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  1. Mercutio

    question Hibachi Failure

    You could always just de-magnetize it, send it in for an RMA and pass its replacement along to someone who would appreciate it.
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    How to create a wiki?

    That's a good-sense reaction to a piss poor product, but if it already exists in his organization it's probably the path of least resistance. Be glad you've never had to fix a broken one.
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    question Hibachi Failure

    Without knowing any other details I think I'd probably start by trying to do some data recovery or maybe let a third party SMART tool analyze it since DFT isn't being that helpful.
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    4k TVs and Monitors

    The top review here is worth a read, I think.
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    Windows 8 on early Pentium 4?

    4.3 was the last version released on Floppies. The install set is 25 disks. I'm pretty sure both Windows 95 and OS/2 3.0 could be installed from floppy. Both of those weighed in at around 100MB. I also distinctly recall installing/compiling pre-1.0 Linux from a 19.2kbps serial line, which was...
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    How to create a wiki?

    I was JUST going to say that setting up a Sharepoint-based wiki is ridiculously straightforward if you already have the ingredients (Sharepoint 2010, basically) on hand.
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    Something Random

    Just for Coug. And probably better if you've recently indulged in recreational pharmacology, I give you: Friendship is Manly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z7UnO66q9w
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    Windows 8 on early Pentium 4?

    .ISO files aren't really a problem, though Microsoft can no longer legally distribute Windows 98, ME or 2000 because they shipped with Microsoft's unauthorized Java interpreter, but some of us ARE bound by an obligation to provide legal copies of software to our employers and customers. ;)
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    There are two releases of Swype. One of them was packaged with a lot of devices by default, including my Galaxy S4. It does offer voice typing, but the for-pay enhanced version that I somehow have (probably from one or other device on my Play account) has a different Voice Typing symbol and uses...
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    Port Forwarding on a Netgear ProSafe SRX5308

    OK, what about a QoS setting? Are you doing anything with that? Is it possible you're getting some traffic delayed because the router is reserving capacity for some or other reason?
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    Best movie you've seen

    I thought the movie version of Catching Fire was better than the book, but that might just be residual crushing on Jennifer Lawrence. The third book was pretty bad, so I can only hope there are some departures or at least some editing in the film version. Also that Jennifer Lawrence decides that...
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    WTB: Laptop Processor T9500

    I gave away my T61, which hat a T9x00 CPU in it, about nine months ago.
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    Windows 8 on early Pentium 4?

    Since I can still buy a Windows 2000 license if I really, really want one, I wouldn't be worried about availability. I do think that there are some consumer-friendly forms of Linux that make every bit as much sense as a move to OSX. Install Firefox/Chrome and VLC and you're probably just about...
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    Alternative folding support idea - mining for coins to fund F@H

    I have a whole, whole bunch of unused Windows Vista licenses! ;)
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    Something Random

    You'll have to live yet another year with those troublesome extra penis inches.
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    Something Random

    They normally address the message to the Apps account administrator, so you should have something like ddrueding@hookersnblow.com or whatever your domain is.
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    Port Forwarding on a Netgear ProSafe SRX5308

    Are there parameters on the attack checks? It's allowing the connection, but is it possible that it's timing out because of some other part of the firewall config?
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    Crucial 8GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM (v. spot the difference)

    Maybe to justify a higher price for large organizational buyers?
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    Crucial 8GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM (v. spot the difference)

    I suspect that it's more a matter of having a validated configuration for a mobile workstation. Just like you sometimes want to buy HP hard drives for HP servers.
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    Haswell Laptops 14" and smaller with at least FHD screens

    Toshiba's business line is called Tecra. And Apple's laptops are certainly good and well supported products even if the company is collectively synonymous with a container of fluids for the cleaning of body orifices. HP Probooks are effectively Pavilions with business support, but Thinkpad...
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    Quiet server build

    There's a certain case to be made for inertia. If you already know how to work one thing and it does what you want, it's really hard to just move on from that. VMware works just fine and dd has already addressed the deficiencies it has (in his case by running it on a desktop rather than ESXi...
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    Something Random

    More maps
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    BT Headphones

    Volume adjustments don't seem to be a problem, but I do really have a good handle on the in-line controls yet. Long pushes have a different meaning from quick taps, so sometimes I wind up fast forwarding music on accident.
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    question Is an Intel E8400 CPU compatible with an Intel D946GZIS MB?

    I've had Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs on those boards. I've run a Q9400 on one and I have a few E5400s scattered in among much older E6300s. Sometimes a BIOS update is needed, but that's not really an impossible hurdle to clear.
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    problem Desktop pc freezes resume after 14 months of utter bliss

    Ages and ages ago, I had issues with Asus Pentium 4 motherboards having a hard-coded thermal shutdown limit that was set too low. Those systems didn't freeze. They'd go hard-off and then display a boot time message indicating that the CPU had experienced a thermal event. You might want to look...
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    Alternative folding support idea - mining for coins to fund F@H

    As I understand it the truly dedicated Bitcoin miners are using ridiculous rigs, like 8 GPU SLI configurations, to quickly create value. I'm not sure I understand the value of using $60 worth of electricity to run one machine that's going to generate perhaps $70 worth of pretend computer money...
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    Media Player Appliances

    All of the local content type players I have used are either discontinued or have their own drawbacks. The Boxee Box was a local content champion and has a blazing fast UI, but it falls down for network-shared content and limited support for many kinds of online services. The Popcorn Hour C200...
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    The full, paid version of Swype includes Dragon Dictate's voice recognition engine. It's really quite good. I notice that it can transcribe radio content with accurary. I believe S Voice uses Samsung's voice recognition, which is the same one found in the Samsung keyboard (which is "swipe-able"...
  29. Mercutio

