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hmm, I think getting a new, larger drive for the xbox is more important than movies. - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 12:03 7
- what do you need a larger drive for? what are you storing on it? -- nm - Remlik Jan 7, 12:06 5
  - Games for faster loading time. -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 12:13
  - All the videos of where he is killing you - eag Jan 7, 12:09
  - Yeah. What Remilk said. I've never had to worry about space on my Xbox. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 12:07 2
    - I still have plenty of space on my 20. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 12:08 1
      - I have just under 12GB left. Tonnes of space. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 12:08
- Yep im getting one as soon as I can afford it -- nm - eag Jan 7, 12:04
From backboards: my favorite new video game is New Super Mario Bros. -- nm - TFox Jan 7, 12:00 21
- I'd have to go with either Guitar Hero World Tour or No More Heroes. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 7, 12:09
- does bejeweled count? i'm, what, 7 years behind everyone else. but it's on the iPhone. it rocks. - kare Jan 7, 12:09 1
  - I love Fieldrunners and Motion-X Poker Quest for the iphone. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 12:11
- was Assassin's Creed '08 or '07 - zork Jan 7, 12:09
- I love it. When you turn into Super-Super Mario and start smashing through the level, it's awesome. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 12:06 1
  - I think I'm 2 levels from beating it, and then I need to go back and find coins and open the rest of the stuff. -- nm - TFox Jan 7, 12:09
- That's several years old, fwiw. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 12:04 6
  - Frig. New to me. OK, then... Force Unleashed. - TFox Jan 7, 12:05 5
    - Is that the Star Wars one? I want that. -- nm - kelly Jan 7, 12:10
    - I wait till they are in the bargin bin at walmart or I buy it used. -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 12:05 3
      - ...like my men -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 12:06 2
        
        hey hey hey! -- nm - zork Jan 7, 12:08 1
        
        that's right - she said used - Roger More Jan 7, 12:09
- Mine will have to be Fable 2. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 12:03 6
  - Yup, with Civ: Revolutions a close second. - znufrii Jan 7, 12:06 4
    - I won't recommend buying PoP. It gets repetitive very quickly. It's worth a rent though. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 12:07 3
      - the trickier question for me will be buying a Xbox360 of my own one my roommate moves out... - znufrii Jan 7, 12:08 2
        
        No prob. I played it for maybe 4 hours and just got bored. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 12:09 1
        
        curious, how would you say it compares to PoP: Sands of Time? -- nm - znufrii Jan 7, 12:10
  - Civilization Rev for me -- nm - eag Jan 7, 12:05
- Did you go back in time when the ney year came or something? -- nm - eag Jan 7, 12:02
Stupid internet access question - ceregon Jan 7, 11:55 11
- ATT Uverse is a cable modem. -- nm - Amy Jan 7, 12:00 1
  - how are you liking that? -- nm - Remlik Jan 7, 12:03
- You need to be sure you have an old style analog modem in your PC. Newer computers may not even have one.\ - Mop Jan 7, 11:59 1
  - Thanks everybody! -- nm - ceregon Jan 7, 12:03
- Broadband needs a DSL moden from At&t. Dial up, just plug the phone line into the modem on your comp. -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 11:57
- DSL is a phone line connected to a DSL modem (supplied by AT&T) which has Ethernet out which you can connect to a router or PC - oblique Jan 7, 11:56 5
  - Could you recommend some routers with ethernet ports, wirless n, and a ethernet printer port? -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 12:00 4
    - I asked about routers before Christmas...ST endorsed Netgear over all others -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 7, 12:03 1
      - That will be my pick. Thank you! -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 12:06
    - heh. The official router of kilbo is Netgear. Take your pick. -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 12:01 1
      - k, thanks! -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 12:02
I've just about migrated all our home content to the Openfiler server. Just have to move my wife's iTunes library over and then I can move her to - oblique Jan 7, 11:48 14
- a what server? -- nm - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:49 13
  - Openfiler. It's basically a Linux based file server. Does NAS and iSCSI. Web GUI. I have it as a virtual machine on my home server -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 11:52 3
    - aww, I missed the r when I searched for the name the first time. -- nm - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:53 2
      - It seems better rated than FreeNAS for file sharing and I like the GUI management better than doing the iSCSI and Samba stuff myself -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 11:53 1
        
        hmm, I wonder if I could attach a slingbox to it... -- nm - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:55
  - Yeah, I had to Google that. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:52 8
    - Ah, I see. A Linux-based file storage operating system that turns an old PC into a NAS (network-attached storage). -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:53 6
      - Putting my stack of old 160GB drives to good use - oblique Jan 7, 11:56 5
        
