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I run btguard on one notebook that doesn't do a whole lot besides that. Most of the stuff I'm downloading is, frankly, not going to get me in trouble. I will say that you should probably do an "advanced install" of their client, because the software they include otherwise is utorrent 2.0, not 2.2.

There's a speed reduction. I get probably 250kB/sec, which is fast enough. I don't use btguard for everything, just the stuff where I think it matters. Everything I've read says their encryption is good enough and they definitely aren't logging anything, which is what I want it for. Ratios...

It's been 11 years since we've had a serious technical issue related to hard disk capacity. It's been a nice run.

I suspect my year is going to be kind of crummy but I hope things get better for other people.

It's a persistent drawback of 3D, at least in every presentation I've seen that way. I don't think I could quantify it, but it's very obvious to me.

I guess that's enough time for everyone!

Looks like a lot of happy people there, paugie. What's the stuff in those bowls?

What's it like in the future, time? I'll also wish everyone a happy new year to everyone. Except ddrueding. Screw that guy. ;)

At least 90% of the time, 3D is a gimmick, but I've seen it both ways and I have to say that Tron is a movie where the 3D does enrich the experience. I hate the glasses and the way that color gets washed out in a 3D presentation, though.

I got an unopened package of gum once in a box from Newegg.

The market for ultraportables is already based more on status than capability, but an Eee isn't the same thing as an X201 or Macbook Air and anyone who might buy one knows that. Some of the executive doofuses who carry those notebooks now might very well be able to get away with an ipad or some...

He can and he does, sir.

Intel finally announces some new SSDs. Short story: They're tiny and performance is in line with an X-25M, but they aren't available to end users and they're even more stupid-expensive than normal for their capacity.

I enjoyed True Grit on just about every level. The Coen brothers don't make bad movies but it was easily the least Coen-y movie they've ever made. Still, it's well worth the couple hours. If you go, know that there will be gentle, manly tears. It's that sort of movie.

It's clunky in that input is god-awful. The size is fine.

Hilariously, if somebody did smash in my window for a $100 GPS, they'd probably ignore the $5000 worth of easily sale-able computer parts that are in the back at all times.

So I bought a GPS. Mostly because I'm three for three on getting lost while visiting my parents in Knoxville. It's a Garmin Nuvi 205. It's unbearably clunky. I find myself wanting to plug it into a PC and drop an address book into it from that, but it does not appear to have that functionality...

That's a very good build, actually. I think MSI motherboards are a touch sketchy and of course there's some unfortunateness with your hard drive selection, but I think your hardware spec is very reasonable for the machine's functions. There are Windows media remotes and very good wireless...

Of course, having recently praised Amazon for their good shipping methods, I recently ordered a pair of drives that were delivered flat in the bottom of a box that contained nothing else but two air packs that did not even reach the edges of the container on any side. Neither of the drives...

I work in a windowless room. My classroom is a windowless room. It's very common for me to not see the sun for four days in the winter time.

Aren't the Kingston drives rebadged Intel X-25s?

Usually my period is not a very happy time even if it's a holiday. :P

No but they will never be forgiven.

I'd still take OCZ. Nothing can beat WD's 13 RMAs for 9 drives in one year record.

I usually buy 22" Dell or Hanns-G (depending on budget) screens for pretty much everything. I think a 19" widescreen is too small for useful work on a desktop and frankly most office dwellers love all the screen real estate even if the lion's share of them do change the resolution of their...

I've been three different places and haven't made a decision yet. I really don't notice a difference between a $500 mattress and a $1400 one. I suppose the more expensive ones last longer but I don't know that for sure.

Clearly, you are cursed and must repent for your evil ways.

I do that, exactly. I keep a 15" Thinkpad R52 out by the couch in my living room. It's perfect for light browsing. It has a 1400x1050 screen and is primarily used to VNC/RDP into my other computers. With 2GB RAM and a 100GB 7200rpm drive, it's perfectly respectable, just a little bit heavy.

A laptop fom 2006 would need three things to be made useful: A 7200rpm drive, a new battery and at least 2GB RAM. Depending on the notebook, a knockoff battery could be $30 to $75. Fine. A 500GB SATA drive is probably $60 more. Whatever the biggest 7200rpm IDE drive, it's probably $100. And 2GB...

I'll wish you all a jolly Saturnalia.

Usually if they get that big and you aren't dead they probably aren't going to kill you.

What friends?

Savings as percentage of income, perhaps? Japan would be a rather conspicuous counter-example to that idea; they're a nation of thrifty people and they've been in an economic morass for more than a decade, where our economy is run on the assumption that people who have money will immediately go...

She's in Laramie most of the time. Her tumor was 35lbs. She lost a quarter of her body weight. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that.

Sometimes, laws are wrong.

Some high end Asus boards do carry five year warranties. I can't verify that the Sabertooth is one of them, but other boards at that price point do.

I'm two for four so far. One for maybe 30 Intel drives.

Today I have my necro-thread vindication.

I would like to do that. Especially Washington state, which I understand is beautiful. But by then she'll be back in Wyoming.

It's not familiar to me. The one reason I know as much as I do is that I was looking at the relevant IMDB pages.

Well, I had a 240GB Vertex II. For about four days. Guess I'll be seeing the replacement round about spring. Fuck you OCZ. Fuck you in the neck.

Tron also had a very unique soundtrack. There was one track from a band called Journey, and Journey is heard in the new movie as well, but the rest of the movie was scored by Wendy Carlos, a pioneer and virtuoso on the incredibly obtuse Moog synthesizer.

Well this was welcome news for no particular reason that clearly does not relate to me in any personal way.

Because it came out in 1982 and was a Disney movie. My father took me to see it on opening day. At the time he told me that some day every movie would be like Tron and I didn't understand what he meant. Now we're doing effects on TV budgets that would have been jaw-dropping to see in a movie...

Kind of. You generally don't see desktop systems that support redundant PSUs or ECC RAM or advanced hardware RAID, but all that stuff gets too hot, uses too much power and makes too much noise for my application so these machines are just fancy desktops with nice parts. I did discover that my...

I was hoping to get 8GB DIMMs but they're still $300 apiece.

Exactly. It's not like a normal hard disk is going to be bottlenecked by PCI. I'm actually thinking about the fact that a lot of the servers I have out in the world don't have PCIe slots. I can buy eSATA portable drives but I'm thinking that, going forward, it'll be a lot easier to find a USB3...

I met Ernie Hudson once. In a Denny's, of all places. I saw Tron Legacy in a 3D IMAX showing. Much like the original, it's more an exercise in art direction than a movie, but wow is it neat looking. I hope you've had a good birthday Doug. :)

Last I talked to him he was divorced and he decided to switch to pure lurk mode. I don't know if he still lurks or not. That was a few years ago.

You would need to break out some kind of protocol analyzer. I guess you'd need a relay agent on another client and you'd need to isolate things so they're only talking to each other. In theory the packets on one port should be the same as the packets on the other, right?