Search results

Interestingly, this batch of drives was not packaged in half a shipping case as I expected it to be. Instead, each drive was placed inside a small cardboard box (the size Newegg uses for RAM and cables and stuff, like 7"x1"x4") that was packed with bubble wrap surrounding the plastic clamshell...

I've not had a problem with recent Seagate notebook drives. I've got 6 of the 500GB 7200.4s doing various things and other than a slightly annoying clicking sound they make when they start up, they've been good.

Why wouldn't you be running data recovery on a server that in all probability has more CPUs, RAM and a better disk subsystem than your laptop in the first place?

First thing is, yes, that Syba Expresscard thing absolutely sucks. I bought one and it seems to disconnect from the system every so often. I get an assload of Error 57 events and I have to pull the card out to make the drive work again. I'm hoping my next Thinkpad just has an eSATA port. Every...

I loaded the .wim files off the DVD onto a Windows Deployment Server earlier in the week. ImageX for custom .wim files probably works fine, too. Otherwise there's always sysprep.

The whole point is to eliminate copper. If I get actual 1000Mbit, I'm looking at roughly 3x the throughput for network transfers vs. cat6. On the other hand, since I don't have any 64 bit PCI slots anyplace, it looks like cheap NICs are out of the question right now.

I've recently come into possession of an 8 port 1000baseSX switch and some cables. Has anyone ever in the history of time seen either 32 bit PCI or any sort of PCIe NICs that support some form of 1000baseSX connectivity? Cheapest things I can find are TrendNet 1x PCIe NICs for $150 a pop.

I'm about to buy 10 of those Samsung 1.5GB units. I'll see how I do. :)

"Loose" is the opposite of tight. "Lose" is the opposite of win.

You know that's not how MBTF works, right?

Not unless you want it to be. I'm just saying that there's a problem with Acer notebooks.

Relative to the number of notebooks that I fix, and relative to the number of Acer notebooks I have ever worked on, Acer notebooks are by far the most likely to have an issue that requires replacing either the display or the inverter. I've done 11 in the last two years. The reason that's a big...

Once, yeah. The server's hardware management told me it had stopped working right, anyway. All the fans and crap were OK so I'm not sure what happened there.

I bought at least two that wouldn't even hit 333MHz. :P

One thing I've found in my life as a tech is that everything with an Acer badge (I don't know who makes their stuff) on it has a REALLY delicate screen. Also, Acer's support site is really bad. I'm sure that thing is pretty nice other than that.

It's a BIOS option in recent Gigabyte motherboards. There's nothing really secret about it.

Why is it so fucking hard for Microsoft to write an operating system that is capable of copying files in an expedient fashion? 6.36GB from an internal SATA drive to an internal X25-M on my Thinkpad. Total time remaining (after 10 minutes): "About 40 minutes" WHY?

The specs for what's allowed in a netbook are mostly set by Microsoft and its desire to not supply Windows XP to anything with actually decent hardware. So Netbooks have Atom CPUs instead of Celerons, support for at most 2GB RAM and use older graphics chipsets. $350 will buy a 1.6GHz Atom + 1GB...

Probably spinrite, honestly.

It is good that both Coug and Lunar are with us. And that Buck apparently still stops by, too.

That's what she said! Thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the chicken.

You should be installing a new version of flash every time you're prompted to anyway, since the semen-gargling morons at Adobe have a standing record of zero-day exploits in every new, patched version of Flash.

Learn to love prompts. They're for your own good anyway. :)

I don't particularly feel like giving up my Integra receiver yet but that is an awfully tempting price for HDMI.

The Lenovo way: I call Lenovo support. I press 1 for Desktops or Notebooks I press 1 for Thinkpads George in Atlanta picks up the phone after at most two rings. I tell George my problem. George makes it better, usually in the form of a box from DHL that arrives the next business day.

