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There's no real difference. It's just Windows 10. I've done it a couple times now and other than not being installable from the ISO, it's completely normal. The license terms even say something about planning to use Assistive Technologies in the future, so it's not like you need them NOW.

There have been rumors since the beginning of the year that there would be a new tablet with an nVidia X1 CPU this year. I'm definitely annoyed if they're going to give up on the market, because the mix of specs and pricing on that device make it fairly unique among otherwise unremarkable...

There are better chassis setups for a NAS anyway.

Spring Breakers is sort of subversive fun, given that it stars a bunch of former Disney TV show sweethearts who spend 80% of the movie running around in string bikinis. I'm sure that's somebody's fetish.

I have one. I don't really have any reason to have it. I have better ways to make speakers do things. I'm probably going to give it away eventually.

Probably about a third of the list will still be Pixar movies.

Send it to sed. ;)

I probably have a couple systems with Intel H67 boards, but if I had to guess, I'd say the 22" monitor is being stupid about the 800x600 resolution. If you go in to Setttings and look under Troubleshooting and then the Advanced Options, you should see "Advanced Boot Modes." These include good...

Here's a nifty how-to for controlling Kodi from an Alexa Skill. Like you might want if you have a Fire* Remote with Voice support or an Echo or something.

Why not just save the cards and resell them as somebody else's gaming system?

I had issues with that on Intel-branded H61 boards.

Zero. In fact, I unplugged the phone in my office back in March. Everything goes to voice mail now and then gets delivered to my email so I can deal with it that way, in some cases with an If This Then That Recipe. No one has noticed.

I wouldn't MIND having a super GPU setup in my big machine, but I don't feel like the GTX970 I have in it right now is at any kind of hardware limit. I'm also fairly certain my idea of what that card (or cards in this case) is worth is substantially less than "reasonable." The only title I own...

BBC List of 100 greatest films of the 21st century, which is perhaps most interesting as a reason to look at a lot of movies and say "Come on? Really? That one?" Come for the twee adventures of everything Paul Thomas Anderson has done in the last 15 years (which, granted, I really like PT...

Buy a steamer.

Plus Curling, the sport where I can be an Olympian. Bridge is another thing that's been considered an Olympic sport in the past for some reason. I will say that I have watched pro-level Starcraft and League of Legends players do their thing and while I wouldn't call it sport, having also played...

I think that's a function of the browser and its relationship with GPU acceleration in the first place. I'm sure it's a messy combination of plug-ins under Firefox. It might be different in Edge or Chrome.

Broadwell's GPU supports hardware decode of every contemporary codec I can think of. I think you're just a victim having too damned many pixels. I tried running Haswell and Skylake Core i3s without a discrete GPU on my (4k) TV and found it similarly underwhelming.

Apropos of nothing going on in the thread right now, has anyone seen a dual slot M.2 adapter that actually works and can address both drives independently? I've tried a couple that didn't work and I've yet to see one that does. I have single drive adapters and they're fine but I'd rather have...

Do you have any room in your chassis to experiment with ducts for managing airflow? I have no idea what it looks like in your new baby but a cardboard shroud doesn't seem like an unreasonable step in experimentation.

I really like the BitFenix Prodigy time suggested, but holy christ is it a huge chassis. I suppose that if you're going to stick a $600 GPU in an ITX rig you might as well buy one that has as much or more interior volume than most microATX chassis though.

I read the short story that it's based on and have NO FREAKING CLUE how they can make that into a movie without destroying the central conceit of the written work.

Chicago wouldn't be HORRIBLE, but AFAIK the best Summer Olympic venues in the USA would be LA and Atlanta. LA has the transit infrastructure and plenty of huge stadiums already and Atlanta still has the facilities from whenever its Olympics was, which were already some of the cheapest games in...

Something very amusing to me happened over the weekend. The Hugo Awards for Science Fiction in media were given for this year. That by itself is fairly unremarkable, but for the last few years there has been a concerted effort by white male conservatives, usually called the Sad Puppies, to...

sed, A+, Network+, Server+ and Security+ are all good entry-level certs. They're all pure book learning, but the tests are expensive and the certs expire after two years. If you can convince somebody to pay for the tests, go nuts. You can probably get through A+ with a few days of study. In an...

