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I usually manage around 7.5km/hour and I'm sure you're in better shape than I am. Of course, a brisk walk is fine but don't ask me to actually jog.

Yes. The overwhelming horribleness of ATI drivers on my work PC has undoubtedly infected my T420, which has absolutely no ATI hardware at all but both Intel and nVidia, and is exhibiting the same set of symptoms.

You might want to make a disclaimer regarding broken devices on your support page, Chewy. I've certainly seen that a few times in the past. Coug, why were you walking so slowly? Were you in an urban setting with lots of cross-traffic or something?

One of the machines is my Thinkpad, which has Intel and nVidia drivers. My work desktop has ATI drivers. So... I'm thinking not?

Looks like uninstalling Flash fixes the crap out of it. But that can't be the general solution. Unfortunately, having disabled all the add-ons held in common by the two impacted machines didn't fix the problem and getting rid of flash did, so I guess I'll run like this until something-or-other...

45 open tabs, 277MB RAM used. That's pretty good. And it reloads all tabs super, super fast on my machines. Like under 10 seconds for all of them combined. But on at least two of my machines Firefox 13 is now super, ridiculously crashy. I'm sure it's a javascript issue. Gawker sites cause it...

That's a bit of a double standard. More pixels are better for photos, text-rich web pages and most electronic document formats, even if they're not being used for video.

Apparently they glue in the battery too, on top of requiring almost complete disassembly of the notebook with security screws to get at it. The end result is something that's almost completely non-serviceable.

1920x1200 is still a pretty big step up from the currently-typical 1280x800 for large-format Android devices.

I suspect that they're leveraging the logistics chain they've built on the back of the ipad parts supply to beat everyone else about the scrotum with a product that Apple and Apple alone can sell for a ridiculous markup. No one else can get away with the same shit now that Apple is the closest...

Oh, and apparently the new MBPs have all their RAM soldered in. How is this thing anything but an insult to everyone other than Apple shareholders?

Apparently Acer has released a 10" Tablet with a 1920x1200 display. It still says Acer on it, but I'd say that represents a sign of a real response to the ipad 3.

I think properly there's a distinction between (the) Schism and (a) schism in this usage but as I said it's really asking a lot to go looking at specifics; only one of the faithful is really going to be able to relate to whether some tiny matters of faith are important enough to create another...

As I've said before, MBPs are "supposed" to fall into the same broad category as what I typically think of as "business class" products from other manufacturers. They have support offerings that are similar-ish to Dell and Lenovo business products, demand premium pricing and at one time they...

I still have to manage access to networks and to data. Usually that means setting up Parallels or VMware Fusion for one thing or other. And then that's a hassle to manage. As far as I know there's no good tool for administering VMs that are on individual workstations. Which is a different reason...

I stuck the MBP in one of my classrooms to use for presentation since I'm not using it otherwise and it annoys me because people buy these things and then expect me to support them. I can tell them all day long that I don't want to deal with Apple shit but the same people who whine about blowing...

That's the problem. Extra crap gets broken or lost.

Sure, you say that. Until you're in a place that doesn't have 802.11. Some of my customers don't. They really can't be doing it because of any serious cost savings. They aren't doing it to improve reliability. In the end I suspect they're doing it to drive the sale of a $30 accessory and to...

You clearly never had to support end users in the days of PCMCIA NICs.

So apparently the new Macbook ditches the ethernet port entirely. Who the hell thinks that's a good idea? On a "business" machine? Really?

That was genuinely, legitimately fascinating.

It's not that complicated. Protestants divide themselves over the tiniest points of ecclesiastic dogma. Which is why you can get eight or nine Baptist churches in a town of 10,000 and all of them will claim the other one is wrong.

From what I've read, Apple absolutely has a stranglehold on the supply chain for IPS display components that stems from the popularity of the ipad. I'm not sure if it applies to larger screens, but I guess a lot of options are off the table for companies that don't already own or control...

I don't even think anyone is offering that in a desktop display.

Obviously not, given the additional complexity of supporting iOS devices for general-purpose remote file access as we recently discussed.

