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One of my fellow TotalFark.com members is currently a contestant on that show. I believe he's lost around 200lbs. since the beginning of the year. Reality shows are pretty much the worst bullshit ever invented but on the other hand, there has been a pretty remarkable difference in that guy's...

Amazon uses whatever carrier is cheapest to get packages where they're going. For me it's mostly UPS or USPS. Fedex is on my shitlist.

Linkage.

Possibly relevant to some peoples' interests. I'll put this link over in Tools as well.

If it's connecting at all, it should connect at the highest speed it is capable of using.

Try Amazon.

Sell them to me so I can fill them up with movies of naked chicks who are making out and, uh, stuff.

That might have been the issue that people were complaining about when I was looking in to buying a bunch of 5400rpm 1.5 or 2TB drives. I have 3x 2TB and 4x 1.5TB Samsung drives sitting around, and 2x Seagate 2TB. I want to do something with them but somehow that collection of drives does not...

Kind of related to SD's "Why did I buy that new router?" story: One of my Thinkpads' wireless NIC is misbehaving. Not only does it drop connection regularly (every two minutes or so is a best-case, followed by 20 seconds for it to re-acquire the signal), but I'm told that when it is active...

The other side to that is that I have customers using LAMP stuff that was set up years ago and I've never touched it since. At this point I'd have to review my notes on how it's set up because I don't even remember. I have customers doing stuff on Windows machines where I have to do SOMETHING...

Honestly, this might be the sort of thing to try Twittering about. I don't think you'll get anywhere with Asus. I can't even get them to issue me RMAs most of the time. But other people might pick up that there's an issue and maybe you might get some attention for that. Presumably you also have...

Plus it's usually printed right on the bottom of the unit!

I have a feeling SuSE is going to get swallowed up.

I don't. Have you ever run into a disc where content is split so you can't tell what's what or what order things go in? If you have a copy of it, look at the file structure on Iron Man 2, for example.

I mostly use ripbot264. But it kind of sucks when titles are split across a bunch of files. So I wind up using Xilsoft's BluRay ripper to preview which titles are which and figure out what order they go in. Xilsoft's ripper almost always picks the wrong audio track to encode so I don't use it...

Does your local paper not have a web site?

The correct answer is to rip everything and forget you ever saw the disc. For old people the correct answer is to stick with DVDs. They can't see or hear the differences in the first place. Now, if only I didn't need three different apps for my .mt2s to .mkv conversion...

I found out my co-workers were advising their students to make sure their new computers had those things. It was another facepalm moment. All they do is suck and break. And not the good, awesome kind of sucking, either.

You're missing torrents. Torrents complete everything but sports and local news. You should have other sources for news and I don't think sports should exist in the first place.

Ebay, sir. Ebay.

They have more functionality on Windows Server.

I really don't use Netflix streaming very often. I remember that Netflix offered me Season 4 episodes while season 4 was still airing, but I could be mistaken. The main use I have for Netflix streaming is watching Documentaries that I don't think are worth putting in my regular queue.

Dynamic disks have been around since Windows 2000. They're a perfectly standard technology in the Windows world.

Hulu has content from all the major broadcast networks and most major movie studios. It has SciFi and Fox and ABC and CBS stuff, and Fox and Universal movies, among others. The problem is that premium content is weirdly inconsistent. So for example, Hulu Plus might have season 2 of Desperate...

Netflix has a streaming only plan. Hulu has free and premium content. Both are priced at $7.99 a month. That's a good start. Torrents are so disgustingly easy to work that some clients allow for scheduled downloads of new TV shows via RSS. If you want to make it safer from a legal standpoint...

Need moar drives. If anybody has a 30, 40, 80GB notebook drive (or bigger, whatever), IDE or SATA, let me know how much you want for it.

Macrium just uses .zip files for everything. It's a file backup, not imaging software.

It's different. I only have TI 2011 on a couple computers. I don't find myself cloning to smaller drives very often, either.

I did a google product search. I wasn't even looking very hard.

It'd be more like $150 after I paid tax on the income. Plus neither of those things runs Android and has all kinds of cool hacker-y things to play with.

I was kind of thinking it might be a decent portable gaming device.

One of my customers is offering me an Evo in exchange for settling a $250 debt. It'd be the tiniest of tablets for me unless I bothered to switch over phone service, but it might be a fun toy. Apparently, he has two because he he lost one and his phone insurance gave him another, then somebody...

I think that over time most of the changes on Newegg have been for the better. I wonder how much of the current scheme is due to the fact that they're about to become a public company.

Xmarks lives. Now free with for-pay options for smartphone-having types.

Possibly not as much as you think. Acronis SBS edition and Backup Exec are both around that price and have the distinct advantage of being much more familiar products. A Google Products search shows TrueImage Server 10 for $450, too.

Shirts, yes. My pants don't wrinkle, though. Which probably means I'm making some kind of faux pas by wearing that kind, but I'm dressed significantly better than every other male adult I see on a daily basis, so I don't really care.

Newegg has gotten worse. Amazon + Prime for shipping takes are of an awful lot of what I need, but Amazon's selection sometimes leaves something to be desired. Amazon doesn't offer many good chassis, for example, and it's much easier to see specs and do comparisons on Newegg. I wind up shopping...

There is security there. It looks like you have to provide a password. But it's still pretty trivial since we all know the defaults.

SD, there was a big jump in functionality between TrueImage 11 and the 2010 version. I know 2010 supports more RAID stuff. I don't know if it would help in your situation but I did want to mention the fact that the program has changed a bit since then.

Re: OpenFiler - My requirements are for one server. Space is a factor, because these offices weren't laid out to support any sort of data closet or area for any network infrastructure more serious than a cable modem and AP screwed to a wall. Because I need .ASP and Sharepoint, I'm forced to do...

Well now I know exactly how I'm going to DDOS residential IPs from now on...

I think it's more that they didn't take the time to update the interface on the rescue side. There's no technical reason why one version can't look like the other.

I've had the same black tie tied for 10 or 12 years. I keep it in my car. I've needed to wear it maybe twice since the year 2000.

The market for what, exactly? They have Windows Storage Server for appliances. I've tried and tried to get home and small business users interested in WHS. It's a total non-starter.

For the most part, if you're needing to use the delicate setting on a washing machine, you're probably way better off hand washing it with Woolite or letting a dry cleaner do it. For me, everything goes in the machine on the warm water setting. I pay $1 to have my button down shirts dry cleaned...

Apparently WHS is losing its only interesting feature for the next release. I was toying with the idea of setting up a WHS machine to deal with the mismatched collection of large drives I have sitting around and to provide some relief for my overburdened file servers, but now that looks like a...

Have you tried lspfix? At that point I'd probably just do a repair install or good old fashioned wipe and reload.

Coug is in Quebec. Whether or not that's actually Canada depends on who you're asking. You should know that, LM.

Congratulations on your birthday, jtr.