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I'll give it a try the next time I need to update system images.

Changing the installed drive has no effect. I took the thing completely apart, something that's a lot more difficult than I'd expect from a business machine, and there aren't any surface-mount components that could be glued down or desoldered and replaced. The battery connection is on the...

The result is mildly unsatisfactory since it's a complete replacement of the maintainable system image from LG. I'm basically betting that the guys releasing the rooted image will continue to make system images as the phone needs them.

The whine happens whether or not a drive is installed, from the moment the machine is powered on and running on battery.

The G4 root is kind of awful still. Another warning I have for you, dd, as a person who breaks his phone a lot: I still haven't managed to get a 100% functional replacement screen for mine. I've tried three so far, and none of the replacements has let me use tap-to-turn-on, something that is as...

I have an HP Powerbook 4550 sitting here that makes a loud, high-pitched whine when it's running off battery power. AFAIK, it's hardly ever used on battery, but I replaced the hard drive in it today and the first thing the user told me is that "it never used to do that" whereas I had assumed it...

... and to get a real, functional backup of your phone, you need to have root in the first place. This is an identified weakness with Android generally. HTC probably has some kind of backup software for you to use but I have no idea if it'll put app settings back the way they were. But in this...

Maybe. Probably even. IPv6 has been around for quite a while now. Most consumer networking hardware doesn't seem to support it, even if it's technically capable of doing so. My cable modem, for example, has no user interface options for IPv6, even though the hardware manufacturer (SMC, in my...

With regard to calling movers: my friends tend to be of the young and broke variety rather than comfortably well off and settled in their lives. I think what you'll find is that anything with an AMD CPU is going to qualify as low end and anything with an i5 and discrete graphics is either...

I suspect the relative ease of blocking ads in browsers vs. being able to make mobile apps devote a third of your screen real estate to them will settle that. I can see app-ification of formerly web based content as a possible evolution in response to ad blocking there as well.

I'm not arguing that, just that there are options available. Options that for the most part make javascript seem like the least of all evils, even.

What does Samsung want with AMD? Contracts to build APUs for Microsoft and Sony? An escalation of the competition with Intel? A reason to re-tool its 14nm fabrication process away from all the ARMs it can handle? IBM seems to have turned its back on hardware. Yes, it still does big iron, but its...

Sure there is. You could build your interactive application with Java, Flash or Silverlight. Or you could just stop using the HTTP as a replacement for the top three layers of the OSI model and deliver a proper binary for whatever it is you need to do.

Sometimes direct replacements are available. I looked at a ~14 month old HP (too new to have DOA spares, too old to be in warranty) with fully broken hinge assembly. Since there were no parts, I actually got the quote from HP Spares: $331 for a display cable, metal hinge assembly and the plastic...

I spent the weekend helping a friend move. And that's what I'm going to spend next week doing, also. I don't know why I do it. I know no one I help would help me in return. For the exercise, maybe.

Label your cables. Do the disconnected drives follow the cable or the port?

Given that AMD is a fraction of Intel's size, fabless and stuck on badly outdated tech from its manufacturing partners, the writing really is on the wall. Intel is pushing back product releases so as not to bury it, I think.

MDI interfaces break well-understood rules for how GUIs should operate by allowing for arbitrary placement of child windows and/or their content without allowing for an anchoring point for returning to that content. Nearly all of them also need a change in habit for task switching behavior as...

You can't screencast to Youtube on PC unless you're browsing in Chrome and you can't screencast without having the browser launched. It's not the same as the STB experience where you can override what the display is actually doing to put a video on the screen from your device.

Buy one for each room, obviously. ;) I don't see the point yet, since it doesn't have an awareness of local resources or content and doesn't integrate with anyone else's cloud services. That thing would be really powerful if it understood files on network drives. I'd love to be able to say...

I'm going to buy a couple for my labs, but honestly the one I have at home barely gets used as it is. I've already been asked to buy new Apple TVs so I'm thinking the cheaper, better thing won't be a problem. What I have been doing is buying fire tv sticks, installing tvmc and reselling them...

Second generation FireTVs were just released. Looks like they added a significantly better GPU and 802.11ac support, plus porting in most Amazon Echo functionality through the voice-enabled remote. The new model can do 4k video streams and has hardware support for HEVC, things that no other...

Child windows just pawned the task of window management into the browser and the limited real estate of the parent, instead of making multiple windows that could managed like any other running applications. There's a reason almost nothing uses MDI any more. MDI as implemented by Opera, or by...

So the spam doesn't even stop if you actually sign up for an account? Nice.

If Opera supported tabs prior to 2002, it at least wasn't part of the default operating view. I know Opera 6 still had those god-awful resizable child windows.

