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It was 93 degrees in my apartment last night at 11PM. With the computers turned off. All of them.

That's pretty normal for BIOS updates.

I hope you like MPEG2 video.

I've noticed an odd behavior from the G1 X25-M in my gaming desktop. I only have one game installed in the 80GB space, City of Heroes, but since I had time to play this weekend, I did. Unfortunately, what I actually spent most of the weekend doing was tracking down weird lag spikes in-game. My...

I've noticed an odd behavior from the G1 X25-M in my gaming desktop. I only have one game installed in the 80GB space, City of Heroes, but since I had time to play this weekend, I did. Unfortunately, what I actually spent most of the weekend doing was tracking down weird lag spikes in-game. My...

Over the weekend, I got an LG Smart TV Upgrader for $50. For that money it has some stupid apps (meh) and offers DLNA support for streaming video. I've since found the Seagate/WD streaming video doohickeys on Ebay for not much more than the LG, but it's another interesting option.

Not any more. These days I'm lucky if I can get three hours of work in on a Saturday. I can do a lot more remotely than I used to but other than basic monitoring I don't need to do much at this point.

I had horrible problems using 2TB Seagate green drives in Windows SoftRAIDs. I suspect there's something in the drive firmware that makes them a bad choice for RAID scenarios, like extra-long thermal calibrations or something.

Oh that is quite useful. When I looked before I could not find such an item. I need to get a couple of those. Thank you sir.

I'd kill to get a USB3 PCI card so that I could make it available on all the servers I manage, instead of just the few that happen to have PCIe instead of PCI or PCI-X. Much as I've been advocating for tape, a backup system built on several 1TB 2.5" USB drives that only need one plug would be a...

I have not yet had a bad tape. They're supposed to last years in use assuming a moderate rotation schedule and to be stable for long-term storage after that.

I got my library off Craigslist. Take a look at Provantage for the hardware. As I recall they were hundreds cheaper than some of the other usual suspects.

I've never bothered to turn on compression. It would be a waste of time. I have two backup jobs that are ~13TB and 8.5TB right now. I make a new full backup monthly and just do incremental backups on a weekly basis. It's not a huge deal. I was able to get my Tape Library from a shuttered...

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Your computer got a vacation, and now it has to go back to work. Sucky, sucky work that Adobe makes it do. More sucking than a republican in an airport bathroom. Have I said lately how much I hate flash? Because I hate flash.

I've found LTO4 tapes for as little as $19 each.

I don't know. I see signs every time I drive to Knoxville.

Some people pay good money for that sort of thing.

That's Kentucky. I think Interstate 64 in Kentucky is called the Kentucky Memorial Bourbon Trail or something.

Don't get Stereodude started...

Of course the ideal would be to have multiple drives. Single point of failure, etc. But in my experience from years of IT work, I've not seen issues of having a tape made in one drive not being readable in a different one. I've seen problems with god-awful backup software not being able to do a...

I had to become familiar with BE to help out a friend anyway. It's fine. Kind of. There are a bunch of different tape libraries out there. Dell and HP and Tandburg and several other companies make them. The distinctions are pretty minor. There are also larger library systems, but they don't...

You're going to have to look at library systems, not single drives. You'll find that your mid-range library system will be either an 8-bay or 16-bay changer that will fit in a 1U enclosure. You'll connect it to a SAS controller and the library's full function will be fully supported by only some...

If you're doing things right, you should probably have a near-line backup on a NAS or something and something offline for archival storage. Your redundant server might or might not be serving that purpose, depending on how you're syncing it, but it's still not the same thing as having something...

Seems like a function that's only found on the cheapest controllers, actually.

So you have $3500 worth of disk drives but you're not willing to consider a more stable form of storage?

You can specially configure a Windows install disk to point the users folder to a different drive. You could also create a symlink or a junction point in NTFS that points your stuff to where it needs to go, though I'm not 100% certain about whether Windows would be OK with doing that for a...

It's not going to happen that way either because there can always be a vastly more efficient codec given sufficient CPU power.

Apparently the new trend in e-tail is reducing costs for logistics. Newegg's getting worse, Amazon's getting worse. This does not bode well.

IIRC he worked for a bank and then for Pacific Bell, not PG&E.

In the end, that comes down to everyone wanting a piece of the pie. That's not going to change. Personally I want devices that are versatile enough to deal whatever is put in front of them. The devices that are best able to do that are computers with general purpose operating systems, not...

RDP can disconnect and very quickly re-negotiate a connection if the session remains open. I could very easily imagine a circumstance where someplace in the mess of RDP over VPN over internet connection where some part of that connection momentarily stopped working without actually ending the...

Coffin 2.0 needs tape backup.

That is correct. Some states won't let you. Indiana is another one. wine.woot.com can only operate in I think 21 states.

I'm still annoyed with Gigabyte and Intel didn't have any products that conformed to my needs. Asus has mildly annoyed me for years but I don't have any evidence of systemic inferiority in the way that I do for certain other disliked brands of hardware.

Not that I heard.

Why is that important enough that it's breaking news? People kill each other all the time. Someone came into my office to tell me about it a little while ago. Here's the rule: If it's not on NPR it's not news.

What's a Casey Anthony and why do I care what he or she did?

I live in a fireworks state. People buy their kids fireworks and they're let off continuously at all times of the day and night. There was a six year old wandering around my apartment building with a grill lighter and a bunch of bottle rockets yesterday. Because that's a good idea. You heard...

It sucked on top of suck. The penalty for fireworks after 9PM should be to have them shoved up your ass, then lit with a flamethrower.

The NEC USB3 controller still works. I haven't dug out the manual to see how that's routed to the rest of the motherboard logic. I'm halfway inclined to just slap a NIC in it and let it run until it dies some more, not in the least because that's my main desktop. Of course, I'm also going to...

For now it is. If I get to a point where I'm unsure about the quality of protection provided with Avast, I will evaluate Forticlient

That does make a certain amount of sense, since dcpromo is if nothing else going to involve installing a DNS server for a domain it can manage. If the only options are the reserved APIPA and loopback ranges, it makes sense that it would barf.

I used IE9 for the first time over the weekend. It was decidedly Chrome-like. I'm not sure how far I'd want the browser UI minimalism to go, but that's definitely the direction the biggest browsers are taking. Google is talking about removing the URL bar from the default view in future versions...

Well, my Asus P8P67 Deluxe died over the weekend at age 58 days. Neither on board NIC nor any of the USB2 ports are functional. So that's nice.

Fun, true fact for the IT guys here: MSE is only free for commercial installations of 10 computers or less. If you're going to ignore that fact, you might as well install better protection in the first place. I've been told Forticlient is another decent free option. I still haven't felt...

MSE is generally not acceptable. It's a drag on system resources, misses too much stuff and is lacking what I consider basic functionality. I've never liked Avira's stupid popup, either.

That really should be the outcome of any security breach, not just a rootkit.

Maybe some of them. But not Coug.

Coug is not a Canadian. You know better.