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As in self-publishing or just a service where they can purchase books?

There are a few hundred thousand files there. The way I understand things, it's supposed to match tracks to content that Microsoft has a license to stream. Maybe it just hasn't hit the popular music yet, but either it's glacially slow or it doesn't match anything but top 40 music. The stuff...

You just haven't been around long enough. I've been letting my Windows 10 testbed machine do matching for streaming through Xbox Music. I have about 3.3TB of music files, but it's primarily classical music. It's been running for 6 days and so far out of everything I have (and it all has correct...

The Roku OOBE is: Set up networking, to go to the web site, type in a code to ID your device, register an account if you don't have one, enter a credit card (mandatory), then hit the channel selection directory to find content, with stuff like Netflix and Youtube front and center. You have to...

Windows Server beta is also available now. There's some particularly interesting stuff going on for storage pool tech: "Windows Server 2012 introduced Storage Spaces, a method of pooling physical storage devices (hard drives or SSDs) into logical volumes in order to boost performance and...

The palmrest and touchpad are a single part on most laptops. You could try opening up the laptop and re-seating the internal cable. That may or may not be within your comfort level. You could also spend $25 or so on a new palmrest and touchpad. Or you could just plug in another pointing device...

It's pretty much the same thing, Bozo. They're based on the same code, it's just that one managed by people who got pissed when Oracle bought Sun and the other is managed by the people who stayed on (and now work under the banner of the Apache foundation).

You might try doing your work and saving from Google Drive instead. When you choose to download a .gdoc, you can choose the output format and .docx is an option.

Does the S3 have an IR emitter?

Netflix usually is. The FireTV has a good out of box experience.

Suremote is awfully handy as a universal remote app. I like the UI and ease of setup. Way easier than dealing with a Harmony remote.

My default recommendation is the FireTV. It's not the cheapest box, but it has a good overall Netflix and it talks to most of the other stuff I think of as major video services. I'd never actually looked at how much original content Amazon was making available, but it's looking a lot like good...

You could maybe look in to something that gives you virtual desktops. Like Windows 10, anything that runs X, or a program like this.

In the world of STBs, that's actually a tough question to answer. Netflix has a different UI on almost every platform. Some of them almost require users to interact with a PC to pick the titles for viewing. Others have UI issues with browsing or searching.

Over the weekend, Roku announced that the 3 and its HDMI stick would be getting Miracast support. Also, somebody is building an inexpensive FirefoxOS-based competitor to the Chromecast called Matchstick. It was funded within 18 hours of its Kickstarter campaign and it's interesting because it...

As a rough timeline, many members from SF were active on Storage Review's forums in 1998 or 1999. We've been talking about computer stuff for probably at least as long as sed has been alive.

Relax. It's for software testing. You should know better than to do anything secret or mission critical on a Microsoft beta OS that's going to expire in six months anyway. If it makes you feel any better, it's not like Microsoft is going to do anything other than datamine the hell out of what...

That's... not how it works. The number of pixels is fixed. Period. You get however many pixels the display natively supports. When you put a flat panel display in an unsupported mode, one of two things happens: Either the screen will simply display that correct number of pixels and simply not...

Is it too late to return the baby for a less complicated option? Feline infants largely stay where you put them and don't make much noise in the first place, for example.

I saw Windows 10 running on five different machines today and was able to do side by side comparisons between 7, 8.1 and 10 on identical hardware for two of those. My students saw a tiny (like, 1 - 1.5 seconds) boot time improvement between 8.1 and 10 on older machines but I really could not see...

Here's a kind of handy article on how to set up cloud storage folders on a PC so the data from one gets synchronized to the others.

That's true but he's also apparently spent quite a lot more time looking at Windows desktops than most people his age.

All those Intel motherboards and not a single mATX BH61.

They're officially called "Modern Style Applications", I think. Some of them are even pretty nice, like News Bento or Netflix. You also have to remember that modern style programs aren't being made for you. They're being made for younger people who have grown up with Xbox 360 and mobile devices...

Sed, you might want to watch "Master and Commander", with an eye toward what Cabin Boys doing on those ships.

Online FPS games that aren't requesting map textures in every new game aren't going to contribute to bandwidth utilization in any kind of meaningful way. The mid and late 90s games in particular were designed to be playable over dialup speed connections. Five minutes of Pandora probably creates...

