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I found 133 of the Google Maps Pokemons before I gave up and looked at spoilers and this is my favorite April Fool's stupid internet thing.

I got a Netgear PTV3000 Miracast adapter today for classroom-type use. It's pretty sweet. There's a Bluetooth-like pairing process but it seems to work with my Thinkpad (Windows 8.1 with Intel WiDi) and with both my Kindle Fire HDX and my Galaxy S4. It is definitely not as easy as Airplay and it...

Teamviewer Quick Support allows for an RDP-like remote connection to an Android device. I'm fusing it now, typing on my laptop but posting from my phone. Neat.

Over the weekend, Samsung announced a $700, 28" 4k display that will be shipping April 18th. dd might've bought too soon.

I sent out an email to my Thinkpad users and no one has any battery affected by this recall. Too bad. I was momentarily excited that I might get a free new battery.

Demonoid is back up.

I think the Nook HD and Nook HD+ are kind of the under-appreciated bargains of the moment. With stock firmware, they're about 80% retarded, but even at that they can load apps from Google Play. But they can be made to boot third party ROMs and can be found used for under $100. I know you don't...

... and 'round about 2020, when the next generation of consoles comes out, there may finally be a consumer need to push that many pixels.

To be fair it was kind of hypnotic. :)

I work for a company with five employees. All of them are women. All of them have insurance through their husband's job. I make too much money to qualify for any discount on coverage but not enough to think that the monthly cost represents a reasonable expenditure. I also live in a state with a...

I think my town's motto is "If you aren't stopped by a train every time you try to make a north-south trip, we have failed as a community."

I maintained a catastrophic plan for a few years that had a $20,000 deductible, but it only cost me $110/month. I'm every bit as unlikely to spend $6300 on health care in a single year as $20,000 and if I did wind up spending $6300 I'm fairly certain that the total would exceed $20,000 as well...

$270/month to have a $6300 deductible. It's just exactly like not having health insurance at all, except that it costs as much as a car payment. Hurray!

I don't know what's wrong with Windows Easy Transfer, which works just fine to transfer data from XP to Windows Vista+, but Microsoft's Windows XP Site presently includes a 90MB data and settings transfer appllication from Laplink called PC Mover Express which will apparently be offered free as...

Thanks for looking, mubs. It entered my mind as a "game" in the sense that the people writing those articles are somewhat competitive about it. I really like the idea that it's a kind of new media for fiction and storytelling, just by the nature of being a wiki, and the article length tends to...

XP SP3 can be packaged using the same container that newer versions of Windows use, a .WIM file. The Windows Automated Install Toolkit can make one for XP SP3.

I'm entirely unconvinced of the argument that we should pay extra to get a slower drive with uncrippled firmware when we could just buy proper desktop drives in the first place for pretty much the same amount of money. Also (and I am forced by secret documents in the SF charter to remind...

That black border is just normal behavior for some monitors. Some monitors scale everything to full screen, which looks like ass in a lot of cases because of misalignment between pixel density and the resolution one is attempting to display, so some screens just display the requested pixels in a...

I'm a huge, huge fan of the stuff on the SCP Foundation wiki. The basis for the site is the idea that the contributors are part of an organization devoted to keeping the paranormal segregated from the world that the rest of humanity knows. Each file is a different paranormal phenomenon or...

Remote Flash rendering is somewhat interesting, but it's primarily only going to help for video streaming and not interactive applications. Unfortunately, that also means that everyplace where you will want to use it (sites that don't have decent mobile experiences already, like Hulu) probably...

Possibly. I'm sure I've purchased multiples of all of the above over the last few months but they're all back at my office.

I always think it's delightful when we can bring back a five year old thread and continue posting on topic. I really do have to say I love those Asus VS247 IPS displays. I've seen them as cheap as $130. There's something to be said for being able to build a $400 5760 pixel-wide wall of screen.

One of my former students does IT Support for PCs someplace really big and really recognizable. He has to account for his time in SIX MINUTE increments and has a mandatory incident productivity requirement that does not vary. When he started there were 20 guys on staff in his role. Now there are...

Mrs. Brown's Boys is pretty damned funny on general principle.

Other than no-name Korean brands, is there another option besides Sharp that's actually shipping?

I have an i7 920 in my office that I don't think has been powered on in two years, sed. Make me an offer.

The oldest i7s, the 920s and 860s, are five years old now. They're emphatically NOT slow CPUs, but at the same time a newer i5 is something like 50% faster on a per-core basis. I don't know what Santilli is doing with that machine that he would call it slow, but I can see a huge difference in...

