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Yes and yes. I think we will see the releases moving closer and closer to see how often Steve can take money for his brainwashed masses. It's not that their user base has grown, just the frequency that they have to replace their crap.

Nope. That would make it actually useful. That is against Steve's religion.

It's still steep. Though one of the guys I was hanging out with last night might be up for a multi-boat campaign (his money)...that could be fun.

Nope all the SSDs I have are in RAID-0 configurations. The 750s are in RAID-5.

Make sure the RAID card can handle it. I suspect that my card is the bottleneck, and the onboard RAID didn't do any better.

That is a long way to drive with a boat. Spinnaker Cup (SF to Monterey) will be this year, and next year I'm planning on single-handing the TransPac. My boat managed 5th some years ago.

Last night's sailboat race was interesting. Started off by accidentally skying a halyard, only to discover after sending someone to the top of the mast that we had broken it in the process. Then I had a tire on the trailer blow when pulling the boat out, with no spare no jack and no wrench...

The lowest lifetime I saw was 33 years at 50GB/day and 1,000,000+ hours MTBF. That argument died a long time ago. As we know from hard drives, warranty length doesn't correlate with drive quality.

You can't get fired for buying Dell, they are the standard. This sounds like the power connector inside the laptop has broken and shorted. Do you feel like shorting a power adapter to see if it exhibits the same LED behavior? IIRC, on the 6000 the DC plug was still directly soldered onto the...

Flash is a tool, a very powerful tool. It is highly misused, as most powerful tools are. The software implementation does have its issues.

I don't recall him encouraging forcing. I remember him saying that encouraging suburbs in the first place was a mistake, and that encouraging urban living through better public transportation and less tax incentives for home ownership was a good thing, and I agree with all that.

Although I agree that jtr wants everyone to live in large buildings in large cities, and I agree with him that the math works out better that way (even though I don't want it). I don't think he ever said "gov't run housing". Having recently come back from Moscow, I can't imagine a worse idea.

Following my logic, who's to say that the gov't won't follow the examples of Middle America and run up the credit card bills before filing bankruptcy.

I think you are onto something here. The US hasn't paid it's debts at all during this administration. Politicians are learning from CEOs, maximum shareholder/voter popularity in the time frame that they care about does not come from solid practices; it comes from squeezing everything you can...

I think that is the problem. Giving all those advantages yet still allowing them to be a for-profit enterprise was the failure. I've read that Freddie and Fannie helped significantly to put large numbers of people into their own homes. Whether or not this is a good thing is a different...

I think looking to other countries isn't a bad idea here...IIRC, many others include this service in the gov't.

The govt failure was trusting a public service to a private company. If the service really was vital to the country (and it seems that it was), it needs to be completely run by the gov't. If it isn't mandatory, then let it be private and let it fail.

I agree with your assessment and conclusions, but you don't have to be nearby, I suspect this will screw over the rest of the planet soon enough...

That isn't a lot of carbon fiber, this is a lot of carbon fiber.

Who has released Blu-ray audio disks so far?

I can second that. They didn't exist in my area before the boom, now they are everywhere. I suspect they must have played fast and loose to get there so quickly. But Stereodude is right; these banks will only collapse if everyone pulls their money. I wouldn't be surprised to see their stock...

That is what they said about the 8C in the latest episode. Someone at a museum said a car can't be art because art must be made with no other purpose in mind. They then submitted that the 8C is so pretty to look at and so useless as a car, that it should qualify.

I like Foxit, too. But too many pages were coming up wrong. The last specific ones I can cite are the Visa application forms for Russia, and the passport renewal forms for the US. Those are ones I had to get right.

Lovin' the frogs. You are going to want some significant noise reduction, but that will lose some detail. 8x10 should still be doable.

Well it doesn't look like the 9650SE supports online capacity expansion with RAID-50, so I'm ruling it out for technical reasons. After I get my data off I still might test it. Looks like another day or so...

