Has Blizzard traditionally had "Christmas" sales?
I'm considering picking up D3 though I have a feeling this deal will be back again with maybe a bigger discount?
The reason they have the current proxy bidding system is to prevent "auction sniping".
This was one of the biggest complaints back in the earlier days of ebay (late 90s).
don't externals typically come with a crappier warranty?
and that's assuming you're able to put it back together perfectly after voiding the warranty to begin with
I thought I read an article that the new WHS2011 was going to protect against bit-rot (at an additional cost of 12% disk space) but now I can't find any information about this. I guess MS dropped this feature.
Do RAID setups protect against bit-rot? Particularly if you do regular data scrubs?
I still fail to see the difference between THICK bubble wrap (newegg) vs a styrofoam container (retail box). IMO thick bubble wrap seems to provide more cushion.
Maybe the duds people are getting are "defective" returns that Newegg resold?
haali and ffdshow is all i have installed on my htpcs (i also use WMC7 w/ mediabrowser for my frontend)
for the occasional oddball movie with "forced" subs, i extract the appropriate subtitle file from the mkv. then in ffdshow, i have subtitles enabled and configured to use external sub files...
do you have replication turned on?
if so you might have duplicate data when you copy from your 2nd,3rd,4th,etc harddrives
just something to keep in mind