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One of my clients gave me a 2GB iPod nano. He couldn't figure out how to work it. I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet.

Can you get a Procurve ANYTHING for under $500?

At the moment, I have a 52" 1080p LCD TV with a Microsoft external HDDVD hooked up to the PC that is handling most video. I'm planning to replace the external drive with an internal BluRay/HDDVD unit in the near future. The PC I'm using it with is an Athlon x2/5200 "low wattage" model on a very...

Watch the movie. And then you can watch Buffy and Angel, by the same guy. Also watch the specials on the DVD. You really get a sense of how close the members of the cast got, and how much they believe in the show. And then watch Battlestar Galactica, which has nothing to do with anything made...

Actually, what I am is a person who prefers a keyboard and mouse for input. I thought the Wiimote would be cool and different, but basically nothing uses it in any comprehensible fashion, except the Wii sports titles (and Wii play, but those are pretty dull). I really don't like most console...

Will, I cannot even tell you the number of times I have had to explain that the Windows Security Center alerts actually mean something. Home users, business users, it doesn't matter. Basically, no matter what those alerts say, as long as they see the icon for their antivirus software, they think...

I can't find anything on the Wii that I like except for Boxing. I've rented probably 30 titles (at $5 a pop) looking for something. Most console games still have terrible controls and basically nothing else really uses the motion sensor for any good effect.

There's really no reason to leave Windows 2000. It does everything XP does, after all. XP basically has a newer driver base and, um, wait... no... Yeah. That's it. A newer driver base. Otherwise it's functionally identical. Some people might think XP is prettier, but those people are mostly...

That's pretty much a general criticism of enthusiast publications in general, Mark. ExtremeTech, MaximumPC, CPU, AnandTech, Tom's Hardware... Pretty much all of them make that mistake. When any publication talks about $1000 computers or for that matter $100 power supplies as "low end", I know...

Proper RAID arrays - as opposed to Promise/Highpoint software abortion thingies - are a proven technology, and moreover, a proper RAID is something that could go a long way in alleviating your storage woes, Lunar. As for the legality of "illegitimate data", it's my opinion that I've paid enough...

I save some project type work until the end of the year, when I have time off to deal with things. I upgraded backup systems, did Vista and Office upgrade counseling ("no") and installed internet monitoring software. I have a client that's seriously looking at Linux as a desktop platform instead...

Microsoft warns users not to edit files that have been backed up with MS Home Server. OK, so the compelling technology in Home Server is that it can be used as a central point for backups. And users shouldn't use it for that. Makes it kind of pointless, doesn't it?

I've managed to do quite a bit of working. It's all contracting stuff, so I am at least getting a payday out of it.

I am working. I was working. I will be working.

TrueImage usually works at 60 -75GB/hour, going from an internal drive to USB2, though backups are usually faster than restores. 31 hours seems slow, even for a full 1TB.

It's a matter of balance, of course. But everything I have is stored in multiple layers of redundancy, and I strongly prefer things that way than take the chance that I might lose some amount of my data.

Those drives are pretty much brand new, and Samsung's storage division isn't exactly known for being on top of the latest technology. It wouldn't surprise me at all if their software is just buggy when dealing with their biggest drives.

I'm a big fan of lots of smaller arrays. It's easier to find enough space to move things around if one of the arrays goes (or starts to go) south. That single array won't look so smart the first time you have a controller failure...

Right box, wrong board inside. Although, it's really freakin' hard to tell the difference. They all look the same except the DGwhatever boards don't have parallel ports. When you're building so many computers at a time, you don't immediately notice little things like that. :) For what it's...

"Increasing simplification of bodily structure " would be acceptable. However, the use in question here is definition #3: decreasing in rate as the base increases, which I think we can agree in fact and in practice to be a bad thing.

There was no point in Superbad that I felt was not worth watching. It was painful at times, but painful in a way that I could 100% identify with. Most of the people I know who did not like Superbad are people I suspect didn't have major teenage awkwardness issues.

My father once had an employee who worked at the Nuclear Plant at Clinton, Illinois. He was caught trying to remove nuclear waste and it was eventually revealed that he was in the process of constructing a small reactor in his basement. I am very much pro-nuclear power. Modern reactor designs...

Any sales tax is regressive. I'm not suggesting that tax codes shouldn't be reformed. I am suggesting that taxation based on sales as the sole method of funding government programs is going to result in a shifting of burdens away from the people who can best afford to pay taxes. Even 10% of...

For no particular reason, here's the numbers for the classroom PCs I built in December. Number of PCs built: 60 All parts save the case came from Newegg.com. Antec NSK3380 case Intel 946GZis motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz Crucial 2GB DDR2/667 DIMM NEC Optiarc 18x SATA DVD Burner...

