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As a wise man once said, "If something is legal in only two states, one of them will be Indiana."

That pretty much reads as an ad for the Cooler Master Gemini HSF, but I do prefer to have a top down cooler. If nothing else, they tend to be easier to mount and remove.

I'd bet you a considerable sum that Hobart, Oz is at least more livable than Hobart, Indiana.

You would have to root your phone for a decent global block. Adblock+ does help, but it's not perfect. You can either use the Adblock Plus browser (a fork of Firefox with ABP preinstalled) or install Firefox and run the ABP addon to have a less ad-filled experience. Rooting allows you to...

There's something to be said for endeavoring to understand where we came from.

CC2014 is silver-rated and the very recently updated CC2015 is currently listed as "garbage" as it currently won't even install. The initial Creative Cloud release is gold rated, as is CS6.

Has your Windows 98 media been used for anything else? It could just be a media error. VxDs are real-mode (full hardware access) drivers, and they're entirely capable of crashing the whole machine, but the ones you'd probably have on that machine would've come directly from Microsoft. The most...

All three of those applications have gold or platinum ratings in WINE.

WSUS Offline Updater. I'm going to be trying this at my slow lab site.

That's not my speed, LM. Jonathan Demme apparently gave up proper movie making after Philadelphia and IIRC everything he's done since has been one concert movie after another. A new Star Wars teaser, scored to a new orchestration of the Imprerial March and ending with the reveal of a blue...

Windows Backup would be an exceedingly poor choice for such a thing, since there's a storied history of incompatibilities between versions. Likewise, I don't know of a tool to make a subset of directories into a VHD file, something that does seem to be a stable standard in Microsoft's world...

Man, that Brian Cancer is a dick. Did everyone see that the estimated ratio of actual female users to males on AshleyMadison.com was approximately 1:2800? I'd love to see the figures for other personals sites. Given the lack of human interaction I've seen on Match.com and OKCupid, I'd be...

My first thought about this thing: where am I going to get an SFF power supply that will deliver the combined ~400W one might reasonably want for an ITX gaming rig? I know it's possible to get ITX chassis that support ATX power supplies, but those rigs typically support full size graphics cards...

You can either trust Microsoft or read the patch notes yourself or migrate off Windows. Linux really is completely credible for user-land needs as long as you aren't a gamer and don't need Windows for your livelihood.

That's an amazing deal. I read something not that long ago that suggested EVs like the Nissan Leaf are massively over-represented in Georgia because of extremely generous tax incentives. If ever there were a case of playing against stereotypes, that would be it.

Here's The Windows Club's Window 10 Privacy Tool, which adds a GUI interface to the combination of GPOs, registry settings and miscellaneous checkboxes that we need to tweak Windows 10. It seems to have a lot of general functionality as well and it might be a useful thing to keep around.

I am so sorry. Is there anything we can do?

Actually, you may even want to feel lucky that they only want MSSQL. I got to see the bills for an Oracle based job management system at a company that might've been 30% of your size and the numbers on that make Microsoft software and CALs look downright affordable.

The "falls off a cliff" sustained write speeds are definitely in line with my experiences, but I don't see anyone writing large copy managers with built-in break times so a drive can catch its metaphorical breath, either.

Only if you have WSUS. I turned off updates on 10 Pro with a GPO. I haven't observed them to update yet, but I'm not sure what the trigger condition for updates is so I don't know if that worked or not at this point. If that doesn't work, I'll configure all my lab machines to think they're on a...

Sadly, Thunderbird is still the best cross platform desktop Email client, which is really damning it with faint praise. It's just that everything else is some kind of horrific abomination. In its favor, I have never, not even once, had a Thunderbird-related message or address book file corrupt...

I have over 150TB of drives but in terms of raw data, it's only about 60TB. The growth rate of my storage demands definitely has accelerated over time.

Palemoon is a thorough enough fork of Firefox that I don't think XUL support is going to be an issue. They didn't adopt the post-25.0 UI. I'm a little worried that will spell the end for some existing addons and I'm most worried that it will kill NoScript, which relies on deep access to code...

