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I don't have a problem with it and I don't see how many else could, just a city boy getting attuned to nature. The broadcast agency would likely see things very differently, something to do with professional composure.

For my software testing using a virtual PC here on my desktop machine is there any differences I need to know about or any neat new stuff that could help me out? I thought the old stuff they were giving away was perfect, don't know how much better it can get.

I suppose that's a way of looking at it, especially for the virtual work which I hadn't considered.

Extra feature that laymen can recognize and help justify the cost?

Woot, special day today: Just hit the 2gig file size limit on my archive folder. Time to move 2007 off this machine. Looks like I average 1gig a year. Man after you move the stuff to another PST file that compacting action takes forever...

Depending on where they are I could live with it. For the past two years I have lived with some tape that was pealing off and casting a shadow from the backlight to the screen of my Samsung 204B and causing a dark yellow spot. It was all the way on the right side where the scroll bar is on apps...

I guess I have to agree Tahnin, the last three or four monitors I have bought were perfect. BUT I simply am not going to buy a monitor from an on line store that has a policy of say 5 dead pixels before they will take it back and replace it. If I get one dead pixel near the center in the place...

That's what I thought. I have one on ebay with all original packing and someone asked about reboxing for protection, sounded completely unnecessary to me but it will be insured anyway.

Question for those that buy on line like from newegg or amazon: How do they ship the monitor? Do they just slap a label on it and ship it or do they rebox it? Monitors are about the only thing I insist on buying locally because of the dead pixel and return thing so I don't know.

I think media center extenders and xbox360 can connect to it to play content on tv or stereo. That really opens up some uses for home environments that could potentially really use a lot of storage space.

That's weird, you have to look behind you? I don't understand that but I can think of many situations where you would have to do the same thing using only mirrors. I had to do something simmilar in hummer school in the service only we had to back 100 feet or so and keep the tire on a line. They...

Hey I did not click that one twice, I went to another tab entirely while it was doing its thing.

I raise you this one sir: http://shiroioji.livejournal.com/114944.html This link may cause you to loose weight from disgust. All I can think are some people live on a plane where they don't care what immediately surrounds them. I can't understand it.

Oh and PA today has a nice little mention of the EA Spore copy protection fiasco. http://www.penny-arcade.com/ I actually like steam, it seems to solve more problems than it creates. You loose or damage your disks and you can just download the content. For download only content there is a...

What I find interesting with the Wii is that people who generally don't like gaming like it, like your parents or young children. A coworker mentioned to me that her parents visited and got addicted to bowling on it. They have an interesting thing started in doing that, lets see if they can keep...

Correct expensive shipping. They did send the headstart and open beta keys right away via email, but not instantly like I thought they would, no biggie. At any rate I had the codes well before open beta started so I was happy in that respect. I wish now I just had gone with one of the all...

Browsing around some of the *.nfo files I have here none seem to mention a MD5 sum and it is interesting you bring that up. In all my time I have never had a problem with a warez distro put out by one of the major houses. Almost without question they all work as released too. I have occasionally...

Yeah, there is all sorts of bad press about this game and the super crappy protection it has. Did you know you can only install it a total of three times? Apparently EVER??

X2 Hirens boot CD is pretty helpful and they seem to update it quite a bit. Certainly has a couple of utilities on it: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

IOGear GCS1734 4 port KVM switch http://www.iogear.com/product/GCS1734/ VGA with max resolution of 2048 x 1536 USB mouse/keyboard based Switches: sound/microphone/USB1.1 device like printer or memory stick Complete with all cables and power supply. Gives you a good sharp picture...

Yeah I have gone through three or four hopefuls and a couple had the option to turn off special characters to make things faster so I see what you are saying. I am still trying but I found some of what I was looking for on an old WD200 that appears to work fine still.

Warhammer open beta was pretty neat, game seems "almost" mature enough for release. I am going to finding my way around for a LONG time, the world is HUGE, about 10x the territory in DAOC classic if I had to say. Even the beta with only tier 1 access seemed pretty large, I know I only got to...

Funny thing is our company is an industry leader because of our field service/support. Our product for the majority is on par or nothing special with everyone else but because we can back up support requests we have a much larger acceptance in the market. If something goes down and interrupts...

