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Actually another reason to be wary of Windows 10 coming from OEMs... MS no longer requires OEMs to allow users to turn off secure boot... While this won't effect those of us that build our own desktops, it may effect those that buy laptops (that come with Win10) and find they can't install...

Likewise, at work, new security policy was approved/pushed yesterday effectively banning the installation of flash from all machines. All Flash installations will be removed over the next 48 hours... The most flash I personally see today are ad related... don't care that I miss some ads! ;)

We had it on the list to look at, but ultimately was outside our budget. The CRV was $3-5K more than the equivalent from other brands (and came with less), not to mention the annual insurance premium was also 10-30% more than the others as well... I don't know what Honda pricing is like around...

Yep, ours was built/plated on 1-Apr-2015 in Japan. There is a model refresh in the coming months as well... Looking online it appears Suzuki US filed for Chap11 back in 2013 and has since left the US automotive market, whilst restructuring to only supply/sell bikes and ATVs.

In a side note; my wife and I recently purchased a new Suzuki Grand Vitara (auto 2WD) to replace our ageing Holden Frontera (aka Isuzu Mu or Isuzu Rodeo as known in the US). We also looked at the Nissan X-Trail (and the 2015 model feels very cheaply made and is different to the older 2013/14...

Joe, congratulations on reaching 3K...

Current model Intel Core M's run about 80% of the performance of an i5-5200U, FWIW... http://www.anandtech.com/show/9117/analyzing-intel-core-m-performance

Missed it due to cloud cover... :(

Bike riders will appreciate/relate with this YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1QbaUC39ayQrNbcxoAahw

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewer-and-use-another-viewer

What/which box?

I'm not sure I understand the question regarding HDMI? Unless you mean Ethernet via HDMI? They all report activity to their servers (I'm reluctant to use the word spy, as that denotes a covert action, whilst these devices phoning home is more overt, as it's described in the products...

Spying TVs: http://bgr.com/2015/02/11/how-to-stop-samsung-smart-tv-spying-guide/ http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/samsung-smart-tv-spying/ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31296188 http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/lg-australia-investigates-smart-tv-spy-claims-20131121-hv3nx.html...

Is that using bluetooth keyboards with the Samsungs? Interesting, wasn't aware of that feature. I know most Sony's can use the Sony Remote App (both iOS and Android) or "Quick Remote: TV SideView" (Android) to control their TVs as well, but it requires either a phone or tablet to be the hosting...

I only typically saw those on name brand systems in the 286 and early 386 era, eg Amstrad PC3x86 systems had socketed VRAM for the Paradise VGA controllers... as well as some same generation Nokia and Compaq's as well... (Yes, Nokia had some 286 PCs).

The Windows 10 FAQ (What version of Windows 10 will I get when I upgrade?) shows the versions... https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/windows-10-faq In short: Win7 Pro / Ultimate get Win10 Pro, all others get Win 10 Home Win8.1 Pro get Win10 Pro, Win8.1 get Win 10 Home. Enterprise versions...

MS back flips on some Win10 upgrade promises: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/microsoft-stealthily-backs-away-from-free-windows-10-promise/

Commodore64 (really the family computer. Only had a tape deck for most of it's life, and got a floppy drive and 9pin dot matrix printer later on). Then 286@16MHz w/ 1MB RAM, Paradise VGA (256KB RAM), 40MB HDD. (which at end of life at 287 Math co-processor and 4MB RAM upgrades). Ran Dos 3.3 +...

NSFW: http://bouncebreak.com/ for those that things that bounce...

My favourites were the Seagate TR5's where the drive belt (literally a rubber band) would fall off during operation... (For those that haven't seen them, the drive belt was on the underside, and would slip off once they became slightly worn, which was approximately about 800hrs of operation)...

When Fiat took over, Fiat Australia they originally said they would disband or significantly reduce the presence of the brand in the coming years, but that was a number of years ago...

Jeep here in Oz had a pretty bad reputation for quality/reliability, not to mention it's been in the media recently that Jeep Australia is under investigation by ASIC, ATO and ACCC for various breaches of tax and consumer law. (ASIC/ATO are investigating possible fraud within the Jeep head...

Does anyone know if Tea has a time machine... The profile shows an age of 7... but there are posts from 2002? :confused:

Pretty much this.... firmware only tested against certain OSes and workloads... Basically Win32 and BSDs (including Mac since it's ATA subsystem is BSD derived) do this with queued commands: Data, Data, Flush, Wait for flush to complete, TRIM, Data, Data, Data. Linux on the other hand just...