I'm in the fast cadence beta updates ring on my Thinkpad and I've had it for months. It's been fine.

I really do wish we had European style ownership of personal information here in the USA. California has a state law that requires notification of theft of personal information and that's a start. I have a feeling that if that were not law in California, we'd never even know about a lot of data...

Shockwave 12.1 for Windows seems to have been the issue. I still don't know why it was a problem, but any time it was getting invoked, my PC would drop out of its hardware accelerated video mode. There might be a better way to do it, but I had to sit there with a web object inspector, my ad and...

Not a problem man. I'm sitting here and watching Process Explorer and flipping through Imgur with Palemoon and Chrome right now. I'll catch a pattern eventually.

That's not even remotely safe. I also use the same collection of addons and configuration on all my other machines, which don't have any issues.

I turned off the Desktop Experience for Windows Server entirely and... Nope, no pauses. Of course, that also means my video card is doing nothing but sucking electricity for no reason.

I ran in to something like that on my Thinkpad. I just disabled Hibernation. I've never seen a Windows machine where it's not buggy in some way.

The Assistive Upgrade goes straight to the Anniversary version, too. Oh, and it didn't uninstall Spybot 2.4, like previous major Windows 10 updates have.

Main display, whichever one it is. Windows doesn't accelerate video on secondary displays unless you have something that's stretched over from the primary, so this probably isn't surprising. If my pointer happens to be over on one of the other screens, I can continue to interact with that...

This is driving me mildly nuts and I've done a few rounds of testing without making any headway, so I'm just going to ask others. My main desktop (Haswell-E, 80GB RAM, GTX970) freezes when I encounter certain web videos. The freeze lasts 1.5 seconds or so, just long enough to be annoying but not...

So did my Chase Visa. How long until they scale that one back?

Do you have a small SSD? My classroom systems upgraded over the weekend and they seem to. They were upgraded and then fresh installed, so they shouldn't have had a Windows.old otherwise. But yeah, if you search for it, you can find a place to get Windows 10 via an upgrade loophole regarding...

It's not out of place. Lots of people have cameras out. If you're looking at someone's 500 hour labor of love costume, it's something they want others to see. When I see something important. I stop, stand still and move carefully. Most of what I'm recording will just get cut regardless.

I have a Chase Amazon Rewards Visa. They lowered the reward levels today. I used to get 5% back on Amazon purchases, which is fantastic since I buy a lot of stuff that gets reimbursed or is billable somehow. Now it's just 3%. Goddammitsomuch.

i3 + SSD is absolutely the way to go. But that's a terrible configuration in a consumer machine because in a lot of cases they reserve the SSDs for Gaming/Prosumer products and don't even give the options on the low end or midrange. Look at what's on offer at a Best Buy and you'll see what I...

It's several versions out of date, which is one of the reasons I asked.

These problems would go away if they'd just make at least a few 5:4 or 4:3 panels.

I'm doing the underhanded "Assistive Technologies" upgrade loophole just now. I installed Windows 8.1 on a machine and I'm going to try moving it to 10. It's painfully slow compared to just installing off a flash drive but if it works, I think I'm OK with that. Also, if you're getting the...

SD, are you messing with madVR with Kodi or still just MPC?

You might look to see what you can do in an Intel NUC, given his modest needs. I'd probably direct him to Office 365 if he wants 2016, or else pick around some of the usual suspects to find an Office 2010 license if he doesn't care about getting the latest version. In this case the NUC might...

The Edgerouters are pretty easy to set up with a source config file like the ones in this article. Once you've got one more-or-less working like a "consumer" router", you can worry about the details of getting other stuff working. Here's an article on how to failover two WAN links in EdgeOS. But...

I put my phone on a short lanyard that falls around my sternum. I walk around the entrance to a comic book convention. I've never done four full hours of video but I've done more than two several times and I could see going longer if I didn't want to go do other things. Even two hours of video...

The best thing about Interstellar is its Hans Zimmer score. I couldn't even finish the movie.

Christians DO engage in fairly organized efforts to kill people. I realize you probably haven't spent much time around any health services provider where someone might go to have an abortion, but they're not worried about Muslims in those places. Do you remember the Colorado Springs shootings...

It's unlikely that any video I shot would be of such interest to merit use of a dSLR.