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Hey the "Activate Windows" prompt finally came up. That's different.

I have misgivings about ongoing support for OpenSolaris, which makes me shy away from anything that relies on it. Most of the features of ZFS that BSD is lacking are either on their development roadmap for the reasonably near future or not available in an open implementation in the first place.

I only have the one ESXi server on site. Though, just to prove a point, I downloaded the .ISOs, installed SBS2003 and verified that Exchange functions in another guest on that machine since my last post. The converted guest hasn't changed from "Applying Computer Settings" in all that time...

Hair removal comes and goes out of fashion and has for centuries. Usually when times are lean, fashion swings to being furry. In good times, we take off more hair.

6.8.8.0. I've used it for many other discs and it is the current version.

No and no. My host is a 16GB Xeon E1230. The only guest running on it right now is the converted 32-bit Windows 2003 machine configured with the same 2GB RAM the source system had. The guest has a physical drive all to itself.

HBO actually allows streaming of its original content through HBO Go, but only to people who already have HBO subscriptions. I suspect this was a deal made to keep its sweetheart status with cable and satellite providers; when I last had HBO I essentially had to pay for every other thing Comcast...

Unrelated to anything going on in this thread but... Doug, do you happen to have any idea why I'd be seeing six hour+ boot times on a Server 2003 machine after a vCenter Converter live migration? When I've done conversions in the past with VMware Workstation or P2V converter, it's taken a while...

I ripped from two different drives on two different machines in the first place.

I have the raw, unencrypted files from the BDs that I copied via AnyDVD HD. I'm able to transcode via Handbrake in Linux, but my Linux machines are C2Ds and the process is rather slower than I'm used to.

Handbrake's most current nightly build has an option to do DTS-HD passthrough. I don't think I've seen that option before.

I've seen refurbished Ooma Telos sell for $100.

What Santa's workshop really looks like. Or at least the place where all the things I buy are just before I buy them.

If you have $8,000 handy, you can now be the proud owner of a Samsung SUR40, aka "that cool thing pong game in front of the Kinetic demo at your local Microsoft Store." But anyway, yeah, MS Surface. 40", Eight grand. Whatevs.

Handbrake is normally very good to me. It's very scriptable and has tons of fiddly options for me to play with if I want them (which normally I don't). Hopefully at some point it will be able to properly handle the structural defects that media companies use to deter transcoding.

... and ClownBD puked. Dammit.

Yeah, I've been looking at that. I really had high hopes for the Xilisoft package, especially since it offers GPU assisted transcoding, which led me down the path of looking at commercial packages in the first place.

MakeMKV and MultiAVCHD both just bomb out. I think there's something weird going on structurally with the files from the discs, but no one else is complaining of problems with these titles. It's impacting all of them and they were ripped from two different drives. A nightly build of the Linux...

I've automated the crap out of copying DVDs. Blu-Ray discs are still annoying. Normally, I want a movie-only copy that I can obtain from the largest file in the \BDMV\Stream folder, and I just run batch conversions of those files through Handbrake. That much can be quasi-automated. When I...

Only SBS2011. It's still Server 2008, just with newer versions of Exchange and SQL Server and a ton of retarded new licensing options.

Thank you for keeping the site available and for being here to talk to, everyone.

When am I ever positive about anything?

I like that it can change. Fuzzy is OK sometimes and so is none at all. Part of the fun the surprise. And I don't see what the big deal is about not shaving armpits. Who cares?

Yes, and also disembowel themselves.

That did not exist, so I was forced to create it.

Hey, a little trimming is just common courtesy.

I have no idea. I buy drives and stick them in enclosures myself. But in any case it's just another in a long line of insults to the consumer.

It's not impossible to find but you have to know what you're looking for. A lot of porn that's targeted to female audiences is more grounded in reality, or at least more believable than the average romance novel.

It's not impossible to find but you have to know what you're looking for.

Not that I know of, and I'm pretty up on my porn.

It's absolutely a reason not to buy a drive. Drives that can't be plugged in to a proper disk interface can only be described as defective.

My crusade will only be ended when everyone who has ever owned stock in or worked for Western Digital issues a collective apology in the form of seppuku.

They made drives that are unreasonably incompatible with other drives. That's not an improvement.

This is all work crap. People ask us about this stuff all the time and we're planning to hold classes in all of it, but it's one of those deals where no one else actually wants to take the time to learn anything. I think I have to figure out all the weird things about the various devices and...

As with many things that translate from Arabic, I believe both spellings are acceptable. Originally I was going to state that it and its products are the corporate equivalent to pederasty but the text field isn't that big.

Not everyone wants a smartphone all the time. MagicJack in particular looks like it was made to be marketed to the same demographic that's big on Rascal Mobility Scooters, Craftmatic Adjustable beds and any other product with an "As Seen on TV" logo. Yeesh.

The mystery is how one company can be so wrong about so many things and yet continue to operate as a business. This statement also applies to Apple, Adobe (the person I know who works there was laid off today in advance of end-of-quarter), Symantec, nVidia and S*ny as well.

I'm genuinely, legitimately drowning in gadgets right now. I'd like to spend more time looking at what's different between the Galaxy 7", 8.9, Xoom, Nook Color, Fire and ipad2, but to date everything I've done with any of them is just about getting the devices set up with the standard...

Usually I wear a pair of thin wool gloves under a pair of mittens. That lets me have dexterity if I need it, but it doesn't help for "slide to talk."

Nope. Most of those things just need an AC outlet and some kind of LAN connection.

I have a Fire here but it's still in the box. And look, the Fire is primarily designed to be an e-Reader. I think that's the part they want to get right. That's very different from something like an Asus Transformer or Motorola Xoom, that has to be awesome at everything to justify the cost of...

I try to walk outside if there isn't snow on the ground. Last year I got to a point where I was wearing three pairs of socks and three pairs of gloves though.

A lot of libertarian separatist-types have taken up in eastern Oregon and Washington, Idaho and Montana.

I wonder if the data collection policies on the iphone were changed back when everyone was talking about how much the iphone spies on its owners or if it's always been that way.

Al Franken is pretty much my favorite congressman.

Unfortunately, it's also removing a kind of useful troubleshooting tool, since SATA ports always work the same way and USB ports don't.

Personally, I deal with wind chill by wearing layer after layer of clothes and not taking any of them off while I'm out of doors.

OK, my brother's deal was that he felt the recurring subscription fee for MagicJack did not represent as good a value as one time fees on the Ooma, rather than a complaint about the quality of service.

I have a brother who telecommutes 100% of of the time. He lives in Prague, Czech Republic and has tried every VOIP setup known to man. I know he tried Vonage and Magicjack and a half dozen other services before eventually settling on an Ooma as his Telco bridge device. I want to say that it's...

I believe the non-standard-compliant Logitech Play.Link devices I used to buy claimed 10 and got about 5Mbps, but they explicitly weren't Homeplug, either.