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My brother had to declare bankruptcy.

I played with the trial version last night. What I can say right now is that it makes a quasi-JBOD where the disks can maintain their identity as an independent drives or be addressed as a unique volume. Drives that already have content merge into a single directory structure within the volume...

I use imo.im to handle instant messaging, mostly because it supports Skype without needing the bloated-ass Skype client. Somehow Skype became a standard for communication for a few people that I deal with. Since it's owned by Microsoft now, I wonder if it will be integrated in Exchange or...

My local Craigslist is an awesome resource for people who need used $50 off-brand VCRs.

Giant robots SMASH.

So I murdered all those penguins for nothing but their delicious drumsticks?

Actually, I think I'm going to try Drive Bender instead of screwing around with WHS. It will install on Windows machines I already have and if it works OK, the license is only $20.

ejabberd looks ridiculously easy to get running and seems feature-complete for your needs. I can't say I've needed to do it but given about five minutes I think I could.

I imagine a high-gloss mag with a monthly column devoted to Penguin taxidermy.

I dunno. Antarctic Living seems it would have a small but very devoted readership. ;)

I would think that testing across different video hardware would be sufficient to determine that the problem is not with specific video acceleration features. Hilariously, Flash works about as well as ever on Linux (i.e. not well, but better than Windows has been for the last few months).

After this weekend, I'm basically down to just using these drives in WHS.

I've removed Flash from all my Windows machines. I stooped to using Opera, since it uses the same Plugin as Firefox to see if it's a specific issue with Mozilla software. It's not. It's also not a video driver issue since I've tried all three of nVidia, Intel and ATI-based systems. I don't know...

I dislike things that require me to be a Facebook or Twitter user.

I have been blessed with most excellent hair.

The third film in the first volume of the Spider-Man franchise was very poorly received. The director wanted to make a wildly different movie from the one the studio wanted and the result was a sub-par movie. Given that Spider-Man 2 is likely going to show up on anyone's top 5 list of favorite...

I'm boycotting it. Everyone else should as well. The Spider-Man rights need to revert to Marvel.

I sincerely doubt that it will.

... Today I learned that FreeNAS knows my email address and will happily tell me when a drive drops out of an array.

d'ya think they let antipodeans such as time have copies of Southern Living? Is it really Northern Living when they're down there or do you think they take their styles from the heart of the Antarctic?

I really didn't care for Dark Knight Rises. I think it might take an entire essay to explain the fullness of my objections, but the short version is that the movie tries so hard to be grounded in realism that anything that doesn't follow along with that becomes jarring; I shouldn't be sitting...

I like for a mirror to have a frame and to be located someplace where it will multiply natural light. Not very much. There was also a period when I was about six years old when my father's renovations required that the outer wall to the one bathroom in the house be removed for about five...

One of the most misbegotten things I've ever seen was a Windows Server set up by an MSSQL DBA. He had managed to configure four drives attached to a RAID controller as RAID0 (for performance!, though I suspect they were delivered from HP in that configuration because I don't think he knew what a...

Many strippers are 20 years old and they still manage to be a lot of fun.

That's VERY related to the topic, though unfortunately that little quad-core ARM looks like it's stuck with USB for expansion and that's kind of crappy.

You need the equipment on both sides to support 802.3ax, which is a feature you're pretty much only going to find on a managed switch. I think there are some configuration options for that on Intel NICs with PROset installed but since I don't have anything with a dual NIC running Windows I can't...

Not disagreeing. On the other hand, I know've met assloads of developers and DBAs who don't know the first thing about general purpose IT. DBAs in particular seem to have problems with things you'd think they would pay attention to, like network latency and disk performance, let alone concepts...

Bought a ThinkStation S20 off Ebay for a customer. The unit I was shipped has a pair of 300GB x15s and a Quadro 4000 in it. Also, Coug, I got that. :)

Will ESX obey a soft shutdown when it's not in maintenance mode?

So far, what I have learned from this experience is that my coworker can't comprehend what vsphere is or how to shut down an ESX server in a way that does not involve a power button.

I've just noticed how ridiculously affordable TVs have gotten in the last short while. I have two friends who simply do not own a flat-panel TV. I was able to find new 40" 1080p displays for under $270, less than I had expected to pay for a 32" set. My local Sam's Club has a mammoth 65" Vizio...

14.01 is out now and it's still semi-retarded with Flash. Of course, I blame Adobe. "Plugin Container for Firefox has stopped working" is pretty much my computer's favorite phrase these days. So that's awesome. Anyway, I saw this and it is cute.

I'm sure there's a republican someplace massaging his boner to that idea though. Anyway, so far the drives have stayed in my zPool. I'm kind of impressed. That's longer than they were able to run in a SoftRAID1.

I've found Synology devices to be a good, stable option for network storage. I've been dealing with them for a couple years without any real issues.

How about a VW Beetle? Or my toaster. Which is entirely distinct from similar vehicles like the Qube and the Scion. Most mid-size cars aren't terribly distinct. That audi doesn't look much different from a Volvo, either.

I don't think the changes are quite that severe. Activated copies of Windows and Office should maintain their activated status even after the license expires. I base that on how I know MSAA stuff works. You just won't be able to activate new copies on keys that come from a lapsed Technet account.

Perhaps it would be better to say that it's unremarkable in its appearance. The overall body shape doesn't seem to have any distinct styling. It's very similar to a lot of other present-era sedans or coupes or whatever the hell mid-size cars are called these days.

In overall shape, it doesn't look that different from a Camry to me. the grill on the front is the only thing that seems distinctive. It's a pretty generic-looking vehicle.

Actually it's not an A5. It's a 2013 rs5.

I stuck four of the drives into my FreeNAS setup this morning. We'll have to see how that works out.

The way I read the document, that only applies to new memberships, not to existing ones.

The terms for new subscriptions to Technet changed today. Some of the more important changes: * Product keys will only be activated within the subscription period * "Home"-class products removed * Products out of the support lifecycle were removed * Standalone installers for single MS Office...

Most of those women aren't really attendees but models or booth babes. Which is not to say that there aren't hot chicks at comic book conventions. In fact there are tons of them. It's just that those chicks were pretty much all paid to be there. Just about the only time I've seen pro-grade...

Whatever. It doesn't look much different from the Toyota she parked next to.

My boss got an Audi A5 for her birthday. Whatever the fuck that is.

I'm under the impression that my Evo charges very quickly from a wall charger and very slowly via USB.

Home improvement is my father's hobby. I grew up in houses that were always at least half-torn apart. I spent a portion of my teenage years with no interior walls in my bedroom. Many of the projects my dad did carried on for YEARS. The result of this is the firm belief that do it yourself...

Bread is absolutely insane. I tend to think about things that I eat in terms of how many slices of sandwich bread they equate to and how much time I have to spend walking to work that off. At the pace I walk, a slice of bread is maybe 12 minutes of walking. That REALLY gives me pause over...

I know. Seriously. Some day Apple will invent a glorious new downloading arbitrary things from file servers technology and on that the technology press will mess its shorts over the awesomeness. :hurl: Christ. I'm even going to use a second smiley. :beer: That one's for you, MaxBurn.