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I might get my car back on Friday. Maybe. Unless they're lying. And, here's my random thought: Toothbrush technology is both amazing and useless. I go to buy a new toothbrush every three months. I can never find the same toothbrush twice. Every time I look, there's some new thing. I think...

I just plopped down $245 for the Complete Battlestar Galactica on BD. I am looking forward to getting it.

I do it with OpenOffice, myself. Most of my coworkers use PDF995.

Newegg has a dual band (2.4/5.8GHz) Netgear router that is dd-WRT compatible for $34, with coupon code EMCLTLN62. The equivalent in a new Linksys is $125.

Crossloop is a bandwidth pig. Typical for VNC. But I can use it anyplace, and the setup is quick and even morons can handle the install and setup. If I could afford to use something like LogMeIn technician desktop, I would, gladly.

If I need to look at someone's PC and haven't done anything else, I usually tell them to do Crossloop. I can walk them through the install and the connection process is painless. It's not cross platform, but it's free and it's easy. If I have to remote in to something else besides Windows...

My ex had three transmissions AFTER the original one put in her Ford Focus, in 175,000 miles. The AC died at 80k. The power steering went out at 87k. I bought that car new for her. It was never in an accident. It was just a POS. I don't even want to THINK of putting up with something like that...

GM needs to make cars people want. It's just that simple. They need to make a Civic and an Accord, in at least the associated level of quality. People talk all day long about the "cars Americans want" with their big engines and enormous interiors. But Americans buy Civics and Accords. They would...

Well, the last two posts really hit it, but if you read my security articles, it's like this: 1. Never connect a Windows PC directly to the internet. Put a home router (at least) between your internet connection and Windows. Even a basic NAT setup is going to be a hindrance to internet worms...

Doesn't matter at this point. My game PC has just two drives in it at this point, both X-25Ms, and since I just did a wholesale hardware change it'll probably be a year before I revisit that machine. At which point, it will be replaced with a case I like better.

I don't exactly recall any more. I've marked the brand away as junk hardware at this point and I've tried to avoid it since having a number of bad experiences. To elaborate slightly, I had difficulties using inexpensive 4-port Sil controllers as straight-up SATA controllers while running...

The P180s that I have (I have two) have a solid metal shelf between the chamber where the power supply chamber meets the motherboard chamber. There's a ~1.5" hole which can optionally be made smaller with a sliding piece of plastic, but cannot be made larger without some quality time with a...

Technically I think this might be Astroturfing. But, as I said, at least the guy is on topic.

That's not exactly a standard P180 then, is it?

I've had issues with doing windows installs in RAID/AHCI mode on ICH9. Server 2003/2008, XP and Vista.

I've used other products from Addonics. They generally only put their badge on high quality products. The thing I'd be interested to know about that particular product, is what SATA chipset it's using. I've seen similar products that use the very low quality and (in my opinion) unreliable Sil...

That's a $900 case. For one PC. And also too many eggs for one basket, as far as the number of drive bays in that single chassis.

Large numbers of drives are best put in 3U/4U rackmount cases.

Mozy is still "personal use only." Of Mozy's business support includes Exchange and Active Directory support, not just disk space on the internet. I'm sure Mozy is a stronger product overall.

On a game? A game that presumably has explosions, engine rumble or any number of other qualities that are going to detract from and prevent critical listening to the lossless quality of the purported soundtrack? Can't say I noticed or cared. So the only time a game can look good is when it's...

Oh hey, S*ny Pictures Entertainment's CEO said more thing that are stupid. How shocking! " 'Internet users have become used to getting things when they want it and how they want it, and those of us in the entertainment business want to meet that kind of demand as efficiently and effectively as...

I tried to route some of the power cabling under my motherboard. I found that it didn't help unless I was willing to not screw down the lower edge of the board. There's just too much shit in that corner. It all comes out of one hole and there's only so many places you can run a cable with the...

At least it's on topic. I could probably abuse the crap out of a $150 "unlimited" backup plan. :D

On any modern board, you get all your SATA, your front panel and your USB/1394 headers in that corner. Fine. The P18x also has that particular point as the outlet for ALL power cabling, and that's what isn't cool.

Change the BIOS to non-RAID mode or use the OEM preinstall kit to set up your drives and files. If you choose option #1, you'll have to add some stuff to the registry to make your array work post install without erasing the drive.

