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I think MSE is a lousy product. I'd only use it for someone whom I believe has zero likelihood of encountering a virus in the first place, lack of savvy for keeping Avast up to date and a relatively new computer. Likewise, I see absolutely no reason for anyone to install a third party firewall...

Howell seems to like Vipre and NOD32 is a decent choice for being easy on system resources. I've been told that new versions of Norton AV are not as bad as older ones, but that's a claim I'm not even willing to investigate.

Well, yes and no. Capital Punishment cases consume vast resources in the legal system. There are actually jurisdictions in the US that refuse to try them just because they're so expensive in terms of legal resources. The other thing is, death is permanent and irrevocable. Legal mistakes are...

Groltz was Groltz. He was an SR member and something of a regular, and he was part of the original group of emails. I genuinely don't recall ddrueding from SR. He must have had a different handle before the MBF.

Really? I wouldn't think it would come up in any kind of normal environment.

The one and only time I was angry enough to actually see red, I suspect I was on the ragged edge of passing out. I felt completely disembodied. I hurt a couple people. They both deserved it, but having that experience was enough for me to make a huge change in my personality.

Civilized countries do not have a death penalty. Actually, as I recall from a documentary on the subject, penal systems in Scandinavian countries are progressive to an almost hyperbolic degree. But with any luck, the bomber will get put someplace unpleasant and never see daylight again.

Well at least the New York Times cares about Dwarf Fortress, even if the rest of you don't. :P

I suspect you were part of the first group of SR regulars that was contacted and informed of the site. Stereodude was the first person I told once it was decided that we were open for business. Probably because his name was at the top of the list on SR's Computers Forum at that moment. I do...

My longstanding stance is that I will not purchase RAM that doesn't operate at JEDEC specified voltages. That RAM is defective, even if the manufacturer claims that it's +eleventybillion% faster than RAM that's actually in spec. Goddammitsofuckingmuch.

I'm usually able to find Via Envy cards on Ebay for $6 - $10. Usually they ship from Hong Kong but the only seller who has any up right now is in the UK. They're a big step up from the typical RealTek crap and they have both TOSLink and SPDIF connectors on them.

Well there you go. I ran into that when I tried to maintain my classroom machines on a domain. They'd all lose their ability to talk to the DC after after the fourth time I restored their baseline image, or roughly eight weeks. I did some investigation and found out that there's a hard...

How old was the backup? If it was more than 60 days, there can be an issue with crypto the keys used by Windows Authentication going out of date and leaving the machines unable to talk to each other even though everything else is the same.

Why would they build a machine like that and not use something that supports multiple NICs?

I can tell you that with my setup I absolutely give not a single crap about I/O performance. As long as it's fast enough to play video files without stuttering, I don't care. It's just kind of missing the point of having that collection of drives.

... which you can do with a fast single drive

If you're building RAID5s or JBODs of consumer 5k SATA drives, I/O performance probably isn't on the top of the list.

That does not surprise me even a tiny little bit, based on my experiences with Hitachi drives in RAID generally, and with recent Seagate 5k drives in various types of arrays. The Hitachi drives are also the cheapest 3TB drives available right now. So that's working for them, too.

And two or three years on SR for most of us before that.

Every Outlook user I still have to support would have strangled me for daring to have them look anyplace but Outlook for mail. The times I've done Gmail migrations, I came in and did the work on an 8PM to wee small hours of the morning schedule.

I should've gone for third base.

Maybe the requirements are different for Google Oceania? I know they gave me instructions for accessing the Google Apps stuff without making any changes to DNS. I swear. Honest. I just don't know why time didn't get that. It's worrisome that his process is different from the one I'm familiar with.

Yeah. That was the deal. SR came back up and basically Eugene said that he was going to shut it down. There was an article on Slashdot.org about its closure, even. There were some emails spread around among about a dozen people and then Handruin set up SF. We had ideas that we would take the...

I've used that tool and found it to not work particularly well. It is absolutely possible to start a Gmail transition prior to changing MX records. They give you URLs for accessing your Google Apps stuff through google.com/somelongrandomstring if you want or need to do it that way.

