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  1. Mercutio

    2TB drives under the duopoly

    You realize that this is like asking which testicle you'd prefer to have a slow yet tragic encounter with a garlic press, right? But... Samsung for as long as you can get 'em.
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    Buying a projector

    I can't say much about the projectors in your price range but the inexpensive ($1000ish) Viewsonic and Optoma 1080p projectors I've worked with most recently have been spectacularly lame even by the diminished standards of their respective price tags.
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    Revodrives? What would work with my setup?

    I don't think ladies like it when you call it that, Greg. ;)
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    Technet Advice

    I just ordered a new Technet sub. I bought it from Amazon just so I can see how the retail experience differs from dealing directly with Microsoft.
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    Revodrives? What would work with my setup?

    At this point the single thing that makes my SSD and i7 equipped everyday machines choke and die is still fucking Flash. I can run Handbrake encodes for days and leave City of Heroes open the whole time but if I leave a browser (any browser, mind you; I don't think browsers are the problem) open...
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    Learning how to use FreeBSD

    I'm about 99% certain that any modern OS should support SMP with its default kernel. Go back and look at your kernel messages (dmesg) to check and make sure. Worst case you'll have to recompile the kernel (there are step by step instructions out there) or reinstall.
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    Something Random

    Awesome double post. Go me!
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    Something Random

    One of the reasons I appreciated my time on TotalFark is that it's a wider community made of up of people coming from different backgrounds with varied interests. It's really the only place I've spent communicating with non-nerds and/or women who aren't queer. The community is such that there's...
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    Something Random

    One of the reasons I appreciated my time on TotalFark is that it's a wider community made of up of people coming from different backgrounds with varied interests. It's really the only place I've spent communicating with non-nerds and/or women who aren't queer. The community is such that there's...
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    Something Random

    Yeah probably. The link is from imgur, which basically exists to be a place for redditors to put pictures. I don't get reddit. It's complete and utter chaos that seems to be lacking in any greater sense of community.
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    Something Random

    Just a funny picture I found.
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    Windows 8

    I like that I can just run a Ninite updater file from my thumb drive or FTP off my web space and never, ever sully a new computer with Internet Explorer in the first place.
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    Something Random

    Other books my brother remembered being read: Kidnapped, Call of the Wild, Rebecca, The Wind in the Willows, The Jungle Book (Kipling not Disney), My Side of the Mountain. My mom read to me too, but the things my mom read were things I could identify as "kid" books. When my father read aloud...
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    Mobile Networks

    The bars have never meant anything tangible. They're a comforting lie, like Santa Claus or the existence of a loving god. I've been plenty of places where I had "four bars" but couldn't place a call on Verizon or Sprint and I think we've all had dropped call experiences. The thing is, 99% of...
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    Windows 8

    I showed Windows 8 to a half dozen people who were XP users in to learn about Windows 7. They had a harder time with the idea that the Windows they were used to being the "Desktop" or "Windows Explorer" tile than they did getting back and forth to Metro. People were moving their mouse to the...
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    Technet Advice

    More likely it wants NTFS-compatible permissions or something. Which is something that Samba and other things can emulate but might not, depending on configuration.
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    Something Random

    My family has a small number of long-ish books that are traditionally read aloud to children at a certain age. "Swiss Family Robinson", "The Three Musketeers", "Man in the Iron Mask", "The Little Prince" and "Anne of Green Gables." There may be other books as well, but those are the ones I...
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    FF4 and IE9

    App tabs have a point. They're compact tabs you can't close. I have Storageforum, Fark and Google Calendar and a couple other web tools in them.
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    Windows 8

    It might be useful to point out that Chris Pirillo is best known as an OSS advocate. His views on the subject of Windows are probably about as useful as those of the douche/Apple Troll who founded digg.com. Who is apparently some kind of celebrity. Whatever.
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    FF4 and IE9

    Since I just happened to look: Firefox 11, with 26 tabs open, is using 660MB RAM. That seems very reasonable. I really would have to say that it's a big improvement over where we were a year ago for RAM utilization. Chrome on this same machine is using 490MB with only four tabs open, and two of...
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    Merc's Useful Tools of the day

    Handy article from Lifehacker: What the hell is a codec? Someone asks me that at least once a week.
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    Special heatsink requirements...

