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Llama is super-handy for making your phone do things based on its location.

WINE is an odd thing. Some software will actually run better, some worse, and some things not at all. I used Windows DVD ripping software under WINE continuously and it was utterly flawless, and somebody has a hacked-together script for installing Wine and IE for using Netflix under Linux that's...

For future reference, the connection is called an FFC (Flat Flexible cable) or FPC (flexible printed circuit) and is a quasi-standard for electronics guys. The connectors are standardized by the number of pins and spacing between them (in millimeters). Mystery solved, and in a way that does not...

For some reason I am reminded of the words of Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Harvey Kellogg in "The Road to Wellville." I will share with you his wisdom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Hoz5574VA

... and of course, 95% of the time that I want to clone a drive, it's a 250 or 320GB HDD to a 120 or 240GB SSD.

I suspect a 5400rpm notebook drive would be an even better choice than a green drive, now that I think about it. Slightly more expensive, yes, but you'll have the opportunity to add additional insulation without modding your enclosure.

I need less money and more one of these.

Think about how often your car or your phone needs fixed and how often operating systems need to be patched. Would you really trust human technology at its present level with your consciousness? "What's wrong with your hand today, robodrueding?" "I got some sand in it and now only my...

I've tried TrueImage, DriveImage XML, Clonezilla and Easus ToDo. In my case I was swapping 250GB HDDs for 120GB SSDs in HP Probooks. The Windows backup tool disk images I tried first were puking no matter what I tried.

I spent a while experimenting with a proper way to clone a drive on a few Windows 8 machines that were configured to boot off UEFI. So far, exactly none of them have worked 100% properly. The most likely error I seem to run in to is an error in the Windows startup files on the System partition...

I really don't, but I had already disabled almost all that stuff anyway.

The S4 got it's OTA update to Kit Kat last night. So far, the only difference I can find is that a half dozen of my favorite apps don't work any more. Both Justpictures and Andmade Share are hosed now. I don't notice any new functionality or performance change but hey I got a new version of Android.

The CSR has made it clear that they're going to make it right if I get the drive to someone who works for Samsung, but that depends on at least two other people doing the right thing. Having an employee spend basically an entire work day on a $150 bad drive doesn't make a lot of financial sense...

So I sent an 830 back to Samsung a couple weeks ago. Or at least I thought I did. Turns out, I didn't. Since I actually registered the drive for warranty purposes (because I bought it "late" in its life and didn't want to lose eight months of warranty based on date of manufacture), when it...

I haven't gotten around to actually trying it yet. I'm not sure if the bar part contains any points of contact or if it's just there for tension.

The guy told me that the bracket (the black piece in your photo I think - I haven't actually seen it) came off with the ribbon and now he can't find that piece. I've never seen one that works that way. I guess I'll go buy some locktite.

One of my students brought me an Inspiron 1750 this morning. He had attempted to replace its keyboard and in fact had downloaded the proper documentation and followed along. Normally, a keyboard repair is dead simple but in this case the guy broke the little keyboard ribbon cable retention...

Depending on your hardware, that may actually be incorrect. Trying to use Aero on a low-spec system (particularly some of the systems that first shipped with Vista) was a good way to eat CPU time on systems that never should have tried to run it. For the most part, I'm completely fine with...

Chrome has its own internal config, but it also interacts with the registry and with GUID entries in its own profile folders (there are at least two that I know of) and bad guys can interact with any of the above in an effort to make their mal-extensions as difficult to remove as possible. I've...

I'm not sure that this is actually surprising, but is it really a case of particular engineering solution, or just that some devices have faster CPUs and are better able to deal with incoming data? Some of the Apple device scores are a bit lower than I'd expect compared to the generation of...

Wait until you run in to something that manages to convince Windows that a particular Chrome Add-on that it was installed "by Enterprise Policy."

Why would you want to push out Firefox?

I'd say that's partially true at best, given Microsoft's reluctance to issue any amount of out of band software patches. Game-breaking bug? "We'll send out a fix second Tuesday of next month." IE10 and 11 with Tracking Protection Lists are definitely not as bad as older versions. I still don't...

I just found out that one of the people in my office still maintains a few web sites with Frontpage. By itself, no, that's not a big deal. It makes code that works and hey, at least it's not shitting Javascript all over everything. But thinking of a straightforward replacement, the only thing...

GetMacApps.com requires a little more work than using Ninite, but it's the same basic idea, only more OSX-y.

Consistently, the biggest problem I have found with OpenOffice is something less than 100% compatibility for complex Excel stuff. Granted that I can (and do) make things in Word that don't work right either, but it's enough of a headache that I usually don't bring it up unless someone asks me...

