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Evil. Poorly manufactured and not worth the money. Plus I will no longer have any respect for you.

Uh, no. The rule is, up to 7 hubs chained off a root hub for a total maximum of 128 device per root.

I've told Nitsirk, only half-joking, that my ideal career would involve being the towel boy someplace where it's very warm and there are swimming pools and hot chicks in bikinis. ... and I make pretty regular offers to be her towel boy. Don't know if she's made the connection to the other part...

I've been to all the Museums many times. The MCA less than the others, but still. Generally I'm not too excited about live music. I understand going to a rock concert and screaming the whole time, but every time I've ever seen a live classical performance, there's some jackass with a...

White Magic, Warlord Retort and Halfling Slingers. Cast Heroism on them, and the little eight-figure units have enough punch to one-shot Sky Drakes or Great Wyrms. I still play pretty regularly. :)

Meh. There's nothing I particularly want to do in Chicago. Or southern California.

Transcend's thumb drives are very often the highest performance models when product comparisons are done. I would not be surprised to find out that their SD cards are the same way.

One of my cousins lives in the San Fernando valley. I've only seen him a couple times in my life, but he likes to talk about the fact that his apartment complex and grocery store are pretty much inhabited by porn chicks. I'd put up with a mudslide or two if I saw the occasional 20 year old...

5'10 and 255lbs. However, that's down from what it was three years ago, when I weighed about 330lbs.

My personal notebook has a nine cell battery that will run the laptop for about five hours if I'm not using the DVD drive or 802.11 (which I normally don't). At times when battery life is even MORE important, I can get another three hours out of the Ultrabay 6-cell battery that I also have. In...

I am not positive but I am just about convinced that a Vostro is just a shitty laptop with different color body panels. I didn't even know there were Vostro desktops, but now I see that there are. The wikipedia entry seems to support my conclusion as well. "Known issues Currently, all Vostro...

When I get done with it. The perfect version is just going to grab the file straight from MVPS.org.

Anyone had the opportunity to play with a Dell Vostro for longer than two minutes? I got to hold one for a couple minutes, and it felt as craptastic as an Inspiron typically does. One of my business customers is showing a lot of interest in them as a cheaper alternative to the Thinkpads (They...

Scorpios are 5400rpm products, even setting aside their WDness for a moment. I guess if I were looking at a 5400rpm secondary drive that wouldn't matter so much. I haven't looked at notebook drives in a while. I'm surprised by how... uncompelling everything is.

I finally sat down and started working on a batch file to replace the hosts file on a Vista machine. It takes about five minutes every time I want to do it, so it's worthwhile to automate.

I've seen them used as aquariums. If I could get a 5" VGA screen, one of those would make an awesome home for a mini-ITX PC too.

Absolutely none. I am, as always, interested in capacity. If 100GB seems small to me, do you really think I'd be happy with 16 or 32GB?

I just decided to buy a nifty new Thinkpad T61. I already have a T60, but that machine is for my personal business and not for my trainer job. So I bought another one. It came with a 100GB 7200rpm SATA drive. A not-known-for-reliability Hitachi drive, but a 100GB SATA drive nonetheless...

Likewise. A CCNA course would probably be your best bet as a technical starting point to networking. Network+ just isn't very technical.

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udaman's posts make me miss phpBB and the phpBBignore extension I had for Firefox. The most giant Cooler Master HSF thing ever. I am sad right now because my newest Thinkpad is not recognizing the 2GB DIMM I bought it.

I'm more of a daytime poster.

I typically buy Seagate external drives for backup needs. No one likes tape, and in a small shop or a home, it's pretty doubtful that anyone would pay it the attention it needs. I've never tried a Freecom Toughdrive. It looks like it's using a laptop part, so the capacity is rather smaller than...

Someone from Coolermaster wrote a rebuttal to my review of one of their products on Newegg today. In fact, that person wrote responses to about 30% of the reviews present. I didn't know anyone did that, but it's a damned sight better than going on, say the AsusTek manufacturer forum, only to...