    Over the years I've gotten the impression that they really only want to deal with people who buy complete systems from them, which makes me lean more toward Tyan and Intel for serious machines. I don't have that much experience with SuperMicro myself but I've been reading this crap from other...
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    Something Random

    I really wish someone had explained that to me about 12 meals ago.
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    Something Random

    A big thread on fark will generate 3 - 5000 replies over maybe three days. Big threads usually involves tragedies or female members attention whoring. Reddit has a whole subculture of attention whoring. I point that out every time it happens but farkers are different animals I guess.
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    Firefox 11.0 is out.

    Flash support on Firefox mobile is an unfortunately big deal.
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    iPhone syndrome

    I actually do have a domain for people who are using paid Google Apps there. I just don't want to put him on it. He's a peon who happens to have an iphone, not someone with a business-related reason to want Calendar and Contact sync.
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    Something Random

    I have to find a McDonald's that has the toy I want. With one exception, the McDonald's I've been two have had two of the eight available toys (the exception was located at a truck stop; it had four toys). It looks like they're playing games so people have to go to different locations if they...
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    Something Random

    Usually means they're out of stock and don't have a supplier. They sometimes put that up for books that have gone out of print as an intermediate step to making it an unavailable item.
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    Firefox 11.0 is out.

    Whatever. It's fine. They'll catch up to Chrome version numbers eventually.
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    iPhone syndrome

    I've sent him links to all the Google help documents twice. I'm not driving to Wisconsin to work his phone for him.
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    iPhone syndrome

    OK. He's just an idiot. I'm fine with that.
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    iPhone syndrome

    It may work that way for regular gmail but not for Google Apps. Or this guy might be a retard. He's in another state and I really wouldn't care except that he's whined enough that his employer started whining too.
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    Technet Advice

    Basically, you need your receipt or ID code to associate with your MS Live login. If you didn't get it, check your spam messages.
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    iPhone syndrome

    I think that you have to have a paid account to sync calendar and contacts on the iphone. That's what I told him, anyway. Whatever. I don't care. Somebody douchey enough to demand calendar and contact syncing for no job-related reason just because they have an ithing can afford to pay the extra $50.
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    Firefox 11.0 is out.

    The JoJo still visits. I haven't seen him post for a while, but I saw him logged in as recently as January.
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    Something Random

    Seven of my last nine meals have been either southwest salads or fruit parfaits. Rainbow Dash continues to elude me.
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    iPhone syndrome

    I have a user who swears he isn't getting calendar and contact syncing on his iphone with a free Google apps account, but email is fine. Is that part of the deal for Gapps or do I need to move him to a paid account?
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    Android phones: Tips, tricks?

    A couple of my devices have had ICS updates. From an end-user standpoint, the differences are generally minor and cosmetic.
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    Learning how to use FreeBSD

    It certainly should be well documented. Absolute FreeBSD is highly regard, and if you REALLY want to learn about operating systems, you can pick up either the source code commentary or "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System." The ORA book "Essential UNIX System...
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    Something Random

    My friends are pretty much all queer women.
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    Something Random

    The toys cost like $1 and I usually get a fruit and yoghurt cup. And Rainbow Dash is rather popular with pretty much everyone I socialize with. For some reason.
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    Something Random

    My goal for this week is to go to however many McDonald's it takes to get as many Rainbow Dash toys as I possibly can. I know too many people who would think that Rainbow Dash toys represent a thoughtful gift and also I suspect that saying this here will piss Coug off somehow. :D
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    Technet Advice

    Three and yes. Although you can save money if you shop for your technet renewal. Some places have them as low as $220.
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    Loss of system restore points when alternating between Windows XP and Windows 7

    You really, REALLY shouldn't disable System Restore on a working Windows 7 machine. There's simply no other repair mechanism available for Windows 7. You can do a repair install on XP, but that's not an option on 7. 7's built-in backup with system image is sort-of useful and integrated with its...
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    Technet Advice

    I just reupped my sub. I ordered on a Thursday and got my confirmation last Sunday. I'm about to buy another sub for a customer. I'll check to see how that's different from having a sub that's never expired.
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    question Which Tablets

    I have a rooCase. I got it off Ebay for about $10. All of my cases are rooCases. They're nice and I'm a fan.
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    FreeNAS

    As I said, I've treated it as an appliance. It just sits in a closet and holds a ton of data.
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    How to deal with wind chill?

    We might get 80 degree weather here next week.
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    Android phones: Tips, tricks?

    That's pretty much the story of VOIP.
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    Windows 8

    xtree 4 life, yo.
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