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Well it's been plugged in (with a branded Lenovo DP to VGA adapter - I'm not going to have access to displayport-anything in my datacenter) for the last six hours. I'm actually a bit more concerned that I don't get video off a PCIe video card, but I can't hazard a guess what the firmware thinks...

The headmounted cam gives everything a "video game" feel. I was entirely willing to believe I was watching a game rather than filmed entertainment. The guys who make that channel have a bunch of other first-person content. It's really cool stuff and I'm glad I took the time to watch it on a real...

The Intel is clearly the better drive as of now but I suspect that it practical terms it will make minimal subjective difference.

It's not as loud as I thought it would be but it's definitely not quiet once the fans start. It is by far the least loud 1U server I've worked with. It's also a lower pitched noise, not nearly so aggravating as the SuperMicro/Intel stuff I usually deal with. Bigger problem right now is that...

As far as I'm concerned, if it can't have the Malware Domains block list installed, it's not worth using in the first place. I think most Adblock Plus-type extensions usually check at browser start. I'm not sure if they check more often than that.

I deal with Sharepoint for a few customers. It's not bad, but when people have it, it's just like Exchange and they want to use it for everything, which causes me headaches. I've also discovered that it's easier to fix Sharepoint crap by recovering from backups than trying to figure out what's...

Handy, I do believe Riffed-up movies are in my Plex libraries someplace if you want to see more of 'em.

My new tv pc doesn't want to talk to my receiver and that's pissing me off. Anyway, this is a film, not game footage. The guys who made it did a making of post on Imgur. https://youtu.be/45O-GAi0gNw Someone fix the embed if it's not right. I'm doing this on my phone.

An i3, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD. Probably on an ITX board unless I knew I had a reason to do something else. That's plenty of computer for almost every non-gaming task.

Interesting that Lenovo claims that their 1U RD550 has a typical operating noise level of just 35 decibels. If that's true, it's witchcraft.

timwht's answer is really the right way to learn how to deal with munged file names. You really do have to be careful with MP3 renaming tools because, depending on where the music came from, sometimes the tags are messed up or not present at all. Telling a top-level folder to do that for dozens...

Setting aside classical music (i.e. the music that will actually be known and enjoyed in 100 years. Go look at a greatest hits list from 1916 and see what I mean) entirely, the 20th century saw the rise of recorded music, the birth of Jazz and Rock and Roll, America's preeminent contributions to...

Down sides: the RD550 doesn't have an internal NIC. The Ethernet port is for management... and that unit also doesn't have the KVM over IP module included. It also uses Displayport-only for display and a little reading online says non-Lenovo cheapies almost never work. I usually shy away from...

Mildly off topic but I don't feel like starting a new thread so have any of the usual suspects worked with Lenovo RD550 systems yet? I need to assemble four systems that have outgrown what I can get with the Xeon E3s I normally use for things and I really can't touch the price I'm seeing for...

I have a 13U rack, which is as much rack as I need. I can't even have a rack in my office at work.

I don't know that it's ever been one of the better ones. Housecall is kind of handy, but Trend's desktop products have never particularly impressed me. Kaspersky has its heuristics to recommend it, but it's WIDELY rumored that Eugene Kaspersky makes his own Malware just to screw with everyone...

...Plus you'd need the other drive letters for all the things that are porn. I will say that I don't have 5TB of music and if I segregate episodic tv, movies and "other", no single one of those categories is more than 8TB, but I'll exceed that number in a few months.

Don't the wheel controls just interact with the head unit no matter what is piping through it? Or are you expecting it to be able to interact directly with Android?

Mmmm floor pie.

If you're willing to cut back to "only" a 3.6GHzx8-thread turbo clocked i7 6700T is 15W idle 31W Max TDP vs. 15/65W for the grown-up (letterless or -K) variants. That's still within reach of a PicoPSU, even with a Maxwell-series GPU. For the EEs (or at least guys with a lot more of an...

Now we just have to hope that all our Skylake CPUs aren't destined to turn up as paving materials likth FDIV-bug impacted P54C Pentiums were.

You remember Philip Glass's first symphony? o.0

Looks to me like a Corsair Platinum-rated VS350 is only $130 on Amazon. Or you could get a PicoPSU 150 for $50, which is enough to handle your Intel desktop CPU / NB / SSD / 2.5" HDD / RAM.

Forwarding texts is pretty simple. Phone is at least possible if you have a fully Google Voice-enabled number. I believe it's otherwise blocked by carriers, but you might be able to do some goofy tricks with call forwarding and another VoIP carrier. I can make Vonage calls on my tablet, for example.

