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I've been buying Barracuda 7200.14 3TB drives. They're well behaved and reasonably fast. I have about 30 of them and in the last year I've had to replace two. That's more than I'd like but not entirely unexpected based on past experiences with Seagate. 3TB models dip to $110 on Amazon/Newegg if...

The problem is that Microsoft has a crap-ton of Xbox exclusive stuff that people actually want to play and all the media integration crap going for it. People are going to bitch about Xbox and then buy one anyway. It works for Valve and it will work for Microsoft.

If you're using Windows 7 and the drives are set up as GPT disks, they should show up and be usable. If for some reason you format them on an XP machine you're going to wind up with weirdness.

Goddammit. I know I've done this because my laptop sees music on my file server in its library. I'll play with it a bit this afternoon to see if there was something else I had

One of my customers recently went from having an enterprise-wide need for perhaps ~10GB of storage to consuming 200GB more or less every weekend after they started taking HD video of live music performances in their restaurant/lounge/bar-things. I was awfully surprised when the drive on their...

I can sustain 6.6 flights of stairs per minute for an hour without resting according to the horrible machine I use every day, but I doubt I could double that pace for any serious length of time.

Yup. I have established that he's a he and I've been calling him Shitmonster after what he does to my balcony and what my cats think he is. Now when my cat are bad I tell them I'm going to let the monster get them.

My problems with Microcenter are the half tank of gas between me and any savings and Cook or DuPage county sales tax. But I buy a CPU every single time I'm in Westmont so I figure it works out.

Don't PSUs become less efficient over time? I'm sure that a 500W unit is overspecified for the machines you're talking about but caps age about like batteries do so at some point they aren't going to be as good as they were when they were new, right?

I thought this was hysterical. http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/california-prisoners-are-free-read-much-werewolf-erotica-they-want/65856/

It's acceptable if you're already in an application supported by the interface, like the Store. It's god awful for general purpose search because unlike Windows 7's version, it expects you to either search for a program by default (probably wrong) or else immediately choose the context for the...

May I ask what you're upgrading from? Are you just going to run onboard video with it? I'm thinking carefully about making my next system an ITX machine, just to avoid the inevitable outcome of building another giant mid/full tower rig so I have another place to put hard drives.

Honestly, the only thing that's wrong with the desktop experience on Windows 8 is that some things involve Metro and the Start screen.

Microsoft also makes tons and tons of money supporting application development. Visual Studio is probably the best development environment I've ever seen and the documentation and ecosystem for building code really are first rate. Of course Microsoft wants to encourage people to use its tools...

The short answer is that there are workarounds for that. The bar-none easiest one is to just drop a shortcut to the path you want to include in the library. It's not exactly the same thing, but it works no matter where the files actually live. There is a handy little add-on I forgot about: You...

Wait. There are people who like MetroUI?

Windows 7 and 8 support Libraries, which can be located on any computer new enough to make use of the Windows Search Service (basically 7 or Server 2008R2 and 8 or Server 2012, plus Storage Server 2011), can locate applicable data on any folder that's been incorporated into any particular...

Google Drive/Dropbox/SugarSync/Skydrive? If you put a shortcut to a network location in one of your local library folders (e.g. shortcut to Images_on_LiamcsWorkstation.lnk), it is in fact indexed properly, even if the network host doesn't support the Windows Search Service, so that makes stuff...

I think HP Probooks are a lot like Dell Vostros or Thinkpad Edges. They're essentially the same thing as Pavilions but they get real support. I'm not super impressed with them, but they're the cheapest business notebooks out there and that by itself has value.

It's an inevitable outcome of being in the same place for long enough for the roots to take hold. We'll be bronzing your and Lunar's bar stools soon enough. ;)

It looks like the only thing you get from moving up to the $135 board is two extra USB3 ports and a fancier heat sink. Meh.

MSE is worse than no security software at all, since it provides both the awesome false sense of security that comes with being a completely ineffectual product with slow response to new threats and a limited feature set. It's free and it's still not worth the money. I suggest Avast, though...

I don't see anything to indicate that it's been changed. I really wish Microsoft didn't consider software RAID1 a "Server" feature for Windows. LM, if you want more than four cores on Intel, you need to look at LGA2011 or at Xeons. Or you can buy an AMD CPU, I guess.

Tonight I got to play Cards Against Humanity with a dream team line up: Four lesbians, two transsexuals, a (culturally) Jewish Doctor of Unitarian Theology, a Medical Doctor, an English Lit prof and two seventeen year olds, who were both dating AND both of whose mothers were somewhere in the...

Microcenter will have that shit on sale. My advice is to go to Microcenter and buy your CPU for 2/3rd the price it is on Amazon and get whatever Intel or Gigabyte (or Asus, if you're one of THOSE people) motherboard best matches your price range.

