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It's at least debatable, depending on your appreciation or tolerance for hardware-provider bloat/features and Google data collection practices. I haven't felt like I need to root my current phone because Adblock works in Firefox, solving my biggest single mobile annoyance, and because I really...

The Asus screen is pretty nice. It's brighter and sharper than new Acer and HP cheapo screens I have here. The unit I have doesn't appear to have working speakers, which is kind of a drag since I don't really want to box it back up and ship it back for that, but the panel itself is very...

CyanogenMod has a one-click installer on the Play Store now. Basically you install a piece on your desktop and run the app on your mobile device and magic happens. Which seems like a lot less of a hassle than getting the Android SDK and futzing around with unlocking bootloaders and such.

I'd just like it if Microsoft were consistent in how backup operates between Windows versions. Home and Pro versions of Windows have different capabilities and backups created on older versions of Windows can't be read on newer ones.

Just to be clear, Windows 7-style backup is still present in Windows 8. It's called "Windows 7 File Recovery" and it's exactly the same as the backup tool that was in Windows 7 but getting to it in Windows 8 is a little bit obtuse unless you know the exact name or where to look for it. You're...

Were you surrounding the entire file path with quotations, like so: "G:\foo\barVirtual Hard Disks\" Windows 2008 and 2012 do command completion a la *nix, so if you start typing a uniquely path, Windows will actually fill in as much as can be identified from the keys you've pressed by hitting...

I don't care if that's what they're doing. Trolls will continue to make throw-away troll accounts. They're actively preventing formerly valid and useful communication by creating a two-tiered system for users who choose to use some Google products but not others.

Another hilarious artifact of a Windows 8.1 upgrade: My non-default libraries and non-default subdirectories disappeared. When I went to add them back I was told the folders in question were already part of the relevant library and that those library names already exist. I had to re-set my...

A few months ago, Google started requiring a G+ login to leave feedback for apps on the Play Store. Now Google requires a G+ login to comment on Youtube videos. I have a strong negative reaction to social networking generally, but moreover I cannot see the benefit to enforcing a connection...

Rationally, he's probably fine but I'd like to hear his account of things once he pops up again. Seems like there are no end of natural disasters there though.

I don't really understand the problem but I'm kind of intrigued. Maybe there's some kind of misbegotten issue between having a local G: drive and also a mapped drive that also points to G:?

Something I'm seeing with 8.1 is weirdly long latency in wireless networking. I'm not sure why and at first I thought it was confined to Intel wireless adapters, but I've since observed it on Realtek as well. Basically every third or fourth ping request even to my local router jumps from less...

I don't think Search has ever worked properly on Windows. 8's insistence on context is annoying and 8.1's is better in that respect, but it's something Microsoft has yet to legitimately get right in any edition of Windows.

Windows 8 uses very hardware dependent version of Hyper-V and does not have the "free" XP Mode VM that 7 Pro, Enterprise and Ultimate were able to use. You're extremely lucky if you happen to have found a laptop with a mobile-class CPU that supports full hardware virtualization as required for...

No. I've just never successfully convinced Asus to actually honor a warranty. I'm kind of OK with that for monitors because they're functionally disposable anyway; less expensive models typically only have one year warranties.

Can you connect to that drive letter as on its Administrative share on another machine? Have you tried SUBSTing the relevant path to a drive letter of its own?

e: cd\path\to\folder\full\of\vhds del oldmachinevhdname.*

I'm going to start with one of those Asus displays. The price is certainly right.

One of my boss's kids is pestering me about getting a sub-3lb. notebook with discrete, gaming graphics, a desktop-class CPU and "decent battery life." Money is not an object but of course that notebook does not exist in actual reality. I actually thought about pointing him at an MBP but it turns...

Is the volume in question mounted without having an assigned drive letter or something?

The trick for Java and Flash is using either the corporate updaters for those products or digging up an appropriate third party updater like Ninite that takes care of it.

I can't find any evidence that they're available in the US, but the Asus Zenbook UX301 was announced a couple months ago and looked drool-worthy from a specs standpoint. The Zenbook Prime has been my go-to choice for an ultrabook since this summer and I've gotten them for as little as $550.

New Thor. Tons of fun. I liked this one much better than the first. As with the last, Tom Hiddleston and Kat Dennings steal the movie. I'm not sure why they needed to cast Christopher Eccleston as Malekith. He has all of about five lines in English and his normal voice, and he's under heavy...

