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  1. Mercutio

    Best Ingredient for Single Topping Pizza

    You could do roasted red peppers.
  2. Mercutio

    Failure rate statistics

    Well #3 would go along perfectly well with those who attribute positive outcomes to storing data on Western Digital products and/or using them to build some form of barrier.
  3. Mercutio

    Failure rate statistics

    I'm talking first two Little Pigs bad, here.
  4. Mercutio

    Failure rate statistics

    Sub-par construction material.
  5. Mercutio

    Failure rate statistics

    Only a sociopath would suggest that WD is acceptable for anything other than construction material.
  6. Mercutio

    Best Ingredient for Single Topping Pizza

    I have invented a new vaguely pizza like food. I use a little flour tortilla, some chopped spinach, raw onions, jalepenos, some hummus and pine nuts. I think there's maybe 175 calories in one and it's fairly flavorful.
  7. Mercutio

    Failure rate statistics

    Take your antipsychotics, doofus.
  8. Mercutio

    Failure rate statistics

    My personal belief is that any who says they've had a positive experience with Western Digital products as storage media is either lying or needs to up their chlorpromazine dosage.
  9. Mercutio

    Failure rate statistics

    I do recall seeing that before. I believe it was linked from Digg.com. It's interesting that those guys claim Hitachi as the most reliable and the hardware.fr guys claim it's the least. Regional variations? Or just a change with more recent models?
  10. Mercutio

    Low power file server platform?

    I've noticed that Centos seem to be taking longer and longer to catch up with releases of RedHat, which is a cause for some concern. I'm worried that Centos as a project isn't all that healthy. I did finally slap an i3-2100 together and load FreeBSD on it. I don't really have much to report as...
  11. Mercutio

    OCZ Talos : enterprise-class 3.5" SSD

    Hardware RAID usually abstracts the array(s) as a single volume presented to the OS so... no.
  12. Mercutio

    Low power box for running VM? Oxymoron?

    An i3-2100 was suggested as a possible basis for my low-power file server. I suspect they would work for your needs as well. Or you could let your roommate to find his own damned hardware.
  13. Mercutio

    I heart FoxIt

    There's still NitroPDF and Sumatra. Chrome has a PDF reader built-in. I believe Firefox is moving in that direction as well. I'd rather go without a PDF reader than go back to Adobe.
  14. Mercutio

    FF4 and IE9

    I pretty consistently see TB use 240MB RAM on Windows machines no matter how many IMAP accounts it's checking. Some of my machines only check one and some of them check nine or ten. I haven't seen an FF4 crash other than plugin container crashes from Flash.
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    Failure rate statistics

    New Antec NSK-series cases are made with thinner steel than older revisions, and I've had a couple shipped with DOA power supplies. I'm not sure if that's lower quality PSUs or a problem that's come from shipping practices. The only memorable in-warranty power supply failure I've had in the last...
  16. Mercutio

    FF4 and IE9

    I don't necessarily think that 1.5GB RAM for Firefox is necessarily outrageous if you have 50 open tabs and don't ever close the browser. Thunderbird climbing all the way up to .5GB is weird, though.
  17. Mercutio

    Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6L V6 engine

    So Elements are out because they're ugly but the Scion, the lower-to-the-ground, less roomy, less practical and even uglier vehicle, is OK?.
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    SSD in RAID

    It's been suggested to me very strongly that any reliability figures for MLC drive coming from drive OEMs have only casual relationship with reality. I've mentioned that in the other SSD thread but perhaps it might be wise to consider a drastic downward revision of that 30TB number just on the...
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    Something Random

    I don't know how to ride a bike at all and where I live now is not a healthy place to ride anyway. There's a skate park about a quarter mile from my apartment and one of the kids that hangs out there uses something that looks like a unicycle with half a skateboard attached to the back of it. You...
  20. Mercutio

    Sandy Bridge problems

    Last I saw, Intel was saying Q4 2011 for USB3 support in the south bridge, "only" two years after shipping products with USB3 support hit the channel. I don't recall USB hi-speed's adoption being this slow.
  21. Mercutio

    Eggxpert Tiered Power Supply List

    Where are you finding these links? I've got a dozen or so tech sites that I track with Google Reader and I haven't seen anything like this or the Failure rates links you posted anywhere else but through your posts.
  22. Mercutio

    Linux Mint+Virtual Box+MS Mouse

    I still want to know if the problem is particular to Microsoft mice.
  23. Mercutio

    Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6L V6 engine

    The Element has been discontinued, so clearly it didn't have many fans at Honda to begin with. And yes, it looks like a toaster, but it's an incredibly practical vehicle.
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    Something Random

