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It is. It works with my FireTV, for example.

My NUC overheats after about 20 minutes of trying to push 4k video but it definitely will push DTS-MA out to my Marantz receiver. Maybe you can get to where you need to be by reassigning inputs on your receiver?

I'm actually going to swap my 70" Samsung TV and a sound bar (and some labor time in hooking everything up) for a still-in-the-box 60" LG 4k set sometime this week. The 70" TV is too big for the space I have in the first place, but with any luck I'll have some things to say about it tomorrow or...

I get asked to find and download one-off songs a lot. Google has done a really good job of pulling video ripping tools out of its app store, but thankfully, Amazon has stepped up with tons of options. After doing some auditions, the best thing I've found for that is Tubemate Pro. You do have to...

I would like to say that it is a happy year but observed results from previous days in 2016 suggest it will be mediocre at best.

Or you could just VPN to an IP inside the country where you'd prefer your Googles. Every so often, I accidentally browse the web on my dedicated VPN (outbound) machine, which makes Google think I'm Swedish. It doesn't redirect me to Google.se on other PCs, but it DOES keep magically changing my...

Based on past experience with Supermicro PSUs, if you went that route, you'd better plan on keeping your NAS box in your garage unless you want something you can hear in the shower.

Here's a cool thing: The Intel Remote Keyboard turns your Android into the keyboard and mouse for a Windows PC.

I'm OK with it. The convenience of the file and PC-based playback normally outweighs any interest I have in special features or a BD's god-awful menu system. If I like a movie enough to have actually purchased it, yeah, I'll probably actually watch the special features once. But probably 2 out...

With regard to upgrading an existing install to a Pro install, you just do it by clicking "Change Product Key" in System Properties. That makes sense, right?

There's nothing stopping you from running a local WSUS server or or a third party tool that emulates it. I linked to a tool that will mirror the complete content of Windows Update for any selected products in the Toolbox thread I post to occasionally. Tannin being a screwdriver shop owner, I...

Mechanically. I had a hell of a time getting a replacement backplane after one of them fizzled. I actually asked for a newer one but was told they won't fit in the chassis I have.

I don't old the Hyper 212 in high regard because its fans can't be oiled, but until it starts making creak-creak-creak bearing noises, it's stilll going to do a better job cooling an LGA115x CPU than a stock Intel cooler.

Their contention is that it's pretty much impossible to verify the quality of a splitter with regard to, for example, intermittent contact issues, and that power problems are the main reason for issues with backplanes. The support folks were pretty insistent that anyone filling a chassis needs...

Also, there's two different models of RPC4224. Make SURE you get one with the newer backplanes, because Norco can no longer supply the older ones. I know this because both mine are older and I had to BEG to get status-unknown spares from them (one of which just happened to be defect free). You...

Norco will tell you over and over that they want 12x native Molex (no splitters) connectors for powering their backplanes. That means really having to hunt or getting a replacement cable kit for whatever modular PSU you wind up using. There's also a 3x120mm fan plate for the 4224 that you'll...

The Venue is just fine for lots and lots of stuff. Pretty much everything that isn't web browsing or gaming, it's pretty good for. It makes a decent E-reader amd music player and I'm about 200% more likely to run Modern-style apps on it than on a laptop or desktop.

I've been fairly impressed with Asrock's workstation boards. They're a lot less picky about RAM than SuperMicro.

I use two Norco 24 bay chassis for my big file server. One of them got modded into an SAS enclosure. I have a pair of LSI 9211s (in TI mode) and a pair of HP SAS Expanders installed. The Norco chassis are huge and take standard desktop parts rather than noisy rackmount gear, so in addition to...

Correct. That's how I've always done it.

If I were only buying a small number of drives, I'd buy the big HGSTs. As it stands, I'm ultimately going to replace 24 3TB drives. I do have another ~30 4TB drives, but at the moment, I'm most interested in getting a meaningful capacity upgrade for the three and four year old Hitachi and...

They're LSI 9211s, either Dell or IBM branded but flashed to standardized firmware. They're well behaved for SATA or SAS but work with hot-swap bays, external enclosures and SAS expanders. There are faster controllers in the world but nothing is really better in terms of compatibility or price...

It's actually OK for my needs. Things get added. Things never get removed. It doesn't matter if it's slow unless I'm doing a bulk copy.

This is a straight copy between two Windows Server Storage spaces. One consists of 7x5TB SMR drives (20TB array) + 500GB cache drvie. The other is a pair of 4x4TB Ultrastar 7k4000s. The drives are connected to a pair of LSI SAS controllers (the two external drives are in an external SAS chassis...