Yeah. It's god awful, especially if you regularly switch between external network configurations. Would you want to walk an end user through reconfiguring their vSwitches? The desktop version also doesn't support clipboard sharing. We're supposed to do everything through RDP, but if I...

I'm going to make my class tomorrow about installing it. I have a couple crappy notebooks and a desktops from early C2D to lga1150 i3 systems and it'll be fun for everyone to see what it will run on. Also, unlike any beta version of Windows I can remember, it supports an upgrade install from 7...

Talking about Windows versions in common release you have Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7 and 8, so the next one would be the 10th major launch. Maybe? One of my big concerns is the extent to which software will be deployed from the Windows Store vs. normal updates. I also want to...

Shit. That's just shit. Do please say something if we can help somehow.

This can be the thread about Windows 10. I'm sure we'll need one of those. So far, what we know is that it has an unholy combination of start menu and start screen, modern style apps can be made to run in windows, virtual desktop support, apps can be docked to corners and the standard console...

I was addressing time at that point. The 750Ti seemed like a better choice than his suggestion for a GTX660.

Sounds like we're all falling apart of late. :\

Something weird about Windows RT/Modern-style Windows apps: My Microsoft account exposes a certain amount of music that managed to be saved in the standard C:\users\username\music Library from whichever machine I accidentally saved music into that folder from. So that music shows up if I sign in...

Why not a 750Ti for modest gaming needs? I've seen them as cheap as $115 and the much lower TDP probably has real value in a small chassis.

You can connect with anything that supports OpenVPN, PPTP or L2TP. You have all kinds of options there. Maybe Coug's computers can use his time of infirmity to rest up before the beatings continue. ;)

The Prodigy is absolutely enormous for a "small" case. I have a couple that I have filled up with hard drives for off-site backup purposes. I will say that they're quiet-ish and, at least with i3 CPUs and no video card, they aren't a problem as far as heat management.

I run it on single dedicated machine. It would be completely fine on a VM. The provider allows I think four or five simultaneous connected clients and they have instructions for connecting with a number of different client types and protocols.

Days of Future Past was way, way better than I had anticipated. I'd be perfectly happy to ditch Wolverine-centric movies in favor of the McAvoy/Fassbender/Lawrence cast and in fact I love the period piece setting. Yes this is the movie thread. I'm going to talk about TV now. Cope. Agents of...

When I started using it, I set up what I thought would be a HUGE storage pool. And then I actually filled it to the provisioned size. And then it was a pain in my butt.

I had a need for custom printed flash drives. I bought them through Alibaba. They were made right away but then took about 20 days to ship to me.

You could've just asked me for those. I already had both of them. I can even see the cases from where I'm sitting. I also have the Blood and Chrome and Caprica series soundtracks, which were similarly limited.

Maybe the Asus characteristic is now "Don't behave properly after a power outage?"

You might want to be sure that you're OK with the work involved in adding zPools or expanding existing ones. If you have limited numbers of ports, bringing a new, large zPool online to copy your data to is going to be beyond your resources. If you're under any kind of time pressure, upgrading...

Over the course of a month, the Seagate and Hitachi drives both seem to go on sale for at least one week at both Amazon and Newegg, but limit 2 and limit 5 are both very common. Just play a waiting game and you'll get your setup working sooner or later. What platform are you planning to use...

The device is normally called "High Definition Audio Device" on just about everything. The driver on everything newer than XP is provided by Microsoft.

Yeah. Or flip the power switch on the PSU. What seems to happen is that he BIOS reverts to "Safe Defaults" including IDE mode SATA.

Microsoft's high level run-time is .NET, which is implemented on other platforms as Mono. It's more of a competitor to Java than a full application ecosystem. I have no idea how widely used it is to develop software for *nix or game consoles, but if you write C# for a living I guess it's better...

Vizio released a line of highly affordable 4k TVs this week. The least positive thing I can find anyone saying about them basically boils down to "Still better than the cheap Samsungs." 50" for $1000, 60" for $1700, 70" for $2400. No full reviews seem to be available yet, but the early word...

Updated binaries are already coming online. As I understand it, the issue is that the OSes in question are set up with environment variables that invoke /bin/bash. It's not simply a problem of someone somehow remotely invoking a shell script; the systems will probably do it on their own as...