    Are you just using the GPS as a speedometer? What do you need that for on a bike?
  25. Mercutio

    Canada

    It's difficult to understand and it probably doesn't help that I'm four feet from an industrial drum fan.
  26. Mercutio

    iPhone syndrome

    To be honest, it never occurred to me to look before.
  27. Mercutio

    Canada

    I wasn't even sure at first that the performer was even speaking English.
  28. Mercutio

    iPhone syndrome

    Netflix finally put an official movie-streaming app in the Android Market today. So that's cool.
  29. Mercutio

    Canada

    Dammit Lunar! You need to shut your whore mouth so as not to further antagonize that fine specimen of Strong Canadian Womanhood. Also, it might not be a good idea to stand between her and Tim Horton's. But that's just common sense.
  30. Mercutio

    Canada

    I believe Lunar is taking issue with the size of the rack on that fine Canuckistanian lass.
  31. Mercutio

    Low power file server platform?

    Dammit! Now what the hell am I going to live for?
  32. Mercutio

    Canada

    Are you impugning the ladies of the True North brave and free?!?
  33. Mercutio

    Low power file server platform?

    My goal now is to get an entry on Acronymfinder.
  34. Mercutio

    Low power file server platform?

    I'm still thinking MRAOPCR from now on.
  35. Mercutio

    FF4 and IE9

    The only thing in all of Windows 7 that makes me say something nice about Vista is the fact that I have to do a bunch of extra navigation to see Folder and Printer sharing options. Vista had them all on the main Network and Sharing center screen and 7 makes me click through two more windows of...
  36. Mercutio

    Canada

    If this friendly lady walks up to you, just remember that as a Canadian, she just wants one of them there Molsons and for you to put on Hockey Night.
  37. Mercutio

    Something Random

    Not drinking in the first place has served me well over the years. One of the important things about losing weight has just been telling myself that sugary stuff, sweet stuff and the usual carb suspects are poison. I still eat bread and rice and the occasional tortilla in reasonable quantities...
  38. Mercutio

    FF4 and IE9

    It's easier with the mouse. You can use the stuff in the background to better eyeball your angle on a higher-resolution screen. There's definitely more chance involved with the mobile game than the browser version.
  39. Mercutio

    Something Random

    Never mind. I'm thinking of dynamic partition resize, the situation where all the volume's space is filled up, not simple expanding into empty space.
  40. Mercutio

    FF4 and IE9

    You probably need Flash and/or up to date support for HTML5. I'm not sure which. The birds are angry because pigs stole their eggs.
  41. Mercutio

    Outlook PST Hell

    My mail spool is probably pretty close to 20GB. I leave everything in my inbox. The mail clients I choose to use don't have a problem with that. Thunderbird is not perfect. Every so often it will re-set my read mail count and I'll get weird duplicate messages in my inbox, but there's an addon I...
  42. Mercutio

    Something Random

    You can only expand volumes on Dynamic Disks. That option isn't available standard partitions on Basic disks. The Windows installer creates the C: drive as a basic disk with the C: drive and System partition as standard partitions. New random thing: I got a graduation announcement for my...
  43. Mercutio

    Your home Stereo/sound system/s? What did you buy, how much, and why did you buy it?

    It certainly doesn't hurt. It's more like 210 now though.
  44. Mercutio

    Minitowers

    Yup!
  45. Mercutio

    Your home Stereo/sound system/s? What did you buy, how much, and why did you buy it?

    Speaking of Ebay, my bedroom set of Kef Q-series probably only cost me $600 to put together. I had to spend $100 to replace a driver on one of them but if I had paid retail or "hi-fi store used" that probably would have been $3000 worth of speakers.
  46. Mercutio

    Your home Stereo/sound system/s? What did you buy, how much, and why did you buy it?

    Another Integra? No probably not. I'll probably look at Denon, Onkyo, Pioneer Elite and some other things are in the low-ish four figure range though. That might include an Integra, but I doubt it. I'm not terribly worried about getting a gazillion watts per channel since I don't typically...
  47. Mercutio

    Something Random

    Someone didn't know how to work disk imaging software?
  48. Mercutio

    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    I'm fairly convinced at this point that pirates always have the moral high ground in this debate. Game companies other than maybe Stardock tend to be pretty goddamned evil.
  49. Mercutio

    Minitowers

    I built a dozen or so mITX boxes that actually do use a standard ATX power supply. I have no ideal who made them; I bought them from my local distributor the receipt just says "Generic." They're effectively the same size as a Shuttle SFF shoebox.
  50. Mercutio

    Your home Stereo/sound system/s? What did you buy, how much, and why did you buy it?

    I think I just might update the receiver in my living room. I bet having HDMI is nice.
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