You obviously have no idea how many people will install everything in the box. One of the biggest problems I have in teaching computer building and home networking classes is to get people to ignore the install CDs as much as humanly possible.

I suspect ddrueding has the right of it. The same thing pops on Slashdot a few times a year, and you find out that the guys doing the study were including optional software (Apache, Firefox, whatever) in their metrics while just including what MS said they could include for the Windows part.

The 3380 has a standard PSU.

Any tax based on sales rather than income is regressive - placing an unfair burden on those who make less money. The only people who will actually pay less under the proposed fairtax than the current system are those who either make less than $15,000 (mostly they aren't paying taxes already) or...

I'd like to find a version of PowerDVD/WinDVD that works right, but in my experience both of them have issues with sound output under Vista. I don't like Media Center because it's slow and missing functions that other programs have. Media Player Classic is OK but a lot of functions are in menus...

Can I just interject that Outlook is fucking retarded and there's no excuse for using it? Microsoft makes Windows. Microsoft makes Outlook. Microsoft presumably could make or license a defragger that understand .pst files. Yet guess what they do...

Stuff like that happens all the time. You have to watch it, though. Some manufacturers send back refurb drives with drastically shorter warranties.

A few things... Text scaling is a dream compared to XP - much better for very high resolution screens. The network printer wizard works a billion time better. File copies have an accurate timer (even if Vista is subjectively about 1/3 the speed of XP for network copies, even before the sound...

That's 2003, Greg. 2008 is an enormous pile of suck that takes all the worst parts of Vista and combines them with all the drawbacks of Server.

It'll be annoying for a while... and then policy will change and it'll become deeply sucky, like WGA lockout is in XP right now.

I'm sure you all know that there's a nifty little hack that reports an OEM BIOS to Vista so you can activate with a Dell/Lenovo/Acer/Asus serial number? Recent experience suggests to me that some new motherboards will continue to report correct BIOS information despite the installation of that...

Also, AMD's retail heat sinks are just dandy. The ones on bigger chips (6000s and up) are particularly impressive, with all copper bottoms and actual heat pipes. I'm not as much a fan of Intel's stock cooler because of the retarded lack of fan guard and the fact that that fact that they spin at...

I have come to the realization that the true purpose of 802.11 wireless networks is not, in fact, to facilitate communication between computers without the aid of lengths of copper. In fact, the main function of wireless networks is to provide techies with a lifelong stream of income.

I've used all three of those boards. The Gigabyte-provided setup is identical, as is overall performance, but I vaguely recall liking the 7025-based board better than the AMD690 because of something annoying about it's layout that I can't remember at the moment. IIRC the AMD690 one wins on...

Read the reviews: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000JTOYLS/ref=cm_rdp_product

So, I'm stuck deploying and customizing Vista a hundred billion times. I brought up the sample musics that it comes with on a PC with a decent set of speakers, and I quite enjoyed most of the tracks that it comes with - the Vibraphone jazz and the African tracks particularly. So I torrented a...

jtr, did you reach any kind of decision on these matters? I'm interested to hear what you bought.

To be clear, I investigated finchsync and indeed got it to work with my HTC6800 phone, but it's not something I need since all my email is stored on IMAP servers and therefore already synchronized with everything else that connects to it. I don't have any long term impressions.

It's not something I deal with, but I'm told Dlink has some pretty nice networked cameras. Some of them output MPEG4 or even .3GP; there's probably a streaming solution for those formats someplace.

I got a copy of Vista Ultimate for submitting a bug report during the beta program. That's already one more than I needed.

The word of the year regularly sells LeakFrogs for $4 and Roomba Discovery series models for $120, plus $5 shipping. w00t is, absolutely the proper thing to say when you level in an MMO. Or score with a hot chick. Not that I'd know about the second one. Or any chick, really. OK, this is...

I more strongly suspect that's the result of the Intel RAID you're using being a software or half-software sort of thing than a proper hardware one. TrueImage sees Windows Server softRAIDs as individual drives but arrays connected to hardware controllers (e.g. Dell PERC) as single volumes.

http://www.finchsync.com/

Well Chewy, that did not work either, but I did ultimately figure out the problem and a couple different ways to solve it. The issue *IS* in fact Vista's retarded boot manager, which is present on the C: drive even if Vista isn't part of the baseline image. It turns out that TrueImage and the...

I am restoring to a PC that is identical but for the MAC address and maybe BIOS ID. I've tried multiple drive imaging programs (TrueImage 9, 10 and 11, Ghost, DriveImage XML et al) and even rebuilt my image from scratch on a different drive; something ALWAYS fucks up.

System restore is off. I've tried using Sysprep on both, just sysprep on Vista, ImageX (makes a .WIM file just like the install DVD), Straight cloning the drives using about five different methods (including three different versions of TrueImage). What's happening is that I end up with either...