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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.

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?

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...

Hardware RAID usually abstracts the array(s) as a single volume presented to the OS so... no.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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?.

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...

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...

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.

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.

I still want to know if the problem is particular to Microsoft mice.

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.

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

It's difficult to understand and it probably doesn't help that I'm four feet from an industrial drum fan.

To be honest, it never occurred to me to look before.

I wasn't even sure at first that the performer was even speaking English.

Netflix finally put an official movie-streaming app in the Android Market today. So that's cool.

Dammit Lunar! You need to shut your whore mouth so as not to further antagonize that fine specimen of Strong Canadian Womanhood. Also, it might not be a good idea to stand between her and Tim Horton's. But that's just common sense.

I believe Lunar is taking issue with the size of the rack on that fine Canuckistanian lass.

Dammit! Now what the hell am I going to live for?

Are you impugning the ladies of the True North brave and free?!?

My goal now is to get an entry on Acronymfinder.

I'm still thinking MRAOPCR from now on.

The only thing in all of Windows 7 that makes me say something nice about Vista is the fact that I have to do a bunch of extra navigation to see Folder and Printer sharing options. Vista had them all on the main Network and Sharing center screen and 7 makes me click through two more windows of...

If this friendly lady walks up to you, just remember that as a Canadian, she just wants one of them there Molsons and for you to put on Hockey Night.

Not drinking in the first place has served me well over the years. One of the important things about losing weight has just been telling myself that sugary stuff, sweet stuff and the usual carb suspects are poison. I still eat bread and rice and the occasional tortilla in reasonable quantities...

It's easier with the mouse. You can use the stuff in the background to better eyeball your angle on a higher-resolution screen. There's definitely more chance involved with the mobile game than the browser version.

Never mind. I'm thinking of dynamic partition resize, the situation where all the volume's space is filled up, not simple expanding into empty space.

You probably need Flash and/or up to date support for HTML5. I'm not sure which. The birds are angry because pigs stole their eggs.

My mail spool is probably pretty close to 20GB. I leave everything in my inbox. The mail clients I choose to use don't have a problem with that. Thunderbird is not perfect. Every so often it will re-set my read mail count and I'll get weird duplicate messages in my inbox, but there's an addon I...

You can only expand volumes on Dynamic Disks. That option isn't available standard partitions on Basic disks. The Windows installer creates the C: drive as a basic disk with the C: drive and System partition as standard partitions. New random thing: I got a graduation announcement for my...

It certainly doesn't hurt. It's more like 210 now though.

Yup!

Speaking of Ebay, my bedroom set of Kef Q-series probably only cost me $600 to put together. I had to spend $100 to replace a driver on one of them but if I had paid retail or "hi-fi store used" that probably would have been $3000 worth of speakers.

Another Integra? No probably not. I'll probably look at Denon, Onkyo, Pioneer Elite and some other things are in the low-ish four figure range though. That might include an Integra, but I doubt it. I'm not terribly worried about getting a gazillion watts per channel since I don't typically...

Someone didn't know how to work disk imaging software?

I'm fairly convinced at this point that pirates always have the moral high ground in this debate. Game companies other than maybe Stardock tend to be pretty goddamned evil.

I built a dozen or so mITX boxes that actually do use a standard ATX power supply. I have no ideal who made them; I bought them from my local distributor the receipt just says "Generic." They're effectively the same size as a Shuttle SFF shoebox.

I think I just might update the receiver in my living room. I bet having HDMI is nice.

Google, in a general display of awesome, has implemented browser-based Angry Birds for people who really want to waste their time and have their computer make lots of oink-oink noises. It loads in Firefox and Chrome. I did not check suckier browsers. It seems a lot easier when I'm not using my...

As I recall you used to swear by Harmon Kardon, but that was apparently back when you cared about music. When I'm home there's always music on, to the point where I would rather sit in a 95 F apartment with no fans on than try to listen to my music with fans and AC. Which is pretty much May...

As I recall it's most useful if you use it on new installs. I'm not actually sure how helpful moving My Documents and My Images are since I hardly ever write data there to begin with, but I know a bunch of crap gets written to a user's temp folders on an ongoing basis no matter what. There are...

Well I would kind of like to know stuff about it since I could still send the Asus board back.

My brother is an insane audiophile and has been since he was in college. He gave me some pointers based on his experiences and then I disregarded half of it because I know he's an idiot, but since music is very important to me and I thought it very likely that I wouldn't be able to be...

One of the great frustrations I have is that everything in the world of Exchange costs a ton of money, especially antispam solutions. It was easier and more efficient for me to get a cheap computer with Linux and Spamassassin and route mail through that than to get a worthwhile mail filter for...

Things that are not Outlook most often store E-mail as plain text. Plain text that is easy to re-format if need be, which can be directly imported into other non-retarded clients and which can be recovered quite easily if some portion of the file gets munched for some reason. What good does...