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If nothing else, smartphones can be repurposed as media players or used for experimentation. We probably all know a kid who wants to play stupid mobile games and listen to their music even if they can't be trusted with a $50/month cellphone bill. I really wouldn't know much about messing with...

On a known-clean Windows install, clicking the link from Google does not exhibit that behavior but there does seem to be a mysterious issue with sites being redirected specifically to Shoppingfordress.com. Apparently people are getting server-side redirects to that one specific other site, so...

What's the actual site? Are you seeing the behavior on any other page?

You might want to nuke your Chrome install and all the seven zillion places it puts components of its configuration, just to be safe. Reload from Ninite or something. Do the improper behaviors occur in Firefox or IE?

Google's Malware tracker is looking at script code and downloaded executables. I strongly suspect in this case the malware is already on your PC.

The non-Pro UAP devices and the Nanostations I've gotten to use don't have 802.3af compliant PoE adapters. The Netgear Smartswitches I use in most of my installations should power PoE devices just fine but it seems that less expensive Ubiquiti devices don't support that option and run on some...

I haven't seen anyone talking about it but Sense8 is a Netflix series by J. Michael "Babylon 5" Stracinzski and the Wachowskis (formerly brothers but now not so much) that seems to live up to its pedigree. It's an original property, not part of any long-standing continuity. If it draws...

A thing that I really, really like is the RCP Ringtones pack. It's $6.50 and it includes a huge selection of inoffensive but distinctive beeps, whistles and chimes.

I've been finding reasons to mess with Nanostations and UAP-LR devices. They're good, trouble free hardware, though everything uses weirdo non-compliant PoE. I haven't found the UAP-LR's range claims to match up with anything resembling reality so far, but next time I'm at that client site I'm...

My first thought was a dual board rackmount setup but not with X99 and only two DIMM slots. I could at least make a use case out of that as someone who pays $60/month for 2U of space in a datacenter. I just bought an Asrock C612 board for a server build. I've been unimpressed with Supermicro...

Neopets forum gets filthy when mods get laid off; forum needs its mouth washed out with soap. Neopets. The thing that eight year olds really like before they discover Pokemons.

When you click a link on Google, you're actually redirected through a Google URL to the destination site, rather than being sent directly to the URL you've clicked, e.g...

Malware-like behavior detected.

I'm just going to add that Android 5 makes using an SD card as fucking annoying as humanly possible.

An amusing discovery for me. I bought a an LG G4 and I've discovered that while my left hand has no difficulty reaching the width of the phone, my right thumb is a bit too short to comfortably tap anything on the left edge. The auto brightness level on the G4 is rather more conservative than...

I know it's not really a huge milestone for any of the other regulars, but today was an amazing and surprising day for justice in the USA. I was in a meat packing plant in a farm town in Central Indiana when I got the news. Which sounds like an extended gay joke all its own but actually at...

It's probably awesome if you want to do OpenCL. I'm not terribly impressed either but stock sealed water cooling and power draw that's in line with Maxwell (yes I know it's because of the memory tech they're using) are both at least interesting.

The guy at Noctua got back to me. I sent them a proof of purchase and I guess they're going to mail me the brackets I need. I love Noctua fans to death but I think I'm about 50-50 on getting complete kits when I buy their HSFs.

Buck, have you looked at Ark? The other person I know who really got in to Rust is currently raving about Ark.

Tannin's philosophy in the past has been to make decent mid-spec all-around PCs. There's a compelling argument that centers around getting affordable quad- and hexacore systems with capable integrated graphics, especially for home users who might actually like the modest boost for gaming and...

I suspect that if you moved to something with whatever the replacement for nVidia's Maxwell is, you'd probably be set for graphics for another four or five year. You just to have better hardware than whatever they're shoveling into consoles. Unless you want to play the new Batman game, apparently.

LGA2011 AFAIK is always on the rectangular pattern, but I've been able to mount other Noctua coolers on other LGA 2011 boards without issue. I want to say I'm probably just missing hardware that should've been in the box but if that's the case their docs are still wrong.

The coverage of the decision to remove the new Batman game from sale is quite interesting. Apparently, there were only 12 programmers assigned to port the Playstation 4 version (?) to PC. Which is very telling from the standpoint of the wider priorities of game studios. I did watch...

There's room for it and the HSF fits in my 3U enclosure (in fact, there's a bullet point on the box about its 3U compatibility) but the brackets they gave me look like they're only sized for 115x and not 2011 and they're either too short or I'm failing at basic geometry. But Noctua's...

I have a Noctua NH-D9L sitting here that I can't for the life of me fit to an Asrock EPC612D8A. Noctua's docs say it should fit 2011v3 but if it does I have no idea how.

Isn't Redhill an AMD shop?

Well now you know about some of the extra special hate I have for consumer laptops and HP in particular. You could be seeing thermal throttling, but on a name brand notebook, that's probably something you have no ability to control. Would replacing the thermal pad on the chipset help? Maybe...

