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I've been repurposing fast spare machines (and out of warranty 3TB drives) as Plex servers rather than backup targets. You don't need a super CPU for crashplan, but the ability to support eight threads is super-helpful for Plex's video transcoding tasks. If you have the disk space and interest...

There are two conflicting bits of conventional wisdom. One is that you want different sorts of drives to prevent manufacturing or firmware defects from hosing an array. The other, which stems back to the days of EXTREMELY picky hardware controllers, is that if there's even a slight size/geometry...

It's an Intel device, so it's possible that it actually WILL work in RAID0, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that there's a configuration other than an Intel Rapid Storage RAID0 on Windows that's functional and supported by drive, OS and storage controller. Sure, you could try it, but it...

This kind of bullshit is why I tell people that they're better off with STBs that incorporate internet functionality rather than leaving it up to the TV itself. Can't you get Roku or even Chromecast down there?

Nits lurks semi-actively. I don't think she logs in, but when we talk on the phone sometimes she tells me her opinions about goings-on here. I'd meet more of you people if I ever traveled and/or there were a single justifiable reason for anyone to pass through the terrible place where I happen...

One way to circumvent the legal requirement of public availability would be to present your services only to members of an organization that agrees to specific terms of service. I've been in places that use language like that to circumvent smoking bans. Of course, you're basically also...

A ton of internet-based production is in Miami now, actually. The company that owns most of the "Tube" sites, Brazzers, does most of its business there. Most strippers are just people. I think they have an interesting job and they usually have some cool/funny stories to tell if you get them to...

The thing about the smoke trap certainly does, but they actually do explain the firmware problem they had with their GPSes (they flashed consumer firmware on a Trucker GPS for the larger display). Gearheads seem divided about the amount of customization they did but that it basically checks out...

I wouldn't mind having a few more spare H61 boards sitting around for quick hardware swaps, but looking at what they have available, anything they've priced under $70 is basically sold out right now.

I'll probably get around to replying to some of jtr's points later but here's a long-ass article about the latest breaking of the "Cannonball Run" record.

Of course, I've been within probably a couple blocks of timwhit's home and I've never met him, either, but it could happen.

I do so with full justification. If you want to live in an echo chamber where everyone who disagrees with you is an oppressor, you're free to do that. Just go ahead and be the victim you feel you need to be.

Further evidence that Indiana is a shame to the entire goddamned country: http://www.wncn.com/story/28664509/first-woman-in-us-sentenced-for-killing-a-fetus

Technically, the folders list that shows up under This PC are just personal folders in your home directory. The Libraries/Home Directory folders distinction is something that a lot of people don't understand and moreover, drives a lot of people nuts. I wish Microsoft would merge or somehow...

Which is why we don't prosecute fundamentalist mormons for polygamy and sexual assault of minors? Oh wait. We do exactly that. Your right to religious freedom ends when it impinges on the rights of others. You don't get to choose what part of the general public you serve if you claim to serve...

1. Human relationships are not about biological imperative. 80 year old people still marry. 25 year old heterosexuals decide to remain childless. You can think gay sex is icky and everyone is OK with that. I promise I can find a dozen or so human beings in a Golden Corral buffet or a Wal-mart...

There's no discrimination here. If your religion says it's OK to murder nonbelievers, it's still against secular law. Are you being oppressed for not being allowed to kill heathens? Or are you simply paying the price of living in a regulated and civil society? If you really feel like you HAVE to...

If you buy the Holiday Season sets, one of the bonuses is a printed white card with your real name on it. The second year I bought, I got a card that says "(Mercutio's) Butt." It's not quite as much a trump card as "Bees?" or "Bigger, Blacker Dick" but it's still my favorite.

Well, that's close enough that timwhit or I could pop in for a checkup I guess. :)

The sixth expansion set launched Monday, by the way. We played at my company's holiday party. In most businesses, that would probably violate every HR rule known to man but given the amount of tequila around the table, it was just a good time had by all.

It's a Microsoft web browser, so I didn't expect much. I suspect that it is pretty fast, but the lack of ad and script blocking support for the moment means that it's unacceptable regardless.

No one outside of certain parts of the right wing blogosphere is suggesting Sharia Law is viable in the United States. Even in places with the highest concentrations of Muslims in the USA, like Dearborn, Michigan and St. Paul, Minnesota, the level of traction that idea has is approximately the...

Also, as further rejoinder to Stereodude: The wording of the law signed by President Clinton is such that it only applies to government agencies and employees (e.g. the Federal Government, as an employer, will not force an adherent of Islam go out and inspect hog farms or punish Native American...

