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I've done screens before, but I have the plastic pry tools that make doing that work a lot easier.

I prefer to believe that the people I'm dealing with are literate.

My message clearly indicated that there were several issues that needed a response and the reason for those issues. I'm buying the parts and doing the work, but I still need to address the person paying the bills in a deferential fashion (people get kind of pissy when you say "You WILL be buying...

The only thing that matters at the end of the day is subjective performance. If you can sit in front of a computer and don't feel that a particular computer is better or worse than other computers you use, it's probably fast enough. There's something to be said about the expected workload of...

A couple reasons: one is that the chipset that Atom chip is using probably can't keep up with the drive. If nothing else, it's probably SATA I and not SATA II, and it's kind of deficient compared to a modern system for having a low speed FSB and all that entails. The other is that the CPU is...

There's a real benefit to the unibody approach. I wouldn't knock them for that. It allows for a much lighter design while conserving battery life and increasing structural stability. If their sales tell them that only X-tiny% of users have a second battery to use with their devices, maybe they...

I wonder if it's bumping in to a chipset/BIOS issue that stems from the netbook + SSD combination.

If John were a reply-after-quote sort of person using a decent mail client, he could also have trimmed my message and quoted the part(s) that he was referencing so I knew where his sentences applied. This is a trifling amount of work and it greatly improves readability. I have no reason to...

You implement your solution and I'll implement mine, and we'll see which one actually happens first.

You can trim and quote selectively. It's not difficult. The issue that I run in to with top-reply people is that they'll read my messages paragraph-by-paragraph and then reply with sentences or paragraphs using nonspecific nouns or pronouns so I'm not sure what they're talking about without...

I'd put you with uda on ignore. It's not abnormal for me to write multi-paragraph emails dealing with multiple subjects, even in business communication. "Reply first"-types who insist on doing things the wrong way wind up writing sentences that I then have to read the original message and...

I'm generally unimpressed with Apple-branded notebooks. They seem to have problems with overheating and getting too warm on the underside, which I can only categorize as an ongoing poor choice in industrial design. Their desktop products are just dandy until you have to work on one. That...

So you can get an E-mail and have no idea what the fuck context or even element your correspondent was replying to? Why not just handle all your communication through IMs or SMS text if you're going to do that? I'd also like to point out that every forum program we've ever used for...

I have a problem with e-ink displays, which is that they update too slowly to be useful for thumbing through a e-book. A LCD/OLED screen is better and more versatile, but then you lose out big-time on battery life. I actually do a huge amount of my reading on-screen but as yet I haven't found...

All your users are on Gmail, which is wrong by default. When I first got on the internet in the early 90s, the standard for quoting text was to reply beneath quoted text and if necessary to interleave quotes with replies. This establishes context and is vastly preferable to the way Outlook...

Microsoft's Courier tablet hasn't gotten much in the way of press, but in my opinion it might be a much more interesting product than the iPad.

I'm really, really, REALLY pissed at Antec right now because I can't find suitable replacement power supplies for the NSK3800 and they've basically said I'm SOL. I have 40 of the stupid things and right now I'm looking at cutting up the backs of three cases somehow because I can't find a PSU...

I use Thunderbird. I keep all my mail in my inbox with no folder structure at all (every non-spam message I've gotten since 1993 or so, around 13GB of messages). My mail is pretty much all forwarded to a Gmail account (for spam-handling and backup in a proper, universal format) and then...

Passmark is a benchmark. It has very little to do with the day-to-day reality of operating a computer. I'll glance at benchmarks when I'm evaluating a purchase, but most of the time I'm far more interested in subjective performance, which comes down to the simple question "Is this machine...

I wound up installing a two-port PCI Adaptec SATA controller and doing a repair install using that as my disk controller. Had to use a USB floppy to ideal with the install time driver. The setup as it is now might not be ideal, but it's better than whatever the hell is going on with the...

