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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.

I actually do have a domain for people who are using paid Google Apps there. I just don't want to put him on it. He's a peon who happens to have an iphone, not someone with a business-related reason to want Calendar and Contact sync.

I have to find a McDonald's that has the toy I want. With one exception, the McDonald's I've been two have had two of the eight available toys (the exception was located at a truck stop; it had four toys). It looks like they're playing games so people have to go to different locations if they...

Usually means they're out of stock and don't have a supplier. They sometimes put that up for books that have gone out of print as an intermediate step to making it an unavailable item.

Whatever. It's fine. They'll catch up to Chrome version numbers eventually.

I've sent him links to all the Google help documents twice. I'm not driving to Wisconsin to work his phone for him.

OK. He's just an idiot. I'm fine with that.

It may work that way for regular gmail but not for Google Apps. Or this guy might be a retard. He's in another state and I really wouldn't care except that he's whined enough that his employer started whining too.

Basically, you need your receipt or ID code to associate with your MS Live login. If you didn't get it, check your spam messages.

I think that you have to have a paid account to sync calendar and contacts on the iphone. That's what I told him, anyway. Whatever. I don't care. Somebody douchey enough to demand calendar and contact syncing for no job-related reason just because they have an ithing can afford to pay the extra $50.

The JoJo still visits. I haven't seen him post for a while, but I saw him logged in as recently as January.

Seven of my last nine meals have been either southwest salads or fruit parfaits. Rainbow Dash continues to elude me.

I have a user who swears he isn't getting calendar and contact syncing on his iphone with a free Google apps account, but email is fine. Is that part of the deal for Gapps or do I need to move him to a paid account?

A couple of my devices have had ICS updates. From an end-user standpoint, the differences are generally minor and cosmetic.

It certainly should be well documented. Absolute FreeBSD is highly regard, and if you REALLY want to learn about operating systems, you can pick up either the source code commentary or "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System." The ORA book "Essential UNIX System...

My friends are pretty much all queer women.

The toys cost like $1 and I usually get a fruit and yoghurt cup. And Rainbow Dash is rather popular with pretty much everyone I socialize with. For some reason.

My goal for this week is to go to however many McDonald's it takes to get as many Rainbow Dash toys as I possibly can. I know too many people who would think that Rainbow Dash toys represent a thoughtful gift and also I suspect that saying this here will piss Coug off somehow. :D

Three and yes. Although you can save money if you shop for your technet renewal. Some places have them as low as $220.

You really, REALLY shouldn't disable System Restore on a working Windows 7 machine. There's simply no other repair mechanism available for Windows 7. You can do a repair install on XP, but that's not an option on 7. 7's built-in backup with system image is sort-of useful and integrated with its...

I just reupped my sub. I ordered on a Thursday and got my confirmation last Sunday. I'm about to buy another sub for a customer. I'll check to see how that's different from having a sub that's never expired.

I have a rooCase. I got it off Ebay for about $10. All of my cases are rooCases. They're nice and I'm a fan.

As I said, I've treated it as an appliance. It just sits in a closet and holds a ton of data.

We might get 80 degree weather here next week.

That's pretty much the story of VOIP.

xtree 4 life, yo.

Nope. I figure the 16GB RAM in that machine will do it just fine. I still have open DIMM slots too now that I think of it. Damn. Load averages most of the time on that box (4 cores @ 1.8GHz) are pretty consistently around .1, jumping up to .8 or so when I'm hitting it from three or four systems...

You have thirty days from the day you purchase a phone to discover issues similar to many of the ones you mention. Phone volume problems certainly should have been an issue you would notice right away. The other stuff is basically either environmental (poor 802.11) or an issue with carrier...

Maybe I'm missing something, but why are you making a RAID10 of 5400rpm drives your system partition in the first place?

I need it. I obtain content from sources outside of Apple's control and at times I would like to be able to use that content with multiple applications. I might have more than one application for a .PDF or a .JPG, for example. It's ridiculous to think that I have to segregate my data according...

I'm talking about the fact that iOS forces a user to associate data with one particular application. Users have to load files on a per application basis. Fuck you if you want to try several different programs that might interact with the same files.

I'm probably going to switch my work desktop to Windows 8 so I can get a better feel for it. I can't see making myself use it on a PC I actually care about. Anyway, Stardock software has a replacement Start Menu for folks who hate Metro. Like me. And other right-thinking human beings.

I support an office where a group of guys sit around and look at /b/ and ratemypoo and stileproject and rotten.com and whatever other disgusting crap they can find just because they can. I started bringing in my own mouse and keyboard there after I noticed something white and crusty on a couple...

You forgot bullshit data sandboxing. Holy god that still pisses me off and I haven't touched my ipad in nine weeks.

My classroom PCs are triple-boot. I have to do amazing acrobatics of imaging software to make their image install at all. If I do a step out of order at least one and probably all of the OSes in the image will not boot and I have to re-image. There's a reason that basically nothing officially...

Nope. What's wrong with your phone?

... or maybe you just need to load a boot-time driver.

I think that's what the Pre-install Kit is supposed to do for you.

I really think 400g is a sweet spot. That's one of the reasons I'm so happy with the 8.9" Galaxy (470g). Did they fix the fact that ipads only have one speaker yet?

It's that 1.4lb. weight that I find bothersome. That resolution is much, much better than the ipad2, but as an e-reader or a camera, what the hell do you want with something that weighs two thirds of a kilogram? Well, and it still runs iOS. Maybe some Android hackers will fix that part though. :)

They aren't ALL too expensive. Entry level Sandy Bridge Xeons start at $200, comparable to Core i5 desktop chips. Yes, they need to be paired with expensive motherboards and expensive RAM, but most of us here buy expensive motherboards and RAM to begin with. I don't think I'd give any serious...

Hitachi's 2.5" drives needed to die anyway. They were notoriously unreliable.

Yes I am.

Intel finally got around to releasing 5-series Sandy Bridge Xeons. Dual and quad Socket systems can now join in i7 love at up to 8 cores and 16 threads per socket. Looks like somebody could build an absolutely monstrous 16-core system for about $3500.