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The RAM is meaningful even if nothing else is. Less re-opening your browser and having to wait for tabs to completely reload because Android decided to kill your last Firefox/Chrome process. I don't have any long time experience with Atom-based Android devices. I'm curious to hear what the...

Here is a valuable lesson: don't sign up for classes that meet before 10:00AM.

Asus ZenPads are decent low-cost options. You could also look at the Fire Tablet line since you mostly care about this product's ability to run one or two trivial bits of software. These guys are all going to fall in the $120 or less category.

Android calendar software is weird because you can have multiple programs installed that are called "Calendar" in your App drawer and none of them are necessarily the Calendar provided by Google or even your handset vendor. The last Samsung Calendar I installed had a silly wood-grain trim along...

You can install ClamAV, which is a free, on-demand scanner for Windows viruses. Linux doesn't have viruses as such, but it can deliver Windows viruses to Windows machines. For a home system, it's not I'd be all that concerned about.

Neat.

This technet article on defining the User Shell might also be helpful. The issue you're experiencing should be fixable. You might also try System Restore if that looks like too much work.

You might have to overwrite ntuser.dat to get it going again. Signing in to see if another account works should at least tell you if the problem is with the user or system registry entries.

There is at least some evidence to suggest that TSMC will have a working 7nm process by 2017. Given AMD's track record, I'm not holding my breath for shipping product, it appears to be in keeping with the state of the art at least.

Neat. Maybe create and sign in to a new user account by using Task Manager and the net command?

You could potentially roll your own thing with btsync or owncloud, but I've found that btsync doesn't like huge (multi-terabyte) backup jobs. I did try Acronis, since it was "Free" with my annual license, but I found it to be even slower for uploading data than Crashplan. I've been tempted to...

There are also economies of scale. It's a lot easier to deliver ANY utility, transit or health service someplace where there are a lot of people, and there's also the matter of having the opportunity to live where creative, intelligent folks do. If art or live entertainment are as or more...

There's at least one Youtube channel devoted to getting AAA titles running on minimum-spec hardware. I remember seeing him play Witcher 3 on Intel HD graphics. Your best graphics experiences will probably be on older MMOs or less intensive strategy games than graphical showpieces like driving or...

Why Skylake over all the cores, extra RAM and PCIe lanes you can shove in an LGA2011 system?

That's what cocaine, hookers and golf outings are for.

I've found there are places I can drive that will always cause audible interference (static) on my bluetooth headphones or speakers. I suspect it's just a problem with there being some sort of strong 2.4GHz signal in those places since the hardware is completely fine the vast majority of the time.

Or Lunar could let me or dd put something together to get him started.

The NAS has some pretty hefty performance penalties from being built on an ARM or Atom CPU. It has limited amounts of RAM for caching and, functionally, it's also a software RAID, probably one built on Linux LVM or somesuch, only sitting on extremely limited hardware. On FreeNAS you can add RAM...

None. You let FreeNAS handle it in software. Get an LSI-something-or-other in IT mode if you need more ports than your motherboard has and add gobs of RAM and/or cache drives to your zPools if you want to improve performance.

Why not at least give FreeNAS a try? You already know the NAS you bought isn't doing what you want and I'm sure you have some kind of PC sitting around that you can use with it.

We know you don't get rid of old systems. Do you have an LGA1366 system sitting around? An 1155? I'm sure it's loaded up with RAM already, but make sure it has crap tons of RAM. All the RAM. Take that machine. Add a tiny SSD. TINY. 8GB, even. Hell, boot it off a thumb drive. That's how little...

I've been wearing Jaybird BT headphones for a couple years. I've had to replace them twice. Once because my cat ate them and once because the charging port cover fell off and I don't feel like I can wear those outdoors any more (those are a back-up pair now; they didn't stop working). I've...

Well the thing is that you weren't getting no sound at all, so somewhere along the line, something wasn't being amplified like it's supposed to. I'm given to understand that contemporary Onkyo receivers have real problems with inputs just dying for no reason.

It's Indiana, so the big advantage of the water park over the beach for a lot folks is that the water park is a lot more friendly to smokers. Yes really.

