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It could just as easily be a 3GHz CPU at a modest Speedstep value.

It was banned from the Play Store, but device-wide Adblock+ is available for Android Devices in the Amazon App Store. Some people say it causes problems with some other apps, but I haven't observed any issues yet on the devices where I've tried it. It does not require root and I've been using...

One other issue that relates to using Libraries: It's not all THAT uncommon for them to get messed up somehow. My Windows 8.1 trashed my non-default configuration and I only just got around to fixing it on my laptop, even though I did have the correct configuration saved. It's also possible to...

I couldn't get gas just now because both the gas stations where I stopped had pumps that were too cold to operate.

Just remember that as cold as it is for those of us in the upper Midwestern US, this crap is what Coug calls "a brisk autumn day."

Windows 7 and 8 both support Libraries and can be made to look both places without losing the default folder functionality. If you're configuring multiple machines in the same way, you can back up/restore a Library config or include un-indexable folders in libraries using Zorn Software's...

I have a few of the Seagate units from several generations. They're kinda-sorta faster than magnetic drives, but the only place I can really tell a difference is startup or resume from hibernate.

It's -22 on my balcony right now. My office closes if there's a snow day at the community school so I already know I won't be working tomorrow, either. My nose froze shut while I was cleaning off my car this morning.

Meanwhile I just spent the last four hours cleaning off my car so I could go get groceries, driving approximately 10mph to the store, driving 10mph to another store that was actually open, cleaning off my car again, driving 5mph back to my apartment and then getting stuck in the completely...

That's weird. Mine doesn't say it's blocking anything on SF on desktop or under Android.

Vostro notebooks I've seen in the past are rebadged Inspirons. They're still supported by the consumer products group, not the people who support Latitudes and Precisions. So that would be vomit, then. As far as specs, just about anything with a mainstream CPU is probably fast enough. Unless...

Paugie how did you come through the storms over there?

The 2014 trial version of TrueImage no longer creates a fully functional boot/rescue environment, which is something that really pissed me off. Clonezilla has real problems cloning bigger drives on to smaller ones (the most common path for SSD upgrades). It's do-able but it's far from...

If you were using ZFS, you could designate your SSD as a cache-only drive. I'm not aware of any such feature within Windows or any of the common Windows-based file system overlays like SnapRAID. I also didn't notice any subjective difference in using an 80GB mSATA drive for hardware-based...

He might be doing weirdo proprietary Synology Hybrid RAID, which should functionally be RAID1 but which might do things just differently enough that non-Synology Linux doesn't know what to do with it.

I had the opportunity to get a couple top-end T430s and here's what I can say. 1. It's pretty much the same as the T420, except for the keyboard and native USB3 ports. I hesitate to say that the old keyboard is better because I actually like most of the layout changes - Pageup and Pagedown are...

Yup. I posted a bunch more times. I do that here. :) Anyway yeah I probably know a dozen girls who would be THRILLED to get a Slave Leia Pony. I actually just ordered a Clone Wars birthday cake for one of my friends anyway.

Thanksgiving, my birthday (12-10), my cousin's three kids (born 1 year apart on 12-24, 12-25 and 12-26 - late March must be an anniversary or something) plus nominal Xmas - NYE, my father, two uncles, one aunt all have birthdays in the first two weeks of January. The first week of February I...

Backup on Android is weird. You can do it using Dev tools or you can run a real backup app on a rooted device (e.g. Titanium Backup), but some apps put their data in userland storage and some put data in protected storage. There's also a lot of "It OUGHT to work this way" where things DON'T work...

Honestly in a lot of cases your best bet for Android is to either stick with whatever the release OS was or move to Cyanogen. I've had a few devices move from Gingerbread to Honeycomb or ICS and normally there's some trade-off in terms of functionality for something-or-other. The only device...

I just can't find anyone who is filled weigh the joy of this Kwanzaa season. Knoxville must be more of a Tet kind of town.

I only tried an XP/IE6 VM, but it looks fully functional to me.

If you are lazy and need a Windows VM, Microsoft makes these available free and legally. For non-Windows platforms and non-Microsoft Hypervisors, even.

