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I know that Crossloop.com's underlying viewer switched from RealVNC to UltraVNC because UltraVNC doesn't automatically disconnect remote viewers during UAC prompts. I'm not sure what's different about RealVNC that it doesn't behave the same way.

... and then the fucking glass that covers the LCD shattered when I tried to put it back on the way Apple says you're supposed to. Anyway, no, there's nothing wrong with that machine as a computer. It's decently fast for its age and I can understand why someone would like that form factor but...

Someone brought me a 24" Aluminum iMac. Needed a replacement hard drive. Time spent opening the stupid thing: 40 minutes, mostly 'cause the person who had it had messed up the one external Torx screw and I had to drill it out. Time replacing the drive and actually reinstalling the OS: 1...

No, that's just the first one to roll off my keyboard. You're talking about the issues with UAC and VNC right, Bozo?

Yes. Switch to UltraVNC instead.

Home routers just suck. There's a reason I built my own.

I think every Lenovo-branded Thinkpad I've gotten has had a Hitachi drive in it. I didn't know they put WD drives in them.

So very much this.

I have a few winning times for Kyodai Mahong in that layout that are below three minutes. Since none of my high scores have changed in years I think I got to the limit of how fast I can match tiles.

IIRC, usually the second one is physically a 16x slot but there are only enough PCIe lanes for it to operate at 8x speed. But I think you need to go by what the manual is telling you.

Yes. The work of being a container for waste water for unclean lady parts and/or rectal cavities.

I dislike fairs.

I'm going to take that from the context of the denouement of Team America: World Police, in which case you are absolutely correct.

Intel makes plenty of money pretending that AMD doesn't exist so I suspect that's the route they'll go.

No, because they're going to be WD drives and therefore unsuitable for any task other than very expensive building materials.

I'm doing a computer building class right now. Interestingly, I told my students about the E3-1220 and a couple of them were really interested in building on that platform. And nine out of 11 of them are getting at least an 80GB SSD.

What the hell kind of datacenter doesn't have backup generators?

Not at the moment, but I'm curious to know what sort of workload your customer needs six hyperthreaded cores vs. four generally faster hyperthreaded Sandy Beach ones.

Why are you still looking at 1366 stuff?

Replacement power supply for an Acer H340 = $120 by the time shipping is added. Ouch.

I think right now is actually a pretty good time overall. We're at a stable point with CPU interfaces. DDR3 is in its mid-life. Expansion interfaces aren't likely to change any time soon and even in SSD-land, we're not long past a wave of new products. There's probably something new in the...

Honestly, I don't see Bulldozer doing much of anything to Intel's pricing unless it eats the i3/i5 alive. And if it does that, it will probably be priced accordingly. More than likely, it will create more downward pressure on low-cost parts, a space where AMD is already the big winner for...

Douchebags

I like Bubbleshooter.net

If your streak is long enough, that is horrible.

Basically, what's happened is this: Somebody in an office needs a personal printer. They've had some creaky but indestructible Laserjet 3 or something since the first Clinton Administration, but they get tired of it or they suddenly want to print color or something, so they go buy some newer...

We all know there is no such thing as enough SATA. But that Gigabyte board is pretty much the one I've bought for LGA1366.

802.11 in any form loses about half its theoretical bandwidth to protocol overhead. Just the process of negotiating and maintaining communication with access points is going to make your connection a lot slower than the reported speed. On top of that, the bandwidth is shared among all connected...

That looks like way too much work.

Bah. Not enough SATA.

We are your friends and we love you and you need to take that thing back and leave it where you found it. COME TOWARD THE LIGHT COME TOWARD THE LIGHT

I need to make sure the CPU works first. Gonna slap it in my ESX machine and if it works OK I probably will be in the market for another board.

Why are you doing this graphics heavy work on a laptop in the first place?

Greg, you do understand that because of protocol overhead, reported connection speeds over 802.11 are pretty much the biggest load of crap ever, right?

Break open the enclosure and look?

I think the idea is to not have to add any cards ever. I sure do buy a lot of parallel port cards these days.

Wow. Gateway/Acer or HP. Especially in that heavy and completely impractical 17" form factor. Really? That's like choosing whether you want pustulent warts on your dick or on your asshole. You could just, you know, buy neither. Sure, you'd have to make do without a shitty laptop and/or...

For a machine that's just going to sit on some secretary's desk, I don't think that's a deal-breaker.

I can't imagine that anybody would be buying Dell Precision Workstations without a service contract, but that's apparently what happened. Dell wanted $650 for a new motherboard and apparently it was easier for his business unit to just get a new machine than fix the old one.

One of my students just handed me an i7 980x. The motherboard it was on went bad and is out of warranty, and he doesn't think it's worth the money to buy another one. Sweet.

XP users can still move up to IE8, and then never click on it. That's probably the best IQ-retaining option. :)

CoughBullshitCough Though I'll happily admit that I'm fine with describing IE6 users as having IQs around 80 regardless.

Refurb Nook Colors are $180 on Deals.woot.com today. The NC has a particularly retarded Android build, but who leaves stock firmware on an Android device to begin with?

Contact sync still only happens through Activesync. I know that much.

Saying "We will not give even one single inch until you are 100% supporting our ideological position" does not exactly suggest that yours are a people willing to be led.

The scripts I use to deal with my music collection generates .m3u and .pls files for me. I almost never remember to use them.

Here's what's been happening since Obama took office: Legislation is proposed. That legislation is immediately assigned an ideological bent as either part of the liberal or conservative agenda. If the bent is liberal, Republicans move in lockstep to oppose it. Democrats make real attempts to...

I'd just like to make the case that there was no reason to expect any different outcome as the result of allowing the republican party to have a toehold of political power in the current climate.

I had very good experiences with Gateway prior to the Acer buyout. They had excellent support for a consumer outfit.

She really only knows how to deal with Microsoft products. I've been beating over the head for years that she needs to get her head out of Access and VB and SQL Server, and she did finally break down and build an ASP.NET application, but every time I bring up working with Python or PHP with a...