BTW - I own two webcams now. Neither work under Windows since I lost the driver disk (and those drivers were useless under XP64/Vista anyway), but they both work just fine under Linux.
Seems like you're too lazy to go to the manufacturer's website to check for drivers, but even beyond that it is possible to get those cameras to work in Windows. I had the same issue with a Creative cam, and let me tell you Creative SUCKS when it comes to drivers. So of course there were absolutely no drivers on creative's website for this 4-year-old cam on Vista x64.
So I go to searching google and I find people on linux-related forums who have determined the make and model of the chipset for the camera (presumably by opening up the camera and examining the chips) in order to find working Linux drivers or to request that someone write them. So I then check the chipset company's website (Vimicro.com) for drivers and BAM, there are the modern 64-bit drivers for windows. Sweet. This method also worked with an old Airlink PCI wifi card (ralink chipset).
I know a lot of you will say "Why not just try it in Linux" but I was pretty determined, and apparently support was lacking there as well.. I also like throwing the example out there because apparently manufacturers are LAZY and sometimes will even refuse to provide new drivers to their customers if they ALREADY EXIST. Sells more new cameras, I suppose. The point is, you shouldn't abandon all hope for support for your hardware just because the company whose name is on the box doesn't provide it, let alone because you lost the friggin driver disc. For someone who promotes Linux use, that goes against the entire spirit of Linux and open source. Sometimes it takes a little effort. What if your Linux distro didn't have the driver? You might have to (*gasp*) download the driver from a website and compile it yourself!
So if people who make $75k per year have to live in an apartment, where do the people who make less than $20k per year (low wage workers) live? In a cardboard box?
Exactly what I was thinking (I've never been there). Where do all the wage slaves live in an area like that? Like the ones who make your lattés every morning, for example. I don't really see them driving very far to work with gas prices as they are. Are they all rich high school kids who don't really have to work? That might explain it..
"There are places"!!! LOL! You must not get out much. Ever heard of Houston, TX? Fourth largest city in the USA? You can live like a king on $50-75k. I have a friend who recently got a job as a web dev for a company in Houston, with no college education I might add, and he makes about that much. Bought a 2000+ sq. ft. suburban home in a nice, older neighborhood for around 150k. Could have had an even bigger BRAND NEW home in a new neighborhood, if he wanted. I guess he wanted to live around older folks.
I can't hardly comprehend someone thinking 75k is a "low" salary where you could only live in an apartment and not have extra spending money. And 75k is the starting salary there just like it is here? That would suck. I sure wouldn't want to live in a place like that... I guess it's just me, though.. I grew up here, where the real estate is cheap and plentiful.
The US has tried de-legalizing alcohol. If you don't know or remember how well that turned out, go find out. Consider the results of Prohibition before you suggest doing it again. I would lay 5:1 odds that any complete ban of tobacco products would have an identical result.
Here's a hint: It went very poorly for everybody involved, except the people selling alcohol. They got rich.
which is exactly what's happening with drug prohibition. why haven't we done anything to fix that mess, yet?
the lack of decent bluetooth mice is frustrating, to say the least... Razer makes a REALLY shitty one with lots of lag and stuttering. Logitech makes the v470, which works flawlessly but is really basic (2button+scroll only). Apparently Logitech used to make a bluetooth mouse resembling the mx518 but it was discontinued. I'd still like to pick one up on ebay though, it was the mx900.
I hate the idea of proprietary RF devices and most of them really suck past 6ft away, anyway.. and when you lose that dongle, you are screwed.. Bluetooth is much better but only Logitech seems to get it right, and their options are extremely limited. if theres another company out there that makes quality bluetooth input devices that have good range, i'd love to hear about it.
I recently had something like this happen to me, except quite a bit worse.. While I was at work in the mid-afternoon, someone pryed open the door to my apartment, breaking out the doorframe out around the deadbolt. They grabbed my laptop bag with lots of goodies inside, and another bag containing a Wii, PSP, Nintendo DS, etc. Police came but did not dust for fingerprints or anything. An investigator was assigned to my case but he said he had 70 other cases to investigate. Three days later, the entire town I live in was flooded with several feet of water from hurricane Ike. My second-flood apartment survived (luckily), but unfortunately the police station did not. My stuff's either flooded or long gone, and no one is going to find it. Basically, I am screwed.
