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Well, I wound up in Westmont today on a completely unrelated matter, so a stop at Microcenter has left me $420 poorer. Now I have to decide whether I want Server 03 or 2008 R2 or just plain Windows 7 on this one.

I'm not sure I saw a P4 with a metal retention clip. That's too bad because all the ones I can find are broken. Did P4s do anything right?

Birthdays are probably better than the alternative. Hope you got cake. :)

Accredited schools can get Academic Alliance subs, which amount to the same access as having an Action Pack.

Also, there's a royal.sys based Activation hack for Windows7 already. It works. I tested it.

The whole thing is, the guy has a couple web-based apps that make extensive use of Mailto: links to automate customer management. He's got an @sbcglobal.net webmail address now that he can check through Yahoo (seemingly without POP3 access) but that doesn't let him use Mailto: and it doesn't...

They block 578 also. I tried that before I did anything else. How completely bogus.

The donkey raping anime fucks that also have a license to some of the models are trying to get the trailer pulled right now. I don't know if anyone who works for Harmony Gold speaks English, or is in fact not functionally retarded, but I suspect once they realize that there's an actual game...

I kind of have access to all of the above. Yes, that does work. And if you want more licenses than they're immediately willing to give you, you can call them and they'll approve you for more. I've never had them NOT approve more licenses. It's very handy. Also, even though you're theoretically...

I can't see any other reason for this, but at a customer site today I found that connections to Google's SMTP servers on port 465 were being denied over AT&T DSL. I could tether my and run the same mail configuration and everything worked just fine, but not through AT&T. I can't see any...

If you turn off safesearch you get some nice pictures of Gianna Michaels, who personifies the term rather well.

You people are lame.

I don't hate you. I just think you're criminally misguided.

Supposedly there's a 32GB microSD card someplace out in the world. If that's the case, my phone just got a whole lot more interesting.

Rockbox seems to fix a lot of what's wrong with iPods, though it doesn't run on all models.

Apropos of nothing, "stacked" is a great thing to type in to Google Image Search with Safesearch off. It's quite... uplifting.

I can't believe you're doing this much work for a six year old RAID controller.

I probably have a few someplace, but I can't be bothered to go look for them. I'm not sure if they're the style you want, anyway.

I bought 10 of the Samsung 5400rpm units about a month ago. I still haven't gotten around to putting them in yet, though. I'm fairly tempted to run over to the Westmont Microcenter this weekend for a $220 i7, though. I doubt we'll see them that cheaply again until after xmas.

I re-use the hell out of high-end motherboards. If I'm buying a $150+ board, it's probably going to live in three different machines over three years, and in that time there will probably be at least one CPU change for some reason or other. Remember that it's comparatively easy for me to find...

That's what Readyboost is supposed to be for in the first place.

I sincerely doubt the tri-channel RAM is worthwhile. The cheaper motherboards are quite appealing, but it's still kind of galling that Intel is going to be supporting three CPU interfaces for at least the short term, particularly when they're saying that only one of those sockets is going to be...

Having had a couple Syba cards fail in obnoxious ways, that's not a direction I'd be willing to contemplate.

We all know dual channel RAM is largely for benchmark wanking, let alone a third channel. I doubt it has much of an impact, either. I do note that releasing the new socket has not impacted pricing on socket 1366 boards. Which is unfortunate, because that's really the one thing that's keeping me...

Audacity? I like the Nero Wave Editor interface a little bit better, myself; it's what I use when I teach people to record LPs to CDs, but Audacity is often suggested in guides for doing the same thing.

I use this Adaptec controller. The $75 Promise card is flakey under Windows.

Intel's new i5/i7 stuff is available now on Newegg. Looks like the new CPUs use another new, incompatible CPU interface, drop the tri-channel memory supprt and have vastly cheaper motherboards. CPU pricing for the new guys looks to be very similar to the current i7s, with $300 and $500 models...

Nope.

My Thinkpads have Intel Turbo memory on them. Windows 7 doesn't want to use them as Readyboost memory, so I have them each formatted as a 1GB drive.

Yup. I have capacity enough for about 24TB with 100% redundancy at the moment. I'm WAY lagging that in terms of actual data I need to store, and I will until I get around to pulling a bunch of my old stuff off tapes.

Ghetto method: xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d Of course, that's at the file level rather than the block level, but for most purposes that's probably OK. Or if you have proper Windows Servers you can manage replication with dfs.

Nothing to say at the moment. I'll see a different doctor on Friday.

I saw people make bad decisions involving alcohol while I was growing up, so I choose not to partake.

With or without PSU?

I don't drink alcohol. At some point I might have some at a special occasion but I'm sure it won't be beer.

A couple Newegg reviewers comment that they did get low profile brackets with their cards.

Hot Dogs are part of the baseball game experience, right? I'll probably buy 'em at Wrigley. Where they'll be $8 apiece or something... But yeah there was official confirmation that I should be thinking of this whole outing as a "date", which is kind of a big deal for me even if it's only a...

Managing audio sources in post-XP Windows is a royal pain in the ass. I'll probably buy one of those AuzenTech cards as soon as I get around to buying a Receiver with support for HDMI.

It might be an artificial differentiation of the products, but even that's kind of silly given the marketing for Thinkpads. I worked on the insides of a new Dell E5500 today. I was genuinely impressed with how easy it was to swap out a noisy fan. There is one screw holding down a large access...

My work here is done.

I've seen people on Slashdot claiming to have CF-based Linux appliances that have been running for four and five years without issue. Completely anecdotal, but if that's the case then the wear leveling problems might have been fixed for some time.

There are express trains but only during rush hour and, like I said, I've never been on the EL. It might be an adventure all its own, for all I know. I'd rather take the train than deal with the headache of parking but on the other hand, the South Shore schedule can be a little goofy at times...

Are you looking at one Group Policy setting or a Resultant set of policies? Are you looking at the RSoP for a Domain User account or an Administrator account?

Did you get the newer screen on your T400, Tannin? How do you like it?

Mine are all the older one. But still, how often can you say you have a computer part that has appreciated in value?

Those are the ones I have, too. Now, I just looked, and for the R-series and the T60 but not the T61 or Tx00, DVI-D is not supported regardless of graphics chip. The newer guys in the T-series, it works just fine. I'm guessing it's the difference between a GMA945 and a GMA3100.

She knows about it. I don't know how well she likes me, exactly, but at least enough to come visit some guy she's just talked on the phone and emailed for a year and a half. She's over six feet tall. And I met her through another forum site, really because of a couple of goofy things that...

The fact that the image is not loading right now is all the indication of quality I need to see for a WD Passport.

The T6x docking station has DVI regardless; my notebooks are all Intel graphics and I've used DVI with them. I thought it was a universal product for Thinkpads. Does digital out just not work with some models?

I am escorting an attractive, young and freakishly tall woman to a Cubs game.