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So it seems likely that the Galaxy S4 will be announced on March 14th. The rumor mill says 5", 1080p screen, quad core 1.9GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, storage options between 16 and 64GB + card slot and touchless gestures using the front camera for eye tracking and the gyroscope for positioning. Looking...

The thing is, we're slowly getting there. I have a 4.7lb. machine with 2.2TB of disk space right now. Image sensors keep improving so Lunar's expectations for what he needs keep changing, but I think computers and storage are going to catch up to those needs. The good news is that Lunar still...

Since I see this, I brought up the Details tab on a couple other machines. My machines that are using a "Standard XYZ" controller, which I assume to be a Microsoft driver, list the drive serial number under Driver Details SOMEWHERE, but on the H61-base machines in my classroom it's actually...

I'm not sure how that is justifiable. It was a ground shipment. It wasn't delayed by customs. What did UPS do other than have it on their truck?

I just bought four CorelDraw x6 licenses. The license numbers are all identical except for the last digit. Anyone want to bet on what would happen if I used the next number in sequence?

My experience is that ntdstil is really poorly documented, or perhaps that the tech experience with it is so diffused that there's no wide consensus on what to do when you need to use it. So those guys dd is referring to have tons of experience dealing with it and the rest of us are just trying...

The disk ordering rules are pretty much the same as the rules for ARC paths in the old boot.ini files. The computer I'm using right now has its C: drive on IDE1, disk 0 - it's the first drive on the second physical controller. It's listed as drive2 in Disk Management, after the two disks on the...

You can absolutely have a DC with only one physical drive, if that's what you're asking. Moving the database location with ntdsutil might be an exercise in one's patience on a working install, but if you're starting from scratch it's not really an issue. If you want to use Windows softRAID 1...

Server Backup will back up through iSCSI or to network shared drives though, so that's one workaround.

I'm guessing there are a bunch of identical drives, right? Device Manager will show the drive serial number under the details tab, listed as "Siblings." If you you look in Disk Management, you should be able to see which drive is considered port 3 (which SHOULD be the 4th port overall) and...

It's not so much "insists" as "will put on another drive by default if there is another non-removable drive present." The theory is that there's enough disk I/O from the OS that the AD database should be located on another drive. The thing to do, if you're uncomfortable with that arrangement -...

Yeah, there were a bunch of press releases about it yesterday.

Oh yeah, well nVidia doesn't have TressFX! :D

I've never had a mission critical DC fail, but I've demonstrated DSRM in the classroom and it's painful enough that I hope I never have to do it for real. On a single server (the kinds of setups I manage, mostly), it's not THAT bad, because restoring system state amounts to an authoritative...

He's SSDdrueding, remember?

As a note, Windows internal backup supports directory service restores in ways that some third party backups do not. If you're going to use third party disk imaging, you should use it in conjunction with regular system state backups (AD is part of system state on DCs). Methinks time is about to...

The thing is, it's just a Windows 8 machine, albeit a particularly lightweight one. I don't know what there is to say except "The battery life seems to be X and I use touch vs. the stylus vs. the keyboard in Y proportions." I'm trying to justify one myself, but between all the tablets I have...

It's completely drool worthy. It's an i5 with an SSD and an awesome screen that weighs less than 3 pounds. What's not to love? I really don't understand why people whining about the disk space, either. Is it somehow news that Windows takes up space?

I don't think I want to know that much about dd's sex life, man.

This is a "PDC". Is there another DC someplace and the version numbers are out of agreement now? What server currently has the FSMO roles?

It's a little more work, but any machine with IE8, 9 or 10 can now get the same Ad-blocking as Adblock Plus using Tracking Protection Lists. Easylist + Fanboy's list is equivalent to what I set up on Firefox and/or Chrome. That's a big, huge step forward for IE and it's about goddamned time.

The Radeon 7750 is probably the fastest fanless card you're going to find, but it's not cheap ($100 - $120). If I'm buying a discrete graphics card based on price, I usually look at the following: Is it Low-profile? What's omitted from the low-profile bracket? (i.e. am I losing VGA or DVI?) Is...

Intel will be making boards another couple years. Actually, Intel DOESN'T make those boards. They're made by Foxconn. Which makes me wonder if I should look at Foxconn-branded units more closely. But the reason I've been buying Intel the last few years is the quality, speed and ease of...

At present, my Thinkpad T420 has an nvidia chip in it. I own two other nVidia graphics cards. I have 31 WD hard drives, mostly the WD20EADS drives I got from a customer, but with a few WD Red 3TB drives and a 500GB notebook drive. All of that is of course entirely too much. Also, 31 of a...

Why Workstation and not ESX? Can't you afford to go to vsphere?

As yet another example of stunning inconsistency, Metro Apps can't be uninstalled from Programs and Features or from the Microsoft Store app.

