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Has anyone seen anything about how Vista will function with disk images and restores? I *think* get 50 Vista installs/activations off my company's VLK (though I don't have a VA 2.0 Key yet), but since SOP for our systems is to Image and Restore weekly on our classroom PCs, the new activation...

Model H C S ---------------------------------------------------------------- Maxtor 7120A 16 936 17 124,3 J14 closed, J13 closed Maxtor 7120A 14 1024 17 119,0 j14 open, J13 open Maxtor 7120A 8 762 39 116,0 J14 closed, J13 open Maxtor 7120A...

I've only been in a couple showrooms where I could see both in the same lighting conditions. Didn't look different enough for me to notice any difference.

I suspect that the dot pitch on that Westinghouse is a little bit too high for normal computer use. :( I finally did give in and buy a Dell 24" widescreen. It does not make me completely happy but with the combination of discounts I got, at least the price was kinda-sorta reasonable, and it...

My general impression of LCOS is that it is visually nearly identical to DLP, which means it's not as bright/vibrant as a Plasma or LCD, though the level of clarity is the same. Now that large LCDs are available and less expensive than Plasma, that would be my choice, but LCOS and DLP are...

How to be Cooler. Apparently it is advice for shy, geeky types. From what little I have read, I do believe that I am in fact doomed.

Seinfeld creations have no place in my reality.

Also, Merc doesn't actually celebrate Xmas... And if you want to get me something for my upcoming Birfday, y'all can go in on shipping ddrueding's bed full of women from California to Indiana. ;)

So would I. I'd also like to see a 16-port SATA controller that costs around $250 and goes in one of those worthless 1xPCIe slots that seem to be taking up space on my motherboards these days. It can just be a RAID1, 0, 10 or JBOD controller. That's fine. And while I'm living in fantasyland...

I would consider not buying anything made by S*ny. Samsung, JVC and Mitsubishi all have 1080p LCD displays more worthy of your consideration.

When I lived in Purdue's dormitories, I frequently had to deal with Evangelical Assholes. I made it a habit to do the most offensive things I possibly could to them - something that usually involved removing my pants. Sometimes I'd also try giving competing organizations other literature, e.g...

The Core2 will be faster and better battery life... I suspect the ATI will be better, but only modestly. The better direct match for a FireGL5250/x1700 is almost certainly a 7600. In any case, graphics will be good enough for last year's DX9 stuff.

Eventually my ex's partner came and found them for me. They were behind my home theater setup. Which means they went from my bedroom, down a hallway, into my dining room and then into my living room. The whole time, I was just searching my bedroom, but since I had no glasses at all, I was...

Shuttleworth has probably done more for Linux than anyone else in the last two years. While I'm not personally fond of Ubuntu, that organization has pushed Debian forward and brought it to something nearly mainstream. SuSE made a deal with the devil. An incestuous one, given the dealings...

I've set up those Hawking antennas several times. I think they work well enough to increase range. My solution for crowded 2.4GHz is to go to 802.11a. Failing that, you could get Pre-N equipment and blow away whomever is interfering with you.

Classroom PCs. I can use the space to store multiple configurations as Acronis images.

An Onkyo TXSR803.

Metal?

My parents' receiver crapped out today while we were in the middle of a post-feast Battlestar Galactica marathon. It was a S*ny, so I am in no way surprised. My car was the one on the end of the driveway, so I was given a huge wad of cash and told not to return without the audio product of my...

I've used Scepter 19" displays many times and don't have anything bad to say about them. They're a no-name brand with decent specs. On the other hand, I bought them when they were quite a bit cheaper than name brand displays. Now that they aren't that much cheaper, I think I'd rather have the...

Also, something I just took advantage of 36 times, Samsung 400GB SATA drives are $109 on Newegg right now.

Nope. The specs make promises that the shipping weight can't deliver. Enermax, Antec, Seasonic, Sparkle, Vantec, HEC/AGI.

I have .AC3 files associated with PowerDVD. I'm guessing anything that can play a DVD can probably handle the files.

