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He's a giant racial stereotype with slanty eyes and a fu manchu mustache. In the modern comics, he's almost always referred to by his proper name and shown in a business suit rather than Imperial robes.

I usually do it with TrueImage, but you can do it with Disk2VHD or ImageX or the System Image function that's in the Backup and Restore center for Pro and better editions of Windows. However, I still have an untouched 320GB OEM drive that I pulled from my Thinkpad the day that I got it. I...

Windows 7 isn't really bad about resource usage either. Generally speaking, hardware requirements for Windows haven't changed since Vista was released. On the other hand, I have a modded version of XP that will install and run acceptably on a Pentium MMX with 40MB RAM, so it is possible to get...

I guess that depends entirely on whether or not you value the warranty more than having a decent internal drive. Since the transformers in external 3.5" drives usually suck and die in fairly short order, I don't mind ripping one open to put the drive someplace I know it will be safe.

You have engaged my classical music nerdity, so I feel compelled to respond. There is some absolutely GORGEOUS Christmas music in the world. As much as I'm not a fan of the season (he says as he puts on his shoes for a trip to the clusterfuck that is post-Turkeymas Walmart), you could do a lot...

I guess it's worth pointing out, for those who would like to buy 4TB drives, that it's vastly cheaper for some reason to tear them out of Hitachi Touro enclosures than anything else at the moment. I've gotten those for as little as $175 and the Seagate equivalent for as little as $185.

I was commenting on the general behavior of Amazon limits, not that specific item.

That is my take-away as well. It's fine, just different. It doesn't actually make a computer any faster, but some things have been reprioritized so that the system seems more responsive in general. That might not be visible in your testing conditions since you're working in a VM. I don't...

Is there any single monitor gaming experience that is measurably improved by a $1000 card over a $350 one?

I went to Target at 9PM last night with my mother and my aunt. We all decided that we did not want to watch Ice Pawn Storage Cops on whatever channel shows that shit, because that's all my uncles wanted to do. The line to get in stretched out and around the building, as did the line to actually...

Amazon will politely tell you when you try to check out that there is a limit and you've exceeded it. Also, when there's a limit, they won't let you order the item again for at least a week.

Mostly I gave thanks that I prevented my parents from murdering each other for another day. It was a good meal though.

Last Friday I was talking to a VP-level guy at Price Waterhouse Coopers. Right now, PWC issues ipads to senior managers and above. PWC also uses an internal document management system to maintain operational security. What that guy was telling me is that the company wants to give every employee...

Oh.. Sorry. Right. Anyway, there has to be something on that machine running in the background and killing your I/O. Does the problem still happen in Safe Mode with Networking?

Also, I suspect the price on those 3TB drives isn't going to be THAT special in the coming months. I wouldn't be surprised to see them at $99 standard price before too long.

Only Seagate and WD deliberately crippled their drives as far as I can tell. I don't have any large Samsung drives but I do have a dozen 3TB Hitachis that have been happily buzzing away for about 18 months.

AVG has been getting progressively worse since about 2006. It went full on irredeemably bloated in about 2008 and now it's well into "uninstall on sight" territory, just like consumer versions of Norton and McAffee software. Seriously, that is the first thing I'd look at for an unexplained...

Get rid of AVG anyway. It's a bloated mess. ;)

Disable or remove AVG, first thing.

WD Green drives work with absolutely nothing that makes disk arrays and I promise I tried a LOT of different setups. Your best bet is to use Windows 8 Storage Spaces if you really want to use green drives.

Nah. I'm looking for drives that are between 160GB and 500GB for all the repair work crap I have. Thanks though. :) Speaking of, does anyone know of a place to get 3.5" USB to SATA enclosures? Seems like everyplace wants $20 or them and I'm thinking more like $10.

The people who make Steam bitching that something creates unacceptable lock-in is fucking hilarious to me.

You know I'm always looking for hard drives. Especially little ones.

