Four links to Chicago Boyz in one day; such is the life of a shill. Carl has a great post up on, as he calls it, “the age of unreliability“. One link he missed, I think, is how much infrastructure could have been built up in the last seventy years if socialism wasn’t fucking our economy over.
2003 SP1 and 2008 have a new policy in place which prevents you from reaching some servers via UNC paths when you can otherwise ping them. To disable this policy, from a cmd window running as administrator, type:
REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa /V DisableLoopbackCheck /T REG_DWORD /F /D 1
My EEE PC died three weeks ago. I finally got around to calling ASUS and getting an RMA. Total time from Ry to ASUS to Ry was about a week; turns out, instead of repairing my laptop, they just sent me a new one. I’m happy; an extra battery and charger is nice. I’d like to know what killed the SSD, though; the lady on the phone seemed to think it was the fan dying and the SSD getting baked.
Hopefully ASUS #2 doesn’t have the same fate in store.
Q: Tell me about ringtones. How do those royalty checks look?
Rida: Oh man, oh man. It’s a blessing. … I got two MacPros.
Q: What kind of technology do you see a need for? What does someone need to come up with to make your life easier?
Rida: I remember one time, I accidentally dropped my first iPod into the toilet. If they can make them waterproof, that’d be great.
Aluminum Foam
Materials science is amazing stuff.
If you own a Zune (or an Xbox 360), a gentleman has released a tool called Encode360. It does all of the stuff you would expect a modern encoding tool to do, including watching a directory for files for transcoding.
In a subject near and dear to my heart, Drobo has released a $700 home storage robot. Kickass. As soon as these are shipping, I’ll buy a couple, stuff them with drives, and party on.
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