On my home machines I just disable SELinux. For functional servers I leave it on and work around it like I'm supposed to, but at home I'm not particularly worried. re: Video players. I switch between (s)MPlayer and VLC. I don't like VLC's GUI very much but it tends to work on things that...

I have no idea what CBS is using for its video but it's probably h.264 in a .FLV container. The Geforce 9600 may or may not support hardware decode of h.264. If it didn't, that would certainly explain your CPU utilization. Updated nVidia drivers might also be helpful. Also I have no idea why...

It's fine as is, a modest step up from Vista. I've got it running on a Thinkpad T61. I did a clean install onto a 7200.4. I have the same issue as in the release candidate, with it preferring to associate with a 2.4GHz WLAN despite a stronger 5.8GHZ signal being present, and it's already crashed...

Today at Chicago Comic Con, I had the opportunity to meet and briefly speak to Edward James "Admiral Adama" Olmos and Michael "Colonel Tigh" Hogan. They were contractually not allowed to pose for photos outside of an expensive meet and greet session but they were both amazingly personable and...

Makes sense to me. Also: ouch.

For what it's worth the "Not the..." and "This Ain't..." series that are coming from Hustler video really do manage to be damned funny and reminiscent of the TV shows they're based on. Some of them are closer than others, but they do manage to succeed as comedies even if the actual porn parts...

As a rule I like the longer format of television better than movies. You can have more complex plots and character development. There are some television shows where you just aren't going to get the full impact without multiple viewings and watching the episodes back to back. That type of...

If you have an MSDN sub you can get Windows 7 now.

Since DVDs became widely available. For $20 - $100, you can buy ten or fifteen times the amount of video entertainment as is available for a typical $15 movie. For $200, I can indulge my science fiction fandom with complete series runs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or BSG (sorry, no opinion on...

I really, really think you need to step away from that crackpipe.

I remember being thrilled to have a 1.768GB Micropolis SCSI-2 drive on an EISA Adaptec card, back when the largest obtainable IDE drives were 320MB models. That same machine had a dual 486Dx/33 SMP setup, 16MB RAM (in 30-pin SIMMs!) and a 4MB ET4000 video card. It was the sweetest computer...

The Samsung model is probably 6 months away and won't be affordable for a year. The 1.5TB Seagates are getting there. I don't particularly trust them, but I know they aren't going to get super-hot like that 5-platter Hitachi.

If you'll notice, those are all workstation-type cards. They're probably still actually manufactured by Sapphire, though. Anyway, I'd just like to point out that most of my systems are running on Intel integrated graphics. They're good enough for about 95% of what I use a computer to do.

I refuse to believe that anyone with an nvidia card is actually happy. nvidia packages sorrow directly into semiconductors.

Her. Microsoft certiftication stuff. And Indiana is pretty damned bad, especially once thw women hit 22 or so and have pumped out two three kids apiece.

I'm teaching one right now. She's still transitioning. She has a job as a stripper at the biggest gay/drag club in Indiana. She's basically passing and probably more attractive than 85% of the women in this godawful state.

I'm so smooth I'm like a Promise RAID5 of Quantum Bigfoots.

Have YOU ever gotten tired of looking at tits? Anyway, True Blood doesn't really have any of those other things. The books are awful, too. Or at least the couple of them that I read.

Yup. Them're some high definition boobies alright. Is there some other reason to watch True Blood? Babylon 5 tried too hard to be epic. In the end I'll say that it made it, but it was definitely forced. The subplots involving G'Kar and Molari are the only thing, in my mind, that keep B5 from...

I think you're better off for the extra $20 to go with the 4770.

I have it NOW. I would have paid full retail for it.

I need to sit down and do a side by side comparison between the HDDVDs and the BDs. I still see some bad compression artifacts but I'm not entirely sure at this point that those aren't there on purpose as part of the overall documentary-style cinematography they used. Anyway, yes. There's a lot...

Says you.

Fushigi, it's not too late for divorce.

Why use IE to begin with?