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I would be vastly more likely to return and expensive Antec, Corsair or Seasonic PSU than I would an FSP Group cheapie.

I flatly don't believe you. I can't even get those fuckers to return an email in any given three day time frame.

I've contemplated building with 40GB Intel SSDs to get affordable high performance I/O. I'd definitely not want to do that for a live business app unless I had a very good backup and recovery plan in place. Windows SoftRAID can be a PITA to resync in RAID5, but a degraded RAID5 on SSDs should...

I think the thing to emphasize is that the Norco case is SOLID. It's a good bit of steel with tons of room for expansion and for that matter customization if need be. I can't argue with your pricing concerns, but I've bought them for as little as $80 shipped with rails, and at that price they're...

The Norco cases are solid, generic enclosures if they're available locally. The one I like is an RP450 or something. They have a "bridge" center support that's designed to hold six 3.5" hard drives and they can be made silent fairly easily.

Never a tie. I only just taught myself to tie one a couple weeks ago, and that was just because I found one while I was cleaning my closet. I have some sport coats I put on a few times a year and that's about it. I did not think I could talk to another person for three minute with any degree...

He's fairly convinced that the issue is some kind of incompatibility between Apple devices and everything else. He knows he doesn't have issues with his notebooks. But he's not giving up the Apple stuff. He likes it too much. I sent him a link on updating the firmware on his stuff but I have no...

The $329 warranty includes accidental damage coverage, not just defect issues. I'd think long and hard about whether it's worth 20% - 40% of the purchase price of the notebook, but it's also something they discount relatively frequently.

Cough. Let's just say there was a mutual appreciation for the chicks in costume. She is 30. I am being vague because Google.

Since my friend in Wyoming is still recovering from the surgery she had back in December, I had to go to my comic book convention stag. As it happens, the convention had a Speed Dating event. I decided to participate and it was a lot of fun. I was the oldest person in the room, even older than...

I'm not sure what that means I should feel about Xboxes, given what I think of Steam.

I took 122 pictures at the comic convention I went to. Still only used half the battery on my Evo. I am impressed by that. I am also surprised by how well the image stabilization works. I only took four shakey pictures all day. I would say my phone is very credible for point and shoot photos.

Just a quick update on wireless weirdness: At my customer's insistence, I've tried three different firmware revisions on the Trendnet router and screwed around with the wireless encryption scheme, going from WPA2 to WPA to WEP to nothing. I also switched to channel 1 rather than 11. The icrap...

ddrueding, if you want a backup, I wouldn't mind having a different job.

I know the 2TB Seagates are just abortions in the disk error department. I think I believe Hitachi when they say that.

Did anyone else notice the "shop and compare" button at the bottom with the Walmart logo? Because when I think of Enterprise SLC-based SSDs with an SAS interface, I think of Walmart.

I've seen issues like that from having a motherboard short I didn't notice. MSI motherboards: I've not had good luck with them. Lots of in-warranty failures that I didn't bother to replace.

Do you have any way of looking at Windows to Windows or Linux to Linux throughput?

What NICs are involved here?

An insurance agency I support has software from one or other of the big insurers that absolutely won't run on anything else. Not IE7, not IE8 in compatibility mode, nor any other browser. That's pretty damned special right there.

Mouseover URLs do now appear in the bottom left corner, just not in a status bar. It's an odd effect. Losing the status bar also causes issues for some of my favorite addons, such as Foxytunes.

It's also fairly straightforward to deal with most radioactive materials. Anything, even clothing, will stop the most common sorts of emissions and you're basically fine as long as you aren't ingesting any of it. The "OMG instant cancer death" high-energy stuff burns out very quickly. Granted...

Maybe he meant "Best Movie with Dolph Lundgren." But he probably hasn't seen this, which raises the bar on awesomeness to the point that it should now be called Lundgreness.

My biggest problem with FF4 is that they repositioned the Home and Stop/Reload buttons to the useless right side of the screen. I've been trying to get IE9 since yesterday but apparently Microsoft's servers are too damned busy.

