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I'm all set in that department.

<.< >.> One of Newegg's email specials this morning is $10 off on a Hitachi Magic Wand, with offer code EMCNAHB65.

Why are you bothering with KVM in the first place? Why not RDP or VNC? The phone/tablet situation really bugs me. I see a lot of people who have both devices out, smartphone and tablet. I can only assume it's because they're using SMS on their phone. Why isn't there a worthwhile...

Dirty Jenny sounds awesome though so maybe that's less of a problem.

It helps if you turn it off or at least remove audible notifications for most things. My least favorite thing in the world is explaining to people that I. Do. Not. Do. SMS. Ever. (OK that's no 100% true, but the three people who can send me them are white listed and only allowed because they...

One of my customers still has a Netware 3 machine that runs some portion of his POS system. Another one has some CNC systems that demand to talk to x86 computers running something called ROX (Copyright 1989) that's installed from 720k floppies. I've never been able to find anything out about it...

I don't know how many people this applies to, but I am actually so blessed as to have multiple computer systems that I can (if I so choose) use every day. What I'm thinking about right now is the ways that all this stuff has changed how and what I do. I still prefer to use a desktop when I have...

A lot of those "Android Head Units" are like the one I was describing, where they have an app to interface with the head unit, not a head unit that can control stuff on the device. A few of the expensive ones essentially have a $50 tablet for an interface, but looking at the specs on those...

No, it would go to 10.9 on everything except one category where you would inexplicably be a 10.7. RAID10 of PCIe SSDs? Too bad. Your disk subsystem is a 10.7.

You might want to check laws in your state to make sure that you can in fact mount a computer screen in your car in the driver's field of view. I really, really wish someone made a head unit that had functional controls for Android. I played with something with an Android logo on the box but it...

Oh never mind. The Nexus PHONE is Samsung.

That's what the Nexus is. Including the made by Samsung bit.

CEOs can't really say things like that, but they have no realistic chance of topping either Google or Apple and to think otherwise would be at least as dangerous a break with reality.

Windows 8 has Hyper-V, just like Server 2008 and Server 2012. The problem is, XP Mode was a de-facto free Windows XP license and that's what is missing. Virtual PC also used some aspects of Remote Desktop to make it appear that installed apps were running natively on the desktop where Windows...

Windows 8 does not have XP Mode. Weak.

The people I work with have a very different perspective on this stuff. They want the facilities to most closely resemble what people are going to use at home and/or at work. I'm having to expend all my efforts at the moment justifying the use of VMs for older versions of Windows so that I don't...

Stardock is now offering Start8 for Windows 8. It appears to be free.

I use it so that I can use my larger tablets as GPSes without needing a full-time data connection. It works very well for that purpose. Just like reviews on Amazon or Newegg, people will give bad reviews for stupid shit, so I'd take those reviews with a very large grain of salt.

I'm not really arguing with anyone. I'd far rather have flash drives. The problem is that I know full well the other people in my office won't change what they're doing or willing to do in classes if they think it might somehow create a different environment than what a typical home or office...

I use Go Launcher on my Fire.

Your DOS-based software may yet run properly. 16-bit Windows apps and programs that depend on a 98/2000/XP driver are the only things that I can absolutely assure you will not work. Also, I had problems setting up dual boot configurations with 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows, where the boot...

Have you not heard of CoPilot?

I don't know about the Fire HD, but I had a different launcher running on my Fire about 90 seconds after I took it out of the box.

Yes. This is the huge drawback that kept me from fully recommending the Fire as well. It doesn't include Google's apps and in fact the Fire has to be rooted to install anything from the Play Store and certain .APKs even if you do take the time to collect them and try to sideload them. I hate the...

As far as I know, they were made by Lenovo since at least the mid-90s. It's just that up until 2005 or so, they still said IBM on them.

Upgrading old Windows installs is a tremendously bad idea. I know it's a pain to reinstall applications, but I've noted that XP -> Vista was a particularly buggy change. Upgrade installs are not well tested by Microsoft and because of the sheer number of variables, there's no telling where or...

CD-Rs are $.15.

jtr, OS installs are not a thing you need to be worried about.