Anyone know of a decent free zip password brute utility? Found some of my old files on an old hard drive and I can't remember what I set back then. Tried a couple obvious ones from googling and they didn't work on the test archive that I set up with a known password so I think they were junk.

My company already banned chrome on company laptops citing security concerns, seems they already had problems with it. Funny thing is we use IE exclusively and they think that's fine security wise so they must have really had a wake up call with chrome if it's worse than IE6/7.

Hmm, several months ago we acquired a company called Aperture that does asset tracking for data centers. I believe it also does uptime stuff and records SNMP status information like HP Openview or WhatsUP. I have never used it though. Don't worry, our Aperture is not the same company advertised...

I was into DAOC for a long time mainly because a bunch of friends were playing it. But we are all looking into the Warhammer preorder. Anyone else planning on doing Warhammer? http://www.warhammeronline.com/ http://www.warhammeronline.com/preorder/

Sweet, the ones with no information must be "donations".

sold.

I haven't seen this stuff in a while but today I stumbled on this writeup and nice walk through on XP antivirus: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/anatomy_of_a_hack/

3Ware 7500-8 $55 shipped USPS Priority mail tracked. With eight good but used cables, four of which are the longer variety.

Great advice if you can find the car you want. A sales person ridealong that won't stop talking for a measly four miles or something doesn't show you a thing about the car.

Volt Cd I read about was .28-.29. Current Prius is .26, and the old EV1 was .19. Still years to change though. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/volt-birth-watch-77-that-cd-wont-play/ Guess my WRX sucks .35 Cd :)

Hopefully you feel the same way after six months and a year. Now that I have worked from home for a year I kinda really frikin want to go back to making site visits all the time. Thought I would love it at first though. Three or four days with three or four off sounds good especially if it is...

Leases are going away and generally looking a lot less attractive, get in soon if you want to lease. Lenders are starting to wake up to the fact that the big 2.8 are about to cave in financially and don't want to be left holding a massive depreciation at lease end. Generally if you forget...

They didn't pay for time, they paid for you to know what to type. Good for you!

We have a 75MB cap on our mailbox at work, not a big deal at all as we have our workstations set to automatically archive anything older than a week to the users local PST file. Around January February I offload archive anything over a year old out of my archive but that still leaves me with a...

We are on the way there but they need selling points other than green, and staying on top of the horsepower curve keeps products selling. I'm thinking by 2020 we can have a whole computer on one chip, multiple CPU, memory, video card, drive space all of it. Motherboards by then are just...

Maybe. Also I think they got so much kickback and random hostility from activation that they are very lenient, just call in and if it isn't blatant they will activate it for you. My XP license has been on three different motherboard/CPU/VPU combinations no questions asked over like ten...

I read somewhere, maybe HOCP linking something else, that nvidia is looking to pull out of the chipset business. It was in the same article as the recall news. Really hope they do that soon.

Noticed that too, has a really cheap feel and I think the connectors are a completely bad design.

It's funny but our business just continues to deal with the crappy connection saying that's just the way it is. QOS won't help us at all as the phone is on the other side of a Cisco PIX 501 hardware VPN so the ISP can't see the QOS information anyway.

This thing is out there quite a bit, I have encountered it several times in the past week alone. So far I just clicked no on the save/install file prompt.

Thats my point, whats wrong with the platform drivers that you have to research and find a fix for your situation? The fix should be update related drivers, not find utilities patches or manual fixes.

Thats damn weird. You have to find this utility besides the chipset drivers? Hearing details like this really puts me off.

Been passing that one around work here all week. So scary close to what I actually have to deal with working from home in a support role.

This is some good news, at least they have the fab capacity to make something really happen.

IMO that just means its "software" is more BIOS/firmware level than OS level. There is no dedicated processor and memory for this RAID solution.

My promise66 cards back in the day weren't hot swappable requiring a reboot to replace the disk, but they did rebuild in the background while you were running. I would have to think their new SATA based cards would allow hot swap, maybe even hot spare on the upper end ones but I don't have...

I think if you just reboot it will do it on the fly in the background. You didn't have to wait on it for three hours.