The proper headline: WD to endanger ever-larger amounts of data in a 2.5" form factor.

Didn't we talk about power over eSATA when they announced 6Gbps SATA? I thought we did.

It's all the way down to 90 here. At 10PM.

They say S*ny on them.

If you plant the good habits here, they will sprout and grow into more readable language habits with each and every paper you write.

You will be sorry.

Oh, Outlook Contacts: AFAIK, the only time that syncing them natively is an option is under paid Google Apps with the Gmail Sync tool installed on client machines. That essentially turns Gmail into an Exchange replacement and also allows for Calendar sharing and some other stuff. There are some...

I use Gmail contacts with Thunderbird as well. If you're dealing with Outlook, you may very well have issues with huge .pst migrations. I found the migration tools that were available to do an extremely poor job transferring data from desktop machines to Gmail. Moving folders via Outlook is...

I find that there's a lot of variability even between drives that are theoretically the same model from the same manufacturer. I bought a dozen 4GB PNY Attache drives that I use for OS installation media and I've observed that some of them consistently install Windows 7 more slowly than others...

The Gigabyte H61-USB3 is kind of a half-assed board. It performs well enough when paired with an i3, but I can tell that corners were cut to get to its price point. Even the packaging and manual are weak compared to the usual Gigabyte standards. And yes I stuck a PCI I/O card in it. It might...

Today's punctuation lesson: Comma usage courtesy of Purdue's Online Writing Lab. I will acknowledge that I'm occasionally guilty of this one myself but I'm not the person in this thread with a JD, either.

I think that's the best policy as well. There's very little online that is directly attributable to my actual self. I like it that way.

I have an Aquos and don't have any particular complaints about it. I've never had to deal with their service department. Personally, I'm not at all a fan of Plasma screens or all the power they use, and I'd rather have 1080p than 720p regardless. I'm not sure 120Hz display modes are worth the...

Coug, I live in the toxic waste capital of the United States. People who worry about inhaled particulates don't live here to begin with. I did buy a Gigabyte H61M board over the weekend, just to see how well it will work for my purposes. And mubs, Parallel to USB and Serial to USB adapters...

I'm a social networking conscientious objector. I am sort of interested in how well Spotify does or does not work. I suspect it's "not" in my case, but that's the curious part.

My G1 X25-M is definitely near the end of its life. I cloned it and pulled it On top of that, one of my customers, the same one who had his 160GB X25-M die before, had his drive die again. I don't know what he's doing that kills them but at this point I suspect it's his fault rather than...

The unit is not big enough for the space I have, but it's the standard unit for my apartment complex. I'm not allowed to change it. I just leave it off and put up with the heat. I'd still rather rent than own a home.

I still have a Catalyst 5005 sitting around, but that's probably not what you're talking about.

It's not like I know people who are still buying them. It's just that they've had them for 15 or 20 years and the damned things still work and cost (relatively speaking) nothing for consumables. I don't blame anyone for wanting to stuck with them. They're like the cockroaches of the printing...

The Parallel port is close to a deal breaker. I've been telling customers for years that the best personal printers ever made are Laserjet 3s and a lot of them still have those old printers. IDE is far, far less important, but there's a convenience factor there for dealing with old machines...

I read somewhere, a couple years ago, that Intel put some engineering talent into developing a low cost, self-contained water cooling setup that could be easily installed, and that the final product of that development was under $25 per unit. I want to know what happened to THAT.

Verifies seem to be really CPU intensive on TI2011 in a way I don't remember them being on TI2010.

My standard business system build for years and years has been an LGA775 G31 motherboard (preferably one with IDE and a parallel port) with a mid-range CPU and 2GB RAM in a decent case with a quality PSU. I usually target $350 - $400 or so for hardware on these boxes. There are so many...

TrueImage 2010 definitely works with AHCI. I suppose it might not work with a Z68 6Gbps controller since that's not part of the standard ICHwhatever deal but AFAIK it's still a supported product and there's probably an update that addresses that. TrueImage support is usually kind of worthless...

That's simple. Intel motherboards are NOT RETARDED.

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