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When I paid off my Element, the quote BofA gave me for the amount to put on the check was apparently only valid for some tiny amount of time, like eight hours. So I mailed my check in and thought I'd get my title in the mail inthe next short while. Nope. Three months later I got a call asking...

Vegas might not have been. If I still had the source file I'd try it again.

Windows Mobile and Palm devices can use them. I'm sure Android will run on them, too. They tend to be clocked a lot lower than ARM but it's a respectable architecture.

I noticed a subjective difference for AVCHD to MPEG2 conversion going from a Samsung "green" drive as the location for the source file to doing the same work on an internal 7200rpm model on the same machine. Maybe 15% faster? Not huge, but noticeable.

I just bought a couple Asus multifunction devices. I'll be interested in seeing how horrible these things are.

If I might make a suggestion, Hitachi's 5-platter, 7200rpm 2TB drives are hovering around $115. Tons of space, high STR, not a WD. All the qualities you should be looking for. "Green" 5400rpm drives actually do pretty OK for a lot of stuff; they're great for backups and bulk storage, but from...

They're ARM or MIPS CPUs, Coug. The nicest ones you can get are dual core and operate at speeds in excess of 1GHz, but the ones in less expensive tablets are more likely 300 - 500MHz, just like most smartphones.

If you purchased from an online retailer this would not be an issue.

I've not known webcams to need drivers either.

It is? It's the same driver model that XP uses.

I don't think Android tablets are ready yet. The low cost models have pretty serious drawbacks; slow CPUs, running older versions of Android, no access to the standard App download service, shitty battery life etc. What I want to see is a full 1080-wide touch screen. I don't care how big the...

I believe that if you go through old threads about AP/router recommendations, I've said several times that DLink tends to have crummy firmware. I'm kind of surprised that it hasn't gotten any better, but it seems like the long-term status quo.

Is this a wide problem with that model or just with the one you have?

I use Btguard. I still don't download movies or popular music on my connection, either.

Not at all. I have no need at all.

Why would I need it?

Server 2008 is pretty solid for file/database stuff, but I have yet to meet an application server that didn't need to be administered into a bloody pulp on a fairly regular basis.

Important cards from from Etsy, and I buy a lot of blank inside cards that I pick up from Barnes and Noble or Borders.

I was working with a drive that I've used to boot before and I was working with an Intel branded board. Booting from pen drives is definitely inconsistent. My ancient-ass Thinkpad 560 can boot from USB but I've found Gateway desktops that won't detect my TrueImage boot drive.

My overall argument has been in favor of softRAID rather than the drive extender all along, but there's a certain appeal to being able to stick a random combination of 1.5, 2 and 3TB drives in a system and use that space as contiguous storage. I'm not going to look at anything on a WHS system as...

I asked very specifically and was told in no uncertain terms: Comcast business customers have no bandwidth caps. I pay $115 a month, I think, but I have two tiers of service upgrades. $90 or $100 is what most of my customers pay.

Well, yeah. But I've always been that. timwhit, there may very well be a regional component? If they're going off top 10% for people who live in high-rises around the Loop you probably aren't even on their radar.

As I recall, that didn't work when I tried it. As I recall the PC acted like there was no drive present and when straight on to trying a network boot.

I have a FreeDOS boot CD but I haven't had any luck making a working pen drive boot to DOS. Hiren's Boot Disk has a pen drive version, but I don't know if that's clean enough to use for BIOS flashing purposes. I do have a USB floppy drive, but every time I plug the thing in I feel like I'm...

Both. According to my students, they call and tell you even if you only went over by a tiny bit, like 3GB. Comcast says it only flags the top 10% of people who exceed the cap. I'm not sure which is true, but there's a reason I'm not on consumer service.

It depends a lot on how much stuff you feel you need. Personally a normal weekday for me is around 20GB. On a boring Sunday I might very well jump up to 50GB transferred. My router says I used 1391GB last month. I'm probably a bit of an outlier though.

They don't. It's sad but I can't fix their attitudes.

Smaller cluster sizes are also going to increase the potential for fragmentation and the amount of seeking the drive will be doing. The default is the default because it represents a happy medium between storage capacity and performance. And yes, journaling by itself is a compelling argument...

SCSI drives have all kinds of internal error control going on. If those bad sectors aren't moving there probably aren't any reserve sectors left to re-map. It's a shame but she's probably toast.

Can I just say how completely freaking obnoxious it is that so many flash utilities still need DOS. Most of my students, people taking classes to obtain Microsoft Professional Certifications, would buy a new drive before they'd do something in DOS.

The side effect of ongoing production of reality shows is that great TV is showing up in non-traditional places. If we didn't have American Idol and Survivor taking up broadcast TV timeslots, we might not have The Walking Dead or Mad Men or the Shield or Battlestar Galactia showing up on basic...

I'll probably put up my stuff next week.

One of my fellow TotalFark.com members is currently a contestant on that show. I believe he's lost around 200lbs. since the beginning of the year. Reality shows are pretty much the worst bullshit ever invented but on the other hand, there has been a pretty remarkable difference in that guy's...

Amazon uses whatever carrier is cheapest to get packages where they're going. For me it's mostly UPS or USPS. Fedex is on my shitlist.

Linkage.

Possibly relevant to some peoples' interests. I'll put this link over in Tools as well.

If it's connecting at all, it should connect at the highest speed it is capable of using.

Try Amazon.

Sell them to me so I can fill them up with movies of naked chicks who are making out and, uh, stuff.

That might have been the issue that people were complaining about when I was looking in to buying a bunch of 5400rpm 1.5 or 2TB drives. I have 3x 2TB and 4x 1.5TB Samsung drives sitting around, and 2x Seagate 2TB. I want to do something with them but somehow that collection of drives does not...

Kind of related to SD's "Why did I buy that new router?" story: One of my Thinkpads' wireless NIC is misbehaving. Not only does it drop connection regularly (every two minutes or so is a best-case, followed by 20 seconds for it to re-acquire the signal), but I'm told that when it is active...

The other side to that is that I have customers using LAMP stuff that was set up years ago and I've never touched it since. At this point I'd have to review my notes on how it's set up because I don't even remember. I have customers doing stuff on Windows machines where I have to do SOMETHING...

Honestly, this might be the sort of thing to try Twittering about. I don't think you'll get anywhere with Asus. I can't even get them to issue me RMAs most of the time. But other people might pick up that there's an issue and maybe you might get some attention for that. Presumably you also have...

Plus it's usually printed right on the bottom of the unit!

I have a feeling SuSE is going to get swallowed up.

I don't. Have you ever run into a disc where content is split so you can't tell what's what or what order things go in? If you have a copy of it, look at the file structure on Iron Man 2, for example.

I mostly use ripbot264. But it kind of sucks when titles are split across a bunch of files. So I wind up using Xilsoft's BluRay ripper to preview which titles are which and figure out what order they go in. Xilsoft's ripper almost always picks the wrong audio track to encode so I don't use it...

Does your local paper not have a web site?

The correct answer is to rip everything and forget you ever saw the disc. For old people the correct answer is to stick with DVDs. They can't see or hear the differences in the first place. Now, if only I didn't need three different apps for my .mt2s to .mkv conversion...