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OpenDNS fixes a lot of stuff for me, but I wish they had better a better reporting system in place.

I suspect an advanced telecommunication network based on baby-eating dingos and maladjusted wallabies.

Black Box pisses me off. They use proprietary cables and ship slowly.

I've had uneven luck with the 1TB Hitachis. Perhaps a 20% DOA rate. I blamed it on shipping damage, since all my orders have been for just a couple drives at a time. They're still vastly better than my luck with 1TB+ Seagate drives. I don't think I've had a 2TB Seagate drive last nine months.

NSFW if uou let it run.

I'd move the HEC Orion up a notch and I think I'd put all the Fotron/FSP group power supplies down on the bottom, at the very least. But yeah, that's a decent summary.

It's a lot easier for me to justify a $60 case with $3 in shipping than a $50 case with $20 in shipping. Those inexpensive Compucase chassis are just about the only thing I buy from Newegg at this point.

The way I read it, it only applies to keys that are presently unclaimed, and if the site said you got 10 keys, you still get 10 keys. I can verify that through another associated sub.

Based on the newest Retail Technet Pro subscription that I have, it appears that I'm limited to five product keys for products that allow for multiple downloads. Technet Standard keys get just two product keys. Using an Office 2007 Standard key provided through Technet, I was able to Activate...

I just bought a couple of these. 2U, 8 3.5" bays, and they accept a uATX board. That's good enough for me.

Amazon Prime is $4/item for overnight with Prime. Amazon still doesn't have everything Newegg does but it's better than nothing. I also notice that shipping on Newegg's cases is suddenly much more reasonable, but the price on each case is now about $10 higher.

Looks like Newegg has figured out that it needs to compete with Amazon Prime.

Any Thinkpad that's compatible with the Ultrabay, even going back as far as the T20, can have a SATA drive bay. Yes really. As I recall, there are still disk controller limitations, but the drives are at least detected in the BIOS. Lenovo also doesn't like to discuss the fact that the Ultrabay...

Samsung makes NAND Flash chips. It's not like they don't have an exit strategy. I have a feeling spinning disks are going to be around for a good long time. Perhaps not as a growth market, but one that nonetheless needs to be served. Samsung is weird though. It has very limited relationships...

Well, that WAS an off the cuff comment, not meant to be taken with precision. But truthfully, the phones that are being released right now are shipping with 1.2GHz dual-core CPUs, which is close enough to the start of things in 2Q 2001 that I'd be comfortable with that shorthand. They're not...

I've read speculation that Samsung would like to exit the magnetic disk business as well

The whole point is to have access when one is not near those things. Plus it's kind of nice to be able to reply to e-mail while taking a porcelain vacation.

I concur, but it's much easier when you have some kind of anchor to the many terabytes of data you would undoubtedly like to access.

Over 2000 individual Youtube users learned a voice part and contributed to this virtual choir.

It should be noted that there is a limited amount of Uranium in the world, that new sources are increasingly hard to obtain, and that obtaining them causes tremendous environmental damage on its own. Nuclear power, as much as I like and approve of it, isn't going to get us very far.

I would like to make the case that a machine with a 1GHz CPU and something north of 256MB RAM would have been a desktop machine worthy of drool just 10 years ago, and having that computer in an SMP configuration would have been godly, especially when it's tapped in to an always-on 2Mbps internet...

I don't actually have any SSDs doing anything important, now that I think about it. They're boot drives that connect to my local storage configuration, which is triple-redundant and spread out over dozens of drives, plus I have tapes.

I thought the standard was just to use mineral oil.

I shall henceforth refer to the collective Hitachi/WD as "Ass."

TotalFark. The guy I'm talking to is a BSD contributor and former EMC employee. Our conversations to date have suggest that he's done meaningful firmware work in the past on pretty serious storage products and kicked the tires on open source filesystem implementations. I wouldn't be surprised...

16GB is plenty for an install of XP, Office, a decent web browser and a meaningful amount of end-user data. My sysprep install for XP SP3 + Office 2003 and a ton of extra drivers clocks in at just a hair over 1.5GB, less the swap and hibernation files.

Turns out, I know a guy on another forum who actually does work on Intel SSD firmware. Given the exchanges I've had with him in the past year, I have no reason to think that he's lying or joking about it. He's very down on Intel MLC products. Very down. He's suggested without confirming that...

MMO fangirl.

This girl wants a 6800-series Radeon, actually.

Coug, I'd just like to point out that there are some pretty awesome things in this world that are pink and if you don't know what those things are I suggest watching more porn. Or, y'know, getting some special lady time. Either way. I need an all green case though, not mostly black with green...

Yes. Those are exactly the things I would not tell anyone to buy, ever.

USB speakers do.

In one of those weird cases of synchronicity, I've been asked by two different people in the last couple days about the possibility of getting a computer in a color other than black or beige. One of them wants a neon green case, the other wants pink. Yes, pink. Yes, it's for a girl. I'm not...

Klipsch speakers sound boom-y and awful, pretty much the opposite of how I want speakers to sound. Speakers need to be at least capable of subtlety. Most of the time I'd rather set up a home theater system to handle sound anyplace where I actually care what I might listen to. I like having a...

My apartment's power bill is nearly $200 a month now. Most of that is just leaving PCs on all the time, especially the four file servers. I'm not expecting that cost to go down, but at the same time I still want those systems to be on and operating when I want to use them. ddrueding, why not...

Good luck, Lunar. Enjoy being in a decent country for once.

One of my customers just moved to new office and chose to switch to a Comcast business package that included phone service. His phones were working over the weekend while I was setting up his racks and crap. Monday: No dialtone. He called Comcast, they did tests, said they'd send a truck. These...

This is the chick Greg is always talking about, Diana Lee. This is sorta safe for work, or at least not any worse than stuff on MTV. It's 17MB. This is the whole long video, which is tame even by Playboy Standards but still not safe for work. 120MB. Source is VHS cassette captured at 320x240...

Comcast has won every year so far.

I don't think the 5400rpm drives are reliable enough for general use. I think they're made from manufacturing rejects or something, based on the staggering failure rates I've had with them across Seagate, Hitachi and Samsung models. I should not have to RMA 20% of any model of drive I buy, but...

Coug, do you have a sample of that thing or know where I can infect something with it? I want to see what my removal practice does to it.

timwhit, are you aware that the brewery that makes your 312 Ale recently got sold to one of the huge domestic breweries?

If I remember, I'll try to host a safe for work clip of Diana Lee from her Video Playmate profile, just for Santilli's benefit. She was and probably still is, knowing how Asian people usually age, a fantastically beautiful woman.

I already knew how to do that. It's just that I'd rather advise other people to use a tool than do command prompt stuff.

I've never seen Search Conduit. It looks like it infests one's Firefox Profile, and if that's the case the best thing to do is probably just nuke the profile and start over.

I got my father to switch to a Trackman when his wrists became bad. In the end, he did have to seek a surgical solution, but he did find the Trackman much more comfortable than the mouse he had been using previously and he still uses one.

Looks like you can. Even if you're just working with the shell, most of commands are things you're going to run once and then just let the device sit and be an appliance.

That's how I got my 802.11n card.

You just buy mini-PCI cards. There are lots of choices. You should be able to get away with an Intel or Broadcom-whatever.

Why are you fucking around with Readyboost on a machine that already has 12GB RAM? Also: Why are you using Internet Explorer?