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On second thought it would probably be easier to install to the hard drive and then use the M.2 SSD for caching purposes. I heard of a piece of software that does that -- Fnet Hybridisk? Has anyone used that here?

I have an awful, terrible idea about the T450. This is purely hypothetical, in the event that I do ever get the drives needed, but I wonder if this will work. If I were to clone a Windows install to the M.2 SSD and then install GRUB to an HDD (that I would have upgraded to either 1 or 2 TB to...

Chrome 51 has the new material design UI. Can't decide if I like it or not.

Funny, it's usually AMD I associate with breaking games with driver updates.

I also appreciated the card. The 42mm M.2 slot is kinda crappy I guess but if I play my cards right I won't need to upgrade the storage at all, the 840 Evo blows my old Kingston drive out of the water... and I thought that thing was fast! Yeah, the T460 is pretty pricey at this point, I...

University of Louisville, and I'm sure they'd like Windows much better than Linux to be perfectly honest. I thought the first semester was spent doing core classes like English and some form of math?

A lot of the reviews I looked at for this cite the screen and sound quality as cons. As a first impression, coming off of my nc6400, the screen is nice, bright and colorful. The res is no better but no worse than the nc6400, and the sound actually has depth, stereo separation and some bass...

Gentoo is way beyond even me. Arch is a PITA like nothing else, so if (and that's a big if) I use Linux on it, it will likely be Xubuntu or some other Ubuntu variant. No, despite my misgivings with Windows 10, I will be using it on this machine, with Anti-Beacon and Classic Shell of course.

Just got the ThinkPad today. I think it's actually last generation's model -- it's got an i5 4300U! Still about twice as fast as anything else I have. Thank you so much, everyone!

For me restarting the whole machine always fixes such issues. I have them all the time, sometimes an older DX9 game like Asheron's Call or Oblivion craps out and then I can't start it back up without a restart.

Sorry about the slow response time. My school blocks SF as part of their "forums" rules and I don't get home until 4:30 - 5:00 PM, and my phone gets crap reception in there due to it being an almost entirely cinderblock and brick building. Usually I can get around it by remoting into my desktop...

This I/O shield cutting thing is going way too slowly for my liking. I blame it on having to use a battery operated dremel. It charges in three hours, is drained in less than 10 minutes. I have it maybe halfway done now.

I can handle hearing puking, even seeing puke, but I can't handle smelling it.

I think it's crazy that we're still seeing increases like these from generation to generation of GPUs when we see small fractions of these jumps from generation to generation of CPUs.

When I used Vista on a regular basis, I had an MBR scheme, and it still only made the one partition that I remember. But it would make sense for them to start doing it then, since Vista introduced the 6.x kernel and all and introduced a lot of the changes that have stayed the same since 2007.

Speaking of power tools, I'm using a dremel to cut out the I/O shield of a Dell Inspiron 530s case. I'm looking up the pinout of the front panel connector on the motherboard too, so I can rewire the headers to fit my Skylake board. If I'm going to take my desktop with me, it's going to be in a...

Windows has done this since 7. 7 made a 100MB partition, 8/8.1 make a ~300MB partition, and 10 apparently makes a ~500MB partition. I thought this was completely normal behavior, similar to some Linux people making a small /boot partition during setup of their various distros (first time I saw...

That sucks. One time I ordered a Verizon prepaid Moto G off of Amazon, it still had the PIB lock on it and I couldn't get it removed. I ended up giving it to my cousin who used it like an iPod touch.

Either I'm not running into this issue or I'm just not noticing. The last version you listed as it working properly on being XP x64 makes me curious... does 7 or 8 have the same issue?

I've used Bluestacks before, I never had an issue beyond my machine not being powerful enough to run it at full speed at the time. However I'm currently a much bigger fan of Genymotion.

Sweet jesus, 8GB/250GB SSD and you still want to upgrade it further? It already dwarfs every laptop I've ever used, much less owned! Not saying I wouldn't appreciate more, just don't beat yourself up over it if you can't add more, it's already far more than capable of meeting my needs. Just out...

It just puts things into perspective for me, last time I tried was pitiful. On OpenGL it would stutter if a lot was going on, Direct3D12 (experimental, probably because of this) it was worse, but Direct3D9/10 or whatever it was works even better than OpenGL. I should be able to take it up to...

Just tried emulating a GameCube on a whim tonight, last time I tried it was like 5 years ago when I was still running an E2200 with the G31 express chipset (and got a whopping 6FPS) and was shocked to find it working just fine. Played Wind Waker for almost an hour tonight on the G3900. At...

So I've been using my rubber dome Model M (circa 94) on my desktop for a while now, used SharpKeys to reassign ralt to start, rctrl to play/pause, and rshift to mute. Works beautifully. I didn't think I'd like it so much, being rubber dome, but the tactile feel is like nothing else you'll ever...

Just saw Civil War today with a couple of my friends and while I found it entertaining while I was in the theater, I didn't really remember much of it once I left. I found the nods to earlier Avenger films pretty cool.

Actually, I'm using a 1280x1024 17" display as well on the desktop, only it's in tandem with a 19" 1440x900 display as well. The laptop has a 1280x800 14.1" screen. If I had about 90 dollars to my name right now I could get a decent 1080p monitor (VGA/DVI only, no HDMI) at 21.5".