I really wish I had the foresight to install this kind of software on my laptop. Might have helped...
but nothing free and easy to do something as simple, as, for example, print to PDF
I'm not sure what you are getting at, there.. PDFCREATOR is excellent and open-source. Someone at work showed me this app and I haven't used anything else since then.
I've got Time Warner (Road Runner) and I'm laughing at my Comcast using friends because of it. While Comcast is cutting people off for using too much, Road Runner is boosting download speeds for big downloads.
You must be ignorant of what's going on, then. Your bandwidth caps are coming, and they will be much worse than the 250GB you would get on Comcast. I live in Beaumont, TX, and the most they are willing to sell is 40GB per month, with overage charges for anything more than 40. I used to be like you, thinking Roadrunner was one of the best residential ISPs, but in one fell swoop they have flip-flopped and are now THE WORST ISP in the USA that I am aware of. I'd LOVE to have Comcast now, but it's either AT&T DSL, RR, Satellite, or dial-up in my area. You can hope that Time Warner wouldn't really do this to everyone, but you never really know. Start shopping early, find out what your other options are and be prepared.
I run my 4850 at 1920x1080 and I am amazed at its performance. Haven't tried Crysis yet, but CoD4 and every other game I have tried runs at minimum 60fps with graphics turned all the way up. The 4850 is a hot card but only because they throttle the fan down by default. I think it was a really dumb thing to do. There's an easy fix but you have to edit an XML file (which I have no problem doing, but most people would). I cranked the fan up to 100% from the default of 7% and saw the temperature drop from 75C to 45C in a matter of minutes. I heard it kick in but I can still barely hear it over my PSU and CPU fans. Hopefully ATI will wise up and make their future cards run at sane temperatures BY DEFAULT.
Well, really I want FIOS, but that'll never happen here.
Don't get me wrong, I hate caps as much as everyone here. But compared to Time Warner in Beaumont, TX, this is freaking great! You don't realize how much it would SUCK to live here and have to deal with their higher prices, 40GB caps, and overage fees per GB downloaded. I'm currently skirting my way around it with a grandfathered account, but I'm afraid if I ever make a change to my account then the hammer will come down on me and things will change bigtime. Until they implement it for real, and then everyone is fubar.
If Comcast is honest about things and truly follows the spirit of the FCC order, then they will stop screwing with P2P. They will do that or face even more serious consequences. I read the FCC ruling, they mean business. Besides, the way I see it, this is just Comcast's way of "coming clean". We all know that this 250GB cap was ALREADY in place and they were ALREADY harassing users for going over this invisible limit. Now, the limit is plainly stated. At this point, knowing my traffic would not be interfered with, I could live with a 250GB cap. 40GB, I cannot live with. That's like having a cell phone with only 100 anytime minutes. I'd hit the limit every single month even if it didn't "feel" like I was using it a lot. And overage fees for internet usage are unheard of (at least in north america). We can't let this become just like the damn cell phone industry - we need to fight back in any way we can!
Oh, and as far as servers go, most home ISPs have a "no servers clause" but it is not really enforced. I think this is just meant to keep people from running a business. My little SSH/SFTP/Media streaming servers for personal use should be OK. I've never had any problems on other ISPs. If Comcast told me to shut those down, I'd have a big problem with that.
Maybe it didn't like the fact that Linux was installed on Disk 0 and I was trying to install Vista on Disk 1. Even after wiping Disk 1 and formatting it NTFS, the installer absolutely refused to proceed. It gave an exceptionally vague error message: "There are no partitions that meet the installation criteria". Perhaps if I had formatted Disk 0 (and wiped out Linux) to install Vista there, it would have gone ahead. I'm not that stupid, though. I simply unplugged the entire Linux HDD and my partition met all of the criteria. I guess the criteria is that you aren't allowed to use Linux!
Refuses to boot? Vista even refuses to INSTALL on a hdd that it doesn't believe is the "first" drive. It won't tell you why, either. It just says the partition doesn't meet its "criteria". Unplug the other hard drive and try again, and all of a sudden it works. Ignorance of surroundings is REQUIRED for a Vista installation. Use the BIOS boot selector (instead of messing with GRUB) after each individual OS is installed.
