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Maybe he's finally having something done about that superfluous third nipple. ;) I had to take down a file server for one of my customers this morning. After I told my contact over there that I was doing it (at 8:05 on a Monday morning), he put my on speaker phone so I could tell EVERYONE not...

I'm sure these things are breathtaking for GPU computing, but do these things offer any subjective improvement for 1080p single-screen gaming over the $500 cards that were out a couple years ago?

You can probably go in to the Add-ins Manager and tell Outlook not to trust content from AWIL software. Or something. Or stop using Outlook, which I think is a fantastic idea on general principle.

That is seriously cool. And probably better than the JJ Abrams movies!

New trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier is up. I'm excited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLWsK1ZFunA

Other than the conveniently placed open sunroofs, I like that the building interiors resemble some kind of actually functional layout.

To be fair, they'd do a better job than republicans.

One of my friends dances to this version as part of her set. She likes it better and some other girl who works at the same time does the one you linked. No, I can't believe I know that either.

Apparently the new version of Avast can create a bootable disk. That's possibly useful.

OK, I just ran another 8.1 upgrade on a Thinkpad T510 (i5, 4GB RAM, 120GB SSD, about 80% full). It took about an hour and a half, which is not bad at all. It's a pretty vanilla machine though, with just Office 2010 Standard and Avast on it.

The LONG upgrade process for a single-version upgrade has been common among all versions of Windows since Vista. Vista to 7 usually takes at least four to six hours for a typical PC, and the upgrade time seems to depend a great deal on the amount of user data present, so a ridiculously long...

Ebay is horrible to deal with for a lot of things but unfortunately Craigslist is now just as bad if not worse for scammers. All I can say is good luck.

Astroglide is kind of a weak sauce lube. Liquid Silk is a much better general purpose option.

Avast just updated and completely changed its UI again. The Settings pages are most impacted, with a lot of the stuff that I care about changing now located under "Appearance", including the option to make it stop talking. However, the new version no longer makes 8.1 machines whine about app...

Since ATI2012 does in fact work with EFI, I'm going to go ahead and blame WD, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

I saw Das Boot when I was a little kid. That movie gave me nightmares for probably two or three years.

The New Humble Android Bundle has Worms Armageddon, Bard's Tale and Ticket to Ride. That's a lot of really good games for a pretty small amount of cash.

I think the Samsung My Files manager is probably more user friendly that AndroZip, which is what I normally use. I'll send you a link to it.

I think they pretty much had to. As far as I remember, the old version was based on the 2008 version of the product, and as I recall it didn't deal with large drives or GPT partitions very well.

I'm curious as to what could even possibly make a "cloud" security product better than a local one. Of course, one thing that's probably true for almost all of us is that we only really get to see the things that are broken or awful or screwed up somehow. Which is why so many of us are willing...

Hey at least your lot has the good sense to congregate in huge urban centers that it makes sense to wire for access. Oz has the same problem as the US: the people are too damned spread out. Granted most of them are on a coast, but there's quite a lot of coast to go around down there.

Oddly prescient that Lunar mentioned Graviton, since that's who Dr. Franklin Hall is within the Marvel Universe. Graviton was also the first villain the team faced in "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes", the middle of THREE Avengers cartoons that have been on the Disney channel in the last five...

In my experience the 4TB Seagates are faster than both the 7200rpm Hitachi models.

No. She's in some of the same social circles as my best friend. The somewhat more amusing bit is that she's affiliated with this commuter campus of Purdue that really has no facilities at all to speak of, that has historically done everything possible to minimize its association with the main...

The head of my local Purdue campus's physics department was one of the people awarded a Nobel prize today. I know her through Amy and I'm more than a little amused that anyone affiliated with Purdue's Hammond Campus would ever have been involved in Nobel-worthy work. I can only imagine what...

You antipodeans are always going to be on the shit end of the stick as far as fast internets go and I've yet to hear any talk over the last 20 years that made me think anyone down that way had any idea what the hell they're doing with internet services. On the other hand, we here in the US are...