Opera's god-awful multi-page interface was MDI Windows, not unlike Windows 3.1's Program Manager. I have no idea when it joined modern UI styles and finally added proper tab support, but I can recall using tabs in Mozilla Phoenix in... whatever year Phoenix was released. 2002? I'm fairly certain...

Battery optimizers, depending on how they work, can actually cause more power drain on your phone than just letting apps run. It depends a lot on how often the app wakes up the phone for data transfers vs. how aggressively the app tries to restart when it's killed. Something that really does...

I can at least attest to the fact that Coug's real name is a seriously uncommon confluence of letters. I'm guessing the guy who spammed you is probably the victim of some kind of weird, Linkedin-based XSS attack, especially if there's no professional crossover in your circles or friends lists...

Have you considered a Trackball at all?

The 486 was a hand me down from my dad's engineering company. The two Pentium 133s and dual CPU board were cheaper at the time than buying one Pentium 166. I also had a dual Pentium Pro 200, albeit as my first "server" machine and well after the point they were considered high end, and a Celeron...

Opera invented a terrible multi-document window interface that wasn't functionally any better than having 20 open browser windows and it invented a lot of keyboard shortcuts that didn't exist or follow the standards set by Mosaic or Netscape. I wouldn't exactly call those things favors to end users.

My 486 machine of that era was a dual (SMP) DX/33. It had EISA for a Fast SCSI controller and a VLB slot for a pro-grade 2MB Tseng Labs video card and it had an unthinkable 16MB RAM. It had been an engineering workstation before I got it. I believe it was manufactured in 1991. By the time it...

Some parts of Windows have a 255 character file path limitation. This has been an issue for as long as Windows has had long file name support. There are ways around it. Most of them involve third-party file managers, but you can get by using a plain old subst command at a cmd prompt and...

That's a particularly special pipe dream given how historically poor Opera's track record of ignoring conventions for shortcuts and UI elements was.

Most of the USB charging devices I have do support Quick Charge, so I have something like this at home and at work and one of these in my car. OEM charger do seem to be wildly inconsistent. My LG G4 says that the quick charger for my FireHDX isn't a quick charger. My old Galaxy S4 doesn't like...

I think AMD has been done for a while. It's also demonstrating mini-systems with nvidia graphics and just restored ATI to its previous state as a distinct business unit. I have no idea what the out could be for it at this point.

It's really easy to turn off, but it's one more thing that users have to turn off. I really do think Mozilla is being terribly managed at this point. I can't recall the last time it made an announcement I actually thought to be a positive development.

Only if they have unmanaged clients that aren't getting updates through WSUS in the first place. The Windows 10 updates are basically the ONLY update I've every blocked from sites using WSUS, though. It's nominally the Windows Admin's job to look and see what the updates are for and what they...

iOS 9 will introduce the concept of lower case letters to the default on screen keyboard. Apple device owners can expect basic literacy to follow sometime thereafter. No word yet on when Apple invented the concept of letters but I'm sure we'll hear all about it soon enough.

You could always try something like Enlightenment to see if the eyecandy improvements are more to your liking. Font handling is an odd case. It's substantially better on Windows now than on OSX. I can see how it would drive some people nuts because thing do look just a little bit different no...

I think nearly all the actual power saving advantages come from being able to block communications that stem from advertising data; the processing requirements of the apps themselves tend to be pretty minimal.

Linux is great, especially if you don't have any hard-coded demands to run any specific Windows application. It's the same internet no matter what tool you're using to access it.

That machine sounds like it would be a complete pain in the ass to travel with. Especially if you have a human child you have to travel with already. If you don't have time to process photos, what makes you think you have time to screw with the construction of such a rig and what are you going...

Oh hey look at this. It was written just after the Surface was released, back in 2012. (Sorry for NSFW language but we've all seen those words before) The webcomic is Hijinks Ensue.

Go to iegallery.com/tpl Tracking Protection Lists can be bent, spindled and mutilated in to an ad blocking role, though that's not what they're meant to do. You can also just install Adblock Plus for IE, which works on all versions, all the way back to IE6.

Screen to Gif does exactly what it says. Size the program window to the area of your screen that you want to record, hit the record button, do a thing. The program will turn it in to a GIF. Awesome for making little tutorials.

It's still on Fanboy's page, which is why it's odd to see that it's removed from the official list. Fanboy is one of the maintainers of Easylist, which is the main ad-blocking tool that pretty much everything uses. The "Annoyances" list is specifically interesting to me because it includes some...

Something I've just noticed is that Fanboy's Social Blocking and Annoyances lists have been removed from the list of official Adblock Plus Subscriptions normally found here. Fanboy is also one of the maintainers of Easylist, but I find the Annoyances list compelling enough to seek it out and...

The first PC I built from parts for myself had a Hercules (high res mono-green) screen. I couldn't afford EGA and 4 color palettes are lame.

I thought it was Mississippi but yeah, might've been.