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In case anyone ever wants to do it, to restore the Pre-Firefox 34 search: Go in to about:config and set browser.search.showOneOffButtons to False.

The XP to Vista upgrade took hours and hours and it failed fairly often. Remember that there were some pretty huge structural changes to user profiles and the driver model between XP and Vista, and it could be that there were enough points of failure that MS simply decided not to support the...

Apparently Ubuntu derivatives have a compatible bootloader, though the hardware support isn't perfect. I'm surprised that it boots at all but at the same time, when was the last time you used a Linux machine where the pointing device was the thing keeping your machine from being useful?

That might present a problem for consumer laptops. I could very easily see Acer or HP shipping crippled product. On the other hand, Mint will boot on a Surface Pro, so even a locked down machine might be made usable for *nix if the right people decide to address the problem.

Probably a very long time. Vista is still entirely viable now. XP is only mildly problematic for some notebook PCs, though application compatibility is starting to become an issue. There's no reason to think that there's a change in driver model or major shift in hardware requirements on the...

If you can segregate traffic, you'll both more aggregate bandwidth for each user because 802.11 bandwidth is split among connected devices. Two different radios = two pools of bandwidth. Typically, 5GHz bands offer higher bandwidth, but at shorter range. 2.4 has a serious advantage in terms of...

You'd let someone else build a rig for you? o.O

I've been running Windows 10 at home on my TV PC, an Intel NUC with a wired connection and no particularly strong demands placed on it, but on Day 2 of having Windows 10 on my Thinkpad and here are my thoughts now that I've completely set up my environment: 1. This shit is SLOW. I'm on an i7...

Office 2016's preview edition launched on Monday as well. Looks like most of the major enhancements are in Outlook, but it looks like the ribbon items have a little more contrast in the new version.

I don't think Microsoft would be able to operate as a corporate entity if it were disclosing the content of local files not stored in OneDrive. It would be sued into a bloody pulp. At the same time, it probably does collect metadata about that content.

Windows Search forcing the use of Cortana/Bing and Windows Defender's default behavior of overriding the hosts file are fairly huge privacy concerns, plus letting Microsoft analyze the content of your OneDrive account if you're using that. But most of us disclose the same information completely...

Microsoft is apparently so serious about "free upgrades" to 10 that it also applies to pirated copies as well. I finally got around to putting it on a laptop with a mic so I could try Cortana. It's practically worthless. Basically it searches Bing for things. It's not capable of opening...

Speaking as someone who just put 30TB of drives in a machine on Saturday, "one" might be slightly underestimating my need.

Not that it's going to be available forever, but this is a $50, 2-bay NAS from Lenovo that supports 4TB+ drives. Somebody here might be interested in such a thing.

I haven't found anything that supports hardware encoding to that degree. Handbrake has limited support for it during a small part of the overall process, but their docs say that it doesn't help on fast CPUs and I've never bothered to turn it on. In the past, the software I found with full...

Like timwhit, I'm waiting for prices to return to the realm of reason. I got a good enough deal on the 5TB units to pull the trigger on those instead.

I used a small flathead screwdriver and a couple pry tools. It took about two minutes per drive and cost a few of the plastic tabs. The only screws were used to stabilize the drive to rubber grommets, not hold anything down.

I just deshelled and installed 6x 5TB Seagate drives in my file server. They're in a double-parity array, but I have concerns about how well they'll work in an array since I'm almost positive they're 5900rpm units. If they don't work, they'll get turned back in to externals. 5TB is big enough...

It certainly doesn't look BAD. My test encode was the Zeffarelli production of Turandot, which has a crap-ton going on on-screen. Lots of blacks, lots of difficult to compress complexity. I can see small differences side by side on frozen frames, but it's nothing to complain about, though I may...

I tend to be conservative with overvolting since I want it to be as quiet as possible. Oddly enough, if my machine boots at high OC settings, it's fine seemingly no matter what I throw at it (mostly lots and lots of Handbrake). I haven't had it bluescreen even once. It's just that the board...

Lunar, what RAM are you using to stay stable at 4.5GHz with 64GB installed? I can stay stable at 4.5GHz with 2x8GB Crucial 2133 sticks, but the minute I put the other two back in, I need to be back at 3.8GHz or else it's a 50/50 chance that my rig won't even boot. Are you just overvolting the...

I've been playing with Handbrake's HEVC encoding options on a Linux VM. If I specify the usual bit rate for a BD encode (4000kb/s), I get a file that's about 20% smaller than x.264 but an encode that takes about 40% longer. I can't see a quality difference. I must be missing a library to enable...

I got my ass six different kinds of kicked in all three of the matches I played, but the game definitely looks great.

That's my plan also.

