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Greg, I know you have a fascination with enterprise hardware, but you don't actually need it. That's what we keep trying to tell you. I understand wanting a faster computer and not wanting to buy crappy hardware, but you need to understand you keep bringing up diesel engine trucks when what you...

Greg, I will absolutely assure you that with the exception of some Microsoft Windows add-ons, everything you install is either so tiny that it doesn't matter where it's installed, or it has an option to change the install location. This has been true for at least as long as there has been...

I don't like hard keyboards because I'm almost never doing text input longer than a URL or search term. If I am, I'll go do that on a computer. I'd rather have more screen.

Yes. Vista and 7 even support symlinks. It's almost like they're proper operating systems.

Yes, I can see how changing a C to a D or an E might be asking too much.

Memory chips keep getting faster. Transistors keep getting smaller. We will continue to see improvement.

What gave you that idea?

They're dropping in price already. The speeds are only going to get faster and capacities are only going to get higher. We'll probably end up with "mainstream" MLC drives in our consumer-class products after a couple years. This is a "when", not an "if" situation.

Gmail will also do ActiveSync for Windows Mobile and for iPhone, under some conditions.

Also, nobody needs a 150GB boot drive. Windows Vista and Windows 7 install in a space between 12GB and 30GB. XP needs around 2GB by itself. Absolutely anything else you care to install can go on a secondary drive, if you'd prefer to have a fast one for your operating system.

Almost all the drives I actually use for myself are Samsung 1 or 1.5TB drives. I think I have around 40 of them, between those two sizes. However, I've installed pretty much any recent-vintage Seagate drive from 160GB up to 750GB and I still have a stack of 250GB and 500GB Hitachis that I need...

Outlook Web Access is your friend.

This of course leads to the obvious question of why you're using Outlook in the first place, but I'm guessing it's because of the poor judgment of your employer or someone in your IT department rather than personal preference.

1. Why doesn't Outlook do that itself? 2. Why not use Google Desktop? It seems to have less of a performance penalty. Personally I wouldn't install Google Desktop, either, but Windows Search seems to be part of the path to maddening slowness on Vista and Windows 7, let alone behaviors like this.

Does Windows search do anything useful, ever? I don't understand why anyone would voluntarily install it.

I normally run strips of electrical tape under the motherboard's screw holes for much the same reason. It's something I started doing ages and ages ago, and I've never gotten out of the habit.

Meh. Somebody can play with the mod console now.

Maybe uninstall Windows Search? It's an optional component and you can get the same functionality from Google Desktop if you actually use it.

Yes, I had to adapt it for the machines I had.

Yes. but make sure you have a Gigabit NIC. That's really the only hardware compatibility issue I've run into.

I can top that. I submitted an RMA request to Axiontech for a Hauppauge USB PVR doohickey about three and a half years ago since, according to Hauppauge, I was supposed to return it to the store rather than the company. Eventually I contacted Hauppauge directly and got a new doohickey, but...

Supposedly you only need the newest one.

It's under Display Properties, Appeannce, Effects in XP or Vista. It puts a dark shadow under text on the desktop and I find that helpful.

Dragon Age is really cool. I honestly wouldn't have bought it if I didn't see reviews that mentioned Baldur's Gate 2 over and over, but it really is that good.

.NET Cleanup tool. Maybe it's just me, or maybe Microsoft totally sucks, but .NET 3.5 installs seem to fail about two out of three times I do them. I've found this program to be helpful in dealing with that. People who bitch about Linux being dependency hell have clearly never had to put up...

Technically, there's a right way to do that, but I've not invested the time in figuring out how it works. What you're really supposed to do is use the OEM Preinstall Kit to set up things like AHCI/RAID-mode devices so that Windows can recognize them. Now that I've actually done that procedure...

It's not twitter, and in fact it hasn't been updated in about three years, but there's some funny stuff at thingsmyboyfriendsays.com.

63% through all of the choices. I like cheese.

I shouldn't need their permission to play a game I paid for on my own computer. It's just that simple.

I'm not going to use it at all until I never have to do anything but purchase and download a game from a web site. A web site where I can log in and re-download the game if I need to. Having to have their client on my system, having to have their client "check in" with Steam EVER after the game...

I bought it, but the single player campaign feels like a rap video without the booty-shaking hos. I went back to UT2004. It's pretty, though. At least Epic games can be enjoyed without a heaping helping of Steam's bullshit.

They're just moving everything over to Mint.com, which is a better implementation of the same thing.

After a breach you get information security contractors, and you keep THEM employed.

Getting to be the suntan lotion boy at the Playboy Mansion for all eternity. :P

Is that the part where God encourages the slaughter of any but his chosen people or his worshipers? Or the part where certain duties are proscribed for women and not men or men but not women? Half the big ten commandments (surely those were not rejected with the rest of the old testament?)...

ddrueding kind of joked about it, but truthfully, Leviticus is filled with hateful bile. The Bible does not exactly teach equality or tolerance, and those are things I see as crucial to morality.

WD did make SCSI drives. As I recall they gave it up in 1998 or so. Why go inflict their shit on another market when the only place they enjoy any positive reputation is with home users who don't know any better?

Not this shit again. Greg, SAS is worth the money if you're going to hang a metric assload of drives you want to use. If you want a single, fast drive, buy an OCZ Agility for $400 and be done. Please.

Yes. From what I've read, there are in fact "blue pill" rootkits now that can infect all the systems being managed by a single hypervisor. I don't think normal people are going to be running across that kind of thing any time soon, though.

Advertisements and Page template kits (well, they have those on Myspace, anyway. I've never actually been on Facebook) that are laden with Javascript attacks or Flash/Acrobat plug-in exploits. Seriously.

Windows as a platform is the wrong starting point, and if you give them Windows and tell them to start a VM for browsing eventually they''l browse without the VM. Anyway, what's wrong with browsing on Linux?

It is, but the weapon balance is good enough to make other strategies valid.

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?