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Other Momentus XT drives I've had have been very clicky.

Android updates are weird sometimes. Even if the handset manufacturer has provided an update, the carrier still has to distribute it or choose not to. Samsung does have another update mechanism built into Kies, its PC connectivity package, but I suspect that very few people are aware of or use that.

That was 2560x1440. I've seen a few things in various shady places but it's relatively easy to find camera samples and the like.

You can close a one window and open a different one if you need to. And the windows are freely resizeable, which is the kind of advanced technology that Microsoft should some day employ for Metro apps.

Apparently it does work in IDE mode per Intel, Samsung and Crucial.

Chrome, the stock browser, Gmail, the Samsung Email App, Youtube, Google Maps, the Gallery App, the stock SMS app, Google Talk and a half-dozen other weird Samsung apps all work with it. Firefox does not and I don't see any other media players that do. Google Drive and Dropbox don't. I tend to...

The S4 supports dual windowed applications. Seriously. I can have Youtube and Gmail open at the same time, on the same screen. I can adjust the proportion of the screen granted to each app. If I rotate, the layout adjusts automatically. I weep for wonder. It only works with some...

Does this mean you gave up on FreeNAS?

Has the Windows machine been rebooted recently? When did this start? Did it ever work and then stop all of a sudden? Samba is goofy sometimes monthly updates and this is just about the right time for that.

That is the scrotum of my waking nightmare.

Having GPS coordinates in EXIF data isn't an entirely horrible thing. There's something to be said for knowing exactly where a picture was taken. If you'd prefer to keep that information personal, I know there are various scripts and standalone executables that can scrub that data out of...

I don't know what that thing is but now it is going to haunt my nightmares.

I quite like Swype. Both are paid apps now, but Swiftkey wants a second purchase for tablet users for some reason I don't really understand.

1. Wow is that screen bright and sharp. Like, WOW. 2. Any time anyone gets a new Android device the first thing that should be done once it's connected to 802.11 is to hit play.google.com to push all your apps down to the new device while it's charging. I really wish there was a "Clone Apps from...

Does Samsung have a decent operation over there? From your price list it's certainly an appealing option and I quite like the 840.

In that case I'll just say that I've purchased four or five different BT adapters and I haven't found any of them to work as well as it does on my phone or tablets. It's AWESOME to have to track down a proper keyboard so you can re-pair the wireless one that lost its connection.

I know nothing of Audis but I thought it was pretty funny that they slipped in a lens flare in almost every scene with New Spock. And used the theme from "Galaxy Quest."

I'm rather fond of Logitech's unifying receivers, which are kinda-sorta Bluetooth, but not. I was surprised to discover that my wireless trackball and headset can be run from one connection, and since then I've also added a keyboard to the setup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs&feature=player_embedded

That sounds more like a poor firmware implementation than anything else. DHCP traffic should traverse a bridged network just fine and I doubt you're using a different subnets for wireless so that seems... misfeature-ish.

After some debate between the Note 2 and the S4, I went with the S4. I did it for a completely stupid reason - the headphone connector on my Evo is loose and I'm tired of messing with it - but the fact that it's a larger phone with four times the pixels that weighs less than the one I have more...

I stuck an old X25 in my T61 and gave it to one of my friends. She's basically convinced I gave her a top of the line machine.

You might as well add RAM. It's cheap and will definitely improve the experience. An SSD would also help you, but it's tough to say that it's justifiable. Perhaps if you knew that you have another machine that could use it if the Dell dies.

Oh, speaking of inexpensive but nice tablets, The Nook HD had a firmware update over the weekend that added support for the Play Store, so stock Nooks are finally something besides completely retarded. And the 7" model was dropped to $150.

At least in the US, premium tablets usually offer the option of cellular internet service. Usually there's a $100 premium over non-aircard equipped hardware. It's hard to justify on a tablet since you're likely going to be paying $40/month for a data plan for it. But how ubiquitous is 802.11 in...

I was looking for something better than a $100 Big Lots tablet to recommend to people. You know, the 7", 640x480, 512MB with 2GB of fixed storage with no card slot and no access to Google's branded applications? I get asked for that sort of thing quite a lot.

