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Given that these things are stuck using an SD card for storage anyway, I'm thinking that lack of a gigabit port isn't a particular bottleneck. I have to teach Rpis as a class in May, but I'm not supposed to be teaching any sort of programming. I have no idea what I'm going to actually teach. It...

I've been punished for not buying tested RAM for a Supermicro system in the past. You don't do that too many times before you just buy something on the HCL. I'll admit that getting the narrow heat sink is a hassle but I'd pay $20 extra for a fuss-free Asrock board, given than I already have my...

There's something to be said for an unused board and you also have to remember that if you're buying a CPU of a certain age, it's going to cost a quarter what it did new and probably still have 80% of the per-core performance of current top-end stuff.

From what little bit I read, it sounds like the only thing you can really do is bump up the DPI of your system fonts or change your screen resolution until they're readable.

Short answer: Yes. Even LGA1366 Xeon Systems can be objects of lust when you can get 8 or 12 threads for under $100.

Having recently taken apart an S6, all I can say is if you even think you might have to take apart your phone is don't go with the Samsung. Rear glass should be fucking illegal.

The LG G5 has a QHD display, removable battery (now 4000mA vs. 2800 on the G4), card reader and apparently some kind of internal expansion port. Neat. In other news, the SD card and waterproofing are back on the Samsung GS7.

Consider that after the floods in 2011, these guys were going around to Sam's Club and Costco to buy up local stock so they could de-shell cheap external drives. I'm guessing they're not big enough to get the breaks they want/need directly from drive vendors or top-tier suppliers but too big for...

I suspect there might be newer definitions and legal standards for that stuff and the problem relates to the search terms you're using, but then I also know my state has electronic service's that still mandate IE, so... Maybe?

As long as you have the 1115 media, yes. I can put the ISO someplace if you want my copy of it.

Yeah. They actually say that it has a lot to do with OEM availability from their channel partners.

As far as I can tell, this is perfectly acceptable, but if you use it that way, I don't believe you can reactivate that key for Windows 7.

The most current report makes WD look worse. Once the 3TB "DM" Barracudas were removed from their pods, the rest of Seagate's drives fell in at approximately average levels of reliability, including the other 3TB Seagate models. If you read the whole post, they basically say that the Seagate...

Buck said it's operating independently. I trust his insight on the matter but I don't know why they wouldn't be replacing everything they do with HGST tech.

Actually part of the fun for me is explaining what some of the terms mean. Bukkake. Heteronormativity. The Nietzschian Concept of the Ubermensch. Aaron Burr. Today someone played the printed card that says "(my real, full name)'s Penis." We had to stop for about five minutes because not everyone...

I got the employees of my local Deja Vu so hooked on Cards Against Humanity that nighttime dancers actually started coming in on their off time because t's all the daytime shift people talk about. We had an 11 person game this evening and most of the players were dancers in street clothes. I...

I did get a UAP-AClite. Range is a bit lower than my homebrew AP, especially on the 5GHz band, but my signal hasn't dropped all day, so my FireSticks and tablets are happier.

Music Pump is a particularly nice Kodi remote. I've tried a couple others but this one supports sharing media to Kodi via DLNA, which makes it really useful for picking and screen casting YouTube videos, among other things.

I think that I don't like uMatrix as well. It's really neat for showing what's running and what it does, but Noscript is ironically less of a hassle because I'm having to go back and sort out script and object dependencies again, something I already did when I started using Noscript. I also find...

I've wasted too much damned time dealing with Outlook misfeatures. Glad you got it.

The issues aren't quite the same as what I'm experiencing, since it's actively adding incorrect information to replace the data that's already part of the file. I was actually annoyed enough by the behavior to try chatting with a Play Music support person. She insisted that Play Music accepts...

I like the desktop Picasa application for managing personal photos. I like that it recognizes faces. I like that it's easy to add tags and I like that it integrates with Google's online photo galleries since I was actually using Picasa even before Google bought it. But, like a lot of things...

Does anyone else have problems with Google Play Music not respecting metadata on uploaded files, or is it another one of those things that only happens because I like classical music and nothing understands it? Case in point: I upload this album. It is fully tagged with both the front and back...

Here's the latest update. They ditched the one problematic Seagate 3TB drive model. WD looks like it's generally unimpressive now. Those HGSTs though. Wow.

It might be, but no hardware seems to be using it if it is. This is actually a matter of some concern since I can get any Android web browser you care to mention to die from lack of RAM with very little effort.

I currently have a 2013 model. The display flickers off sometimes like the inverter went off.

