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Tell them you want to cancel your order. You've found a better deal with Verizon or RCN or even a Wireless ISP. They'll probably put you over to retentions. Retentions has the power to make deals. Usually they'll start by bribing you with 6 month of a free premium channel or a year of Antivirus...

I flatly despise anime and manga, Fushigi. What I see, as a fan of Western comics, is the Japanese products replacing those things we've made here. Go into a bookstore that used to have an expansive collection of graphic novels and where those novels once stood are no aisles of backwards...

I'm a big fan of the portable AC unit. The airflow in my apartment is so dreadful I basically wound up with a dozen fans, trying to direct air around just on one floor. The noise was intolerable and my efforts amounted to about 1.5 degrees F in actual cooling. A couple $300 portable ACs (I got...

I have access to multiples of both. I assure you that both provide new keys annually.

There are certainly issues with using FAT32. From a performance standpoint, FAT32 fragments easily and needs regular maintenance to keep from being a drag on the rest of your OS. Furthermore, FAT32 imposes file size limits that are highly restrictive; most files are limited to 2GB, which can be...

There are certainly issues with using FAT32. From a performance standpoint, FAT32 fragments easily and needs regular maintenance to keep from being a drag on the rest of your OS. Furthermore, FAT32 imposes file size limits that are highly restrictive; most files are limited to 2GB, which can be...

The fact of the matter is that when you renew, you're issued new product keys, every year. This is true for both MSDN and Action Pack subs. If you're strictly worried about legality, in theory you should be switching to new installs with new keys. No thanks. Also in reality, if you've printed...

Microsoft had "Student Edition" Action Packs for $100 a couple months back. I bought four and was in the process of buying a fifth when the offer was rescinded. :D Yes, Server 2008 has to be activated. There are two different activation schemes, depending on the licenses you're using. One is a...

Some day, I am going to implement a content filtering system that defaults to only displaying porn.

I have to say that I like having Server 2008 on my SSD-equipped notebook a lot better than Vista. It still feels sluggish to me compared to Server 2003, but there's a lot less weird pauses and Explorer crashes, and unlike Vista, all the power management features work on my notebook the way...

Joss Whedon, famously the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, has a new web-only serial running, Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog. It stars Neal Patrick Harris and Nathan "Mal Reynolds" Fillion. I know there are several other Whedon fans here, but the wrinkle on all this is...

Vista SP1 took about 30 minutes to install on each of my Core2Duo lab machines, and those boxes aren't exactly slow... and that was using a local copy of the update installer.

Actually, looking at the files on his server I'm guessing that it's a lot of Visual Basic? There's some .MDB files there and all the pages on the site are .ASPXs that consist entirely of This is a marker file generated by the precompilation tool, and should not be deleted! There's a \bin...

The trailer for the movie version of The Watchmen is up and boy does it look spiffy.

I just received my first post-XP-death date Thinkpad. I didn't ask for it, but not only did I get XP on the T61p I ordered, they also threw in both an XP restore DVD and what appears to be a standard Windows XP install CD. There's a Vista Business license sticker on the bottom of the unit.

... and then I listened to my voice mails from today and found someone who wants to pay $1500 a month for their own private Youtube implementation...

I've got 30TB in drives right now in some combination of RAID0 and RAID5 arrays (actually, RAID0 arrays that are rsync'd to RAID5), but I don't have any single array larger than 4TB so it doesn't really look that impressive. Also, a lot of it is in crappy little 500GB drives. :(

Hey, if you want the job, you can talk to him and find out for yourself. Also, he usually wears turtlenecks. Wanna know how much of a dick he is? I told him I'd be out of town for my granny's funeral last week. He called me three times DURING THE SERVICES. And sent me an Email. And a text...

If you're doing RAID5 with those SSDs, your card is absolutely the bottleneck. The 300MHz CPUs they stick on RAID controllers can only do so much, especially compared to the unused cores of the main CPU in your rig.

Newegg had Seagate and Samsung 750GB drives for $99 with free shipping yesterday, too. I'm guessing that will be the standard price by September.

OK, there's this total dick I sometimes do work for. He's a dick. I mean it. I can barely stand the guy. Other people can barely stand the guy. But his office is right next to mine, so when he needs help with his server, I walk over there and help him out. For some reason. Not because he pays...

Yes, yes, yes, Stereodude. We know you're a rugged individualist in the mold of Ayn Rand, and we'd all be better off if we weren't subjected to such inequities and predations as taxes so that the general public can have roads, schooling and police. I'm sorry, but it's unregulated or...

I've been putting it on 1GB Celeron 1.8GHz machines along with Vista, and I haven't noticed it as being a particular performance hog. They were doing some pretty obnoxious preloading malware scans using IE and Firefox plug-ins. Web Server admins were complaining about that and I believe they...

