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The screen side is slightly curved as well. If you put a G4 face side down on a table, the edges touch but the glass doesn't.

And while I'm bitching about things that use RAM: I had a single Chrome tab running that was using 3.8GB RAM by itself and a second that was using 1.2GB. Just now. One of them was just a tumblr page and the other was just Comedy Central's site. Both of them had been open for about 12 hours from...

I like Palemoon and Adblock Latitude enough to switch full time. I decided that it wasn't worth trying to track down a problem that's only happening in one Firefox variant and anyway almost all the work I was putting in to customizing Waterfox's UI was just to make it look like Palemoon anyway.

Sometimes I post stuff just because it'll be picked up and indexed for search and I guess this is one time that it really helped out. So that's pretty cool. Glad it helped.

I put a simple back cover on mine. The new Note was released and, like the GS6, it no longer has a proper battery or card reader. An amazing number of Slashdotters now seem to think that getting an external battery or battery case instead of having a battery you can just pop in and out is a...

Maybe they'd give me one for the $250 I've been trying to collect from them.

I set a security policy to on lab machines that are on an extremely slow link (128 or 160kbps DSL) to not use Windows updates. So far, they don't appear to be updating, but they've only been on 10 for a week-ish. I'm not sure if that will be respected or not. I'll deploy WSUS there if I have to...

This was an Enterprise Rental.

86,000 miles on it. Suspension feels like it's run over a few deer or something. Someone either smoked in it or used it to commute to a cigar factory. Automatic-nothing. I didn't even know you could still get cars where you have to actually turn a crank to roll a window down. Granted that it was...

My guess is that this is a way to emphasize or de-emphasize the importance of some executives or projects that were formerly part of Google. This is probably just restructuring an org chart.

I'm driving the world's worst rental Impala. My old car hasn't even been inspected yet.

If you can handle ~70/16Mbit and on a third floor, I probably have as much as you could possibly want of that.

Sync some personal stuff to it through Owncloud or btsync maybe? I'm sure whatever NOC it's in would have better power and connectivity failover than anything else you could run across. Stick a Plex server there and use it to sync your music and photos. The data load would be small enough to be...

I found some random guy on the South Side of Chicago selling a 2011 Element with 304 (three hundred four) miles on it, for $10,500. He said the first owner was 82 years old and drove it in to the side of her garage about a week after she got it, so there's some body damage, but as it happens, I...

I don't want to pay for an actual new car. My thinking at the moment is that I buy a reasonably new model Element and use my mechanically sound but airbag-less vehicle as an ongoing source for parts. I'm not really satisfied that there's a vehicle with a similar level of utility otherwise.

I'm cheating a bit since the machine in question is plugged in to the same switch as speedtest server in question but dammit it's still a faster upload. :P

I live in Suburbs/Exburbs, jtr. I have to drive multiple places that are only a few miles apart but not close enough to walk between every single day. Further, as close to the lake as I am, I occasionally get extreme weather such that forgoing an automobile would be impractical no matter how...

Gary, Indiana is doing those programs, too. I know somebody who is trying to rehab a $250, 1300 square foot home and I'm told it's a nightmare.

Nobody gave me a ticket. I wasn't going very fast (maybe 15mph by the time I actually hit the pole). Elements are tough to find used, or at least Elements that have less than 150k miles and are less than 10 years old. RAV4s seem to be common used cars but the Mazda CX5 seeminlgy can't be had...

Part one yes, part two no, unless you're fresh installing inside the VM.

I'd probably buy a used one. A car isn't important enough to me to want to spend $25k on something to shuttle me back and forth between a half dozen offices. To be honest, I could probably get away with a bicycle eight months out of the year except that I have all the stuff I need to carry. The...

Of course, you can get a machine that will do 90% of that for 1/3 the money, but going all the way is really damned sweet.

The funny/good news is that my auto insurance has had the same coverage level since I got the damned thing (which, yes, means I've probably been massively overpaying for insurance on it. It was auto-billed and I never bothered to change it). So I have ridiculously good coverage. The phone rep...

Hardware activation consists of 10 hashed hardware ID#s. Six of them are typically motherboard components, though you can game that a little by using an add-on rather than integrated NIC for your primary network connection and/or an add-on graphics card at build time. A system needs to be...

Driving home from having my Honda airbag recall done, a bee or something flew in my window and landed on my cheek, inside of my glasses. This caused me to freak right the fuck out and drive in to the only streetlight within a solid quarter mile. Both of my half-hour-old airbags immediately did...

If you read about that guy, he has some pretty extreme philosophies in a lot of other respects. He strikes me as having a lot of similarly polarized viewpoints.

The way I understand it, if the same activation code is generated on a machine where Windows 10 has previously been installed, Microsoft activates that code automatically without need for a key. You can still retrieve the official key if you want it but since the overwhelming majority of Windows...