Short answer: Because the software gets updated a lot more often than the documentation. Truth is, most of the folks who work on this stuff know enough about conventions that if they're even sort-of in the right general area they can work out what needs to be done and the documentation just...

I need to name him. He is utterly unbothered by my proximity and he's out there every freaking time I look. I have determined that he's perfectly happy to eat my grilled chicken and I'm pretty sure he's aiming shits at my sliding glass door.

Why do I see more weird rendering problems with mobile Chrome than any other browser? Any of you web people have insight? A lot of stuff renders perfectly on "Internet", the stock Android browser, which I *think?* is also just a webkit derivation; mobile Firefox from time to time gets directed...

The first day of halter top season: It's just like Christmas, except that I actually celebrate it.

Pushbullet. Use Chrome on whatever to send a link to that thing on your Androids. No Firefox support as of yet but I can live with that for now.

That setting is Vin Diesel's baby. He's put up his own money to make games, cartoons and comics set in that universe. It's not just some rip-off cash grab.

Here in the US, there's usually a substantial discount on "two models back" Thinkpads, which at this point are Tx20s or the like. Which is what I'm typing on right now. Those are the units that I hunt down and offer to individuals who want something decent and are more concern with price than...

What's stopping you from installing without the SATA drive on the native port and adding it after the fact with mknod?

Point of fact I just replaced the 802.11 card on a K-series Asus this weekend... and that's not a repair I've had to do very often. I was for a time actually suggesting Asus notebooks as an option for people I thought might otherwise be tempted by HP Pavilions and Toshiba Satellites, but they...

I'd flat-out tell you to drop dedicated graphics. It's silly. It's adding heat and noise and unless dad is a gamer you're not going to notice any benefit at all. HD3000+ can run two or three displays and does all the HD video decoding goodness we can presently do, so it's not a joke in the way...

I think there are commands for formatting volumes in diskpart.exe. e.g. select disk=2 clean create partition primary assign letter=q FORMAT FS=fat32 LABEL="LMs_Pr0ns" QUICK ... or something like that.

The new Star Trek movies are a magnificently convoluted bit of meta-fiction. Spoiler if you know nothing of the 2009 Trek movie. 1. Everything that happened in the pre-2009 Star Trek universe still happened. The Star Trek MMO and some novels actually do continue in that continuity. 2. In the...

With the Thinkpad you can also install your SSD in the mSATA slot on the bottom of the laptop, though your mSATA drive selection is rather limited. I have a 240GB Crucial m4 in mine. I actually do think 120GB is plenty for Windows and programs, but you'll need to know how to move data around to...

I'm a little bit surprised there isn't a commercial product out there that adds work-alike functionality. Implement a *nix feature on Windows used to be a vibrant market and I suspect that it often led to the inclusion of new features in new versions of Windows.

The civil penalty is as much as $125,000 in fines per infraction of material that's probably available for under $20 if it isn't already hosted free-of-charge on Youtube. In what way is that anything other than ludicrous even setting aside the possibility of criminal justice on top of that?

Baz Luhrmann movies are uniformly god-awful. I'd rather sit through "A Serbian Film" followed up by "Salo" followed by a light dinner and then a Twilight movie marathon. Star Trek was just "meh." I didn't pay to see it. I really don't like Kirk but then I never have. I found myself wandering...

Until extremely recently copyright violation was a purely civil matter. It's only criminal in the US now because of a rather substantial amount of lobbying by content cartels. You know that, right?

Even if he's the #1 seeder for the whole Pirate Bay, unless they can positively associate his assigned IP with illegal activity, that visit will end at his doormat.

I think the story is that HP, Dell and IBM have custom firmware on rebadged SAS drives. I don't know if that's still true or not, since they all pretty much use rebadged LSI controllers with custom firmware as well. Were I a betting man (and last time I was, I wound up with blue hair for a...

I bought several Samsung 840s earlier in the week from Amazon for $89. I believe that was an everyday price.

This dude is my new hero. I think I have a better storage setup than he does though.

Foxconn also manufactures Intel's motherboards, albeit to what I'm sure are somewhat higher specifications. This is something of an audition. I don't think I've ever used a Foxconn-branded board before.

I was just looking at reviews for the newest $1000 video cards on a couple sites when I noticed that they're testing performance across three 1920x1080 screens since that's the only way to get meaningfully distinct results out of top-end hardware. Which I think says a lot for the present...

Has anyone found any Metro Apps they actually like?

I'm looking forward to the day that PS3 games get as cheap as PS2 games are now. Maybe I'll finally find one I like when I can buy six or eight for what one game costs now.