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Not to take away from an otherwise breathtaking rant, but assloads of ISPs don't support IMAP. The usual bullshit excuse is that they don't have storage or bandwidth to support that application. Here in the US, large ISPs by and large go one step further by directing users to webmail services...

bubbleshooter.net, my good man.

I'm a big fan of XnView, but I've found that messing with the default image viewer in Windows can break the association that makes Explorer generate thumbnails for folders that are in icon view.

Someone asked me today how to cut/copy/paste in the Metro interface. I'd never tried and my own strategies for dealing with Win8 involve pretending Metro does not exist. I can select one or even multiple files. But the UI's only option once files have been selected is to delete them. No...

How much time is left on the warranty clock?

The App Store relies on an affirmative ID system. It could just be that they don't want people installing App Store apps as administrator because it's semi-anonymous or might associate the app with the wrong account. Plus, Microsoft doesn't really want ANYONE using the named administrator...

You basically have to have a Core i-series CPU to get the features required to make Hyper-V go. In typical Intel fashion, it's not enabled line-wide but rather an artificial point of differentiation between chips. I've also found that many, MANY consumer laptops can't enable virtualization...

One of my customers is talking about buying Surface/Surface Pro devices because the new point of sale system they're looking at will support them. They're the first group of people I've talked to who are genuinely gung-ho about Windows RT.

It's useful for both, since it means that there could be a smaller I/O plate on a system and the ports are where people actually want them. Er, if anyone is making monitors that actually HAVE USB/Firewire/eSATA/Ethernet on them and accept Thunderbolt input, anyway.

I think the value it has is as as a single point of connection. Plug a display in, tuck the computer someplace out of the way and run whatever other connectors you need off ports in the display. It's clearly wasted as being yet another high speed external disk interface, but as one universal...

Well if you want to see something hilarious, watch how long it takes to copy 33 million 100kB files to a RAIDZ2l.

The amount of stuff sitting around my apartment is in the same ballpark, actually. I've been tempted with the idea of moving to Server 2012 and Storage Pools for performance reasons rather than zPools like I'm presently using, but I'm mildly terrified that the underlying technology would not...

Speaking of XBMC and media centers, these look kind of neat. I don't like that they're 802.11 only, but that's hardly a deal breaker. I'm trying to find a way to justify getting one or two different models to play with.

You've sort-of reminded me that I've been meaning to see what the Enlightenment people have been up to since the late '90s.

They're pretty easy to access, actually. Unlike the Pavilion dv6 in that video where they're buried underneath keyboard (which requires removing every optional part from the bottom side of the unit) AND parts of the mainboard assembly, all the fans are right under the bottom plate. Of course...

It indexes all of them. I actually set up a crapload of different image libraries as part of my normal profile config and I *want* them to be in those libraries. Apparently the stock answer to this question is just to move private stuff out of your libraries, but that's lame since it completely...

That might in fact have something to do with it. Until recently, all my "personal" photos were just pictures of my cats or rack setups at customer sites or something. Now I actually have personal photos that I'd prefer not to show up in the live tile or thumbnails. I'm surprised there isn't an...

I can't say that I spend much time looking at disk controller logs unless I see a hiccup someplace. I suspect dd's in about the same boat.

I went ahead and created another account, just for taking screen shots and using with a projector. It's not worth the chance that I'd get in trouble.

Well... yes and no. You have to bear in mind that there are costs just for having the port that the disk sits on, and the costs for the chassis, and the power and the labor and and and... And somewhere there's a beancounter who knows exactly what all those costs are. And in a RAID10 or RAID50...

Does anyone know a quick way to conditionally exclude library folders from Metro's live preview? Let's just say it might be handy to know before I go hooking my personal notebook up to a projector.

Amazon has a ridiculously good deal on a huge bundle of THQ Games.

You mean you don't love the command line find utility? ;)

That's four hours by car. But, knowing how international air travel works, probably four hours by plane also.

Also: RAID1 is not a backup.

Intel motherboards are essentially rebadged Foxconn products, but I've paid for Intel due to the quality of the attending support. I'm guessing they've crunched the numbers and decided that the ROI isn't there to keep working in the desktop space. Perhaps we should look at this as an early...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025926/intel-exits-the-desktop-motherboard-business-to-focus-on-new-form-factors.html Not any time soon, but that's still a pretty huge issue for those of who build and maintain systems.

