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I went to Wizard World Chicago today. That's the local humongous comic convention. I wore a shirt that said "I'm somebody's fetish", which made me quite popular. I ended up getting my picture taken fourteen times (once by a baddass-looking guy dressed as "Blade" and another time with a couple...

Actually statistics related to web-anything seem to be dodgy as all hell. Have you ever looked at reviews for web hosting providers? Or ad services that pay per click? Everyone involved has too much of an axe to grind. Google used to have browser stats for main page visits available...

I've spent hardly any time at all. Every couple days I VNC into the PC that's doing the work and check the status of a blue bar. When that gets done I check the integrity of whatever it recovered. So far, the stuff from Runtime Software is the ONLY program that's been able to deal with an NTFS...

Actually that is the crux of our argument here. I believe I've staked out the zero good whatsoever position. Oh, I'm sure there's SOME good. Like the amount of good in a Republican Catholic Priest NAMBLA member playing Warm Oil and Astroglide Twister with a Half Dozen Altarboys and a randy...

I am very happy that, about three months ago, I finally got to a place where I can say to literally every person I see "You have to use Firefox or I'm not going to help you any more." Especially when someone thanks me for making them switch the next time I see 'em.

100 personal, 20 economic.

I'd guess that the numbers on just about any techie site would skew heavily to non-IE browsers; we're more aware of the alternatives. The stats on a widely-known general use site would be much more interesting. Weather.com or Ebay or Amazon, say. Even at that, Firefox has been downloaded close...

Wasn't my choice. I've been a general-purpose IT Contractor for years. From 1998 to 2002 I supported myself primarily by doing service work for small and mid-size businesses, between contracts to very large corporations (prior to that I did tech work, but as a high school or college student I...

Taz, my mention of graphics cards at THG had nothing to do with you but rather my objection to the people who get horny because they think Blue LEDs inside a computer make it run faster. Or whatever. I see a lot of that type in my "day job" and usually a couple hours a day convincing them...

Yeah, you RMA more WD drives in a year than you actually own, you get a little bit of an attidude. What can I say? Oh, yes. I hope they rot in hell. That's what you can say.

I understand how to build a decent Socket 7 system just fine, Tannin. I probably built a few hundred on my own. Which is not bad for someone who never worked in retail. Certainly enough to be qualified enough to know shit when I smell it. I saw Cyrix chips mounted on Asus, Shuttle, Biostar, PC...

So somewhere in the world, probably next to the candy cane trees and gumdrop mountains, there were motherboards that enabled the magical Work Like A CPU Is Supposed To feature?

I'm not sure quality was ever up.

If I make the not unreasonable assumption that the multiple different white-box vendors did in fact have at least a partial clue, I'd expect that at least one or two of them would build a "proper-according to Tannin" Cyrix system, that worked as well as AMD and Intel or WinChip or NexGen systems...

Well, it would be if I were incorrect. But I'm not.

The difference is, Intel replaced their bad chips. As I recall, they used the bad P5-60 to 90MHz chips to pave the driveway around their corporate HQ.

mubs, I used SMP Intel machines for YEARS. Starting with an SMP 486/33 (OS/2 machine!), then an SMP P5/133, then a PPro 200 dualie, then a P3/600. At about the 1GHz mark, coincidently about the time I started to do HEAVY video encoding, I stopped caring. I looked at how much CPU I was using...

No. Things don't work that way. Unless you've got a multithreaded process - Adobe Premier for instance - your encoding app is going to be assigned to run on one processor and stay there. So if Santilli is getting twice as many encoded frames per second on a Xeon vs. his A64, that is a 1:1...

Actually Taz and time, I have some sheet music here that attributes it as an English folk song.

If you're talking about just ripping, that's a function of the DVD drive you're using. If you're talking about encoding, the important thing is that you can buy four Athlon 3000s for what those two Xeons cost, and those A64s will be faster for absolutely everything else.

And I typed all that and completely missed the fact that he wants eSATA...

Do you actually NEED SAN-type capabilities? How many people access this storage? What are your I/O loads like? Do you have any budgetary constraints? I have a staggering array of SATA/PATA storage on my home network, but I designed for the possibility of multiple simultaneous failures as...

Actually, as I'm looking at the data... It did very well with small files - pictures - from a spot check of a couple hundred out of 460,000 - I only found two that didn't open. Which were probably bad images to begin with. That's a massive segment of my recovery, but it's not everything that I...

