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These two sentences make up the majority of my complaint (with the singular exception of Soundstorm on the A7N8X, which did make me happy), but I've gone entire years without having to replace an Intel-branded motherboard that I installed, which reminds me of something Tannin said about Intel...

I had at least two of each of the Moxes and five Black Lotuses. And a complete set (four each) of the dual land cards. I was collecting Magic cards in high school because I liked the artwork but didn't really play much until college. Even then I caught a lot of flak for having "expensive" cards...

I really think Intel-based motherboards are more robust. If there's no price difference, or minimal price difference, I'll go in the direction of higher reliability. The multimedia features that make AMD appealing for budget desktops aren't that interesting for a WHS system, either.

It was 65F and stupidly humid all weekend, but it didn't rain much.

I had to throw out about 95% of my Magic cards. They were in my car when it got crushed by tree, and they were soaked and eventually covered in mold. Kind of a shame, since most of my collection were the oldest cards. Sometimes-lurker Nitsirk is a big board game fan.

Other than ripping media, none of those things require much in the way of CPU horsepower.

That amount of CPU power seems exceedingly excessive, ddrueding. A C2D celeron like an E2200 on a G31-based motherboard would probably work just fine though, and the whole rig would only run $100 - $130 for MB, CPU and RAM, or about what that motherboard probably costs by itself. Does WHS...

I'm not given the authority to do that. Or any disciplinary authority at all. Which is part of the reason I hate teaching kids. They're bribed to be in these classes. They're given a computer. I'm asked to present complex information; taking their laptop apart, using a backup program and...

I'm a trainer, not a teacher. "Teacher" implies some sort of background in education and all the things that go with that, like developmental psychology and not wanting to murder the deliberately obnoxious.

Yeah. I brought a customer an SL510 last month to replace a Thinkpad R40 only to find that they wanted the R40 back because it had a 1024x768 screen.

The router/access point for my apartment is built on a high-end ARM CPU, 512MB RAM, some Mini-PCI slots, a 2GB Compact Flash card and Linux. It does all those low-power server tasks pretty well. I suspect it would be acceptable for mail duties for a small number of users as well. I spent more...

I taught what will probably be my last-ever kid class today. I hate teaching 18 year olds. I hate kids. I don't relate to them. Today I had one who was trying to talk over me all morning. Eventually I told him "Shut up, and by shut up I mean that I want to smell your burning flesh before I hear...

I really do wish the SL-series Thinkpads came with 16x10 screens.

I've not read the entire document. I remember looking at it when it was released and I found their methodology and reporting flawed (as Stereodude said, they don't even break down product lines between ODMs). Unless their methodology and that document have been substantially revised and more...

I like the Lenovo T410. That's what I'd buy for myself. That study suggests that Toshiba notebooks are reliable. This is contradicted by reality and all of my experience. In fact, this roughly sums up my opinion of that study:

The Squaretrade study is based on machines that are sold on Ebay. So we're talking about lease-returned business machines that are probably a few years old being compared to brand new systems, without any weighting or identification between business and consumer models, new or used or weighting...

I'm not sure. I've only ever done it on iphones, crackberries and WinMo. Reviews I have read say it doesn't, but as far as I know it's not available yet for anyone to buy yet. I usually get parts from cellphoneshop.net. They do a good job of having cheap phone accessories.

No. Not locally on any of my systems nor remotely on either Gmail (where I believe the messages originated) or Yahoo. Does that mean whatever attacked was smart enough to delete the sent items, or does it mean that the thing that attacked just harvested my contacts list along with my email...

There's supposed to be an extended capacity battery. It doesn't seem to be available yet. Also, it's a good idea to turn off crap you aren't using. If you're being served by 4G, you don't need the 3G radio or 802.11. You can probably turn off Bluetooth, too. You should also set your phone to...

I'm not exactly sure. Google has had some site-level vulnerabilities. Maybe I got zapped in some cross-site scripting attack.

It appears that my gmail account was hacked. I had a strong password and there's no evidence of malware on any of my systems but everyone on my gmail contact list was sent a message containing a random link to a viagra spam site using my default address for sending mail (which is actualy a yahoo...

