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Avast Free (only install the virus and web shield components. It'll also install "Safe Browser" after the first time it updates and I go back and remove that as well). Avira. Forticlient.

Might be another one of those things where Oceania has issues because it's Oceania. Or maybe I don't see it because I have a paid account?

Stupid Android Trick: You can upload music to Google Play Music from a desktop, but not from your Android thingies. If that's a thing you want to do, make a monitored folder on Google Drive/Dropbox/Onedrive on one of your PCs. Tell Google Music Manager to Monitor that folder and to upload new...

I don't think it's the actual driver that's a problem for the Radeon. I think it's the attending Catalyst software. And it can be worse. Something I'm pretty used to doing because I frequently use Windows Server systems as desktops is having to manually edit the .INF files so I can use the full...

Something I noticed this morning: if you let your FireTV update to its most recent software version, it now puts Kodi on the Recent Apps carousel. That makes alternative launchers like FireStarter or shortcut hacks like using Llama conditions a lot less necessary.

I found this today regarding ways in which the novelization of The Force Awakens clarifies some parts of the plot.

DSD won't technically matter anyway, since nobody has a PC-based audio subsystem that supports it.

Anyone here use HammerDB for anything? There are apparently straightforward instructions for using it on its web site, but if I follow them in the order directed, they either don't work because the DB creation script barfs or because the load testing script fails because the database needed for...

I was mostly looking at game capture systems. If you can find one of the first-gen PS3s, one of the ones that supports PS2 and PS1 discs, there's apparently a fairly simple tool that simulates a bad firmware flash that causes the unit to default to its original shipping firmware. Once you're in...

Actually as I read it, it looks like most of the non-professional HDMI capture devices will only grab stereo audio.

I ripped my SACDs by buying a legacy Playstation 3 that had never been updated. It worked just fine. I understand that it's technically possible to de-flash a PS3 to the earlier firmware now, where it wasn't back when I did my discs, but I haven't really had a reason to keep up. I sold the PS3...

Anything that uses Temporal Keying (TKIP) is considered vulnerable at this point. CCMP-AES is only vulnerable to brute force. If AES is broken any time soon, it'll be an encryption holocaust but TKIP has been considered insecure for several years now.

Everywhere I use Displayport or HDMI, the connections are mediated by an A/V receiver that will play sound regardless of what the screen might be doing. I don't expect you to go buy such a thing, but an HDMI switch might be just the fix you need.

Are you absolutely sure you aren't running a spam relay or something? The amount of work required to hack WPA2 isn't really proportional to the amount of benefit from uploading 15GB of data in a day. If nothing else, your AP should have an indication of what MAC addresses are connected to it...

A lot of Star Wars does not encourage careful thinking about Physics. Hyperspeed and the like, no just planet destroying directed energy weapons or invisible, projected shields that protect an object the size of a small moon. On the other hand, canon sources say things like "The Galactic...

I believe the point of the new movie is to reinforce the cyclical nature of the force and the Skywalker family's role in its fate. Anakin and Luke unified the two sides, but it could not remain whole. It fractured and the cycle had to start again. I'd say someone basically filtered out all the...

I've tried a bunch of them, probably 8 or 10 different mini-keyboard/trackpad/air mouse things and none of them are perfect. Range is an issue for everything, including Bluetooth. Nothing seems to work reliably past maybe 4m, though I did finally use a USB hub and a pair of extra-long cables to...

Ustream is an early live video streaming/recording service. My guess is that someone tried live streaming off a mobile data device and the slideshow is the result of not having the upstream bandwidth. The buzz is probably the ground loop from a poorly configured mic. dd, with regard to comics...

I had to go through customer retentions to switch from Comcast Home to Comcast Business service. Including the part where they offered me discounts to stay on consumer service, even though they had also just told me I exceeded a monthly bandwidth quota by 10x and would terminate my service if I...

It pains me to do it, but I need to get rid of some books. I have more books than I have shelves for books. I suppose at the same time, I should make a similar effort to find homes for most of my comic book collection.

You can always go to play.google.com and buy from a desktop browser. I suspect you'll have exactly the same protections (SSL + whatever 802.11 encryption you might have, if you're using 802.11) either way.

It's going the wrong way for a straight conversion. You actually have to have some ICs someplace to turn the analog signal into a digital one. The boxes for doing that usually cost $60 - $100 unless sechs is extremely lucky and got a display that supports DVI-A... which is a connector I haven't...

Disney seems to have perfected the art of making this blockbuster genre films. I'm not in "need a change of underwear" territory but that looks like a Star Wars movie and I want to know more about everything that's going on, like who the hell the guy in the black robes is and what Forest...

There is such a thing as DVI-A, which would allow direct connection to VGA, but I wouldn't expect a new monitor to support that. You can buy a $60 converter box but at that point, you might as well just go get a different monitor. Honestly, I'd probably move monitors around until I got one with...

It's $2 or something. I'd pay that with no hesitation just to remove ads. I paid for ES File Explorer at one time as well.

