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Wow. I missed a lot of thread. It goes without saying that SF means a lot to me and I'd be willing to bear out the costs for keeping it going. I do have internet service that explicitly allows hosting, though at the moment I'm not paying for a static IP and I have a tendency to redline the...

Monday after next. They swear they're sending a truck special just for me. Shoulda gone with the Overstock.com deal.

I don't like Showtime at all. I'm not too fond of PowerDVD's current interface but I can live with it. I like Nero Vision and Recode, but I get better results these days with Handbrake and it also supports BD recoding. The last version of Nero for which I have a legit copy is version 8, which...

Another ithing: My customer who has bought into the ilifestyle in a big way tells me that he consistently has problems connecting or losing connections to Linksys, Netgear and Trendnet APs or routers with his ipads, iphones and ipods. He says his Windows machines are fine. I just set up a...

As an aside, Barnes and Noble is selling Color Nooks on Ebay for $200 right now.

In one of the other buildings of my apartment complex, there's "Shutthefuckup203." Scariest one I've seen is "RaHoWa", which is a term used by white supremacists. I saw that one from a cafe in the lily white town where I work.

I'm always wary of getting into a new Science Fiction fandom. I watched all of Star Trek in chronological order last year (starting with Enterprise and working up to Voyager and the TNG movies), and all of Babylon 5 the year before, and those didn't inspire my everlasting loyalty, but I'm sure...

Do we know that they're even working on another memory controller?

I would continue to buy Intel's SSDs based on continued goodwill toward their products and the simplicity of customer service interactions. That is something much more valuable than a small performance difference between its product and whatever the performance leader happens to be at the moment.

There have been several Stargate shows. I think at least one of them ran for 10 years.

I've got all the Stargate shows but I've never watched it. The movie was pretty awful.

I did say lots of cheap frames, didn't I? By my count I have 37 items I'd like to put up and even at $12 - $15 a pop that's going to add up, even setting aside the $250 I already spent for stuff I already put on my walls.

That would be wise, but most people don't know how to do such things.

Yeah... I didn't install that stuff, which is why I don't understand how or why it might've grown like that. Especially since there's hardly anything else on the machine besides Windows and Office.

I have lots of wall space and many of my items are weird, different sizes. Like, I have a 9x13 item sitting here. It's just lame to have a choice between a $12 frame at retail or a $4 frame from the internet that has $11 worth of shipping attached. Where's the $6 frame with $3 worth of shipping...

I'm still not reading any good explanations of why that directory grows so large to begin with, or what might be impacted in the future if I do just delete all of it.

I strongly suspect that will come out looking like ass.

I thought these guys did good work. I suspect that they're making the pieces to order. It's annoying that I can find $4 frames but then the shipping on one turns out to be $30 or something.

I've never taken a photo I'd want to print, but I still like the idea of having stuff on my walls.

My laptop's 80GB X25-M is full. There isn't that much stuff on that laptop. Office. VMware Player (the VMs are on another drive). Windows 7. This is the one without SP1, for what it's worth. But for some reason, I have 65GB winsxs folder. Linux doesn't do this shit to people.

I noticed that when I was looking at my quiet server. I sort of shrugged and marked it up to some silly attempt at making an artificial product distinction; Intel might announce at some future point an i-series chipset that does do ECC, for all the folks (scientific computing?) waiting for one.

No cheap frames? Dammit. Given the 9000 post photo threads I thought one of you would know something.

WinPE will. And you can boot from a .VHD. I suspect that it can happen from a removable drive just as easily as an internal one, though I must admit that I haven't tried.

I am not handy and do not have those sorts of tools. I just want some cheap frames.

I have prints from Deviantart and a bunch of stuff I got at comic book conventions. Unfortunately, not much of it is 8x12.

OK photo people: I want cheap frames in weird sizes. The best deal I can find is usually from Adorama Camera, but their shipping is pretty bad, and some sizes they don't have at all (e.g. 10x15).

I don't think she's more than generically attractive. Now that I think about it, she was really the least attractive woman in the cast.

I don't know anyone who would disagree, but the supporting cast was nine shades of awesome.

Most of the cast will be at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo in a couple weeks. The biggest problem is that the conclusion is tragically low budget.

It's awesome degrees in my pants. That is all.

I'd rather have vertical pixels than horizontal ones. Doesn't matter. I'm still going to buy one.

I don't think they run x86 code at all. They exist for computationally intense operations and apparently the architecture leans heavily on RAM and various levels of cache memory. Basically it's a chip one might use (in quantity) as the basis for a mainframe.

The T420 has a 16:9 screen and I would like to know what they are smoking that they think it's going to hit 15 hours of battery life.

The Slashdot discussion I mentioned earlier is actually a surprisingly interesting discussion between programmers and engineers. It's like the good old days over there.

Intel just released new ones. If they were being EOL'd I doubt they would make the investment. Somebody must be buying them. They do run all the big name DBMS packages (Oracle, DB2, MSSQL and MySQL, at least) so presumably they have some kind of market somewhere.

Inspired by a post on Slashdot that the silly things still exist, I just went and looked at Itanium systems on Ebay. $300 for a dual core 1.5GHz machine with 16GB RAM? Even without x86 compatibility it seems like that machine should be worth that to somebody.

Maybe fallout from the recent fiasco over mobile graphics chips.

A very interesting thing has happened in the USA. Porn companies started filing massive John Doe suits against downloaders, shopping them to venues where one might reasonably assume there is a lower level of technical sophistication among members of the court, liked West Virginia. The...

My ongoing exposure has been to more failed or flaky cards during that time period. We've had issues with mobile chipsets and I'd testify in court that every nvidia-based motherboard chipset I've deployed has had a shorter lifespan than other hardware of the same generation. My BFG 8800...

Dell and Gateway used to ship a lot of machines with discrete cards from Riva 128s up to Geforce 2s. They all sucked. The last nvidia card I bought for myself was an original Geforce, and it also died an early death. My working theory is that all nvidia cards ship with cooling that is to some...

It takes me a while to reach that point. I replaced hordes (dozens, easily) of nvidia cards before I decided that they're generally shit hardware. Too many overheating PCs and failed little fans. Same thing with WD: Way too many failures in my personal sample. When I finally decided to give them...

I was just asked to install Facebook on someone's computer. Now I want to hurt things.

But other than that, pot is pretty OK.

The members of this forum are not anatomically equipped to need such a thing, but I bet there's probably some alternate universe StorageForum where ddrueding's needs 440V and a diesel backup.

One of mine came off an old NE2000 clone.

Major? No. In fact I had to go in to Chicago to get a Simmons mattress because there are no local dealers. But I'm peeved enough now that I think I'm going to cancel my order and get one from overstock.com instead. They send me emails about mattresses at least once a week.

For my Perc5s, I just took the brackets off other old crap in my parts bins until I found things that fit reasonably well.

Note to Santilli: They've been testing this for a year. Seriously. This is by no means an untested product. I've had SP1 release candidates on one of my Thinkpads since June.

It basically just rolls up the first sixty Windows updates. Nothing too exciting, but it's handy for the builders and integrators.

The reviews on the Hitachi Magic Wand are pretty funny too.