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An Ideapad has about as much in common with a Thinkpad as a Chevy does with a Cadillac.

I thought you switched to Gmail for all your mail services. Are they using a client program or is there something I haven't noticed in the admin dashboard?

On an odd, tangentially related note, I met a USS Indianapolis survivor a couple weeks ago. He said he was 89.

Essentially because it's an assumption Microsoft makes about how Windows will operate on a computer. I'm kind of pissed about it. I can run Linux without any swap space if I want, but Windows really expects it to be there. Every time I try to turn the pagefile off I wind up having something or...

They are heavier. They probably have one more platter than the other models.

Damned Japs what made Aussies get along with Americans and New Zealanders. T'ain't natural.

We know full well that jesus wasn't born on December 25th but that's when it's celebrated. Why the hell can't jerkass religious people just pick a day and stick to it?

You do not even want to KNOW what I had to go through to get a triple-booting sysprep image working on my classroom PCs. I have to lay down an initial image to get the geometry of the partitions right and then re-image each of Vista and Windows 7 so that their installers don't fuck up the...

It's random. It can go here.

My laundry schedule should not in any way be impacted by bronze age rules about what the moon might or might not be doing.

Yeah. That's what they did when my friend had her tumor out back in December. Are you doing better now?

My Contour is the fastest thumb drive I have, actually. You're right that I largely don't care since the content on my drives is fairly static, but it does help when I'm pushing out ~19GB of my triple-boot classroom system image. I'm probably going to buy a USB3 64GB unit next time I need one...

Your two year old netbook is a modern CPU, Tannin. It has the benefit of seven or eight years of engineering, materials and manufacturing advances over and above a Pentium 4 or Athlon CPU. Windows programs that support the ribbon are actually completely usable, unless you're one of those people...

Both. Yes, you can technically make compatible documents with OpenOffice, but normal people don't understand how, and pretty much every Freshman at every college in the USA has to take a class on how to work Word, Excel and PowerPoint where they're graded on whether or not the documents they...

Serious answers: On Windows, it's all about keeping up with security software. And it's ridiculous. Modern Antivirus software likely as not will bring a decent Pentium 4 to its knees. Not to mention the number of truly awful Flash applets and web sites that use Javascript in unspeakable and CPU...

I watched original BSG when it aired, but that is not the one I am talking about.

I did not know it was Easter. I thought Easter was last week. People keep changing it and I don't care enough to keep track. Anyway, nothing in my town is open today except Denny's and a couple gas stations. It's rather annoying, because my cat horked on my extra bed and all the bedclothes need...

OK, OK. The way things should look is this: There is a System process, which I had forgotten about. It basically does one thing, which is kick off user sessions. Most stuff that runs at system authorization should be spawned by wininit.exe. I was expecting to find out that you had a dummy...

Get thee behind me. I one thousand times rebuke you, minion of the prince of lies.

It was not a good day to wear my "I use my powers for evil" T-shirt to get breakfast at the Denny's across the street from the Catholic church.

Process Explorer should give you the chain of programs that is involved in creating the file. If you search for the file handle you should find a nested set of executables. "System" is essentially a user account, not a process, so there's something else involved.

From what I've read, they're for high CPU density configurations where physical space is at a premium. So they make sense for easily parallel applications like VMs and web servers in small data centers or at colocation facilities.

What does process explorer have to say about that file? What is creating the open file handle?

I would only show someone who had only seen the recent aborti^H^H^H^H^H^Hmovie Deep Space 9 and maybe a couple episodes of TNG and Enterprise. And then I'd put them straight on to Battlestar Galactica.

I did want one. In fact, I needed one. Mine is LTO4 and holds 15 tapes + the cleaning tape, for a total uncompressed capacity of 12TB. The tapes are cheap, they'll last essentially forever (probably eight to ten years based on my expected usage pattern) and they're easy to store. Given the...