With NTFS junction, if you need 18gb on your OS partition, well you're doing it wrong.
If you really managed to do that with Vista, I'd like to know how you did it. How many junctions did you create? Did you have to start junctioning out stuff from C:\WINDOWS? Does Windows Update even function correctly, or do you hack the update manifest each time to force it to work?
6GB, are you kidding?! I consider 18GB the bare minimum for JUST THE VISTA OS PARTITION. That's with my Program Files, Users, and ProgramData directories moved to a separate partition and linked into the C drive using NTFS junctions. I learned this the hard way when I decided I wanted separation of Applications from OS data. Basically, the Windows directory itself (particularly WinSXS) starts to build up DLLs and other cruft faster than you can imagine and expands to many gigabytes. Not to mention the applications that just INSIST on filling up your C drive with their crap hidden in various places you wouldn't expect. Oh yeah, and every single freaking windows update is stored in WinSXS and CAN NEVER BE DELETED. WinSXS and every program and system file that the updates act upon MUST be located on the same physical volume or Windows Update will error out. In the end, I decided it's a huge pain in the ass to attempt to organize Windows and it is not really worth it if you have a big enough hard drive to just make a huge (100GB+) C partition. I really can't understand how someone could possibly succeed at running Vista on 4GB, or why they would even think that's a good idea.
Opera 9.5 beta is definately worth a look, they finally introduced the zooming functionality (similar to Opera Mini and Safari on the iPhone) into Opera Mobile, flash doesnt work in this beta but its supposed to for the final.
OpMo 9.5 beta is really nice and they made a lot of improvements over OpMo 8. I think it has a ton of potential. It's not exactly "fast" like they say it is, though. I often turn off my 3G connection to conserve battery with EDGE-only browsing, and Opera Mobile is kinda painful to use without 3G. It's also kinda buggy at this beta stage. Opera Mini is more than usable on the slower connection, so it's still my bread and butter. However, just being ABLE to view advanced sites (like Google Reader) on my phone when I want to is frickin sweet.
What kind of files will you be putting on it? If video, choose XFS, and attach you system to a good UPS.
It's a mixture of everything, really. All of my data, which includes videos, music, documents, games, the whole nine yards. This machine also serves as a workstation, with lots of RAM, fast CPU, and nice graphics cards. I plan to game on it as well, so I decided to run Win2k8 Server. The first 300GB of my 6-disk RAID Set are running RAID-0 NTFS for the OS and installed games/applications, and the remaining 3.8TB are used for data storage running RAID-6 NTFS (with GUID partition table to allow >2TB volume).
I tried to conceive of a way to use a different filesystem (such as XFS or ZFS) for the file storage, but that would require a dual-boot or virtual machine setup. For either of those filesystems, the compatibility with any Windows OS is nonexistent and a virtual machine shared network drive would be too big of a performance hit. Also I'm not nearly as familiar with either one of those, and therefore don't trust them as much as NTFS. I've had a pretty good track record of not losing data in my years of using NTFS (except when writing to it with NTFS-3G). I've never had a problem running without a UPS, although with an array this big I may get one. I've been in data-recovery situations with NTFS (only after doing some really stupid stuff), and I got most everything back. The tools are readily available.
It was a trade-off, and I picked what was easiest for me and most likely to fit my needs. If I get a hankerin' for some native linux, I'll just have to dual-boot and mount my array as read-only.
There are still numerous problems with NTFS-3G. In my case, I had an NTFS external USB drive, and I plugged it into a linux box at someone else's house. It told me I can't mount read-write because the drive was uncleanly dismounted. Hmm.... That's pretty common on Windows... Sometimes you click "safely remove" and it just won't let you safely dismount, even if there aren't any files open. In those cases if you are persistent you pretty much have to use Sysinternals Process Explorer to Find the open handle and kill it, but nobody's really going to do that every time they want to unplug their usb drive....
So anyway, Linux tells me I can either plug my drive into a Windows box (which isn't at my friend's house) or I can try this ntfs-chk command (or something similar, I don't remember) and then mount with the -o force option. So I do that, and find that my NTFS partition contains nothing but garbage files. Total corruption.