I played some driving game that my ex's partner likes. I went "meh." But I don't like console games. I have, however, looked at comparisons between Xbox and PS3 in screenshots from the same title (and in the case of Fallout 3, both of those with PC), and there's not a single case where the PS3...

I hate the P18x series. The cabling in the lower right corner of the motherboard is far too much of a clusterfuck.

Hotlinked but apropos.

It's a Win32 app. That API has been around since 1992 in some form or other. Win32 is NOT legacy code. Compatibility mode is just a premade Virtual machine that needs all its software licensed separately from Win7. An extra copy of Office, security software and who-knows-what for desktop...

Yes and no. App compatibility with 64 bit Windows or with Vista are both awful. I'm amazed at the number of VB/Delphi-type apps that don't work. Sure, the programmer can probably fix it, but in a lot of cases we're talking about one-off apps made just for one company, but also apps that were...

I like ACDSee version 2, which was released in 1995. Newer versions are too slow and heavyweight. Irfanview doesn't do some of the things ACDSee does.

No idea. The only thing I've heard is that the Chicago parts storehouse for Honda didn't have some of the body panels I need so they're coming from someplace else. I imagine the stuff inside the car is probably trashed but I'd rather have the car back. I'm driving my father's Element right now...

64 bit Windows is something that does not make me very happy. Until just a couple months ago, the picture viewer I preferred to use wouldn't run on 64-bit. It still doesn't, but the new version of Picasa is nice enough I don't mind.

Not true, actually. There's a command called mountvol that can be run from Safe Mode command prompt only session that will allow you to delete Docs and Settings and recreate it as a volume mount point on another drive (preferably after copying it, first).

I'm still waiting to find something a desktop user does that actually needs 2GB of RAM for everything put together.

I think he's doing two graphics cards and a major league SATA controller.

Clocker has a kid and, given how long he's been at GM he's probably had to take on some extra work responsibilities if his employment hasn't had issues already. My guess is that the guy is probably too busy to keep up with computer hobbies.

I can't imagine what she's keeping on there that needs multiple runs of defrag to fix, at least not on an NTFS drive. Is she creating and erasing thousand of 1MB files or something? But I know DiskKeeper can be obnoxious so I guess that's not impossible. I usually just turn it off.

Source system is Server 2003. I'm copying from a three disk ICH10-based RAID0 to softRAID5s on each of Windows 2008 and Linux. They're all on the same 1Gbit switch and they're all using the same 1Gbit Intel PCIe NIC. Took 14 hours to copy the data to Server 2008 and 16.2 hours to the Centos...

I'm REALLY thinking that if my contracting ever picks up again I'm going to get an LTO4 changer. $4000 (including the tapes) isn't all that much to be able to keep all my stuff properly backed up, considering how much I've invested in everything so far.

I have customers that HATE to change/remove their external backup drives, but I don't think I can justify selling them $.50 a gigabyte per month to not have to do that.

Rough number, but copying 1.42TB of data to both Centos/Samba and Server 2008 with essentially identical hardware and softRAID 5 arrays, looks like Server 2008 about 12% faster. I'm rather surprised by that; Samba has always come up faster in my experience. I guess I should repeat the...

So today I found out that there's something wrong with my right eye; an optometrist says he can't see anything wrong with the eye itself, but my vision can't be corrected to 20:20, either. Which is a little bothersome. And then I tried to go to a doctor, because I have a skin infection...

200GB is easy enough to back up on a consumer-class external drive or two. If it's truly precious stuff I'd buy a couple of those - maybe a Lacie consumer NAS + a 2.5" external drive, along with a decent backup program like TrueImage. Mozy at $5 a month for home users isn't bad, but the...

In other news, Hitachi drives are now suspect. WD did buy in to an SSD firm, though. I can't decide if a WD drive with no moving parts might actually be reliable or not. For now I'm going with "not."

As long as they're all the same size you should be able to.

Despite the crappy manufacturer, 14 SATA ports is enough to make my pants feel funny.

Laptop screens don't normally work that way. In some cases the manufacturer might offer a few different options (glossy vs. non-glassy, UXGA vs. UXGA+ et al) but mostly that sort of thing only happens on nicer business models. I guess maybe you could find out that particular screen's pinout and...

Sounds like a great deal of money for something between very little and absolutely no subjective performance gain.

That's really a problem with the amazingly retarded way that Windows deals with home folders. As with so many other things, *nix does it better.