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I'm generally not using the super-low end ones. There are some really crummy ones that are made out of solid air (much like the PSU Tannin linked to, which apparently weighs 0kg if the specs page is to be believed), and there are modest and unassuming mid-range models. HEC has a nice, reliable...

The top-tier PSUs weigh 50% more than the middle guys. Black paint and gold trim must be very heavy.

Does SMART actually monitor anything useful for SSDs?

Amazon's cloud is just a storage device. It's actually a nice thing to have, since prior to its release, Amazon did not allow purchasers to re-download purchased digital tracks, but files that are on an individual's cloud can be re-downloaded.

I'm not sure where you guys are getting love for FSP power supplies. I seem to toss them pretty regularly. They're not PSUs that I buy, just the ones that happen to be in machines that I service. I see them in lots of OEM machines. And then I take them out and replace them with whatever I've...

Firefox should do a thing where it releases memory that is allocated for tabs you're not immediately using. As I understand things, the biggest issue with poorly coded flash applets has something to do with demanding to be refreshed too many times per second or something. Youtube really isn't...

They're SSDs. They're legitimately faster. And they're what's available now.

Actually, there's an offline Gmail doohickey you can install on your computer to provide full access to email without an internet connection, if you need something like that.

I'm genuinely not a big fan of Gmail's web interface, which is why I prefer to deal with Thunderbird or elm or something else to begin with. I like having a place to forward E-mails so that I don't have to work to maintain an internet-facing IMAP server of my own, but Gmail itself is...

re: Outlook in non-Exchange deployments, there is a not-insignificant population of users who are simply convinced that Outlook is the thing to use for E-mail. There is no reason for this, other than the fact that it's the tool provided with Office, and MS Word and Ms Excel are also The Things...

You misspelled "sheep", I think.

It's not Incredimail that's directly at fault. I've installed it and immediately run malware scans without result. I think it's more that the kind of person who installs Incredimail is the kind of person who uncontrollably collects malware anyway while they're finding new shiny stuff to click on.

Buck has a reason for his particular bias. And there's certainly no evidence that he's NOT a sociopath.

It should be noted that if Exchange is set up, configuration for a standard Outlook client is limited to either typing in server, username and password, or it's configured as part of one's profile by default and no one has to type anything in.

I've had luck with Samsung drives that varies between very good and truly excellent. In a bad year I might RMA 2% of the Samsung drives I've purchased for sale. I've likewise had good luck with Hitachi, though I buy those drives in much smaller quantity and I will admit I've had some DOA...

I've had luck with Samsung drives that varies between very good and truly excellent. In a bad year I might RMA 2% of the Samsung drives I've purchased for sale. I've likewise had good luck with Hitachi, though I buy those drives in much smaller quantity and I will admit I've had some DOA...

You could do roasted red peppers.

Well #3 would go along perfectly well with those who attribute positive outcomes to storing data on Western Digital products and/or using them to build some form of barrier.

I'm talking first two Little Pigs bad, here.

Sub-par construction material.

Only a sociopath would suggest that WD is acceptable for anything other than construction material.

I have invented a new vaguely pizza like food. I use a little flour tortilla, some chopped spinach, raw onions, jalepenos, some hummus and pine nuts. I think there's maybe 175 calories in one and it's fairly flavorful.

Take your antipsychotics, doofus.

My personal belief is that any who says they've had a positive experience with Western Digital products as storage media is either lying or needs to up their chlorpromazine dosage.

I do recall seeing that before. I believe it was linked from Digg.com. It's interesting that those guys claim Hitachi as the most reliable and the hardware.fr guys claim it's the least. Regional variations? Or just a change with more recent models?

I've noticed that Centos seem to be taking longer and longer to catch up with releases of RedHat, which is a cause for some concern. I'm worried that Centos as a project isn't all that healthy. I did finally slap an i3-2100 together and load FreeBSD on it. I don't really have much to report as...

Hardware RAID usually abstracts the array(s) as a single volume presented to the OS so... no.

An i3-2100 was suggested as a possible basis for my low-power file server. I suspect they would work for your needs as well. Or you could let your roommate to find his own damned hardware.

There's still NitroPDF and Sumatra. Chrome has a PDF reader built-in. I believe Firefox is moving in that direction as well. I'd rather go without a PDF reader than go back to Adobe.

I pretty consistently see TB use 240MB RAM on Windows machines no matter how many IMAP accounts it's checking. Some of my machines only check one and some of them check nine or ten. I haven't seen an FF4 crash other than plugin container crashes from Flash.

New Antec NSK-series cases are made with thinner steel than older revisions, and I've had a couple shipped with DOA power supplies. I'm not sure if that's lower quality PSUs or a problem that's come from shipping practices. The only memorable in-warranty power supply failure I've had in the last...

I don't necessarily think that 1.5GB RAM for Firefox is necessarily outrageous if you have 50 open tabs and don't ever close the browser. Thunderbird climbing all the way up to .5GB is weird, though.

So Elements are out because they're ugly but the Scion, the lower-to-the-ground, less roomy, less practical and even uglier vehicle, is OK?.

It's been suggested to me very strongly that any reliability figures for MLC drive coming from drive OEMs have only casual relationship with reality. I've mentioned that in the other SSD thread but perhaps it might be wise to consider a drastic downward revision of that 30TB number just on the...

I don't know how to ride a bike at all and where I live now is not a healthy place to ride anyway. There's a skate park about a quarter mile from my apartment and one of the kids that hangs out there uses something that looks like a unicycle with half a skateboard attached to the back of it. You...

Last I saw, Intel was saying Q4 2011 for USB3 support in the south bridge, "only" two years after shipping products with USB3 support hit the channel. I don't recall USB hi-speed's adoption being this slow.

Where are you finding these links? I've got a dozen or so tech sites that I track with Google Reader and I haven't seen anything like this or the Failure rates links you posted anywhere else but through your posts.

I still want to know if the problem is particular to Microsoft mice.

The Element has been discontinued, so clearly it didn't have many fans at Honda to begin with. And yes, it looks like a toaster, but it's an incredibly practical vehicle.

Are you just using the GPS as a speedometer? What do you need that for on a bike?

It's difficult to understand and it probably doesn't help that I'm four feet from an industrial drum fan.

To be honest, it never occurred to me to look before.

I wasn't even sure at first that the performer was even speaking English.

Netflix finally put an official movie-streaming app in the Android Market today. So that's cool.

Dammit Lunar! You need to shut your whore mouth so as not to further antagonize that fine specimen of Strong Canadian Womanhood. Also, it might not be a good idea to stand between her and Tim Horton's. But that's just common sense.

I believe Lunar is taking issue with the size of the rack on that fine Canuckistanian lass.

Dammit! Now what the hell am I going to live for?

Are you impugning the ladies of the True North brave and free?!?

My goal now is to get an entry on Acronymfinder.

I'm still thinking MRAOPCR from now on.