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I'm assuming you want to do GPU folding. My go-to combo at the moment is a Gigabyte H81N with either an i3-4160 or a Pentium G3220. Down side is that's an ITX system that can only handle one graphics card.

New Marvel series on Netflix tomorrow, Jessica Jones. woot!

I loved programming in school when I was working on projects that were actually interesting. Real-life developer work made me stare longingly at a sharp objects. I graduated right as the first cycle of the internet boom ended, so my feelings on the matter might be the product of a particular...

You could always just boot a custom ROM that does what you need it to do. That's the next step after rooting and unlocking the boot loader anyway. Everyone likes CyanogenMod, but you can also play with something like SlimROMs or BlissROM if you want something a little less vanilla.

I got three i5 / 4GB / 180GB SSD T420s for $500 last week, but I'm just now getting around to checking them out. These things make me so happy. One of them even has the 16x9 panel and nVidia GPU. I'm going to add 4GB RAM since I have the DIMMs just sitting around and I'll resell two of them for...

sed, I teach CompTIA and Microsoft Professional certifications as part of my day job. My co-workers do MOS stuff. If you want study materials or something, let me know. I don't think the A+ represents a good value at the moment. The cert is only valid for two years and costs over $250. The...

Looks like last year's $300 Android Wear devices are this year's $125 or less impulse buys. I still don't need one, but Amazon has an LG G Watch for $90, which is cheap enough that I'd consider it just to play with.

First, the product key and media of a full Windows CoA can be used for a license/region appropriate upgrade. You can't upgrade a Volume License copy and I'm not sure if an OEM key will upgrade a retail (say, Technet) edition either. My guess is that it would, or at least it would if you called...

Perhaps you could do a moderate amount of product research and offer up some baselines of your own. For example, there's probably not a huge difference between a 2-drive Buffalo SOHO NAS and a Drobo 5N. They both have ARM CPUs and a relatively tiny amount of RAM. When you move up to the 8/16-bay...

I'm aware of the limitations of the GPO (which don't really help on home machines), which is why I was looking at scripting... except that Modern-style apps aren't really scriptable, even from Powershell. It's even kind of a pain in the butt to launch one from a script. I don't really like the...

With regard to the second point, you'd almost certainly want some kind of up to date discrete GPU but you do have one of the few machines out there that could probably brute force respectable 4k. ;)

I'm also looking for a way to autmatically set Edge's search to something besides Bing, but as far as I can tell Edge isn't even a tiny bit scriptable. The most I can really do is start it and tell it to go to a specific site.

Did you look at the Optional settings? There are some additional controls to stop communication with Bing and Onedrive, stopping Cortana and disallowing Office Updates. I'm not sure I understand the motivation for the last one (piracy?) but I ran everything on a vanilla machine and saw that it...

I'll check it tomorrow when I'm at my basically dial-up site. Apparently, the fall update to Windows 10 has a couple unwelcome behaviors: it re-sets some app defaults back to Microsoft's software AND it uninstalls some security and monitoring tools. I noticed in particular that it removes...

As a matter of some interest to people who might want to root their phone to remove stupid apps, some kind soul at XDA Developers has created the Debloater, a tool for disabling and hiding third party applications that does NOT require root.

This reminds me that I have something to tease strippers about this month. Especially the one who keeps clogging up my bathtub drain.

When I was looking at getting 10GbE stuff, it looked to me like the cheapest I could get away with was around $300/port. US$1500 - $2000 probably isn't wholly unreasonable right now.

I've had no better experience with Brother inkjets than any other brand but you're right that you're not going to have many choices given your format needs.

Most ISPs where I live give their users free Norton Internet Security or Mcafee-whatever in the New Customer install disc that includes their support software. I think Comcast subscribers just get NIS free regardless. I can very easily see someone being confused about this. I've also seen...

Oh! And just to be slightly on topic: Another new feature in the Windows 10 Update! You can now set an external drive or camera card to be the default for new program installations by default through a system-level preference.

Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended on January 13th, 2015. It's security updates only from now on. 8.x is much faster than 7 in two subjectively important ways: boot/wake-up time and in opening huge folders full of files. File copies are also (slightly) faster and the progress estimates tend...

Another possibility: the reset may be set up in such a way that minimum partition sizes are larger than the 64GB total available on that SSD.

Apparently, the first major update for Windows 10 will add support for directly installing from a Windows 7+ product key using Windows 10 media. Which is how it should have worked all along.

Usually, when I see popups like that, they're infected Java craps. But it could be just about anything. Run adwcleaner and MBAM (in safe mode if posible) and I'd be willing to bet one or the other will take care of it. One crappy thing about malware is that there's always new malware. Your mom...

Teamviewer will work really well but it's technically not free and the commercial version is kind of expensive. You could also set up an UltraVNC 1 click Connect or the free version of Join.me. Another option would be to configure Hamachi and run Remote Assistance through that.

