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The main process on my server here at home is using a whole 48MB RAM.

BTsync seems to work with whatever, at least on Windows and *nix. I use it to move database snapshots from customer sites in extremely short order. The one complaint I have is that the monitor application on Windows is tied to the user account running it, so if you're logging in under a...

I have enough spare drives that I think I'm going to experiment with replicating my data set off-site. I tried BTsync for a 50GB collection of .jpg files and found that it was able to build a complete off-site replicated filesystem in a day and a half and a 15GB disk image in just a couple...

Oddly enough, there really aren't very many pictures of me in general. :P One of my customers is getting a 300Mbit synchronous internet connection put in this week and oddly enough I just figured out where I want to put my spare i7-980X. :D

Here's a nice HTML5 implementation of Settlers of Catan that requires other humans to play.

I was actually referring to my very likely low testosterone levels. Imma get that checked next time I get blood drawn anyway. :\

Honestly, I'm not sure what the general use case is for huge drives. Video storage and centralized backups are about the only things I can think of. Big single drives are a huge PITA to back up and even virtual machines do better if they're given a spindle to themselves rather than having to...

I want large consumer-class disks that are still capable of operating properly in an array. Buying 7200rpm drives seems to be the most straightforward way at the moment to ensure that. If the slower drives weren't deliberately crippled, I wouldn't have a problem with drives being slower, but...

I've been trying to get back here to reply in this thread for five freaking days... I think Groltz just moved to a more lurkerish mode. But I agree that it's great to know he's still around! Also, thanks man. Nitsirk also lurks all the damned time and never posts anything. I talk to her on...

As far as I can tell, I can't even get a WSUS or SCCM package for it as a non-volume customer. When I deployed it in my classrooms, I just pushed out a new image, but looking at the updates I can authorize, it doesn't appear to be classified that way.

I tried installing 8.1 from an 8.0 key and I wasn't able to do so. I'd be shy about handing out 32-bit media, if only because you know sooner or later, someone would actually use it. If you aren't giving people the discs, that's a good choice. Option (d) is still on the table. It is tedious...

You can get the same stuff from lots and lots of different sources, but there's still something to be said for encoding the stuff yourself so you can preserve soundtracks and grab extras from a disc if you want.

Good: 32" waist. Down from 56". Bad: Gotta buy a bunch of new pants.

IIRC, MakeMKV seemed a lot slower at ripping Blurays than using DVDFab or AnyDVD. Has it gotten better?

I always just run DVDFab under WINE

Coyotes are indeed pretty much assholes. They're kind of all over the place around here, too. My aunt and uncle lost a beagle to an owl once, which is a laser-guided, death from above statement about the natural balance of life, I guess.

Goshen is ~85 miles away. The fact that it's ~85 miles away is the reason I have an occasional semi-roommate/houseguest/large number of hair ties in my shower, since that's where she nominally resides.

Handbrake supports a work queue and it's highly scriptable (the GUI is just a front-end to the CLI anyway; it even shows you the command it's going to run). You can spend hours copying source files off disks, but it only takes minutes to set up a job queue of 10 movies, and you can process the...

There are people who will take anything, even if it's tied down. No one takes my desktops, monitors or keyboards but I've found that if I put USB mice out, they get taken. PS/2 mice? No one takes. The OEM Apple keyboards and mice on my Macs haven't been seen since about a month after I set them...

It's weird to think of a GS3 as a mid-range phone now, but it is. Phone screens in particular have improved tremendously over the last 18 months. Why did you pick the G3?

I did kind of play around with running handbrake on 2 -3 4CPU Hyper-V guest instances on my big home server vs. my 3770k, but only with 5 minute test clips. I wasn't doing anything too serious, but the 8 cores of relatively new i7 about 20% faster for doing the same work than two 4 core VMs on...

The right answer is probably still "it depends" but more and faster cores definitely help it. If you're seriously bottle necked in your workflow by your CPU, moving to an LGA2011 system with 6/12 cores would be a start. In my case, I found the biggest problem was having to wait an hour for 30GB...

It's even better knowing that the people who take them mostly make about double what I do. They take my screwdrivers, too.

I suppose it's mostly the cable connector, though I haven't seen a real PC speaker in years. I suppose it would have to connect through the AC97 audio header? What's happening (and I can't believe this is THAT MUCH of a problem but everyone bitches about it), is that in my classrooms, people are...

