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Let me know how much you want for 'em.

I really hope that's a typo 'cause a 4% better 3DMark score and less processing geegaws in trade for lower idle power consumption doesn't seem that interesting

I can at least see the point to having Sharepoint, though I suspect that in larger corporate settings implementing it is just an extension of the office-peon tendency to do absolutely everything in Excel so they don't have to learn some other tool.

They're comparing last year's $250 card to this year's $325 card.

Lots. I carry five drives around in my notebook bag. I seem to find new reasons to have them all the damned time.

Parallel ports use IIRC 17 pins in standard operation so you'd need three cables and possibly a dumb repeater as well for a run of that length. I have to imagine that the bulk of 3 cat5 strands has to be comparable to a normal parallel cable.

Does anyone have any smallish, working 2.5" drives they're looking to part with for some reasonable price? I'm looking for 30GB+ drives, IDE or SATA.

That doesn't look like an apples to apples comparison to me. In fact, it looks kind of underwhelming.

Don't use those things.

Sadly, Foxit Reader is also getting rather bloated. I think the installer is up to 6MB now and it spews crap like browser toolbars on your computer, too. I'm giving serious thought to moving to Sumatra. The Foxit Reader installer that's available on ninite.com doesn't install the extra crap at...

It's basically using the IE embeddable component inside your Firefox Window, so it's using whatever IE is on your computer. There are options to let it inherit settings from Firefox as well. The only place I use IEtab is to pay my power bill. Even MSDN subscriber downloads don't require IE any...

This is why there is value to occasionally paying attention in those liberal arts classes they make you take when you get a real degree instead of going to a glorified trade school.

I think the word "fun" in the headline might also be inaccurate, since no one in the history of time has ever had fun with Office. ;)

I want to know where LM is getting lesbian video cards. Some of my friends would be very interested in them.

I'm sure he did, but in this post he sounds like some of the less clueful folks I help, e.g. "What version of Windows do you have?" "It has Word!" "Um..." "2003 Word!"

Newegg has the very nice Antec NSK 4482B with a nice Antec 380W PSU for $65 +$3 shipping with coupon code EMCZYZX86 right now. Great case, good styling, solid if not fantastic PSU.

What is a Windows Office 2007?

I just bought some back in August and got 10. I redeem all the keys and save the list first thing.

Also, given that the system is in China, give the guy some credit for using any kind of legitimate license. He probably could have obtained a pirated copy of a fake license even more easily than one that really can pass Activation and Genuine Validation.

The least expensive sub that allows access to Windows and Office is US$200. You get 10 keys for each product, with some international editions counting as different products (Windows 7 N and K have different keys for each edition). Each key can be re-activated a certain number of times: Vista...

I've looked at Youtube videos and I really do not get Minecraft at all.

I was thinking that you could just use a second WANem session to represent the additional variable delay for your new device. Two WANems in series, I suppose.

Why can't you just run an additional VM with another instance of WANem? You're doing all static routes anyway, right?

4000 is a good number of posts to have.

Yes. These days Netflix streaming is built in to a lot of BD players and all the game consoles, so that's not a particularly interesting trick any more. I think my TV will stream Pandora if you give it an internet connection, too.

I can think of a few reasons, starting with flexibility to easily adopt new technologies instead of waiting for consumer electronics to catch on to something, ease of control from doing everything with a single device (my mom can't work a satellite TV box + Tivo but she does OK with just an HTPC...

Gog.com has added Planescape: Torment, very possibly the best role playing game of all time, period; and also Icewind Dale, another Infinity Engine title, to its list of available products.

It's extremely unrealistic to think you're going to get any greater subjective improvement once you've gotten the SSD thing going. I say use what you have and be happy that things are only going to get bigger and cheaper.

I hate ebay so much now. I can't believe something that used to be so awesome has been ruined THAT much.

Newegg just kills you, doesn't it? I think I've purchased more stuff from Amazon and Provantage this year than I have from Newegg. The flat $80 for two-day delivery on everything I order from Amazon saves me hundreds of dollars a year, easy.

SSDs are funny in that the product announcement seems to coincide almost entirely with the release date. I don't see much advance publicity at all for new drives. The just show up and then there's a post on Engadget or something that says "Oh by the way Corsair released a bunch of new drives...

I believe the i7/875 is also multiplier unlocked.

FormatFactory is a great swiss army knife for anyone with a digital media collection.

TrueImage 2009 is the one version I don't have installed anyplace. I was able to open a little 2GB .tib I made on my laptop in 2011 on one of my classroom PCs in TrueImage 2010. I didn't actually restore, but the archive opened just fine.

I don't like to wear clothes either, Coug. I kind of see the need for shirts when cooking bacon, but other than that clothes pretty much suck.

There's one just a few miles away, and it is where I buy clothes, but at $25 for a new shirt and $45 for a pair of pants, it adds up. I'm thinking about looking into Bozo's suggestion, but in my neck of the woods I doubt I'll find much in the way of professional-looking attire. It's funny that...

Xrecode is an excellent program. I use it as well.

I want the chassis, not the whole device. Some day it will be nice to not need four huge rackmount machines to get a paltry 64TB of storage.

Because it's not lossy, and once it's on my file server I can put it in any other format if I need to. My portable player plays flac, so I generally don't bother to convert.

I wish I knew where to get that chassis.

I'm pretty sure you just start plugging in cables until they start working.

The whole point of weighing less is so you get to wear less clothes that have elastic.

Western Digital: For storing data you didn't really want anyway, since 1970. I'm down to 225lbs. The annoying thing about this is that now I need a bunch of new clothes and I don't really want to buy them.

When I was a kid, my father made me play a game called Robot Odyssey to teach me the basics of Electrical Engineering. Nothing to do with rockets, but looking for a rocket design game reminded me of it.

I'm always on the lookout for a solid $25 PSU. I've never been able to consistently purchase one brand or model at that price point. It seems to really be a crapshoot. I usually do wind up buying $35 spares (Antec Basiqs are also good when I find them that cheap), but I always grumble a little...

I'm sure I'll have a chance to check soon enough. I can say that TrueImage 10 (from 2007 or 2008) won't open TrueImage 2010 files.

FormatFactory will do that, and can manage it as a batch conversion job, too.

Intel has been doing that on some of their consumer products for at least the last three years. I know it sounds weird but they DO make some hardware they intend to market to gamers and the like. They're just not very good at it since they don't put robotic dragons and anime shit all over their...

I've only seen four or five Gigabyte boards with bad caps out of hundreds I've built and sold. MSI, Abit and ECS are names I associate with that particular problem. The place I seem to have the most issue on Gigabyte boards usually winds up being USB ports dying. I had to throw away a bunch of...

I normally use CDex to convert to .flac.