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You know me. Always happy to help. I have a strong preference for single-player gaming experiences in the first place, but I have Dungeon Defenders on my tablet. I don't think it's as much fun as Orcs Must Die. Maybe someday they'll port Orcs 2 to Android so I can experience it without needing...

My brother did a lot of very odd tasks through some internet sites when he went through a period of unemployment. Nothing quite so odd as pictures of restaurants, but weird nonetheless. Cool flash mob video. In explaining the level of coolness, it should be noted that a full size harp like...

There's a humble Ebook bundle now as well. Which looks pretty cool. They just added a bunch of webcomics collections to it, too. So anyway, here's more evidence that Steam is awful. Because it's not like I wasn't going to mention it. I actually got Orcs Must Die from another recent Humble...

OK, the last of the parts went out today. If anybody wants or needs to see accounts of how money was spent, let me know and I'll provide them. jtr should be a happy guy come Monday.

$500 for a 16GB device, no support for legacy Windows apps and no unified content delivery. Oh yes. This thing is going to set the world on fire.

CIFS, NFS and iSCSI support have been baked in to Windows Server since at least Server 2003 (I'm not sure about iSCSI on Server 2000 - I think it was an extra download). The couple of interesting storage-related things on a fully functional Windows server are probably dfs support (sync and...

Just so we're clear, I was addressing Clocker there, not Handruin.

Personally, I'm not convinced you need a US$200+ motherboard in the first place. I'm also going to say that Intel's enthusiast-series boards are an unknown quantity to me. I've only seen a couple systems built with them. They seem like quality product but they probably ARE compromises compared...

Depends on the version. It's not installed by default, but it's an optional component you can add through Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features. Once it's installed, you screw around with a command-line tool called nfsadmin to set up client access. I never remember how to do it so I wind...

An AMD A10-5800k and Asus F2A85-V PRO are presently on their way to NYC courtesy of the collective contributions of Storageforum's members. Another box with a few other trinkets will be shipped separately.

Yes, that is the one you sent me.

I think the Asus board might be a problem, given how fucking hard it is to get an RMA from them in the USA. Maybe the Mumbai office is better in that department.

The biggest problem I have with The Walking Dead is... I've been reading the monthly comic since issue #2 was on the stands (they're up to around #103 or #104 now). Robert Kirkman cannot write denouement to save his life. He can build tension upon tension upon tension and the Walking Dead...

I am terribly sorry for your loss.

FreeNAS performance over SMB is kind of crummy, mostly due to the fact that Samba is a single-threaded application on FreeBSD. It does considerably better with NFS, but NFS can be a hassle to get going on Windows. FreeNAS does support DLNA via its plugin interface. It's relatively simple to...

Any Green/Eco-friendly badged drive from WD or Seagate has been deliberately crippled to not work properly as part of an array. The drives won't respond to controller commands in a timely fashion and are then marked as missing by the controller. Samsung and Hitachi drives don't have that defect...

OK. I have dd's stuff here now, so I'm going to try to get physical items shipped out in the next couple days.

ActualTests.com has a Storage+ download available, but that isn't so much a study aid as a representative sample of the live question pool.

Isn't that what Google Local does?

I never wear suits, but I just purged my closet of XL/2XL clothes and now I'm trying to have a wardrobe, so I've been hitting thrift stores for things that I could get away with wearing someplace-or-other. I'm kind of keen on vests and sport coats, because one of the problems I have is that even...

Found a Brooks Brothers herringbone suit that fits me really well at the Naperville Goodwill today. $20 for a $1000 suit? Yes please.

I did not find the WD EADS drives usable with ZFS on FreeNAS. In fact I spent quite a while playing with those and I really never found any array configuration that worked right with "green" drives. Instead, I have 24 of them (yes, 24 WD drives. Me. I know. In my defense I did not pay for them)...

Amy's plate while she was in med school was "MD2B"

For my personal machines I usually just set the pagefile to 4GB and never think about it again.

HTC leaves US Tablet market. That's basically fine. I suspect that the Android tablet market is going to follow other commodity hardware on a race to be essentially profit-less and that might not be so great for a company that's already shrinking to a shadow of its former self.

Locally, I've seen Indiana plates GLADOS and NOZOMBIS.

Can I just say one more time here and now that there are whole bunch of fuckwits on Newegg who are just looking for a reason to complain and no real basis for comparison. I look through star ratings and reviews to see if a specific product has some easily-apparently gotcha or misfeature, but...

