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The GoFlex line is extra-special problematic. I'm not even attempting hyperbole. They're terrible. I'm thinking it's because they have an extremely poor quality power supply or transformer or something but they break. A lot.

I think we're doing some kind of Harry Turtledove thing at this point.

I found this nifty little page on making acoustic panels for your home theater system today. Because ddrueding needs more weird crap to do to his house.

I'd sort an Ideapad into the same category as a Dell Inspiron or something Asus branded. It's a big step up from Acer or HP consumer garbage but at the same time it's still a consumer notebook that only cost $300. Though Coug is right about the hard drive situation.

Yeah. I have a completely different setup for the porn machines. Actually the reason that machine doesn't go down very often is that it's where the overflow disk space for my file servers lives. I really need to get the 32TB system up and running.

Let's not throw stones at anybody who is up for having their ass rocked. At least they're not buying motherboards with fans on the bridge chips.

I snagged the whole thing from Demonoid. The first two seasons were under 2GB total. I don't have any idea what the legality of that is, but somehow I'm guessing that Oz's copyright cops have bigger things to worry about than some dude in Indiana stealing all the episodes of their three year old...

FPS gaming was basically perfected with UT2003 and Quake 3. Everything since then has just been a failure to live up to those ideals. There is a shooter game I'd like to see, called Six Days in Fallujah. It's based on real events that occurred during the most recent war in Iraq and from what...

Something something something make your own heat something something bedroom something.

You Aussies have been holding out on us. Somebody turned me on to The Gruen Transfer and it's awesome.

Because of how man hormones work, there's no such thing as permanent hair removal for guys for as long as we have our testes and aren't ingesting massive quantities of feminizing hormones for some reason. As big a pain in the ass as shaving is, the only dudes who are going to benefit from laser...

I recognized all these words but they make no sense in this order.

Yeah. You definitely can keep a living area warm enough. I'm more worried about the water and the pumps.

Yup. Two of them. Patriot something-or-other.

This machine doesn't actually need any more than 4GB, so I don't really mind. If I see a game use more than 2.5GB I might get a little worried, but I like the fact that I have a completely ridiculous fast system (it's also home to a Vertex 3) for the one place where I'm really, really going to...

I'm pretty sure there are easier ways to make stuff warm. That sounds like a bunch of points of failure and I'm somewhat doubtful that it will help that much to actually keep your bedroom warm since heat will be lost through the whole system before it gets where you want it

They both just resell Sprint. Which should be OK. That means they'll roam on Verizon towers. That's not a bad thing.

It's official. I can do 4.7GHz stable if I go with one stick of Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600. 4.67 with two sticks of 2GB the same RAM, and only 4.3 if I use either two 4GB or 8GB sticks. I guess there might be a power supply issue, but that machine already has a 750W Seasonic and I don't see myself...

I shave in the shower also. I'm fortunate that my facial hair is generally fine. The hairs on my neck are horrid, and I tend to break out if I shave my neck every day. Going every other day day, shaving in a hot shower and then rinsing my face with the coldest water I can get out of the tap...

I guess I can only get 4.460GHz with 16GB RAM. My game machine really doesn't need more than 4GB. I might put it back the way it was.

Go look at what Virgin or Cricket are offering. I believe they're both pay as you go and reselling Sprint, but last time I looked, they're the cheapest way to get a smartphone and a data plan without getting in on something like the deal I have.

I'd probably shave every day too if there was somebody around who was concerned with the status of my chin stubble.

That would thing is butt ass ugly. I like wooden cases. Just not that one.

I use a Mach 3. I shave three times a week. I change blades about once a month. I've tried a couple electric razors. I can't stand them.

Yes, the Thermaltake CLP0303 is indeed a quiet little guy. The power supply is still louder than I'd like, but the machine is substantially quieter than it was.

I actually started typing up something almost identical to that.

Playlist for each folder. I can probably script something, but since this is partially to answer a question for someone else, I don't really want to bother.

I don't think 4.3GHz is anything to complain about.

Anyone know of a tool that can scan and create .pls or .m3u files for all the directories in a tree? Does Foobar do that? Or MediaMonkey?

Three minutes is too much down time. :P I was planning to buy Megahalems for my two big guys. They're not cheap (one of the reasons I've been dragging my feet) but supposedly nothing else out there is really better. My 920s have Scythe and some $20 Coolermaster thing on them, respectively...

Yeah. I've been thinking about getting Prolimatech HSFs for them. I just haven't gotten around to it. My game machine, the 2600k, has another 16GB RAM I've been meaning to throw in it for the last month and I haven't even managed to shut it off long enough to do that.

I've been running BD rips all night. I have four i7s: a 2600k, a 975 and two 920s. My 975 is currently reporting a temperature of 80C and 4110MHz clock speed at 100% CPU utilization. My 2600k is reporting 4670MHz and 87C. Both numbers are on stock cooling. I'm sure Handbrake is what has been...

I just dropped 377GB of .m2ts files on one of my servers in about 90 minutes. Though at least those will be a more manageable 65GB by tomorrow.

An E3 Xeon compares very favorably with an i5, which is actually the place I was heading with that thought.

Might as well buy a $200 SSD. The 3TB Hitachi drives I was getting for $110 are selling for $220 on Newegg right now. I've been suggesting the Xeon E3 + Asus P8B combination for higher-end users. Yes, it's a more expensive than normal motherboard, but I think the argument for an 80W i7-class...

Needs a more than 20TB option.

Plex is another interesting new development and yet another fork off of XBMC. Boxee has a social aspect in that you can tag videos to watch later and share what you've been watching with your OrkFaceSpace friends. Plex is a media service that lets you share your library through its media hub...

Great. Now I have to wipe this tea up off my monitor.

This is entirely apropos. Particularly definition #2. Note in context that the term was coined by an African American writer/cartoonist and given voice by none other than Samuel L. Jackson.

I have discovered one of the reasons I haven't been as enchanted with the Boxee box: While it has (some) support for uPnP, it's not actually DLNA certified. Apparently that is the cause of my weirdness with playback and browsing performance. It's better with SMB, which is fine other than the...

You know iOS is barely capable of printing and even then it only works if you buy the goofy-ass printers that have been anointed to support the gimmick, right? Here's the list. There's an ipad 2 and a 17" Macbook Pro on my desk right now. I'm going to see how long I can leave them boxed up and...

Who the hell actually WANTS snow? That's like wanting gangrenous dick cancer.

In a normal month, I probably charge $2500 for stuff and pay it off at the end by the due date. I'm at least two months ahead on any bill with a recurring charge; I'm a whole year ahead on my power bill. I don't like owing people money or interest payments, and stay ahead on bills is is a...

I'm not made out of money. My living expenses are well within my means and the "extra" money I get from contracting work is the money I carry around all the time or use to buy my toys.

4. Water Cooling is a complete pain in the ass and not something I want to use for a system I expect to run 24x7 for the next few years.

My banking needs are met by ATMs. I don't see a reason to stand in line or bother a human being with my deposit-making needs.

Why not? The fact that Sandisk players support FLAC is probably the single biggest reason I bought one.

Probably. Office updates usually don't have the gravity of Flash's or Java's. I tend to ignore them.

Charter school so... both public and private, I guess. The school does things like block off access to our parking lot for about two hours a day, including times when our students and customers would normally be trying to visit or leave, and use an intercom system throughout the day that is...

theRenamer is actually quite functional. I set it loose on some of the videos I've acquired from the internet and I found that it mostly worked well. In a few cases I had to switch the database it was using to pick up something or other. Files with truly idiosyncratic naming I found I could...