Is Java installed on her PC?

Believe it or not, they're just floating around on the internet. A couple minutes of looking also showed that some people have gotten 2.1 and 3 both to run in Virtualbox including SVGA and ISO image mounting for CD support. What do you want to bet we could con sedrosken into fussing with it...

I was tearing my hair out over this one. After getting a batch of new Gigabyte H81N-based PCs that would install 8.1 fine but not take a Windows 10 upgrade, failing with error code C1900101-20017. I thought it might've been some combination of UEFI/Legacy boot settings or just a shipment of bad...

I don't remember that feature being present in OS/2 2.1. I couldn't say if it was in 3.0 or not as I barely used it before moving on to FreeBSD.

You can also tag files and folders with colors in Finder as a way of grouping data. You can set up ad hoc libraries for projects. OSX does a great job of hiding where data actually is, but that's something every file management tool can use.

Something I will say is that El Capitan addressed one of my biggest complaints on OSX: a lot of system preferences used buttons that had no contrast against the background, so you could very easily miss that they were buttons at all (e.g. the + symbol on the new printers window). They've made...

I've found that I can't submit a form on SF using recent builds of Firefox or Palemoon for Android. I'm just checking on my phone and a couple tablets. I'm definitely logged in. It's just like the "submit reply" button doesn't do anything. Can anyone else replicate that?

One suspects the "Windows Button" is the button with the Windows symbol on it that Windows commonly links to the Windows keys on a 104 key keyboard. While right-clicking on it does helpful things, I like the very easy functionality available from Win-X instead, as all the keyboard shortcuts...

Here's where I'm at with any new install of Firefox: 1. Change default search to not-Yahoo. Google or DuckDuckGo. Fine. But not Yahoo. And then do the same for the homepage. 2. Remove the useless commercial third-party crap from the default toolbar. I'm convinced that no one in the history of...

I bought a couple Node 804s last time I was at a Microcenter. They were only $50 instead of whatever they normally are. I haven't done anything with them yet, but they're 10-bay cube shaped enclosures that I'll probably not have a problem using.

Apparently Netflix 4k streaming only works if you have a compatible SmartTV or either a Roku 4 or an nVidia Shield at the moment, and you need to be on the $8/month plan.

Netflix has some 4k content if you're on a streaming plan that says you're capable of using 4k, as do Youtube and Vimeo (if you pay for Vimeo). There's also a very small number of 2160p movie titles floating around pirate sites, though I don't know where those originate. Most humorously to me...

I sincerely doubt it. Your dad is probably used to hearing all that stuff in mono from an AM radio. Plus you're ripping to a lossy format in the first place. Why bother with a bit perfect copy if you're going to immediately toss 20% of the data?

The one knock I have with Windows 8.1 (and Server 2012r2) is that it still has the Charms bar. The Charms bar blows. Honestly, I think I'd take Windows 8.1 as a starting point, but at least complete the upgrade to 10 so you can have it in the future if you some day want it. From a...

Yup. They've been out since this spring. Of course that leads to the obvious question "Why 200GB and not 240?" and I don't have an answer for that.

That machine seems expensive for what you're getting. I understand why that is, but you're really paying a premium for what would easily be under $1000 otherwise.

I still haven't been able to buy a fully functional replacement screen for my G4. None of them have had a functional light sensor.

Unfortunately, that error can mean lots of things, like missing BCD data or a registry that won't load properly or because the installer is looking for some specific partition layout. Lenovo does usually install a bunch of its tools after the base system install with batch files. Sometimes...

Plenty of people won't use a touchpad. I think that's more than a little foolish, since having to carry and use a mouse is just one more thing to deal with and the touchpad is always available.

I've done Windows 8.1 on a T540, but that was off included DVDs. Where did you get this USB drive? Also, if you're doing Windows 8 or 8.1, you can install from any OEM disc without need of a product key. The OEM branding will just magically appear. I can make you the relevant media if you need it.

The only touchpad I've ever had difficulty with is Apple's. The T450's doesn't bother me a bit, though I do think it's bigger than it needs to be.

Are you sure you're a root user?

Just a tiny correction since I just noticed this: The full-on Txy0 or Txy0p models DO have two DIMM slots. The Txy0s models just have one slot. They're the slimmer/lighter guys and lack some of the modular characteristics anyway, so that's not wholly unexpected. I really don't like the...

Parts of HP's web site not being available is just business as usual, as far back as the mid-90s. Shitting in its computers probably should be as well.

Every time I try to do something with Veeam on ESXi, it either won't work or it's ridiculously slow. I've had better luck just directly enabling SCP and copying that way. Maybe it's better if you have licensed servers, but at that point you also have access to a better suite of tools in the...