Who cares? No one is saying that religious people cannot observe their faith in their home or in their church. The issue here is that religious people are demanding that the secular world conform to their expectations, which is particularly ironic given the frequency with which religious beliefs...

Project Spartan was added to Windows 10 as of last night's Windows 10 update. There's no ad-blocking, no sign of any add-on support and not even A9 search plugins can be added. The UI is very similar to Chrome and Firefox, only without all those confusing options and settings; there are only...

It's not exactly PC gaming but I watched it on a PC so whatever. Wil Wheaton, Aisha "LANA!!!!" Tyler and Overly Attached Girlfriend play Cards Against Humanity. Not even remotely safe for work.

Gay people can be married by civil authority or in churches with tolerant views of human relationships. What happens in a church is the purview of its faith. What happens in secular life, outside of the church, is a matter of law. These are distinct issues. If a person of faith feels that their...

Also, there are standards for doing just about everything that involves wiring over Cat5 or better cable. You can wire HDMI over Cat5, for example. Another reason to do extra runs of cabling is to make sure you have essentially universal cabling for whatever else you might want to wire.

If your religion is so easily transgressed by interacting with the secular society, yes.

If your religion is so easily transgressed by interacting with the secular society, yes.

Just expense. Though installers WILL try to get away with using the cheap stuff if they think they can get away with it. Where are you moving, anyway?

It's a matter of specific wording. The party of small government has specifically and deliberately remove rights in places where they had already been granted. This is particularly troubling as religion really is a matter of open interpretation and self-identification. And yes, Muslim taxi...

As a rule of thumb, the more often the word Enterprise is used in a press release, the more likely the product is to have a price that can be likened unto the Flagship of the United Federation of Planets.

... and I just spoke to someone on my office line whose name showed up on caller ID as "LEGAL ANAL" which is of course extra hilarious for reasons that we can explain to sedrosken when he's a little bit older.

The Indiana law is explicitly different from other laws because it includes language overriding local statues. Communities like South Bend and Indianapolis that already included sexual preference as a protected class just had their laws invalidated. Those in smaller communities may now find that...

Knoxville is on the other side of the state. Kinda like how San Francisco and Sacramento are not that far apart but couldn't be more different.

I'm thinking west coast or Tennessee, where my parents are. I'd probably do better generally on the West Coast.

One of my favorite tabletop games is Sentinels of the Multiverse, which I bought through my Kindle, but is only available on PCs through Steam. I've really been enjoying it, but boy does it kill my battery. That was a bit of a drag, so I started messing with Android Emulators again. Unlike a...

Sure, if you're dumb enough to use them without sticking a router of your own on the internal interface. I usually have my customers have provided devices flashed to modem-only mode if possible. Comcast actually no longer gives end users - even businesses - any administrative control over...

Indiana is not a good place to live. I'm relatively certain the current governor, in spite of signing the "Indiana is just peachy with bigotry" bill, will be re-elected. I really do need to move someplace else. I spent a while today looking at plans for Tiny Houses. I think I'd be perfectly...

They can't do anything internal to your LAN unless you let them. Worst case, you can always make SSH tunnels between all your clients.

I can very easily see AT&T moving your billing to the "enhanced privacy" plan if you signed up and then routed all your traffic through a VPN, too.

Correct. These are the DM units.

I'd pay that for a 27" Ultrasharp, no problem. Just not Acer.

I might hope that a premium product would have better quality control than the $100 POS screens I'm used to. It certainly does annoy me to have to toss a 14-month-old monitor though.

Try writing a 50GB file and watch write speed. I've only been testing with my spare drive, but they all seem to exhibit slower sustained writes over time. 4GB might not be enough to see the slowdown.

Could be. I suppose it's only a serious problem if you're expecting high write performance. I wouldn't want to write large backups to one, for example.

The 5TB drives don't seem to drop out of arrays the way SOME drives do, but alone or in groups, they have a very odd behavior where they'll write at full speed for a while (150MB/sec for a single drive) then slow down to something more like 40MB/sec for sustained writes that last more than...

$800 is awfully dear for a 27" display. I know the appeal is the high refresh rate, but that's somewhat higher than I'd expect given that we aren't talking about an Ultrasharp or Cinema Display. I'm sure that would be a sweet consumer-class monitor, but my experience with Acer panels is that...

I don't know where the line was drawn, but if you're throwing in random Clevo resellers like Sager, I suspect the list could very rapidly balloon beyond the point of usefulness.