I have a Makerbot Replicator sitting in one of my off-site classrooms. I'm supposed to figure out how to work it so I can teach other people, but so far I haven't even taken it out of the box yet.

I couldn't get a decent picture since he was never that close to where I was. I have couple fine images of a grey blob that could be ostrich but might also be evidence of bigfoot.

There's an ostrich running around the subdivision and the water park that are next to my office. An OSTRICH.

Does anyone know where to get the full-range internal speakers that show up in inexpensive business desktop machines? I've heard them in HP and Dell machines. I'm not talking about drive bay speakers; the machines I'd like to outfit don't have a free 5.25" bay.

My eye is slowly getting better. I've spent a tremendous amount of money on diagnostics that are supposed to be interpreted next week, but at the moment I no longer have what I would call persistent double vision. Instead, it's conditional. Basically, my vision seems normal unless I'm tracking...

Against my better judgment, I went to see the new Transformers movie. That movie treats plot and characterization like the Germans treated the Warsaw Ghetto in 1938.

If nothing else, white space is gained, making the page less crowded and easier to read. I'm still willing to call that a win. Advertisements presented through typical ad networks might involve as many as five parties between the person creating the content and the device on which the content...

Ads are still a fundamental problem. 1. All ads are intrusive. Even by taking space on my screen that could be used for content, they are unwelcome. 1a. I am fully aware that some web sites need revenue to operate. As an individual, I would rather donate or pay a subscription fee than see ads...

I have mad, mad hate for Konica document centers and their terrible software, but I also don't have a Synology NAS on a domain so I can't speak to what features might or might not be disabled. Technically, CIFS is a superset of SMB networking that includes stuff like addressing directly by IP...

I've never tried one. I've been aware of them for a while. It was a crowdfunded project that seemed like a good idea, but a little bit too expensive for what it does.

It is, but that's why we have RAM in the first place. Internet advertising is an arms race and Adblock Plus (or Edge) is really the best way to stay ahead of the bad guys. You could do hosts file blocking or buy an adblocking appliance, but I know from experience that at least hosts file...

IIRC, CIFS has to be specifically enabled in the management utility. I think it hides under the LDAP options someplace. It's just a checkbox, so it would be really easy to miss.

Did you enable CIFS support?

Is it at least a pleasant walk?

I'd call $3k for a 50 - 60" brand-name 4k TV reasonable, and there are a couple options that are in that ballpark.

My dietary requirements leave me with ridiculously limited options. I eat very little processed food. I avoid carbs from sources besides fruits and vegetables (e.g. broccoli) or grains (mostly steel cut oats for oatmeal). I avoid sodium, artificial sweeteners and caffeine (I do drink tea). I...

I gave up on my FreeNAS machine about 18 months ago because of the expense and annoyance at tracking down compatible 4GB+ ECC FBDIMMs for my system. I saw a big performance gain moving from 4GB up to IIRC 12GB. I could see that I would've been happier still if I could've gotten 16GB or more, but...

If there's a normal Windows browser besides Firefox or Chrome, it's not one that's worthy of consideration as normal.

My FreeNAS machine was RAM limited for much of its life. Even though it had 8 cores to work with, I felt there was a subjective decrease in performance for using Plex on it. I switched the server over to a Windows box and I stopped noticing when anything was streaming, probably because the...

When I was your age, I had already had a subscription to Playboy for a almost two years. And my parents knew about it. The condition was that I had to prove I was READING it, but at the time it was interesting enough that wasn't really a problem. I almost got thrown out of my high school's AP...

I found that it was easier to just host files on FreeNAS and run my server on a Windows PC.

I've been using it for a couple years, maybe? Every once in a while I find a site that doesn't work properly, but even seeing how many third party scripts run on mainstream sites is enough to ensure that I'm going to keep using it.

Surprisingly, the biggest problem is just that userland tools on Android aren't allowed to access certain application settings for security reasons. You can get calendars and messages, but you're not going to be able to grab your savegame on Bubble Shooter or saved login credentials for the...

It's a lot of ancient history. BSD *is* UNIX, with a code base that dates all the way back to Bell Labs in the late 60s. The "B" in BSD refers to the University of California at Berkley, which is where some of the most substantial modifications to original UNIX code originated. BSD has more or...

Doing so in such a way that includes applications and all secured data requires root access to the device. It's definitely possible, but generally looked askance by handset manufacturers and service providers.

Aw man that's terrible. I hope he pulls through.