It deploys through ninite. That's pretty damned straightforward if you need it.

I did replace my Galaxy Tab's battery. It did help. I got an extra two hours or so of power-on time out of the one I put in and the whole operation only took me about 15 minutes. So anyway, I was looking for a cheap tablet just now and I found this guy. $135, 1280x800 IPS, 7", quad core, 16GB...

I'm getting decent performance using a dual core Atom with Untangle. I was afraid that it wouldn't be enough of a CPU, but it's within 5% of the wire speed of my cable modem and was ridiculously easy to configure.

It would definitely be easier if I could take all the ladies I know who will go to such a thing in a single outing but alas that never happens. IMAX definitely wasn't worth it. The deal with "Will there be another one?" rests on the fact that Marvel sign an enormous multi-movie (three Iron...

Iron Man 3 is very, very funny and incredibly comic-booky. They did something very clever with The Mandarin that I wasn't really prepared for and it was quite lovely to have a super hero movie with absolutely none of the hints of origin story that have been present in essentially every other...

My phone very often autocorrects "busy" to "busty" but it's almost always funny enough that I just leave it.

Here is a thing that is completely and entirely on topic for this discussion.

Here's the Indian guy as golden age Flash, surrounded by what I'm guessing are models. Better angle. I was probably about 18 inches from the photographer when he took that shot. Jerk. And here's a bunch of people wasting their time pretending to be DC comics characters: Very popular...

Because RIM/Blackberry lives in a bubble reality where they think they're still remotely relevant?

Nope. That's just the first thing I saw when I walked in the convention center. Ms. Marvel, Spider-man, Captain America, Luke Cage (aka Power Man), Black Widow, Daredevil. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop version), Squirrel Girl, Hulk, alternate future Hulk's Daughter She-Hulk (yes really), Winter Soldier...

The problem with applying NTFS compression to everything is that you're going to waste a crap-ton of cycles trying to compress files that are already compressed in their native format. It might be worthwhile for a drive that's full of text files and logs but most userland data is just going to...

It's always funny to me to see which of my students didn't bring their reading glasses. I can tell because they're the ones who will pull a 22" LCD close enough that many of them have noseprints on them.

I think we're all waiting for a sea change in technologies that are presently considered exotic because the current marketplace isn't directed toward our interests any longer. We want 4k screens and massive SSDs and the market thinks anything that isn't a mobile technology isn't worthy of...

I was at a comic book convention all weekend, but I don't normally visit SF all that often on weekends anyway.

IPv4's address space is a fully compatible subset of IPv6. You don't REALLY have to change anything and it doesn't really matter what's happening internally on your LAN as long as NAT is happening properly anyway. IPv6 mostly means that there are different and different-looking sets of numbers...

Maker of extremely unsuccessful tablet says tablets won't exist in five years.

Ever had something that's all kinds of useful sitting right under your nose? On any Windows 7 machine, there's a folder located in %windir%\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\ that is just chock-full of hilariously useful VBscripts that work on EVERY version of Windows. In particular...

Gracie-cat loves League of Legends. She talks to it. She smacks it. She's generally a total shit about it.

Unrelated to Coug's topic, but perhaps of general interest for people who get to do large-scale deployments, I found this link on Slashdot a little while ago, describing the peering requirements for ISPs who want their own private Netflix, as well as the machines they use to deliver content. If...

I did finally trade that bottle for a set of new tires for my car. No cured pork, but you can't win them all.

Depending on what benchmarks are important, I think it's between 5 and 7 times as much graphics horsepower.

As a note to the all zero of the rest of you who have any sort of Windows 8 deployments, do BIOS updates on everything you have. Gigabyte, Asus and Intel motherboards, even new-ish ones released in the last six months all seem to have some kind of odd behavior, most often with power management...

Untangle says it wants a 3GHz Pentium 4. That seems like an awful lot of CPU for tasks that can be competently handled by a 200MHz MIPS chip.

Could you possibly just set up a VPN (using, for example, Hamachi) and just remote in to a trusted machine? That's how I normally do things.