Sure. Why not? :) One caveat to those: They're not on the HCL for Intel-branded enthusiast boards, so if you're thinking about moving to LGA2011 you need to be sure to look at that beforehand.

The important thing to understand is that the Cougtek prepares all his preyfood through a combination of punches and bicep squeezes.

Windows 8 isn't really a downgrade or an upgrade. It's a side-grade, about like the functional difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP was.

I tend to buy Corsair Dominator modules, myself.

DLNA is a widely supported standard for streaming media content. It's baked in to TVs and Bluray players now, so it would make sense that it works right on icraps.

Youtube captures Cougtek's morning breakfast ritual. ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2s0aOhkjmY&list=UUfLGZs8bSDbkNJjCRIE7NSg&index=25&feature=plcp

Actually, what appears to be the bigger issue is that the vast majority of videos I've tried to stream don't conform to something that wants to display on an ipad's screen and thus error out. I used Handbrake to resize some videos to the proper dimensions for an ipad and those stream just fine...

iOS people: Is there a non-retarded streaming UPNP/DLNA client?

I have a new hobby: Finding completely weird, funny songs for my friend to strip to. Today's winner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8

Diskwipe? DBAN?

Yes but that's after I finish with the ripping and recompressing.

The point of having the vast pool of disk space is to have something that is unfillable in the short term. It's not uncommon for me to add 30GB of new data in a day.

My big store is 54TB, but I have a second setup that's 52TB (mostly those stupid WD green drives) and another 24TB sitting on a system that's in my office. I also have a dozen 1TB, eight 1.5TB 7200rpm, six 2TB 5400rpm and two 4TB drives that are basically my spare drive pool.

For comparison, I did the math and I think that a full 24-bay Norco system is still drawing under 450W at 90% utilization.

I do, because I'm not necessarily paying attention to any one particular machine that might want to beep at me. Also I think it's hilarious to hear how my new email notification echos through my environment as different computers and devices receive it. It's particularly funny if I have six or...

I streamed it on a Windows XP system that still let me record the stereo mix, something that does not seem to be present on newer versions of Windows. Unfortunately, I forgot to disable system sounds so there are random beeps in my recording from having my email client open.

It is actually running on right now. It's a desktop I use in my office for a private fileserver. I don't really need it to be a quad core CPU any longer, but it is. It's also covered with a scythe HSF. I don't remember how well that one overclocks, but cpu-z says it's family 6, model f, stepping...

OK, actually, these people have the whole two hours of score as one long-ass stream.

I've got one I'd sell you if you don't mind a Q6600.

I'm not sure I've purposefully run IE for any length of time longer than it takes to download a Ninite Executable in the last few years. Asking how one version is different from another at this point is like asking which is my favorite strain of bird flu.

omfg it's about goddammed time. Fanboy's Ad-blocking list for IE9+. Also: IE10 for Windows 7 was released today.

This is the credit roll song from first Hobbit movie.

I'm pretty sure Cisco servers are somebody's rebadged vanilla hardware. When they entered the market, they made a big deal about the fact that they were basically integrating off the shelf parts so they could have offerings at lower price points than Dell and HP.

They basically said "We try to make it so people who are not technically adept can use the service we have already but we'll look in to it." There are tools for managing mobile devices and the apps they have installed but I haven't seen any that allow for arbitrary file sync services. Google...

I've kept an i7-2600k at 4.5GHz pretty much since I built it. On the other hand, it only has 1x4GB RAM since that's the only way it stays stable 100% of the time at that speed. I had it up to 4.7GHz but it wasn't stable enough to leave there. It's definitely easier to overclock on one stick of...

The more I talk to the people I need this for, the more it sounds like they just want someone to work Amazon's music service for them. I actually send feedback suggesting such a thing and I did actually get a non-canned reply about it.

I've never heard a 1U server that sounded like anything other than a jet aircraft getting ready for take off. 1U machines aren't anything you'd want in your house. Possibly not even in the garage next door to your house.