AD: It's an EVGA nVidia 590-based something-or-other. It was a $200 board. Not worth $200 in my opinion but I guess it's nice enough. I put it to work converting 26GBs of AAC files to MP3. It crashed after about an hour of work, though I have to admit I wasn't paying too much attention to it by...

That's one of the reasons I specifically bought a Zen Microphoto, though it sounds like it might be bigger than you want. I've even done wacky stuff like run a TrueImage restore from one.

I have a Creative Zen Microphoto. Of the things I've used (I had an original 30GB iPod and several generics). I have all of maybe four MP3s on it since it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, but I use it as a flash drive all the time. I've never installed any software on ANYTHING to use it. I...

ephpod works under Linux, and on an 8GB Nano.

I'm actually kind of stunned that MediaPlayer doesn't just use IE for everything by default, since it's so trivial to use the IE .OCXs to do Internet stuff. What is Microsoft going to do with Vista, where IE will supposedly be an uninstallable, optional component?

Acronis can be had for $25. Buy a 160GB drive for maybe $70. Buy a USB external case for $20. That is reasonable and it is EASY to set up. Make one full system backup and do daily incremental backups of the documents and settings folder, less some Temporary Internet Files/FF cache-type...

MSDN subscriptions are *SO* worth the money. I let my personal one lapse. Are they still doing the $300/year one?

.... it obviously wasn't a domain controller then. Playing with an E6300. Using the sucky stock cooling, I've taken it from 1.83GHz to 3.2GHz. It doesn't have much in the way of software loaded on it, but it's happily running 3DPipes and not overheating.

Why not just rip his CDs again in something that won't slap retarded DRM on them?

Get the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. That will include everything he needs, unless he's listening to licensed .wmas or something. You don't want WMP downloading unfamiliar codecs anyway. It's possible to construct a video file that will force WMP to download spyware.

My cat likes to run off with my glasses if I don't get up and feed him at feeding time. He usually just bats them around the floor a few times but this time they are not anyplace I can find them.

If you are, good luck finding one. They aren't easy to come by.

My cat stole my glasses. I cannot see and I have been feeling around for them for hours now. This sucks.

Yes. Lots.

Except for the DRM...

Why didn't you have a redundant system in the first place? Didn't you have your Directory backed up? Couldn't you restore to another machine, even temporarily? If I had to spend roughly 20 hours doing emergency service on a client site, there's no doubt in my mind I would lose that client...

He's probably dealing with local retail pricing. He may not live in the US. And he may not have a credit/debit card for ordering things off the internet. US$300 and Newegg.com would buy something close to top of the line from nVidia; a 7900GT could be purchased with enough left over to buy a...

What? Having a system that's too complex to actually repair?

I've heard of Zimbra as an Outlook/Exchange replacement. It's web based. It's dirt cheap. It scales well. It is a LAMP app and it is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about. In the past I would probably have recommended HP Openmail, which was a drop-in Exchange replacement (including...

The Exchange/Outlook system only seems better until you realize the fantastic amounts of money your company is throwing at just continuing to use Exchange and Outlook.

There's such a thing as iCal for Calendar sharing. It's a standard protocol and clients exist that handle it. Vista comes with one. Sunbird is another. Yes, Thunderbird *does* do what most people need. Most people need access to E-mail. Not to Notes or Calendars or weird IM systems or whatever...

Almost everything Telarc releases is worthy of a listen, really.

I don't bother. I teach users how to create and weight their own dictionary and weighting and let them work it out. Usually there are very specific things that annoy people and most think spam is just a fact of Internet life. I haven't had anyone step up to demand I fix all their spam, so I...

I usually use Spamihilator for people with retarded E-mail programs.

I'm playing with the RTM Vista Ultimate build 6000 now (cough). All the hardware on my Thinkpad T41 was detected and works perfectly. Sound and everything. First time I've seen that. My T41 has a sub-1.0 performance index despite 2GB of RAM and an 80GB 7200rpm hard drive. Vista likes to hate...

I think that it won't be too long before displays start coming with Digital Audio Projectors rather than speaker setups. Seems like a decent enough fit to me.