I think you wrote about it before but it's heartbreaking nonetheless. :/

My apartment is supposed to support two window units. The landlord provided one is only rated for 3000BTUs or something. It can barely cool my living room. I'm not allowed to replace it. My specific apartment simply doesn't have the other space I should have for a window unit. Since I'm right...

I notice desktop Chrome using the wrong fonts or incorrect font properties quite often. Which I might expect on Linux or Android, but not on Windows or OSX.

Sprint actually goes a step further and has marked a lot of tethering apps as incompatible in the Play Store. So even if the app would work with your device, you can't install them on your handset. Almost all the apps I tried that don't require root will trigger a "Hey, you're not subscribed to...

I spent a while looking for an 802.11 tethering application that actually works the way it's supposed to. The "free" ones are universally scams or trigger a "You must subscribe for wifi tethering" message on my phone, but the $3 Wifi Tether Router does indeed work as intended if you've rooted...

I don't have functional air conditioning at home. I put huge bowls of water in front of fans in the rooms where I spend my time during the summer. My computers just get hot, so I turn their fans up to a higher setting and live with hot computers. Fortunately, it hasn't gotten that warm so far...

You guys do know that PDF printing can be handled by gobs and gobs of things, right? Foxit, Nuance, PDF995, Primo, PDFcreator, Word 2010+... Neither Firefox nor Chrome has particularly great PDF handling yet. I do suspect the main reason Chrome is being more widely supported and adopted is that...

Backblaze had some blog posts indicating that just after the Asian floods, it was seeking Cost/Capacity above all else, to the point of sending employees to purchase and de-shell external drives from discount retailers like Walmart and Costco. It wasn't buying enterprise drives because...

Firefox seems to want to chase Chrome in terms of UI. I don't particularly think Chrome has had good ideas in that direction, but I don't want to bother with Classic Theme Restorer on every Firefox installation I touch, either. There are a couple decent Firefox derivatives, Pale Moon and...

The outer siding of the building is aluminum, now that I think of it. Though I've put APs in similar buildings without issue. I'll probably see what happens if I turn the Tx power down next time I'm out there.

One of my least favorite aspects to smart TVs is that they are updated both briefly and infrequently. It's very easy to find TVs with orphaned features, such as devices made in 2012 that can no longer talk to Youtube, or with support for abandoned services like Redbox's online streaming option...

There weren't any other 2.4GHz 802.11 sources in the immediate area, according to my site survey.

Most of my Youtube subs are somehow related to my musical tastes or are people who make amusing short videos. One of my favorites is improvelectronic's channel devoted to his insane ability to improvise arbitrary music in the compositional style of arbitrary classical composers. About the only...

Desert Island recordings are a real thing. This is something that has been discussed in record stores for probably nearly a century now. My desert island stuff goes on my Google Play Music account so that I should always at least have one accessible copy of it even if it's not on the PC or...

So the real-world range improvement from a UAP-LR over a standard $40 Trendnet AP? I'd say it's around 20 feet or 6m (in radius) in an open floor cubical farm area. That's not nothing but it's also nothing terribly dramatic. Ubiquiti claims 180m range and I'd say it's off by 130m or so.

First x86 PC in the house was an XT clone with 1MB RAM and a 5MB hard disk that ran Xenix. There were other computers around, but they were scary things I wasn't supposed to touch. I definitely remember an Apollo workstation from around that time. The first PC that was definitely, explicitly...

MMmmm. I don't know if I agree. People want and like curated content. TV Channels serve that purpose very well. I do know of people who will just watch HGTV or Animal Planet all day because they know they'll find something agreeable every time they flip on that channel, and at another extreme...

Buck might have some additional insight to the current management structure because of reasons. And it sure is nice to see some of you folks around. Tea, DB, Bartender, Clocker, mubs. You guys are missed when you're not about.

The 400MB tapes were Travan. They ran on a ftape (floppy tape) interface, Parallel or SCSI interfaces. In ancient days, I actually had a mounted /tmp filesystem on an Yggsdrasil Linux machine. It was just as slow as you would imagine. The other option was DC2120, which were 60, 80 or 120MB tapes...

It's the Cartoon Network after some time of day. The put on things that stoners like instead of six year olds.

Well hey a legal copy of Windows Server 2016 will only cost you about $600 + $30/user so I have no idea why you wouldn't just be jumping all over that. ;)

Adblock Plus now has support for managed deployments. Available now for Chrome, Safari and Opera with Firefox support forthcoming. The web page is woefully short on details at the moment, but maybe that will change sometime in the near future.

Those who lie in congress with swine must be made to repent and suffer glorious and just wrath. Blessed be the platters and the magnets and even the tiniest bits, for it is not fault of data that it must reside in the inequity and despair of Irvine's Gehenna. re: DB's helpful link. Those...