridge as traditional IDE controllers do.

Sporting a 2000GB capacity and an unrivaled lack of reliability, the WD20EADS will cost $300 and all of your precious memories in the form of digital photos and videos when it invariably dies. It's also a "power saving" (read: slow) green model, which is just WD's little kiss off to those...

Probably not. I know some scifi fangirls who deeply enjoy all the man-on-man makeouts, and I think it's high time that ladies get to join men in support for exploitative homoerotisism, but on the balance I think BBC-produced Science Fiction needs to be skipped as a general rule. Blake's 7 was...

I rather suspect they released that tool without much testing, particularly not of systems configured with multiple brands of drives in anything but default configurations. I have not found a DOS boot floppy that will work properly with SATA optical drives, either. I keep a few LiteOn IDE...

Technet has downloads of an x64-only ISO. I have no idea what the retail/OEM media sets are like. Are they dual format?

Why the hell are i7 motherboards so damned expensive? Why aren't there any uATX models? Looks like the cheapest board I can get carries an $80 price premium over the same model with LGA775. That is a mighty amount of sucking.

My old man turned me on to those Kodak Pre-Charged batteries. I wasn't aware of why they were different, but they probably last 50% longer than normal Energizer NiMH batteries in my wireless keyboard.

Apparently the fix for 1.5GB drives might very well kill 500GB Barracuda drives at the same time. Whoops.

I really don't think I want to feel any more guilty about my energy consumption than I already do.

The very fact that you've written about the show at all is enough to remind me of this guy, and the only associations I have are extremely negative. From what I saw of the show, the plots were cheesy, the acting was terrible, and the prop and set budgets must have somehow involved very...

I can't stand Doctor Who. Nothing to do with the current show; I knew a guy in college who was involved on a national level with Doctor Who fandom. He had a loft in his dorm room constructed to look like a Dalek. He slept in a Dalek. That guy literally defined, even to me, as socially...

Engadget says WD has a 2TB drive ready to go now.

Last week the temperature outside my bedroom window read -33F at 7:30 in the morning. That's without the (substantial) wind chill. I didn't even wear my heavy coat that day. So, today is the end of the Bush Administration. Which means that it is the happiest day in the last eight years. The...

USPS delivery means packages are waiting at the post office, a mile from my apartment, instead of 40 miles away at the Westville Fedex depot.

... except when you have an app that won't work for whatever reason with 64-bit Windows. :\

I notice that Newegg has a new shipment option that sometimes shows items as "Remanded to US Postal Service for Delivery." Really, that sort of thing makes sense. It lowers costs for non-postal carriers and its a way for the postal service to make some money.

That's essentially what I have now. The phone I have is the 6800, which has the same buttons, dimension and keyboard. I'd rather have a thinner phone that does not have a hard keyboard at all. I can type quickly enough with the stylus. I do like that the 6800 does not compromise display size...

Nope. I keep that stuff as a log of which computer I was on when I downloaded something. Sometimes that's useful or important to me.

I never use the hard keyboard on my HTC6800. I bring up the OSD and type with my finger or the stylus. That's faster for me than trying to deal with the various chords needed to type with proper punctuation and spelling on the mobile keyboard. That said, I don't text and I only send e-mail on...

I would've thought there would be an add-on to do it, but it doesn't look like there is such a thing at the moment. The only annoyance I have with the downloads window is when I go a couple months without looking at it and it takes forever to open.

Just as biologists are made to take a semester of physics courses, there are some fundamentals to IT. I wouldn't expect a DBA to understand, say, subnetting or device driver development, but I really would want a DBA to have a working knowledge of basic computer technologies, operating system...

If you work in IT, you should have an understanding of fundamental technology. That's why the COMPTIA A+/Network+/Server+ certs are important and relevant, even if any seasoned pro looks at their content and laughs. And yes, a DBA should have some knowledge of RAID and networking technology, as...

I've not wanted or needed to use it, but it is an addon to Server 2008 that has a lengthy, separate install process. When it's done, you will be able to manage Microsoft's native virtual machines and also IIRC VMWare guest images. You can probably open that ISO with whatever you have handy for...