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SAS expanders can be internal cards or external boxes. They use a single cable connection from your SAS HBA to add X connections to your SAS bus. There's an internal card from HP that's pretty popular with hobbyists, for example. Unless you deal with Enterprise storage in your day job, you're...

Xmarks is a cross-browser tool that does the same thing Firefox Sync does. It works for FF, IE, Chrome and Safari (for Mac, at least). I would not be surprised if they did not have an iphone application for it in the near future.

You can stick a couple Dell Perc5s in a system. That gives you the ability to handle 16 drives for around $200. I actually do something similar, synchronizing around 19TB of data across two sets of file servers with rsync, but I do keep my data in a software RAID6 with hot spares.

Have you considered implementing WebDAV? Novell has a client that's quite nice, essentially allowing Windows users to treat files made available in a web server as if they were shared through SMB.

Are they paying for your phone? Because if that's what you're using the phone for, they should.

Oh? So you don't have neighbors that let off loud fireworks every 30 seconds from the last week in June until the third week in July?

I fucking hate fucking the fucking fourth fucking of fucking July. Fucking. I've gotten a total of about four hours of sleep so far this week. And Bozo, taking a stab at making an engineer into a well rounded human being is far from useless. If your son just wanted a job he could have gone off...

Why would a big corporation allow regular employees to set up Exchange sync on their personal phones in the first place?

No, but that looks like it would be a really handy thing to show my students.

Just for comparison, a semester at Purdue University here in Indiana in 2010 is $10 - $15000 as a public institution, not inclusive of housing, books or extra fees. Our health care and gun laws aren't the only things here that are fucked up.

I'm almost positive it's 400Mbps.

That city ordinance did nothing to take away the ability to defend oneself. There are all kinds of ways to defend oneself without using a handgun. You do understand that, right? Also, where the hell do these people live that there are marauding bands of home invaders that justify the use of...

I fully support making handguns and ammunition as difficult to obtain as humanly possible, Pradeep's edge case of sport shooting aside, there's no reason to have a handgun except the desire to hurt or kill another human being. Chicago's law was correct and it is unfortunate that the Supreme...

I've seen at least two Thinkpads take desk-height spills on to concrete with similar results. And Thinkpads have up to date hardware. Here are some comments by a blogger paid by Lenovo regarding Thinkpad durability; basically, standard-model Thinkpads compete very well with semi-rugged Panasonics.

You could try Total Commander, too.

76 and breezy. Pretty nice for people who go outside. Also, hi flagreen.

The only comment I can make here is that I've likewise found NFS to be slower than SMB, regardless of implementation or platform. Windows, or at least Server 2008, does seem to be faster than Samba for file transfers. NIC teaming on Windows is mostly a function of drivers rather than an OS...

Some lighter fluid and a match would probably make it less boring.

'Cause that's his house now. Congratulations, ddrueding!

There hasn't been any. Very aggravating since it's a legal issue holding up the game rather than any technical or development problems. Why does Half Life 2 need a 64 bit native executable?

Maybe there aren't any? I'd probably use Spinrite as well. Or whatever else might be on Hiren's bootCD.

Sure, but as an IT guy, I have options to give my customers for those circumstances (he says, looking under his bed, where there are two T41s, an R41, and an R60). Indiana State troopers carry Toughbooks. They're obnoxiously heavy and a bit underpowered. Sure, they're well built and durable...

What exactly is the performance problem?

Ghostbusters has a couple funny moments, but Bill Murray REALLY phoned it in. Also, it has a bad case of console-portitis. I'm still impatiently tapping my foot and waiting for Mechwarrior 5.

For features and specs, it's in desktop replacement territory, but weight is reasonable/tolerable at maybe 2.5kg. There's a high quality screen, a superb keyboard and a titanium rollcage for a frame. Accessories tend to be cheap and readily available ($15 for an extra AC adapter on Ebay) and...

Take a look at this.