Unfortunately, that comes at such a huge cost to basic functionality that the tradeoff is really not worth the hassle of dealing with the hardware. "General data storage" should be a fundamental function of a general purpose computing device and icraps fail at that.

You are asking me to care far, far too much about what people who are wrong about things think and do.

Don't get me started on this crap. I did have a productive discussion on the fact that I've managed to shepherd a customer into web-based solutions for everything they use except MS Office, something they barely need but think they have to have. I was able to demonstrate that their three most...

"Kids, From now on there are three ways of doing things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Oracle way." "Isn't that just the wrong way?" "Yes, but faster."

It's pretty painful waiting on the top-level forum. I'd say it's been slow for maybe a week.

That's harsh. I suspect you're right, if only because the market for expensive computing devices has shifted to tablets that have reduced expectations and different-from-Windows functionality associated with them. I think there's a lot of morons who would rather have an $800 ithing than an $800...

Given that Microsoft is propping up Nokia as its Windows Mobile hardware manufacturer of choice, why would HTC really want to make a huge investment in something that's pretty clearly a non-starter that's just going to be abandoned the minute Win8 is available on ARM and Medfield anyway?

The SHA-1 values represent a completely valid compromise simply because Rainbow Tables for values of up to X arbitrary digits have already been calculated. Since SpammedIn isn't storing the original password anyway, all bad guys really need is a collision between the hash value and an entry in...

Much like branches of Protestantism, once there's a schism, there does not tend to be a reunification. We now have Orthodox OpenOffice and Reformed OpenOffice and I'm sure someone or other can explain in great detail why the people on the other side are heretics and they'd rather die or use MS...

I don't really believe there's such a thing as a long term digital format.

I figure that I can either do the work myself or I'd rather have a depot tech with every part in the freaking universe at his fingertips doing it. U Apparently my MBP will be back Friday. So that's something. I guess.

There are a couple different issues that can keep Chrome, Picasa and the GChat desktop client from installing on Server 2008. One of them is a group policy change and the other is IIRC something to do with the uber-restrictive IE defaults on Windows Servers. At different times I've found...

Everyplace I've worked that had an issue with third-party equipment on-site, the issues were more about data access (don't bring in things that store data or access the internal network) and liability for disposal than about loss prevention. I always etch my name somewhere on my portable...

I'd probably just bring in my own stuff from home were I in your situation. Companies sometimes get pissy about that too, but it might be easier to stick a personal asset tag on it and make the case that it makes it easier to do your job than just suffer.

Given that I only see maybe a half dozen unwanted messages in a typical week, it's a rather significant portion of the total.

It could be worse: I have an acquaintance who is an auditor for the IRS. He has a US Government-provided Compaq laptop that is so old it has a Windows ME sticker on it.

I don't want to belong to a social networking site. At all. Ever. It's not about "more useful", it's about my disinclination to participate in the first place. I get two or three messages that make it through my filters every week. That's two or three messages I do not want. There does not...

The problem with Linkedin is that they Will. Not. Stop. Spamming. Apparently the only way to make yourself unavailable to linkedin crap is to belong to linkedin and turn it off. I've had invitations@linkedin.com blocked as a sender for ages, but I still get invited to join. I can't just block it...

Restoring dozens of open tabs is a perfectly valid reason to want an SSD or at least a Hybrid drive in your PC. It's not like EMC can't afford it. ;)

Linkedin is somewhere on my corporate death penalty list along with WD and nvidia anyway.

I have a pair of T61s that I'd like to continue to use in at least some capacity. Now I'm trying to decide if it's worth $100 - $150 to get new batteries for them or just let them go quietly into that good night with batteries that only maintain 50ish% of their original charge. I suspect that a...

The new start page maybe? It's the only thing I noticed.

I really want to see something in a next-generation screen before I really commit to buying a phone. 1280x720 in a Galaxy S3 certainly is impressive, but I wonder how much better off we'll be from one or two more rounds of product launches.

I wish.

So I need to noise proof my office. The building I'm in now used to be a bank. The acoustics are such that the person in the office in the opposite corner of the building can hear my laptop speakers at about 40% volume; I can hear our receptionist chewing right now, with the door to my office...