I think this is a sign you've been staring at price lists too long. ;)

Rackmount hardware is usually really loud. This may not be a factor, but if you're buying this hardware for a single user and that equipment isn't going in your datacenter, that's something you might want to consider.

Can any VPN link stay up? Can you run an SSH tunnel between those two boxes, for example?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B16Bo47KS2g Yes, that is going to tie in to the Avengers movies. With Vin Diesel as a talking tree and the redheaded babe from Doctor Who as the bald, blue-skinned big bad. Over the weekend I watched a movie called "Europa Project", primarily because it was...

Part of the appeal of the Samsung phones is that they're so damned light and thin. I don't see any reason to give that up for the dubious "protection" of an otterbox. I've seen too many broken smartphones in undamaged cases.

A 7" tablet will fit in the back pocket of most men's pants, but probably shouldn't. It'll also go in the interior pocket on a lot of sport coats or suit jackets, but again it looks pretty weird to put one there. I was thinking about that a few days ago. I'd really like to have a coat with an...

As a proof of concept and entirely because of I spilled a cup of tea on my regular handset, I used a Nexus 7 as my office phone all day. I use Vocalocity (basically Vonage for Business) and their mobile app lets me transfer calls and things just like my Cisco handset. It was a little silly, but...

I believe the trend of building specialized single-site web viewers originates and is necessitated by older iThings, where some combination of missing Flash support and relatively low buy-in from web developers for mobile-friendly sites meant a fairly broken web experience. Things have mostly...

The Microsoft LifeChat is an inexpensive device geared toward VOIP rather than gaming performance. There are a few of them floating around my office. I was using a Logitech H600 for recording stuff to put on Youtube, but I switched to my Jaybird Bluetooth set since I got it and passed the...

Newegg does at time have a larger stock of certain products, particularly computer cases.

A sharpie and a roll of masking tape would go a long, long way.

It's definitely heavier-weight than it used to be, but it's still lighter than Defender or Avira. The tools are getting worse. I don't think that's your imagination.

Take a look at this.

As far as I know, no Macs have any such configuration. Windows Vista supported a technology called ReadyBoost for doing high-level disk caching of disk drive access, but that wasn't supported on Windows 7 (the Readyboost hardware was just formatted and configured as if it were a USB flash...

A machine with those specs should be fine for original UT (which I still play sometimes). UT2004 should also run sorta-acceptably on a GF2MX from what I remember of running support at LAN parties. Are you using the original, retail install media or did you get it through a service like GoG.com...

Quickbooks is permanently and always completely terrible. I'm a big believer in QB Online. At least it doesn't fuck up your Windows install when it has problems. I usually tell people to budget for two days of paid time to do a Quickbooks upgrade or new install, even for a simple two-station...

I actually did try that, but the System Writer isn't technically part of the Backup Features and that didn't seem to help. I wound up making a database backup and then restoring Windows from the last good system image I had. I'm not going to run a production system with no working backup.

Every reasonably sophisticated forum site is going to have per-user preferences and probably shit tons of viewership metrics on each account. Everything is done in Javascript for maximum slowness since that's all Web Monkeys know how to write these days, and the size of ads and scripts being...

I would definitely in no way know absolutely all about that since easily 2/3s of the comments on every Slashdot thread today were about it. I miss the circa '96 Slashdot. I still think of the Slashboxes as the "new design."

Oh and also here is this thing that I totally must have, a Dungeons and Dragons novel that Audible.com paid to have a Gangster Rapper narrate.

I live in Portage, Indiana. I'm physically close enough that I have on a couple occasions walked from my apartment to Miller Beach in Gary (it's not really a fun walk though). It's a great neighborhood. Strip club-adjacent.

An WD800BB could be 12 - 13 years old, though WD had a habit of changing underlying platter properties without changing the model number. Buck is the person who would be able to tell exactly even if the warranty is so far gone that the validator just laughs at you.

If you create a Bookmark with this code javascript:(function(){if(location.host%20==%20"www.youtube.com"%20&&%20location.search.indexOf("v=")%20!=%20-1)%20{open("http://www.youtube-mp3.org/#v="%20+location.search.split("v=")[1].split("&")[0]);}})(); and click it while watching a Youtube...

Amazon and Netflix are both trying to convince ISPs to accept peered content boxes that the biggest share of their data can come from internal networks rather than cross over more expensive links. I can't believe that Verizon doesn't have a bunch of 100TB Netflix boxes at strategic locations...