    BT Headphones

    I did pick them up and I've had them for a week. Here's what I can say: 1. The earbuds are bigger than I thought they'd be. They stick out a bit from my ears. I've found that if I wear them with a stocking cap or any tight ear covering, there's too much pressure on the earbuds to vibrate and I...
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    Quiet server build

    How quiet is quiet? My file server at home has a pair of Scythe Ninja HSFs (LGA1366 Xeons) on an Asus workstation board inside a giant Norco chassis. I'm using a standard Seasonic Gold-class power supply because there's simply no way to get a quiet rackmount PSU. I can tell that the machine...
  31. Mercutio

    Windows Key

    Belarc Advisor shows keys for pretty much all installed products that have them. nmmm
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    Haswell Laptops 14" and smaller with at least FHD screens

    I have 16GB in my T420 that's supposed to max out at 8GB. It works just fine. I don't think I'd worry too much about RAM limits.
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    Would you buy a vomit box if it came with decent hardware for a reasonable price?

    I was slightly mistaken. There are dual HDMI models (meh), but there are two Mini-PCIe slots on all NUCs so NICs can actually be added if you need 'em.
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    Chrome or Firefox & Why (Windows 8)

    Is Mozilla disabling because of deal-breaker day-0 security issues? That's... not wholly unreasonable on some levels.
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    question Which Tablets

    More pixels are always better than less pixels, but good enough for general use is highly subjective. I could do a lot of work with one if I had to, but frankly I could do a lot of work with anything that has an RDP/VNC client and access to Google Drive.
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    Free DVD Copying options

    As far as I know DVD Shrink doesn't even run on Windows 7, and since DVD Decrypter hasn't been updated in seven or eight year it's more or less guaranteed to fail on precisely the DVDs people most want to copy - the Disney movies everyone's four-year-old wants to love to death. There's DVD43...
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    question Which Tablets

    The newest revision of the Galaxy Note 10.1 is a freaking hot rod of an Android tablet. It's light for a 10" device (1.2lbs), has a 2560x1600 screen, has Samsung multiwindow support, a card reader and 3GB RAM. It costs as much as a decent laptop, but I got to mess with one today and it seems to...
  38. Mercutio

    Chrome or Firefox & Why (Windows 8)

    Almost all the systems I see that have Minecraft installed are being used by teens and tweens. Many of them don't even know how to install software, to the point that I've seen numerous machines that have (no joke) more than 200 copies of Minecraft.exe in the Downloads folder.
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    Free DVD Copying options

    Does Ashampoo Burning Studio Free support removing DVD Video copy protection?
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    Would you buy a vomit box if it came with decent hardware for a reasonable price?

    I guess I should re-phrase. The larger issue is that I've read that Intel's HDMI audio support is lacking in some respects and can have A/V sync issues above and beyond what can come from normal video decoding.
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    Chrome or Firefox & Why (Windows 8)

    If an end user installs Java, whether it's to play Minecraft or for any other purpose, are they going to have the technical ability to disable the Java plug-in from their browser? Blackboard in all the implementations I've seen, most definitely wants users to have a JRE plugin as well. As far...
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    Free DVD Copying options

    Fast isn't the issue, it's doing it with exclusively FREE software. It's something I know one of my relatives is going to be pestering me about at our forthcoming holiday gathering.
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    Best ad in years

    It's pretty much true that everything we do online results in a net loss of our privacy, but I'm not sure Microsoft can legitimately point any fingers about tracking. Google is the biggest advertising company on the planet, but the SECOND biggest is now Microsoft. I understand that it doesn't...
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    Best ad in years

    It's pretty much true that everything we do online results in a net loss of our privacy, but I'm not sure Microsoft can legitimately point any fingers about tracking. Google is the biggest advertising company on the planet, but the SECOND biggest is now Microsoft. I understand that it doesn't...
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    Free DVD Copying options

    My workflow for dealing with discs is to use Handbrake with AnyDVD HD. I never write back to disc and I've owned my copy of AnyDVD for something like 10 years now. That system obviously works, but I can't justify telling someone to go buy a $150 program just to copy a few discs. I know DVDFab...
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    Would you buy a vomit box if it came with decent hardware for a reasonable price?

    NUCs are fantastic little boxes. They make dual NIC models that can work as micro-servers as well as NIC/WLAN versions. Since you pretty much have to pair them with Intel or Crucial mSATA drives and they have Intel-branded guts anyway, the only potential source for vomit would be the RAM, and...
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    Would you buy a vomit box if it came with decent hardware for a reasonable price?

    If you're tempted by a consumer desktop and have a good working knowledge of hardware, all I can say is prepare to be disappointed. I've opened up HP desktop machines that had no (ZERO) expansion slots on a MicroATX board. In 2012. It's not at all uncommon to find desktop machines that only...
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    Chrome or Firefox & Why (Windows 8)

    I largely disagree about Java. The biggest single non-corporate use is almost certainly Minecraft, though Blackboard is also a pretty big deal for college students. I don't think Minecraft justifies the continual risk for malicious applets. As far as Linux goes, no you don't need an antivirus...
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    Something Random

    Philippine prisoners escape from prison, rebuild their homes and their communities and report back to jail.
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    Chrome or Firefox & Why (Windows 8)

    Chrome on Windows is bundled with its own Flash libraries that get updated at the same time the browser does. It's a special case. Since Chrome updates are always background, behind the scenes things, Google can push out an update that just updates its Flash library. Chrome's installer and...
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