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I have not received it yet. I'll let you know. As I said before, it's worth $25 just to try to get one.

I have a customer who is still using Windows 2000 systems on a daily basis. Those machines aren't connected to the internet, so they're basically fine, but they're also 10 years old and still being used daily. My least-favorite customer just hired two people and wanted me to put two 2GHz P4s...

Something I'm seeing right now is crappy old machines that are getting pulled out of whatever closet or basement that are being pressed in to service, or home users deciding to tough it out with their ancient system for another year. Yes, this probably is related to the current economic...

Does anyone have any strong feelings about how to deal with old computers and modern software? I'm talking about 10 year old hardware, the sort of thing that might've been upgraded to XP when XP first came out. I'm noticing at this point that even something like Spybot Search and Destroy is too...

The sack full of Micropolis drives were to be vigorously applied to Prof. Wizard.

There's at least one company that offers a 24 3.5" bay 4U chassis for $200. They're kind of crummy as far as chassis go, but that does get you to the kind of storage density you're talking about.

Howell, you know that when Foxit is asking to update, most of the time it's to address security issues, right? And that those issues are largely created by the file format itself?

Sumatra PDF. It's a bit primitive.

Not really a good idea for my specific needs, oddly enough.

Ask them for a small part sometime, like a cable or fan adapter. Watch them look for that part for two minutes and then disappear. Last time I was at Microcenter I wound up having to explain to a group of employees that the guy who was asking about "iSCSI" was not talking about the hard drives...

I think the breakdown with Flash is "Flash for IE" vs. "Flash for everything else."

Microcenter seems to always have some deal or other going on CPUs. I'm guessing it's a loss leader for them, to get people in the door. On the other hand, the employees know nothing and can't even locate smaller products most of the time. If I didn't have a customer a few blocks away from one I...

Even if running .exe files has been disabled, you can still run command.com. So start that up and use the command prompt to run Firefox or notepad or the registry editor if you need to do so.

I'd say it's much more important to have fast access to operating system files that are in constant use than whatever userland data. As far as the pagefile, Windows wants there to be one, and constantly shifts 4kB blocks in and out of it even on systems with tremendous amounts of RAM (8GB, in...

What did people in Chinatown do to deserve having to pay in order to have Adobe shit inflicted on them?

The user shipped the machine to me. I'm going from the date he started bitching that it wasn't booting. Which, hm, actually is a month. Weird. I'm almost positive the drive is a G2. I took steps to keep SSD performance up, like moving the swap file and Documents and Settings directory off of...

Does Amazon ship to Russia?

Yeah. Guess I'll call tomorrow. Their web-based systems don't appear to be able to deal with storage stuff yet.

I can't even figure out where on Intel's site to submit an RMA for a storage device.

Intel X-25M 160GB, 2nd generation. Manufactured September 2009. Reads as 0 bytes, cannot be formatted, March 12, 2010.

I don't have to use a stylus on my phone, but it's much more comfortable and accurate than trying to deal with the hard keyboard my phone has. One of the things I'm looking forward to on the EVO is a much larger on-screen keyboard, but I suspect I'll wind up missing my stylus and being able to...

That's more or less the level of discourse in the Senate at the moment, Last year, Senator Al Franken's hearings on Employee conduct among military contractors basically led to a number of Republican Senators (34 of them, if memory serves, but whatever the number was, it was too many)...

Something very similar happened in about 2002, when everybody everyone started putting USB 2.0 stickers on products without elaborating that you can implement USB 2.0 without the 480Mbit Hi-Speed part of the spec. Now in that case the literature does say 3Gbps, but who the hell knows what was...

All three of my discs at least start and play through the first 10 minutes. There is a distinct difference in video quality between Fellowship and Return of the King, but even in FotR there's a superior picture to my DVD copy.

Sadly, if the transfer is bad it's unlikely they'll correct the issue until they get around to doing a "digitally remastered 20th anniversary edition." Also, this is why I don't normally buy BDs until I've actually watched them. But I am Peter Jackson's bitch, and will buy Lord of the Rings in...

... as opposed to the unflinching certainty of a WD drive dying...

There's nothing wrong with the theatrical versions of the movies. I've seen both several times and in general the things that are in the extended editions are, you know, things that didn't NEED to be in the films. I'm not sure I understand what the "digital copy" is for. It says "for PC and...

Been a while since Fushigi has posted.

Greg, I'll be happy to hook you up with an ISO of whatever you need. You're on your own for a product key though.

I thought it was well-known that T and R61s are 1.5Gbps-only. I might be wrong but that fact was mentioned in a large number of notebook-based reviews for SSDs a couple years back. As I recall Dell and Apple notebooks of that vintage also had a 1.5Gbps limitation. One of my T61s has a 1st-gen...

I have basically the same problem. I have veggies but don't eat nearly enough of them. I *think* my biggest dietary problem is actually salt. Pretty much all restaurant food and most prepared, packaged food are way, way high in sodium. I've gotten a lot better about making choices with lower...

Turns out my ex bought one. So I do know someone who owns one. Since she has an uncanny ability to screw up Windows computers with malware, I kind of support her if it means less working on her other machines. Unfortunately, the reason I know she got one is that a bunch of things she wanted...

I'd rather store my data on $25 Chinese knock-off pen drives.

There was a thread on Slashdot a few months back complaining about the lack of serial ports on modern hardware, but honestly, they're only used for specialized applications at this point, and that space is better spent on more USB ports or display outputs or something. The only other input I...

Either it works and I get a 128GB drive or it doesn't and I'm out $25. I'll take that chance.

It's flash memory. It either holds data or it doesn't. Yeah, I bought one. 128GB is enough to hold all my prepared install images on one drive.

There seem to be a number of Ebay sellers offering 128GB pen drives for $20 - $30 at the moment. I'm not sure what the scam is, or whether there is a scam, but since those drive normally retail north of $250, I thought I'd share it with you all. Here's a sample auction. There are others.

I got my mini wireless keyboard over the weekend. It works as advertised to a range of somewhere between 15 and 20 feet. It really is as small as it looks, about the size of a cell phone with a QWERTY keyboard plus a little for the touchpad. The device is lightweight but does not feel...

Who cares? Buy both. It's $60 at Target.

Goddammitsomuch

Walmart was closed. Target was closed. All three of the major grocery chains were closed. I wound up buying milk and bread at a gas station.

I'm thinking I need to build a retro-gaming machine. Something with Windows 98 and a 4:3 monitor. I can play a lot of games I like in DOSBox or something similar, but a lot of late-90s titles have just enough 3D that they won't run in a VM and either hate NT-based Windows or have restrictions on...

I will probably eat one at least once, just because I have long wished for a protein and grease-based bread substitute.

I didn't know it was Easter until I tried to go buy groceries and couldn't find a store that was open.

I'd actually be kind of impressed by a shit big enough to share with 700,000 people. Unlike an oversized ipod.

Do YOU want to buy and/or dig out the USB floppy drive you'd need to do that on XP or Server 2003?

The HD2 has a bigger screen. It's thinner, lighter and faster. The only thing that would make me consider that hardware would be the hard keyboard, but that's something I explicitly don't want for myself.

99% chance you just need to turn off AHCI mode in your BIOS, Greg.

I just got my copy of Windows 7, the Missing Manual. I sincerely doubt anyone here actually needs it or anything like it, but holy cow is it fantastic as a guide for the non-nerds of the world. Totally, completely recommend the book if helping people with Windows 7 is something you have to do.

You can recognize an ad hominem argument but not a straw man, Stereodude?