The Republican debate was on at the gym. From the way the crowd sounded, the party establishment is going to have a hell of a time changing the rules to make sure Trump can't get the nomination. From the way the rest of the debate sounded, I think it's safe to say that the republican party as a...

The Republican debate was on at the gym. From the way the crowd sounded, the party establishment is going to have a hell of a time changing the rules to make sure Trump can't get the nomination. From the way the rest of the debate sounded, I think it's safe to say that the republican party as a...

Given the emphasis currently being given to Javascript as a software development platform, I don't think we're in any danger of seeing an end to software bloat.

I have 72 Windows 10 machines now instead of 72 Windows 8.1 machines. One note I have about my deployment is that it's a good idea to pin Control Panel to the Start Menu. Half the crap in Settings will just open Control Panel and my users still prefer it to opening and searching the Settings...

I've heard that it's vile, but you get used to it. It's nutritionally complete and you CAN flavor it if you'd like, so I'm mildly tempted to try it out. I eat a lot of protein bars now because I'm too lazy to actually prepare food for myself.

Never-ish. We've been in the ~4GHz holding pattern for more than a decade. Maybe a different architecture and/or changes in chipmaking materials can more fully address that, but the CPUs that can actually operate in a stable fashion at close to 5GHz across all 4 or 8 cores are apparently extreme...

I bet that would be amazing if they could actually get a die shrink to reach par with Intel.

Shotcut is a fully featured, cross platform, FOSS video editor. I don't have a use for it right now but it seems pretty nifty.

Looking at the reviews, I think I'm good with Haswell-E. Does it seem amazing to anyone else that Sandy Bridge was four years ago and we're just now 25% faster for single thread performance?

My new favorite upgrade bug: The Shell Experience Service eating about 90% of an i7's CPU time. The fix: Go in to Settings, Personalization, Color and disable the option to automatically change the tint of Windows to match your wallpaper.

I retired all my Acer H340s a couple months ago, then decided to get them back out to play with because I have tons of 1.5 and 2TB drives sitting around. Funny thing: if they're loaded with WHS 2011 or any newer version of Windows Server, they can use larger than 2TB drives just fine. I always...

Windows hasn't had a significant change to its driver model since Vista was released. There certainly are cases where arbitrary support limits keeping older software from working on newer OSes and Adobe is often right on the forefront of that, but the only applications of which I am aware that...

dd, I don't really understand the point of that machine except to be ugly and waste electricity. And that ugly-ass chassis doesn't even have places to put proper amounts of storage. I know of a survivor. Are you worried about yourself or about some other person?

It's principle. Yes, these are machines with 16, 32 and 48GB RAM, but 18 months ago the same workload of 100 tabs definitely wasn't high enough to necessitate a 64-bit process. A lot of it is tied up in the ad blocking arms race but forward progress should be happening in that space just as it...

Waterfox 39 seems to be incredibly crashy for me, freezing after about 20 minutes of activity. It also seems to have grossly inflated RAM demands. It's fairly common for me to have a 3GB+ process for only 100 open tabs. I switched to Palemoon. Palemoon is another 64 bit Firefox build, but it...

Something I've run in to now are machines that appear to activate and then lose activation status on a restart. I don't know what the issue is. These are random home machines that were updated from 7 or 8.1.

Root for that G4 now available. I get to dd=if the system partition and never get an OTA update again if I want to use it though. I'm probably going to do it anyway.

I remember being stuck at the bottom of the well in the first King's Quest. I had every single other part figured out but I could never get out of the well after I killed the dragon. I did finish King's Quest 2, Space quest, Police Quest, both Leisure Suit Larry titles and the Black Cauldron...

And in the "WTF Microsoft?" category, my Thinkpad, which didn't have any issues prior on the Technical Preview up to the RTM, now doesn't play sound at all and shuts down when told to restart. I'm also missing some drivers, most importantly for my USB 3 card. I was able to upgrade directly to a...

Office 2007. The ISO file size is 3GB or 6GB depending whether you want one or both the 32 and/or 64 bit editions.

I buy Seagates and HGST drives. Most of my bulk data is on Seagate drives but every once in a while I'll get lucky and score an HGST drive at a comparable price. I'm also fully willing to de-shell an external drive and lose out on the crappy warranty. The 5TB Seagates perform like ass but I can...

On the other hand, I moved the largest DB server that I deal with from running on a RAID1 of 2TB drives to a dedicated SSD for each of OS, DB and DB logs (with the RAID1 drives as local backup) and I was told by the product support guys for that system that it was almost eight times faster by...

I've done four upgrades so far and I really haven't had any issues at all with Windows. The only real problem I've run in to is that Office 2003 doesn't install, but I don't think that's even remotely unexpected. The Media Creation tool works really well and yes, Lunar, you can just download...