Another Doom clip:

There's only 2 systems I know of that take those sorts of requirements: Oracle ERP w/POS and Microsoft Dynamics RMS (Store Operations). I've used/installed/supported the latter extensively at my last job before going back to Uni, and specs were quite high then. The version I installed/supported...

Having played about half way through D3:BFG*, my only complaint was the heavy pre-script and the lack of action compared to the originals... But as you said, "wild over-correction", which may put the heavy action gameplay back in that was sorely missing from D3... *BFG edn has slightly...

Hmmm....

I just saw this on Ars: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/06/22-years-after-verizon-fiber-promise-millions-have-only-dsl-or-wireless/ While it's nice to be able to deliver 10Gbps to a small fraction of the entire community, why not focus instead on raising the service options for those stuck...

Yes please... but I would love a reliable and solid 10Mbps connection first...

For Linux support here is a list of UPS's Network UPS Tools support natively... http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html

Either APC Smart-UPS or most EATON models are generally ok from what I've seen (and that's pretty all I see around these days)... Most EATON UPSes can be LAN configured/monitored, and most of their rack setups support ESXi as well.

Because their engineers plugged some numbers into a computer, and that's what the software they use told them it may be... Often the calculations assume near-perfect manufacture of all components and assembly, which know is not the case. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures

This gave me a good laugh

Thanks for the feedback, i'll give the demo a play tonight (if he's been good today).

Hi Guys, My son has seen trailers for Portal on Youtube, and was wondering despite having a teen rating, are there any issues for the younger players? Just trying to work out why it has a Teen rating, rather than a more general G rating since it's a puzzle game? The youtube clips I've seen...

Thanks for the link. Greatly appreciated.

I would hope they provide the option... but it'll mean the MS will have to make freely available installation media for all the different OS versions (something which they haven't done), and the product key entry algorithm would have to accept keys for Win7+ and handle those correctly, including...

Not using regular 802.11 gear... But if both sites have clean line of site, then could you consider FSO (Free Space Optics) instead? You can get 1Gb links, but a 100Mb links are very cheap these days. Since most FSO based technologies rely of lasers you don't need to worry about interference...

Sorry for the late reply... But did you read the Arch guide on ZFS? (Arch has been systemd based for a while now). https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS#Configuration

That's a problem that has affected some of the Telco edition phones here as well... (IIRC Telstra branded HTC One M8 is one affected). But having been burnt by Telco "enhancements" in the past, was one reason my wife and I insisted on and purchased phones direct from Sony. (They have no carrier...

While I agree resetting a phone is a PITA, there are not too many OSes that upgrade cleanly between major component upgrades. Just look at going from Vista to Win7... Both are very similar, but have not heard anyone being able to upgrade from one to the other without issues... And it's similar...

I've recently updated to Lollipop on my Sony Z3 Compact, and so far it's been quite good. Battery life and UI performance is on-par or better in some cases (the phone dialler is better in Lollipop) than KitKat on this device. Not overly impressed with the new UI style (WTF is with the flat look...

But the problem is the M2 Group own "Dodo" which IIRC is about the 4th largest ISP in Oz, but it also run like an extreme cut-price-no-frills, and forget any customer service or support type ISP. There is a lot of fear that if iiNet is purchased by M2, that the support quality (which IMO is...

What timwhit asks... But you should be able to start in single user mode (see you distro's docs on doing this), umount the zfs /home, thus you should be right to access the old /home folder (if it's part of the root filesystem). Since you're logged in as "root" you don't need access to the...

@Sed, sorry to hear the news. Can't provide much advice, however having witness my ex-wife's parents go through a divorce, and having been divorced myself, but the best things to do is to keep an open mind and take everything said about the relationship (and especially why it failed) with a huge...

A guess, but a bug in the application causing it to set those options? For a more complete possible explanation. When performing tests, the application is most likely attempting to set some power options to ensure the device and HDDs do not power down during the tests, and unfortunately on your...

Oh the days of going to a LAN, and spending the first 1-2 hours reinstalling/updating to ensure everyone was on the same installation/patch level... Fun times (note: sarcasm). But about the only games I'm playing at the moment are the Lego themed ones, eg Lego: City Undercover (a real cool game...

H, very funny! As a side, note: Installed Steam on my son's laptop and purchased Lego: Marvel Super Heroes and Lego: The Movie game for hime, and admittedly the process was very straight forward. The only downside was downloading 8G of game files (which took a few hours as I throttled the...

Certainly aware of that, but knowing that cut-scenes are capable of being made to that quality, it may only be a few years until we get in-game quality like that... But I guess that's just me dreaming, since we all know consoles will keep gfx quality stagnated for a number of years since they...