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I started watching the Star Wars BDs over the weekend. Wow, Phantom Menace is bad.

Is ESXi 4.1 not free? For the longest time I've just been using the .iso of 3.5 I probably downloaded two years ago. I went and snagged a copy of 4.1 last night and it's telling me it will only run for 60 days with a trial code.

It looks like a keyboard to me. Keyboards are not hard. You decide if you want one that's clicky or soft, whether you need a big return and backspace, wireless or not and if so, what kind. I almost always buy Logitech, though I'm told that Microsoft is far and away the way to go for standard...

It's... different. I've got it running on a crappy HP Pavilion C2D notebook and it runs acceptably well. I don't think I like Metro UI.

One of my students was showing me a Droid Bionic yesterday. It comes with some kind of complete ridiculous streaming video VPN client. We were able to live-stream a BD rip over his LTE connection. I have to admit I was pretty impressed by that.

No. You go to the Google account that is being used and make the changes there. And yes, give up on Outlook. It's just adding a layer of stupid complexity.

The PSU works. It's not unreasonably loud by itself, but the 15krpm fans are another story. I've decided I'm just going to rip the guts out and stick my i7-975 in there since there's basically no pleasant option for cooling anything that uses LGA771. I'm going to try to populate the whole thing...

11 views, 10 replies. LOL. Anyway, what's wrong with the Exchange integration that's built in to Android by default? Apps I've paid for: LogMeIn Ignition ($30) and some stupid thing that lets me nest things in folders on my home screen ($1). LogMeIn has probably paid for itself ten times over...

I would be very happy if I could interface my phone with a car stereo system as something other than a plain old USB memory device...

Apple phones legitimately do have better battery life. My phone will standby for a couple days if I don't otherwise mess with it but it runs down to about 1/3 power during an average work day where I actually use it to answer emails and spend my lunch reading Fark or something. But a battery...

Also: Gmail calendars just work on Android. You have to have a paid Google Apps for Domains account before calendar magic happens on iThings. On the other hand, I spent what I think is an unreasonable amount of time screwing around with WinAmp on a desktop and my phone to make it handle music...

Apple has never wanted to be Microsoft. Microsoft wanted to be IBM. And in a way, they are. But Apple has never really given serious run at competing in general purpose business computing. Instead, they created a system with some practical business use (early support for networking and...

The Popcorn Hour player does have the ability to play damned near anything, but the interface is slow to the point of aggravation and using the remote to type in share names and passwords could not be more miserable. I must admit that I haven't done much but play videos with it, but I didn't see...

There are too many enormous Microsoft customers still using XP for them to slip up on that. But for cases where the same Windows installation has existed in-place for six or seven years, no it wouldn't shock me if there were issues even on a pretty vanilla setup.

Yes but I could buy three M1505s for what that LSI card costs.

I really won't know until I actually receive it. I have a couple slow quad core Xeons to put in it but I'm not sure about RAM.

That really wouldn't surprise me. Even the super high end cards are only using all that RAM for multi-sampling textures that are getting used over and over. It's not like they actually need to deliver 16Gpbs of output.

The H700 and H800 will do 3TB now and supposedly the H200 will with a firmware update that isn't out yet.

My personal winner was the IBM ServerRAID M1015. They're $75 on Ebay, support SAS expanders and 3TB disks, SAS and SATA drives, use a pair of SFF internal connectors and they have hardware support for RAID 0, 1 and 10. That beats the hell out of $400 for a Dell H700.

They're still getting the kinks worked out due to limited support from publishers, but there are at least two systems for e-book lending available to your community library right now.

Some people just don't listen to reason.

To be honest, I think you got sold a line of bullshit with regard to AMD CPUs and dead memory controllers. Seriously. When CPUs fail, they pretty much fail totally, and even that is extremely rare. I RMA perhaps one processor every two years. If there were a rash of defective AMD chips it would...

I'm cautiously interested in such a thing, if only to give a home the retired gaming cards I can never seem to sell. Perhaps these things will be a nail in the coffin for "gaming notebooks."

You also spent somewhere between $150 and $350. For purposes of comparison, I can build a complete budget build machine for $215. You can't go by how much stuff cost when it was new. Things depreciate. A 1986 Mercedes 560 was probably $40k when it was new but it's not worth a damned thing now...