Mr. Obama served in the Illinois State Senate for four years prior to the US Senate. If you'd like to bring up the topic of experience, I might suggest that you look at what the job duties of a Texas Governor are (hint: the governor of Texas has very limited executive powers compared to the...

Republicans are scum. The party of hate. The party of ignorance, racism, anti-intellectualism, selfishness, unctuous and self-serving piety and patriotism. They are in my judgment a representation of evil. And they've only gotten more disgusting over the last eight years.

Lightscribe is a waste of money under the best circumstances. It's slow, VERY poorly supported by CD Writing apps, requires special discs, and special drives to do something for which a $1 sharpie marker is an improvement.

I've had two bad Optiarc burners out of five or six hundred that I've bought in the last couple years. None of the units I use in my labs or builds get used all that heavily, though the ones at home sure do.

The power bill for my apartment full of computers, HDTVs, electronics and an extra freezer still manages to come out less than $100 a month, so that would be an awfully expensive computer.

Buffalo got sued out of the 802.11 business a while back.

No. Belt too big.

I'd hate to think what the power bill for a quad core SLI rig that manages to keep all its processors at or around 100% utilization.

I'd donate the whole computer if I thought she'd let me. I have parts that are as nice or better than what she wants just sitting around my apartment in unopened boxes. :\ I floated the idea of helping with the case, though. I was told that there were happy girl noises.

I'd donate the whole computer if I thought she'd let me. I have parts that are as nice or better than what she wants just sitting around my apartment in unopened boxes. :\ I floated the idea of helping with the case, though. I was told that there were happy girl noises.

D-Link mostly has the most retarded firmware I've ever had to used, but I recently had to configure a 3Com AP, so there might be a challenger to the crown. I miss Buffalo hardware. Range was usually pretty good, and if they were hard to configure, at least the damned things didn't break all the...

Iron Man was also a huge amount of fun. Very close to the comic (something I'd expect from Marvel's own movie studio) and with overall inspired casting. All the scenes with Tony were utterly charming, and the tiny bit of Samuel L. Jackson at the end had me jazzed for about a week. Wanted...

I've been using Foxmarks. I would melt any computer I have if I tried to keep tabs sync'd. Google Browser Sync would start acting funny and start losing bookmarks if all your Firefox sessions were more than a couple months old, so I switched off it a while back.

Wall-E made me fucking cry.

Something I have noticed about Firefox 3 is that UI performance slows quite a bit when there are more than 20 or 30 tabs open. There's a noticeable delay when switching tabs. I suppose that's just the result of Firefox aggressively trying to keep its memory footprint low, but someone who has 30...

1. Try turning off AHCI in your BIOS. 2. Yes, you can install on PATA, install drivers and then clone to SATA. 3. You can use nLite + the drivers on driverpacks.org + XPSP3 to make a really lovely install disc. It can even be an install DVD. Very handy. 4. If you ask me really nicely and you're...

I just had to cut a new notch in my belt. This is the second time I've had to do that this year. Maybe I should buy a new belt.

OK. You don't need a premier account. You just need to get IMAP working on the server you have. You can set up your existing mail clients to speak IMAP to Gmail, and IMAP to your Exchange server. Exactly the same mail will be exposed through IMAP on Exchange as is exposed through its native...

How many users are we talking about, here?

One thing I really do not like about Gmail is the way its spam filtering works. Users have absolutely no control over it. I've had people lose real, important emails without ever knowing because it's basically invisible to end users.

Exchange 2000 most certainly does support IMAP. I'm looking at System Manager on an Exchange 2000 server right now. You just need to go into Server > Server Name > Protocols > IMAP4 and turn it on, if it's not. The quick way to transfer mail to Google Mail is to set your client up with IMAP...

Exchange 2000 most certainly does support IMAP. I'm looking at System Manager on an Exchange 2000 server right now. You just need to go into Server > Server Name > Protocols > IMAP4 and turn it on, if it's not. The quick way to transfer mail to Google Mail is to set your client up with IMAP...

22,000 words. A 900F, modded oven. Scholarly discussion of flour proteins and tomato canning procedures. This man is a god. Carmelized Onion and Emmenthaler cheese pizza.

It's not a BAD choice. In fact, it's a case I recommend for someone who doesn't have much money. But it's the difference between getting something that's acceptable and something that's genuinely nice.

I'd be interested in the Blade Runner game. Do you have any kind of price in mind?

I've read something to suggest that something similar was done with Xbox360s, hence their extremely high failure rates.

She's looking at a black HEC chassis/PSU. I know it's a solid choice and the price is in her budget, but I also know what a difference there is between that and an Antec NSK-something-or-other. This is a person who has a minimum wage job. She's got just over a couple hundred bucks saved up but...