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Here's my old thread. They don't sell the products I used any longer.

I built my own WAP/Router using an ARM-based system and a couple mini-PCI NICs. I essentially followed a guide someone else wrote to get it up and running with a custom Linux install. It cost about $600 to get all the hardware but it's been utterly reliable. I've heard good things about...

I have Samba acting as NT4-type domain controllers out in the world, almost entirely to sync passwords across workstations. It's great for that. I played with Active Directory on Samba for a while but in the end I got annoyed when weird things didn't work, and I couldn't really convince anybody...

Basically nothing that happens in trade press is actually journalism, SD.

No idea. It went in a build I had to get out the door.

When I try to be tidy about cabling, I use binder clips. They're cheap and come in different sizes for different tasks.

The more I think about it, the more it really pisses me off that troubleshooting this was so difficult. Direct Metabase editing was supposed to be similar to editing httpd.conf for people who didn't want to bother with the IIS admin console (which sucks in and of itself, because that's what I...

I received a 160GB X25-M from Newegg yesterday that was in its approved packaging yet contained a functional install of Vista Home Premium.

Samsung says it was that guy's particular antivirus package giving a false positive StarLogger to a SLovenian language package. They reproduced it and everything.

Restoring the Metabase seems to have fixed it, but I'll be damned if I could see a problem with what was there.

No. I have Godaddy-assign SSL certificate in place because he was talking about doing Ecommerce, but the stuff he's doing redirects to another server now for shopping cart crap. The /OMA is set to use Basic authentication. /Exchange uses NTLM. Most everything else is just plain to IUSR-blah...

Did you try a different mouse?

I really don't like the way XP Mode works for much of anything besides MS Office. With Office, it's seemless and everything is perfect. Yay. When I try it for the crufty old Win32 database apps my customers use for their businesses, I run into all kinds of weird issues when they try to run the...

I think XBoot just uses a Linux boot loader. That doesn't necessarily mean that a Linux kernel is loading.

I have one Exchange Server left in my life. It belongs to one of my least favorite human beings, a man who hates Google Apps Premier and enjoys making my life miserable. His public facing IP recently changed, and when it did, Exchange OMA (the thingy that does ActiveSync, the whole reason he...

Awesome.

It's SSDmas at Intel today. Faster drives and lots of price cuts but I hope nobody was saving up for an X25-E.

In the random, but good column: A map of the world, coded by average bra size.

Firmware-level incompatibility? I've run into older 1.5Gbps SATA RAID cards that don't want to work with 3Gbps drives a couple times. That one always surprises me a little, because the specifications are supposed to be backward-compatible.

The Amazon App store for Android is kind of interesting. They offer a paid app for free every day. So far, they've mostly been stupid little games, but I have to say that I've made it a point to check what they have on offer pretty regularly, unlike Android Market.

Japan effectively only has one political party. How is that surprising.

I'd just like to point out that that is definitely part of the Japanese cultural mentality to sacrifice in the name of the employer's interest. Certain death on the job is probably the cultural ideal of martyrdom there.

Clearly, the man needs to eat more fiber.

This sounds more like the OCZ I know.

I bought one of those $500 Asus i5s that woot.com was offering on Monday. I took it out this morning and I'm looking at it. It doesn't appear to be constructed differently from any other $500 plastic notebook. I'm thinking "This is the company that supposedly makes the most generally reliable...

I am on my way to a 110 hour work week and I am hating life right now. Probably less than Lunar, but this is not a good week.

If you go in to the options menu, there's menu option called "Toolbar Layout" that lets you drag crap around. So it's possible to put Reload and Home back where they belong.

For operating on legacy machines. Sorry.

As usual, I can't upgrade most of my machines to the new version yet because my addons aren't widely supported yet. I think they might have over emphasized javascript and HTML5 at the expense of other stuff. And it's a damned shame that new Firefox isn't really an acceptable legacy browser.

I'll bet they say it's user damage now.

I'd argue that anything quad core is pretty powerful, but with all the stuff we can do now with HTML and Javascript, I guess that might not be true any more.

It's possible. How many years has it been since you last bought one? I think it's been eight years for me. The numbers on 2TB drives sort of confirm my experiences as well.

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I would be vastly more likely to return and expensive Antec, Corsair or Seasonic PSU than I would an FSP Group cheapie.

I flatly don't believe you. I can't even get those fuckers to return an email in any given three day time frame.

I've contemplated building with 40GB Intel SSDs to get affordable high performance I/O. I'd definitely not want to do that for a live business app unless I had a very good backup and recovery plan in place. Windows SoftRAID can be a PITA to resync in RAID5, but a degraded RAID5 on SSDs should...

I think the thing to emphasize is that the Norco case is SOLID. It's a good bit of steel with tons of room for expansion and for that matter customization if need be. I can't argue with your pricing concerns, but I've bought them for as little as $80 shipped with rails, and at that price they're...

The Norco cases are solid, generic enclosures if they're available locally. The one I like is an RP450 or something. They have a "bridge" center support that's designed to hold six 3.5" hard drives and they can be made silent fairly easily.

Never a tie. I only just taught myself to tie one a couple weeks ago, and that was just because I found one while I was cleaning my closet. I have some sport coats I put on a few times a year and that's about it. I did not think I could talk to another person for three minute with any degree...

He's fairly convinced that the issue is some kind of incompatibility between Apple devices and everything else. He knows he doesn't have issues with his notebooks. But he's not giving up the Apple stuff. He likes it too much. I sent him a link on updating the firmware on his stuff but I have no...

The $329 warranty includes accidental damage coverage, not just defect issues. I'd think long and hard about whether it's worth 20% - 40% of the purchase price of the notebook, but it's also something they discount relatively frequently.

Cough. Let's just say there was a mutual appreciation for the chicks in costume. She is 30. I am being vague because Google.

Since my friend in Wyoming is still recovering from the surgery she had back in December, I had to go to my comic book convention stag. As it happens, the convention had a Speed Dating event. I decided to participate and it was a lot of fun. I was the oldest person in the room, even older than...

I'm not sure what that means I should feel about Xboxes, given what I think of Steam.

I took 122 pictures at the comic convention I went to. Still only used half the battery on my Evo. I am impressed by that. I am also surprised by how well the image stabilization works. I only took four shakey pictures all day. I would say my phone is very credible for point and shoot photos.

Just a quick update on wireless weirdness: At my customer's insistence, I've tried three different firmware revisions on the Trendnet router and screwed around with the wireless encryption scheme, going from WPA2 to WPA to WEP to nothing. I also switched to channel 1 rather than 11. The icrap...

ddrueding, if you want a backup, I wouldn't mind having a different job.

I know the 2TB Seagates are just abortions in the disk error department. I think I believe Hitachi when they say that.

Did anyone else notice the "shop and compare" button at the bottom with the Walmart logo? Because when I think of Enterprise SLC-based SSDs with an SAS interface, I think of Walmart.

I've seen issues like that from having a motherboard short I didn't notice. MSI motherboards: I've not had good luck with them. Lots of in-warranty failures that I didn't bother to replace.