Nope. But it also doesn't make me gather up the paperwork for every cent I've spent in the preceding three months, either. I don't live in fear of a paypal auditor, and most importantly, money that goes to paypal isn't going to the hillbilly sisterfuckers who run the state of Indiana. In this...

Use google's site: keyword to search! Actually I guess that won't work. A lot of those big company stores show you different prices depending on your zip code. Bastards. My definition of "doesn't get it" are sites that have 1MB flash intros, or anyone who stores textual information in Flash.

The sun is falling and it lies in blood The moon is weaving bandages of gold Old black swan where oh where is my lover now Where oh where is my lover now Torn and tattered is my bridal gown and my lamp is lost With silver needles and with silver threads The stars stitch a route for the dying...

$.31 is groin-grabbingly good for 16x Verbatims. Buy. Buy. Buy. Buy.

Can I rent it, or something?

... and there's my data. All of it. Right where I left it. I used RunTime Software's Get Data Back NTFS and RAID Recovery tool. Processing took around 16 days, all told. I recovered 937GB of data. Recovery was largely automatic. I'd say that's pretty goddamned impressive.

Sam's Club is selling 100 packs of 16x +R Verbatims for $31. They are really great disks.

I don't understand that sentence. Free space? So, like, you haven't formatted it yet?

Yes. Paypal fees are a terrible and onerous burden. Roughly in line with my state sales tax.

250s are fine. In groups of four or more.

So... a C3 integrated system with up to 1GB RAM (probably 128MB in the base config) and 4x500GB PATA drives. No hardware RAID but MAYBE GBoC. The 1U case is interesting, I guess. All the ports are on the front of the enclosure. Is that normal for 1U setups? I've never really dealt with the...

Thank you Lunar and Groltz. Taz, you have to understand that there is forum history on that one particular subject. Normally we do strive to have open fora - 95% of our moderator action is to remove spam/commercial speech or (Santilli's) duplicated posts. That's because the people who visit...

Er, you could just take checks and no paypal. Checks just take too damned long to clear. I won't buy anything off ebay unless I can pay with paypal. I hate futzing around with other payment systems. Checks and the like are a problem for me.

Not really. I basically have a great deal of redundant storage.

I managed to get my distributor to take them back, not Hitachi. Anyway, regarding my RAID recovery: I let Runtime software's RAID recovery make an image of the ruined RAID. This is a process that has been running for, uh... 15 days. Approximately. Fortunately the machine that's going to run...

Coug, I think the ATI 939 chipset includes DVI. Every tech I've talked to has said they are excellent.

I like to think I know what mashed-up bugs would taste like, 'cause I had vegemite once. Oddly enough, I ordered some Trackman Marble mice earlier in the week. My supplier shipped trackman vistas, those abortions that Tannin likes. They're in that annoying price range where it's stupid to send...

Trust me, you don't want to get into it.

One of them is in long-term storage and not driveable. Insurance is just another check I have to write. Not a big deal. At one time I even had another car, but I gave it to my ex-. Someday I'm going to get rid of one of my cars for a van or something a little more practical for my needs (I...

Also: The trailer for "Ice Age 2" (regrettably in Quicktime Stinky Format) may very well be worth $7 on its own.

So there was another Super Hero movie out today. Of course, that meant I had to pay $7 to see it. The movie was Sky High. A Disney Movie. Rated PG. Or Maybe G. Something not R. And I saw it as the only adult in the theater who did not bring along wombspew. And despite the fact that it was so...

Since I only use Via-based motherboards with onboard S3 video, or Via Boards and ATI Radeons, I'm not seeing much point in something like that.

For a while I was using a credit processor that had essentially come into existance to process signups for porn sites on the internet. It was great - the fees were very reasonable as long as there weren't chargebacks (kind of a problem for porn sites). But two years ago, Visa and Mastercard got...

Mostly I am immobile. It suits me. I own three cars. I really only drive one of them. There's a silver one, a black one and another black one. Transportation is boring.

Yes, but according to that "Layers of Hell" test that LiamC posted yesterday, I'm a heretic!

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The Paypal horror stories tend to involve Paypal freezing money left in the account. Paypal will do this at times for as little as a single complaint. I use Paypal on both a home and a business bank account, and I can't say it's been a problem for me. But other people really do have valid...