Needless to say, I no longer trust NTFS-3G write even under the best of circumstances. Read-only is the only truly safe way to go. Choosing the filesystem on my 4TB RAID-6 array is gonna be a huge dilemma but I'll have to make a decision in the next couple of days when my drives come in....
So, the implication is... nobody should watch advertising.
No, the implication is that no one should PAY to watch advertising. Simple concept, isn't it? Pay good money --> no advertising. But that's not how it works with most Cable TV ("premium" channels excluded).
I think the biggest mistake Microsoft made with Office 2007 is that they actually REMOVED the toolbar. In their other apps like IE7 and WMP10, they just hid the toolbar and gave you an option to re-enable it. Of course, that's the first thing I do on IE7 and WMP10 cause their UIs both suck. With Office, the UI is radically different (better, IMO) but they do not give you any transition period. There is no option to enable the toolbar and do things the old way without a third party plugin. That's a serious mistake and it's the reason why everyone and their mother bitches and moans about Office 2007. The UI is improved but it takes time to learn it, and most people just HATE that idea.
I can't believe no one else is mentioning this keyboard. If you want to use it in your living room, and you need extra-long range, just plunk down the $200 and get a freakin' Logitech DiNovo Edge. If you're cheap and patient, just wait for it to appear on SlickDeals for anywhere between $40 and $110. It is WELL worth the investment.
I second this. Two words for you: DINOVO EDGE! This keyboard has a trackpad built-in and it uses Bluetooth. Flawless at any distance in my experience, and it looks really slick in your living room. It's quite expensive (~$180). I got mine on sale at Best Buy for $40:-) but I would easily pay full price for a new one if mine ever broke.
there will soon be a good enough version of Weave I really like the idea of Weave and I *want* it to be good enough to actually use, especially since Google's offering has disappeared. However, I think it may be a long time before Weave is "good enough". I have been using Weave since last year when Firefox 3.0b2 came out, and it has always been really, really screwy. I have kept it updated, but I have seen practically no improvement in little things like *actually keeping the bookmarks synchronized*. I think it has a lot to do with their server backend. I often get "server lock errors" and other nastiness that you can look at in the nice verbose log they provide. Clearing the server data and re-uploading sometimes works, but that doesn't help to explain why the server was borked in the first place.
I can't wait for them to bring us the feature that lets you store the information on your own server and point the extension at it (if the above commenter was correct about that). When they do that, and also Weave sync bookmarks while the browser is running instead of waiting for it to close (and not syncing at all because I had to force-quit Firefox), then Weave will become a very nice extension. Who knows, maybe all this will be in the new version that comes out on Tuesday, along with the much-needed extension sync. How awesome would that be?
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BTW - I own two webcams now. Neither work under Windows since I lost the driver disk (and those drivers were useless under XP64/Vista anyway), but they both work just fine under Linux.
Seems like you're too lazy to go to the manufacturer's website to check for drivers, but even beyond that it is possible to get those cameras to work in Windows. I had the same issue with a Creative cam, and let me tell you Creative SUCKS when it comes to drivers. So of course there were absolutely no drivers on creative's website for this 4-year-old cam on Vista x64.
So I go to searching google and I find people on linux-related forums who have determined the make and model of the chipset for the camera (presumably by opening up the camera and examining the chips) in order to find working Linux drivers or to request that someone write them. So I then check the chipset company's website (Vimicro.com) for drivers and BAM, there are the modern 64-bit drivers for windows. Sweet. This method also worked with an old Airlink PCI wifi card (ralink chipset).
I know a lot of you will say "Why not just try it in Linux" but I was pretty determined, and apparently support was lacking there as well.. I also like throwing the example out there because apparently manufacturers are LAZY and sometimes will even refuse to provide new drivers to their customers if they ALREADY EXIST. Sells more new cameras, I suppose. The point is, you shouldn't abandon all hope for support for your hardware just because the company whose name is on the box doesn't provide it, let alone because you lost the friggin driver disc. For someone who promotes Linux use, that goes against the entire spirit of Linux and open source. Sometimes it takes a little effort. What if your Linux distro didn't have the driver? You might have to (*gasp*) download the driver from a website and compile it yourself!
