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It's a bullshit thing. These systems are going to sit on manager-types' desks. They get higher-spec machines for more-or-less no reason at all. They aren't concern with their power bill, at least not that they've told me.

I installed the nightly tester tools and told it to never check plugin compatibility again. That solved all my issues with outdated plugins. xmarks works everywhere, though I do have two different accounts so that I can switch between a more employer-friendly set than I would otherwise use.

When I was looking at Verizon's phone offerings a couple weeks ago, I was actually surprised by how few Samsung options were available compared to some other handset manufacturers. Verizon is all about the Motorola product, basically.

I have understand the whining about version number inflation and how that plays hell with corporate common operating environments. Of course, that's something Chrome does too. I will say that I'm quite happy that both Firefox and Flash have moved to silent updaters. That's incredibly useful.

"We spent millions on a heat sink fabrication process and cosmetic improvements, so we're going to cheap out and use a $.75 fan that end users can neither replace nor service."

I'll take the top three things off your hands.

It's my experience when dealing with server-anything that you do what the specs say you do. You buy the RAM they want. You use the rails they tell you and you don't guess as to the acceptable dimensions for boards in the chassis.

It looks to me like the Asus board is too long. Even if you can somehow wedge it in there, something tells me you'd be better off with something you wouldn't need the Jaws of Life to get in or out of the chassis.

I have four i7/9x0s sitting around. Two of them even have nice, expensive motherboards (1366 boards are STILL ridiculous) that have barely been used, to the tune of perhaps 50 power-on hours. Another board I have had a lot of power-on time before I retired it a few months ago. I have a nice...

I get that "Zelda" is a Nintendo reference, but I never had or got to play with a Nintendo until I got a Wii... that I gave away to a neighbor because I didn't use it for two years. But the same chick did this, which I like quite a lot more.

The Kindle is dirt cheap compared to a Xoom, Transformer or Galaxy tablet. It also has the marketing muscle of the biggest internet retailer behind it (IIRC the Fire is the best selling item on Amazon... and it exists as a platform to sell more stuff from Amazon). People who are buying a Fire...

You might want to have those looked at by a physician.

I'm slightly annoyed by that. The Fire is definitely a sub-par Android experience. The hardware is fine but I spend a lot of time trying to explain to my friends and students how to work around the limitations of Amazon's app selection and the irregularities of its custom shell. I know everyone...

I can't remember if I posted this or not. Whatever. It's a funny picture.

I do not want to talk about Audis or home lighting systems. I want to talk about what really matters. Which is pornography. And how awesome it is. Also super heroes. And how awesome they are. Case in point: Vivid Video's Avengers XXX: A Porn Parody. Note the use of a CG flying Iron Man and the...

LM, your mind is entirely too sufficiently elevated from the gutter.

The problem with Microsoft stuff is that it ties in to EVERYTHING Microsoft. Your Live ID is tightly integrated into Windows 8 just like an itunes username is all but required to make some OSX craps work.

While the metric assload does have an official SI value that can be derived from fundamental physical constants, I prefer the more precise, institutionally-derived value of 1.10233 WDs per Assload.

There are metric assloads of people who would just be happy to figure out that they have a place to store things at all. I'm convinced that 2/3rds of all people who use computers every day don't even know how to make directories.

I'm sure they can. The bigger issue is the massive number of people who won't be so sophisticated as to do that.

Apparently the terms of use on Google Drive are slightly odious. Google gets the rights to use your uploaded files for its purposes, which can include publication. This does not seem to be a good move for a company whose slogan is "Don't be evil."

Dropbox works just fine for a lot of people, though as I recall it tops out at 2GB for free accounts. I'd certainly rather have Google's version of the same thing, if only because I trust Google to be more available.

I'm sure he had a far better life with you as his person, Bozo.

What is it that you want this VMware certified guest OS to store? Operating systems store data and there's a nifty compatibility matrix right on VMware's site. Are you looking for a compatible backup product or something? Do you want something to manage storage on other systems? "Storage...

I had to restart Firefox on this desktop and now I see that it's version 12 for some reason. Hurray for version inflation. Also, for reasons I cannot even begin to guess, Chrome quit working on this machine. I'm not sure why. It's definitely still installed. It just doesn't start any more. Weird.