That is genuinely cool. I'd actually really like to see some efforts to make old Windows software run emulated on mobile devices without having to jump through a lot of hoops. It's not like an eight-core ARM or low-end Atom doesn't have the resources to make that happen.

Is it just me or has progress on high end tablets just sort of stopped? The Samsung Note Pro 12" tablet is still as far as I can tell the best representative of a state of the art Android device, now two full years after its introduction. Android seems to top out at 3GB RAM, 8 core 1.8 - 2GHz...

Proper comic book fans tend to be middle aged adults with decent levels of disposable income. A single comic book with 22 pages of content usually costs $4, so reading lots of them gets expensive really quickly, especially since a fan will probably be buying 10+ titles in a given month. Even...

I like the idea but I think I'll wait for a humble bundle or discounted GoG release. I'd probably like the game a lot but $20 for four hours is a bit steep.

It's entirely possible that they're better than they used to be. Splash used to swear by SuperMicro stuff but I found it to be really hit or miss over the years.

Deadpool is probably one of the most popular comic characters created in the last 25 years. The script for the movie has existed for 10 years. Fan outcry after test footage was leaked on the internet is what got the movie made in the first place. There is definitely a pre-existing fan base.

Two of the main characters were a talking raccoon and an ambulatory tree. The final battle included a dance sequence and the soundtrack was basically 1981's greatest hits. What part of that ISN'T suggestive of comedy? With regard to familiarity with Deadpool: The movie is fully aware that only...

That's a big part of my reasoning for owning an LGA 2011v3 system in the first place. It's definitely coming in handy as I test things like SQL Server failover clusters.

I have yet to come up with a palatable arrangement of cables so that I can keep my big desktop in my bedroom closet but all my stuff at my desk. I can make it work but it's really ugly and I'll have to leave the closet door open, which I have in the past found to be problematic for...

Twinax is twinax as far as I've been able to find. Why not look in to infiniband (40Gb) if you're at the point where you're doing something as exotic as using anything that has SFP ports in the first place?

Deadpool is EXTREMELY funny. Funnier than Guardians of the Galaxy, if that's anything to go on. It's also a hard R-rated movie. There's tits aplenty. Bodies get mutilated. Ryan Reynolds shows ass at the drop of a hat. Stan Lee has what might be his most memorable cameo. The character directly...

I really want to see an Android release of X-Com 2 but apparently 2k Games closed the division of the studio that made the Android port of X-Com: Enemy Within. The PC release is another one of those Steam-only things. Firewatch does look beautiful. I saw a bunch of screenshots from it on Imgur...

It has a miniPCIe slot. I'd probably stick a high power Atheros card on it if I go that route. I'm more than half tempted to just get a UAP AClite and call it a day but I do have several devices with 3x3 antennas.

Firefox does still run on Android 2.3. In my experience, it's pretty crashy on anything less than 512MB RAM, so that's of limited value for low-spec devices.

I have several UAP-LRs sitting around already. I haven't found them to offer superior range over and above my current AP and I'd rather not have to deploy two APs to get 5GHz coverage. There might be a workable solution in just getting a better antenna or messing with TX power but I have a...

I'm almost positive Dell printers share an OEM with Lexmark or else there's someone at Dell who decided to take "being as crappy as Lexmark" as some kind of goal or obligation. I have a few customers with Brother MFC-9xxx printers. No one complains about them, which is more than I can say about...

Necro-posting for the win! Something I've encountered a couple times in the last few weeks, most recently and most infuriating in my apartment building: DirectTV's newest TV box has a ridiculously strong 5GHz transmitter and that really messes with anything I'd expect to use a fixed 5GHz...

I think Microsoft has demonstrated its commitment to making good software for Android, OSX and, so far as is possible given the shittiness of the platform, iOS.

The media creation tool will let you create a 32 and/or 64 bit ISO of either Home or Pro.

I've been researching uMatrix as a potential replacement for Noscript. Here's an interesting post describing the reasons for looking at competing security addons. I've linked to the Google cache because the raw page actually errors out, but the content is good and interesting.

As far as I'm aware, the 1115 media is the newest release that was made available.

Here's my idea: Put Outlook into offline mode Close Outlook. Change the name of the "good" .ost. Copy the "bad" .ost to the good one's old name. Open Outlook. Export the messages to a .pst. Close Outlook. Rename the "good" file back to its old name. That might work.

Probably. I'll look around. I have scads of C2D boards and CPUs that I can't quite bring myself to recycle yet.

Better theory is that Vista machines are much more likely to have an unsupported CPU configuration and so they can't take the upgrade anyway. Why get people's hopes up?