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Yes, but they are not standardized. Which means you have to figure out which of the shell replacements the user is talking about and hope you're familiar with it or else fall back on sentences like "OK, tell me everything that's on your screen right now." and "OK, what happens when you press the...

It's FUCKING HUGE for training and support purposes. I don't mind not having a standard UI on *nix systems because the people using them are smart enough to figure shit out on their own and I don't think that everyone needs to be locked in to exactly the same settings for everything, but I bet...

I've heard of something very similar from a company called SmartSnake. I don't know if your deal is the same outfit or not, but SmartSnake's people phone and represent themselves as Microsoft employees selling a service for either one year ($200) or a lifetime ($450) of system maintenance. The...

The only folks I see buying new machines right now are the ones who thought a netbook or one of those super-crappy $250-at-Wal-Mart laptops would be an acceptable primary computer. And all those people would be better off with a Nexus tablet anyway.

DNS is pretty cloud-y to begin with and for the most part it's completely manual. It sounds like you'd just be moving around a single point of failure but moreover by the nature of DNS, you're not going to have any control over the speed of propagation regardless. What about something like a...

One of my customers paid for Solarwinds and for their stuff and I will admit that I'm monitoring a lot more than their servers with it.

Why aren't you just setting up the DR's DNS servers as a secondary zone so that you have something on-hand to edit when the time comes? Presumably then it's just a matter of editing a record with your registrar to get to something usable. Am I missing something about your configuration?

Of course, I'm looking for a zero-administration, commodity-parts, no-noise client to go with Plex Servers I'm putting together. A laptop with either Windows or Linux on it explicitly not those things. Howell: In torture testing, I've managed to get eight simultaneous 2 - 3Mbit streams to play...

I've been investigating my remaining Android media player options and I have to say the choices are all fairly unappealing. It's possible to get dual core 1 - 1.2GHz ARM systems with 1GB RAM. They're all over the place. Many of them are in "stick" form factors though, which means that they don't...

It's not that it's failed. I don't care that it's failed or that it hasn't. It's the baseline configuration for every computer with Windows 8. The PROBLEM is that there are dozens of non-uniform replacements and overlays that are being deployed on top of it. Ultimately that's going to make new...

You would think, but the answer is still no. Believe me. I had 24 of the goddamned things and tried everything I could think of to make them work in any kind of array or logical grouping at all. I thought I had gotten somewhere with Storage Spaces, since that let me address the underlying disk...

WD and Seagate's energy-saver drives are the problem children and probably everything else you could possibly get is fine. Ironically I think the WD Red drives are also "energy saver" drives, but they don't have the problems that the WD Green drives have. Nice to know you're paying an extra 33%...

Email practices can vary widely between organizations but yes Outlook will give you a particular file type that stores contacts/mail/calendar locally on your client and it will be at least possible to manage it if you choose to.

Well Notes is god-awful. I've never been forced to be a user, but I've had to do support for it and if you've been exposed to absolutely any other E-mail system in the last 15 years it's pretty easy to understand. I know there are organizations that keep it because of the fantastic ability to...

As an aside, I think Google's insistence on threaded replies in Android Gmail is eleventy times worse than either the ribbon or the start screen. It's ridiculously easy to delete an entire chain of emails on accident instead of a single message and it puts long conversations out of the context...

Enterprise hybrid drives. Which might actually make some sense, especially if they're paired with a faster spindle in the first place.

That's some quality randomness right there. Thanks Chewy. I'm pleasantly surprised with SanDisk's RMA service. They turned around an RMA on a 64GB microSD card in a little less than 48 hours including all the transit time.

They are fine for that purpose.

The -k CPUs have their own set of drawbacks, principally from the loss of hardware virtualization support. If you want to run a cheap server on desktop parts, you have to go live in AMD's world.

Indeed. I think dd really got transvaginal'd on this CPU. But Intel has to sell those -EE SKUs somehow.

That's definitely the benefit of the ribbon. I'm more than a little peeved at how many precious vertical pixels it needs, but does make sense from a workflow standpoint. I understand entirely why it was done. You can also "un-pin" or collapse the ribbon so that it's not taking up space unless...

Everything is on a tabbed interface, just like a web browser. Stuff doesn't move. It's fixed to the tab associated with that tool. In practice, that means that 98% of the crap you'll do in MS Word will be on the Home, Insert or Page Layout tabs once you get a document started. It's not rocket...

I went to an old fashioned Stand-Up arcade last night. Because I grew up in a very rural area, I never really go to spend much time with stand-up machines even though I certainly did live through the arcade era. I can remember businesses that would have an arcade game or three set up in some...

The controls are always in the same place. The most common tasks are on the Home tab and anything else is divided on to other tabs of the ribbon.