Sturgeon's Law applies.

That's funny 'cause I've tried my collection of -EADs drives in Synology and Drobo boxes and found that I usually get a dropped member disk from a RAID5 within the first 48 hours after initialization.

I do not know what sorcery is involved in their construction, but WD's Sharespace NAS products work perfectly well in RAID0, 1 or 5 using WD Green drives. Or at least as well as anything that has WD hard drives in it can be said to work. The product documentation even touts use of Green drives...

Granted that the collective membership of SF probably sits around Dell Ultrasharps and 50" TVs for the most part, but does anybody have any strongly held preferences about all around decent monitors at this point? I need to buy about 60 of them. Amazon has been selling Asus VS247Ps for $150...

I'd like to postulate a new theory for determining the quality of electronics: If you have to peel a layer of plastic off something to protect its glossy black finish, it's probably a piece of crap.

When you set up Windows 8, it prompts you to create a Windows Live account, which you might already have because you're a Hotmail, Windows Live, MSDN or Xbox user. You don't HAVE to create a Microsoft account, but you lose one of the nifty advantages of Windows 8, which is global storage of your...

Even if storage is abstracted for end users, someone, somewhere is going to have to care about its distribution and management. From the end user perspective the only issue with network storage is "Is there enough space for me to save this thing?" and that's been true for my entire professional...

Maybe next year ;)

I just noticed that Windows 8.1 re-set all my Windows Firewall profiles to Public and won't let me change them from the GUI. I had to do it with powershell. Lame.

I've been on a Debussy kick lately. Over the weekend I sat down at a piano in one of my customers' restaurants and noodled around for a while, something I haven't done in six or seven years. I really stopped playing because my eyesight got bad enough to make learning new music frustrating, but I...

That seems kind of sexy-fast for a 5400rpm drive, too.

I'd never heard of the Windows FOREACH command until this morning. It's one of those ridiculously useful scripting tools that keeps someone from having to reinvent the wheel. forfiles /p "C:\somedirectoryr" /s /m *.* /d somenumberofdays /c "cmd /c somedoscommand @path" e.g. forfiles /p...

I'm thinking there's going to wind up being a drive controller someplace, probably in some little box that looks about like an ethernet switch, but the drives can be distributed to where ports are. So you pay Seagate for a drive controller instead of Synology or EMC or whomever. I imagine that...

So... the drives aren't by themselves going to be smart enough to do anything but store data and there's no underlying concept of a filesystem other than what KOSP applications expose? The data just magically exists and we can totally just trust that without having to have any understanding of...

Did the user set the firewall rule for the new network connection to allow any sort of interaction or did he choose "Public" when he was prompted? Because that would explain the inability to ping and such.

And a link to the relevant wiki page.

I love Terminals. It has a handy tabbed interface for multiple remote RDP/VNC sessions. I usually have a half dozen or so sessions open so it's a generally good deal for keeping my taskbar uncluttered.

No, but that's what a dedicated drive for transaction logs might be doing.

Try setting up this.

Does that prove anything for any more than the drives in the sample?

Behold the dread lord Cthulhu!

I am working on an HP Pavilion 15t, a model that's new enough to have Windows 8 on it. On it, there's a sticker that says it has "Award Winning Support." And that really does beg the question: Who are these people who give awards to HP's support and for what are these awards given? Are these...

That's a tough row for anyone to hoe Chewy. We all know that we will age and our bodies will deteriorate, and most of us can face that with relative good cheer, but it's another thing entirely to find out that one's body and brain aren't on board for the whole trip. :\

That's not terribly difficult. A cache drive in a ZFS storage pool of sufficient size; a drive that's acting as a target for disk images; somebody who dumps a vacation worth of .RAW files. I've been putting 250GB SSDs in servers as a sort of intermediate upgrade to a full hardware replacement...

The price is right and the form factor is excellent, but that's a 10" tablet with a 1280x800 screen and a 2x1.2GHz CPU AND only 1GB RAM. That would've been perfectly acceptable a year ago but now it looks a little anemic. I'm sure they're doing that in the name of that 18 hour ("all week long")...

But that's the problem with PC gaming: The number of individuals with multiple-monitor setups or screen configurations larger than 1920x1200 is vanishingly small, and most PC games are just going to be shitty console ports with only the most minimal of graphics engine improvements over and above...

Outlook is not unique in its ability to store a local copy of email messages. You could move to Thunderbird or Postbox.