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When people who get really, legitimately snobby about keyboards, the discussion pretty much begins and ends with IBM Model Ms and Northgate Omnikey keyboards. I bought a friend a Model M clone a couple years ago and she's told me since it's worth whatever price I paid for it.

Does the freeze persist without the expander connected?

It's not difficult to get free copies of public domain literature in any format at all. I use H.P. Lovecraft texts for experimental purposes. The Baen Library has an awesome selection of material in a wide variety of formats as well. One of my first uses for Calibre was to convert all the stuff...

I'm just not interested in quantifying my relationships for datamining purposes or winning popularity contests.

For what it's worth, I'm not sure that Medfield is really all that interesting. Apparently Motorola likes it, but that could be because it got some kind of sweetheart on chips rather than any real advantages on the platform. Intel knows which side its bread is buttered on, though. If ARM makes...

I couldn't find any place that gave me the option of turning off their spam. I distinctly recall following unsubscribe-type links a number of times, but the messages eventually started coming again. I suspect I got new messages every time a different member told linkedin to spam everyone in...

I'm trying to be open minded.

And just to prove that MaxBurn isn't the only one following the mobile space, here's some interesting thoughts regarding Intel's x86-compatible Medfield SoC.

(Someone I just barely know but might've had a meeting with one time for 10 minutes) has invited you to join LinkedIn! I have LinkedIn and Facebook invites killed by the same filter rule.

OK. I officially dislike the Fire. The screen is just "meh", it's a little heavy for its size, it has a retarded custom UI and if there's an easier way to bring up the Android buttons OSD than turning the screen off and back on while reading an ebook with the Kindle software, I haven't found it...

LinkedIn does something besides generate spam?

I don't think it will happen, at least not at the behest of Microsoft. Too many organizations need to be able to manage their own software loadout on new systems. That being said, I can see some companies doing it on consumer class products. They would probably claim that it improves system...

Snort runs on dd WRT and OpenWRT. It probably works on Tomato as well, but I'm really not familiar with that at all.

It's not utterly beyond the realm of possibility that a mid-level engineer at a multinational corporation could be targeted for some kind of industrial espionage, but honestly that's definitely on the paranoid side of things. I do think we all know that antivirus software isn't terribly...

City of Heroes is owned by a Korean company, NCSoft. It's the same company that makes a game called Lineage. In Lineage, more or less every character looks like more or less every other character, and it was the most popular MMO in Korea. One of the most interesting aspects of City of Heroes...

I know of no combination of NTFS or SMB permissions that would cause that. For that matter, I can't think of a standard issue Local Security Policy setting that would do it, either. But Windows 7 does have a tool for configuring application execution settings. It's called Applocker. And you...

I'm not sure that I should be outraged about this. We're definitely more used to thinking that our handheld stuffs aren't open platforms like PCs. And of course I also have a sense that where one skilled hacker has a will, there is a way. I'd rather deal with an open ecosystem than a completely...

Some guy builds a functional copy of Photoshop, including the for-shit GUI, with HTML5 and CSS.

Having seen an actual photo of Coug, I can say that if nothing else he seems to have taken his sartorial cues from the earlier episodes of the Terminator franchise.

It's pretty hard to make a distinctive black candybar.

My favorite webcomic, Achewood, offers us this extended lesson on the nature of badassery and manliness. I'm not going to go posting eight relatively large images in-line in a thread that probably gets more page views than anything else on the site, but I'd like to present the sequence in its...

Honestly, it wasn't. It was her dumbass boss.

I just found out that the reason I had to get up at 3AM to restore crap from backups on a server I manage is that one of my customers hired a new person and, rather than telling me to set up a new PC, sat the person down at the server and gave her the domain administrator password to log in...

Venture Bros. is a take off on a different subgenre and has a different sense of humor, but there's probably a lot of crossover between people who like both. Adventure Time is like watching an eight year old kid play with Action Figures. I really don't get a stupid stoner vibe from it. It's not...

... and I get annoyed these days when I have to drive 75 minutes to get to a customer site. Cripes.

I was sitting in Denny's this morning. I overheard a guy bitching about the Droid Incredible he got for his job and how crappy it is compared to his (personal?) Blackberry. Apparently he thinks Androids don't open PDFs and he doesn't like that it syncs phone contacts with google accounts. That...

