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Consumer Reports has a very, very long history of doing very poor reviews. They pride themselves on their "objective" review methodology, even when their reviews do not include any meaningful basis for comparison or are based on faulty premises. I think, sir, that you might want to investigate...

Also managed AV software and for that matter client management tools like SMS and Tivoli.

... most security software.

HR department? Seven employees. Six women. Five of them are on the pictures list plus a bunch of my boss's friends and various other womenfolk. No HR.

The women in my office have once again added me to their "Pictures of Hot Dudes" mailing list. I know they E-mail each other pictures of chippendale dancers or whatever and frankly I don't care as long as I don't have to see them, but on Friday my E-mail address got added to the list somehow...

I've had three-hour one way commutes to work at times. Holidays and other traffic-heavy days combined with those sorts of long commutes can easily stretch a 90 minute drive into a 10-hour nightmare. One of the reasons I very much like my low-paying trainer job is that I don't have to deal with...

Opticarcs have an NEC badge on them.

I am four for four on LiteOn SATA optical drives. As in, I have four that need to be RMA'd. They were ordered at different times, so it's not like I got one bad batch of drives, but I haven't had one live longer than six weeks. Not only that, but the damned things are LOUD. Anyone had better...

"If you can't find a girlfriend at college and at your age, you'll NEVER be able to find one. " -- not a positive sign

Howell, that article seems to indicate that the nerdly INTP beyond college-age has zero chance of finding a girlfriend.

This is sooooo awesome: Wheel... of... Lunch!

A lot of disk tools seem to puke on disks formatted with Vista. I am not sure why. Going through TrueImage's "Add New Disk" wizard works though.

A lot of vomit boxes come with a 30 day trial of Office that has to be removed before a real version can be installed. Plus, if you ask me, Office is basically wasted bit anyway.

That's right, a general purpose crap-removing program. Huzzah!

Some numbers for various nations and the propensity to believe in a higher power. Check out those Scandinavians!

A lot of screens seem to use a 16:10 resolution and use an internal chip to scale it. Looks crappy. I understand there are also rules about how an image can be scaled over HDMI and I'm not sure those same rules apply to the analog connection.

ddrueding: Paint.NET. I don't know of any Adobe product that's worth the money. And that includes the free ones.

That's 'cause Windows is stupid. You can pretty much replace a motherboard with a Via northbridge with any other board with a Via Northbridge. You can also do Intel to Intel or SiS to Intel or Intel to SiS and have zero problems. nVidia stuff is obnoxiously inconsistent. So is ATI. And you...

Oddly enough, as much as I like to pirate stuff, I think I have a license for everything I use. I might be short on legal copies of Nero. That's about it.

Humor is less funny when you have to explain it. The picture is a map that describes various social-web destinations on the internet as nations, according to their relative size. There are some humorous but accurate geographic notations (e.g. "Noob Sea", suggesting that the reason that some of...

There's a 400GB SATA drive in my laptop bag most of the time. That's pretty casual.

Just as a watched pot never boils, so too does a watch Ebay auction never end.

I am fairly certain there are more blind, geeky nymphomaniacs in Oregon than there are in Indiana, even if they have to keep them in zoos.

The HardOCP guys are only offering subjective opinions. I respect what they're trying to do, but there's something to be said for verifiable information. Anyway, the Sapphire x1950GT is down to $105 after a rebate today. Which I think puts it into the "why buy anything else?"-category.

Today's xkcd is way awesome.

How is Oregon's supply of blind, geeky nymphomaniacs?

Be glad you didn't buy that PC Chips board, Clocker. One of my students brought me one today. It is mysteriously locking up. The temp sensors on the board are all reporting temps around 130C, and I suspect the board thinks its about to melt down. An IR thermometer shows temps between 40 and 55...

Haven't had it long, have you? ddrueding sent me some all-aluminum SATA to USB enclosures with 750GB drives in them. I let one drive run inside that enclosure for about two and a half days and it died. When I took the drive out, I had to handle it with an oven mitt.

Yes. Or that.

Does Boxing require a second player? I also saw something this morning about how the state of West Virginia is buying thousands of game systems so that they can use Dance Dance Revolution as a PE activity. Thought that was interesting as well.

Seriously, I've never had a drive enclosure do anything but piss me off. Either there's a fan that breaks after roughly 42 seconds of operation, or the drive gets too hot and dies on its own.

I think the scarcity is a marketing ploy, actually.

I don't think I could lower myself to Tannin's standards. And being without the internet for four days would be very painful. I could do it if I had enough things to read, but I don't really see the point in doing so.

Anyone have a Wii? I saw something earlier today which suggests that some of the more active Wii games like Tennis and Boxing do a comparable or better job of burning calories than an aerobics class. Interesting.

ddrueding, I sincerely hope that you do not treat your women the way you treat your hardware.

An indoor diesel generator might do wonders for your mood... :)

I've never had a vacation, no. If I take time off work it's really because I want to go work some other place and/or have absolutely nothing else to do. The only place I really feel comfortable is at home. Other places lead to greater or lesser levels of anxiety. Sometimes that is bearable...

Travel sucks. How much do I not like going places? Well, I ran out of food early last week. I chose not to eat an evening meal for four days until I got around to making a trip to the store. I didn't want to go out to get restaurant food, I didn't feel like buying groceries because that...

I haven't done anything to deserve that.

The list of new features doesn't look very interesting. Not to me, anyway. :(

There is a reason that I live well beneath my means, actually.

So, apparently, the guy who shot up that mall in Kansas today? One of the guys he killed was a cop. Someone who almost certainly had a gun. Concealed carry does what, again?

Basically, there is no job in the entire universe that is as torturous as a sales job. Go watch Glengarry Glen Ross and be glad you have that whole medicine thing to fall back on. Coffee is for closers.

There would be issues with accountability in that case which I don't really know how to address.

There's like eighty-hundred-kaspillion blogs about doing the switch to Ubuntu from Windows. They can't all suck. Find some and read them. There's probably something worthwhile on lifehacker.com or something.

I can't handle this not having work to do. I don't have any contracting work scheduled until June, and my teaching schedule is more-or-less clear as well. I slept 34 of the last 48 hours. No idea how I'm going to make it through next week. :(

ATI is being stupid and retarded about launch dates some more.

Man outsources his dating efforts.

It would've flashed by in the config.sys stuff.

More than likely, the drive wasn't an MFM drive, nor RLL encoded. It was probably formatted with Stacker or Doublespace on it. Ages ago, ,we used to basically compress our whole hard disk and selectively uncompress just the parts that were needed. Turned computers into slugs, most of the time...