Interesting link regarding security product efficacy that was posted on Slashdot today. Note that the linked document only seems to discuss malware prevention; I can't seem to find any verbiage that suggests the author is drawing a distinction between viruses and malware.

I haven't USED it recently, but I certainly have removed 2013 and 2014 from quite a few machines. AVG has really followed the same pattern as other heavyweight AV products in terms of performance impedance, and for all of that it certainly doesn't provide any better protection than any other...

It's probably more of a hassle to find a responsible party to return it, and it has already been given to you. I'd say you're in the clear for passing that stuff on to someone who needs it more than you do.

Flash Exploit is my my best guess. These users were using up to date Chrome, which suggests up to date Flash. The game seems to have been the point of intersection. They don't have Acrobat and they didn't have Java. These are users with Admin rights on their own machines (they're laptops and...

I've just encountered a malware application that appears to use a Flash exploit to 1. Install new user accounts on an infected Windows machines. The accounts are hidden from the Windows login screen but visible from User Management. So far I've seen "app", "user" and "db." 2. It seems to...

The quick answer is "Doing stuff that Tolkien didn't write about." I don't think having extra elves really hurt anything but I would have liked the first meeting with Smaug to have been closer to the book. All in all though I thought this movie was more like "The most awesome D&D adventure...

45F temperature swings are hilarious but at least I got the frozen wiper fluid out.

You appear to have some fundamental misconceptions about what security software can or should be doing. Here's the thing: Anti-virus applications are supposed to prevent VIRUSES. Malware, regardless of its specific function, fails to meet the crucial definition of "virus" since it does not...

Amazon is offering an interest-free quarterly payment plan for Fire HDX models, now until the 24th.

Don't use AVG. It's a lead balloon on your system's performance in the first place. Consider Avast Free instead. Or Avira. Or MSE. Or absolutely nothing. Because all of those things are better options.

I don't understand why people pay that for them. I don't think they're any more comfortable than any other chair. I do want a mesh back and seat though because I think it'll age better.

I have a Windows 98 machine running on an LGA775 Pentium 4 with an Intel 915 chipset and a Radeon 9700 graphics card. I built it to be a retro-gaming machine and yes it can talk to the internet, albeit not very well. Just to gainsay Coug, Windows 98 is ironically not as insecure as using 2000 or...

I didn't know anyone who had a Commodore until I went to college. By that time the Amiga was already kind of a dinosaur, but some people were still using them. My high school used Macs for the newspaper class, but mostly what I remember about that was how annoying it was trying to interchange...

Of course, she's inquiring about BUSINESS service to her home, which is probably regulated differently. Also, this is Indiana, a state that's right up there with Texas and Kansas in terms of commitment to building a regulation-free Objectivist utopia.

The Aeron Side Chair can actually be had for under $300, but they don't look that comfortable to me and I've never liked full size Aerons anyway.

They need to go the extra 7000' down because of course Comcast's internets come from the fiery pits of hell. Duh.

I'm only oversimplifying a little to say that laptop graphics are never upgradeable. A few boutique notebooks support doing so, but the upgrades themselves are very expensive and in my experience also have dubious compatibility and even worse reliability. I know it might be nice to game on a...

Anyone know where to buy an all-mesh type chair with a sled base and low back? That isn't a $500 Aeron?

Nits was one of my students. She has a house that's just a tad too far from actual civilization. Which, in my estimation, is that place where one can't get cable internet.

Usually just the one but sometimes two bedrooms and up to three strippers so now that I think of it this is apropos.

Speaking of the joys of home ownership, Ms. Nitsirk has delightfully crappy DSL and consumer cable isn't an option in her area. She finally convinced Comcast's Business unit to come survey the area and she's been telling me for something like six weeks that she's going to get cable internet any...

I like my apartment. I have lots of nice trees and a spare bedroom full of stripper, and if I don't have a garage and can't have a grill, at least I don't have to take care of a lawn or deal with an HOA, And on the day I need to leave I just have to pay a little bit of money to break my lease...

I think there's a lot to be said from being able to send a video in real time to a person on another continent while you're standing in a national park, or being able to browse imgur while enjoying quiet 9AM porcelain vacation.

No garage. I've decided that I just don't have enough interest in home ownership.

Well I can't very well get it out NOW, can I?