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Also, send back the Inspiron and demand a proper notebook instead of a POS.

OK, my next point of interest: My Thinkpad has a 320GB drive partitioned as 50/50/200something GB. I was planning to have it share between Windows 7 and Server 2008, and to locate the Documents and related profile folders on the 200GB partition. In XP or Vista, relocating the Documents folder...

I cannot believe that Microsoft can't get something as simple as a fucking file copy to work properly. XP will be supported by everything for at least another four or five years, but windows games will move to DX10 in that time, and major security software will probably ditch it in that...

... and just to piss me off even more, another explorer window shows that the files are nearly completely copied, but the file copy dialog still shows 0 items have completed and I have 13 hours to go. I wonder how long the box will stay up? Also, the "Send Feedback" button appears to be broken...

Windows 7 is presently showing that it is going to take 14 hours to copy 36GB of files from an external 7200rpm USB drive to my Thinkpad . And, in case you are all wondering, it has shown this for the last 20 minutes, and has only decremented the counter by about 17 minutes in that time.

If you're dealing with a Jmicron controller the problem isn't that the controller is on the secondary interface, it's that the Jmicron chip routes IDE connectivity through USB rather than directly to the southbridge as traditional IDE controllers do.

Sporting a 2000GB capacity and an unrivaled lack of reliability, the WD20EADS will cost $300 and all of your precious memories in the form of digital photos and videos when it invariably dies. It's also a "power saving" (read: slow) green model, which is just WD's little kiss off to those...

Probably not. I know some scifi fangirls who deeply enjoy all the man-on-man makeouts, and I think it's high time that ladies get to join men in support for exploitative homoerotisism, but on the balance I think BBC-produced Science Fiction needs to be skipped as a general rule. Blake's 7 was...

I rather suspect they released that tool without much testing, particularly not of systems configured with multiple brands of drives in anything but default configurations. I have not found a DOS boot floppy that will work properly with SATA optical drives, either. I keep a few LiteOn IDE...

Technet has downloads of an x64-only ISO. I have no idea what the retail/OEM media sets are like. Are they dual format?

Why the hell are i7 motherboards so damned expensive? Why aren't there any uATX models? Looks like the cheapest board I can get carries an $80 price premium over the same model with LGA775. That is a mighty amount of sucking.

My old man turned me on to those Kodak Pre-Charged batteries. I wasn't aware of why they were different, but they probably last 50% longer than normal Energizer NiMH batteries in my wireless keyboard.

Apparently the fix for 1.5GB drives might very well kill 500GB Barracuda drives at the same time. Whoops.

I really don't think I want to feel any more guilty about my energy consumption than I already do.

The very fact that you've written about the show at all is enough to remind me of this guy, and the only associations I have are extremely negative. From what I saw of the show, the plots were cheesy, the acting was terrible, and the prop and set budgets must have somehow involved very...

I can't stand Doctor Who. Nothing to do with the current show; I knew a guy in college who was involved on a national level with Doctor Who fandom. He had a loft in his dorm room constructed to look like a Dalek. He slept in a Dalek. That guy literally defined, even to me, as socially...

Engadget says WD has a 2TB drive ready to go now.

Last week the temperature outside my bedroom window read -33F at 7:30 in the morning. That's without the (substantial) wind chill. I didn't even wear my heavy coat that day. So, today is the end of the Bush Administration. Which means that it is the happiest day in the last eight years. The...

USPS delivery means packages are waiting at the post office, a mile from my apartment, instead of 40 miles away at the Westville Fedex depot.

... except when you have an app that won't work for whatever reason with 64-bit Windows. :\

I notice that Newegg has a new shipment option that sometimes shows items as "Remanded to US Postal Service for Delivery." Really, that sort of thing makes sense. It lowers costs for non-postal carriers and its a way for the postal service to make some money.

That's essentially what I have now. The phone I have is the 6800, which has the same buttons, dimension and keyboard. I'd rather have a thinner phone that does not have a hard keyboard at all. I can type quickly enough with the stylus. I do like that the 6800 does not compromise display size...

Nope. I keep that stuff as a log of which computer I was on when I downloaded something. Sometimes that's useful or important to me.

I never use the hard keyboard on my HTC6800. I bring up the OSD and type with my finger or the stylus. That's faster for me than trying to deal with the various chords needed to type with proper punctuation and spelling on the mobile keyboard. That said, I don't text and I only send e-mail on...

I would've thought there would be an add-on to do it, but it doesn't look like there is such a thing at the moment. The only annoyance I have with the downloads window is when I go a couple months without looking at it and it takes forever to open.

