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Causing sexual awakening in 8-year-old boys, I think. Slav Leia probably has powers that have to do with, like steam baths or something. Anyway, the woman dancing in this video has a degree in physics. I'm almost positive she supports herself as a professional belly dancer. She goes to comic...

Er, the issue with the Bigfoot was a combination of the platter size (more head movement needed to reach the edge of the disk) + low rotational speeds (~4200rpm), neither of which would really be an issue in a 5.25" SSD. There might actually be a market, somewhere, for a cheap high capacity SSD...

Western Digital: Reinventing the Quantum Bigfoot since 2009.

I'm fighting with someone's intolerable system slowdowns in all web browsing right now. I absolutely believe it's a Flash thing, since the same binaries are used for any browser, but I can't narrow it down to v.9 or v.10 in any particular release, but I'm seeing the issue in IE, Firefox 2 and 3...

Just to clarify my other comment: My game system presently has a Radeon 4770 in it because the 4890x2 offered no performance boost in the game I play and, at least in the summertime, made the side of my case, six inches from my leg, intolerably hot. I'm using the nVidia 8800GTX that I've had...

Seen the Slave Leias, and Safe for Work isn't really an issue for me. :D Here's an amazingly hot chick's costume gallery. Here's one from March's Wondercon. And one of images from various years of DragonCon. (maybe not safe for work a tiny bit; thongs and stuff) The Comic Convention that...

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On the Windows side you could set up a Counter log to monitor bandwidth on that network interface, but that's going to depend as much on utilization as anything else. You should also be able to get some pretty thorough monitoring from SNMP on one side or the other, but that might be overkill...

I restore .tib files from ATI10 on a Seagate 1.5TB drive pretty regularly.

I'm sure it is, but there's nothing about a comic convention that's set up to enable discussions between people while the con is taking place. Also, the only girls at a comic convention are either there with their boyfriends or they're like 12 years old and looking for the anime section.

The one in San Diego is too much of a clusterfuck to want to bother. The convention I used to go to was Wizard World Chicago, but the business that runs that con is so clueless I have no plans to go again. The last year I went they devoted 1/8th of the floor space to Ultimate Fighting. This...

Totally sweet trailer for a new TRON movie.

OK. First thing is, if you're serious about doing hardware RAID and it's not just a personal project, whatever controller you buy, you need to buy TWO in case you ever need to recover your data. If you have 20-something TB of disks hanging off one controller and in two years when that Areca...

Without providing any specific guidance, you can add in support for an iSCSI initiator to a Linux kernel and then export your disks or arrays in any way you feel like configuring them. Or you can just share softRAID arrays over SMB like a normal NAS. Moving to 8-disk+ configurations is just...

At the moment, I'm not particularly happy with graphics cards. Period. The high end is ridiculous for power and cooling needs. The low end is... too low end. And the crap in the middle often makes too damned much noise. nVidia still puts shitty fans and insufficient heat sinks on its...

Tor does that, yes, based on whomever happens to be running a Tor end-point when you happen to be doing something.

I wound up ordering three MSI Wind U123s this week for different people, each one was someone whose notebook had died and each one will keep someone from buying some shitty $400 Toshiba or Acer slug.

Adobe fixes tend to be months in the making and then only for the very newest version of their software. Which is one of the reasons I hate Adobe.

If you're storing multimedia files or backups in some appropriate format (.tib, etc), it probably won't. I'll probably move to 2TB 5400rpm drives when they become available from Samsung for around $100, just on the basis of the lower heat and the presumption of improved reliability from the...

My current Thinkpad is an 8897-CTO. I'm running Vista64 Ultimate on a factory image with NortonAV removed. Firefox 3.5.1, Flash 10, Foxit Reader, Kompozer, Word 2007. I haven't updated any drives from whatever the basic load was, but I did all my Windows updates. I've been sort of randomly...

OEM is not an issue with Samsung. All Samsung drives that are not purchased as part of a complete system from a Tier-1 vendor carry a three year warranty. We've had this discussion before.

Hey, Buck is posting!?! Welcome back Buck!

The Q6600 should not have had a problem being 3GHz, either. I got my new glasses from Hong Kong today. They came overnight from Hong Kong and the box has US and Chinese customs stickers all over it. For what it's worth, I'm very happy with my internet glasses.

