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I mean, you could rsync or robocopy every two hours and probably get pretty close for any normal use case. edit: Also, one of Windows, the FS driver or Amazon Cloud has a problem with long file paths. God. Dammit.

I suspect it's a similar level of trivial scripting, if you're more concerned about that than basic sanity and coherence of platform.

Either way, for people who want to make an issue of information security to be running a 13 year old commercial OS is a bit too off-message, isn't it? Was it too much work to install Ubuntu 14.04 and at least claim to be current on patch levels?

How synchronized do they need to be?

Turns out that Donald Trump's campaign doesn't really get the Cyber, either.

Most of the businesses I deal with * conduct a lot of their work via Email, via external servers * Either don't make all that many local files or make huge numbers of PDFs that are basically images * Interact with some weirdo irreplaceable legacy application that couldn't be rehosted in a...

Speaking of status updates, what's going on with you, Lunar?

I haven't seen it disconnect yet, if that's what you're asking. It takes a minute for Explorer windows to populate, but having the ability to address the storage outside a web client makes it vastly more useful to me. I'm in the process of moving over 4TB of FLAC files and mirroring ~400GB of...

I managed to get this Dokan (FUSE for Windows) project working well enough to upload at about 10Mbit from what appears on my PC as a mounted drive instead of Amazon's lame-ass software. It's not perfect but Amazon's software is also terrible and I don't want to buy $300 worth of ExpandDrive or...

The V20 is a phablet. I regularly carry an 8" tablet in my back pocket, but the LG G4 is just a TINY bit too wide for me to use right handed. My right thumb (not my dominant hand, but still) can't reach all the keys if I hold the phone in portrait mode, so I really see that as a physical limit...

I truly don't think it's funny any more. To comment further might invite greater hostility, but after the last few weeks I just want this cycle to be over with. Indiana in particular is bizarro-land about some of this stuff.

I know about Amazon Freetime, but I suppose I'm looking for something like Windows Group Policies, but that stuff requires G Suite and Apps for Business or Education-type accounts. I'm surprised there isn't a set of interfaces for parents, because these are things that would make sense for it to...

I've found that plain cement bricks are much less expensive and more useful for semipermanent construction and I can't imagine any other use for a WD drive.

You guys are missing the obvious outcome of 8k displays: They'll be widely available on shitty 5" phones while 24" desktop screens at higher than 1080p are still considered exotic.

I can get App Lock-type deals where you can cut off access to specific software and allow other things, but nothing so granular as to allow access to portions but not all of the Settings menu. Youtube is particularly troubling because it's all over the place. Allowing access probably means a kid...

Once again, you can turn off the acceptable ads. It's one check box. You un-check it. Since everyone using any ad-blocker is probably using two or more subscription lists, this is hardly any greater burden. And if it works and they're getting money to hit more obnoxious companies over the head...

I'm struggling to think of a place where I'd need a $150 Rpi-sized hardware firewall.

Just what you want: having the intersection of four bezels right at the dead center of your crosshairs in an FPS. Although I'm surprised he only needed two $1600 graphics cards to get playable Crysis 3 at that resolution given that a GTX1080 doesn't even assure a decent 4k experience. That's...

As someone whose coworkers regularly leave five minute+ voicemails, voicemail transcription exists for an even better reason.

This is the most effective thing I've found for killing sites that try to prevent use with AntiAdblocking scripts. Basically, you use Greasemonkey for Palemoon/Firefox/Chrome or Tampermonkey if you're using some truly shitty browser. You install their filter list and then Greasemonkey script...

It's even more fun when my developers talk about THE server. Even if they're as remarkably specific as "the TEST server" I still have no idea the fuck they're talking about, since each of them has two or three VMs plus the two that are held for common use. I cringe any time I hear one of them...

Here's a funny issue. Not my deal but somebody asked me and I have no goddamned idea. Android has had multi-user mode on devices since KitKat. Not every Android device vendor supports mutli-user, even on Lollipop. Somehow, it's optional and apparently less common on devices with Intel CPUs...

I'll write up something later. Greasemonkey is something you should have installed if you browse the web regardless. The issue is that you need the blocker-blocker outside your ad blocker because that's what they're testing for in their hostile scripts.

Went to see Das Rheingold today, the first opera in Wagner's Ring Cycle (Lyric Opera will be performing the whole cycle leading up to a complete performance of the whole thing in 2020). First thing is, the stagecraft was breathtaking, especially since the performance didn't include an...

The current state of affairs seems to be that we need an Anti-Anti-Adblock. There's a Greasemonkey script that handles it. Also, there's nothing particularly better about uBlock Origin in my experience, except that you don't have to un-tick the box to disable acceptable ads. Otherwise it uses...

It's set concurrently to Daredevil season 2. The Sekovia Accords and events in Civil War haven't happened yet. Most of the MCU stuff is explicitly taking place around the time of its release but this is placed in time just after when Claire Temple witnessed the Hand attack her hospital. The...

