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You clearly haven't ever tried Dwarf Fortress.

The units need to process in a time-critical fashion. If he reboots to use the other OS, he loses the time his system needed to work.

The thing to say abut Sucker Punch is that it exists at the intersection of strippers and cosplay and that is awesome. I saw probably a dozen hot chicks walking around in Sucker Punch inspired outfits at Comic Con this year and I was thankful for every one of them.

It's a Dell. You buy it from Dell. Dell will send it to you in a box that says Dell on it. And then you can head over to Crucial.com to pick out the right RAM. They have a tool to pick out the right kind. The RAM will come in a little box that says Crucial.com on it. You take it out of the...

Is RAID1 even an issue here? In theory RAID1 means doing the same thing to both drives regardless. There's no splitting data or parity calculations, so I'm thinking there isn't a complicating factor.

Not even all of Intel's SSDs are Intel SSDs, remember?

A couple good deals on things I noticed things from today's Newegg email: 1. 4-bay eSATA enclosure for $90. 2. S*ny DLNA client. Looks just like the LG Smart TV guy that I like. $50.

Onboard graphics are good enough for HTPCs no matter which way you go, as long as you have a modern platform. If your buddy is going to be ripping discs, he's going to be better off with an Intel chip, and other than that, all the current graphics packages, be they on-chip, onboard or discrete...

Or Costco. I don't know what Buzkashi is. Do hot chicks play it in skimpy outfits?

I rip too many DVDs. Granted it's a lot better now than it used to be, but a door is still an annoyance.

Good sports: Rhythmic Gymnastics (but only when grown-up looking chicks do it) Beach Volleyball (but only when chicks do it) Pole Dancing (but only when chicks do it) Honorable mention: Caber tossing; "World's Strongest" contests where they juggle tractor tires or some other weird crap...

Link aggregation is awfully handy when you're copying 11TB of video files between two systems.

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

Intel NICs support things like teaming for bandwidth aggregation and failover. I can't recall a weirdo compatibility issue with an Intel NIC. I've seen weird issues with non-Intel adapters, like Realtek 8111s that occasionally negotiate half-duplex connections to switched networks.

fb, do you work for Linn? :) From what I've seen, the 1st gen, un-updated PS3s are actually selling for $500+ on Ebay. I can't imagine that's because of demand from SACD-ripping nerds.

One of the nice things about the Android Platform is that there are other options available. iPads can cost more than $700 and external storage on those is beyond the wildest Steve Jobs necrophile wet dream of iStuff people.

32GB is as big as microSD gets anyway. Many devices that have slots don't have much internal memory, so if you need tons of data you wind up with 32GB either way. I have three 32GB microSD cards in my laptop bag but who the hell swaps out those cards on anything like a regular basis anyway?

A new case that I am very impressed with is the NZXT Source 220. They're $60, made of decent quality steel, have a good number of drive bays, front USB 3 and nice cable management. I've never used an NZXT case before but I have to say I was seriously impressed.

I'll have to look to see if that's more economical than buying some off the wall prosumer sound card. I've seen SACD rips online. I assumed they were recorded via analog somehow.

OK the lack of Insert and a proper Delete key is maddening.

SACDs, for those who don't know, are two, four or six channel high definition recordings with a normal CD layer and a second DVD-like layer that typically contains 96 or 192kbps audio. The HD Audio doesn't play in anything but devices specifically made to handle SACDs. There is no...

Google Music's store component launched sometime in the last couple days. Google didn't manage to get to Warner's recording division signed on, so they're missing whatever musicians are signed to Warner labels. The classical section has a bunch of New Age-y Mannheim Steamroller and faux-Irish...

Everything should have Intel Pro NICs. Especially on motherboards that cost north of $200.

Not enough SATA ports.

Not enough drive bays. And the door. But it looks like a big step up from the P180 and the price is quite reasonable.

Couple things: 1. Getting a Samsung TV warranty sucks. No first-hand experience, but my parents had issues with it. Actually, as I understand it, TV warranties in general pretty much suck; I know people who variously say the same thing about S*ny, Panasonic, Toshiba and LG. I think the best...

I think the ideal is to find something that does DLNA + Netflix + Amazon + Hulu + a decent interface to Youtube and Vimeo + Pandora + Last.fm/Spotify/whatever other music streaming. And basically nothing does that. All those miss working with one thing or other. The other thing to watch out...

