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It needs to come down a bit more before I could entertain a change.

Also, it's trivially easy to change a MAC address.

Basically, nothing can interact with a PST unless you have Outlook installed. Things that import PSTs into other programs all require that Outlook is present on the system in the first place. So install Outlook (and I know you have licenses), and then you can use the Gmail uploader or just the...

In the end I decided not to do it, because I'd be bored in fairly short order and because it would be a step down in terms of my independence.

I installed the newest set of ATI drivers (dated 1/27/2010), which did not end my problem with ATI CCC on Server 2008R2. However, removing the drivers in Device Manager and rebooting seems to have taken care of whatever weirdness it was having, because ever since then I've been able to access...

... and that's coming from an M.D.

I doubt it. And the only thing they'd get out of having my passphrase is access to my internet connection, which is kind of pointless since mine is being used quite heavily and my neighbors mostly have open APs. I guess if I didn't have security applied to my shared files, I'd probably have...

Mine is only 19 characters long. I doubt I'm particularly insecure.

It's really easy, when you're writing code that handles strings like that, to mess up the string length someplace. I wouldn't think somebody working on a driver like that might do it, but I know I screwed it up enough times when I was an undergrad. Also, how many people actually use a 63-digit...

Try using a shorter key. See if it works.

I've set up targets on Centos for my Windows machines to use, but it doesn't sound like that's terribly helpful for you, ddrueding.

TrueImage Backup and Restore Server. Only $900 a copy. :P Most disk imaging programs are either going to be open source, which means they might not support a full range of operations, or they'll be commercial software targeted to desktop machines. DriveImageXML explicitly supports backups under...

When you install Server 2008, there's a default configuration that actually has a whole, whole bunch of stuff turned off, and that support is only enabled through the addition of a server role called "Desktop Experience." Once Desktop Experience is installed, the machine becomes eligible to...

Some people use Windows Server as a workstation, and it's certainly useful for certain devices such as keyboards and mice. It's rather silly to restrict hardware support simply because someone can't see a need for it. I can't see a need for Western Digital Hard drives, but I still expect that...

Yes.

Figured out what's wrong with Bluetooth on Server 2008R2. Server 2008 R2 flat-out doesn't support Bluetooth. So that answers that.

It has a higher contrast ratio than my other TVs, but that particular set doesn't have the black level that's supposed to be the big improvement for going LED over LCD.

My parents are moving away anyway. I never see any of my friends in person, either, I know internet people in all three of the possible locations I might move. My biggest doubts come from the fact that I'd be giving up my private contracting, which I've come to think of as a safety net (these...

32" feels just about right for a desktop monitor to me. Also, some people don't want a room that is utterly dominated by a television set. I don't understand those people, but they're out there. I have a 32" Samsung LED TV. It's a nice display, though I'll admit that I could have gotten away...

The 6.5 upgrade isn't all that interesting, and IIRC the Touch (I have basically the same phone) is missing some of the external buttons WM6.5 is expecting. I like the fact that Windows Mobile and Android pretty much universally run on the same platform. It's nice to have an open system and a...

I took a huge pay cut last year at my salaried job. I have no benefits or retirement plan. I love the job I have; it's well-suited to my skills and talents, but I hate where I live and I'm not sure how much longer my company can stay afloat given current conditions anyway. Last night someone...

Newegg reviewers generally aren't people you should listen to about anything. They don't buy enough parts to have any basis for evaluation. Some guy gets a drive damaged in shipping or fucks up a motherboard he's never tried to use in a build, and he gives it a bad review. If I see 300 people...

That's light for me. Some of my machines have had some of the same tabs open since before Firefox 2.0 was released. 80 - 100 open tabs is not atypical. Over the holidays I went around and did what I was meaning to do with those tabs on a lot of machine so that I could actually close them. This...

And after a reboot and reload of all 44 tabs, Firefox memory use jumped as high as 460MB during mass page load and dropped to 320MB once all the tabs finished loading. So there's an issue there somewhere.

Hm. On the other hand, Firefox is using 1.3GB of RAM on the machine I'm sitting at and I only have about 50 open tabs. That seems a touch excessive, especially since I just rebooted a couple weeks ago.