I've considered that, but I'm talking about a roughly 50% decrease. I've not observed that from the other devices I've upgraded to ICS or Jelly Bean. I'm sure my usage habits on that tablet are different just because I carry it around and actually use it though. A couple different outfits are...

Frustrated Linux gamers, mostly in discussions on sites like Slashdot. The idea of driver feature parity comes up a lot when people talk about things like the proposed Steambox. HPC features like CUDA probably aren't as interesting to those people as making sure that water is properly reflective...

I was all excited when I saw that Ubuntu was available for the Xoom, but it turns out that some sick person had ported the desktop version of Ubuntu, rather than the tablet version that I really want to try. Anyway, LG bought WebOS from HP over the weekend and HP promptly began releasing...

In most of those cases the thinking was or is probably that the second server is present for redundancy and/or load balancing. It doesn't appear that those things have been properly implemented, but it sounds like the hardware is present in case it's ever needed. You basically have something...

I've heard lately that nVidia's binary driver is pretty crashy and there's a lot of annoyance in general with the disparity between display drivers for *nix and Windows, but multiple monitors are well supported at least by both AMD and nVidia. Just don't ask for every 3D feature known to man.

You know better than to insinuate that I want any sort of nvidia hardware at all.

I noticed today that a DDR3 Geforce 630 is very literally 3x what a Geforce 210 is by performance specs. I wish it were always that easy.

Yes. That is totally a thing that I would've gotten. ;)

One of my classroom sites is on a 128kB/sec iDSL line. It's a fantastic room. It has an awesome projector and the classroom systems are completely ridiculous. But... 128k DSL. For 24 people, plus seven or eight on-site office workers? And then they bitch and moan because we never want to teach...

I have to say that 8GB is feeling limiting on my T420. I almost always have a couple VMs open at this point and Thunderbird and Firefox probably eat 2GB in total. The RAM is there to be used, but when I see that I'm somewhere over 6GB used on a notebook I do have a momentary freak-out over what...

Well I wasn't quite right (it WAS rather early in the morning when I wrote that). I was thinking of listsvc disable drivername which I'm sure I confused because of course one can stop some network services with the net command, something that still scars me from pre-4.0 Windows NT.

I'm just glad that chip found a good home. It would've been a damned shame for it to just sit around until I tossed it, something that's been known to happen from time to time with my random spare parts.

I promise you that I boot from mine. The only Thinkpads I've bought with SSDs came with Intel 2.5" drives though, so I guess they're all installed as after market devices. Asus is supposed to have fantastic reliability, but that's been counter to my personal experience. Granted that's mostly...

If you can start at least enough to get a command prompt, like through "Repair Your Computer", you can use the net stop command to prevent the relevant drivers from loading. Which is a pain in the ass.

I question the value of doing the "CPU as an add-on to the GPU" arrangement that's under discussion here. Other than game consoles, what needs that kind of configuration? Maybe there's a scientific computing application, but is there a big enough market to drive the billions of dollars in R&D?

I alternate between an ultrabay battery and a third hard drive in my T420. Neither of those things seems like wasted space to me. I really, really like having the mSATA drive but hardly anything supports them besides some Thinkpad models and a few HPs.

It sounds like you want some kind of ultrabook form factor, since you're actually against the idea of having the optical bay. In Lenovo-land, that suggests the T430u or whatever the current X-series. I don't think Dell is doing small form factors in Latitudes and HP's Envy Pro doesn't have the...

So it turns out that a Playstation 4 will basically be a PC, with eight 1.6GHz AMD cores and presumably something ATI-ish and APU-ish in the graphics department, plus 8GB RAM. One assumes it will be locked down so that it can't run Windows and given the architectural differences I'm thinking...

I've never been terribly fond of Ubuntu, but this Tablet demo has all kinds of Do Want in it. Particularly the side screen for multitasking and the actual login screen for differentiating user accounts. I am excited to see that, but I wonder how well it runs on real hardware...

I never learned to write cursive. I just scribble.

I really don't see why the C redistributable needs to be installed with every damned application. Are we assuming that we're installing on a Windows 2000 machine that's never seen an update? It's Microsoft's OS and Microsoft's library file. Why isn't it just being pushed through updates?

Higher-end graphics cards are a lot like Italian sports cars. They're really fast, but they break down a lot. I'm just glad that almost everything now supports onboard video for times when the proper graphics card is crapped out.

Any person in the catholic priesthood at the diocese level or higher has to some degree been complicit in pederasty of some form.

The two things I know can generate that error are using system tools after a pending restart from a PC name change in Windows or Mismatched system libraries for .net or Visual C. Sometimes updating to the latest redistributable for those things fixes that stuff, but I've also encountered .net...