Data recovery is a precious gift. You should be happy you're getting back anything at all and go forth a disk-crash fearing, backup-having man. Or lady. Whatever.

I live in the midwestern United States. I'm at least four hours' travel from another country. Also, the phones I was looking at were CDMA, which no other country even uses as far as I know. I'm relatively certain I could find a 32GB Android phone and add a 32GB uSD card for it for less than...

I very seldom bother with burn-in testing. Maybe once in a great while on a $1500+ desktop or on a server.

Surprisingly catchy ditty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OpCJzdWxEbQ

Can someone please explain to me why an 8GB used iphone that's been banned from multiple carriers is still worth $150?

At the point that a memory test is finding errors, it's just time to replace the RAM. RAM is cheap. I've seen quite a lot of RAM that can pass memory tests all day long yet was still defective, but I will also say that modern RAM is vastly more reliable than the stuff we were getting 10 or 15...

Many moons ago, I recovered about 1200GB of data from a RAID 5 failure. Even though the recovery was perfect in that I got all of my files back, I still saw minor corruption in recovered audio and video files. The chances of having additional hard errors during a RAID recovery on a large volume...

The Steam Store for Linux doesn't have many offerings, but Swords and Sworcery is well done, as is World of Goo. I think both were part of the Humble Android Bundle. And for what it's worth, most Humble Bundle titles are cross platform, so that's something to look out for.

I don't like the way Windows deals with Bluetooth because losing connection really, really sucks. Basically I don't think Bluetooth keyboards and mice should be the only ones on a computer whereas I'm completely fine with those little... Favi-things (aka Rii aka Chinese OEM of the week). I've...

Memory tests of all kinds - even the ones that use a hardware tester - are notoriously unreliable. Passing Memtest86 really just means that RAM passes Memtest86, not that it's certifiably problem-free.

I have a couple of them sitting in my office. Seagate sometimes ships drives to me in them.

One of my customers let a salesman go last week. He shipped his T520 back in a large, unpadded envelope, wrapped one time around the wide axis with bubble tape. It works fine.

Did anyone notice that Amazon recently added a digital version of every physical CD you've purchased from them in the last 15 years to your Cloud Player library a couple weeks ago?

I've got two T420s side-by-side here. They both have 8GB RAM and i7-2640 CPUs. One has a 120GB Intel 320 and the other has a 240GB Crucial M4. The M4 is, subjectively, a tick faster for almost everything while Windows is running. Given the differences between SSDs, "a tick" is probably about as...

I have the Rosewill 8-bay unit that I believe is identical to that. As I recall, there's a pretty serious limitation to the number of SATA ports supported by the SiL RAID controller that I presume was provided with your enclosures, such that the controller will only address a maximum of five...

Technically, I could reach him several ways. I'm pretty certain I still have his phone number if it came to that. I suspect he does not want to communicate, particularly not with me.

Random thought? Is the boot/system drive in the first enumerated SATA port? You've got six drives. Is it possible that the system power management is powering on the other drives before that one, causing Windows to think that one is not responding quickly enough?

They changed the way that new or renewed subs work so that you have to use all the activations on a single key before you can request another one. This means you can't collect all your product keys and .ISOs on the first day of your sub and never visit again. They also removed some products from...

You can Anytime Upgrade using a valid Windows Pro license. I have observed it to work with the $40 download version, which is for all practical purposes identical to a full OEM license as far as I can tell. Were I really concerned, I'd probably dig in to the actual EULA and play "spot the...

Merc has, of late, been a very lucky guy.

I copy the whole BD structure on a machine using AnyDVD HD and feed the output folders to Handbrake. Handbrake supports fully preserving soundtracks and can operate in batch mode through the GUI or from a command line. My output from a typical BD is between 3.5 and 15GB, depending on my personal...

The completely valid argument is that the author started from a faulty premise couched in nothing more than his own opinion. He did not demonstrate that a problem actually exists, which is something that fundamentally needs to be done in order to justify the many thousands of words that...

I've got it on a dual core T60. It's... adequate. I don't think you're missing anything though. I think the oldest CPUs that are officially supported are the top-end single core Athlon64s, and those things are nine years old.