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I actually find money pretty regularly on the route that I normally walk. I found $20s three different times last year. Another time I found a wad of $17 (a five and a bunch of ones), and I bet I find $1 bills at least once a week. It's probably a combination of being fairly observant and...

3.5" hard disks were universally more reliable than any 5.25" disks that were ever made. It's been my experience that 2.5" disks are more reliable than 3.5" models, even when they're normally used in portable applications. I wonder what impact the smaller components has on reliability over and...

When Apple doesn't coordinate well with carriers, the carriers clearly need to be more like Apple! :rotfl:

If he actually does it all his support questions are on you, Handy.

In cases where I suspect an oddball episode sequence, I usually look at the episode run times on IMDB or something to match things up. Even for a disc with a lot of episodes, that only takes a minute or two. 90% of the time or better, the title sequence is also the episode sequence and there's...

In cases where I suspect an oddball episode sequence, I usually look at the episode run times on IMDB or something to match things up. Even for a disc with a lot of episodes, that only takes a minute or two. 90% of the time or better, the title sequence is also the episode sequence and there's...

Bozo, that Zotac system uses a Via CPU. Granted that they do have some kind of hardware assist that's supposed to make them acceptable for HD video decoding, but I think I'd keep looking for something a little higher on the CPU food chain. This guy might be a decent choice. I'm bothered by how...

It's pretty typical for me to have several hundred dollars in $20s on me. When the stack gets too big I deposit them at an ATM. $50s and $100s are a curse since most of the businesses I frequent won't take them.

It doesn't come up very often but I've seen the code on other sites. Thanks!

I floccinaucinihilipilificate that.

I found a $50 bill today while I was out for a walk. Who the hell drops a $50? Who even CARRIES $50s when they can help it? The key to having a massive store of video content is organization. Handbrake allows a pretty straightforward workflow for converting a disc made up of multiple episodes...

That is what I would do, yes. I don't care about menus ever. They're just a pain in the ass. If I care enough about a movie to want the extras, I'll buy it and keep the disc, but in general I don't give enough of a crap about anything other than commentary tracks to bother. Reencoding...

HD Demostration footage of a drone helicopter camera bot. With Ninjas. God I love Vimeo.

Once I get my HP SAS extender I think I am going to be done worrying about SATA ports for the rest of my systems.

Shouldn't strikethrough text?

Look at this as yet another attempt by your continent to prove that it isn't actually fit for human habitation, time. :)

That certainly would improve my Bluray-stealing throughput.

We're just going to have to face the fact that modern drives are going to be shit. The only real good news is that they're generally so cheap (or will be again some day) that we can afford to buy more of them and still have incredibly dense storage systems. For what it's worth, I've had very...

Anybody want to put money on how much of that retraction is coming from the kinds of pressure a totalitarian government that places no particular value on human life might put on executives at a manufacturing concern, a bunch of factory workers and a translator?

My first "never again" with WD was 1995. Eventually, after people talked them up on SR, I started buying them again in 2000 or so. By 2003, they were back in "never again" territory. I don't care if they ever improve their drives. The company has used up all the chances it will ever get from me...

Acronis TrueImage is my go-to software for that. Clonezilla is a freebie. Stereodude had a long thread describing his personal experiences trying to clone drives to maintain partition boundaries with SSDs that might be interesting if it's a concern you have (which it probably isn't, since your...

Point of order: My gaming/main video encoding machine has 4GB RAM. Most of the time I'm only using about 2GB. I have twelve 4GB DDR3 DIMMs within arm's reach of this computer and I can't even be bothered to put them in. RAM only matters when you need more of it and anything more is just...

That's pretty cool, really. If I had to guess I'd say most of the places that have a significant enough installed base of similar machines to use system images probably already have something in-house that can run Windows Deployment Services or Remote Install Services, but "most" isn't the same...

It is honestly my hope that Samsung's engineering makes its way into next generation Seagate drives. Western Digital is beyond unforgivable and the sooner the rest of humanity understands that the better off we'll be as a species.

I've probably updated Firefox to version 11 on twenty or thirty machines without seeing it cause an OS restart. I have no idea what 1password is but I use upwards of 20 addons on some of my personal systems.

