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    sandboxie

    I believe it essentially does the same thing as running IE on Vista/7 (reduced privilege mode), and that a majority of malware exploits are in no way hampered by that.
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    Canada

    That is no moose. That is one of literally tens of horny Canadian girls gone wild!
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    Companies that have burnt...

    I blame it on the IPO.
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    Canada

    Now Coug is disparaging the Canadian racks. :(
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    Your home Stereo/sound system/s? What did you buy, how much, and why did you buy it?

    There's one on Ogden Avenue just off 294 that I've been meaning to visit anyway.
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    Your home Stereo/sound system/s? What did you buy, how much, and why did you buy it?

    Denon, Marantz and Onkyo all seem to have very good products with comparable features at around $900. It doesn't look to me like there's much gain to be had by moving up over the $1000 mark. I don't really give a crap about 802.11 or ipod support. Hopefully I'll get a chance to make a...
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    Canada

    Maybe in 2013, LM will be at last be able to acknowledge the unshorn beauty of Canada's fine native girls.
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    problem mdadm Raid6 help

    Honestly, if my arrays were doing something like that, what I would do is recreate the arrays and restore from backup. Most of the time the *nix way would be to find the problem and fix it and if you can stand to have 6TB of your stuff offline there's probably a fun project in figuring out what...
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    SAS Fiber Optic ?

    Not that I could find, but there's a fiber optic cabling standard for damned near everything. On the other hand, why not just go with the path of least resistance and do Fiber Channel in the first place?
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    Something Random

    Gas could be $8 a gallon and for the most part everybody in the US who has positive cash flow would still be buying exactly the same amount of it. Maybe teenagers would go back to riding bikes. Upon consideration, $8/gallon gas is probably a good step toward jtr's utopia. :)
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    Eggxpert Tiered Power Supply List

    I'm generally not using the super-low end ones. There are some really crummy ones that are made out of solid air (much like the PSU Tannin linked to, which apparently weighs 0kg if the specs page is to be believed), and there are modest and unassuming mid-range models. HEC has a nice, reliable...
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    Eggxpert Tiered Power Supply List

    The top-tier PSUs weigh 50% more than the middle guys. Black paint and gold trim must be very heavy.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Does SMART actually monitor anything useful for SSDs?
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    Something Random

    Amazon's cloud is just a storage device. It's actually a nice thing to have, since prior to its release, Amazon did not allow purchasers to re-download purchased digital tracks, but files that are on an individual's cloud can be re-downloaded.
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    Eggxpert Tiered Power Supply List

    I'm not sure where you guys are getting love for FSP power supplies. I seem to toss them pretty regularly. They're not PSUs that I buy, just the ones that happen to be in machines that I service. I see them in lots of OEM machines. And then I take them out and replace them with whatever I've...
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    FF4 and IE9

    Firefox should do a thing where it releases memory that is allocated for tabs you're not immediately using. As I understand things, the biggest issue with poorly coded flash applets has something to do with demanding to be refreshed too many times per second or something. Youtube really isn't...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    They're SSDs. They're legitimately faster. And they're what's available now.
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    Outlook PST Hell

    Actually, there's an offline Gmail doohickey you can install on your computer to provide full access to email without an internet connection, if you need something like that.
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    Outlook PST Hell

    I'm genuinely not a big fan of Gmail's web interface, which is why I prefer to deal with Thunderbird or elm or something else to begin with. I like having a place to forward E-mails so that I don't have to work to maintain an internet-facing IMAP server of my own, but Gmail itself is...
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    Outlook PST Hell

    re: Outlook in non-Exchange deployments, there is a not-insignificant population of users who are simply convinced that Outlook is the thing to use for E-mail. There is no reason for this, other than the fact that it's the tool provided with Office, and MS Word and Ms Excel are also The Things...
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    Outlook PST Hell

    You misspelled "sheep", I think.
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    Outlook PST Hell

    It's not Incredimail that's directly at fault. I've installed it and immediately run malware scans without result. I think it's more that the kind of person who installs Incredimail is the kind of person who uncontrollably collects malware anyway while they're finding new shiny stuff to click on.
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    Failure rate statistics

    Buck has a reason for his particular bias. And there's certainly no evidence that he's NOT a sociopath.
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    Outlook PST Hell

    It should be noted that if Exchange is set up, configuration for a standard Outlook client is limited to either typing in server, username and password, or it's configured as part of one's profile by default and no one has to type anything in.
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    Failure rate statistics

    I've had luck with Samsung drives that varies between very good and truly excellent. In a bad year I might RMA 2% of the Samsung drives I've purchased for sale. I've likewise had good luck with Hitachi, though I buy those drives in much smaller quantity and I will admit I've had some DOA...
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    Failure rate statistics