Completely awesome, completely random thing from Microsoft. I bought a couple.

I figured out my issue last night. I had my optical drive on a SATA port that's shared with the M.2 drive. Rather than disabling one port or the other while there were two drives connected, my motherboard started routing the M.2 drive through USB, which is also part of the interface. The...

As I understand things, you can even do asynchronous load-sharing. You don't even have to match the GPUs for connected hardware any more.

Bozo is a wise man with better things to do with his cash. ;)

The Product Comparison Chart is made to help users pick the right tablet, phone or notebook for their needs by process of elimination. If nothing else, this is helpful to keep from having to dig through page after page of specs to determine if something has the right screen resolution and weight...

Powers is a comic book series by Brian Michael Bendis. It's not part of any other extended universe, but it's been running for 15 years or so. It's basically a police procedural set in a world where Super Heroes are are media darlings. Apparently Sony made it in to an ongoing series and it's...

I have enough drives for at least two full copies of my data set plus spares and parity snapshops. I'm probably fine on that front for at least two years. I try to replace an array at a time to give the library room to grow. I'm kind of stuck at the moment as far as with what to replace the 3TB...

I've discussed my storage setup before. I'm sure you've read those posts. For sed's benefit: My main desktop is a 32GB Haswell-E @ 4GHz (12 threads) with a GT 970, a 500GB Plextor M.2 and 1TB Corsair SSD + a few 3 or 4TB drives. My main file server has 24 4TB and 18 3TB drives at the moment...

Almost the same cost and holding 2TB less data. 15TB is a magic number for me. Getting there with two drives has a certain value all its own.

I think that would be sub-optimal given the hard error rate and stated performance characteristics. I have occasional need to move around a tremendous amount of static content and unfortunately BTsync doesn't handle mutliterabyte-size loads very well. That is not a euphemism for pr0n.

I've been trying to buy four of the 8TB Seagate drives for about a week now. Every time I look, Amazon says it has at most three of them in stock, usually from a seller called Oceanside that I know to be the bar-non worst drive shipper in the history of time. The drives are also being marked up...

An A10 is going to give you nothing to complain about, certainly. They're respectable midrange CPUs. I'm not sure about an MSI motherboard vs. Gigabyte or apparently ASrock, but in all probability you'll get a lot of use out of whatever you buy and you may even be in a position to actually...

Actually, after checking a bit, (free) Forticlient Antivirus does run on Windows Server editions. Most desktop AV packages refuse to install or won't enable real-time scanning, so I'd never bothered to try it.

In other words, wait for a new model year.

I've never had a drink. I had a sip of non-alcoholic beer when I was about 12 and that was enough to put me off. I drink water and tea, mostly.

Avast is perfectly fine antivirus protection. It works better than most paid applications in my experience.

Unfortunately, Dreamspark licenses can't be used for commercial applications. Which makes those extra Windows licenses rather less exciting.

3x the RAM vs. a 980 with roughly 50% more compute power at slightly lower clock frequency and memory timing. I'm not sure how impressive that really is given the price.

The 4k Vizio and LG sets would be right at the top of my list if my current TV were something less than 18 months old. I'm not sure it's worth doubling the price to look at an 85" above and beyond the cost of a 70" one. They all seem relatively affordable for someone who is plugged in enough to...

It's a 12-thread 4GHz Haswell-E with 32GB RAM and an M.2 boot drive. It's all kinds of responsive. At one time it was starting in under 10 seconds, too. I've been using Windows Server machines as desktops for ages, in part to have "server" machines to screw around on, in part because I have more...

On a kind of related note, my big desktop runs 2012r2 and for some reason it now needs 21 minutes to boot. It has Hyper-V and all the desktop experience stuff installed plus bog standard desktop apps and two VMs on manual startup, but at some point in the last month, something changed and now it...

I notice that I have problems with HDMI audio needing around 1 second before it picks up and plays on my 970 that I never noticed on ATI or Intel HDMI connections. I wonder if it's just a characteristic of nVidia hardware.

RDP all on its own is really efficient. It's usable over a 28.8kbps dialup connection. On a 100Mbit+ connection, it's usable for HD video playback. More efficiency is better, but I don't know if that's someplace I'd devote engineering effort.

I figured that would be too much of a time investment for dd. I spent a couple weekends screwing around to get an Rpi working right with an NFC sensor to toggle bluetooth inputs on my phone and that was mostly following a recipe.

You might be able to do something with Pushbullet + If This Then That. There are definitely bluetooth speakers that include a mic, but mic + aux out seems to be a tall order.

It hasn't launched yet, but the EFF Let's Encrypt project aims to make SSL certificates freely available. That's something very exciting, especially for small projects. It's supposed to go live in mid-2015.