It'll probably lead to another decent bump in clock speeds if nothing else. More than anything else I suspect these new unlocked chips are a counter to AMD's $200 - $300 six (physical) core Phenom IIs.

It can still be activated. You can obtain it through downgrade rights on Open License purchases of Windows 7 Professional and there are still OEM copies floating around the retail channels. Until the beginning of the month it was possible to exercise downgrade rights on OEM and Retail copies of...

Maybe they're waiting to roll out 32nm because they don't have yields yet? Or maybe the refresh somehow offers enough of a performance increase that they're holding it off while they sell out 45nm stuff?

I was in New Albany, immediately across the river from Louisville, for a month. It was crappy there. And I could stream video from home when I was in the office where I was working, but not in my hotel room with the sucky wireless connection and no active ethernet ports.

If you just want to play games, get Dosbox and be done.

I think he has 1336 stuff. I just bought four i7/860s. These weren't available last week and I needed to get those machines built, but I'm really curious what I could do with one of those.

I don't keep an optical drive in my notebooks. I keep an extra battery. And I want capacity. I already have one notebook with an 80GB X-25M. I really prefer to store a decent collection of my personal data on a machine, rather than having to connect to a file server for everything. And yes, I...

I can play video files with no lag or dropped frames over a VPN connection to my home file servers, if the internet connection where I happen to be is fast enough. :D

Youtube does offer 1080p streams, ddrueding.

I'm installing FC13 right now on vmware server 1.0 directly from the source .iso. It's working just fine for me.

Short of games, I don't see how you people use that much space for non-OS software.

No snow implies California or some redneck shithole. Are there any other options? Honestly, I don't think it matters very much. "Home" is where my stuff is and all the outside is to me is the twenty feet of space between my car and someplace I actually want to be.

I've been in BP's North American Crisis Response center. One of the things I remember is that the guys who had diplomas hanging on their office walls in that area had degrees in Economics and Psychology, and that there were lots of MBAs. What I thought was striking at the time was that they...

I can attach the same /home to multiple Linux installations if I so choose; I haven't done that for a while, but it used to be nice to switch between SuSE and Fedora on the same machine. I can segregate user data on an entirely different drive (yay!) for ease of administration, in particular...

I don't think that's an exactly ideal set of parts to work with. That's probably overkill in the video card department, for one thing. I'd probably look at something I could fit in an Antec NSK-2480, for starters. My current HTPC just has a simple Gigabyte G31-based motherboard and an E5300...

I'm willing to buy one. If it makes my non-SSD-having Thinkpad faster, that can only be a good thing.

I support my brother. That's not the same thing.

Just something on Sunday. Most of this weekend, I'm helping my parents pack for their move to one of those states where they still fly confederate flags and haven't discovered shoes yet. My parents are moving to a home that cost three quarters of a million dollars and my dad still won't pay for...

When I install Linux, I always separate /home and /var from everything else. It makes a lot of sense to me to be able to make user data, logs and email distinct from other OS data.

Why not just use Linux as your day-to-day machine for doing work if you're really concerned about viruses and malware?

I'm looking in to registering as a Sprint Small business customer rather than an individual. That will let me get an EVO with service for $45/month instead of $80. Unfortunately, other than some statements by the Small Business Service, no one at Sprint seems to be able confirm that price point.

I've never played Pac Man either. Getting to go to an arcade was a very rare treat when I was little and Pac Man didn't have any space ships or explosions, and therefore seemed a poor use for a precious quarter.

I suspect I'd be equally miserable anywhere else that is not my apartment. This is why I do not take vacations.

I hate Louisville with the passion of a million exploding suns. I have seen Iron Man 2 nine times and Robin Hood twice.

In non-design fields, just having your resume in a non-Word format is reason enough to reject it.

I think the main reason high resolution notebook screens are hard to come by is that baby boomers don't like wearing their reading glasses.

Turning things into discs is something I gave up on quite a while ago. You could always try stealing a copy of a prosumer package like S*ny Vegas or the like and trying that. I have to think that if you've been at it this long, a couple hundred dollars for something that actually works is...

My needs would presently be best met with an LTO changer of some sort. Sob.

What use is four measly terabytes?