Pacific Rim is basically the result of someone taking every trope from Tranzor Z, Gigantor, Battle of the Planets, Robotech and Power Rangers and making it live action. That's not a bad thing. There's stuff going on that makes 3D more worthwhile than it usually is, particularly in the middle...

I have some students like that. 9/11 truthers, guys who say Obama is a Pakistani-national Mossad double agent. The really hilarious thing is that there are so many weird double-backs built in to their theories that none of it is even remotely coherent. Someone with that mindset thinks a person...

It IS heavy, but it's in a different functional class from something like a Nexus or an iPad since it does "real computer" stuff and not mobile device stuff. I think the argument in favor of the RT is that it's this device that does mobile device stuff, that isn't susceptible to malware, that...

Surface Pro is interesting now. It's a great device in a great form factor. I think it needs a less stupid power connector and I wouldn't say no to another USB port, but it's super fast as-is and has a fantastic display. I really liked having four RDP sessions and the vSphere Client running with...

Microsoft knocked $150 off the price of the Surface RT. They're still about $100 too expensive for what they are. Worldwide sales estimates suggest it's only sold about a half million of 'em since launch, a number Samsung or Apple would probably categorize as "a good week."

I don't think it did. It was slightly warm to the touch, not really hot. I had it resting on my leg while I was messing with it and I think it was probably warmer while I was running Chrome than anything else I did with it. It may be that this is just a marginal unit that made it out of QC, but...

Sadly, if those geeks don't particularly have a sense of humor about it, it's just as likely at this point that you'd wind up having dinner with an FBI agent.

Well, judgment made. Pivos failed. And I mean that literally. It powers on but not longer displays video. I was able to use Android XBMC briefly and I have to say their build is fantastic in terms of support for data formats and delivery. Their XBMC client only has limited support for NFS and...

I am sad for Lunar's inability to watch all of the breathtaking jiggle.

... people tell me to do that crap for whatever social network they want me to participate in. It's kind of a BS thing, because without a lot of tuning on both your local clients and specific digging in to the site's privacy settings, even if you fail to disclose your real name there's still so...

Is the RAM you're using explicitly validated with that model?

Hm. Whatever. I suppose it's amusing insofar as gaming Google Search Rankings is a career option now, but no one with the ability to recognize words that are in English would ever mistake the site in question as anything but a porn site. This is not porn - it's just a girl riding a bike to the...

An individual claiming to be doing SEO work for an extremely popular web site keeps e-mailing to ask me to remove a single link to the site he claims to represent from a single web page that I maintain. His messages are generally only a single sentence long and while he normally responds within...

From my perspective, it's important to learn to deal with vanilla whatever. There's nothing wrong with Ribbons as opposed to menus. I can legitimately see how they're useful to new users since more options are immediately visible to new users. It would be nice if both ribbon and menu were...

Pivos Xios DS Initial impression: It's a little clunky. The included remote is particularly awful. As far as I can tell it is a remote that is designed to do absolutely nothing. On the other hand, my little Rii worked the very instant I plugged it in. In a couple "You've GOT to be kidding me"...

For you guys the biggest difference is presumably power requirements anyway. If you're short a few cores you can just migrate a system on to another host, right?

Xena looks like she'd be a character. She's artfully disheveled. :)

I've had good luck with PhotoRec and Recuva among the various free data recovery apps.

Two hours of down time once a month is a lot more palatable for the people I'm working for than tens of thousands in software licensing costs. Just to be even slightly on topic here, I can see a mature and free XenServer going over very, very well in an modern server room simply because it...

It's not horrible to use any old random SCP client. I have an old copy of Veeam but I never observed backups to be fast enough to make messing with, especially since it's not scriptable. I generally back up to an attached virtual drive and periodically stop the VM, copy the whole VM to a Backup...

I tend to think of vSphere as the management client, but yes, the backup options are... distasteful. vicfg-cfgbackup -s blah.local to get the host personality + ghettovcb.sh to handle the VMs.It's yucky.

It's not as hard as I thought it would be. For my server with two physical NICs, I created a third interface (vSwitch). I installed m0n0wall and set it up to use one physical NIC and my pretend one. I put an ESX management IP on the pretend switch, made sure that VMs on the vSwitch being served...

For what it's worth, I do have a functioning firewalled ESXi setup now. So it is possible. Just a total PITA.

I've have Samsung, LG, Pioneer and S*ny drives. Pioneer drives have been the only ones to fail on me. The fastest drive I have for ripping is a slimline Samsung drive in a USB3 enclosure.

Well, it WILL run on Xen 6.2, which is an improvement. And since the hypervisor is basically Linux, you've got access to a much broader array of tools. I went with ESXi for my current project because at the time I started researching, Xen didn't support Server 2012. ESXi is kind of awful in that...

I think I've almost got it. I'm working with m0n0wall right now and I can connect via OpenVPN. I had planned to do PPTP but I must be formatting something incorrectly because it won't let me connect with that.