So if people who make $75k per year have to live in an apartment, where do the people who make less than $20k per year (low wage workers) live? In a cardboard box?
Exactly what I was thinking (I've never been there). Where do all the wage slaves live in an area like that? Like the ones who make your lattés every morning, for example. I don't really see them driving very far to work with gas prices as they are. Are they all rich high school kids who don't really have to work? That might explain it..
"There are places"!!! LOL! You must not get out much. Ever heard of Houston, TX? Fourth largest city in the USA? You can live like a king on $50-75k. I have a friend who recently got a job as a web dev for a company in Houston, with no college education I might add, and he makes about that much. Bought a 2000+ sq. ft. suburban home in a nice, older neighborhood for around 150k. Could have had an even bigger BRAND NEW home in a new neighborhood, if he wanted. I guess he wanted to live around older folks.
I can't hardly comprehend someone thinking 75k is a "low" salary where you could only live in an apartment and not have extra spending money. And 75k is the starting salary there just like it is here? That would suck. I sure wouldn't want to live in a place like that... I guess it's just me, though.. I grew up here, where the real estate is cheap and plentiful.
They don't even have streetview of their own building!
No, but Microsoft does. More recent photo, too. Looks unfinished in the Gmaps photo..
The US has tried de-legalizing alcohol. If you don't know or remember how well that turned out, go find out. Consider the results of Prohibition before you suggest doing it again. I would lay 5:1 odds that any complete ban of tobacco products would have an identical result. Here's a hint: It went very poorly for everybody involved, except the people selling alcohol. They got rich.
which is exactly what's happening with drug prohibition. why haven't we done anything to fix that mess, yet?
I hate the idea of proprietary RF devices and most of them really suck past 6ft away, anyway.. and when you lose that dongle, you are screwed.. Bluetooth is much better but only Logitech seems to get it right, and their options are extremely limited. if theres another company out there that makes quality bluetooth input devices that have good range, i'd love to hear about it.
I recently had something like this happen to me, except quite a bit worse.. While I was at work in the mid-afternoon, someone pryed open the door to my apartment, breaking out the doorframe out around the deadbolt. They grabbed my laptop bag with lots of goodies inside, and another bag containing a Wii, PSP, Nintendo DS, etc. Police came but did not dust for fingerprints or anything. An investigator was assigned to my case but he said he had 70 other cases to investigate. Three days later, the entire town I live in was flooded with several feet of water from hurricane Ike. My second-flood apartment survived (luckily), but unfortunately the police station did not. My stuff's either flooded or long gone, and no one is going to find it. Basically, I am screwed.
I really wish I had the foresight to install this kind of software on my laptop. Might have helped...
but nothing free and easy to do something as simple, as, for example, print to PDF
I'm not sure what you are getting at, there.. PDFCREATOR is excellent and open-source. Someone at work showed me this app and I haven't used anything else since then.
I've got Time Warner (Road Runner) and I'm laughing at my Comcast using friends because of it. While Comcast is cutting people off for using too much, Road Runner is boosting download speeds for big downloads.
You must be ignorant of what's going on, then. Your bandwidth caps are coming, and they will be much worse than the 250GB you would get on Comcast. I live in Beaumont, TX, and the most they are willing to sell is 40GB per month, with overage charges for anything more than 40. I used to be like you, thinking Roadrunner was one of the best residential ISPs, but in one fell swoop they have flip-flopped and are now THE WORST ISP in the USA that I am aware of. I'd LOVE to have Comcast now, but it's either AT&T DSL, RR, Satellite, or dial-up in my area. You can hope that Time Warner wouldn't really do this to everyone, but you never really know. Start shopping early, find out what your other options are and be prepared.
Linksys WRT54GL , Tomato Firmware
Install Tomato via the Linksys web interface. Couldn't be easier.
