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GDI printers have actually crept in to laser printing, so unfortunately you aren't always safe with laser printers any more, either. Are there any modern postscript printers that don't have LAN functions built in?

I'm looking for a less bulky system for my living room, and I'm curious about the build quality of the unit. If I don't like it, I'll sell it to one of my coworkers, probably for the full purchase price.

I bought one of the little X100s that is today's woot.com item. I'll be very curious to see how it stacks up to a 12" Edge.

The news reports I had heard have all discussed northeastern Oz as a disaster area, rather than simply Eastern Oz, which is where Brisbane is. Between this and the flash fires a couple years ago, I suspect Oz is feeling rather put-upon by the weather lately.

No it really isn't. I might buy a couple.

I have a setup where one of my machines at home logs in to a remote machine via SSH and copies whatever stuff TrueImage put on its removable drive that day. Those backups are fairly small, maybe 250MB/day. The copy still takes a half hour. I wouldn't want to try to pull gigabytes of crap...

I use DLink. I've got maybe a dozen of them out in the world.

I can say that out of all the 2.5" USB enclosures I have, the 1TB Samsung drive doesn't fit in any of them. I didn't really expect it to but it would've been nice.

I'll take the EVGA card off your hands if you haven't sold it already.

I tried a whole bunch of amps and preamps and a bunch of receivers. I went to audio-specialty stores in and around Chicago after I had exhausted the selection at giant electronics chains. I had a mix CD with eight or nine tracks in a variety of styles I'm extremely familiar with and did a lot of...

Twitter can be used as a replacement for RSS if you follow a lot of blogs ("Just made a new post at...) and in some cases can be useful if you're closely following breaking news. I wouldn't pretend that any ordinary person needs to tweet though.

There were large metallic stickers on the boxes of several motherboards my students purchased for the last computer building class I taught. I distinctly saw them. Two Asus boards, one Gigabyte. "Sandy Bridge" compatible. Big letters. Hard to miss. Now, I don't know if a reseller slapped them...

Perhaps the LGA1155 chip fits in a 1366 socket without modification? I distinctly saw a bullet point on some boxes indicating they would be compatible with next generation CPUs.

Text messages cost money to send and receive. They're very limited in terms of what they can express and they're tied to telephone and the highly uncertain states that go along with them (Is it on? Is it in service? Is the recipient looking for a text message?). There's no reason for anyone who...

That's been my impression for a long time, yes. Audio stuff is tough because there's so damned much pseudoscience crap out. In the end it's all subjective. Don't buy stuff just because someone else thinks it's awesome. That person might be a nutjob who thinks wooden handles make amplifiers...

It is worth getting upset over at the point that someone tells you that you HAVE to have a facebook account to interact with them. The dickheads at Blizzard were talking about requiring users to link forum posts to a facebook account, for example, and I've actually heard this sentence out of an...

It does. As far as I can tell, facebook is now the dominant form of interaction between adults.

Probably. But I've seen it with my co-workers, my relatives and the group of gay chicks I occasionally spend time with. On another forum I belong to, there's actually three levels of meta-commentary going on, since there's the forum, members who are friends on facebook and talk to each other...

We could also call it a "Looming data loss event" and be just as accurate.

Both Gigabyte and Asus have been advertising compatibility on new-ish LGA1366 boards. It's midnight and I don't feel like looking which specific models, but they were in the $300 range.

Small business customers love them because they still have parallel ports. At least every second or third machine I deploy in a small office, I get a call asking why they can't hook their 20 year old Laserjet back up.

I'll buy whatever is cheap. Basic business systems be basic, yo.

This week's episode of On the Media was very enjoyable.

It's possible, but I don't think the marginal improvement is worth the investment. Chasing the last 1% that stands between what I have and some magnificent audio perfection is what distinguishes my brother from me. I have a great setup (less the HDMI I know I don't have, but my stuff is ripped...

Most of the fine tuning I've had to do in relation to volume control was as simple as bumping the volume for my center channel.

Handy, I have fantastically expensive speakers. Speakers that cost more than my car. They're REALLY nice. And my receiver can make them louder than I could ever hope to play them. I'm not my brother the audiophile nutball, but I'd say that if your aim was to get better sound, you'd be better off...

The preamp is basically just going to make the speakers you're using it with louder. That's cool and everything but I'm not sure it's needed with a decent receiver.

I really, really hate, nay, despise the way that every gathering of adults I have been to in the last three years or so turns into a discussion about what other presumably adult persons do with their time on Facebook.

My boot drives are almost always plain old 250GB SATA drives or 80GB SSDs, LM. The assumption I make when I set up a system is that there will be at least five hard disks in it. The other four will be as ginormous as I can afford and they will be used in some kind of array.

I'd like better onboard graphics as well, but that's not a make or break issue for purchasing a system. I suspect I'd be happier to find notebook-style switchable graphics and a discrete onboard GPU rather than just another iteration of Intel GPU. In notebooks, I'm perfectly fine with whatever...

Me, since my budget systems are still Core2s and not i3s. I still have six G41M-ES2Hs to sell. But I'm going to buy a bunch of RAM regardless.

Amazon will ship it for free, though.

I'm still fondly recalling June of '09, when 2GB of DDR2 got as low as $16.

The newest version of Handbrake apparently supports BluRay ripping though AnyDVD is still necessary.

At some point I'll replace my main receiver but it's lower on my priorities list than paying for all the blank LTO4 tapes I have to buy.

The nine year old $2000 Integra Receiver I have that works just fine.

I just wish I had a receiver that supported HDMI.

I don't remember what I have any more in my living room or bedroom but as I recall they're palladium and teflon and the banana plugs are gold. Probably $100 or $150/foot. Maybe more than that. It's retarded audiophile stuff.

I use my brother's stupid-expensive hand-me-downs, but I've never been able to tell the difference between those and cables and connectors I've purchased at Home Depot.

I'm perfectly willing to rip DVDs and I have a seriously huge library of local content (~7500GB). I've been doing this stuff seriously for years now, so I have a very good starting point for not really having to download anything if I don't want to. I do not ever torrent feature films. I only...

I run btguard on one notebook that doesn't do a whole lot besides that. Most of the stuff I'm downloading is, frankly, not going to get me in trouble. I will say that you should probably do an "advanced install" of their client, because the software they include otherwise is utorrent 2.0, not 2.2.

There's a speed reduction. I get probably 250kB/sec, which is fast enough. I don't use btguard for everything, just the stuff where I think it matters. Everything I've read says their encryption is good enough and they definitely aren't logging anything, which is what I want it for. Ratios...

It's been 11 years since we've had a serious technical issue related to hard disk capacity. It's been a nice run.

I suspect my year is going to be kind of crummy but I hope things get better for other people.

It's a persistent drawback of 3D, at least in every presentation I've seen that way. I don't think I could quantify it, but it's very obvious to me.

I guess that's enough time for everyone!

Looks like a lot of happy people there, paugie. What's the stuff in those bowls?

What's it like in the future, time? I'll also wish everyone a happy new year to everyone. Except ddrueding. Screw that guy. ;)

At least 90% of the time, 3D is a gimmick, but I've seen it both ways and I have to say that Tron is a movie where the 3D does enrich the experience. I hate the glasses and the way that color gets washed out in a 3D presentation, though.

I got an unopened package of gum once in a box from Newegg.