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I encounter stuff like that pretty regularly, at least as far as IT spending by nonprofits goes. It's often because they have grant money they're allowed to spend on technology purchases and can't use for other things. I don't know if that's the case here, and yes the consulting firm did take...

It's now Coug's Xeon 5570.

Clear's tech underlies Sprint's older 4G offering. I'm under the impression that reception on it is spotty, mostly on the basis of where I have to be in Chicago to be able to connect to it on my phone. ORD? Yes. Midway? No. Inside the Loop? Maybe. South of the museum campuses? Not happening...

I find faith to be perversely admirable in people I suspect are otherwise intelligent and rational. At the same time, I also think that for the vast majority of believers, faith is the result of youthful brainwashing or a weak-minded reaction to a troubled life. I can't conclude the same things...

Virgin uses Sprint's towers, which does not have 4G service in Ft. Lauderdale.

Granted, there are file trading communities all over the place. The thing that made Demonoid interesting was that it was well-curated and full of otherwise unique content. NNTP and most torrent sites aren't terribly well organized but Demonoid absolutely was, which made it a lot more rewarding...

Apparently demonoid.hk will be a thing. For people who are into that sort of stuff.

Colbert actually did some pretty interesting stuff with that last night as well. His guest was particularly interesting: a person who says he's a practicing Catholic who wants the notion of clergy to be abolished. Religious people are weird.

In the US, your 4G options at present are either AT&T or Verizon (Sprint is still transitioning to LTE and coverage is sparse at best). Verizon is probably the better option since its coverage is almost certainly better in my experience, but Verizon equipment is essentially Verizon-only and not...

It amazes me the sheer number of times that I have the "Oh, you need an access point" conversation takes place.

I also listened to Marketplace last night. :)

I have a new in box Xeon 5570 here. 2.93GHz Quad Core, Hyperthreaded. This is an SMP-able i7 CPU. I'm probably going to try to move it on Ebay but if anyone from SF wants it, I'll sell it for $100. Yes, you need a workstation class board for it. They sell on Ebay for ~$100 - $200. I thought I...

My guess is somebody has proof Ratzy diddled a kid himself.

If it makes compatible discs, it's absolutely worth it.

I've never bothered to try, but that was the gist of Intel's documentation a couple years ago.

You're not allowed to route the same address pool on both the source and destination ports of a router, which is probably what's going on with your setup. You can probably get away with assigning the Linksys to have a static address like 192.168.1.250 and turn of its built-in DHCP server...

The cheapo Rosewill/SiL 8-bay enclosure won't make an array with more than 5 drives, even in RAID1, and Intel Southbridge RAID doesn't offer the option to do RAID5 unless you're using a Server version of Windows for no good reason I can think of. You may be better off with something like Windows...

Baldur's Gate, the undisputed classic RPG, has been made available on iOS and will soon be released for Android with new content added.

OK, it's worth it to hunt down an SVHS VCR that supports S-video output. Those are going to be the Rolls Royces of VCRs in the first place, but between far better tape heads and just generally better output from S-Video, you'll get a much cleaner transfer. You'll need a Video Capture device...

Oooh. That is a good link. Thanks!

It may very well be that the the disk controller's CPU is swamped with the extra parity calculations that come from the 4th drive. JMI controllers are very low cost parts and it just wouldn't shock me if that's the case. Those graphs were from a Perc5 or Perc6, right? That's not exactly an...

If your stuff is all plugged in to a receiver, it will convert whatever you've got into whatever your want. That's the point of having a receiver.

If Austin is the price we must pay to rid ourselves of Dallas and Houston, I say that it is worth it.

If we're going to start canceling states, can we do Texas next?

I stumbled across Dorco this morning. I'm intrigued, but I just bought a bunch of cartridges for my razor so it will be a while before I'll feel the need to try anything different. I just paid $32 for a 16-pack of 4-blade razors and Dorco wants $25 for 24 6-blade razors, so I can see real value...

I believe prices are set and controlled by Microsoft. So discounting will be whatever little scraps Amazon or Best Buy or Newegg feel like offering.