The 2600 is about 30% faster. It's quite significant, but for the vast majority of users, it's just going to be more time the CPU spends idling. The only way I can really push any i7 in a significant way is with media encoding, and that isn't exactly an everyday desktop-user task.

I just got turned on to "Adventure Time", which reminds me of playing with action figures by way of Candyland by way of Dungeons and Dragons by way of Gamma World. It's weird in a way I really like. I can't remember if I've mentioned "Archer" before, but the season 2 DVD set came out last...

That machine needs $200 worth of rebates to be $100 more expensive. And my box has better overall hardware anyway (quality PSU, real graphics hardware, nice chassis) vs. that one having a bunch of RAM the end user isn't going to need and a BD burner they'll never use.

Speaking of oral surgery and dry socket and painkillers and other unpleasant stuff... When I was 12, I had a tooth removed so that a badly-impacted tooth that was essentially growing from the roof of my mouth could be anchored and moved down to where it was supposed to go. During the oral...

A dentist I've done work for in the past told me that dental insurance is pretty much never worthwhile. The amounts that the insurance will pay on claims haven't changed significantly since the mid-80s, but the premiums have increased many times over. It's extra-special scam-y even for insurance.

I've basically been telling people who need drives replaced that now is the time to move to an SSD.

I would be shocked if we didn't see some interesting systems in mITX or picoITX with some kind of fast ARM CPU and a reasonable subset of I/O ports not long after Windows 8 is released. I did go and take a quick look, but the only products I can find only enable the USB portion of the mPCI-e...

It most certainly has an HDMI port, 'cause I've been using it for about six months. What should happen when you connect a device that fails HDCP negotiation is that a low-resolution version of the picture should be displayed instead of the full-resolution version. I see that sometimes with one...

Lore Sjorberg wasn't nearly so impressed with Ultraviolet.

This might very well be an interesting technology. I wouldn't dismiss it completely. Drive extender does kind of suck, but based on my experiences playing with ZFS it is clear to me that storage pools have all kinds of interesting potential. Just as libraries were the huge feature that made...

Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood (which is terrible, granted, but has quality T&A and girls like it). Basically, I'd watch a drama that was on HBO just because it was on HBO. Showtime has Dexter, Shameless, Californication (again, T&A), and in the past they had Weeds and Bullshit...

I built a MIPS system that has a couple miniPCI slots for NICs (they've been changed several times; I believe they're Atheros-based at the moment), boots off a CF card and has just enough Slackware on it to do what I want to do. I actually suspect that its CPU is actually a bottleneck for my...

I do it more than occasionally. I suspect that if you're trying rsync or something similar, you're probably running the system out of RAM. My big server has 16GB now, and my older file servers have 8GB or 12GB each. I usually do my initial file copy with normal operating system tools and don't...

The greater Chicago area is north of 50 and supposedly will hit 60 tomorrow. It was 61 degrees today in North Dakota, one of those places that might very well report a January temperature of -60.

It's an idiot button for the people who can't be bothered to learn to work their hardware.

Dry socket is a sucky, sucky thing.

My lunchtime taco lost structural integrity shortly after my second bite. Now my shirt smells like taco. It's not wholly unpleasant, but my shirt is making me hungry.

I've plugged in a Logitech Revue, my Evo, a WD TV Live, a Boxee, a generic HDMI switch and a Pioneer VSX-920 so far. It works when I plug it in to a Radeon 5750's HDMI port. That's all I can say.

There's very little that's exciting in the world of desktops and notebooks other than the possibility of a new form factor. "Ultrabook" is the new buzzword. Mobile stuff is exciting because nothing is actually settled right now. Did anyone suggest it might be possible that the same little girl...

That is my suspicion. I guess my monitor could support HDMI 1.2 and all the stuff in my office could be 1.3 or 1.4? I don't know offhand if down-level compatibility is part of the spec or not.

Given how complex home routers have to be and how thin the margins are for products in that space, it's not any wonder that we associate those products with crap. Of course, almost no one wants to pay for "decent", which limits our choice to a $50 hunk of crap that will die four months after you...

That only makes sense in the context of RIM's current offerings. It needs to be better at something more than just e-mail at this point.

It's kind of a tough call, but those horrible sweatshops and terrible working conditions will eventually create a real middle class. The worst of the worst will move elsewhere seeking even more disadvantaged people to exploit and the cycle will begin again.

Since I can give directions to my apartment by the number of strip clubs and adult bookstores one has to pass to get there, I have a feeling that my whole community would be avoided by such a thing.