I've run into something similar for the internet connection at my office. I fixed it by replacing our router with an ancient Thinkpad and a couple PC Card NICs. The "new" system is also vastly more able to handle many hundreds of open bittorrent connections without much degradation in overall...

Here's a description of what it takes to get Leopard running on a PC.

I like the arrangement we have now, including the names. Sometimes I'm not in the mood to look at tech support stuff, so I like that it's separate.

Lack of availability of MS Outlook and MS Access probably do hurt it as a business platform. I don't really think either is a big deal, but an awful lot of business type people would disagree with me.

Offering to do it isn't a crime. :P There is a theory that Adobe, Autodesk and for that matter Microsoft tolerate and even encourage a certain level of piracy so that budding professionals use their tools while they're learning and therefore ask for those tools when they go out and get jobs.

I'm going to offer a different opinion: Adobe software pisses me off. It costs a lot of money, is generally obnoxious to support, has terrible interfaces, tends not to offer much value for your regular upgrade dollar, and for that matter, Adobe has foisted some really awful software off on just...

Bozo: It's very possible to run OSX on a standard PC. I've had it running at different times. You just need to find a proper, cracked installation ISO. I haven't seen one yet for the new Leopard release, but I'm sure it's out there. You're best off with an Intel chipset and an Intel CPU (945 or...

The only places I even turn lights on are the bathroom, kitchen and the one beside my bed. I am of the opinion that natural illumination should come from large monitors.

It's not what remote desktop is designed for. RDP essentially exists as an analog for Mainframe/Terminal operations. It's made so that hordes of peons can connect on computers too stupid to play solitaire on their own can connect to a single data entry application, or something similar to that...

I distinctly recall reading in a published-by-Microsoft Server 2000 study guide that console access from Terminal Services was not possible.

I did.

They do it yet again.

Most likely, TCP/IP and SMB ("Client for Microsoft Networking"). The usual syntax is something like \\some.i.p.address\sharename or \\servername\sharename I'm assuming by digital TV, you mean cable box or Tivo or something. A lot of those boxes have ports that are on the unit but not enabled...

You can install all the server mmcs on lesser versions of Windows. There's a big package of them in the server resource kits.

I was unaware of that option, but it does appear to work. Hm. Wonder how long that's been there?

Can I just interject that some little shithead shot up my car with a BB gun a couple months back and I haven't had needed body work done to fix the HOLES in my car because I can't find a body shop that can give me a specific estimate of how long it will take to conduct the repair? Seriously. I...

If you mean by "current session", the desktop you left open on the console, no, there isn't. It's a different device to the RDP server. You can look at that device through Remote Assistance, but that requires interaction at the console so it's not a good option either. If you leave an RDP...

Here's something I've been kind of telling people about, TV related: Miro is a nifty little combination between a Video Player and a bittorrent client. It lets you set "subscriptions" to TV shows that available from sites like Google Video or Revver.com and through Torrents. Torrent Episode...

Run your own mail server and handle things the way you want to handle them. :)

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POP3 is a broken and stupid protocol that should never be bothered with if IMAP is an option. Here's some stuff about setting up IMAP with Gmail. And no, google's tools all seem to be segregated into distinct elements, with no central point for wrapping up all your data.

There's some articles about doing that on lifehacker.com, actually. gmail is an IMAP server, so as I recall, what you end up doing, if you want to use Tbird in addition to Gmail, is basically forwarding yourself a bunch of messages. Also, GMAIL IS AN IMAP SERVER, which means you can use its...

Real Time with Bill Maher is usually deeply entertaining. It can depend greatly on his guests, but the show is almost always fun to watch. I particularly love it when the "entertainment" guest is informed enough to participate on the same level as the other guests on the show. My favorite...

I don't know how to ride a bike, but when I was little, I was riding on the back of my brother's bike when he wiped out on a road that was freshly tarred and graveled. He bounced off the bike and into a power pole and in fact knocked himself out. I skidded across hot tar and gravel for about...

Burn in is a really horrible problem with Plasma. All it takes is 10 or 15 minutes where even a part of the screen is static to get something that's never going to go away. I don't think I'd want to risk the possibility that the machine is NEVER going to lock up and that you're ALWAYS going to...