That would work, but I'm looking for the most performance with what I have. Besides, I'm out of PCI-E slots ;)

I know RAID-50 is supposed to be faster, but what if the computations are happening on a dedicated card (specifically my 3Ware 9650SE)? From what I understand, reads from RAID-5 are essentially as fast as RAID-0 anyway (the data is striped, but to one less drive) and writes are limited to the...

Has anyone tried to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on a new Firefox install lately? It is impressively bad. There is a Firefox add-in that is just the download manager for the program, and if you don't uncheck a box, you get an e-bay toolbar for your trouble. Edit: And it requires a...

Did you watch last week's "Top Gear"? Alfa Romeo Challenge

Lets see if I understand this correctly: 1. Investors want "in" on some plays that are too risky to be insured by FDIC. 2. "Investment banks" are created for this purpose. 3. These institutions are able to show better performance during good economic times due to being able to take bigger risk...

It depends on what you do, but it probably won't make much difference. I would set it to the higher speed and run a cursory memory check (eg. MemTest86+, included as a boot option on Ubuntu install disks) just to make sure nothing goes wonky. Most of the "800Mhz" memory I have plays nice up to...

Too fast for what? Is it unstable? I assume the image migration worked with the new board?

Decent but free implies open source. Open source users usually use Linux. Hence no AV. Also, I suspect that there is actually quite a bit of daily updating and even a solid amount of innovation and research that goes into keeping an antivirus program effective. I'm now making the case to my...

I think even the ones built-in to XP SP2/3 and Vista can do this. Just go to the "exceptions" tab and uncheck everything. Now add back the IPs/Ports that you want.

The discussion that I'm hearing is whether it is better for the economy as a whole to have them collapse or to have an extra $12,000,000,000,000 in national debt. That would more than double it.

There is some clarification needed. Stereodude is correct, that Linksys (and the one built-in to Windows) block all incoming traffic unless otherwise specified OR unless the request originated at that machine. Do you want requests that a computer on the inside made to get through?

I'll have a new write-up on it when it is finished. Here is a teaser ;)

When my computer is back up, I'll have to post a video of Photoshop opening to show how painless it can be (even with extra plug-ins). You just need a system that draws 400W+ at idle and costs as much as a 1Ds MkIII and a 400/2.8 combined.

Nice video.

Well, I just bought a handful of additional 750GB drives. I'm still trying to determine the best RAID configuration for them. There are 12 now, so RAID-50? That should be decently fast...

Tempting. And I'm also tempted just to send down small photo albums from time to time. But I would like to get her more involved with the family, and she is the only one not on-line. The parents are in Europe, and sending updates via e-mail and Flickr daily, I'm calling grandma and passing on...

Quite funny. Nice find.

For the record, XFX's tech support is awesome. Sure, you have to register an item to get to it, but the ticket management system, techs, and RMA process are damn easy.

That was my thought as well, but I didn't find anything (other than telling the OS to use onboard video). Regardless, I've moved on to other things now, and won't have an opportunity to revisit this issue. Thanks for the follow-up.

Oh, and I saw a line out of the local ATT shop, presumably for the iPhone launch today. Stupid sheep; there is no indication that there will be shortages.

New mobo is in, I forgot how much that board cost ($300)! And the bad news is that it didn't last long enough for there to be anything better, so the replacement isn't an upgrade (only getting PCI-E 2.0)

Of course, to make this productive and useful, we should include why the program is bad, and what alternatives are available. Then we might be able to compile a document of some kind.

It sounds like a piece of crap, but it doesn't affect the rest of the system, and because of that it is clear which software is at fault. The number of people who are amazed when I blame McAfee for making their computer slow is near 100%. They know that their computer is slow, but they didn't...

1. McAfee 2. Norton 3. iTunes 4. WeatherChannel 5. Yahoo Toolbar

Might as well start a list. Requirements: 1. Must be very common (lots of people effected) 2. Must be bad at what it was designed to do (AV that doesn't, etc) 3. Must be misunderstood (users should have the impression that it's good) 4. Must effect the computers general operation (running at...