Not that it isn't all over the internet but here's the first full trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One. And for Lunar's benefit, this one happens in between the 70s/80s movies and the Prequel films. It's doesn't involve characters from the other movies (well, Senator Mon Mothma) and the plan from...

The Nanostation 2 WLAN I've been playing with between my apartment and a building across the road from my place is called "OMG Ponies."

Firefox runs in a monolithic process that is not sandboxed (or running in a least privileged session, which is something IE does) from anything else. That's not news. That's its design. It's a trade-off for memory efficiency, or at least it was.

Meanwhile, here in Indiana, a T1 is still $450 a month.

io9 has an interesting piece about the Time-Warner reaction to the overall fate of Batman vs. Superman. In short: they thought they had an absolute smash hit. Turns out it probably won't be, even given basically three weeks of zero competition. They're also refusing to move Zack Snyder off the...

ES File Explorer went stupid a while ago. It has a bunch of bloat in it now, most egregiously an "App Analyzer" that likes to push out extra notifications that it's doing (useless) things. The fix is Solid Explorer, which has a more or less identical feature set, including the robust file...

Another helpful hint: Root the stupid thing before you add your adopted storage card. Rooting resets the crypto signature of the tablet, so the tablet can't read its former card. My now-rooted Shield will now play X-Com, but only because I'm running a tool that reports and reprocesses the ARB...

In a typical home, that lower propagation is basically OK since you probably don't want a signal going much beyond your balcony/deck/porch anyway/hot chicks hut anyway. Since almost everything that makes a 5GHz WLAN will make a 2.4GHz one at the same time, all you really have to do is give both...

A pretty serious down side to that is that at that point you're maintaining multiple copies of files (or maybe deleting high quality copies because some of your clients are lame). I know that's the suggested solution for ARM-based Plex servers but it's not like it's hard to come by a...

They were fixed a couple versions ago. You can configure a Source, which can be a top-level directory, and specify libraries underneath it. It doesn't do a great job of hiding passwords from other potential users, but it's not like your Kodi install is portable anyway.

My preference most of the time is Kodi for presentation and direct file playback, Plex for wide "appliance" client support and external access. Plex used to have fully featured Netflix and Youtube clients and could directly play content from Comedy Central and a few news sites, but the API keys...

Kodi. Just configure your NFS shares as a source. Nothing has to be stored on the client other than its internal database.

Assuming Plex? A Haswell or newer i7 for 5x1080P@8Mbps or so. Most of the time, you're not going to need that because Plex will deliver the source file to a LAN client that's capable of playing it without transcoding. If your transcoding it for the web or shared non-local library access, there's...

I realized I had $60 in Amazon credit, so I went ahead and got a Shield K1. It's just small enough that I can put it in my back pocket if I want. Battery life is not fantastic, which I suppose is to be expected, and X-Com: Enemy Within is marked as incompatible with that device, which is a real...

Single sign on in the home? Maybe look at OneLogin? I think they're free for a small number of users and tools. I'm not sure what it's reporting options look like there's probably something. What's the application for it in the home?

I've tried both ways. I normally just copy them over, but it shouldn't matter since SIDs et al aren't terribly relevant and are relatively easy to fix after the fact in any case. My thinking is that Microsoft is fingerprinting the guest OS installs somehow, or that switching from an up-level...

I'm not sure but I've observed it to be the case when I move the guest files from one Hyper-V host (e.g. my laptop to a full-blown Server 2012 install) to another. Oddly, I haven't seen Windows Server guests do it, just desktop Windows. Ideally, I'm trying to find some combination of settings...

qbittorrent also. It works the same way on everything. I think it even has native FreeBSD and OS/2 support. And it definitely doesn't have any built-in ads or rely on JRE.

That still doesn't appear to be true, at least not for a 2x2 antenna on both client and AP-side and a network with no contention for access by a single device. Protocol overhead is a real thing and the rule of thumb that you'll get somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 rated speed appears to hold just...

Here's an interesting question for folks: Does anyone know what if any format I could get away with for building a semi-universal collection of Guest Windows OS desktops that I could use without running afoul of Product Activation? I've found that if I virtualize on Hyper-V, I definitely have...

The only place where I've found to be Hamachi anything less than fully reliable is notebook computers, since Windows is kind of stupid about renegotiating the connection after it's been a sleep or suspend state. I get around that by turning my laptop off when I take it someplace, but it's a...

When I was at school, I worked for the Campus Computing Center. They put me on a 30-hour a week schedule, which was at much as they were allowed to do for a full time student. I liked my job as a Lab Manager more than actually being at school. I made OK money and I was already on campus, it was...

It looks like yet another IM client to me. If Email sucks or the tools that you're using for Email suck maybe the answer is to fix your habits and/or your client.

I have a few problems with it as a concept. It's web based, which is fine and everything since at least it doesn't require another goddamned client, but it also makes every conversation available by virtue of being searchable. Which just means that some conversations will wind up "out of band"...

There's some IT Operations superhero stuff going on there and I see that this is really a matter where their intended temp space got to be stable enough to be seen as permanent storage, but this issue was entirely created by users doing things they weren't supposed to be doing. It's temp space...