I run my 4850 at 1920x1080 and I am amazed at its performance. Haven't tried Crysis yet, but CoD4 and every other game I have tried runs at minimum 60fps with graphics turned all the way up. The 4850 is a hot card but only because they throttle the fan down by default. I think it was a really dumb thing to do. There's an easy fix but you have to edit an XML file (which I have no problem doing, but most people would). I cranked the fan up to 100% from the default of 7% and saw the temperature drop from 75C to 45C in a matter of minutes. I heard it kick in but I can still barely hear it over my PSU and CPU fans. Hopefully ATI will wise up and make their future cards run at sane temperatures BY DEFAULT.
Well, really I want FIOS, but that'll never happen here.
Don't get me wrong, I hate caps as much as everyone here. But compared to Time Warner in Beaumont, TX, this is freaking great! You don't realize how much it would SUCK to live here and have to deal with their higher prices, 40GB caps, and overage fees per GB downloaded. I'm currently skirting my way around it with a grandfathered account, but I'm afraid if I ever make a change to my account then the hammer will come down on me and things will change bigtime. Until they implement it for real, and then everyone is fubar.
If Comcast is honest about things and truly follows the spirit of the FCC order, then they will stop screwing with P2P. They will do that or face even more serious consequences. I read the FCC ruling, they mean business. Besides, the way I see it, this is just Comcast's way of "coming clean". We all know that this 250GB cap was ALREADY in place and they were ALREADY harassing users for going over this invisible limit. Now, the limit is plainly stated. At this point, knowing my traffic would not be interfered with, I could live with a 250GB cap. 40GB, I cannot live with. That's like having a cell phone with only 100 anytime minutes. I'd hit the limit every single month even if it didn't "feel" like I was using it a lot. And overage fees for internet usage are unheard of (at least in north america). We can't let this become just like the damn cell phone industry - we need to fight back in any way we can!
Oh, and as far as servers go, most home ISPs have a "no servers clause" but it is not really enforced. I think this is just meant to keep people from running a business. My little SSH/SFTP/Media streaming servers for personal use should be OK. I've never had any problems on other ISPs. If Comcast told me to shut those down, I'd have a big problem with that.
Maybe it didn't like the fact that Linux was installed on Disk 0 and I was trying to install Vista on Disk 1. Even after wiping Disk 1 and formatting it NTFS, the installer absolutely refused to proceed. It gave an exceptionally vague error message: "There are no partitions that meet the installation criteria". Perhaps if I had formatted Disk 0 (and wiped out Linux) to install Vista there, it would have gone ahead. I'm not that stupid, though. I simply unplugged the entire Linux HDD and my partition met all of the criteria. I guess the criteria is that you aren't allowed to use Linux!
Refuses to boot? Vista even refuses to INSTALL on a hdd that it doesn't believe is the "first" drive. It won't tell you why, either. It just says the partition doesn't meet its "criteria". Unplug the other hard drive and try again, and all of a sudden it works. Ignorance of surroundings is REQUIRED for a Vista installation. Use the BIOS boot selector (instead of messing with GRUB) after each individual OS is installed.
With NTFS junction, if you need 18gb on your OS partition, well you're doing it wrong.
If you really managed to do that with Vista, I'd like to know how you did it. How many junctions did you create? Did you have to start junctioning out stuff from C:\WINDOWS? Does Windows Update even function correctly, or do you hack the update manifest each time to force it to work?
6GB, are you kidding?! I consider 18GB the bare minimum for JUST THE VISTA OS PARTITION. That's with my Program Files, Users, and ProgramData directories moved to a separate partition and linked into the C drive using NTFS junctions. I learned this the hard way when I decided I wanted separation of Applications from OS data. Basically, the Windows directory itself (particularly WinSXS) starts to build up DLLs and other cruft faster than you can imagine and expands to many gigabytes. Not to mention the applications that just INSIST on filling up your C drive with their crap hidden in various places you wouldn't expect. Oh yeah, and every single freaking windows update is stored in WinSXS and CAN NEVER BE DELETED. WinSXS and every program and system file that the updates act upon MUST be located on the same physical volume or Windows Update will error out. In the end, I decided it's a huge pain in the ass to attempt to organize Windows and it is not really worth it if you have a big enough hard drive to just make a huge (100GB+) C partition. I really can't understand how someone could possibly succeed at running Vista on 4GB, or why they would even think that's a good idea.
