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They're hard locks. No BSOD.

I've always had problems with downloads from Asus. Including a whole bunch of times when their whole tech support site was 404-ing. I've also never successfully completed an RMA with Asus, and that's not for lack of sending them hardware. Gigabyte's download service also sucks. I get faster...

I've had a several system hangs. Curiously, they've all been while playing full-screen streaming video, both Flash and Silverlight. So I can play Dragon Age for hours at a time or recode DVDs with perfect stability, even when overclocking, but fucking Youtube can crash my PC. Weird.

Trendnet has always been one of the more trouble-free brands for me. Coug had a bad experience with their stuff too though.

I have three customers that I know to have iphones. Two of them have at some point also told me that they had to make changes to their home network setups because their iphones wouldn't talk to equipment they already had. Both of them mentioned Dlink. One of them also claimed to have problems...

I've only had to put up with a couple of them, and only once when they were both in the same place where I could subjectively compare the two. I thought the PS3 was louder, both for drive and for fan noise. No I don't know what model it was.

Could also be a filesystem error of some sort. I'd probably run a chkdsk before I bothered with the memory test.

I will remember that for the next time my iphone users are being deranged. Are you using 5.8GHz?

All the home consoles are objectionably loud to me, even the Wii. Based on my experience, I'll say PS3 > Xbox > Wii, but that's fairly subjective. I'm at a point where even the noise from optical drive mechanisms annoys the crap out of me, but PS3s and Xboxes are both about as loud as a typical...

802.11N offers superior range, which is particularly useful for 5.8GHz devices.

You're either lying or need your hearing checked. PS3s are obnoxiously loud.

More expensive N devices have faster CPUs, more RAM and nifty things like built-in torrent clients and USB ports for network attached storage and/or printers. I have a WRT300N sitting in my office that I like quite a lot. However, from what I've been told by my customers who are iphone owners...

I can have Google Maps, my E-mail and a web browser with a couple tabs open, not unlike what I would do on a desktop machine. And I can copy and paste data between all those programs. It's quite handy.

Happy Kwanzaa! You have your made up holidays and I have mine. Anyway, for the least possible political correctness and EXTREMELY not safe for work language, I give you... A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa.

My phone had a two year warranty, so... yeah. And it's on a better network and it can run more than program at a time.

I have a phone that's durable in the first place.

ext3 has used 4k blocks for as long as there's been an ext3, in case anyone was wondering.

... which is great until a mission-critical system that someone is using as a workstation gets a virus or can't install an update because of some userland application... This is why my home file servers have NOTHING else on them but Samba and Apache.

I'm more likely to have Nero installed. Windows Movie Maker under XP only supports retarded formats. The versions that ship with Vista and 7 are much nicer but still not as nice as any commercial app (Ulead, Nero Vision, Pinnacle etc).

I think 3D took away more than it added.

They were red and green.

I really didn't like having to wear an extra-clunky pair of glasses.

I didn't know about the 3D part. I thought I was just getting IMAX.

I went to an IMAX 3D showing. I think I need to see it again without the 3D, because when I took off the lenticular glasses the colors were eleventy times more vivid. Probably 95% of what's shown on the screen is CG and I swear I sat through the whole movie completely immersed in the reality of...

I'll just have to be content with my 4GHz i7 with 12GB RAM, 6TB of local storage, pair of X25-Ms and the fastest video card money can buy (at least until the 5970 is actually out).

It looks like the new drivers are only one version newer than the ones that shipped with my card, so it's not like I have a whole bunch of options here. I'm rather annoyed by the 1/2" border of not-display on all sides of my screen, here.

The drivers that came with the card say "Catalyst Control Center is not supported with this graphics adapter" and will only show basic info about my card. The driver + CCC file currently on ATI's site installs, but CCC just crashes when it loads. The separate driver and CCC currently on ATI's...

Let's be abundantly clear: It doesn't work and I don't even see an option to enable it, nor does there appear to be a command line option or something that can invoke it. It has worked in the past, but now it doesn't. Since I don't have advanced mode I also don't have a way to adjust my...

Holy mother of fuck Avatar was cool.

My office has a couple el cheapo Mustek 11x17" scanners that we use with a Canon large-format printer. You could probably buy that combination ten times over for what that copier costs.

While I'd love to use a sock puppet for some of my client meetings, I doubt it would go over very well at the office.

I think the expectation for corporate Windows is that there's an IT pro responsible for the server and that is where important data lives. We're sort of taught (through focus on rapid deployment) that client machines are disposable.

That's true for me as well.

April. I offered to go see her during my down time or to go someplace else with her but she doesn't want to. I think she wants to pay her own way.

Or an IBM T221. 22" 3840x2560 They're like $3k used on ebay.

Synctoy takes too long to run for anything useful.

I absolutely cannot imagine anyone with that much of an attachment to a Wii. They could have made the fucking things with Wii Boxing in ROM and not bothered to put the retardedly loud optical drive in it and it would have absolutely identical functionality.

Amazon sent me an e-mail about it it six months ago when it was first announced. I'll probably buy both editions and a second set of EEs for my friend.

Newegg product reviewers are about a quarter step above people who comment at Youtube or Aintitcoolnews.com - they're morons with no idea what the fuck they're talking about. "i bought one mutherbard and it didn't work but it shipped fast and im never buyin that kinid again newegg rulze and dont...

And no, Windows Server doesn't have that capacity built in, and the backup client that ships with newer versions of Windows is whole-drive only. Boo.

You can do TrueImage Server to automate backups and even to pull data from clients, but it's not a cheap system to implement. It'll probably wind up being a couple thousand dollars for software licenses ($800 for the server, $100 for the corporate client). ATI 2010 does file deduplication and...

Books and knitting supplies, actually. I had a hilarious conversation with someone who did not understand how someone could find her store from 1000 miles away. I'm going to wait on the kimono; it seems forward and it turns out the place I want to buy from is a pain in the ass for...

I love how Server 2003 kicks in that extra 2GB for a pagefile.

Let's see: 32" Samsung LED, 40" Samsung LN40A650, 52" Sharp Aquos. I also have two 27" and one 24" Dell Ultrasharp screens. 32" is really the upper limit for what it's comfortable to sit in front of. Bigger than that and reading text is kind of obnoxious at desktop distances. The 52" screen is...

My standard build at the moment is an E5300 (2.6GHz) with an Intel G41 motherboard, 4GB RAM, 2x 250GB drives and a Compucase mini-tower case. In some cases, I'll swap the Intel board for the Gigabyte version, since it still has parallel and serial ports and I seem to have plenty of clients who...

Higher frame rates, support for newer revisions of DirectX and additional monitors, better cooling solutions...

Why not turn thumbnails off? Use something like Picasa if you want to browse pictures.

OK so... 5850s are damned hard to find, will only be awesome for a couple of years and are kind of impersonal. She'll use it and like it, but kind of like sending flowers, it'll eventually not be worth a crap. A kimono might be the wrong message. But it will last a lifetime and she'd probably...

Xmas present for an enormously nerdy chick? * Authentic Kimono and associated accessories * Radeon 5850 (assuming I can find one and yes she games enough to appreciate it) * Heirloom quality set of Lord of the Rings book I await your input.

I did look, and I have a retail disc of Win98 and even the 98 Upgrade, but not 98SE.