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Completely serious answer: Put them on Linux, or tell them to browse from a game system like a Wii.

UT (the original and the 2004 version) are hyper-paced, have great weapon balance, a huge variety of good maps and a lot of good game mods. Modern shooters seem to take the pace to one extreme or the other. Either the game is glacial or it's just retarded bunny hopping combined with spraying...

Your religious beliefs look a lot like shackles to me, and what's more, given the number of times someone has told me their faith is the only thing that keeps them from doing terrible things, I think it's a valid question to ask.

I've more or less settled on the idea that the only FPS I actually like is UT, and then only with bots.

1. This is Western Digital we're talking about. Your VR drives are just saving their failure for later. 2. Why are they bothering? WD just bought some company or other that makes SSDs. Given the already low capacity of Raptor drives and the lack of name recognition among enterprise vendors, why...

My Wyoming-friend is a big fan of Call of Duty.

Nope. I presume that the game has entered legal limbo. The trailer is a lot harder to find if you want to watch it, too. Goddamnitsomuch.

Absent your religious beliefs, would you still act the same way?

That sounds less like a power supply problem and more like a problem with how you have your equipment set up. The only power supplies that don't have rocker switches are the very lowest quality models.

I don't use it myself but some of the people I support are big fans of Ultramon.

Well, a couple of things happened. One is that they moved from having maybe OEM to Open Licensing, and from having some things that were of more than questionable legality (they had a lot of white boxes that used the old TPCRY serial number) to being entirely legal on software. The other is...

What does god have to do with it? Would you make those same choices without a book that told you to act in a certain way?

LM, what are you doing that you need to reimage your systems that often?

Sounds like LM is still using Windows 2000. ;)

Make sure that RAM is compatible on that board's HCL. Anyway, I'm still thinking vMotion is a worthwhile investment for you. It certainly adds a great deal to your ability to manage your Guest OSes, and since you're not planning to buy any more Windows servers, you can use the money you're...

Since I've basically managed around 40 hours of billable time for each of the last three weeks, it's not like I don't have the money. I've actually offered to put her on a plane and we can go where ever she likes; her only comment on the matter is that there's not really anything appealing about...

You sound like you derive your entire morality from your religion. Are you one of those people who thinks everyone needs the threat of eternal punishment to keep themselves from murder and rape? Because that's an argument I get a lot when talking to christians.

Handy, there are pictures of dicks in every forum today. While I am not a prude and do not particularly mind dicks, I would appreciate it if the moderation system somehow turned them in to boobs, because like every right-thinking person, boobs are what I would rather look at.

Clients backing up to a TrueImage Server that mirrors the data to a remote server someplace else, maybe?

So far I've done one "big" migration of 14 systems in an insurance office to Windows 7. They only use Office, a couple of tools to generate or edit PDFs and several web-based applications from the insurance networks they belong to (Farmer's et al), which bitch that they aren't using IE6 but...

SLC in general implies higher reliability though, right? That seems to be part of the technology. I'm more than willing to trade off slightly reduced performance if it'll give me "enterprise" reliability at a substantially reduced fraction of the price of high end units.

I think I'd rather split the workload to a second system for redundancy's sake, rather than building some obscenely beefy (and overpriced) single system, but this Tyan board looks like a pretty good deal. I do not like having all my eggs in one basket though.

OK. Say it with me: C-L-U-S-T-E-R

My understanding is that most cars burn a gallon of fuel for every half hour that they idle. Which explains my gas mileage on those trips I make to Westmont.

Other than minor ecclesiastical quibbles about stuff like the nature of free will and the relative value of action vs. ritual vs. listening to some mope with slicked-back hair and a mail order divinity degree , the various branches of your religion seem to pretty much be the same to me.

Things that are wrong with that: 1. It's on Verizon. That means having Verizon's retarded interface forced on it instead of whatever it's supposed to have, and paying to unlock features that should be included with the phone. 2. Made by Motorola. After seeing dozens of crappy RAZRs and at...

For the size of the offices I'm normally dealing with, port authentication isn't even an available option for the equipment.

These look awfully interesting. Especially since I just paid almost twice as much for SLC Vertex models. I wonder what's wrong with them. Anyway, you guys who are complaining about not being able to buy an X25-M, I'm in the same place. I've been trying for two weeks to buy a couple Radeon 58x0...

Yes. I've wanted to strangle people a couple of times over that.

There's stuff all over the Windows 7 training materials about .VHDs. The Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 installation process uses .VHD in place of .WIM files and the Windows Deployment Service in Server 2008 R2 can deploy .VHDs as readily as .WIM files for supported OSes. That's only a big deal if...

Maybe try running the backup at a priority above idle?

If you're dealing with non-routable IPs, it's entirely possible that the machine that reports itself as 192.168.1.1 isn't the machine you think it is. I've had to deal with weirdness of like employees bringing in their own Wireless routers. That can cause all kinds of weirdness.

I buy Antec cases from Provantage or Amazon sometimes. Amazon gives me 2-day shipping on everything, so I watch it for sales on Antec cases.

Blackberry is god-awful. Wouldn't touch one. Palm has the wrong idea of what phones should be like. I don't want a tiny screen and a bunch of hard buttons in the way of my mobile web experience. Android hardware (and network access) to date has been highly lacking. It's going to get the same...

Live Mesh seems really interesting. Especially from the standpoint of enabling remote desktop on "home" Windows systems.

WMwifirouter. Windows Mobile has had this one covered for a while. I really want my HTC HD2 now. Even if it does have a retarded non-stylus touchscreen.

I generally find ITX too limiting, but Antec's ISK300 looks like a pretty nice enclosure overall. Since LM wants an optical and two hard disks, I might suggest an Antec Minuet with an Intel G43 motherboard. The case is small but well built, and the motherboard is one of those sensible Intel...

I went ahead and bought TrueImage 2010. It seems to be a lot faster for backup and restores, though the interface is not quite as friendly as it used to be to new users. I don't know why they blocked it on the release version. I have it on my Thinkpad, which is still on the Release Candidate...

Weird. Maybe I'll make my students test a couple more install scenarios.

SATA by itself does not impose drive geometry limitations, to the best of my ability to research.

Apparently not everyone has access to that version. I know a number of small and medium businesses that can't use whatever the hell client they were provided with in Vista with their PIXes.

If you have Cisco's VPN client, it still won't work on Windows 7. Anyway, yeah, you can start your upgrade install from either Vista or XP and just choose to do a "custom" install and select the proper partition to put Win7 in. It's pretty painless.

GMA3100 has never enabled Aero Glass in my experience. You get a limited sub-set of Aero called Aero Basic instead, which I suspect uses a software renderer. My notebooks and my standard desktop builds (G31/G41-based) just get Basic in Vista/7.

Upgrade.

That's not normal behavior for any drive.

... or my personal Asus favorite, a BIOS-mandated and uncustomizable shutdown when the system temp hits 50C. Which is really easy to get if you have a decent video card.

Mine have been in the 20 minute ballpark, yeah.

The upgrade hole lives. I was able to install an unregistered custom install on a blank hard disk from Home Premium Upgrade media, and then use that installation as the basis for an install that I did finish and register.

OK, it's just islightly weirder than that. Everything "old" goes under Windows.old. The original Documents and Settings, Program Files and Windows folders are all there with no harm done. Very simple and straightforward, and the install took about 26 minutes on a 9 month old 2GB E5300 with a...

OK, just like I suspected, it's just like what happens when you install XP on a system with 2000, or XP on a system infected with Vista - when you start the install, the default is to do Upgrade, which doesn't work on XP. You have to restart and do an Custom install. Your existing Windows...