Opera 9.5 beta is definately worth a look, they finally introduced the zooming functionality (similar to Opera Mini and Safari on the iPhone) into Opera Mobile, flash doesnt work in this beta but its supposed to for the final.
OpMo 9.5 beta is really nice and they made a lot of improvements over OpMo 8. I think it has a ton of potential. It's not exactly "fast" like they say it is, though. I often turn off my 3G connection to conserve battery with EDGE-only browsing, and Opera Mobile is kinda painful to use without 3G. It's also kinda buggy at this beta stage. Opera Mini is more than usable on the slower connection, so it's still my bread and butter. However, just being ABLE to view advanced sites (like Google Reader) on my phone when I want to is frickin sweet.
What kind of files will you be putting on it? If video, choose XFS, and attach you system to a good UPS.
It's a mixture of everything, really. All of my data, which includes videos, music, documents, games, the whole nine yards. This machine also serves as a workstation, with lots of RAM, fast CPU, and nice graphics cards. I plan to game on it as well, so I decided to run Win2k8 Server. The first 300GB of my 6-disk RAID Set are running RAID-0 NTFS for the OS and installed games/applications, and the remaining 3.8TB are used for data storage running RAID-6 NTFS (with GUID partition table to allow >2TB volume).
I tried to conceive of a way to use a different filesystem (such as XFS or ZFS) for the file storage, but that would require a dual-boot or virtual machine setup. For either of those filesystems, the compatibility with any Windows OS is nonexistent and a virtual machine shared network drive would be too big of a performance hit. Also I'm not nearly as familiar with either one of those, and therefore don't trust them as much as NTFS. I've had a pretty good track record of not losing data in my years of using NTFS (except when writing to it with NTFS-3G). I've never had a problem running without a UPS, although with an array this big I may get one. I've been in data-recovery situations with NTFS (only after doing some really stupid stuff), and I got most everything back. The tools are readily available.
It was a trade-off, and I picked what was easiest for me and most likely to fit my needs. If I get a hankerin' for some native linux, I'll just have to dual-boot and mount my array as read-only.
So anyway, Linux tells me I can either plug my drive into a Windows box (which isn't at my friend's house) or I can try this ntfs-chk command (or something similar, I don't remember) and then mount with the -o force option. So I do that, and find that my NTFS partition contains nothing but garbage files. Total corruption.
Needless to say, I no longer trust NTFS-3G write even under the best of circumstances. Read-only is the only truly safe way to go. Choosing the filesystem on my 4TB RAID-6 array is gonna be a huge dilemma but I'll have to make a decision in the next couple of days when my drives come in....
So, the implication is... nobody should watch advertising.
No, the implication is that no one should PAY to watch advertising. Simple concept, isn't it? Pay good money --> no advertising. But that's not how it works with most Cable TV ("premium" channels excluded).
7 digits starting with 165. i log in to keep the account active but i haven't actually used ICQ in about ten years :)
I think the biggest mistake Microsoft made with Office 2007 is that they actually REMOVED the toolbar. In their other apps like IE7 and WMP10, they just hid the toolbar and gave you an option to re-enable it. Of course, that's the first thing I do on IE7 and WMP10 cause their UIs both suck. With Office, the UI is radically different (better, IMO) but they do not give you any transition period. There is no option to enable the toolbar and do things the old way without a third party plugin. That's a serious mistake and it's the reason why everyone and their mother bitches and moans about Office 2007. The UI is improved but it takes time to learn it, and most people just HATE that idea.
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I second this. Two words for you: DINOVO EDGE! This keyboard has a trackpad built-in and it uses Bluetooth. Flawless at any distance in my experience, and it looks really slick in your living room. It's quite expensive (~$180). I got mine on sale at Best Buy for $40 :-) but I would easily pay full price for a new one if mine ever broke.
I can't wait for them to bring us the feature that lets you store the information on your own server and point the extension at it (if the above commenter was correct about that). When they do that, and also Weave sync bookmarks while the browser is running instead of waiting for it to close (and not syncing at all because I had to force-quit Firefox), then Weave will become a very nice extension. Who knows, maybe all this will be in the new version that comes out on Tuesday, along with the much-needed extension sync. How awesome would that be?