I don't expect telemetry to go away. Advertising is part of Microsoft's core business now. Updates are architecturally different from the way they used to be, in that everything is a continuous rollup. Which is kind of OK, since I've been too busy to do more than glance at what updates do for...

I think they only did it in the first episode, but the thugs were mostly given hip hop for background music and the guys at the barber shop mostly got some kind of pre-1980s root music. Luke himself is also shown reading writers of the Harlem Renaissance, while Cottonmouth (later shown to be a...

Microsoft has mad money to throw at ridiculous custom hardware. Do Amazon or Google or Oracle do the same thing? If they don't, why don't they need to?

My latest headache is some Windows 10 machines at my lab with a slow connection slurped updates from an Anniversary Update machine while it was on site. I had all the machines set up so updates weren't happening at all but now all of a sudden they're trying to get updates like any Windows 10...

Luke Cage took me longer to watch because it turns out that sitting comfortably was a bit of an issue this weekend. Stupid nitpick, right off the bat: The President of the USA in the MCU in 2015 is named Matthew Ellis, so named in Iron Man 3 and Agents of SHIELD. Barack Obama's name kept coming...

Best guesses are fondness for diet coke and peanuts. I like peanuts because they seem harmless given the parameters of my dietary needs and I've used diet coke as a harmless treat that incentivizes walking someplace to get it and to satisfy cravings for something sweet and acidic. Sugar is...

By all means, go look up what's involved in a stent through the urethra. Or just cross your legs and contemplate good fortune. The stone did pass last night. It was easier than the first one, probably because I knew what was happening and not because it hurt any less. All my cats, who normally...

Outpatient. They just went ahead and did it.

Today. It was not fun. The thirteenth sign is only used for 10 days at the beginning of December. I tell people I'm that sign just to stop them from talking about astrology. Them I have to explain what it is and why, but at least it's a more interesting conversation.

No conversation that starts with "So we need to make your urethra bigger..." is going to go in a happy direction.

The only ones I've bought this year are UX303s, which are fairly pedestrian i5 / 250GB / FHD systems, rather than the discrete graphics / QHD models. I can usually resell them for a couple hundred bucks over what I pay for them. But I certainly wouldn't expect the Pro models to be any worse.

There are about a dozen applications in my library where I have some Windows tool or other where the author yanked the a freeware version or added bundleware to later installers, such that I'm glad I kept old installers. Other times, there are things where I keep an installer because getting it...

Handy, Zenbooks have been my go-to consumer notebook recommendation for a few years. I re-sell four or five a year and they're well built with nice screens and keyboards. The only reason I've ever opened one is to upgrade an SSD, but even that speaks highly of them since I've not had to swap a...

I have no way to determine the state of your hardware.

Personally, I'm wary of gaming laptops because they usually fuck up the thermals in ways that lead to shortened life for at least some components, but the GTX960 may not be enough of a power hog to warrant the gaming designation in the first place. That's probably the main thing I'd research, if...

I should. I really should.

I'm moving. Maybe Tannin will sponsor me for an Aussie visa. I'll be his goddamned computer fixing slave so he can go take photos of fanged, stinging birds and Jellyfish that walk on land and whatever other miscreations of nature are in the Outback.

I do. On a related note, I know exactly one unmarried human female under 40 with a college degree who is unmarried but I can find hundreds of women whose dating profiles include phrases like "Biblical living" and which also indicate that they are divorced. Correlation does not equal causation...

Well there are still two screens devoted to "Sausage Party" (which FWIW is mildly amusing and probably insanely funny if you're stoned while you watch it) and four screens showing Suicide Squad, but definitely no Kubo. I know I can watch it as an illegal stream, but that's the sort of movie I'd...

I have a Quantum changer connected to a similar LSI controller that I use with a Windows Server 2012r2 machine. I'm sure the software side of your config is fine. Tapes need to go in cases. You don't want them contaminated by humidity or air pollutants. Keep them out of sunlight and at...

Probably half porn and half pirated games. The full version of Doom was, like, 30MB.That's a lot of naughty JPGs. The machine I had in 93 - 95 was a dual (yes, really) 486DX/50 and the other thing I can remember about it was that the first time I encountered an MP3, which was probably the...

Did you try to run the StorageCare Diagnostics for your drive? Tape drives do fail and it's also very possible to get bad tapes, especially if they were stored improperly. My guess is you need to drop back and try LTO3 instead of LTO4 media, regardless of what Windows says.

Medical care here in Indiana is not what I would call affordable (my state government sabotaged the ACA as much as it possibly could) and anything I have done would be out of pocket. I may yet go get medical imaging but I'd have to go to Chicago to have the pulverize thing done, were that...

Nifty tidbit I just discovered: The USTV Now add-on from Kodi's Fusion Repository allows free, legal streaming of over the air broadcast network TV (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, PBS, CW) for US citizens. It's meant for expats, but it seems to work just fine within the USA, even without a VPN. It's also...