        I was thinking of turning my original mythbox computer - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:58 1
        
        Easy to do, even without FreeNAS or Openfiler. I'd go with rsync backups rather than RAID1, then you're as good as your last backup - oblique Jan 7, 12:01
        
        I'm itching to buy a NAS case so I can put in two 1TB drives to run in RAID 1, but I'm waiting for the CES announcements. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:57 2
        
        My friend loves his Drobo but damn are those expensive. Did you see the new Linksys/Cisco stuff from CES? - oblique Jan 7, 11:58 1
        
        My God, those are beautiful. Tiny LCD and everything. But the Linksys comes with a drive, already. I've got two 1TB HDs collecting dust. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 12:08
    - I tried, but that didn't help much. -- nm - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:52
I have a meeting with the good career services dude at three. I'm so unprepared. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 11:40 1
- "Like, lemon donuts? And...parking space? And internet. Search for that." -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:51
my biggest problem with blu-ray movies - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:36 17
- I'm getting player when the library starts to carry them. -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 11:46
- hmm, are either of the these two movies any good? - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:43 9
  - I loved M&C and liked KoH (haven't seen the D's Cut) -- nm - con_carne Jan 7, 11:56
  - I wouldn't buy either of them. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 11:51
  - I've only seen the theatre release version of Kingdom of heaven, but I would really rate either movie as more than rent-worthy -- nm - Roger More Jan 7, 11:46 2
    - *wouldn't* rate either movie as more than rent-worthy -- nm - Roger More Jan 7, 11:46 1
      - I'd agree with this. -- nm - TFox Jan 7, 11:48
  - I actually hear they are both very good. (The director's cut of KoH is supposedly far superior, and I thought the first version was pretty ok.) -- nm - TFox Jan 7, 11:46
  - Master and Commander is good. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 11:45 2
    - The audio/score is especially good, so blu-ray might be good for it. -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:53 1
      - what's wrong with dvd sound quality? it's either cd or 5.1, normally, right? -- nm - zork Jan 7, 12:10
- they're def. not worth a significant markup....nm - x Jan 7, 11:41 3
  - agreed. I'd pay $5 more and that's about it. -- nm - Remlik Jan 7, 11:42 1
    - other technologies are getting better for the same price (computers, cars, etc.) so why should I pay more for blu-ray? -- nm - zork Jan 7, 12:07
  - true. -- nm - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:42
- i am pretty much limiting myself to just the big, blockbuster type movies for blu-ray -- nm - decline Jan 7, 11:39 1
  - looking through amazon - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:42
There's a storm moving in -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 11:34 8
- Ride it out. -- nm - REO Speedwagon Jan 7, 11:57
- It's been snowing here for most of the day, but no stickage. -- nm - emotichanic Jan 7, 11:51
- is this a metaphor?....nm - x Jan 7, 11:42 2
  - I love you for thinking I'm much smarter than I really am. -- (link) - ty97 Jan 7, 11:43 1
    - even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while....nm - x Jan 7, 11:46
- He's heading back from somewhere that he never should have been. nm - Jim Jan 7, 11:42 1
  - glad I could share :) -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 11:42
- Brrrr, it's cold in here -- nm - Strongbad Jan 7, 11:39
bery, I meant the atheist thing had been done on the same scale before IIRC -- nm - zork Jan 7, 11:32 3
- Well, they started out with a plan to do a handful of buses, and then got enough money to basically do a fleet. That sounded unique, from a fundraisin -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:35 1
  - g perspective -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:35
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Price of oil "plunges" on report on word that a "big supply cushion" of stored oil exists....(link) - Walt_Disney Jan 7, 11:31 17
- Yeah, it's pronounced "An-wahr" -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 7, 11:58
- tangent: how much oil, if any, had we drawn from the strategic petroleum reserve in response to the fuel crisis? - znufrii Jan 7, 11:40 1
  - the movement has been pretty marginal and seems to be pretty close to capacity anyway -- (link) - Roger More Jan 7, 11:43
- Would you like to buy an SUV? -- nm - GM Jan 7, 11:39 2
  - Bad credit? No problem! -- nm - GMAC Jan 7, 11:39 1
    - With gas so cheap, I can buy an over-priced house in the exurbs and enjoy a two hour commute! Both ways! -- nm - Roger More Jan 7, 11:41
- Yup. It's stored under Saudi Arabia. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:38
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- Good. I paid $1.70/gallon and threw up in my mouth a little bit. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 7, 11:32 8
  - Still over $2.30 here. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 7, 12:07
  - $1.58 last friday -- nm - Max Jan 7, 12:02
  - $1.67 -- nm - mara Jan 7, 11:56
  - I know...I paid $1.59 this morning and was quite bummed. nm - Jim Jan 7, 11:40