1. People are cheap. Discontinued products are cheap. There is an overlap of interests there. 2. None of this stuff is going to be on the market forever. The truth is that anything I'm talking about in November 2011 is going to be in the retail channel for a while yet, but by November 2012 I...

I got a bunch of Mac stuff for our classrooms, including some iMacs, a couple Airport Extremes and some Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs. OK fine. I have appropriated one of the 17" Macbooks for whatever I want a Macbook for, which honestly isn't a whole hell of a lot. This is my first real...

Hopefully, I'll have a Logitech Revue for the pile by the end of the week. I'm looking for something to plop down in the second bedroom at my parents' house. With any luck I'll be able to hook it into Plex and stream content from my apartment, but even if I can't, I can see that it has a great...

Hopefully, I'll have a Logitech Revue for the pile by the end of the week. I'm looking for something to plop down in the second bedroom at my parents' house. With any luck I'll be able to hook it into Plex and stream content from my apartment, but even if I can't, I can see that it has a great...

When kitty litter gets wet on tile, it turns into a hard, glue-like substance that has to be scraped off with something designed for scraping. When kitty litter gets wet on carpet, it still dries out, but it flakes off easily and can be vacuumed up. I'll take the carpet.

I'd go with carpet in the bathroom. Not deep pile stuff, but since I keep a litter box in my bathroom for my cats, I'd rather vacuum than have to sweep and scrub the little bits that get tracked out when they do their business. Kitty litter vacuums easily. It's not so easy to get off the floor...

These are amazing and I'm going to link to them again just because. Vimeo has a great deal of showpiece HD videography for some reason.

Quick review: Yup, it's a UPS. It didn't explode when I plugged it in. I opened it up and the battery replacement procedure is simple enough. I get more than five minutes of run time out of it for two machines with 500W PSUs and probably a dozen hard drives between them. Looks good so far.

That was my thought as well. Though not while 3TB drives are selling for $250 apiece. There's a picture of somebody's appliance on the FreeNAS site. It just took me a little while to figure out what the chassis was. Incidentally, if you drag a picture in to Google Image Search, Google will...

Apropos of nothing, a Chenbro ES34069 is a mini-ITX chassis with 4 hot swap 3.5" bays, an internal 2.5" bay and a slim optical bay. They're sold with 120 or 180W PSUs and make a lovely foundation for a WHS or FreeNAS setup.

It might be worth pointing out that nothing LGA1366 was ever made available at a reasonable price point either. New boards started at about $180 and just went up from there.

Oh yeah, and a new CPU interface. LGA1366 is officially obsolete.

The only one that actually belongs to me is tha 7" Galaxy, which wins for me on basis of form factor, since it is primarily an E-reader rather than an internet access device. The devices are all functionally very similar otherwise.

New i7s, including an i7-2700k and a couple six core versions, were released this morning. They are of course completely ridiculous. That might go without saying.

It's definitely a louder when the fans are running full bore. It's low pitched white noise though. Not really disagreeable and easily covered by music.

So far I'd actually call it louder, but that's because I really haven't had the machine at anything like idle since I powered it back on.

Using a Prolimatech HSF didn't give me any more overclocking headroom on my game machine, but I've got all 8 cores redlined and the motherboard sensors are reporting temperatures that are around 33C lower. So that's probably a good thing.

The Galaxy and iPad have by far the best screens. I've barely touched the ipad but subjectively the Xoom is the worst of the lot, which is kind of disappointing given the rest of its specs.

I have a 7" Galaxy, an 8.9" Galaxy, a Nook Color, a 10" Xoom, an iPad 2 in my office and I should have a Kindle Fire by the end of the year

The Harry Potter series is supposed to grow with the reader. The stories get more interesting and serious with each new entry into the series. The first book really has more to do with introducing the setting and its rules than anything else. Harry has whatever his wizarding challenges are but...

Also, just to kind-of sort-of relate the ranting about comic books back to movies of a sort, the people who make the Super Hero movie parody porns are really shockingly faithful to the source material, at least as far as things like casting for looks, costuming and back story. I just got Iron...

I'd suggest HBO dramas. Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thones are both fantastic for completely different reasons.

I've never been comfortable in one either. I think it's basically just a status thing. Of course, I spend most of my time at home in a couple non-adjustable conference table chairs I stole out of my dad's office and I'd swear in court they're the most comfortable seating in my apartment, so...