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I'd just like to say that in spite of the staggering amount of pornography, the fans in my computers are all fine.

I administer computer systems, handle help calls, write documentation and training materials, fix PCs and teach. If I don't have any pressing emergencies and all the other stuff is done, it's basically down to just the "handle help calls" part, which means spending time in an office with a full...

The ridiculously high end X220 uses a 1360x768 IPS panel. They also weigh about 2.5lbs and support full speed mobile CPUs. I thought about going with one of those, but I really wanted the extra screen resolution and ultrabay compatibility. Plus there were bigger discounts on the T-series.

Yeah. My end statement was "I won't recommend anything but this is what you should look for."

As I understand it, Rage has a bad case of Consoleportitis.

Live conversion time on my 8 year old server: 17 hours and 52 minutes. Using different physical drive than the first attempt. Transfer rate 1.7MB/sec. Sob.

I won't absolutely say no Asus or nVidia for someone else. If I'm going to give a personal recommendation, I'd prefer that it be something I'd actually, you know, be comfortable recommending.

We used to be able to count on id, Epic or, hey, Crotean, to deliver showpiece 3D engines for PC games. The market for PC games has gotten bigger in the years since, not smaller. It shouldn't be THAT hard to get one out the door.

Supposedly, Asus rates very highly for reliability but I've a truly nightmarish time sourcing batteries and fan assemblies for them. It's not a brand I really gave any serious consideration.

Because they were the cool phone for businesspeople for like four years and now inertia keeps them around.

I suppose there's some kind of analogy between the average gaming PC and some kind of 16-cylinder, 2000 horsepower engine (that's a thing, right?) in a car that has to drive 60mph and no faster because that's as fast as Chevettes go. There are vanishingly few things that can upper-tier cards...

Goddammitsomuch.

I went to Lenovo. I picked the options I wanted. I waited two weeks for it to be configured and delivered. I normally buy -CTO machines directly from Lenovo since my configuration options are kind of idiosyncratic; wanting the cheapest drive and Windows edition and the least RAM combined with...

I think Fallout 3 suffered from its association with games that are truly great. On its own, it's a good enough title with some modest nagging down sides. Unfortunately, I had expectations of getting another Fallout game, something that mixed in trademark humor and the ability to perform a wide...

As a clarification: How much do you think the game engine was held back by the fact that it still has to work on texture memory and feature-limited platforms?

Coincidentally, that's just about how long I waited for my converted VM to boot before I gave up on it.

OK this is also pretty cool. And it's not hot chicks. And the 4k source video is being made available, too. Not that I'm looking at videos all day.

Yeah. I have a decent set of Sennheiser earbuds that I carry and use when I'm in server rooms or out walking, but I don't care to wear either circumaural or earbuds for any extended amount of time. But then, I live by myself, so it's not like I have to make a concession to anyone else's...

Looks like she did some modeling for MetArt, Twistys and DDgirls. Solo sets, no toys (that I could see from a skim of my collection), and no performing with a partner of either gender. Basically people took pictures of her standing around being hot. That makes her more of a nude model than a...

If she did porn, I don't recognize her. Hm. Now I'll have to watch it again. Shucks.

I wish that there were headphones I felt comfortable enough using for dedicated listening. Pursuing a high-end audio experience with headphones is way, way cheaper than buying speakers and components.

It is time for a hot chick break. Why no, there isn't anything going on in my office. Why do you ask. Anyway: 1. This chick is hot. 2. She does push ups in ways that I have never seen them done before. 3. She has a hot accent that's probably relevant to ddrueding's interests. 4. Did I mention...

Understand that the first posts in this thread are eight years old. But in the time since, I've yet to have a positive interaction with an Alienware machine. What I ended up telling my customer is that I can't recommend a laptop for gaming. There simply isn't a sane middle of the road option...

My Thinkpad T420 came in yesterday. A few thoughts. The MBP has a generally nicer screen. Even in spite of the gloss finish. I'd say it's a matter of comparing an exceptional screen to a very good one. The T420's screen is a big improvement over my T6x-series notebooks and looks amazing on AC...

