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Thanks for the input. I should get the machine back in my hands in about two weeks.

PS: The new node is to be named "Tranquility." http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html Colbert gets a treadmill.

I've been using Azureus for years without much issue. I sometimes have thirty or forty torrents running a once -- much more of a memory problem than a processor one, since I've set my cache to be as large as is stable. I don't think that I've seen it use more than 10% on my computer, except...

I had a customer drop off her Thinkpad R51 which is taking an inordinate amount of time to boot. It's gone back this afternoon with no appreciable change, as she needs it for a trip. I was only able to work on a few hours, much of which was spent waiting on reboots after making changes. It...

Nobody puts in 3.3v or universal PCI conventional slots in computers, even though 5v has been deprecated for years. Sometimes the bus is universal, but they still put 5v slots on the board. Maybe the manufacturers just thought that conventional PCI would go away faster and never bothered to...

Where I live, there are two cable companies, as well as U-verse. I'd say that about a third of the people here have Comcast, even though it costs more and is crappy. Why? They offer great intro rates, and it turns out that people are amazingly stupid. Once you get most people to switch, they...

Actually, there is known to be one housing development in Texas which has both FiOS and U-verse deployed. While officially an AT&T coverage area, it apparently neighbors a Verizon service area, and making it easy to extend service. Verizon has let it be known that, where it made sense, they...

Unless your housing development is very new, probably not. In most locations, U-verse is deployed as VDSL over the existing copper. Unfortunately, this means that, at some point, one house can get it, but the neighbors can't. That person doesn't know what they are talking about. The above...

Doesn't somebody make internal to external brackets?

There's a name for people who prefer animals. We can leave these people to their perversions....

Seriously, you guys thought that this went with "Unity" and "Harmony?" Then again, the Europeans thought that "Columbus" somehow worked with "Hope" and "Destiny." I voted for "Synergy."

Fess up. Lenses and RAID cards? We all know where these intersect.

Actually, I would think the opposite, especially if you're using a journaling file system. The more files that you copy, the more file system overhead.

I have a used Visor Platinum with all of the original parts (and it works). Will also throw in the Minstrel S Springboard modem and some rechargeable batteries. Maybe $45 shipped, depending on where you are

So, are you making or just selling porn?

http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/sas/SAS_roadmap2004.html The 6GB/s plugfest was in November.

On the other hand, the Nevada workers are cleany-clean-clean, and the business is well regulated. Make it legal. Regulate it. Tax it.

Give them time. Microsoft will find ways to screw this up.

Okkay, maybe not. But people in conservative states are: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news And, if you need furthur proof, the peer-reviewed journal article is linked at the end.

FYI: Under x64, Photoshop CS3 will see and use 6GB of RAM. To use more, one would need a 64-bit version, i.e., CS4.

Yes. Let's also get rid of all of the white men who are here. That should increase diversity immensely. We should be left with about 50% Asians, 25% women, and 25% udaman. Considerably better than the 99.9999% white men that we have now. Seriously, if diversity were more important than...

Reading the help file is apparently for commie pinkos: http://mediamatters.org/items/200902130016

The horror! I have 8.5GB free on my 36GB drive.

Have you tried running a distributed project on the machine? Perhaps if you looked for some aliens or did some biomedical research, ACT would get jealous and start working.

I think that you have it backwards. Chipkill and similar technologies are more advanced than just run of the mill ECC, and protect against more errors (particularly, multibit errors). This makes them inherently slower. As I recall, however, IBM made special Chipkill DIMMs with an onboard...

Garbage. We just need Windows/386 and Windows/286... er, I mean x64 and 32-bit.

But will it come with self-bricking features? I don't know if it'll sell without that.

That's a little optimistic. Kind of like saying VOIP is an interim solution until cell phones can really replace analog land-line phones. You can't truly expect people to replace most, if not all, of the lighting in their house just so that they can use LEDs, no matter how much money they...

The Tech isn't much on ancient history. The Computer History Museum might be a better choice. They already have, however, a fairly extensive list of items that they don't want.

No, it's global climate change. And your local climate will change, one way or another.

A drive that I have is in the list of affected models. When I go to the serial number checker, it says that my model is not affected. WTF? People thought that the "Deathstar" thing was bad....

It's not so much far-fetched as seemingly impractical. It's not going to beat SSDs on speed. And when it comes out, I don't see how it's going to beat spinning disks on price. No one is going to plonk down a bunch of money for 1/3 the speed or half the capacity. It may find a niche, but...

I'm almost a full year behind on Doctor Who and Torchwood, so no spoilers, eh? Merc might be able to swallow watching Torchwood. The Doctor Who references are fairly minimal, all of the characters are sexually flexible, and there's plenty of blood. If there was full frontal nudity, he would...

That's the thing with global climate change... not everyone gets warmer, like us in California. There's expectation, for example, that Europe may become a very cold place.

Install the PCL driver and use that. PS: Just another reason that PS rules and PCL drools.

I say, go nuclear, but one share a day may still be too fast. Figure out what's on each share, who is using, and who is supposed to be using it. Then figure out a better way to set it up, let everyone know that the old share is going down after hours on Friday and, if successful, those who...

Do you hate yourself that much?

Merc, are you gay?

So, all we really need CPUs to do is get cheaper and more efficient, and for more crap to get crammed into the package. When are on-die GPUs supposed to be here?

So, if I continue to not close Fx, then the problem is solved? Score!

Just like ugly, cheap crap is "in."

I think that we already have plenty of processing power. When I switched my computer from two 2GHz processors to two dual-core 1.8GHz processors, I could just notice the loss in single-core computing power. I don't really need much more than this. The limitations on my system are my video...

What are you trying to do? Realise that PDF is a display format; you're supposed to edit your original document.

Seriously, FoxIt is crap. My complaint is that it doesn't work properly with security. Like, it can't open some secured files at all. PDF is an open standard now; there's no excuse for this. The complaint of the people at Adobe who work on the open-file code for Acrobat is that, except for...

It seems a bit ridiculous that, now that Seagate now produces dogs that they add insult to injury and cut the warranty, as well. At least with the warranty, you could rationalise that, when the cheap crap failed, it would get replaced. Now, no more.

It seems a bit ridiculous that, now that Seagate now produces dogs that they add insult to injury and cut the warranty, as well. At least with the warranty, you could rationalise that, when the cheap crap failed, it would get replaced. Now, no more.

I imagine that performance is pretty underwhelming with this thing.

Didn't Seagate already go bust once? They went private, upped their warranty, and then bought Maxtor. Now crap.

Mine is about 5.5GB, but that's with half a gig of fonts. And I'm running XP x64. I bet that a clean install would be smaller. Of course, that won't fix your problem with too many fat apps installed....

You probably need a new accountant, then.