As it turns out, "Chet Manhammer" is not considered a funny name for an internal reporting e-mail address even if only two people could potentially see it and one of them does not have a sense of humor.

It shouldn't matter. 1% while expanding probably means bad media or a marginal DVD drive since at that point in the install Windows is running with more or less the same state as in safe mode. When I was about your age I remember being super-excited to be the first one on the block to have...

I really don't have any strong feelings about whether or not Ukraine should control the Crimea or not. Putin is a shithead and Russia is run by criminals, but the same can really be said for the US at this point. Apparently it was just cheaper to take the land by force of arms than to just buy...

I thought I'd be done in this thread for at least a month or so but here's some speculation on Amazon's new HDMI/USB Stick-thing. Apparently it's going to do gaming now, which would be interesting from the standpoint of differentiating it from Chromecast, the Roku stick or the random Android...

Somebody took the time to build a catalog of Chromecast-capable apps since Chromecast support isn't a searchable criteria on the Play Store at the moment. Which is useful if you have a Chromecast.

I just ran in to my first OS X system with a malware problem. The machine had a memory-resident program called Genieo installed which hijacked both Home Page and Search settings for all installed browsers and seems to have been displaying ads in spite of adblock+ for Firefox, Chrome and Safari...

You probably should go ahead and move to 7 if you're going to keep running Windows.

I've installed everything from XPSP3 to 8.1 from a thumb drive without issue. I will note, however, that not every thumb drive can be made bootable and not all of them play nice with hard drive emulation settings in a BIOS/UEFI. What I thought P5 would say is that his drive letters got screwed...

There are a few third party solutions for Google Drive. Insync is a commercial application that allows someone to sync multiple Google Drive accounts on the same system.

Google Drive dropped it's prices today. Storage plans now cost 1/3rd what they did until this morning. 100GB plans are now $24/year.

A LOT of people are under the mistaken impression that Outlook Express is the same thing as Outlook, or it's what they've always used. In a business setting, sometimes it is useful to be able to send batch messages, schedule sending, check multiple accounts, configure message filters or rules...

Plenty of stuff doesn't virtualize, often because it needs access to hardware in a way that the VM can't provide. One of my customers has a line of business application that still uses (sigh) a parallel port dongle. The application vendor stopped supporting the version of the application my...

Plenty of stuff doesn't virtualize, often because it needs access to hardware in a way that the VM can't provide. One of my customers has a line of business application that still uses (sigh) a parallel port dongle. The application vendor stopped supporting the version of the application my...

... I will say: It is RIDICULOUSLY easy to make IE and Office run in WINE. Office Licenses often aren't transferable to other hardware but there are a couple customers where, in a perfect world, I'd just go in and trash their XP installs for SuSE or something.

My company still does a decent portion of its business training Windows XP and Office 2003. It's the Common Operating Environment for a big customer and they won't be done transitioning to Windows 7/Office 2010 until this August. Several other companies I deal with still have a mandate for IE6...

timwhit, the Chicago Symphony, Symphony Chorale and Children's Chorus will be performing the full score to "Return of the King" on August 7th and 8th. It's $25/ticket + another $10 to park, though the tickets are not available for sale yet. This is your first warning. :)

Not yet. It's just a few buttons that take people to web sites. I cannot imagine that anyone who knows how to mobile device would ever bother to install it.

I can either buy the code outright and publish it myself (+$99 for Apple developer tax) or I can pay $10/month and run everything through the code generator's developer account. This is just coming from a stupid customer mandate and I'm hoping we can put it online for six months and show that no...

I "made" an HTML5 app today using a code generation platform from machine.infinitemonkeys.com. It took about 10 minutes is going to cost $120/year to publish as a Google/Amazon/Apple app store item. All it does is open a web page or dial a phone numbre or pipe an address in to a device's...

I can't believe it's that much of a PITA to get decent .ISO files. Let me see what I can do for you.

SSDs do outlast traditional disks on that basis, but the memory cells that make up SSDs have a limited lifespan of their own. After a certain number of writes, the memory cells stop responding to changes and have to be marked unusable. Eventually enough cells wear out in that fashion such that...

50 Shades and the Twilight novels both have supremely vacant protagonists. The best theory I have about this is that the utterly generic non-persons at the center of the narrative can be a stand-in for the widest possible range of people in need of fantasy fulfillment. I managed to read about 70...