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Since this is the thread for talking about crapped-out Corsair drives: I have a 240GB Force GT that shits itself every time it's connected to a SATA controller in AHCI mode. No problems if the controller is doing IDE emulation, but I'm pretty sure that's not working as intended. It took me all...

As I recall, Server 2008 was also faster than FreeNAS, but it lacks Storage Spaces support for flexible disk provisioning.

I actually saw the biggest gains during transfers of small files. 3.7 million .jpg files (~1TB) took around 14 hours to copy to the Server 2012 machine and only about 12.5 hours to copy from that machine to another desktop.

I figured out that it's not worthwhile to sell anything on Ebay five or six years ago. They've done increasingly less to help vendors over time and now they appear to be actively hostile. This does not surprise me. Unfortunately, Craigslist is just as bad or worse.

Whoops. Both my DOS programs are published via Virtual PC.

Data transfer performance on Server 2012 seems to be significantly better than FreeNAS, even comparing their NFS implementations head to head. ZFS still has a lot to offer because of configurabilty, but in some of the tests I did, I saw 15MB/s better transfers out of my Windows Server.

Your DOS program will probably run just fine. The gotchas you'll run in to with legacy software have more to do with use of 16-bit drivers or libraries for Windows, or legacy code that checks for some god-awful reason checks OS version in some way that bombs on newer Windows releases.

I've shipped drives to people I don't like in just that little box. Every once in a while I get one from Amazon that way, too.

One of these?

Pin stuff to the taskbar. Folders full of shortcuts, if it's that bad. You can still put shortcuts on the desktop as well.

I promise that it's fine. It just means that the driver isn't part of the Windows 8 installation media.

I'm kind of partial to the Norco 4224. It's nice to get a case and say "This has enough drive bays." Though I'm quite fond of the NZXT Source 220 as a mainstream desktop case as well.

Your friend is not wrong, though I suspect most home users would never know the difference.

802.11n does not automatically ensure 5GHz support. It's still defined as optional. Make sure whatever you're looking at is specifically dual band or you might still have issues.

The overall impression I have is that among the top-tier vendors, pretty much every SSD is fast enough for pretty much every normal sort of workload. Or at least that I can't really tell a subjective difference between say an Intel 330, a Samsung 820 and an OCZ Agility 3.

Why is the Air the only notebook you see fit to mention?

Actually, if you went back and read this whole thread, you would see a slightly different picture. I'm actually a really big fan of the faster boot times, file copies and folder display changes and I've said those things all along. Unfortunately, when it comes to programs actually executing more...

You might be able to get a Netgear R6300 for around that price. I agree that 5GHz hardware is the right way to go, not that there is even any question about that. The r6x00 series has been my go-to choice for high end consumer routers, though I've been able to find refurbs for far less than what...

Who are you and where have you taken Tea?

Here's a hilarious thing I just found out: k9 is a wonderful and feature-rich Android mail client. It's one of the very few clients that supports push messaging from Gmail and that doesn't use that retarded threaded mail view, which no right-thinking human being wants in the first place...

The Boxee People sent me an email today about their new cloud storage application Cloudee. The idea is that it's a service for limited sharing of videos among friends and family members, but beta testers get unlimited free storage such that used space carries over to the product launch. Boxee...

Losing a pet sucks. My sympathies as well.

An interesting thing about Storage Spaces: You can create a space of arbitrary size, whether the drives are present to support that amount of storage or not. If you want to make a 144TB space and you only ("only") have 36TB, Windows will let you. It's pretty easy to add drives to a pool, so the...

Netflix is native Silverlight unless you changed the preferences in your profile. MSNBC streaming videos are also Silverlight-based.

I had to order eight 3TB drives today. Something interesting that I noticed that between Amazon and third party sellers, the pricing on those drives varied by as much as $60, with drives sold directly by Amazon swinging by as much as $30. Amazon was out of stock on the drives no fewer than four...

Herbal remedies can claim any number of useful functions that are seldom borne out by clinical study. The herbalists counter-claim is invariably that clinical research involved some kind of improper application, but those are the same sort of mobile goal posts used in cryptozoology and "creation...

Never, as long as they make a new movie using the IP every seven years or something. Marvel JUST got Daredevil back, years after the Elektra movie was made. In all likelihood what will happen is of intellectual property licenses or something similarly silly. "Sure, Doctor Doom can show up in an...