It's kind of "Things that are worth watching" at this point. The new Minority Report is kind of interesting too, from the pilot that's been leaked all over the internet for a couple weeks. But anyway, I like that Mr. Robot acknowledges that there are different OSes and graphical interfaces. The...

Mr. Robot is very enjoyable. I don't know who they got to do their tech consulting, but when they talk about hacking and show off computer screens, the details are actually right.

The specs page says it is.

Woot.com has a 2TB Sandisk SSD for the low, low price of only $1500.Which is as cheap as I've ever seen an SSD that big, refurbished or not.

Have a thing that needs to be a Windows service but isn't? Surprised to find that srvany.exe has been deprecated for a decade? Don't feel like figuring out why your sc.exe command didn't work the first two times you tried it? You need nssm, the Non-Sucking Service Manager!

I like K9 but it has its own quirks, like having to manually configure server settings and not having an easy multiple selection for message deletions.

I've been a Red Hat user since 1996 and I've stuck with Fedora for most production installations. I use OpenSuSE on my Linux workstation. I have a longstanding antipathy of Debian and Debian-derived variants, mostly because I remember the GNU people being complete fuckwads to everyone else in...

Kernel Process data lives in /proc/slabinfo. I guess you could individually parse the data from each entry in /proc/$pid/status, looking all the Vm* entries to break things down the way you need and add that to the output from slabinfo, but that seems like a lot of unpleasant work and I'm not...

This Powershell cmdlet is supposed to help with local search isues. It didn't in my case, but maybe it would work for someone else: Get-AppXPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Never, internet connection or no. I'd say that it might be an artifact of upgrading, except that it doesn't work right on a fresh install either.

I've been looking at using the CD slot in my stereo as a mount point, but my specific phone requires access to the back for hard buttons. Because of the shape of my windshield using it as a mount point seems inconvenient. I'm auditioning replacements now.

None of those searches work for me on any Windows 10 device. Even if it's an account-based setting, how completely fucked does the search index have to be to lose applications like calc and mspaint?

Oh hey a new CPU socket! 1155 to 1150 to 1151. How nice and not even a tiny bit confusing that will be!

People have been worried about Microsoft looking through their computers for pirated software since before you were born, sed. Seriously, there was a gigantic bitch fest over the fact that Windows 98's upgrade process looked for a specific list of about 400 installed applications. Today, I've...

Cars are a goddamned scam, man.

I wasn't asking for money either.

New(er) Element is a 4WD 2011 EX model with 60k miles on it. I paid $16k, which isn't wholly unreasonable. It has painted body panels instead of plastic but I'm thinking about swapping them off my old one. I like the tupperware better anyway. My other major contender had a salvage title and I...

I can probably hook you up, sed. I have a bunch of 4GB sticks sitting around.

So what do you all use for phone mounting in your cars?

It's interesting to me that there are crap-tons of people for whom 2GB RAM is probably still plenty and there are others for which 16GB isn't enough. There doesn't seem to be an in-between point. If I were interested in something in a small form factor like that, if it came down to a Thinkpad...

I'd wait. You have a decent PC now.

The Windows 10 upgrade seems to make my tablet-style devices work a lot more. Both my Surface Pro 2 and my Dell Venue get quite a lot warmer now. :/

It's my experience that pricing on enterprise licensing is out of the question for the size of organizations I deal with. I'm not sure what volume one has to have to qualify for a substantial pricing discount, but if I price out ~30 seats of Windows + Office, it's usually around 3x the cost of...

So it's a Surface Pro 3 variant with the upgraded touchscreen back? It's probably pretty nice.

El Capitan has some forthcoming issues of its own, as Apple has decided to disable OS features that previously allowed for a lot of UI customization through third party tools. Non-rooted Android really does talk to Google a lot more than it needs to, especially if you have location services...

The only thing I really don't like about 10 is Cortana, which seems to prioritize finding things with Bing over being actually useful. Win-X still brings up the mini-menu of tools you'll actually use and the All Programs list still contains what it normally does, and Classic Start can still be...

If you qualify for early admission to university and actually obtain a degree, it doesn't matter. I had completed all of my HS graduation requirements in the state of Indiana by the end of 10th grade, so I was pretty serious about trying to get out. My parents made me stay another year, but I...