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I've observed incorrect behavior on dozens of machines regardless of how they came to run Windows 10. Internet results load first. For me, it's nearly always easier to bring up a Run command or type the name of the program from a shell prompt than to bother using the Search box. Yes, Windows 10...

Some Chinese outfit or other will undoubtedly build a non-spec HDMI splitter that just happens to strip the Protected Media Path bit off output and away we'll go.

The basic display adapter will display true color in 24 bit. It just doesn't offer audio output support or hardware acceleration features, which is fine considering you're using Aspeed graphics in the first place.

You can also choose not to use online help the first time MS Office is run for a given user profile. It's on one of those screens you click past because you really just wanted to do something in Excel.

Right now, no one knows but I'm guessing Intel isn't going to keep making Ivy Bridge and 6-series chipsets just because 20% of their corporate customers standardized on Windows 7 and don't see a reason to switch.

Yes that. Exactly.

I suppose I should have said that the update functions are working again. I'm actually a lot more likely to use DVDfab since it ran in WINE on Linux machines with my auto-ripping scripts, but since AnyDVD always updated in a more timely fashion, having access to both always seemed like a good...

Not that it's free, but if you have a Slysoft license, the software is working again and your product key can be transferred to Redfox, the new ownership, supposedly until April 30th, 2016.

It's pretty easy to see on my classroom PCs, since they're in a relatively vanilla state. Basically, you start typing and Internet Searches immediately start rolling in, in real time. Wait a few seconds and maybe some local files matching your results will show up, even if what you're searching...

I find that search from the Start Menu or in a File Explorer window: 1. Breaks a lot. The front end is a modern-style app. Modern Style apps seem to randomly stop working on Windows 10. We've talked about that. 2. Seems to prioritize internet results over local files (look at what comes up...

Even that's not entirely true. Microsoft won't be providing drivers. That doesn't mean drivers won't be made available. Will Intel stop writing system drivers for old platforms? I'm guessing that it won't, if only because not every large corporate customer is going to want to move their complete...

Essentially all the telemetry crap from 10 has been back-ported to 7 and 8 at this point. Something like Spybot Anti-Beacon can be used to remove it temporarily, but only until Microsoft decides to toss it all in with another round of critical updates. There are real problems with 10: search is...

UPNP doesn't solve the problem I want to solve, which is to maintain the watched/unwatched status of items. Sharing library locations is trivial. I can do that with Plex or Emby as well, but in this case the specific issue is keeping people in one interface (there are addons for Plex and Emby...

Here's a set of instructions for configuring Kodi to read configuration data from a central server, since I just had to Google them.

That's my position as well. I'm fine with Linux in any case but usually it's easier to use Windows, even the versions that kind of suck. And really, the last version of Windows that was actually bad was Vista. 10, for all its warts, is something I'd rather use than 7 or 8.

Has anyone ever managed to get Zotac to accept an RMA? I have a GTX970 that needs to go back and I've completed their warranty registration and tried to RMA several times in the last month, but I've not gotten any responses yet. It's an expensive enough card that I don't really feel like eating...

sed, does that mean you're living on campus or is that money just tuition?

Most of my friends are dancers. I can pretty much always find one or two or four of them if I want to go out and do something, but that doesn't mean I have end-of-evening bedroom company. What I understand to be the problems boil down to these things: 1. Batman doesn't act like a detective...

I don't like Superman as a character and Zack Snyder has made exactly one decent movie (Watchmen), so I don't have any interest in Batman vs. Superman. Since Wednesday (four days at time of writing), its critic score on Rotten Tomatoes has dropped from 40% to 29% and Metacritic has it at 44%. I...

I only mention it because of the annoyance at having to convert 100GB+ files from one VM file type to another. The only mention I could find is that it uses "RAW" files, which I suppose in this context is probably dd images or something.

From my recollection, they've been "nicks" since the early 1990s. What format are you using for your virtualized desktop? Am I wrong or does Unraid use yet another weird VM format? It doesn't look like it's set up to handle import of VHDs or OVF files.

It's a family obligation. My brother would rather inconvenience me than sit on a bus, train or cab with the poors. Fortunately, he hasn't done that to me in a while. Midway isn't terrible to navigate and actually that neighborhood along Cicero and Cermak has a lot of great restaurants but it's...

Every time I have to pick someone up from ORD, it's a four or five hour ordeal on my part. I love the South Bend International airport. Yes, it's international. It gets flights from Canada. It can land a big boy plane. It's also free to park in the lot and the terminal is across a two-lane road...

Rooted Android is still a bit odd since most software is written with the assumption that you can't manage the system yourself, but you can certainly find applications that do enable those capabilities. At the moment, there's no way to change the Windows on-screen keyboard to something else...

