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I found out my co-workers were advising their students to make sure their new computers had those things. It was another facepalm moment. All they do is suck and break. And not the good, awesome kind of sucking, either.

You're missing torrents. Torrents complete everything but sports and local news. You should have other sources for news and I don't think sports should exist in the first place.

Ebay, sir. Ebay.

They have more functionality on Windows Server.

I really don't use Netflix streaming very often. I remember that Netflix offered me Season 4 episodes while season 4 was still airing, but I could be mistaken. The main use I have for Netflix streaming is watching Documentaries that I don't think are worth putting in my regular queue.

Dynamic disks have been around since Windows 2000. They're a perfectly standard technology in the Windows world.

Hulu has content from all the major broadcast networks and most major movie studios. It has SciFi and Fox and ABC and CBS stuff, and Fox and Universal movies, among others. The problem is that premium content is weirdly inconsistent. So for example, Hulu Plus might have season 2 of Desperate...

Netflix has a streaming only plan. Hulu has free and premium content. Both are priced at $7.99 a month. That's a good start. Torrents are so disgustingly easy to work that some clients allow for scheduled downloads of new TV shows via RSS. If you want to make it safer from a legal standpoint...

Need moar drives. If anybody has a 30, 40, 80GB notebook drive (or bigger, whatever), IDE or SATA, let me know how much you want for it.

Macrium just uses .zip files for everything. It's a file backup, not imaging software.

It's different. I only have TI 2011 on a couple computers. I don't find myself cloning to smaller drives very often, either.

I did a google product search. I wasn't even looking very hard.

It'd be more like $150 after I paid tax on the income. Plus neither of those things runs Android and has all kinds of cool hacker-y things to play with.

I was kind of thinking it might be a decent portable gaming device.

One of my customers is offering me an Evo in exchange for settling a $250 debt. It'd be the tiniest of tablets for me unless I bothered to switch over phone service, but it might be a fun toy. Apparently, he has two because he he lost one and his phone insurance gave him another, then somebody...

I think that over time most of the changes on Newegg have been for the better. I wonder how much of the current scheme is due to the fact that they're about to become a public company.

Xmarks lives. Now free with for-pay options for smartphone-having types.

Possibly not as much as you think. Acronis SBS edition and Backup Exec are both around that price and have the distinct advantage of being much more familiar products. A Google Products search shows TrueImage Server 10 for $450, too.

Shirts, yes. My pants don't wrinkle, though. Which probably means I'm making some kind of faux pas by wearing that kind, but I'm dressed significantly better than every other male adult I see on a daily basis, so I don't really care.

Newegg has gotten worse. Amazon + Prime for shipping takes are of an awful lot of what I need, but Amazon's selection sometimes leaves something to be desired. Amazon doesn't offer many good chassis, for example, and it's much easier to see specs and do comparisons on Newegg. I wind up shopping...

There is security there. It looks like you have to provide a password. But it's still pretty trivial since we all know the defaults.

SD, there was a big jump in functionality between TrueImage 11 and the 2010 version. I know 2010 supports more RAID stuff. I don't know if it would help in your situation but I did want to mention the fact that the program has changed a bit since then.

Re: OpenFiler - My requirements are for one server. Space is a factor, because these offices weren't laid out to support any sort of data closet or area for any network infrastructure more serious than a cable modem and AP screwed to a wall. Because I need .ASP and Sharepoint, I'm forced to do...

Well now I know exactly how I'm going to DDOS residential IPs from now on...

I think it's more that they didn't take the time to update the interface on the rescue side. There's no technical reason why one version can't look like the other.

I've had the same black tie tied for 10 or 12 years. I keep it in my car. I've needed to wear it maybe twice since the year 2000.

The market for what, exactly? They have Windows Storage Server for appliances. I've tried and tried to get home and small business users interested in WHS. It's a total non-starter.

For the most part, if you're needing to use the delicate setting on a washing machine, you're probably way better off hand washing it with Woolite or letting a dry cleaner do it. For me, everything goes in the machine on the warm water setting. I pay $1 to have my button down shirts dry cleaned...

Apparently WHS is losing its only interesting feature for the next release. I was toying with the idea of setting up a WHS machine to deal with the mismatched collection of large drives I have sitting around and to provide some relief for my overburdened file servers, but now that looks like a...

Have you tried lspfix? At that point I'd probably just do a repair install or good old fashioned wipe and reload.

Coug is in Quebec. Whether or not that's actually Canada depends on who you're asking. You should know that, LM.

Congratulations on your birthday, jtr.

Did you install Catalyst yet?

Take a look and tell me that this is not completely awesome.

Supposedly they have some kind of secret stash of devastating information they'll pull out if the US messes with their site in any serious fashion. Assange isn't the only Wikileaks admin. He's primarily the public face of the group.

Fallout 3 wound up being a huge disappointment. Not enough tile sets or different bad guys to fight and it just wasn't very much like the other Fallout games. Anyway, as I said before, modern gaming is pretty barren to me. It's a damned shame now that we have such awesome hardware, but I can...

That was a joke, mubs.

No, not automatically. TrueImage can't do scripted restores, either. It's not a difficult process to restore, but it is a bit obnoxious because the Rescue/Boot Time environment has a different interface from the Windows program.

It's not my fault that modern computer gaming is so terrible. Bad games. Horrible control schemes. Unacceptable copy protection. Assumptions of console behavior on vastly more capable hardware. I'm not seeing the good in anything that's been released in the last five years or so. Dragon Age...

I don't think it's an ego trip, Bozo. I think he's legitimately striving to create some greater transparency in the way that these enormous organizations that control our lives actually work.

I've been able to get close with TrueImage. You can establish backups on a two hour threshold if you want. New versions of TrueImage have support for nonstop backup, but I haven't tried it out. Carbonite also does backup in real time.

I really don't think that the things Assange is doing are going to be good for his health. It might not happen immediately, but I don't think these stunts are compatible with a peaceful, long life. I really do think Wikileaks is doing something valuable. In the past it has hosted not just...

Is it too late to suggest that getting married is supposed to end man's involvement with laundry? Because my friends on Fark would be ashamed if someone did not contribute that comment.

I'm not going to run out of space or bandwidth, but it does add to the amount of scrolling required to read the thread. Just to be a little on topic, here, it's a PITA to enable monitor cloning on Catalyst. I have to screw around for five minutes every time I need to do it. But you really...

Isn't that the point of those Seagate Hybrid drives?

My choices for Grocery shopping are really limited otherwise. I'd have to either make a 20 mile round trip every time I want something or go to a little market that's a half-step up from a convenience store.

My current plan is to use software for a RAID1 for OS stuff and a controller-based RAID for the actual database. I was thinking about a Perc5 as a starting point since I have a spare one. I'd like to make an allowance for storage expansion. Personally I think 2TB of storage is plenty for...

My only choice for reasonably close grocery shopping is a WalMart. I know from experience that there's no point to shopping for groceries during December at any point before 10PM because WalMart is ALWAYS crowded. I managed to get 10 Gigabyte G31M motherboards for $350, which I thought was a...

Over the weekend I helped my father build some shelving for his home theater setup, a task made difficult by the fact that his TV is mounted in a recessed cabinet over a gas fireplace. He went to Home Depot, bought three large, flat pieces of birch and, with a table saw and a router, turned the...

And it would make you a filthy console gamer.