All the Auzentech sound cards are fully supported on newer versions of Windows. And time is right: You would have been far better off tossing the old hardware and getting low-end new stuff than dicking around with what you have. Saying that you'd rather spend money on another expensive machine...

Genius SW-G2.1 are a 2.1 + control module set of computer speakers that cost $50 or so. I got a couple sets for use in my classrooms and I really can't believe how nice they sound. They look retarded but they sound better than a lot of computer speaker sets that cost three times as much.

How would you rate a turtle as a house guest?

Trackballs work best with the pointer speed setting turned all the way up. I can give the ball a spin and go from corner to corner on a screen pretty easily.

They're supposed to work that way. I'll admit I haven't tested that configuration because I traditionally use softRAID.

They're cheap, plentiful and they play nice with SATA disks and SAS expanders, which I've heard that some RAID cards do not. You can also build an array across multiple cards if you've got 'em. They're a sure bet for a working configuration. It was cheaper for me to get six 8-port Perc5s than...

I'd just like to say that I install ACDSee v 3.1 on every Windows computer I own. It is my naked lady viewer of choice. The version I use is 11 years old. My vote is "put ACDSee back."

Apple is a lifestyle brand. People who buy Apple stuff buy Apple stuff. It does not occur to Apple people that they could buy things that do not have an Apple logo on them if an Apple logo is available. iTunes is still an abortion and so is AT&T's service, at least where I live. I have no...

Netflix and maybe XBMC in what is very possibly its lamest form.

Doesn't the AMOLED screen just wreck batteries? Battery life is definitely a weak point on high performance Android devices. That's something to consider as well.

I bought one. Even if I toss the motherboard, the chassis and PSU are worth it to me.

Maybe they'll show up as 1.75TB when I connect them to my x58 motherboards instead of 750GB.

I'm now the owner of a Boxee box, a Seagate Freeagent Theater, a Popcorn Hour C200, and a Roku something-or-other. I built myself a Vortexbox, I have WHS machine and I've got an Xbox360 and a Wii as well. Out of the stuff mentioned in this thread, the only major thing I didn't buy was a Dune...

Sounds like a good way to burn in a CPU as well.

Win7/Server 2008 need AHCI mode turned on to enable some of the built-in SSD optimizations.

I really don't care. It's about all about density anyway. Unfortunately, I can't really bring myself to turn of AHCI mode on my i7s. That would suck for their SSDs.

Looking at 1155, 1366 and AM3 stuff, it looks like motherboards top out at 12 SATA ports, not all of which can be assumed compatible with the drives. A new motherboard is cheaper than an 8-port RAID card.

Spinrite, but I don't know if it will operate with huge drives. You could also script something simple with dd on a *nix machine. dd if=/dev/yes of=/mnt/hdd Would fill a drive up with repeating ones eventually.

Amazon offers free return shipping on TVs for the first 30 days. That's more than enough time for defects to become apparent.

I'm not sure. It seems like the market is crying out for some inexpensive options with 8 ports and > 2TB support but they just aren't there. Not all SAS cards support expanders and not all SAS cards play nice with > 2TB drives, and what's left starts at about $450. That's just painful.

I hate Seagate almost as much as WD at this point and that's saying something. As much as I would love to pull 32 drives out of service and replace them with a mere eight, it's not going to happen if Seagate is my only option.

I bought a 40" 1080P Toshiba LCD from Amazon for $399 today. That Viore doesn't sound like such a good deal now, does it?

Honestly, I think the best thing to do for basic backup is just to stick another internal drive into a desktop and to anoint that drive as "the drive that holds backups." I say internal because the simple fact is that external drive power supplies are so crappy and accidents are so frequent in...

That could very well be why they show up as 750GB on the machines I have. Nonetheless, I'm not that far from needing a bunch of compatible ports, so it's good to get this out there.

Some of that looks to me like someone was asked to find something to do with X random Microsoft computing initiative. I did watch the whole thing. It's also interesting that they didn't demo "render an object in 3D from the tablet computer's camera when they went through the trouble of showing...

I like the drive tray. It needs more of them, though. Or maybe I just need to break down and trade all my computer chassis for Norco monstrosities.