I've sold four AMD systems this year, every one of them on the basis of the better-than-Intel onboard video. That's basically the only niche case where I see the argument going in favor of AMD. My current opinion, as a person trying to maintain a fleet of identical PCs for classroom use, is...

If you were on a unlimited Sprint data plan prior to 2008, it's "unlimited" within reason. If it's from 2008 or after on Sprint, Verizon or AT&T it's "unlimited" with a stern warning that you might be charged past 5GB. People on older Sprint data plans are grandfathered on their old agreements.

I'd also like to say that Warhammer pilot was pretty much a moron for not firing when that Atlas's head was the only thing in his sights. And also for not withdrawing from that fight. The Atlas has 9 more tons of armor and a mix of low-heat ballistic weapons. The Warhammer is lightly armored...

It's a joke that's part of the movie. Basically, they got the guy who does stuff like Hunt for Red October and Independence Day to make a long commercial for Office 2010. And the funny thing is, it's actually funny and compelling. There are motorcycle chases and explosions and gleaming...

Do you have a T61 or a T61p? I can put the factory Vista image back on my T61 if it'll help you test.

Mechwarrior 2 was set in Clan Space in the lead up to the 3050 Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere. The mechs involved were a mix of Clan Omnimechs and second line mechs that were re-imagined designs based on Archetypal mechs, e.g. Marauder IIc instead of the (illegal for them to use because some...

I buy stuff from Amazon. These days the only things I don't buy from Amazon are the things they sell at Newegg, and groceries.

I do remember seeing him on the CBS Evening News, though I was obviously not very old at the time. CBS had a whole stable of those quiet, dignified news men, completely at odds with the standards of shrill and acrimonious modern TV news presenters.

Dammit, uda posted a headline and I had to read it. Also, tl;dr version: Go learn English someplace else Longer version: Apostrophe S ('s) is a contraction for [it] is, or an indicator of singular possession. Most nouns in English can be made plural by adding an "s" to the end. When...

I wasn't aware that PCIe had been revised.

I think the Clippy gravestone was the biggest kick for me. Also, the plot of that video is less stupid than Die Hard 4 was.

No one liked Office 2010: the Movie? Snifff

For reference, attaining 750MB/sec data rates would require 24 total PCIe lanes. PCI-X tops out at IIRC 4Gb/sec. I've never even seen anything with an Infiniband interface. I know they exist, but that's the only thing I know that could keep up with a 6Gb/sec connection.

Generally speaking, if I'm motivated to buy a movie, I'd prefer to have the HD version. If I don't care enough to buy it on BD, I'm probably just going to get the disc from Netflix and if I think I might watch it again I'll just rip it.

The best of the Mechwarrior games were really the first two. And for what it's worth, I like the software rendering better than GLide or DirectX in the first one. One thing that struck me as I watched that video for Mechwarrior 5 was that the real-time graphics in that were better than the...

Jerry Bruckheimer

Office 2010 the Movie, ... by Jerry Bruckheimer.

I LOL'd

10 works on Win7

Here's my main thought on education in the USA: Secondary Schooling (high school) needs to be longer, with a second degree awarded for completion of a full six years of schooling. Associate's Degrees are largely not worth the paper they are printed on. Jobs that 20 years ago did not require a...

Goodbye random off topic thread in the Computers forum. Also, maybe this should be stapled to "Something Random." I have thoughts on topic but I shall post them at some time that isn't bedtime.

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Isn't St. Mary's of the Woods just Notre Dame for girls? I really don't think they have guys there. Though it certainly might've been a different St. Mary's.

Article on Slashdot: Youtube begins phasing out support for IE6. First post, from Anonymous Coward: I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself.

Slacker! Rose-Hulman is a total party school. ;)

Isn't standard SAS 3Gbps? Incidentally, 8x PCIe 8-port Dell Perc5 cards are VERY reasonably priced on Ebay these days.

I only applied to Indiana U and Purdue since my parents weren't helping me with tuition and I didn't think I could afford loan payments on private or out of state schools. I was also accepted to Rice and some Liberal Arts schools I never formally applied to. I remember looking at MIT's...