You have to take Tea's age into account.

If you do it right, she should be satisfied with six. :P

3m cables should not be hard to find.

I have a solution that works for myself, but I'm not trying to store anything of personal significance (I doubt I have 50MB of personal photos) so much as being able to quicky locate the correct set of naked women. A couple small hints: I make extensive use of symlinks so that there is always...

Porn in technology: Today I was able to download a full-length stereoscopic porno movie.

Affecting disk access and nothing else? You think? CPU utilization is in the range of 1 - 2% every time I look and commit charge is fixed at only about 450MB, which is pretty much exactly what I'd expect on an essentially idle Windows file server. I haven't pulled this thing out of its rack yet...

There was a long thread on Slashdot about a week ago about the possibilities presented by long-distance consumer-class devices like this. It devolved into a discussion by gun nuts over what would be needed to shoot one down and whether or not those things could carry a meaningful payload over...

Apparently not on the 7K1000, but I did try an second set of 80GB 7k250 that are SATA I anyway.

I got this E-mail today. It's in bad Chinglish, and I'm not sure now if I'm getting a keyboard or not, or how much they're going to charge me.

I just tell people to buy decent power supplies in the first place.

Hey while we're at it... I recently became responsible for an Intel OEM Server. I don't know what model it is, but it's about six years old and uses an integrated LSI SATA controller instead of ICH* or IDE-emulated SATA. The machine has a hardware RAID1, but they way I came to be involved with...

OK, yeah, that's pretty sad. Truly, as an instructor I really do appreciate the demands of the certification process, in that it tests what should be knowledge specific to the subject matter. Too many people just study the answers they need to pass the tests, sometimes without even minimal...

It made a very sensible recommendation of 400W for the configuration of one of my game machines, within about 10W of what I thought I needed.

Between 3.33 and 3.8, no. Unless I'm transcoding movies from disc to MP4 or MKV. Which I do a lot. Mostly what I notice is that those two machine are WAY faster than the boxes they replaced.

I'll admit that I don't know much about the ramifications of implementing IPv6. It's not relevant to reality unless you're an ISP. Routing protocols on the level you're describing are subject matter for the Network+ exam, and as I said in an earlier post in this thread, there's a reason why we...

No mention of top speed on that jet pack. And it weighs over 100kg. And it costs as much as a modest home.

Solution: Next time order four 1TB drives instead.

Do you not occasionally need to dial a phone number?

My latest shipment of drives from Newegg, four $44, 250GB Samsung drives, arrived double boxed with the entire interior volume of the inner box occupied with bubble wrap individually surrounding each drive. Yes, the camera on my phone sucks.

Internet only. No bandwidth cap. Static IP. Rights to run servers. Supposedly no traffic shaping. At the time that I signed up, 12Mbit was twice as fast as consumer service.

As far as I know, 256bit AES is still considered secure.

Indiana state law caps that sort of thing at six months of credit, and I'm not sure I qualify since service WAS delivered. Also, I'm not sure what "package" I'm in now for future billing purposes. I have nine months of service that I'm obligated to pay for.

Congrats on Fixture status. Finally. :P So a funny thing happened to me today. My $150/month Comcast "Business" service has been crappy for a long time, and after finding that a connection to my neighbor's wireless network resulted in generally faster data transfers, I called and complained. I...

That's the weekend after the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, which already has me missing two days I normally work.

XP might not have activation because the version of Windows you're using doesn't have activation.

No bluetooths makes my Server 2008 machine happy. And it can sit on my nightstand. I went ahead and bought one.

Epic screwing around

nForce-based systems have some general weirdness with storage, as I recall. My standard practice when I was building nForce-based systems was to never load nVidia's storage drivers, and I recall that there were some data corruption issues with those boards as well. Not that saying so helps...

How do we know that's not what they're doing?

The WLAN adapters in netbooks are replaceable. I say buy the netbook you want and pay $25 to get a supported card.