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I should have amended my statement to software-only options. Given that VirtualPC is essentially free (and has dreadful support for anything that isn't Windows), I'm kind of surprised that there isn't a new VMware Server on the horizon. Maybe supporting it is too much of a pain? And yes I am...

It appears that VMware Server is really, really broken with Firefox 4 and as far as I know it never worked with Chrome. And that support for VMware Server 2 ended in January. So I guess the best free option from VMware is now to make the VMs with Server and then run them through VMware Player?

That is shockingly not-hideous.

Also, I just found this nifty Google tool for syncing MS Office documents with Google docs.

It would not be entirely unreasonable to just have something on-site downloading everyone's E-mail via POP, but that doesn't help for contacts and calendar stuff. One nice thing about Thunderbird is that it's not terribly difficult to make it sync all that stuff so that local copies exist...

Today's free thingy on Amazon's App store is Plants vs. Zombies.

Response to the Japanese quake and component shortages perhaps? Usually the "-UD" designation from Gigabyte refers to the use of all Japanese-made solid caps instead of electrolytic ones.

Yup, but it comes up first.

I'd just like to say that a Google Image Search for Canadian huge rack shows just how correct I am about the horny Canadian babes even when safesearch is turned off. Not that checking anything on Google Image search with safesearch off is a good idea while one is at work.

I am not touching that one. Someone else can do it.

Now, to lighten our day ever so slightly, here's a nice long thread from Reddit about all the ways that the universe has conspired to build a better idiot. It makes for some rather amusing reading.

I bought a Galaxy tablet last week. I'm going to give it out as a gift, but from the little bit of playing around with it, I think it's a little bit heavier than I would like and I don't think the battery lasts all that long (maybe eight hours, rather than the claimed 12). As a general purpose...

I've built machines that have used them as standard SATA ports without issue. I've not tried to use one for RAID support. As standard SATA ports, they appear to be entirely acceptable. In particular, I found Marvell's eSATA3 controller a lot better than Sil's.

Every Intel thing I've sent back ever, they send me an Email that indicates that the defective product has been examined and found to be covered by its warranty or not. In one case I sent in a motherboard where I was told that the CPU socket had two bent pins, so they never checked the issue...

There's a little freeware program called DiskMon that can be configured to show disk activity on a Windows machine. It might be what you're looking for, and it's the sort of thing that would go nicely on a tiny little LCD if you really needed it to be available all the time.

I don't think that's a horrible idea. You're planning a server system, so the extra power utilization won't be ridiculous. I'd be a little concerned about the motherboard, but I suspect that for the cost-savings of looking at AMD, you can afford to factor in the cost of a couple spare...

I got tired of waiting for a couple of my important addons to get updated for FF4 support. I spent about 10 minutes googling for how to tell FF to make my older addons work in version 4, so here's the deal: Open about:config Create a new boolean value called extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0...

Intel motherboards also tend to be eight-layer PCBs rather than six, which is most common on AMD stuff. I'm not sure what the impact of that decision is, but I am sure that it makes the Intel boards more expensive. Also, I've found it a lot easier to get entirely solid cap designs for Intel...

I'm sorry. I meant Xrecode. There's an Xrecode 2 which I believe is widely available nagware, and an Xrecode 1, which is freeware. Good luck finding the freeware one. Formatfactory absolutely does support conversion to and from flac, though. Honest.

Formatfactory will do that. ConvertX should do that as well. Formatfactory is great for Windows users. You can point it at a top level directory and it will do everything beneath that point if you ask it to.

I really do like the Antec 300 case. I've gotten the one that ships without a PSU for $30 a few times. It's a step up from the HEC case that I use in budget builds, but it's also physically larger than I would use for a business machine.

This thing seems interesting, not least because an Android gaming platform is a Linux gaming platform.

My posts about Thor and Batman are irrefutable!

Nolan's Batman certainly tries to be. He wears realistic armor, doesn't have every possible tool in his utility belt and relies on technology that's mostly within the realm of possibility. The Sky Hook thing from Dark Knight actually exists, for example. Nolan also goes out of his way to avoid...

Thor was originally conceived as the actual Norse God of Thunder. In Marvel's current continuity, literal deities are not truly religious figures but rather a specific sort of alien or extra-dimensional being that thrives on and takes power from the the faith or belief of mortals. This is...

That too. It's either that or run an X-Meridian just for gaming and that seems silly too.

... and then, two hours after I typed this, I had to swap out an Intel DH55PJ, only seven months old. And why the hell are LGA1156 boards still so expensive, anyway?

I suspect there was a lot of trimming done to counter the criticism that there was too much going on in Iron Man 2. But the script as filmed was weak. It was written by J. Michael Stracynzki, the same guy who is responsible for Babylon 5 and also a long time comic book writer. I generally feel...

I think Batman Begins is the better movie. Dark Knight is too full of plot holes. The biggest issue I have with the Nolan Batman movies generally is that Christian Bale is weak as an actor in that role. He doesn't do either a believable Bruce Wayne or Batman.

After slogging through 50 pages of posts on AVSforum, it looks like most of the people who had problems really had problems with PowerDVD 9.

I really don't care at all about 3D video, and the card's performance for non-discrete AC3/DTS audio is a lot more interesting to me than the options that are available on video cards. I'll look into its support for 1080p24 but as I understand it, it's just a pass through for HDMI that...

Is 100% good or bad? If 100% is good, those numbers for Intel motherboards look awfully fishy.

I get in arguments about it, but Iron Man is a better movie than either of the Nolan Batman films.

In what way would a video card with HDMI be more capable? The Auzentech card uses a pass-through system to route audio from the video card to the sound card.

I'll bet you don't really want me to elaborate so I'll just say, deliberately without linking, that you could google "Crashpad" and become enlightened. And also that it would be a bad idea to do that from work.

I don't have very much to add, but at this point every monitor I have that is not a TV is a Dell Ultrasharp. My particular 27" Ultrasharp has been out of production for a while though.

Continuing the parade of stupid Chrome tricks: Play TIE Fighter in a DOSbox session natively inside Chrome. YA RLY.

I'll probably get an Auzentech X-fi HomeTheater if I can find one to buy.

Amazon has enough good will built up with me that I just pulled the trigger. Worst case, they will make me pay shipping on a return. Now I have to track down a new soundcard to go with it.

It's almost $300 cheaper at Amazon. Amazon is $150 cheaper than what Crutchfield and Onecall are. Amazon is awesome.

I liked the Marantz SR6005, though the shop I visited expected me to pay retail for it.

Nope. The simple truth is that if it's a default Outlook behavior, it's probably wrong.

Apparently, they want istuff and law textbooks. Things that go together. Obviously.

So Chewy, how is Kolob?

You don't go to Pirates of the Caribbean for any other reason than to see Enlightenment-age stuff asplode and to watch Johnny Depp act goofy while it happens.

Reply at the bottom, or reply after quote is proper formatting. It pisses me off, too. I've bitched about it here before. It's particularly annoying when Outlook users tell me that the way I reply is incorrect.

Sending RMAs to Seagate apparently has a lot in common with the best kinds of porn.

You can also call them. In the past I've had better luck doing that.

That seems pretty reasonable, food-wise. I think it might be better not to speculate how keeping a person in this fashion will make you back your three thousand moosebucks.

If you go by what those wacky christians' holy book says, when judgment day comes only 144000 people will be found worthy. So it might have happened and the rest of the believers just weren't good enough. They'll all be enjoying the locusts and boiling seas with the rest of us.