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I'm sorry. I meant Xrecode. There's an Xrecode 2 which I believe is widely available nagware, and an Xrecode 1, which is freeware. Good luck finding the freeware one. Formatfactory absolutely does support conversion to and from flac, though. Honest.

Formatfactory will do that. ConvertX should do that as well. Formatfactory is great for Windows users. You can point it at a top level directory and it will do everything beneath that point if you ask it to.

I really do like the Antec 300 case. I've gotten the one that ships without a PSU for $30 a few times. It's a step up from the HEC case that I use in budget builds, but it's also physically larger than I would use for a business machine.

This thing seems interesting, not least because an Android gaming platform is a Linux gaming platform.

My posts about Thor and Batman are irrefutable!

Nolan's Batman certainly tries to be. He wears realistic armor, doesn't have every possible tool in his utility belt and relies on technology that's mostly within the realm of possibility. The Sky Hook thing from Dark Knight actually exists, for example. Nolan also goes out of his way to avoid...

Thor was originally conceived as the actual Norse God of Thunder. In Marvel's current continuity, literal deities are not truly religious figures but rather a specific sort of alien or extra-dimensional being that thrives on and takes power from the the faith or belief of mortals. This is...

That too. It's either that or run an X-Meridian just for gaming and that seems silly too.

... and then, two hours after I typed this, I had to swap out an Intel DH55PJ, only seven months old. And why the hell are LGA1156 boards still so expensive, anyway?

I suspect there was a lot of trimming done to counter the criticism that there was too much going on in Iron Man 2. But the script as filmed was weak. It was written by J. Michael Stracynzki, the same guy who is responsible for Babylon 5 and also a long time comic book writer. I generally feel...

I think Batman Begins is the better movie. Dark Knight is too full of plot holes. The biggest issue I have with the Nolan Batman movies generally is that Christian Bale is weak as an actor in that role. He doesn't do either a believable Bruce Wayne or Batman.

After slogging through 50 pages of posts on AVSforum, it looks like most of the people who had problems really had problems with PowerDVD 9.

I really don't care at all about 3D video, and the card's performance for non-discrete AC3/DTS audio is a lot more interesting to me than the options that are available on video cards. I'll look into its support for 1080p24 but as I understand it, it's just a pass through for HDMI that...

Is 100% good or bad? If 100% is good, those numbers for Intel motherboards look awfully fishy.

I get in arguments about it, but Iron Man is a better movie than either of the Nolan Batman films.

In what way would a video card with HDMI be more capable? The Auzentech card uses a pass-through system to route audio from the video card to the sound card.

I'll bet you don't really want me to elaborate so I'll just say, deliberately without linking, that you could google "Crashpad" and become enlightened. And also that it would be a bad idea to do that from work.

I don't have very much to add, but at this point every monitor I have that is not a TV is a Dell Ultrasharp. My particular 27" Ultrasharp has been out of production for a while though.

Continuing the parade of stupid Chrome tricks: Play TIE Fighter in a DOSbox session natively inside Chrome. YA RLY.

I'll probably get an Auzentech X-fi HomeTheater if I can find one to buy.

Amazon has enough good will built up with me that I just pulled the trigger. Worst case, they will make me pay shipping on a return. Now I have to track down a new soundcard to go with it.

It's almost $300 cheaper at Amazon. Amazon is $150 cheaper than what Crutchfield and Onecall are. Amazon is awesome.

I liked the Marantz SR6005, though the shop I visited expected me to pay retail for it.

Nope. The simple truth is that if it's a default Outlook behavior, it's probably wrong.

Apparently, they want istuff and law textbooks. Things that go together. Obviously.

So Chewy, how is Kolob?

You don't go to Pirates of the Caribbean for any other reason than to see Enlightenment-age stuff asplode and to watch Johnny Depp act goofy while it happens.

Reply at the bottom, or reply after quote is proper formatting. It pisses me off, too. I've bitched about it here before. It's particularly annoying when Outlook users tell me that the way I reply is incorrect.

Sending RMAs to Seagate apparently has a lot in common with the best kinds of porn.

You can also call them. In the past I've had better luck doing that.

That seems pretty reasonable, food-wise. I think it might be better not to speculate how keeping a person in this fashion will make you back your three thousand moosebucks.

If you go by what those wacky christians' holy book says, when judgment day comes only 144000 people will be found worthy. So it might have happened and the rest of the believers just weren't good enough. They'll all be enjoying the locusts and boiling seas with the rest of us.

I believe it essentially does the same thing as running IE on Vista/7 (reduced privilege mode), and that a majority of malware exploits are in no way hampered by that.

That is no moose. That is one of literally tens of horny Canadian girls gone wild!

I blame it on the IPO.

Now Coug is disparaging the Canadian racks. :(

There's one on Ogden Avenue just off 294 that I've been meaning to visit anyway.

Denon, Marantz and Onkyo all seem to have very good products with comparable features at around $900. It doesn't look to me like there's much gain to be had by moving up over the $1000 mark. I don't really give a crap about 802.11 or ipod support. Hopefully I'll get a chance to make a...

Maybe in 2013, LM will be at last be able to acknowledge the unshorn beauty of Canada's fine native girls.

Honestly, if my arrays were doing something like that, what I would do is recreate the arrays and restore from backup. Most of the time the *nix way would be to find the problem and fix it and if you can stand to have 6TB of your stuff offline there's probably a fun project in figuring out what...

Not that I could find, but there's a fiber optic cabling standard for damned near everything. On the other hand, why not just go with the path of least resistance and do Fiber Channel in the first place?

Gas could be $8 a gallon and for the most part everybody in the US who has positive cash flow would still be buying exactly the same amount of it. Maybe teenagers would go back to riding bikes. Upon consideration, $8/gallon gas is probably a good step toward jtr's utopia. :)

I'm generally not using the super-low end ones. There are some really crummy ones that are made out of solid air (much like the PSU Tannin linked to, which apparently weighs 0kg if the specs page is to be believed), and there are modest and unassuming mid-range models. HEC has a nice, reliable...

The top-tier PSUs weigh 50% more than the middle guys. Black paint and gold trim must be very heavy.

Does SMART actually monitor anything useful for SSDs?

Amazon's cloud is just a storage device. It's actually a nice thing to have, since prior to its release, Amazon did not allow purchasers to re-download purchased digital tracks, but files that are on an individual's cloud can be re-downloaded.

I'm not sure where you guys are getting love for FSP power supplies. I seem to toss them pretty regularly. They're not PSUs that I buy, just the ones that happen to be in machines that I service. I see them in lots of OEM machines. And then I take them out and replace them with whatever I've...

Firefox should do a thing where it releases memory that is allocated for tabs you're not immediately using. As I understand things, the biggest issue with poorly coded flash applets has something to do with demanding to be refreshed too many times per second or something. Youtube really isn't...

They're SSDs. They're legitimately faster. And they're what's available now.

Actually, there's an offline Gmail doohickey you can install on your computer to provide full access to email without an internet connection, if you need something like that.