You realize that this is like asking which testicle you'd prefer to have a slow yet tragic encounter with a garlic press, right? But... Samsung for as long as you can get 'em.

I can't say much about the projectors in your price range but the inexpensive ($1000ish) Viewsonic and Optoma 1080p projectors I've worked with most recently have been spectacularly lame even by the diminished standards of their respective price tags.

I don't think ladies like it when you call it that, Greg. ;)

I just ordered a new Technet sub. I bought it from Amazon just so I can see how the retail experience differs from dealing directly with Microsoft.

At this point the single thing that makes my SSD and i7 equipped everyday machines choke and die is still fucking Flash. I can run Handbrake encodes for days and leave City of Heroes open the whole time but if I leave a browser (any browser, mind you; I don't think browsers are the problem) open...

I'm about 99% certain that any modern OS should support SMP with its default kernel. Go back and look at your kernel messages (dmesg) to check and make sure. Worst case you'll have to recompile the kernel (there are step by step instructions out there) or reinstall.

Awesome double post. Go me!

One of the reasons I appreciated my time on TotalFark is that it's a wider community made of up of people coming from different backgrounds with varied interests. It's really the only place I've spent communicating with non-nerds and/or women who aren't queer. The community is such that there's...

One of the reasons I appreciated my time on TotalFark is that it's a wider community made of up of people coming from different backgrounds with varied interests. It's really the only place I've spent communicating with non-nerds and/or women who aren't queer. The community is such that there's...

Yeah probably. The link is from imgur, which basically exists to be a place for redditors to put pictures. I don't get reddit. It's complete and utter chaos that seems to be lacking in any greater sense of community.

Just a funny picture I found.

I like that I can just run a Ninite updater file from my thumb drive or FTP off my web space and never, ever sully a new computer with Internet Explorer in the first place.

Other books my brother remembered being read: Kidnapped, Call of the Wild, Rebecca, The Wind in the Willows, The Jungle Book (Kipling not Disney), My Side of the Mountain. My mom read to me too, but the things my mom read were things I could identify as "kid" books. When my father read aloud...

The bars have never meant anything tangible. They're a comforting lie, like Santa Claus or the existence of a loving god. I've been plenty of places where I had "four bars" but couldn't place a call on Verizon or Sprint and I think we've all had dropped call experiences. The thing is, 99% of...

I showed Windows 8 to a half dozen people who were XP users in to learn about Windows 7. They had a harder time with the idea that the Windows they were used to being the "Desktop" or "Windows Explorer" tile than they did getting back and forth to Metro. People were moving their mouse to the...

More likely it wants NTFS-compatible permissions or something. Which is something that Samba and other things can emulate but might not, depending on configuration.

My family has a small number of long-ish books that are traditionally read aloud to children at a certain age. "Swiss Family Robinson", "The Three Musketeers", "Man in the Iron Mask", "The Little Prince" and "Anne of Green Gables." There may be other books as well, but those are the ones I...

App tabs have a point. They're compact tabs you can't close. I have Storageforum, Fark and Google Calendar and a couple other web tools in them.

It might be useful to point out that Chris Pirillo is best known as an OSS advocate. His views on the subject of Windows are probably about as useful as those of the douche/Apple Troll who founded digg.com. Who is apparently some kind of celebrity. Whatever.

Since I just happened to look: Firefox 11, with 26 tabs open, is using 660MB RAM. That seems very reasonable. I really would have to say that it's a big improvement over where we were a year ago for RAM utilization. Chrome on this same machine is using 490MB with only four tabs open, and two of...

Handy article from Lifehacker: What the hell is a codec? Someone asks me that at least once a week.

Over the years I've gotten the impression that they really only want to deal with people who buy complete systems from them, which makes me lean more toward Tyan and Intel for serious machines. I don't have that much experience with SuperMicro myself but I've been reading this crap from other...

I really wish someone had explained that to me about 12 meals ago.

A big thread on fark will generate 3 - 5000 replies over maybe three days. Big threads usually involves tragedies or female members attention whoring. Reddit has a whole subculture of attention whoring. I point that out every time it happens but farkers are different animals I guess.

Flash support on Firefox mobile is an unfortunately big deal.