They changed the layout like, oh, maybe last Friday? Something like that.

The way used laptops sell on Ebay, he probably made out like a bandit.

Sadly, you don't really know how much the graphics engine was retarded by the fact that it had to run on PS3s and Xboxes.

Slow day at work today, so I'm working through the piles of hardware I have sitting around. I've got two Core 2 Duo and one Turion laptop working well enough to boot Linux off a thumb drive. Which is cool because, hey, free laptops.

That game looks way too much like Fallout 3, a title that suffered horribly from consoleportitis and left out all the stuff that was fun about actual Fallout games.

Cars are to me just slightly ahead of drying paint in terms of my level of interest, but since we're on a car wreck theme this week, here's a bunch of pictures of some Ferrari pileup that happened in Japan. If you like red Italian sports cars, it might hurt to look.

I'm not going to recommend an Alienware laptop to anyone.

If you can get it to take less than 20 hours to do something, I think I'd like to know that.

HP has its Envy line. MSI and Asus make, I dunno, something or other. I imagine I could go find a generic Compal design decent specs from SagerNotebooks... I've had exactly zero positive experiences with Alienware. Ew. Ew ew ew.

So, OK, somebody puts a gun to your head and tells you that you have to recommend a laptop for gaming. The gun is loaded and you do not have any action movie Kung Fu moves. The gentleman with the gun is not amused by suggestions that you buy a gaming desktop and a decent tablet, either.

Boot the VM with something like a Hiren's BootCD .iso. Run something under the "partition resizer" category, then resize the disk with VMware's editor?

I believe it had 30k or something of all highway miles. Though that just looks like they'd need to replace a few body panels to me.

I figure I can't throw any stones about audio setups. The speakers in my living room cost more than the MSRP for my car.

Today I'm wearing a Tshirt, a heavy cotton henley and a button down shirt. I have on hiking socks under a pair of dressier socks. It's not THAT cold outside, but the feud with our landlord is at such a place that when I came in to the office last Monday, they'd had the heat to our part of the...

I thought the 2700k was 3.4/3.8GHz, but that's off the top of my head.

OK, see, this is the kind of crap I mean when I think about how crappy modern gaming is. EA has the power to lock people out of their own games because they used naughty words on EA's official forums.

My Element wasn't totaled and it was WAY worse than that.

I'm weighing the possibility of finding community support from the *BSD crowd vs. Solaris, especially Solaris in the hands of Oracle, and to me it seems like going with Oracle would be betting on the wrong horse. Nexenta does look interesting, but there are a lot of open distributions of one...

Oh and these guys are still LGA1155.

MOAR new Intel CPUs, coming Q2 '12. These are the mainstream guys. The i7-3770k is the top end chip and it's a whole 100MHz faster than a 2700k.

You would understand if you spent any amount of time with them.

I always like to remind my parents that they were married on Hitler's birthday.

I don't think Mad Men is that good, actually. It's interesting as a period piece, but I'm not invested enough to care what happens to any of the characters. Ennui and interpersonal estrangement are definitely part of the atmosphere they're trying to capture, but the plot of the show seems to...

At this point I'll probably have to wait until another weekend to play with it any more. I don't actually think there's an issue with the hard disk itself. I'm wondering if there's an issue with controller emulation or a driver conflict or something. I was able to create a native install of the...

For all the recent trumpeting of Chrome as the successor to Firefox, two things are still true: 1. Firefox has a better add-ons infrastructure. Add-ons will probably keep me on Firefox for a long time to come. 2. Chrome uses a great deal more RAM with more tabs open. I suppose this isn't a huge...

OK, but where's the problem? I have no counters on the ESXi machine that relate to disk activitiy; the CPU and RAM are where they're supposed to be, and this is still the initial start-up after conversion. I haven't even seen a desktop yet. The source machine is still running and it performs as...