  - uner $1.50 when I was down in Atlanta, last I checked here it was $1.99 -- nm - znufrii Jan 7, 11:38
  - it was $1.79 somewhere around Indy when I was driving back to Knoxville. - Callisto Jan 7, 11:34
  - $1.66 -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 11:34
  - as long as it is under $2, I'll not gripe. -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 7, 11:33
Judging from what I've seen on Engadget so far, "accessory screens" (little monitors that connect through USB) are going to be big. - Mop Jan 7, 11:30 7
- Well, since sidebar gadgets basically are hidden all the time on the desktop, I guess it makes sense, but unless they're really cheap, I don't see me - oblique Jan 7, 11:44 1
  - Lots of interesting potential uses. First and foremost as a digital picture frame (it's the same price point). - Mop Jan 7, 11:46
- I've never heard of the idea but I like it already - con_carne Jan 7, 11:33 3
  - Here's a picture of the Nanovision model. D-link will be showing one off at CES. -- (link) - Mop Jan 7, 11:36 2
    - 800x480? That might be good enough for some coding stuff. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:49
    - $129.99 for the Nanovision, apparently. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:38
- that would be super for watching DVDs in the office. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 11:31
~...boats n' hos...~ -- nm - Diva Jan 7, 11:29 3
- I'll pass on the boat. -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 11:30 2
  - You're gonna need a bigger ho. -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 11:35 1
    - I'm all about quantity, not size -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 11:36
Today's reason that Amazon rocks - ty97 Jan 7, 11:26 6
- Today's reason for Amazon rocking: On their 2 blu-ray, get 1 free page, the star of Rambo is Julie Benz - Will Hunting Jan 7, 11:30 2
  - hmm, are there any movies worth buying? - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:32 1
    - hmm, I founds it, neberminds -- nm - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:34
- Bulgur??? They should have kept Warner!! -- nm - Disgruntled Rams Fan #7 Jan 7, 11:29
- Ooh. I wonder if they have Alfajores Havanna... -- nm - con_carne Jan 7, 11:28
- thebulgur is also drm free!....nm - x Jan 7, 11:27
Also from Asus, not a surprise, but beautiful to actually see... (link) - Mop Jan 7, 11:24 3
- The OS in the demo was Win7? - lileve Jan 7, 11:29 2
  - I think the OS in that demo was Asus's prefer Linux flavor. Like all Eees from Asus, I imagine this will come in Windows and Linux varieties. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:31 1
    - Oh ok. Whatever it was, I liked the GUI design. -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 11:42
B2 is big. Just like your ass at prom. -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 11:22 1
- Classy -- nm - Jammed Uzi Jan 7, 11:24
Out of nowhere, Asus has become the top (and maybe only) contender for Apple's tech design crown. Check out this prototype. -- (link) - Mop Jan 7, 11:22
I think I might tune in to the Barbara Walters special tonight just to see how healthy Swayze looks. -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:21
Who cares about LA? Let it burn. -- nm - nubby Jan 7, 11:21 3
- LA burns HOT! -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 7, 11:30
- i have friends there you heartless monster!....nm - x Jan 7, 11:25
- Right? It's just full of liberals anyway. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 11:22
So, do I buy a new Aiport Express from apple for $99, wait for a refurb again for $79 or buy on eBay open box for 68 and use my eBay gift card for - oblique Jan 7, 11:20 12
- eBay. Just because it's open box doesn't mean it's bad. You'll open the box anyway. It's cheaper, plus you've got your gift card. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:26
- ebay. remember live cashback. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 11:23 6
  - I hear cranky Mop talking about this alot. How does that work? -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 11:24 5
    - heh, crankmop....nm - x Jan 7, 11:28
    - well, fatwallet always has 3 or 6% cashback for ebay, but live.com sometimes offers up to 25% if you know what to look for. the forums at fatwallet is - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 11:26
    - Live cashback is dead for the time being. During its height, I spent thousands and saved thousands. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:25 2
      - the page is still live. do you mean it's dead for ebay? -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 11:30 1
        
        Yes, dead for eBay. I hear they've phased out many retailers and reduced discounts at others. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:32
- q. barter for one by offering - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:21 2
  - Won't they just raise the price if he tries that? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 7, 11:22 1
    - no idear -- nm - tRuMaN, in a surly mood Jan 7, 11:28
- third option -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 11:20
When you die, on your deathbed, you will achieve perfect consciousness. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 7, 11:20 2
- I only watched this movie for the first time ever about a month ago - con_carne Jan 7, 11:31
- Rip. Off. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 7, 11:20

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