That's on my list for the near future. I watched all of Breaking Bad on the advice of someone I will no longer trust to make judgments about anything, based on his favorable comparisons to The Wire. I found it to be mediocre and essentially un-compelling, though I did stick through all three...

I use oversize Scythe Zipang coolers on my i7s, but overall I think the stock cooler on current Intel CPUs is actually a pretty solid product. I think ddrueding went with a Scythe Mugen before he started screwing around with watercooling. Both of those are pretty exotic compared to that...

I paid $900 for an APC Netshelter, but it was fairly decked out with extras. I got another with a broken hinge on the door for $125 (including the freight shipping) from Ebay. It took my a while but eventually I fixed that myself. I put them in my living room and use them as coffee tables.

I don't own one. I've had customers buy a couple and I've been impressed with them, but I have two recent model T-series Thinkpads now that more than meet my needs.

I buy Optiarc drives about 95% pf the time. In the last two years, other than a few LG BD drives and maybe a half-dozen Samsungs, it's all been Optiarc. I'm not sure about media. Does Taiyo Yuden make DVD-DLs? As far as I can tell, bit rot is a valid issue for all writable optical media. I...

I just got a Sandisk Sansa Clip+. $50 for an 8GB player that can be upgraded with a microSD card, that plays .ogg and .flac files, supports audiobook formats, has a minimal monochrome screen, a voice recorder, FM tuner, and needs no special program for access. On top of that, it's tiny, maybe 2"...

They have to protect their trademark. I'm actually pretty sure that the Pork Board lawyer who drew up the C&D in the first place got a chuckle over having to write it. Our legal system is more than a little ridiculous.

You know, I don't think we hit kids enough these days. Especially the ones that mess up computers. I developed this philosophy during my kid classes but it seems to apply just fine to your situation too, Paugie.

Netgear's baseline N router (WNR834B? I think) has anemic range, maybe 50 feet indoors, but good transfer speeds. I bought several of them for $20 apiece and that's about what they're worth. The only recent DLink routers I've dealt with were DIR-615s. I've never been a fan of DLink's firmware...

I'm thoroughly unimpressed with the Linksys E3000, which is the current "expensive" model.

I am having a shitty month.

I just found a torrent of the various LucasArts SCUMM-engine games. Apparently they've been modified to support more modern graphics settings so for example Loom can be played with a full VGA palette now. I'm looking forward to playing Grim Fandango. Absolutely every modern PC game that isn't...

Why does your office not have effective antispam, Lunar?

I've used Lenovo's warranty. I always just do depot. Most repairs I do myself, but screens and board swaps I let them handle. I can only think of one time I didn't get a system back in five business days.

I hate everything.

Doesn't look like it. If you're itching to test a commercial product out, you could always give Forticlient a go.

There are options for the various options that you can set. It shouldn't be THAT bad. I use Format Factory more for video files though. It's very handy for that.

These days I use xrecode, but only the 1.0 product that is freeware. Version 2.0 is nagware and pisses me off. Nice thing about xrecode is that it'll process .cue files. FormatFactory is also very nice for batch processing, albeit for a shorter list of formats.

Kind of seems like a grasp at remaining relevant on the part of Garmin. But that's a pretty decent array of specifications and the price is downright reasonable compared to most smartphone plans here.

They were $99 two weeks ago. I bought a couple at that price.

I wouldn't call a computer that has to have HDMI output a basic computer, for one thing. I don't build "linux computers" very often any more. If I did, I'd probably use the same parts I use for any other PC. The only place where hardware is any kind of a big deal with Linux is 802.11 chipsets...

Those cards are almost all much newer than the ones I played with. Nitsirk has suggested that I try Munchkin sometime. It's a card game, but it comes with all the card you need to play.

My favorite play deck was Black Vises, The Racks, Millstones, Hypnotic Specters and some assorted low-cost black cards. I also had a hilarious deck designed to discard high-value summons so I could use Resurrection and Timetwister to get those cards in play. I was always surprised how well that...

I mostly build budget systems for small businesses or basic consumer PCs, Lunar.