Unfortunately, that option isn't going to exist in a lot of OEM BIOSes... I had a Dell XPS machine several months ago that had something similar happen with it (no drivers for USB keyboard or mouse). And it was XP Home, so there was no option to remote. I upgraded it to Windows 7. That made the...

I've been trying dating sites for years. The best explanation I have for when they work is whether or not someone has a zillion other ways to meet people. People who do find that dating sites work better. People I have met via eight years on dating sites: 16 year old, borderline psychotic...

Actually, I'm a bit more disappointed that I don't see an L-series Thinkpad on that list. Have they moved the suffix-less T into the budget model category?

Didn't you meet her on OKCupid?

I wonder if he means something that can do iSCSI for containing VMs?

Well there was something of a tragedy with his previous fiancee, as I recall. She is new relative to that one.

I'll have an opportunity to test the e3-1260 and the e3-1225 over the next couple weeks since I'll have one of each sitting around. Of course, my predominant interest is video encoding, so that's what I'll test. I might keep the e3-1260 as a replacement for an older i7-920 I'm still using.

I can't see Lenovo doing that for T-series Thinkpads. The keyboards are as famous a component of their construction as the rollcage. The X-series models are too damned small to type on anyway, which I could see as a reason to de-emphasize the keyboard. Or maybe they're trying to tear a page out...

Good luck and best wishes with the new lady, Handy.

I certainly can. I have around 3 weeks before I need to. But if somebody here wants a pretty decent deal on a Thinkpad, I'm making the offer.

... and of course tomorrow Verizon, ever the master of finding new ways to charge people for crap, will start shaking down existing customers for an extra $30 every time they actually do upgrade their current phone and sign a new service contract; there's no longer going to be a "free" phone...

Seat belts were optional to the best of my recollection until sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s.

I purchased the e3-1225 for the relatively high per-core clock speed (gaming system) anyway. It does still support the e3-1260, which is cost-equivalent the baby i7 I was referring to. I had my doubts that it was going to work with a consumer board and consumer RAM, but lo-and-behold it did.

Reminds me of a funny thing: My uncle retired last year. For a retirement present to himself, he went out and bought the car he lusted after in his youth, which is some kind of late 60s-era Dodge musclecar (Charger?). The one he bought was in showroom perfect condition with all original trim...

I have for sale one Thinkpad T520 model 4239-46U. It's a pretty bare-bones model as far as T-series Thinkpads go, 2.5GHz i5-2520. 320GB hard drive, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Professional. I figure if one of you guys buy it, you'll probably wind up sticking in a different hard drive and adding more RAM...

If you re-take, you lose your permanent certification status and you'll have to re-take every two years thereafter. A factor to consider in this is that CompTIA tests are really expensive for professional certification exams. Security+ cost me around $225 and Network+ is the same. There are two...

I only have a couple production Server 2008 machines. A complete Server 2008 infrastructure can do some amazing things when working with Vista/7 clients, but no one wants to bother when their apps are certified to work with Server 2003 and frankly those machines are still just fine. I just...

You're using file servers that aren't bumping into the licensing restrictions that come from running on Win7, then?

I stuck an E3-1225 on a DH67BL this morning and it works just fine. Which means I have board + CPU for about what a baby i7 CPU normally costs. I fail to see how this is anything but a good thing.

Are your fileservers running on VMs, dd?

At least some parts of Oz are, uh, hospitable: Most awesome worker's comp claim EVAR.

You know, I always thought a crack or chip in a windshield was an instant-fix, no-big-deal issue for one's car insurance. Is it not like that everyplace?

I'm in the very northwest corner of Portage these days. It's a lovely place. Delightful, you might say.

The sad thing is, those calls all come from the same outfit. And they never call from the same number twice. I don't understand how they stay in business. The call blocker on my phone is set up to send any call I get directly to voicemail unless I've whitelisted the number and it's really...

We don't have those guys where I live. I get asked to buy cammed bootlegs of movies that are still in the theater, for random directions to weird places (e.g. Boise, Idaho) because my gas station is basically at the intersection of three arterial highways and occasionally I'll get free passes...