Well that'll be a slight improvement!

Which one? I like the Sense V2 clock. I also like "Authentic Weather" but the novelty factor isn't high enough to make me actually use it.

Are you sure you want an 18TB RAID5 given the mathematical certainty of having a hard read error during an array rebuild of a data set that large? I try not to make RAID5 arrays larger than 12TB. SD, as far as I can tell, the "intentional messing with firmware" is limited to those Eco-type...

I think the plan is one Star Wars movie a year going forward from now until the end of time.

I've used it for limited personal needs. I found that it was faster for me to use btsync most of the stuff I thought would not be OK in Google Drive.

No Jar-Jar. Does not suck. DOES manage to be funny in moments without being over the top or breaking tone. Magic was captured. You know that "Chewie, we're home."-moment from the trailers? Yeah. The whole movie has that.

New Star Wars is spectacular. You probably already know that. I am telling you anyway. I got to see it twice tonight. I don't think 3D is necessary (I appreciated the color reproduction of a non-3D screen) but I did also pay for an IMAX ticket and I do think the larger screen is worthwhile even...

I've seen it once and I'm waiting for the second showing to start now. I'm not going to spoil anything yet.

My uncle and my father both have some. The guy my dad dealt with had a chess timer by his phone to track time because $600/hour adds up even 2 minutes at a time.

There is a human infant in my apartment right now. It is seven months old. Mostly it seems to fall over from a sitting position and/or try to put its toes and/or whatever parts of the nearest cat it can reach into its mouth. Quoting Tron would be a distinct improvement.

A best-case rule of thumb is that your maximum throughput will be about half the rated maximum claimed by the spec. 1/3 the speed is probably more realistic and, again, it depends on the number of active clients and sessions, the transceiver and antenna arrangements and even more environmental...

I just get a couple people who live around the Westmont store to meet me over there when I need cheap i5/i7s in exchange for $5 worth of Starbucks. Sometimes they don't have the stock I want and that's when I make the extra trip to Fry's. I don't like Fry's as well though.

At one time at least, Microsoft sold high security Windows configurations to governmental organizations. I suspect they get to review code even if they rest of us don't.

I suspect there will be a patch before too terribly long. You have an external firewall and don't expose your home PCs via any remote services other than Plex, right? I'm more concerned about how far back Microsoft will patch or address this vulnerability. I have more not-R2 (Vista's cohort)...

Yeah but Fry's definitely isn't so bad when it's selling an i7 CPU for $100 less than Amazon or at least price matching what the local Microcenter is doing. Which is really handy since Microcenter doesn't like selling anyone two of the same CPU in a month.

The service exists and it's still running, so yes, this impacts home PCs as well. If you're on the Public firewall profile and have no User accounts with(!) a password (and therefore don't use any Windows file sharing or the like), you're much more safe than a Windows server. Safety decreases...

Anything that does network authentication. Even if you're implementing someone else's Single Sign on toolchain, it still ultimately has to authenticate through Kerberos and that's real, real bad.

You absolutely NEED to go and change the info to stuff you control ASAP. I know several people who can't change their Microsoft account info because some random person set their account up five years ago and now they can't prove they own the account to Microsoft's satisfaction.

That's super-ugly. How does something like that pass a security audit in the first place?

Just to support Tea's observations, it's about 12x faster for me to copy 20 10GB files than it is for me to copy 100 200MB files. I'm not sure what the drive firmware could be responding to though, since no one drive should have more than 1/5 of the data for any one file in the array, regardless...

I pulled my SMR drive array (7x5TB RAID6 + 500GB SSD) out to copy it to a set of off-site drives and reads seem HIGHLY inconsistent now where before I felt they were really fine. Short writes, up to maybe 20GB, are fast to incredible, able to sustain 250MB/sec (probably the max write speed of...

On a standard drive with Windows installed, the x00000098 error would mean that your BCD folder is hosed for some reason. Startup Repair usually fixes that, or you can actually manually run BCDedit and fix it by hand. Since you're running it on a flash drive with no other disk, it sounds like...

I have that happen every once in a while off a sysprep install. Usually I can bring up task manager and restart the stuck process.

Every December, my company runs a series of crafts classes for the holiday season. From my perspective, these classes serve mostly to annihilate any and all printers that are set before those classrooms. In past years, I've just bought a few of whatever and let them die. This year, I just...

Sadly, I made my big bundle of stupid purchases last week.

Does the Yoga have multiple USB ports? What if you went to a powered USB hub and then to your keyboard?