Uh, k.

New browsers. IE9, which is supposed to suck less than other IEs, and Firefox 4, which isn't quite out yet but is coming Real Soon Now. I've been using FF4 for about a month on at least a few machines. The UI has been changed to more closely resemble Chrome's. To my annoyance, that means...

The 2TB Hitachi is getting downright reasonable. If nothing else, a new flagship will drive that bad boy's price downward. I can get behind that.

I hate taskbar grouping. I like being able to identify the right window without waiting for the little pop-up graphic.

They always take forever to return the replacement drive, but I'd rather have an SSD than not have one.

That was his speculation as well.

I was speaking with my father this morning, and one of the subjects that came up was the situation in Japan regarding the nuclear plants there. My father's work as an engineer did at times involve working with nuclear plants and he had some insights that were somewhat interesting. But one of...

How does every version of every dll ever add up to a 65GB subfolder on my Win7 machine?

There are three iphones, an itouch and two ipads involved in this. There are also three Windows notebooks, two Roku players, a Wii and an Xbox360 that connect to the same wireless network in his home, none of which have any issue at all. In his office: An AT&T iphone4 and sometimes his ipad...

Yes, but that's not his problem. Certainly not in his office, which has no competing 2.4GHz signals unless someone happens to be using a Microwave. The issue isn't interference. Non-Apple devices aren't having these connection drops, even when they're being used within a couple feet of one...

You got a notice involving Australian law, Bozo? IIRC, Paypal has a message center where they put stuff they want you to look at after you log in to their site. It would be pretty easy to check if there's a fraud thing going on.

Here's some dude who added a bellows and manual focus to a Canon dSLR.

A lot of people hate and no longer trust paypal. The fact that they essentially operate as a bank and, at least in the USA, are not subject to the same regulatory oversight as one is quite troubling. I have Paypal but it's not linked to my main bank account but rather a secondary account at a...

My customer replaced his high-end Trendnet stuff with a Airport Extremes. Not only were his 802.11 connection drops even worse for his icrap, he also lost a lot of range. I love it when Apple is wrong.

I know exactly what you mean, and it's really the biggest reason why I don't start working full time for myself. I'd rather someone else worry about paying the bills and keeping the doors open. I know you've been an employee before and I also know you've been in dire straits in the past. It's...

There is only Samsung now.

Goddammitsofuckingmuch

Apple would be shooting itself in the foot if, every time a kid wanted an ithing, some beleaguered parent had to hop on Apple.com, set up an account and type in a credit card number. There are too many unsophisticated people who just won't shop that way. Likewise, the irony of having to make a...

Water with a lint free cloth. What I can see from my classroom PCs is that pretty much everything that isn't water eventually leaves some kind of film on the screen, and none of them ever seem to come off once they're there.

Wow. I missed a lot of thread. It goes without saying that SF means a lot to me and I'd be willing to bear out the costs for keeping it going. I do have internet service that explicitly allows hosting, though at the moment I'm not paying for a static IP and I have a tendency to redline the...

Monday after next. They swear they're sending a truck special just for me. Shoulda gone with the Overstock.com deal.

I don't like Showtime at all. I'm not too fond of PowerDVD's current interface but I can live with it. I like Nero Vision and Recode, but I get better results these days with Handbrake and it also supports BD recoding. The last version of Nero for which I have a legit copy is version 8, which...

Another ithing: My customer who has bought into the ilifestyle in a big way tells me that he consistently has problems connecting or losing connections to Linksys, Netgear and Trendnet APs or routers with his ipads, iphones and ipods. He says his Windows machines are fine. I just set up a...

As an aside, Barnes and Noble is selling Color Nooks on Ebay for $200 right now.

In one of the other buildings of my apartment complex, there's "Shutthefuckup203." Scariest one I've seen is "RaHoWa", which is a term used by white supremacists. I saw that one from a cafe in the lily white town where I work.