Posts by rjeffb

Here's my latest tale of woe. So this time Cablevision said "guess you have a bad cablecard. Bring it to the store and we'll swap it." "Really?" I said, "because last time Cablevision said I had to be home and pay for a visit, and...

Experimenting with Netflix free 30 day trial right now. Horrible stuttery picture largely fixed by uninstalling Windows 7 stock Silverlight and installing latest version (5). Any comments from the gang on Amazon streaming (included...

I have a little TrippLite LS606M that is very compact, not much bigger than a surge protector. I've been happy withit (no buzzing sounds or blinking lights) but in truth I haven;t actually tried it under fire, as it were. A direct...

Nah, go ahead and add the toaster too. :-) (Courtesy of The Onion)

Hi Zoodle, I would not put any card into my machine that calls for a 400W PSU (including the ATI 5XXX and 6XXX lines, fan or no fan) with the OEM 250GB hard drives, especially in the stock RAID0. But if you're running an SSD as...

Well, the DS212j was a cute little unit but not my cup of tea. You have to install an installation program on one of your PCs, which then formats your NAS drive and installs Linux and a proprietary Linux-based supervisory program on that...

The moral of this story is probably familiar to most here but it bears repeating so you remember to try this in case of a similar problem. The details, however, are bizarre to the point of practically supernatural. As some of you may...

Yep...but I have to pay sales tax on it, and coincidentally - or maybe not so coincidentally - Amazon just dropped the price: and it is on order as we speak!

As I previously alluded to, I do indeed have some brandy-new, brandy-name (PNY) XL memory for sale cheap: four 2 GB modules (total 8GB) for $90 shipped. Or if you want me to throw in a brand-new ATI 4550, make it $120 shipped. Why?...

Hi Bob, If I may ask, why the RAID card? Am I incorrect that I see three drives (plus your optical)? In any event, if you're putting 32-bit in you should be fine with the controller, with 64-bit there's a scam going around with...