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I've pretty much expected that something like that exists for every smartphone from every carrier. It's really no surprise. I don't know if I care or not. The worst thing I might do on my phone is look at the occasional porn tumblr. My email is encrypted and my phone is encrypted, but unless...

One interesting thing about ZFS is that it supports cache drives. You can add SSDs to a storage pool, mark them as cache and that's how ZFS will use them, while maintaining the monstrous storage capacity from whatever spinning disks that happen to be in the same pool. You can also do link...

I haven't watched network television in at least that long. To be completely honest, I'd rather watch naked ladies just being naked than hardcore porn with the hairy tattooed guys who look like they just got out of prison. But I have a nice collection of that stuff already.

For the most part, a razor is a razor. Though if you want to talk to southern region hair-removal experts, you need to talk to someone doing a male to female gender transition. I know a couple. I have stories. You do not want me to tell them.

As long as you can bring up the Windows Recovery environment you can in fact restore a backup from it.

Plenty of businesses just have one NAS and think that means they have a backup. We had a thread about it earlier in the year. The only thing I can think is that if you're managing your volumes so that you have something like a RAID10 or RAID51 setup + spare disks and a spare PSU, you're probably...

In normal circumstances, NFS should be faster than SMB. I've run into cases where it isn't, but in my experience it generally is. I'm not normally worried about transfer rates except while I'm doing bulk copies, but everything important on my LAN supports dual gigabit connections (Intel...

No one makes resistive touch screen phones any more. It pisses me off.

It's ridiculously easy to get it up and running. There isn't even really an OS install. I just used dd to write the image file on to an 8GB SATA SSD I had sitting around. The documentation on the FreeNAS web site mentions a few VMware specific gotchas that are apparently pretty common. You're...

It has been pointed out to me that while Gillette Mach 3 blades are normally around $2 apiece, they can be had on Ebay for $1.25 - $1.50.

Because situations like this come up all the goddamned time and computers are notorious for providing USB ports that operate at something other than the expected standard; either they don't work at full speed or they don't provide power like they're supposed to.

Windows built is essentially full backups of the whole system only. It doesn't offer any flexibility for backing up files of specific types, specific directories only, differential or incremental backups, scheduled verifications, email-on-error etc. The built in backup in Windows isn't...

I really don't know what that is.

I can almost sort of squint and see that, but why take the effort to make the different PCB in the first place?

Someone brought me a WD "My Passport" 500GB 2.5" USB hard drive today. It's not working, or at least not well enough to take any data off of it, and its owner says there's important stuff on the drive. OK fine. SOP for something like this is to pull the drive out of the enclosure and plug it...

Photoshop CS5 Extended Teacher edition. $150 from Amazon. Today only. For the times when you'd rather wait an entire month to get a copy of Photoshop than take a half hour to pirate it, I guess.

I remember 1984 quite well, Greg. I've read it a dozen times. And while it deals with an authoritarian political system and a general lack of economic mobility for the members of the working class, it never explicitly addresses taxation. You seem to be conflating a valid and reasonable fee...

I suppose it would qualify as a stupid stocking stuffer, but since I just had the experience of having to take my gloves off to answer my phone, I'd like to mention that pairs of capacitive gloves are available on Ebay for $3.29 per pair.

I was pleasantly surprised that the server's onboard SATA ports do in fact recognize and properly address 3TB Hitachi drives. I have 11 of them in that machine now, and I've played with FreeNAS enough to be comfortable with it. Growing a ZFS pool is kind of a monumental PITA at the moment...

Could be. I feel awfully silly talking to my phone and even more silly making my phone talk back to me. I can see that it would be handy at times.

Cluzee supposedly has a similar feature set to Siri and was released for Android phones today. It's poorly reviewed at the moment, but it's free for Android people to try out.

I'd really like to know how the issue of sales or use taxes relates in any way to George Orwell's 1984.

Well, yeah. That would be nice, but that won't happen. Someone with deeper pockets will undoubtedly acquire whatever dried out husk is left. Palm had HP, Nokia is in bed with Microsoft, Motorola's gone to Google. I don't know who is left with designs on that space, but I don't think it's going...

Everyone I know who had a BB has some other non-BB thing now. I'm sure it will be around for some segment of business users for years to come but I suspect it's on a downward path now that will lead to it repeating the cautionary tale of Palm.

Yes. Once the numbers have been issued I think they're just treated like regular retail keys in most cases.

Live Mesh promises a lot more than it delivers. It's cool in theory but I couldn't get it to function reliably. Crashplan.com's basic plan might be what you're describing. It's "unlimited" free backup to other computers that happen to be on the same LAN.

If I'm enough of a fan, I certainly will listen to commentaries. It's rarely the focus of my viewing at that point, but it can make a nice distraction while I do something else.

At the moment, I have Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime and Netflix, though I'll drop Hulu as soon as work stops paying for it. I look at what I can get from streaming and then compare it to what 12.5 years of Netflix rentals + an enormous amount of hard disk space have given me, and I have to say there's...

IIRC, the license to stream Showtime-produced content came from from a deal that allowed Netflix to show content carried concurrently on Starz, which included Showtime shows after their initial airdate. Or something like that.

How about a 512MB Radeon 4870 for $75?

To further elaborate, rather than lowering prices on existing CPUs, Intel has added a new product line to better compete with low end AMD offerings. Rather than lower the price on the i3, we now have Pentium-branded CPUs that seem to occupy the same position as the older Celeron line. Though...

Thinkgeek has free shipping on everything today.

I believe the Starz deal that let Netflix stream a lot of Showtime content either just expired or is about to.

Is there a difference between one variety of electronic overproduced pop crap and the other?

I have absolutely no problem denigrating your political ideals at every opportunity and have no plans to stop doing so.

How about the uncle pigfucker's own web site, or at least the google cache of it?

Fascist Wingnut relatives.

But that's your buddy Rush Limbaugh's favorite!

The phone sales people say you get new keys but that has not been my experience. I alternate between renewing on two different IDs. The sales people never have a problem with that and they always apply my renewal discount regardless.

On the other hand some people really like overtime and holiday pay.

Battlestar Galactica was a SciFi show, so you shut your whore mouth.

Having spent the weekend with it, battery life on the MBP is atrocious. The Mac's sleep mode seems to equate to Standby on a PC; it's essentially instant-on, but it appears that there's very little power savings as a result of using sleep. Anyway, I can run the machine for perhaps 2:15 with the...

The fact that unit is on sale at that very reasonable price is a good sign that prices on those things are dropping generally. I don't want to buy another $500 SSD.

As an unrepenitent pirate, I have no idea which of the shows I watch are still airing, what channel they're on or their schedule. I just have a list of stuff I want to watch in sequential order. I'm probably going to start Stargate soon. I'm told that I'll particularly like Stargate Universe.

It's amusing, especially if you actually manage to get a fortress to thrive for a while.

Once your internet is ridiculously fast, you become acutely aware of the limitations of everyone else's servers.

No functional differences that I could see based on use of a trial copy.

No, you'd just need the one. Just because it doesn't use 3D graphics doesn't mean it isn't insanely complicated.

True Story: There are more people on Facebook who report their location as either Afghanistan or Zimbabwe than actually reside in those countries.

Given Seagate's current web-based RMA service, I have to phone in my RMAs because my postal code doesn't align with what their address auto-correct thinks it should be. Their phone service is fast and easy, which I guess is a good point. Though it has been my general experience that the better...