Not everyone who goes to jail is an irredeemable scumbag and that man sounds like he had quite a life no matter what we might say about how he chose to live it.

I leave all but the mail shield on. The Mail shield can't scan secured connections, so for anyone using a local email client to communicate with any common SMTP server, it's going to be pretty worthless.

I have Vocalocity ($15/month/line), but I haven't tried to make calls using a tablet. I'm not sure if I can or not, though I know I can from my phone. I know Google Voice won't let me initiate a call from my tablet.

No. I believe Samsung has released at least one 8" tablet with phone capabilities, and you can do some things with Skype and/or Google Voice (or some other VOIP app; I can talk on my office phone line from my mobile devices with a pretty minimal amount of effort), but for the most part you're...

The keyboard I'm most familiar with is Swype, which has a "social" dictionary, meaning that words get added to user dictionaries based on common usage by other signed-in users. I was a bit surprised that Swype knew the word "Nas" for example, until I found out that "Nas" is also a rapper.

I'm glad they're finally getting affordable. Which really means that we'll be getting 5TB drives any day now.

Because it's unironically entertaining and enjoyable; charming without being treacly. Much like the three seashells, if you give it a chance you'll at least see how it's supposed to work. I'm really more of a Twilight Sparkle (big purple star) fan in general. Also, Chewy: Girls like pony...

That is Pinkie Pie's cutie mark.

In my experience, SSDs quickly in soft- and hardware RAID configurations, though performance while they're working is excellent. Yes, even RAID1. I've experimented with building small servers with SSD RAID1 setups to maximize performance and found that I was having to break a lot of arrays and...

Honestly, I'm not worried about the NSA, simply because I'm not doing anything the NSA would find terribly interesting. I'm more interested in avoiding the notice of media companies and the like, who probably wouldn't like many of my online activities. I doubt the NSA shares all that much data...

The absolute ONLY SSD RAID setup that has been qualified for any configuration at all is RAID0 on Intel 7-series boards under Windows 7 and 8. That's it. As far as I know, nothing else passes TRIM commands, which means anything you'd choose to do would result in swift memory cell death.

I finally got to mess with a Chromebook. Wow are they stupid. No local app support at all and too stupid to even open an .apk. They do Chrome. Nothing but Chrome. If it's not Chrome, they don't do it. There is also no concept of a multi-window interface, though the UI does for some reason allow...

It's like the darkest corners of tumblr, but in ebook form.

Second Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. really didn't hit any of the right notes for me but it did have Samuel L. Jackson in it. Still gonna watch, but it just didn't feel like anything special.

Really, the only thing you could do is end participation in the walled app gardens, force a VPN connection to a trusted service provider and only use audited open-source client software. Which is closer to the tiny blip on the market that is the Mozilla Smartphone than anything else that...

I already have a number of ways to sandbox in the browser I'm most comfortable using. The place where I'm most theoretically concerned with this is actually on my mobile devices, but given the way mobile operates, I'm not sure it's even remotely possible to have truly private communications...

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If nothing else, that's a shockingly comprehensive review of a shittastic DVD burner.

She had to sign a contract detailing the conditions under which she can stay with me. The contract was witnessed and notarized. Basically she gets until the end of the year to work and build up some savings and then she's either on her own or she can start paying rent. I think the biggest...

My go-to CPU for just about everything right now is the $66 Pentium G2120. It's a Sandy Bridge CPU, so it works on anything LGA1155. It's essentially an i3 without hyperthreading, but paired with a Samsung 840, it's unlikely that anyone will have any complaints. Which is what everyone else is...

I don't know why a young lady such as yourself would have any experience with such things, but fortunately, the peppercorns were not included in this case. ;)

Amazon doesn't work for 100% of everything, but it does work for NEARLY everything. I've literally gotten a box with a personal massager, some little plastic interior pieces for my car, two hard drives and a pepper mill. So yeah, I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. Mostly because I can get...

Yeah. My place is clean. Cluttered, but clean. But she's used to trailers and and living places where the water or power might be turned off a few days a month because nobody can scrape together the $75 to pay the bill. It's sad, because I know from talking to her that she has a brain in her...