The best circumstances are around 25C and modest levels of wind and humidity. Also acceptable: 35C-ish and surrounded by chicks in bikinis.

She acts like she's quite a bit older. I thought she was in her mid or late 20s. She thought I was in my mid or late 20s. Whatever. It's working.

I really don't see why MS doesn't shave $100 off current pricing for Surface devices. They're selling a whole ecosystem against a couple different ecosystem. I'm sure they did analysis that set the price points, but the almost universal reaction seems to be "it's too expensive." But these things...

So Surface Pro is out. It's fast. It's a real computer that runs full blown Windows apps. It weighs under 3lbs even with the keyboard. And all people want to do is bitch about how the battery only runs four and a half hours and has a small SSD. I can't help but think that if an i5 with a...

I can honestly say that I am no longer dating a teenager. Because she had a birthday.

Do you have a particular application in mind here? Why are you so concerned with being able to ID people from your camera?

DVDflick: OSS/free video file to DVD converter.

Do you have a Windows Server with WSUS 3.0 installed? You can make it a crapload more useful with Local Update Publisher.

I've set up these guys a few times. They're 640x480, which is actually just fine for continuous recording and a nice step up from crappy analog security cams in more or less the same way that a full-motion DVD is an improvement over VHS tape that was recorded at four frames per second. The...

Weekends are usually a lot more busy for me than weekdays, Lunar. This week was not an exception. One of the old servers in my apartment hat a flame-out today. I do mean flame. It set off my smoke alarm and got me a call from my landlord. As near as I can tell, the video card (which probably...

Defender and MSE are fundamentally the same thing as Endpoint Protection, other than the management aspect. They both block or remove the same viruses and malware and use the same definitions and they all have for-shit heuristics, which is the biggest problem with all of the above.

Not a big deal either way.

I know how to work the shutdown command. But power management should be doing something that it is not. In other good news, as of Tuesday, ninite's installer will once again replace Windows Defender with either Avast or Avira. That makes me happy, since Defender is a giant pile of suck.

There's another tool called Tasker that can be used to program a lot of conditional actions including changing lock settings based on 802.11 connection, but it's quite a bit more expensive.

Unlock with Wifi is well worth $3. Basically you can set your stuff up to use a lock screen only when you're someplace unfamiliar. How cool is that?

Windows 7's backup was a substantial improvement on Vista's or any other desktop version of Windows, but File History and "Windows 7 File Recovery" is a step back, if only because of the confusion of nomenclature. If you use the search charm for "backup", File History is what comes up. Nothing...

As far as I can tell that is correct, but when I choose "Sleep" my notebook used to go in to hibernate after some additional period of inactivity and it does not seem to be doing that. Also, hey, has anyone looked at the mess that is Windows 8's built-in backup software? Windows 7's actually...

OK, I found part of the problem: If I use the "sleep" mode from the Settings Charm, my Thinkpad does not ever transition to Hibernate but rather seems to stay in the instant-on state even after six hours without use. If I tell the system to Hibernate using Classic Shell (Hibernate is not one of...

Yeah, I'll do $75.

One of my students lost a day-old Note 2 in a snowmobiling accident. He was fine but his phone was screwed. Verizon made him sign a written affidavit about the nature and disposition of his phone's damage, telling him that doing so was part of the warranty repair process, then informed him that...

It's almost 8PM and right now it's 59 degrees outside. In January. A mile from Lake Michigan. The rain is a little cold, but I sat out and read on my balcony for a while this evening just for the novelty of doing it.

Here's a completely nifty thing: Android 4.0.3 running natively as a Windows application.

It's theoretically switchable if both show up in device manager, I think. I'm not sure which is being used by my notebook but I do know that it's hot on the rear left side and that the system fan is running a lot more than it was under 7. I've reinstalled most of the Lenovo apps just to see if...

Battery life on my T420 appears to be about half what it was under Windows 7, even with current drivers for everything. I'm investigating, but one likely culprit seems to be the nvidia switchable graphics. I note that all my multi-monitor controls only function properly in the nvidia control...