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I suspect we've all wanted to play a proper Aliens game since the first time each of us saw that total conversion .wad for Doom.

Could be. It looks like it's only offering the stuff that had files in top-level folders though.

Either Mezzmo doesn't work very well when you throw 7TB of movies at it or else it can't handle a nested folder structure.

The dual core Atom D510 is also a significant improvement

Since it's an AMD, it should have decent onboard video processing and I'd imagine that 720p will be fine. The Athlon 170u is indeed an ultra low power chip that's meant to be used in the same sorts of applications as the Atom. Unfortunately, that's not going to stop companies like Compaq and...

I would think that such things would be better off in a cluster configuration where each x CPU cores would have its own access to a pool of RAM. Even with 2TB of RAM, there's only so much bandwidth available to access memory, and anything that's going to work well in parallel across 80 cores is...

I've got a couple different USB3 enclosures and I've been using them a little bit for the last couple days. One of them seems to top out at around 60MB/s and the other around 70MB/sec. That's... disappointing.

Exchange murders RAM and disk I/O. It's not really that rough on CPUs. But 80 CPU cores and 2TB RAM seems to me like it would be pushing into mainframe territory. I have no idea what mainstream application that would have besides hosting virtual machines. And it would probably be cheaper and...

Funny you mention deer: My uncle lives just outside an Illinois state park. He hits a deer on average once every 18 months. My uncle retired back in May, and as a retirement gift to himself he bought a completely restored '69 Charger with 19,700 miles on the odometer. Basically the car he...

Not really. I think I got an email about it back at the beginning of the year.

1. 1280x1024 is 5x4 2. The thing you want to find are the high end model Dell Ultrasharp displays that were made circa 2006. They sold zillions of them. I have a classroom that has them, and they look infinitely better than the crappy HannsG displays I've been buying lately.

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A decently appointed i7 Latitude is the same $1500 that a decently appointed T420 or Macbook Pro are, as far as I can tell. What special deal are you seeing?

Not on a server. Nowadays I just have temper tantrums until someone pays for real backup software.

I've now tried a Xeon E1220 on two P67 and one Z68-series motherboard (one Asus, two Gigabyte). They all had updated BIOSes and they all work with an i7-2600k. None of them will boot with the Xeon. Boo.

They're offering us one month's rent to leave and no moving expenses to vacate a lease with four years left. I think we're staying put and open just to spite those people.

No, but my employer's an eternal optimist and I haven't gotten anywhere from resumes I've sent out.

It's work I don't want to do and it's all going to get piled on me. Bleh.

Apparently, I now have to decide on and purchase a wider range of technology. Rather than replacing classroom machines like I wanted, my company is instead buying a bunch of tablets, cell phones, cameras, X10 equipment and other toys. Maybe I can at least put some notebooks in there.

Yeah. Your instructor wants to see diagrams. As an IT certification instructor, I'd like to make it clear that we are some lazy mofos. Which is why your guy is telling you to use Cisco's thing that he's familiar with rather than something you're legally able to use, too.

You're not missing anything. They're a terrible pain in the ass, especially with the inconsistent handling of app opens and closes. Win7 can display a single Virtual PC emulated app as if it were a native Window, but what the user sees is a weirdly long pause during initial app startup because...

The alternative is to recommend an Adobe product. It's a little like asking which testicle you'd prefer to have run through a garlic press.

You can kind of roll your own sort of thing if you feel like messing around with high-end NASes. Synology products are all kinds of extensible, for example.

S*ny Vegas. The UI is tremendously less retarded than Premier. It's also cheaper and does all the same stuff.

Yes. That.

For the $450 I paid for one, I have to say it's definitely a solid machine. The only thing I really don't like about it is that they have a numeric keypad, which means that hands are off center from the screen when typing. The battery is a little weak. I only got about two hours out of it while...

Maybe it depends where you are. I know a guy who did Dell on site service work under contract. He said all he had to do was pass a Dell-specific qualifying exam.

HP shares were up yesterday. Since this BS is all about short term share prices anyway and not preserving whatever shred of good will that might have existed for the HP brand I'm sure nothing else matters.

My first thought is that someone, somewhere has an Exchange system that needs more RAM than that.

You have to look ahead or eventually something will eat you up because you didn't see it coming.

Honestly, I don't think it will. I suspect that the sorts of overzealous OEMs that dislike people messing around in the BIOS (e.g. Acer) on consumer hardware will be the only ones who actually lock anything. Commercial systems and white boxes will probably have a jumper or something to enable...

At a guess, anyone who has passed their qualifying service tech exam, or a corporate representative thereof.

This morning I found myself writing up a guide to putting together a new computer, specifically for the tasks that needed to happen post-Windows install. It strikes me that this is a conversation we've never had, so let me ask you all what you guys do before you consider a build finished. The...

Cellphoneshop.net is my go-to for phone accessories, by the way. Also, these people just released a thingy that lets you plug an Android thing in to devices that have integration features for iStuff. Which might be cool if you have a fancy car stereo or something.

As a corporate strategy, I really don't think you can go wrong with doing the opposite of things that S*ny does.

I'm still not getting why it's giving me a countdown after I put in my key.

They're just .avi files that I "found." I haven't seriously investigated the matter. I do know that neither the Boxee nor PCH has any problem with stuff made with Handbrake, and since I'm doing this as a class and won't exactly be advocating building one's media collection the bittorrent way...

I have an old wide-format Mustek SCSI scanner that only has drivers for Windows 95. It doesn't even install in Win98. It works fine in SANE under Linux to this day.

Amazon has had the 3TB Hitachi 5400rpm drives dip as low as $109, too.

Good points regarding the Boxee: The remote is excellent. It's small, has only three buttons on one side and a full qwerty keyboard on the other. It has a fast user interface. It hooked in to Netflix with no hassle at all and has a slick UI for presenting content from TV network web sites...

In my experience, Tbird is faster with my 8GB mail spool through IMAP on Gmail than it is with the same spool on Outlook 2007 with Google Sync.

I figured I'd stick it on something similar to my classroom machines, that I can take around and show to people. MetroUI is terrible and people need to see it.

I put in my key. 3.5 didn't do that.

I'm told I saw all the Star Wars movies on opening night, though I don't remember 1977 all that well. I do remember I saw all the rest that way, and I do remember going to a Star Wars revival showing in 1978 or 79. Those movies were highlights of my childhood. A movie that I did not need to see...

The fact that there's a (1) on the end of the download file name suggests that it's the same .iso I grabbed last night. What's the 60 days crap about?

When I copy E-mail via Imap in Thunderbird, it does not do that.

In the "I haven't watched Phantom Menace since May 19th, 1999 and did not remember how awful it was."-way.

Here. This will do it. I have to think that the shipping version of Windows 8 will either give us better options for this stuff or else the final UI will be infinitely better somehow.

You can kill it. There are registry hacks and stuff to do it. I've left it running because one of the things I wanted to do with Windows 8 was walk around and frighten my co-workers.

That would be a damned nice machine for retro-gaming, if you were the sort of person to do that.