Generally speaking, I convert BDs and DVDs to fairly high bit-rate MP4 or .mkvs with Handbrake or Nero Vision (Vision seems to be faster, Handbrake has tons more options for quality), or RipBot264 for BDs. I preserve special features and store them with the main movie file and attach director's...

I've heard basically nothing about the HD3, except some stuff that links back to one Chinese site. HTC usually does refresh its phones annually, so it's certainly possible. In the US that phone is only available to T-mobile (and I guess ATT if they wanted to swap a SIM card). The CDMA version...

The overall lowest standard 500 minute + 5GB/month plan is T-mobile. IIRC they offer something at $39.95 a month. There was a chart on Consumerist.org about that last week. All Windows Mobile phones that offer 802.11 can be made to act as access points through a program called WMWifiRouter...

14 open tabs, 328MB RAM used. Do you perhaps have a bunch of flash shit going on?

I have yet to hear of a person who was actually happy with Vonage service, including people who do basically nothing else with their internet connection besides Email.

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It's Sanitary Naptacular!

I did in fact blow the tea I was sipping out my nose when I heard "ipad." Now I have to clean tea off my Thinkpad. :\ Anyway, Apple is releasing a seriously misguided overlarge cell phone with a hilarious name. I'm interested in this. I'm really more partial to Windows Mobile, but a 4.3" OLED...

USB monitor?

I've been using Linux softRAID a lot longer than that. It's worked beautifully for years, though LVM wasn't particularly polished and I don't think there was much in the way of install-time support for it.

They're still selling the same products that they sell to consumers. I'll bet they have the same support organization as well.

The fact that it's a Sony computer product means that it's oriented toward consumers, since they don't have a business computer unit to begin with. I hope you like 90 minute phone calls with five different East Asian Individuals just find out that they class your BD-ROM as non-user-serviceable...

Features that make things pretty don't make their products not consumer grade crap, and I probably don't need to remind you of my experiences with Sony's hardware support organization.

I don't go on vacations. When I was with my ex I generally couldn't afford it or she couldn't take time off school anyway. The girls I know will point attractive women out to me and talk about their lives a lot more frankly than maybe a guy wants to hear. It's a stereotype, but most of my...

You didn't know them well enough. They're crazy, it's just different crazy from how straight girls do it. Also, and I say this from multiple experiences, when they're at the wrong point in their cycles (they eventually synchronize; it's a hormonal thing I guess), you need to wear a helmet and...

I'd say that's a real problem if that's not what you want to do with your life.

No but I lived with one for five years and they make up most of my real-life social circle.

Slackware is VERY Unix-traditional. It's probably not a good choice for someone who doesn't want to invest time in really getting to know the Unix way of doing things. Personally, I use Centos on my home Linux servers, but my configuration at this point is pretty bare-bones. I've been using...

I couldn't begin to tell you what the issue might be with that. I'm not an Ubuntu fan. It has too many Debian cooties (Debian people being the FSF "It has to be GNU/Linux and not just Linux" morons). Hopefully you made a partition for /home and another for everything else. Anyway, if you...

I've never had employer provided insurance either. I have catastrophic coverage only. I have no idea where or who gets corporate IT jobs other than those on contract basis, and I vaguely suspect that in the future more and more jobs with be defined-length contracts rather than permanent...

Well, the Zipang 2 is definitely silent. It's also parallel to the plane of the motherboard, so there's no uncertainty about which position or orientation I should use for the fan. It does overhang my DIMM slots more than I'd like, but I can reach under it, so it's not a big deal. Not bad for $35.

Acer does not fit. Ever. Toshiba has business products and business support, but their business products are still too crappy to merit consideration. I know a couple people who SWEAR mainstream Asus notebooks are good products, but I've only seen a couple non-Eee examples and they didn't seem...

Most boards with multiple integrated video ports only support using one at a time. The last time I went looking for something that would run integrated DVI + Integrated VGA, I wound up with an oddball Asus board based on very specific wording in the product specs that indicated that it could use...

Before you go off blaming Linux, why not try a platform with a different installer, like SuSE or RedHat/Centos?

To me, anything that gets consumer rather than business class support (and to the best of my knowledge Sony does not have a business support division for computer products) is consumer garbage. The HP Envy branding is (or at least was) used for gaming products, which is its own special...