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There are M.2 to single port SAS adapters. I think you'd be losing out on the real whole "direct connection to PCIe" aspect of M.2 if you went that route. I don't know if you've noticed, but M.2 SSDs get really, really warm. I'm not sure I'd be too happy having to air cool a bunch of them.

I got to play with a Steam Controller and Steam Streaming tonight. I built a gaming rig for a friend and we downloaded and messed around with her game collection for a while. I was just curious as to whether streaming actually works and... it sure seems to, as long as you're plugged in with...

If we were given open access to our hardware, rooting wouldn't be necessary. This is the same problem OSX has with its current rootless UNIX and cheap Wintel machines have because of UEFI.

At times, fire is righteous. Thus is the whole of my word.

When I was looking in to Infiniband stuff, I saw a lot of guys ranting about how hot 10GbE kit was. I thought they might've been exaggerating, but that graph suggests otherwise. 5W/port is hotter than some x86 CPUs at this point. I did finally hook up my cables for long enough to verify...

Where is this? Is that an employer plan?

OSX is going through user space bullshit right now as well. They've disabled root access (without going in to single user mode to disable the package that keeps users out of it), so users with lots of shell mods and UI customizations are hosed. Many people think the ultimate goal is to move OSX...

Some people in my office are saying they upgraded their home computers over the weekend, but not voluntarily. They basically got a message that said "When you next restart, you're going to start installing Windows 10." These are Windows 7 Pro machines and I do believe the people using them are...

The people who created Battletech want a new Battletech strategy game, similar to Mech Commander but using the tabletop rules. Their kickstarter is at just about 10x its funding goal with 14 days remaining. It will use the same 3D models as MWO, but on an isometric map. Best part for me is that...

I've either been a contractor or worked places too small to offer plans. My current employer is exempt from subsidizing my coverage or offering a plan of its own and I make too much money to get a subsidy of my own. My $300 - $450/month plan choices under the ACA basically amount to either 40%...

I've not had a job that offered insurance since I was an intern with Honeywell in 1996. What are these companies that offer insurance? WRT Ears are a serious issue because hearing aids are astonishingly expensive in a way that's really unjustifiable given the underlying technology. I can see...

A fancy sort of person might have such a watch. A fancy sort of person who wouldn't be shopping at an Aldi's. We have those here in the US. My company actually does some training for their corporate offices. I had no idea it was international.

Even Valve thinks Steam customer service is an atrocity. I bought Prison Architect from GoG earlier in the week. It's a tiny install and it's fun in about the same way as the old Bullfrog titles like Theme Hospital. Also, Sentinels of the Multiverse, my favorite Android game but also a PC...

Fix? Not really. There are tools that concentrate controls for the obnoxious stuff in one place though.

So India is very much in the model of overly commercialized health policy, much like the USA. I'm somewhat surprised, given its close ties to Great Britain, though I suppose implementing an equivalent to the NHS would be problematic in a country where access to modern plumbing still can't be...

What's health care like in India, anyway?

For what it's worth, my ACA-approved plan added about $4000 to the cost of care for my eye issue last year and provided no benefit. I literally paid Blue Cross of Indiana $4000 because I wanted to see doctors. Turns out, I'm exempt from coverage. The second lowest-cost silver plan for a male my...

Unifi devices don't have any way to bridge, but AirMax devices can. You can set up a transparent AirMax bridge to a Unifi AP if you want.

Went to the dentist for the first time in 14 years and a month. Only need a deep cleaning. No other problems. Now I feel like maybe I didn't really need to go to the dentist.

1 hour of HD video takes 8GB on my phone's highest quality setting. Plenty of Android phones are sold with only 8GB of internal storage. Putting aside my preference to carry around a huge library of content and switch in other cards for days that I need the camera, remember that losing the card...

Acer tend to have decent hardware specs for the money but they are way too delicate, especially for travel. Acer also doesn't have a business-grade machine. It's strictly consumer products. Lenovo should be an option (X-series or maybe Txxx-s series), but Asus Ultrabooks are another choice to...

Every board I've worked on that used them needed multiple BIOS flashes before those would even boot. Also, what do you suppose the actual real-world gain from using just one might be? I'd put money on under half a second faster for Windows boot time.

Hardware hackers have figured out how to add aux out to an Amazon Echo, who is a pretty cool piece of hardware for a lot of other reasons. I'm not sure it's practical for Aviation, but it would work well in a home setting.

Another aspect of that is that a company that most competitive on that basis may be so because it's not offering advantage in other areas. Sprint is priced lower than Verizon because it can't offer nearly the coverage, for example. I don't think anyone here would consider buying an AMD CPU right...