The specs are very impressive but at that price point I think I'll have to pass for a good long while. What kind of monster rig do you need in order to not bottleneck one of these bad boys anyway? If I get any sort of GPU upgrade anytime soon, it'll probably be to a 950 or 970. The 1050 if it's...

I'm back to folding, after a fashion. The Intel 510 my desktop is pushing isn't recognized by the folding client (I wonder if we'll see the GPUs.txt update again and add support for it?) but the CPU gets me a cool 1k PPD. That's five times as much as I was getting back when I was folding with a...

Thanks a bunch guys, you don't know just how much I appreciate it. Motherboard came in today, chip and RAM came in Tuesday. Put it all together, it all works fine. Windows thinks it's pirated again, just what I needed. But the hardware works great, temps are fine, everything's good. It's...

That's my feelings on the matter too. I don't want Trump in office, but I definitely don't want Hillary either. Hillary is a pathological liar, Trump's just an angry old man with who thinks he will actually have absolute power as president. I'd personally prefer it if Sanders made it to the...

Don't most BIOSes use your standard 80x25 character cell sort of thing? Or is that just older ones? I wouldn't know, haven't had one of those special UEFI boards that did anything differently.

My Core 2 Duo is my only laptop, that i3 I tried to fix fell apart some time after I got it. Thermal sensor stopped working right and it would cost more to fix than it was worth. I get what I need out of it.

The problem with that is that I just don't think that's what's going to happen. Convertible devices have , and probably always will, feel gimmicky. Though I guess part of that will be remedied come Windows 10's anniversary update. What I see more potential in, is features like Microsoft's...

I'm not particularly comfortable just slapping my address on a site that anyone can look at, so those who want to send me something can PM me and I'll send it to them.

So last week my desktop finally kicked the bucket after ten years of being a cheaply-made yet reliable little machine. It survived the better part of those ten years in a heavy smoking area. So I do my due diligence and do an autopsy on it... rapid-onset capacitor failure. Damn things popped...

So I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Community 2015. I selected all of the options without paying attention to the space required as I often do, not knowing that it was going to take up 40 GB... I'm considering uninstalling it and reinstalling it with a more conservative featureset but it...

I'm frankly surprised at the sheer usability of HTML5 video on this thing. It stutters a bit trying to do 1080p but that's to be expected from a laptop from ~2007. The screen's only 1280x800 anyway, and 720p plays perfectly fine provided you allow it to buffer. Obviously that says nothing of...

Been toying around with Windows again. I find it hilarious that Windows 10 takes Windows 7 drivers for an Intel GMA950 just fine but does everything short of completely refusing Windows 8.1 drivers for a Radeon HD4650. One odd thing about the GMA950 on 10 is that it immediately tries to...

Since Vivaldi hit its third beta I've been using it for a daily driver. The other day it got it's first official (1.0) release. Above the hood, It's basically a flat version of Opera. Stacking tabs, panels, etc etc. It's basically Chrome under the hood, which is good news for speed and...

I'm required to live on campus for my first year. The money is (afaik) just tuition, which means that I will NEED a job while I'm there. Still haven't talked to the Financial Aid dept., I'm hoping to do that Saturday or next Monday, which is the start of my spring break. I'm half tempted to wait...

I'm assuming. I won't know for certain until I contact the financial aid office on the matter tomorrow.

So my application for college went through reasonably smoothly. Unfortunately I seem to have been too late to sign up for the scholarships I knew I could get, and I thought my FAFSA was flat-out denied but I guess not (I have some grants listed on my Financial Aid report from UofL). The grants...

Nascar's something I will occasionally watch for the crashing. At least I admit it. Boiled peanuts, though... ech. Moon Pies are actually pretty good, although I will admit the chocolate ones suck. I prefer banana.

Had the same thing at school. Apparently not many people like Moon Pies there. More for me, I guess.

Ah, I see what you mean now. Yeah, that is rather odd. Found an interesting little PC Cheaps board. The A31G, it's interesting because it has both PCI-E and AGP. Never thought I would see both on the same board, just one or the other. It's a Socket 754 board, currently outfitted with some kind...

So Diablo II got it's first patch in a good long while, v1.14a. I think this marks the first Blizzard game to get a major patch after the next game in the series releases. Guess who just got this patch as a surprise on his 98SE box when he tried to log on to Battle.net? This update also...

At the time I had never seen a machine that wasn't ACPI-compliant and that didn't do the whole soft-power off thing. Even Dad's old hand-me-down Pentium MMX did that.

I broke out into a fit of laughter every time they got confused. If laughing at it makes you old then it makes me at least as old as you, and we both know that isn't true. I'm younger than most of the "teens" in the video and I know things that would make their heads spin. Kind of puts things...

Makes me wonder if there are any such tools for the 1703FP and SE198WFP. Or am I misunderstanding you, and those will work with any monitor?

After a bit of finagling (I have no floppy disks to boot from) I managed to get the Syntax machine to take a Windows 98SE install. I'm currently installing the unofficial updates and drivers (it uses a SiS 630 series chipset, with 650 graphics and 7012 audio). After reading reviews for the C3...