I might be willing to buy that, except that a couple million man hours lost to snow removal and slow travel in New York City is in no way as newsworthy as an Ice Storm causing widespread power outages and with attending frigid temperatures impacting a multi-state region anyplace west of...

The Samsung printer I mentioned previously (CLP315W) is a wireless color laser printer. They're like $150. You can also get a DLink wireless print server that seems to work with almost anything for around $50. And the Laserjet 4000 is fucking huge, Greg.

The thing is, if Yahoo wants to be more functional in "mobile", they really need to up their game with basic webmail/calendar/contacts. Right now, it's somewhat easy to import things in to those services, but almost nothing can use Yahoo as an information source except Yahoo-specific clients...

Marvel can't use the word "Skrull" in movies. It was licensed along with Dr. Doom, Galactus and the Silver Surfer to Fox when they picked up the Fantastic Four. That's why the guys in the Avengers movie are called Chitauri. "Chitauri" are also used in both the Ultimate Marvel comic universe and...

If your namespace consists of a single domain, then make a single domain in AD. You can configured the DCs as belonging to different sites and screw around with replication settings if you need to.

It's all fun and games until the big quake that gives us Arizona Bay. Also, if you want to bitch about insufficient media attention to weather conditions in the US, look no further than the fact that a four-inch snowfall in NYC gets fifty times the attention of a 36" blizzard with mass power...

Yes. Port multiplication is pretty much only supported on some SiL chipsets and vastly more expensive LSI or LSI-derived ones.

The most RAM I've ever seen Firefox use is 2.2GB, and that was because of a web site The JoJo sent me to years and years ago called "Endless Titties." Even with my browsing habits, I don't see RAM utilization climbing up over 1GB very often. That's not to say that I agree with Mozilla's...

I'm guessing you meant JMI or JMicron, which is essentially the other go-to choice for crappy add-on SATA controllers besides SiL. I'm not aware of a JMicron chipset with support for port (or porn, which would be really nifty too) multiplication.

I'm completely unimpressed by 3D BDs. As far as I know, there aren't any 3D DVDs at all, and the cost of the depth of field effect for a 3D movie is a significant level of color contrast that I find far more enjoyable than whatever hokey crap they're doing with the 3D to begin with. I'm not...

People who are into herbal stuff bring up tea tree oil way, WAY too often for me to believe anything that's said about it. Vegetable oil as a moisturizer? Sure. As a fragrance? OK. Rub it on your skin to cure skin cancer? Treat diabetic neuropathy? Eliminate Psoriasis? Maybe not so much.

Install XP from a Flash Drive

He spent 50 years almost completely devoid of backstory. All the stuff you just quoted wasn't written until 2006 or later. That's the Ultimate Universe, which is a kind of a thought-experiment and not the main Marvel continuity. The Ultimate Wasp was eaten alive by the Blob, which was depicted...

Wow did this thread blow up!

I really can't, but it's really more like making a stew than baking a souffle. You can just kind of improvise with the basic ingredients and get something that will work. Also: Fushigi, mubs. Some of my stripper friends have had it done and have good things to say about it, but I think it's a...

They're perfectly serviceable generic kit. I have a bunch of desktop switches and print servers.

Sweet. If it makes anyone feel any better, I put some nice girl-girl porn on my TV to enjoy while I typed that.

It might be more correct to say that entirely one-note characters are usually fleshed out well enough over time that they're given depth beyond the original conception. Captain America still has a bunch of completely flat and generic Nazi villains but we don't much care about them since, y'know...

Coug, buddy, if you're reading this, you might want to avert your eyes and go find things to punch, because this is some nancy-boy crap right here. <Coug Eye Aversion Space> I bought a tub of Lush Ocean Salt primarily because I got dragged to a Lush outlet and was there for an hour and...

Does something like Netflix or MSNBC (which uses Silverlight and not Flash) work OK? It would make sense to isolate the issue to Flash vs. something like your display driver.

Lunar is probably right that it's a controller issue (you'd probably have to buy a card with a SiL3132 chipset), but the other special weirdness with eSATA is cabling. Shorter cables fix a lot of eSATA weirdness. I've also encountered eSATA enclosures that need to be powered on before the host...

I was using Art of Shaving oil on my face prior to shaving. However, that shit is expensive. I also had a jar of Lush Sea Salt exfoliating scrub that I used until I ran out. Which is also expensive shit. Then I noticed that the ingredients list for each was pretty similar and I've been...