I bought a Quantum product just last year.

You're probably talking about a premium-grade wireless-N home router to get a small number of gigabit ports. I doubt you'll see jumbo frames support on anything, but since you'll be looking at models that are nice enough to support 1000Mbit LAN ports, they'll have USB storage or print support, a...

I'm really down on single-disk external enclosures for 3.5" drives. I don't think they do enough to protect the disk and they all seem to have crummy power supplies, which put together equals regular moments of terror regarding the status of the disk inside. I think the hot-swap bay + shelf is a...

My favorites are Sandisk Contour. I carry a 32GB one along with a couple 8GB Verbatim Store n' Go. I also keep a couple little 1GB guys on my keychain. One of them starts Hiren's BootCD. Another starts a WinPE session. Another can install Windows 7 Home (I can just Anytime Upgrade it to...

Porn is probably the easiest possible media to collect. Until very recently there were no practical ramifications for sharing it online. Now, if you want to talk about the other thing, I think there are ethical issues to making a trip to Nevada and that's not something I would choose to do. But...

There's probably something going on with the boot configuration menu that isn't right. You can probably fix whatever it is either with bcdedit or with EasyBCD.

Relatively speaking, it's not that much porn. And I put it all together because I wanted to figure out the best way to keep such a huge volume of data. When it's all working, it's really not that complex. It's just difficult to describe.

Hitachi's 7k1000 aren't terribly reliable either. I sure do love me some HD103UJs, though.

At the moment, my primary home storage consists 48 1TB drives and 24 1.5TB drives, plus some odds and ends here and there. The drives are mostly configured as RAID6 arrays (plus hot spares) that are rsync'd between two independent systems each for a total of about 32TB of available storage. I...

Well, every little bit of reading seems to suggest that the low-power i3 is the way to go, hardware-wise. I'm going to have to put together a proof of concept machine or two to test things out with FreeBSD, but probably is the best available option if I want zfs. And I think that I do. I...

Unified storage is our friend. Earlier in the week my boss got a new laptop. Rather than ask me my opinion or indeed tell me that she was buying a new laptop, she bought one from Best Buy. The guy at Best Buy told her about how awesome the "wireless wifi modem" in this laptop was, something...

WD can't hear you over the sound of how awesome it is. Go shortened drive life-span! Did anybody catch Game of Thrones yet? Because episode one was awesome.

The better joke would be to actually install it you know.

Not a damned thing is new here.

Principles are fine but if I don't agree with them I certainly don't have to be their customer. There's a nice long list of businesses I won't patronize because they actively support either anti-gay or anti-family-planning organizations.

Detroit is weird. I've been there three times. Twice on trips to Windsor. Every time I've been there, there has been very little traffic. Once, when my destination was actually the convention center smack dab in the middle of downtown, I was able to look both ways at an intersection and not see...

In light of recent developments I am going to give up on magnetic storage and will be moving on to Massively Redundant Arrays Of Punched Card Readers (MRAOPCR) technology.

I'd rather not give my business to religious loonies.

... and in that six and a half years, ddrueding and I have probably had at least 10 primary PCs between us. Must've been a hell of an upgrade though! Krispy Kremes are gross. Proper doughnuts should not make unwaxed cardboard turn transparent.

Why? Consumers certainly can't tell the difference.

I do not understand the point of releasing so many different low-end video cards. OK, fine, those Radeons don't need PCIe power. But who gives a crap? Either I want a $30 card, a $100 card (which is probably the $200 card from two generations ago) or a $300+ card. Why gum up the market with so...

Storageforum is the number one google search result for GODDAMMITSOFUCKINGMUCH.

I didn't do it right so now that I've had my tea GODDAMMITSOFUCKINGMUCH

Goddammitsofuckingmuch

Yes, but most of the appliances have tons of built-in limitations and subscription fees. I'm capable of putting such a system together, but OpenDNS is really easy to set up and use.