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Why not just make the notes using Google Docs in the first place?

The thing that's strange to me about all that is re-naming a pet. My grandma had a Golden Retriever named "Lady" when I was growing up who was definitely not that. She said she figured it out a couple days after she got the dog but she couldn't think of him any other way.

I know someone who would happily share her Loki/Doctor Who slash fiction. I don't think Coug's PC could take the abuse it would get if he saw it, though.

Youtube was rolled out for the Roku 3 just before Xmas, with promises that it would be added as an available channel to everything but the original-model Roku. I have no idea on dates, but I did see it on my uncle's Roku a couple weeks ago. You might want to give Plex a try as a DLNA...

If you look, they say Premier users will get free returns and zero restocking fees. At the moment, Newegg only covers shipping on some minority of orders. They almost always tell customers to take it up with manufacturers and I've been told that I'd be charged restocking for clearly clearly...

More than one of these got an actual out loud laugh from me. Generally safe for work, possibly less safe for good taste in a few cases.

I think the dream we want to live is to get a desktop with a performance profile that's similar to or exceeds current-gen consoles at a comparable price. Without Windows that is ENTIRELY possible ($350 i3 rig + $100 *770 graphics card + goofy wireless gamepad = ~$500) and it's just going to get...

That's kind of a big deal. It's crucial for backups. It's crucial for THIRD PARTY backup software. If it's not working and nothing short of dropping back to my last good system image is all I can do, I don't know how that's even remotely cool. I have no idea what caused it and no idea if it will...

Newegg is now offering a competitor to Amazon Prime. Here's the web page for it. It's $50 for 3-day shipping, which doesn't seem all that helpful, but free returns and supposedly better service might make it worthwhile. I'm undecided. Newegg's customer service is atrocious but I still buy from...

I've done "Living Room PCs" a few times. My own personal bias is to make systems that are capable as media consumption systems rather than gaming machines, but I've made those as well. SteamOS is supposed to be a front end for a Linux system, and I suppose that means it will be modded to hell...

Civilization 5 is supposed to be getting full offline play Any Day Now and coincidentally, the new Humble Bundle is all Sid Meier games. I've never heard of Ace Patrol and the bundle doesn't have either of my actual favorite Sid Meier games (Pirates! Gold or Alpha Centauri), but that is more...

Hitachi's been offering five platter drives for ages (e.g. the 75GXP). I can't remember the last time I saw non-Hitachi drive with five.

Anyone who visits has to clear the spammer verification. I don't know if Handruin grants approvals by hand or not but there are automated systems to minimize the forum annoyance factor.

They're kind of slow. They have kind of dim screens. They're tiny for an x86 tablet. But on the other hand, $200 is a HELL of a price for a fully functional Windows 8 PC, let alone a tablet model. Awesome deal if you live near a Microcenter.

I decided that the Windows Backup was sending me a coded message that I don't get nearly enough practice doing Windows Server restores.

And for the record, since they changed the procedure again: The Hamachi config now lives at HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\LogMeIn Hamachi\. You can either copy an old config folder to that location or specify a different one. It's a DWORD in your registry. I make use of Hamachi's relatively static...

TrueImage Server has been tried and did in fact puke.

Has anyone run in to this before? I have a relatively new Server 2008r2 system, perhaps six weeks old (running as a virtual machine on an ESX 5.5 host, if that matters). Backups worked fine until Saturday night but since then, when I try to fire off a backup, I get this error message: "System...

I'm personally quite happy that I listened to 35 minutes of NPR this morning and no one mentioned the big game. They played a 15 minute interview with Philip Seymour Hoffman but sports were not discussed. I'm glad there's a media option that understands that there are more interesting things to...

Some of the "Z" (enthusiast) series motherboard chipsets do, but that is of dubious utility if your main drive is already an SSD.

I suspect they have yield problems when bit densities get too high. And Hitachi was the only company that really messed with 4 platter+ drives in the modern era. They're just leveraging something they know how to do.

I am not happy, but at least I have join.me and/or Teamviewer.

net share music=c:\users\username\music /grant:"company users",change /users=5 Share your personal Music folder as \\localhost\music, granting the Company Users group ("Everyone" is probably also a safe choice if you have NTFS permissions in place) with Change rights (instead of read or full)...

That would be a great box for that purpose as long as you can work out a control scheme and front-end that you can live with. I suggest XBMC and either a Rii or a Logitech k400r if you'd like a device that's a bit larger. The one down side in XBMC is that streaming plug-ins can be fussy, but you...