It's not quite that straightforward, since the SSD(s) aren't quite just memory cache sitting in top of the array like you might think. What helps more is looking at 1 vs. 2 vs. 4 drives per space. In practice I've found that two (120GB, usually) drives is a happy medium for an 8 drive array but...

I'm not sure how much of a tip this is, but Google Photos will actually back up arbitrary folders on your device's internal storage if you go look under Settings. The whole thing is a bit useless if all your pictures are on an SD card, but Android in general seems to have shed its ability to do...

The thing that I know about David Bowie: He was the guy in Labyrinth! In the late 90s, he sold commoditized securities valued on his future earnings. He set up his own global ISP. This was covered kind of a lot in late-90s tech outlets like Wired Magazine. Philip Glass's 1st Symphony takes its...

Storage Spaces don't really start to drag until you start dealing with parity checking. This should not be news to anyone here.

I'm sure those will be solid products, but ATX power supplies have been around for what? 20 years now? How much more refinement can there be? Now we can all wait patiently and see what JohnnyGuru has to say about them. Probably good things. Good, expensive things.

Why not just repurpose an old tablet for your Nav/Audio needs and leave your head unit connected to its Aux/USB input all the time?

Gigabyte boards will boot USB drives just fine as long as Legacy boot is still in the Start Options. Some boards default to UEFI only, which is a tiny headache, but one that should already be overcome by the time Linux gets on a PC. So my vote is dying PC. Which is probably cold comfort at this...

Not that we're even remotely on topic but... Down side to those high resolution streams is that they take forever to upload and relatively few people can watch them. Even the guys who somehow manage to put eight hours of content a day on Youtube have a real bottleneck at that point and there's...

It's a little off topic, but speaking of PC rigs on Youtube, I can't believe how often I see some Streamer bragging about their gaming rig with $2000 worth of GPUs and... "I only have a 250GB SSD, so we had to run this one on the recording drive."

There's huge value to the up side, particularly since it's not hardware dependent and allows me to cobble together massive single-machine setups if I want them (which I do). It's also much easier to deal with than ZFS, which is a massive pain to in-place expand and has huge RAM requirements. You...

Ditch 3.5" but keep 5.25"? Seriously? Can we talk about misplaced priorities for a minute?

That's in line with my experiences.

Violet Blue on the reason all advertising should be treated as hostile, using the ironic case of Forbes.com insisting users turn off Adblock while at that very moment serving malware from an ad partner.

SD's wife is Chinese. Visiting the in-laws?

I didn't really like AirDroid's UI. Frankly, almost nothing happens on my phone that isn't duplicated in other places, but I have set up Pushbullet for my modest "show me notifications on other devices" needs.

At one time I had a low profile GTX750 sitting around that I was confusing with a short-depth GTX750Ti. I went with the i3 6100T. In theory the whole thing is going to be using maybe 120W full-bore (if I ever make the GPU do anything) and perhaps ~15W - 20W at idle. That doesn't seem too bad...

I need to replace my NUC with... something. The issue is that the current Haswell NUC I have has grossly inadequate cooling, something that's highly apparent when I try to use it at 2160p resolution. Intel doesn't leave me many options to mod in cooling and based on discussions I've read, it...

I need to replace my NUC with... something. The issue is that the current Haswell NUC I have has grossly inadequate cooling, something that's highly apparent when I try to use it at 2160p resolution. Intel doesn't leave me many options to mod in cooling and based on discussions I've read, it...

What are those of us who wear eyeglasses supposed to do with this tech? Do we need to input our prescription so that the image can be corrected for our vision, or do we just fuck right off until someone builds the display into the eyeglasses in the first place?

... and it's back now, at least on the web. I didn't see it last night and I didn't see it this morning.

Speaking of internet retailers with useless web sites, has anyone looked at Newegg in the last few days? They've ditched the left-hand column that used to have the power search options, like which ATX boards have a 4-lane PCIe slot or eight USB 3 ports. The power search isn't in their mobile app...

There's a world of difference between a $1000 TV and a $4000 one, and that's what the difference between a normal 4k TV and an OLED model is right now.

I'm mostly annoyed that I have the last Marantz Receiver that has to get firmware updates from a service center rather than over the internet. It's supposed to be capable of handling 4k but not unless I pay $100 and ship it out for two weeks.

I believe Handy is correct that they're both internally lossless codecs, but I have no idea what is happening where as far as mixing with the channels you don't have.

The worst thing was walking that giant Samsung TV down three flights of stairs by myself. Right now, what I can say is that nothing plugged in through my Marantz receiver will negotiate a 4k video connection. My FireTVv2 (native HDMI), my NUC (mini-DP to HDMI) and an in-progress GTX970-based...

Interesting. It looks to me like I'm going to have to build a new TV PC since my NUC is no longer adequate for my needs.