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The problem with only changing the documents location, at least in Windows, is that there's a bunch of stuff, like Firefox bookmarks, your address book and local E-mail that does not go with that.

I synchronize my home folders on various machines with a network drive I can access in multiple different ways, but I also store my images and music collections separately. I used to make a real effort to move the user folders. Now I just don't care, 'cause everything has a central repository...

Awful British tabloid prints it, so it must be true: IT Geeks are the best lovers.

Creative, Cowan and iRiver players also support drag and drop, and have the distinct advantage of not being made by S*ny. Also, PS3s have ugly chassisy and seem to have poor graphics despite all the CPU horsepower they're supposed to have. And they're expensive. And they're made by S*ny. And...

I note you did not mention changing the graphics card itself.

This year, my computer classes for kids will be smaller. I'm going to have them build Shuttle boxes that we will be keeping for classroom use, but rather than getting a desktop and a monitor, apparently we'll be giving them Dell Inspiron 15s - Celeron 2.16GHz, 3GB RAM, 160GB hard disks, 15"...

It's really quite nice to be able to do that. The interesting thing is that Fark actually added that functionality after it was developed as part of a popular Firefox addon that was made for the express purpose of improving browsing on that site.

I'd guess he is a person with more important things on his mind just now.

Yes and yes.

Sony's management is clearly out of touch with the realities of the world as it exists today. They keep trying to market technologies that they want to keep in walled gardens, and they get pissed off every time someone breaks the walls down and allows content out into the world. In Sony's...

Lost is probably one of those filthy IE-using perverts.

These things happen when Lost6200 starts a topic. :)

That looks interesting. I'd actually rather have a drive bay for 2x 2.5" drives right now, though. I'd be telling my customers that they're "backup cartridges" or somesuch.

I'm fine with using the Y-cable. My gaming desktop system seems to be able to deliver enough power from one port, but notebooks as a rule don't seem to be able to. Lots of low-end business desktops have a problem doing that as well. Given that more systems than not need the Y-cable to be...

To put into perspective how quiet NSK3480s are, in a classroom full of them, powered on, with stock Intel cooling and 250GB Seagate or Samsung hard drives, the loudest thing is Pepsi vending machine that's 10m away in another room.

$6800 in damage from the initial estimate vs. a vehicle that's worth $12500. Apparently I am safe, and whatever the hell Honda Elements are made out of is stronger than it looks.

Mine are generic. I use these. I carry two in my tech bag and have another on my desk at work. They're OK but they need the 2x USB Y-cable for power.

Trek has consistently bad writing, more or less ignores human nature and, most importantly, features technology that always works and a total lack of dirt.

I strongly dislike the current form of Slashdot. It takes too damned long to make a post and it's almost impossible to tell what parts of a thread are new on subsequent visits. Fark has a really nice system for handling quotes that I miss on SF: you can highlight text, hit the "quote" button...

On another forum I visit, I like to argue the superiority of Star Wars to Star Trek, particularly as it relates to the horrible writing of the typical episode of Trek. There's a classic Internet Argument, though, about whether the Enterprise (in any form) could win in a battle against either the...

I haven't had many. I have more problems with using SATA optical drives in DOS than anything else. Well, it's another layer of error checking. If I'm not sure that what the manufacturer's tool is telling me is accurate, or is giving me results different from my observation, I'll put the drive...

My MtG collection is 1st and 2nd edition cards - including about 30 Moxes and 3 Black Lotuses - up to "the Dark." At one point shortly after the introduction of the 1st edition game I was the only person at my comic shop buying the cards, because I liked the art. I didn't even learn how to play...

I've found legacy mode SATA stuff is really flakey and bad. When I want to do low level stuff I keep a SATA-to-PATA converter on hand and use an IDE DVD drive.

Well, right, but if Greg took a collection of jpegs from a folder somewhere, that would make a big difference in his calculation.

I've got 70% of the drivable distance left on the warranty, and I can't find another of that model of Element within 500 miles of my house for less than what I paid for that one. I really hope they don't total it. Also there's the thing where I have no interest in going back to having a car...

It's going to depend on the size of the files being and how much the drive heads have to move around, too, at least in the case of Greg's data.

Because that's very close to the cost of the components. The units that are cheaper are probably Chinese companies trying to skip out on some licensing fees they should be paying.

... and of course I was out of AA batteries so the only pictures I have are from my phone... And the rest of the crappy pictures I took with my phone this morning.

I've got a pirate stream of it loading right now. It's Trek so I'm not paying to see it in a theater, but since I'm stuck here without a car and all my Netflix discs are at work, I might as well watch something.

At least they were thorough.

Last night it was raining sideways with thunder and lightning, and this sixty or seventy foot tall tree just fell across a half dozen cars in the parking lot. I couldn't see how bad it was until this morning. I have pictures of my car. For now it looks like it's all body/glass damage, but I...

I am fine. There's just no glass in my car and damage to every body panel.

A tree just crushed my car. :(

Any way I look at it, I don't see a compelling reason to use WHS. Either I can buy some kind of NAS device (e.g. a Buffalo Terastation) that does the same thing for about what WHS + a PC + a bunch of hard disks cost, and simplify my administrative duties to maybe a half-dozen mouse clicks, or if...

I would have mentioned that if you hadn't.

There's always FreeNAS.

I use a Logitech bluetooth keyboard for PS/3. There's another RF-based system I was looking at, which is more compact and uses a trackball rather than a trackpad.

Probably. Such is the Hitachi way.

I strongly prefer having CRC checks above and beyond the file system for data integrity. I like having reasonably expansive amounts of data (more than the size of a single disk) and more than anything else I don't mind doing the data management you're talking about it. If I'm shepherding...

Well, sure, but I hate keeping equipment I have very little chance of using on hand.

For what it's worth, I've had a lot of trouble partitioning and formatting Seagate 1.5TB drives on Windows machines that seem to test fine once I formatted them under Linux.

I don't look at "no RAID to manage" as anything like an advantage.

Hitachi always seems to want to push performance and capacity. I suspect theit 2TB drive will not be a 5400rpm "green" model.

If I can't buy one at a local screwdriver shop, it's not standard enough. PSUs fail and I don't want to tell someone their PC will be down for a week.

I use Centos systems with 6TB drives of drives in RAID5 that are regularly rsync'd to a second array in a different PC. Works well. I stopped at 6TB so I can have a hot spare handy. I'm still using for file servers, though.

That non-standard case gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Indiana does not charge a tax like that. I can throw monitors in dumpsters all day long here and no one gives a shit. That is not a good thing. It's $16. If you can't handle a $16 charge for disposing of electronics you don't deserve to own them in the first place.

And here's the state rankings in Education. Generally speaking the states at the top of the list are blue states with a low population.

It should be noted that all but two of the 2004 red states are the ones which accept the most handouts from the federal government and generally have the least educated populations, while the 2004 blue states are among the most productive, well educated and receive the least money from the...

Given the state of California's state budget I'm sure this up-front fee is doing some small amount of work in filling the gap. Indiana barely even has recycling, at least where I live. People do separate things, but the same truck picks it up and I've watched them throw it all in together.