    I've had luck with Samsung drives that varies between very good and truly excellent. In a bad year I might RMA 2% of the Samsung drives I've purchased for sale. I've likewise had good luck with Hitachi, though I buy those drives in much smaller quantity and I will admit I've had some DOA...
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    Best Ingredient for Single Topping Pizza

    You could do roasted red peppers.
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    Failure rate statistics

    Well #3 would go along perfectly well with those who attribute positive outcomes to storing data on Western Digital products and/or using them to build some form of barrier.
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    Failure rate statistics

    I'm talking first two Little Pigs bad, here.
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    Failure rate statistics

    Sub-par construction material.
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    Failure rate statistics

    Only a sociopath would suggest that WD is acceptable for anything other than construction material.
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    Best Ingredient for Single Topping Pizza

    I have invented a new vaguely pizza like food. I use a little flour tortilla, some chopped spinach, raw onions, jalepenos, some hummus and pine nuts. I think there's maybe 175 calories in one and it's fairly flavorful.
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    Failure rate statistics

    Take your antipsychotics, doofus.
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    Failure rate statistics

    My personal belief is that any who says they've had a positive experience with Western Digital products as storage media is either lying or needs to up their chlorpromazine dosage.
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    Failure rate statistics

    I do recall seeing that before. I believe it was linked from Digg.com. It's interesting that those guys claim Hitachi as the most reliable and the hardware.fr guys claim it's the least. Regional variations? Or just a change with more recent models?
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    Low power file server platform?

    I've noticed that Centos seem to be taking longer and longer to catch up with releases of RedHat, which is a cause for some concern. I'm worried that Centos as a project isn't all that healthy. I did finally slap an i3-2100 together and load FreeBSD on it. I don't really have much to report as...
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    OCZ Talos : enterprise-class 3.5" SSD

    Hardware RAID usually abstracts the array(s) as a single volume presented to the OS so... no.
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    Low power box for running VM? Oxymoron?

    An i3-2100 was suggested as a possible basis for my low-power file server. I suspect they would work for your needs as well. Or you could let your roommate to find his own damned hardware.
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    I heart FoxIt

    There's still NitroPDF and Sumatra. Chrome has a PDF reader built-in. I believe Firefox is moving in that direction as well. I'd rather go without a PDF reader than go back to Adobe.
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    FF4 and IE9

    I pretty consistently see TB use 240MB RAM on Windows machines no matter how many IMAP accounts it's checking. Some of my machines only check one and some of them check nine or ten. I haven't seen an FF4 crash other than plugin container crashes from Flash.
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    Failure rate statistics

    New Antec NSK-series cases are made with thinner steel than older revisions, and I've had a couple shipped with DOA power supplies. I'm not sure if that's lower quality PSUs or a problem that's come from shipping practices. The only memorable in-warranty power supply failure I've had in the last...
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    FF4 and IE9

    I don't necessarily think that 1.5GB RAM for Firefox is necessarily outrageous if you have 50 open tabs and don't ever close the browser. Thunderbird climbing all the way up to .5GB is weird, though.
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    Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6L V6 engine

    So Elements are out because they're ugly but the Scion, the lower-to-the-ground, less roomy, less practical and even uglier vehicle, is OK?.
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    SSD in RAID

    It's been suggested to me very strongly that any reliability figures for MLC drive coming from drive OEMs have only casual relationship with reality. I've mentioned that in the other SSD thread but perhaps it might be wise to consider a drastic downward revision of that 30TB number just on the...
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    Something Random

    I don't know how to ride a bike at all and where I live now is not a healthy place to ride anyway. There's a skate park about a quarter mile from my apartment and one of the kids that hangs out there uses something that looks like a unicycle with half a skateboard attached to the back of it. You...
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    Sandy Bridge problems

    Last I saw, Intel was saying Q4 2011 for USB3 support in the south bridge, "only" two years after shipping products with USB3 support hit the channel. I don't recall USB hi-speed's adoption being this slow.
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    Eggxpert Tiered Power Supply List

    Where are you finding these links? I've got a dozen or so tech sites that I track with Google Reader and I haven't seen anything like this or the Failure rates links you posted anywhere else but through your posts.
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    Linux Mint+Virtual Box+MS Mouse

    I still want to know if the problem is particular to Microsoft mice.
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    Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6L V6 engine

    The Element has been discontinued, so clearly it didn't have many fans at Honda to begin with. And yes, it looks like a toaster, but it's an incredibly practical vehicle.
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    Something Random

    Are you just using the GPS as a speedometer? What do you need that for on a bike?
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