Apparently it's SOP when teaching rooms full of secretaries and mid-level managers Microsoft Office to save the files they make in class on CDs that they can take with them when they leave. I already suggested putting that crap on the web instead, but it's one of those things where we can't...

In the end, it doesn't matter, because any setup that does not work EXACTLY LIKE an dedicated individual workstation is going to be rejected, no matter how well it works.

There's a further budgetary allocation for spare parts. I'll probably wind up with about 50 grand all told, pending approval of the customers for which we maintain off-site classrooms. Considering the amount of shit I got for wanting to have clients without CD burners, I'm not even going to try...

I'm assuming this is for Windows so... many vendor-provided wireless clients have decent monitor features as well. My standard practice is to uninstall Lenovo's because it annoys me, but if you're looking the Wireless Zero Config Client instead of the one from Toshiba/Dell/Lenovo/Intel/Linksys...

If we're taking up a collection to hook jtr with some decent hardware, I'm more than willing to contribute. And no, normal people do not need 400W PSUs, let alone 500W. Monster PSUs are the reserved domain of people who buy $150+ graphics cards or actually manage fill a mid-tower with hard drives.

It's actually possible that your router got re-flashed from your ISP. That does happen. Though I expect that would impact your neighbor as well, were it the case. I normally monitor 802.11 signals with a program on my phone called Wifi Analyzer.The simple graph mode normally tells as much of...

80 machines total.

It's kind of a PHB thing. I start talking about techie things and she tunes it out because she can't be bothered to be interested by any of it and oh hey her kids are sending her text messages and did she hear that Vickie at her country club said bitchy things about Jennifer? So she'll ask me a...

I'm about 98% sure that unit is the same as the Rosewill one. They're cosmetically identical.

It's not my favorite thing in the world either. I've had it for a while and it's barely been used, but that thing is one of the reasons I'm not fond of SiL's SATA chipsets. eSATA has some of the same sorts of arcane nonsense associated with it as external SCSI. Sometimes the enclosure has to be...

I've got a Rosewill 8 bay enclosure I'll sell you.

Digg got sold not that long ago for a pittance as well. To me, Slashdot is still far and away the best place to learn about IT issues outside my immediate needs and interests. I pick up so much random, useful stuff in discussions there. I can't believe it's only worth some fraction of $20M...

"Yeah, sure, Mr. VMware guy. I'd love to help you, but David is the one with the real purchase authority. You're gonna have to talk to him..."

One of my stripper pals showed me something odd today: a 320x200 Android 2.3 phone with a TOTAL of 175MB(?) RAM and 256MB internal storage, and so many carrier-loaded apps that it was not possible to update basic preloaded software. I couldn't see who made it (strip clubs be dark, yo), but...

Next time they call I'll be sure to pass them your phone number.

I get sales calls from VMware sales once or twice a week, even though I've never paid for anything but VMware worstation and my IT budget doesn't even make a blip on their radar.

I'd love to do some kind of thin client system. It would make my life a zillion times easier. But no, it's not happening. Too much of our training works from the assumption that everyone has a local machine where they can store data and make individual, persistent changes. Plus my boss doesn't...

I know I can auto-start a Virtual PC image and I normally handle backups natively within the VM rather than backing up the VM file itself, especially on VMs that need to be running full time. Are you sure this is a case where you need to be virtual? If you don't have any kind of worthwhile...

Actually that could very well be a winner. I hadn't even looked at Silverstone. Most of its products would be well out of my price range. Thanks for suggestions all.

That's certainly a nice box, Coug, but the case is far too large for most of my classrooms. Antec doesn't offer any well made and inexpensive minitowers. If I went the mITX route, there's the ISK110, but that gets back to the very real possibility that I won't be able to source a power supply in...

I have a bothersome mix of first and second generation Antec NSK38xx cases. The first generation models use an obnoxiously-hard-to-source PSU and nothing else looks right with them. I want to ditch those chassis at least, and I might do that by just replacing the the 40% or so of my systems that...

Sadly, I've not invested much time in learning Powershell, which is supposed to be a vastly better alternative. I can slip in to bash if I need to do something that I don't immediately know how to do with DOS-style scripting, and I have workalikes for *nix commands for times when I forget what...