You'd be better off with more RAM, but it's not really the end of the world if you don't have it. You'll just wait a little longer for a ZFS-shared folder to populate in Windows Explorer, and copies of little tiny files by the thousand will be a bit slower.

I'll throw a PCI parallel port card in with what I ship you.

I suspect that the infrequency of magnitude 6.3 quakes in NZ compared to 6.3 quakes in California might have something to do with the difference.

Is it odd that the first thing I thought was that it would be a natural fit with WD? Before you dismiss that idea completely, OCZ's downfall in my opinion is customer service, which is absolutely the only thing WD does right. OCZ has craploads of (basically undeserved) goodwill in the...

I wonder where you're being throttled. All my customers are on Comcast Business Cable and I usually see upstream speeds between 600 and 1400kB/sec aggregate between machines that are backing up. I want to say it takes maybe two or three nights to copy over around 200GB data during an initial upload

Update (not including money that was sent via postal mail or my contribution):

Absolutely essential bookmark material: TechArp GPU comparison. The TechArp list isn't 100% of the whole story, since it doesn't describe some video acceleration features that are important, but if you want to know fill rates and bandwidths, it's all kinds of useful. Motherboards? I normally...

Yeah that sounds about right. The only reason I own a 3450 is that the day I went to buy a 3470, they were out of stock.

The members who have contributed thusfar have been very generous. The money in my paypal account right now will more than cover a CPU. We're working toward the motherboard now. I'll post a screenshot of my paypal balance and provide an accounting of monies spent. If there winds up being extra...

From a subjective standpoint, you really do have to be doing insane things to see the difference between an i5 and an i7. I found that my i7 2600ks could keep Handbrake fed at 100% CPU utilization while playing a certain giant robot simulator, losing about 2% on encoding frames per second; the...

I have a number of customers on Crashplan. I consider it a secondary backup since they're all too lazy to physically rotate media. The sales pitch goes something like this: "So if I pay like $13 a month, you'll quit bitching at me about going in that little room to connect and disconnect all...

As far as I can tell, there are at least three classes of communication: Emails from Facebook.com about Facebook things that only matter to people who use Facebook, invites and other from end-users who are on Facebook and want to tell me about amazing Facebook shit, and now business...

I don't really think that it is. I think everyone on the show is sort of a caricature of a person that exists to make Malcolm's Dad look good, and I couldn't suspend my disbelief that actual human beings would make the decisions being made or react in the ways that they were on the show. I...

Really all I know about it is what I read in the O'Reilly Backup and Recovery book.

For some reason, I don't think it's a big deal to screw around on internet forums all day if actual work is done, but I don't actually fire up any games. I went back and looked, and I know that I've opted out of communication from Facebook and Facebook users before. But the issue is that...

Update: SSDreuding has the obvious base covered, Handy, Will Rickards and myself are contributing cash toward a CPU. Hopefully we can get another couple contributors and hook the man up with a motherboard to go with the RAM he already has.

I'm actually kind of giddy to see the duet between Maximus Decimus Meridus and Wolverine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STv2Z0AB_TI

Apparently, the only way to completely turn off all facebook emails is to have a facebook account and use its account settings. There's no specific control for non-users that says "Do fucking not fucking ever fucking email fucking me fucking again fucking about fucking anything fucking spamming...

I'm glad you still stop by, good sir. Every so often, I see that you're visiting. It's good you still remember to post once in a while, too. ;)

Handy, I ditched the 10krpm cube fans in my 2U Supermicro machine for some (much) slower Delta fans, swapped the redundant 1U PSUs for a larger and quieter 2U one and ditched the Intel stock heat sink for a low profile heat sink with a fan. Then I stuck it in a closet and closed the door. It...

PAX is run by ReedPop, the same convention group that handles my favorite con, C2E2. From a convention-going perspective, C2E2 has never been anything less than completely satisfying: Exquisitely well-organized and full of compelling content. Since PAX is run by the same folks, I'm sure it's the...

Not really THAT bad. In my experience, about 5% of mechanical drives will go bad within the formerly standard three year warranty period. Samsung and Hitachi were far better in that regard than Seagate or most especially WD in that regard. My standard practice is to install SSDs only in systems...

I could not get into Lost at all. The other show that other people seem to like that completely mystifies me is Breaking Bad.