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Send that module back and get a different one? I've never found IBM/Lenovo notebooks to be super picky about RAM, but I usually go out of my way to buy Kingston or Corsair or (most often) Crucial-branded sticks.

Can I just say how much I love it when important functionality is buried in cmdlets but not exposed through management tools? Storage Spaces have the same issue.

There was no way to reset the counter given the software available, but after watching the drives for a couple weeks, one of the suspect drives had its bad read count increase by 97 (from a base value of a little over 200000) and the other had no change over a two week time period. All SMART...

To whom? Most places that offer hosted Exchange are on the order of $8 -10/user/month and would probably balk at trying to migrate Coug's mail stores in their current state, especially given the time-sensitive need for a fix. Is Coug's employer really going to be OK with a ~$15,000 annual...

With regard to screen shape, I vastly prefer a 16x9 screen held in portrait orientation. That gives the sensation that I'm actually reading a book. Most tablet manufacturers subtly hint that you should hold their devices in landscape mode, but why would we care about what they think? Other...

I have a 600-series sitting around my personal pile. I remember it as being eerily thin and light for the time, though now it's chunky compared to all the sexy ultrabooks out there. Another funny thing about those guys: How ever IBM developed the BIOS for those things, they're the oldest...

Right. I want the key give because it's placed where I want to swipe for the space bar. I think it might be an anti left handed person conspiracy.

Yeah, the smiley key. Lower right corner, occupying room that could otherwise be used by more space bar or a carriage return key. I also installed Kik and Whatsapp and it shows up in those as well, but not in Email software, Web browsers or note-taking apps. Like there's some kind of Android...

Do you use Gchat or Skype? There appears to be something with messaging apps that causes it to appear. It does not appear when I type in Firefox or K9.

Can anyone explain to me why the Android keyboard sometimes truncates the spacebar in favor of a key devoted to inserting graphical smiley faces? I've tried all four of the keyboards on my phone and they all do it in at least some applications, most notably Hangouts, but also Skype and other...

Bitlocker is a standard feature of Windows Professional editions as of Windows 8 and one of the most compelling reasons to consider Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise edition for a power user. I don't remember what Lunar uses, but it's clearly not out of reach for him to have it.

They are both built in features of Windows.

Hey, did anyone else start getting GWX crap on WSUS-managed Domain clients in the last couple days?

Kind of a unique idea, this game company is developing a title in which you control a cat who scampers around Kowloon, the walled city/slum in China.

Depends on workload. I'd murder users who started emailing 50MB PDFs every time they scanned something, just on general principle.

It's my experience that EVGA's modular cables aren't even compatible across product lines.

Well, there's the Ricoh option, for which their service techs apparently recommend a freeware FTP server on client desktops in preference to using SMB at all.

If you're on a Windows machine, you have EFS and Bitlocker available to you. Yes, there's something to be said for having a OSS package rather than trusting Microsoft's stack, but it's right there for you to use and if nothing else it's probably strong enough to prevent intrusion from anything...

Still better than my experience with Samsung.

@SD, this is why we should all be very proud of sed. @Handy, timwhit: I'd rather use a roll-up membrane keyboard than any native Apple model. It's not just the lack of standard keys. It's also the lack of key travel. I don't feel like I'm actually typing when I hit the keys. For a company...

dd, why are you looking at UnRAID as opposed to Windows Server or ESXi, two products for which you have vastly more experience? What's it giving you? I briefly considered an UnRAID system last time I changed my storage server but in the end I rejected it because of its limited support for...

I don't have very much involvement with document center type devices except to say that I recently spent eight full hours talking to Ricoh support because they had the wrong scanner drivers for one of their products on their public web site (which is different from the one their support people...

I've been to a lesbian wedding. I'm not sure how much I can enlighten you with regard to the experience because that's actually the only sort of wedding I've ever been to.

It sounds like your "master" BCD data is stored with your Windows 7 installation rather than Windows 10 since your setup is backwards from how I normally see it.

I was reading claims that someone had gotten sharing to work well enough in Hyper-V to service multiple desktop clients for video decoding. Makes me wonder if something like a GTX Titan could be made to run multiple games off one box at the same time. I guess it's a decent enough reason to look...