Surface (not-Pro) tablets are 12" and have decent-ish Atom CPUs. They run around 10 hours before they have to be plugged in, which will get you through a working day. Windows as a mobile OS has some issues, mostly because typing is a hassle, though Microsoft just bought Swype, which should...

There is wisdom in being a single loner-type person.

I think what I'd really like to see is a Shield Tablet with a Tegra X1 SoC. Supposedly there's one in the works, including indicators that working versions have been demonstrated and benchmarked, but nothing to indicate when if ever such a device might actually ship. The Shield Tablet K1 is...

The one time I was on a plane, I found the experience inconvenient. It's like being on a bus or train, only with worse air, nasty germs and uncontrolled children. When I travel, even to someplace familiar, I tend to sleep very little. The longer the trip, the less pleasant the experience...

I've never been west of the Mississippi.

I'm not aware of an Office 365 plan with a single mailbox capacity limit of more than 50GB. Coug's users say they're too busy to deal with mailbox management as it is. Even if that works OK for the time being, how long would it be before one of his users hit that particular brick wall?

I didn't like Daredevil Season 2 as much as the first season. I think the writing for the Punisher was pretty flat and there was a missing human element from not having the Ben Ullrich character around. There also aren't many ties to the other Marvel Cinematic properties and there's no clear big...

Windows 8+ can sometimes have weirdness related to defaulting a network connection to Public if it thinks for some reason that it's been connected to a new network and/or if an OS upgrade has been applied. Some of my classroom desktops have two LAN ports so even connecting an ethernet cable to...

I'm from central Illinois and I went to middle school in Urbana. Most of my immediate family lives in or around that area. Urbana has an art house theater and Roger Ebert's "home theater" at the Virginia - an honest-to-god movie palace, complete with granitework and a pipe organ and a huge film...

If I had said "Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo", it probably still would've taken a Google. This is my favorite picture from the day. Not pictured: Her dad had a leash so he could just drag her around on her skates.

That's hilarious. When I was in college, my dorm room had campus phone number 3456 for three years, so I got a TON of random calls like that. It was actually pretty common for guys to not believe me. It was all the more reason to just leave the modem connected all the time as far as I was...

Truly, the holy grail of childhood bagged lunches.

A derby pie is kind of a chocolate chip cookie with a pecan-bourbon filling. There's technically a pie crust involved but let's be honest and say that's just there for decoration.

I suggest Derby Pies if we're talking about weird regional dishes with "pie" in the name that are more or less cookies. But anything that's not filled with marshmallow and coated with some kind of sweet plastic-like substance would be an improvement.

It's a southern thing, like NASCAR and boiled peanuts. Moonpies are gross. Like NASCAR and boiled peanuts.

Thanks. I'm sort-of mulling the feasibility of putting one of those in my office as a test rig, but I'm not going to mess with it unless I can get away with desktop cooling

I notice now that when I view an SF page with unread posts, mobile Firefox takes me to the anchor for the first post on the page rather than the first unread post, which I'm about 98% sure is what it used to do.

There are actually fancier Rii (or similar generic) MCE remotes with alphanumeric keyboards on them but I've tried a bunch of them and generally don't like any of the above. I've gotten things like this and while I don't think they're great as remotes, they might be what you're looking for.

Well the phone-based remotes have the software keyboard. Or you can get something like this or this.

If your phone doesn't already have a sensor to tell it when to use the lock screen, you can use Llama or something to establish when it should be running. Or just run your control off a tablet that probably seldom leaves your house anyway.

Does the S2600CP board you guys are buying have a rectangular or square LGA2011 socket?

And yet I have still provided the correct answer. In a less flippant form, you really want an 802.11 interactive remove because bluetooth and IR suck at least some of the time and may not be compatible with the device you wish to use. I can operate Kodi on the TV in my living room while I'm...

Music Pump for Android. It works with Kodi's builtin web server and can also be used to share/cast media from a device to Kodi as a DLNA server, so there's no question of controller range or interface compatibility. It just works with all the Kodi systems you might have.

mubs is right though that there's no reason that signed code and an available checksum are odd omissions.

I've been messing with nightly builds of Kodi v17 lately. They've completely reorganized it and made it more difficult to get third party addons installed or found once they are installed. "Third Party Addons" on Kodi mostly means illegal streaming services, but that's interesting to me because...

My guess is that Intel releases an Atom CPU (Kaby Lake, maybe?) with 20 better per-thread performance than Skylake Core Ms... which are themselves 20% faster per thread than Broadwell. Even if it's a paper launch and actual product doesn't ship at any time in 2016, it'll crater the possibility...