Just as biologists are made to take a semester of physics courses, there are some fundamentals to IT. I wouldn't expect a DBA to understand, say, subnetting or device driver development, but I really would want a DBA to have a working knowledge of basic computer technologies, operating system...

If you work in IT, you should have an understanding of fundamental technology. That's why the COMPTIA A+/Network+/Server+ certs are important and relevant, even if any seasoned pro looks at their content and laughs. And yes, a DBA should have some knowledge of RAID and networking technology, as...

I've not wanted or needed to use it, but it is an addon to Server 2008 that has a lengthy, separate install process. When it's done, you will be able to manage Microsoft's native virtual machines and also IIRC VMWare guest images. You can probably open that ISO with whatever you have handy for...

IE8 is absolutely slower on Windows 7 than it is on XP. It actually takes longer to come up and connect to a site than Firefox does. I've got it on a couple machines now, a crummy HP Notebook with a single-core Celeron, 1GB RAM and 945 graphics, and a much nicer x2/4800 with 8GB RAM and a Radeon...

Seriously. This is some damned happy software if you spend time on multiple RDP, Citrix, VNC or SSH connections. Terminals. We will discuss how you can repay me for this bit of awesome at a later date.

It's not that bad. You put on a coat and some gloves, and you're warm enough to scrape your car and have a harrowing drive to where ever you're going because no one in fucking Indiana has ever heard of, let alone seen or actually used a snow plow.

I don't think there's a mechanism for getting a firmware fix distributed to all the systems that might need it. A tiny fraction of the installed base of those drives are going to be used by people aware of the problem. OS update services don't to the best of my knowledge ever flash firmware, and...

I really wanted to try Windows 7 on a modest system, but the 32-bit version of Windows 7 bluescreens during install on this Acer notebook I have. I'm still going to load it on something nicer in desktop-land, but bluescreens aren't very good for a first impression.

The existing name and address will still be out there. You'll get conflicts, and some of your clients will probably end up talking to the wrong machine. Another issue: You're centralizing file shares. Are you completely sure that's a good idea? How much WAN traffic is that going to generate...

You might have some clients doing name lookups via SMB broadcasts or defined in a static hosts or lmhosts file. Plus, it could take a while for machines to lose old entries in their DNS cache, so who knows how long you would have problems with people updating data in different places. But hey...

I just spent all goddamned morning screwing around with a G5 tower with no OS on it. Turned out someone had replaced the original DVD drive with some generic unit the machine didn't support. That only took two and a half hours to figure out. I swapped it for a Pioneer drive and everything...

I've probably built or been responsible for building 600 or so LGA775 systems in the last couple years. None of them have ever had the heat sink pop off. Almost all of them bow the motherboard at least somewhat. I used to hate the Intel HSF retention system, but with practice, it's much easier...

In theory, a lower multiplier and higher core frequency mean that all the parts on your motherboard are delivering data to your cpu more often, resulting in more efficient processor time.

I'm not sure. Maybe WMP automatically updates ID3 tags or something.

I can access it through either the ID associated with my work account (Microsoft Partner PRogram) or through a personal address, which only has a Technet Plus subscription. I think that if you can get in the MSDN downloads area, you're fine. The file is 3.15GB. I plan to install it on either an...

I signed in to Technet this morning and I see that Microsoft has posted an official Windows7 beta. I am downloading it now.

I've had problems with SATA-to-IDE ones coming loose or falling off on their own.

The ladies in the Hallmark Store looked at me funny when I asked for Kwanzaa greeting cards the other day.

Crappy year in, crappy year out. OK, actually I had a somewhat decent day today. For once. But Happy New Year to everyone else.

Greg, you misspelled Samsung.

It was a fairly common practice for some types of workstations to ship with a "server" edition of Windows, if the hardware in question used more than two physical CPUs. In those situations, systems would be deployed with Windows 2000 Server or Server 2003 Web Edition. 2003SWE has only a very...

Wrong. There is one operating system, Windows, based on the NT microkernel. Every shipping version of Windows includes all the same system binaries and all the same optional software. The differences between the versions of Windows within a generation amount to a set of license restrictions and...

The Samsung LNxA650s start at 32" and include 40", 47" and 52" models. They have astonishing color contrast and very deep blacks. They're well-suited to movie viewing as well as use as a computer displays.

You now have one shopping day left before Umoja, the first day of Kwanzaa.

I enjoy the process of assembling computers, and unlike you, Coug, I'm not doing it with the idea of making a profit. I use a standard set of parts and I always have the equivalent of a couple spare systems sitting around. I really have very few problems with those low-end systems; power...