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But Norm uses a lot of biscuits and glue!

Or I could just use Firefox and Adblock. That's a lot easier.

I have a client with a laptop with Broadcom-based wireless that needs to be able to use channels higher than 11 while traveling. In the past, all I've needed to do is hack the driver or firmware to convince it that it was in the Japan or UK. However, I've never done this with a Broadcom chip...

Fill a few bored moments with episodes of "This Old House" and "The New Yankee Workshop."

Last I checked, Chrome doesn't allow ad blocking. That's a deal killer.

I get the feeling that the answer to my question is no....

You don't need all that crap. It just goes out of date anyway. Just slip in the update pack, the browser pack of your choice, WiMP if you really feel the need, and your drivers. Slim down with nLite if it suites you. That's it.

Skip to the chase: http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6400

I have a friend that I was helping to repurpose some equipment. I had mentioned using 2.5" disks for cooling and noise considerations, but the drives are mounted using a bracket, not any kind of sled or caddy. Otherwise, the tape idea might do.

Most 2.5" to 3.5" drive mounting adapters leave the connectors in the middle, which means that you can't use them with a backplane. I found this from IcyDock, but it only has air vents on the front and back, and there are a number of complaints with its tool-less design. Does anyone know of...

How distinctive is this? I've been using the same WRT54G for some years. And the only reason that I stopped using the Belkin that I had before that is that Belkin offered to give me a refund for sending it back.

The funny thing is that these are not coming from the same people. SSDs and spinning disks aren't just competing technologies, they're coming from different companies -- many of which weren't previously competitors. If we can get past the form-factor change from 3.5 to 2.5, then SSDs should...

You mean, if only Vista worked with the older version of Nero. You know which piece of software is in the wrong here....

Has anyone had to support one of these suckers? I seem to have just ordered an Ideapad S10-2 for a customer....

Except for them announcing another new line, the Vertex sounds like a good choice. A few more questions: Have you bothered futzing with all of that stuff they suggest in OCZ's fora? What's your experience on firmware updates?

I can't say that I've ever had a UPS fail due to the batteries. Then again, for a while there, Belkin was supplying me with a new UPS every six months or so....

Perhaps my question was too narrow. Could you expound on that?

Does anyone have experience with the OCZ Vertex series or Kingston SSDnow M series (of apparent Intel rebadges)?

I still use h2benchw when I want to compare two drives. But that's a pretty unusual thing.

Strictly speaking, I don't think that more than two (one being a boot-time run for system files) was truly necessary. However, each boot/defrag cycle more precisely arranges the files needed for startup. It also makes the block display look nice. I'm not sure how it got so out of whack, but...

Is G a primary partition? If not, then converting to primary and nuking its volume ID might work. Seems to me that it might be a lot easier to just move documents and settings, however....

If they start making reliable drives, that'll be the first thing to go.

So, I finally got to work on this machine in earnest, and thought that folks might be interested in an update. It seems that the major malfunction was that, because she was immediately hibernating the computer after doing work, it was never defragmenting. After forcing a number of full runs...

The problem is that it is not clear why this year's regular vaccine didn't seem to imbue any immunity. It's possible for this strain to swap enough genes that having caught it this spring would not stop you from getting it again this fall.

Actually, it's all about parties. The Republicans here are so far out of the mainstream that they dismissed one of their leaders for *dealing* with the Democrats, i.e., trying to take care of the state's business. If one or the other party was clearly in charge, we'd have a fiscal policy that...

Isn't that a sticky wicket....

The problem in California is the Republicans. They're way too right wing to be a serious force here, but there are just enough of them to muck up anything sensical which Democrats might try to do. So, we end up with a lot of crap. On top of that, a lot of misguided Republicans unable to get...

That doesn't solve the problem of the electronics getting to the recycling center, or the center actually doing something other than just dumping it. This stuff is nasty and expensive to reclaim. People aren't going to pay at the end to dispose of it properly, when they can just dump it...

I think that wiring a CAT5 cable directly to a flash drive might be.

It might, but would have to be full on to pass the line-in. It passively passes the coax-in to coax-out.

Eventually, I'll have to buy one of these drives so that I can talk to people about it with some experience, but, in the mean time, I can bother you people. What happens if one uses a an SSD drive without the fancy tricks and configuration changes? You use up you empty cells quicker, reducing...

Like many of us here, I don't go to Storagereview.com except when extremely bored. Turns out that there is one forum that I visit regularly that uses Invision. But, it's part of a site owned by a company that makes money and, so, theoretically, is professionally maintained. They also have a...

Hitachi is a big conglomerate, but I don't think that they've gotten to the point that their hard drives also vacuum....

No, the wear on the controllers actually makes them less slippery. Once I wiped one down with an alcohol wipe, the well-worn controllers would stick to my hands, if they got a little sweaty. That's a different kind of discomfort.

Turning off "Require encrypted transport" doesn't stop people from from making encrypted connections with me. It stops *requiring* people to make encrypted connections with me. I turn it off, clients start sending me unencrypted stuff, and everything goes kablooey. And it's just Bittorrent...

I have an RF modulator. That's what allows me to run my cable box into my DVD player. It doesn't have a coax output, which is ridiculous. The boxes they hand out for U-Verse have that.

You say that, but I'm not sure that I actually belong to any other boards that still use Invision. Most seem to use vBulletin, a number Fusetalk, and a couple have custom systems. There must be some reason for that....

I don't think that my software does either, but if you run enough unappreciative software at once, you might change your mind. Not until I got to four cores did I fully realise how incredibly slow my storage subsystem was.

That's baloney. I have only one TV, and it's a ten year old CRT. Frankly, I don't know what I'll do when it bites the dust. My combo DVD/VHS player has started to get a little wonky with cheap DVDs, but I can't find a suitable replacement. I'll be gosh darned if anyone makes a DVD player...

Turn on transport encryption. Sometimes, when I'm having trouble with a torrent, I'll futz around with settings and turn encryption off. Upload rate immediately decreases. Once it's back on, everything is normal. They say that they don't interfere with the traffic, but we know that's not...

Let's keep it fair. What are all of the nice things you can say about Microsoft products?

Basically, yes. As I said, what ends up happening is that either people report posts using the undesirable method or don't report posts at all, which is not really an acceptable situation. Using mods really looks like a pain in the rear. Invision is free, right?

Cool drives that suck or warm drives that don't. Hmmm.....

I've always set clients' laptops to optimize for battery life, and only one ever had problems. That one broke his AC adapter, so it had an intermittent connection, and procrastinated on getting a replacement (free, under warranty, I might add). Probably ran the battery through a couple...

We're showing those pigs who's boss: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aQsB0MUW6Mh4 The growing worry now seems to be that this will bounce around during the "off" season, swap some genes with other strains, and come back in a serious way in the fall. Unlike the Spanish Flu...

For one of the projects I worked on at Electronic Arts, we weren't personally assigned console equipment, as we might be working with different stuff each day. It's frankly amazing how slick stuff got. I snagged alcohol wipes from first aid kits to wipe down controllers each day. Disinfects...

Sadly, "pork flu" was not available. A friend of mine sent me this: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281 I went to the CDC website, but couldn't find anything similar. In fact...

I have a forum to which I belong that has a major problem with post reporting "abuse." The problem is that you're only supposed to use the "report post" button for porn, swearing, etc. However, their only barrier to this is a message somewhere that no one reads. Furthurmore, there's no way...

Seriously. When was the last time that Adobe put out a "critical" update for a product that slipped an extension into Firefox that you could not uninstall via normal means?

I dunno. After having four cores for so long, two seems pretty pokey to me.