Kind of an interesting use case for these massive systems: ESXi + PCI pass-through for gaming clients. I wasn't aware that ESXi exposed enough 3D functionality to guest OSes to make this feasible. Has anyone tried it?

Just turn off SmartScreen. You can turn it back on once you've installed the software you want.

You need to set the boot options in Windows 10. Try going in to System Properties, Advanced System Settings, Advanced Tab, Startup and Recovery and see if changing the entries there puts thins the way you want them. If your boot loader is set up properly, you should see the Windows 10 boot...

It's very common - and in fact I talk about it someplace near the beginning of this thread because it became a problem for me during the beta period - to find Windows 10 machines that can't run some or any Modern Style apps. This can also result in Windows Search breaking, the Start Menu...

Now Canon just needs to put a 2.5" drive bay in its next dSLR.

Has anyone found any kind of cause or even correlation for the "Critical Error: Cortana and Start Menu are not working" crap that seems to happen all the time on Windows 10 machines? My lab PCs don't seem to have a problem, but it's far and away the most common problem I see on Windows 10 machines.

I fell asleep during Birdman and never saw a reason to give it another shot. But I liked Philomena and American Hustle and the Grand Budapest Hotel, among recent award nominees.

I wasn't entertained, but I've never been a big fan of DiCaprio.

I have a Plextor drive and I believe dd and LunarTunes have Samsung. I've observed both Samsung and Plextor to get hot in the same fashion. It's just something to look forward to next time you put together a PC.

I guess my cousin got to be an usher at the Oscars this year. He's done it before but it still amuses me. As far as the awards themselves, I thought The Martian was a far better movie than The Revenant and I wish Mad Max: Fury Road had won at least one of the major awards instead of just...

I stuck a heat sink on mine as well. At first I thought mine was just residually hot from proximity to my GPU, but after I read a bit about them I realized it's just one more thing to keep cool. Kind of surprise since mSATA drives really don't get hot at all.

Kind of an interesting Google Recruitment tool, narratives from its Engineers regarding the development of some of its products.

Nope!

As I said, this is all low-use stuff, legacy systems (2 of the drives haven't written one full terabyte of data since they've been deployed, including swap space) that are still irregularly needed. Sometimes, we wind up with parts we don't particularly like because they're what is most readily...

XP was the last version of Windows to use NTLDR and boot.ini. Contemporary versions of Windows use Boot Configuration Data with GUIDs to find bootable Windows installations. Editing BCD entries by hand is a PITA, but EasyBDC is just what it implies and will probably fix you right up.

I'm not running anything that only has CNet and Softpedia downloads on a production system.

So it's domestic espionage then? Congratulations SD.

1. No. 2. Looks like. And EVERYTHING says the drives are OK by SMART settings. It's only when I go look at details in the Samsung Software that I see a problem.

Not really. This is production stuff. It's low-use/low volume, but I can't predict when it's being used, either. Right now it's more of an annoyance than a major problem, so I'd rather not put a bunch of billable hours (and the argument over getting them paid) in to dealing with it unless I'm...

The guys I teach these days are all about Fire Sticks for access to Kodi + Fusion Repo Pirate Streaming sites. That's trivial for a Pi but the Pi is also slower and more expensive (and doesn't have a remote) in comparison. I know you can do stuff like implement a 3D printer with one but you can...

Handy, you don't have access to a full-blown Vsphere setup for personal use? I know you switched jobs but for some reason that surprises me.

Ordinarily, I'd pull drives at the first sign of problems but here's a case where my diagnostic tools don't agree and I can't create a reproducible issue. SSD drives have odd fail states and thus could just be something I don't recognize, which is why I'm third-guessing at this point.

I have a Hyper-V host with four Samsung 850 Pro drives in it, each home to a guest OS install and nothing else. There's also a Intel SSD with the host OS install, but the host is perfectly well behaved and in fact I think it's only ever restarted for Windows Updates maybe five times, total. Two...

Most recently with an LGA1150 board. As I recall, I tried Kingston and Crucial DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMMs and the damned thing wouldn't boot until I stuck in one particular Samsung module. Edit: This bastard.