I have a hard time justifying the pricetag for something I can't add RAM or disks to but I'd have no trouble at all recommending one for other people.

At $8500 each, surely it would be better/cheaper to just have an array of 1080p projectors, right?

There might be patents or something? Or maybe it's because of how the reversible locking mechanism on the thing works. My guess is that it's going to be some lesser form of Quadro rather than a consumer chip. It sounds like it's getting a mobile-grade CPU rather than a ULV if Microsoft isn't...

3Mbit is probably right on the threshold of what I'd call tolerable. At least that's fast enough that you aren't really waiting for pictures to load on a web page. To give you some idea of how fast 110bps is, I can remember being on a 300bps connection and being able to watch individual words...

They added an nvidia GPU to the new Surface Book. That's pretty serious compared everything else of similar form factor.

Storage Spaces has a LOT of weirdness like that. Things that have to fixed with cmdlets in Powershell because the GUI doesn't work or isn't implemented. It's fairly aggravating, though the actual storage is robust enough.

It's exotic right now, but at one time, so were DLP and OLED displays.

My solution is to use Mozbackup to push the settings I want people to have. Unfortunately, it won't actually allow a scripted restore yet, but it's still faster than manually changing all the crap that's wrong with a default Firefox install.

My least favorite things about Windows 10, at least from a support aspect: 1. Cortana's local data indexing breaks a lot. Windows Search 4.0 on XP worked better. There's a set of powershell commands to make it reindex, but holy crap why is it losing track of things in \windows or my PATH...

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I use Adblock Latitude for my own needs. I advise others to run Adblock Plus because it is a single brand that is available regardless of one's choice of browser. However, I also have explicit directions for what blocking lists should be installed/enabled, because I think the acceptable ads list...

These are the components I'm most interested in using. I have a system deployment that I'm kind of dragging my feet on so that I get 2016 licenses rather than 2012r2 and actually use the new features. I will say that 2012r2 has significant improvements (software RAID6) over plain old 2012.

They should be, but if you've had updates fail they might be listed more than once.

That was put forward by pundits rather than anyone actually on the Windows product team. I think it's been pretty thoroughly debunked.

Down side: Those are 2.4GHz wireless N only. The new models are UAP-AC-LRs I think, but that one is just a UAP-LR. Up side: if you have a decent client, you'll be able to get a signal in places you wouldn't not expect. I stuck one out on my balcony and I can get on my home network from my...

The only worrisome aspect is that some of the symptoms mubs is suggesting don't align with what I'd ordinarily write off as a case of internet herpes. Is it possible that the WLAN hardware is marginal, the database of installed updates got hosed AND there was a lot of miscellaneous wrongness...

You plug in the injector next to your switch and run a short cable to that, then the long cable from that. I do still think the Ubiquiti gear is overkill for a high density residential setting, but that probably just means you'll have the strongest 2.4GHz signal in your building. ;)

I usually avoid D-link because it tends to offer lame firmware, but I base that more on my opinion of its routers than APs.

Ubiquiti APs are overkill for home use unless you have a massive propert you're trying to cover or something. I'd probably buy a Netgear dual band AP and call it a day. I imagine that you would want to be on .AC not so much for available bandwidth but to stay on top of interference from other...

I'm more of a torrent sort of a person, but the machine doing the downloading will only talk to the internet through its dedicated VPN. NNTP is (mostly) below the radar for stuff-downloading, but I've been able to set up an impressive level of automation and I'm not relying on the retention...

Probably not, because those things are a PITA to support and a good justification to extract more money from customers who have good reason to want such things. If you're seriously talking about anything more serious than simple mirrored drives, you probably need to be working with an enterprise...

What bothers me nowadays is that Microsoft doesn't really say what updates do any more. "Security Fixes" and "stability enhancements" are more or less the only descriptions we're getting for Windows 10.

Thing that drives me nuts about Google Music: It seriously, hard-core mangles file names with non-English characters in them if they're uploaded via Music Manager. Also, Google Music Manager does not implement support for multi-disc albums. You have to re-name tracks after the fact if you want...

Nope. And there's no surface mount components to replace or glue down. I gave it back and told the user to just cope.

It's Windows 8. Unless it has licenses for weird software or ridiculous amounts of user customization, just back up her stuff and reset the PC. Make sure it has Ad-blocking and decent security software before handing it back.

Linux can have its own share of weirdness, mostly because someone gets a bright idea to monetize some aspect of system behavior or to switch licensing models or because a particular distro's package management doesn't support Project XYZ and installing XYZ by hand isn't well documented on that...