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For $360 I'd want something other than a Sil SATA controller and support for 8GB RAM. And the onboard sound was kinda weak. And you have to shell out for a high-end AMD chip on top of all that.

Actually I moved a lot of my porn collection out to tapes a few months ago. I got tired of not having any free space and moving my porn off my file servers freed up about 3TB (which is 6TB, since that's stuff that isn't mirrored any more, either). Now I have room for new porn!

S*ny is not allowed to have any of my money, ever. Plus I don't like console systems, even as a concept. And I don't Fold because Folding is a pain in the ass. Why was my name invoked here, again? I did briefly have an Xbox360, but having played the game for long enough to realize that I...

rsync?

Let's put it this way: I found a half gallon of milk with a September 2005 expiration date. It was pushed in the back of the fridge so it was completely frozen, so I didn't have to figure out exactly how spoiled it was. That's still pretty bad.

Speed tests are going to be variable, but moreso when you're testing from two different places that could be anywhere on earth. My understanding is that cable companies can flash modems on their network with firmware updates to control connection speeds. I've heard of folks hacking their modems...

I am cleaning out my fridge today. I have not done that for a while. I think I am going to entirely stop eating.

Gigabyte is not going to be consumed by a merger with Asus. It is a good thing.

Thank you for, uh, whatever that was, uda. 1. I don't consider my viewpoint extreme. In the US, it might be, but that's only because the US doesn't have a leftist political party. The Democrats would be a right-wing party in most of Europe. 2. "Libertarian" has, in recent years, become a...

Oh for chrissakes don't get him started on wines... Strawberry-flavored milk, kind sir.

Well, TrueImage exists as a Linux product. Or you could maybe look into Catus Software's Lone Tar, which I think is just a tar frontend.

Don't give Nits a hard time. She is awesome and also the only reason Pub doesn't smell like a locker room all the time. :)

I would hazard to guess that if Stereodude and I were in the same room, the only statements you could get us to agree on would involve the wetness of water and the direction one must face to watch the sun rise.

Wrong. Microsoft lost an antitrust case brought by Realplayer in the EU Supreme Court. Removing Media Player was part of the consent decree to resolve the suit. As I understand it, just today they were found in contempt in the EU again. I wish the US had actual consumer protection laws. It...

I believe it's $250 as a flat-fee, since they are taking time away from my busy training schedule.

Honestly? You're asking that? Moderate positions by-and-large end up seeming mushy and indecisive. By appealing to the middle, you end up being truly appealing to pretty much no one. Going to one extreme or the other makes you vastly more appealing to a smaller core audience, presumably one that...

I only have about 400 square feet that need vacuuming as it is!

Today I was asked if I would be willing to drive to a customer site to clean, as in scrub and dust, their servers. I thought they were maybe talking about fans and air filters, but, no, they just don't want to touch the computers in their rack and they are offended by the thin layer of dust on...

Sometimes folks get pissy about software licenses for one-off purchases if there isn't something physical to go along with it. Whenever possible I try to provide a nice, legal-looking installation disk, even if the disk never gets used for anything. Oddly enough, no one ever asks about Windows...

My first one lasted about two and a half years and then it stopped vacuuming. It still roamed around just fine, so I used it for a cat toy but eventually it quit working entirely. However, I just bought another one. Because there's at least five people I know who want woot to move on to a...

The guys who do trading in the pits - stocks, commodities, whatever - consume cocaine in staggering quantities. Not coincidently, commodities traders are pretty much the biggest assholes I've ever met, and I know a lot of lawyers.

When you buy a single OEM copy, you get a CD. Same with Kapersky and AVG.

There are people with whom one might disagree. And there are people who should be hunted for their waxy Republican pelt. I know better than to think anyone who is elected to national office in this country is anything other than a douchebag, but being a pro-torture, anti-gay, anti-environment...

Roombas are really cool, unless you have cats that have figured out how to flip one over.

US National Security Agency guidebooks to configuring security for a variety of desktop and server OSes. High quality and very comprehensive.

I am allergic to losing authenticated sessions as well, but I don't really see how one could do an in-place upgrade without a restart, either. This is why I go months without closing Firefox...

Normally I'd refer you to the top of the thread but... Woot sells one item per day, unless it is wooting off. If it is wooting, every time an item sells out, a new item goes up. My all time favorite woots are Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters and Harmony 659 remote controls.

Woot is wooting again. If Harmony remote controls come up again, they are absolutely worth $50.

Try installing and uninstalling the program?

Er... Did you do any of the usual sorts of SCSI troubleshooting? Check cabling? Termination? Isolate the drive on your SCSI bus?

In my experience, RAID5 arrays, whether hardware or software, wind up having issues when all the drives are not the same. Generally the RAID5s I've dealt with have been SCSI arrays on OEM controllers (IBM, Dell, HP), but mixed-drive arrays seem to be problematic generally. I've seen enough...

xkcd explains Physics. It's a favorite of mine as well. :)

I've run it on Core 2 Duos and Athlonx2/3800s (which is just a dual A64/3000).

Yes. You will be sad when one of the drives fails and the controller won't resync on the replacement drive.

I buy academic copies of Office when I have to buy single copies. The lazy stoners who work at staples never ask for credentials anyway.

It's a version 1.0 board, too. :) I think I just got really lucky with that chip.

I wouldn't go off calling Coug a Canadian. That is probably bad for your health. :)

E4300 with Sycthe Ninja HSF and a Pabst 120mm fan 2x1GB Geil DDR2/800 Gigabyte 865-DS3 motherboard with F6 BIOS 7k400 boot drive LiteOn 16x DVD-R A bunch of 500GB hard drives Radeon x1950 700W Seasonic PSU P180 enclosure

I am not sure why but accesses to the optical drive on my highly overclocked machine bring the whole machine to a grinding halt. I've never seen a dual core system do that before.

Took me all damned night but I got an E4300 to 3.825GHz @ 1.6V with a Scythe HSF to keep CPU temps in line. Seems stable. Played City of Heroes for about 90 minutes on it. RAM is 1.8V Geil DDR2/800 @ 2.1V. Machine won't boot with all banks filled, even if it's the same RAM.

Boot to the recovery console. Do fixboot and fixmbr.

Solid State Disk.

Drive there. Go fast. It'll be fun. Plus, consulting clients like to pay for travel. Honest. Anyway, it kind of doesn't matter what you set up. You are going to have to be on-site to tell them how to deal with it. There's tons of examples for how to set up backups with tar, and tons more for...

Anything that comes from a "Big Box" store at this point will have Vista on it. Screwdriver shops and little indy guys like me are mostly sticking with XP.

There's an entirely legit way to run some versions of Vista for over a year without activation.

I cannot wait for the day that we all have bluetooth-enabled e-paper displays attached to ~8GB of flash memory so that we never have to deal with a fucking printer again. On that day, we will have moved one step closer to achieving our Buddha nature.

3GB isn't a fantastic amount of RAM? To address your other statement, sechs: I've had XP64 and 32-bit Server 2003 side-by-side on the same hardware and they really do have the same snappy feel. No more from one than the other. But then, I don't do anything that needs the extra bits, either...

You guys do know about the /3GB switch in Windows' boot.ini so that an app can use fantastic amounts of RAM, right?

On the PC I'm using right now (Server 2003, about 75 open tabs, including 3 paused YouTube videos and 1 from Dailymotion) Firefox is using 302MB. The SuSE 10 machine by my bed has about 210 open tabs and is using about 1.4GB of RAM for Firefox. The biggest pig is on one my Linux fileservers...

For about the last 10 minutes, SF came up as a either a blank page, a 403 error or a "Database Error" for me.