I'll keep you in mind next time I do a pass at my spare parts bins.

Dell desktops don't have standard parts because they're Dells. That's how they are. You might as well be annoyed with the sun for rising in the east for all the good it does. The people who buy machines like that know full well that the systems are going to be disposable and they will act...

My big file server has 29 internal 4TB drives (29? Yeah. There's a bunch of empty space inside the chassis in front of the power supply and I had the extra SATA ports that were just going to waste...) and another 12 3TB drives in an SAS enclosure and potentially another 8 2TB drives in an eSATA...

Stop judging my data collection habits! :P

UPS shipping to a residence for something that light would be around $12. USPS could cut it down to maybe $3 if you're willing to tolerate crappy handling and no insurance. That said, it's highly unlikely that your current laptop has a socketed CPU and there isn't going to be much of a...

net, netsh, same difference. :) But yes, I also hate netsh.

Here's the relevant command reference. Try: net int ip set dns name="lan2" source=none

Video Downloadhelper is a ridiculously handy Firefox add-on in the first place, but I just noticed something that makes it even better: In Firefox, if you right click on selected text that contains Youtube links, you'll see that you have the option to "Download video from selected Youtube...

My thinking is to just disable DNS on that interface entirely, something that should be pretty straightforward: net int ip set dns name="lan2" none Will work I think. netsh doesn't directly have a context for dealing with NetBIOS-anything so I think you have to do that with wmic. Again, the...

netsh is one of those commands I kind of hate, because it's so overloaded with functions. Does that interface need to handle DNS at all or is it just a static route to some other single NIC or address range?

The more I use this thing, the more I think that I could live with it if three problems were fixed: 1. Either a different web browser or some ability to customize modern IE. Modern IE doesn't leave tab controls or even navigation on screen. That's pretty awful for someone with my browsing...

I have strictly indoor cats. They go out on the balcony in warmer months, but the biggest difference is that my girl cat is willing to tolerate sleeping next to the boy. She's normally very territorial about my bed, which is the one place she thinks is hers. And hey it was only -6 today, so we...

Look at it this way: You have an Athlon 2600 that's still technically useful some 10 years after you bought it. :)

-16F on my balcony this morning.

It more or less only works when every firewall along the the transit path has been configured to allow it. You can very rarely assume that to be true. I stick Crossloop on all my client's PCs for remote support or use Join.me (which is also a LogMeIn service) for people I don't think figure out...

The MakerBot people announced some kind of huge deal with Dell today. Also: .

Those are definitely some bad circumstances. Let us know if there's something we can do.

i3-3220 4GB Crucial DDR3 120GB Kingston SSD Foxconn H61 ITX motherboard ITX chassis + PSU $350 That's more or less the exact PC I'm building for office systems right now. It's a modest machine and I'd prefer a nicer motherboard (Gigabyte or Asus H77, maybe, but those are twice as expensive)...

That's true, but part of the advantage of the ridiculous i7 rig is being able to do other things at the same time as video encoding. The CPU utilization for my main home system stays pegged at somewhere north of 90% for days on end from batch video encodes, but when I'm interacting with it (even...

If it makes you feel any better, I just had to drive two hours to a customer site (in Siberian cold-ass weather) because some other vendor was screwing with LAN cabling in the server rack and plugged its ethernet cable into its IPMI management port. At least Google fixes their crap when they...

One of the multinational insurance companies a couple customers of mine deal with still requires IE6 for at least one of their internal portal sites. Everyone has an XP Mode VM that's a shortcut to THAT SITE and I even went through the trouble of changing everyone's IE favorites to launch the...

The RealVNC Viewer is free on the Play Store right now. It's usually $10. There are freebie VNC viewers out there but RealVNC is probably the best known commercial implementation.

For whom? I'm still really undecided about the Surface. It's frustrating for me because I know what I could do on an Android device and all of those features that I miss, like the swipe-able keyboard and consistent data sharing options. Having real Microsoft Office plus Remote Desktop plus a...

Congratulations, man! Get out now and enjoy the things life has to offer. Like model trains and strippers. Looking at how my folks have done, one thing I have got to say is make sure you have plenty of reasons to be out of the house. I can see a huge difference with my uncles (and also with...

Support for multi-socket configurations, ECC and more RAM.

Clock speed is a dead horse right now. Everything you get north of 4.2GHz or so is a gift and even if you buy the most ridiculous LGA2011 CPU and strap a Frigidaire to the heat sink, you're still not even going to make it to 5GHz on more than six cores. Evem with whatever-blah-something new...