$75 really isn't bad for an OEM battery. The T450 has a second, internal battery aside from the rear one. It's just to the right of the touchpad and under the palmrest. It is fairly trivial to replace once it dies. I have several CPUs that I drilled through and use as key fobs, which seems as...

What is amplifying the mic?

The water park directly across the street from my office opened today. As one might imagine of a water park located in northwest Indiana, it's a lot like getting to see "People of Walmart" but in bathing suits. I'm sure timwhit can come by later to support me on this one.

A single core Atom with 256MB RAM or some crappy ARM system can handle everything you need out of a NAS, Lunar. We're talking about sharing data via SMB for a single user, not differential, deduplicating file replication for hundreds of people.

If you want to be safe, I think Noscript + RequestPolicy + whatever decent ad blocker with a good set of subscriptions is the best way to do it. Some people say uMatrix (and is available for Chrome) is better but I find it far too fiddly even compared to Noscript.

I don't really think that it is, based on the number of Chrome installs I still have to clean.

You probably need to take it up with the people who make the NAS at that point. Why are you shutting the NAS off in the first place?

All of the major browser except Mozilla-derived ones offer sandboxed tabs, but I think I'd rather have Moz's capability for scripting controls via addons than accept Chrome or Edge's baseline security model. Out of the box Firefox is basically swiss cheese as far as security, but I'd never use...

It's been in every Windows release since Vista.

Open up Credential Manager. Delete whatever weird crap you have saved in there for that IP/hostname. Try again.

Windows Home or Pro?

Windows 10 does have IE11 and there's nothing that would prevent you from having crappy old versions of Java or Acrobat. If nothing else, you can upgrade and back out of it, just to have the license. I'm getting second-hand angry about the whole ordeal involved in doing this. It shouldn't be...

To be a bit more nuanced: The last third of the movie is set in bad green-screen CGI. I'm talking Phantom Menace level bad. They know it looks like crap and they don't care. Jennifer Lawrence doesn't seem to be present as a performer and her role doesn't make any sense based on the history of...

My review of the new X-men movie: meh

I believe the caching function is something that is handled automagically by the OS. I don't really know how it works in that case because I've not actually tried that sort of configuration. I do think it's sort of lame that they'd give you the slot and not let you use it. Wait a year or so and...

Here's sed's card. I usually have several greeting cards in my car and/or desk at work. I just used one of the ones I had handy.

If the drive was in a *nix based NAS system, creation of multiple primary partitions with some empty space between them would be standard operating procedure.

I started with enough college credit to skip my entire freshman year, which wound up being the worst thing ever because I was placed in a calc class I didn't belong in (I should've retaken Calc I but I was too proud of my AP credit) and in O Chem, which is just not a good starting place since...

Mainstream full ATX boards, insofar as those are a thing that exist, still usually have one. Asus still puts one on most of the newest (LGA1151) boards it offers. Gigabyte seems to have dropped PCI entirely.

You can always run whatever in a VM. Your Centos/Debian/Yggsdrasil install will probably fit nicely in 20GB with plenty of room to spare for all your projects.

The T460 actually had a bit of a pricing premium that would've pushed it out of budget and I didn't just have RAM sitting around for it so you got a T450. Another mild disappointment: upon research, while the T450 has a 42mm M.2 slot, it can't be used as a boot drive. Firmware doesn't support...

sed has licenses for 7, 8.1 and 10 on that machine. Now let's watch and see how many of them he loses. ;)

I downloaded all of the Windows 7 updates. All 2GB of them. Rather than wait for multiple hours for the update servers to finally decide to offer a pathetic 476MB file. The offline updater will just apply whatever updates you don't have. It takes around 30 minutes to run. A .MSU is a Microsoft...

Does that apply to all games or is it only an issue for one title?

... and just to amplify my previous comment, since I remembered that the WSUS Offline downloader is a thing that exists, I used it to download all 2GB of Windows 7 x64 updates, which took about 15 minutes, and now I'm applying them to the machine that was trying to install the rollup. Which is...

I tried it this morning and it turns out that the rollup hits the update servers the same way as any other process. I've been watching a Windows 7 machine not install updates using the update rollup for the last three hours. I'm pretty sure you're better off using the Offline Windows Update...