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Sometime in the last couple of releases, Thunderbird has gained support for several IM protocols, most notably Gchat and XMPP. I've also found an add-on that allows me to load the web interface for Google Calendar in a Thunderbird Tab. I can do the same thing locally with Lightning, but the web...

I'm in the habit of hitting Win-R and/or starting things from a cmd.exe Window, which is more or less the same way I interact with a *nix system. What I wound up doing to make things easier for myself was to toss a bunch of batch files for the relevant apps in a folder called c:\bin where I...

I haven't managed to dig as deeply in management tools with Server 2012 as I wanted, but I will say that overall I approve. I don't think the install even took five minutes (USB3 thumb drive to SSD), and adding/installing roles is simple and well-organized. A lot of my criticisms about Windows 8...

I finally got the go-ahead to do new classroom systems. My older machines are nearly six now. Surprisingly, the C2D E6300s I bought all that time ago are still perfectly adequate for everything that happens in our classrooms. At the time, I felt like I might have over-specified just for buying...

I'd link to Microsoft's articles about it, but their site is all fucked up because of Server 2012 stuff now, but here's the article from wikipedia.

He said he thought he was taking a computer class, not an internet class, and that the internet is where all the filth in the world comes from. Which, granted, is kind of why I like it.

I tried to teach a class tonight that included a student who was so completely opposed to using the internet that I had to ask him to leave.

Server 2008 manages that for Windows client systems, Handy.

I assume you guys are using the Mandatory Access Protection feature that's baked in to Windows Server 2008 to do that stuff, in which case end users can get access to a provisional network with internet access to have updates and virus definitions loaded even if your VM is judged unfit for full...

Not enough drive bays. Also, missing the DickPort(TM) for all the sloppy BJs that I assume a $1200 computer case will offer.

Apparently it's a Linux-based fork of FreeNAS. The administrative interface looks very similar to me, but it doesn't appear to do ZFS, which is the biggest single reason why I settled on FreeNAS in the first place. My experience with FreeNAS/ZFS is that out of the box Samba performance is...

Arrr!

That sounds like a support/administration nightmare. Microsoft and Cisco both have tools for ensuring that systems have current security software and patch levels prior to negotiating a full network connection, but I can think of way too many problems with that policy to be comfortable.

Considering that we're looking at devices that are sold for under US$80 retail and have several middlemen between them and their manufacturer, it in no way surprises me that $.15 for decent media player or email app is considered an extravagance. Also, I think we all know that Acer doing...

Potentially handy thing I just ran in to: http://www.arctablet.com/blog/archos-tablet/arctools-google-apps-and-market-installer-for-archos-gen8-youtube-fixed/ArcTools, which installs Google's standard apps on many devices that for some reason do not have them. It's made for Archos devices but...

This article was linked on Slashdot yesterday, but I only just got around to reading it. In essence, the author is describing the realities of cheap electronics manufacture, such that any random plant in China can gear up, build the logistics chain for supply and do a production run of complex...

Mostly it's 40-year-old, 250lb. grandmothers in NASCAR-related apparel who light their next cigarette with the butt of the current one. Around here, a 40 year old with a six year old grandchild is not unusual.

I'm frequently reminded that, not only do I have an office, I have the largest office. Which would probably be substantially more appealing were it not for the bare steel shelving units that hold my parts collection and all the loud server crap that's running full time, which is a big part of...

Presumably it's the same program. There's not all that much difference between Vista, 7 and 8.

Can I play that without Steam?

If it makes you feel even slightly better, I have a $1000 Onkyo receiver sitting on my desk at work and I blew about $500 on acoustic treatment stuff so I can listen to music at anything above a whisper without everyone in my office complaining they can hear it.

Yup. Those are things.

How to get three hard drives in a Thinkpad: 1. Obtain an mSATA drive like an Intel 310 2. Put a drive in the regular drive bay 3. Replace the optical drive with a regular SATA drive in an ultrabay. Ta da!

Since when can we embed youtubes?

There's an online version to try as well!

This is not a computer game. This is a game played with actual people. Whom you know. Because some of you know people. It is called Cards Against Humanity. You can buy it from their web site or just abuse the printer you already have at work.

They give you a retail key for it. I think that's because there are fewer SKUs for Server 2012 but as far as I know the only real differences are extra SMP support and licensing for Hyper-V stuff. I'm more interested in seeing what IIS and AD management are like.

I'm going to put together a Server 2012 system tomorrow-ish for my own amusement, since it's finally up on Technet.

That's what I always say to strippers when they're down about their job, which is often. Especially on days when they don't make any money or just after some douchebag has asked them to do something incredibly inappropriate. They do all have good stories though.

That's kind of a killer toolset for tablets, actually. You can get some pretty serious video content up and running on your 64GB device at whatever quality level is appropriate and it's all legal to grab it. I haven't found anything that does Vimeo playlists, but Vimeo is actively hostile to...

Last night I decided I wanted to have all the episodes of "My Drunk Kitchen" on one of my tablets and available offline. So I went and looked, and sure enough, someone makes a tool for that. It's called Bytube, the Bulk Youtube Downloader. Bytube is a Firefox add-on that works with either...

I love digging up nine year old threads in which to post! An interesting thing that I just noticed is that Microsoft is going back to the MCSE/MCSA branding for Windows 8 and Server 2012. Which is really excellent, because who the hell can keep track of the current alphabet soup of its...

Shit. That's horrible, Coug. I hope things work out for you. One of the reasons I stay in the crappy job I have is that in spite of everything else, it has been stable. When I was a full time contractor I would occasionally go weeks or even months without real work. I'd get on a contract and...

There's also an issue with the staggering array of hardware configurations on Android, particularly for differing screen resolutions. Apparently developers are regularly surprised by tiny differences that make their software unusable on some device or other.

I build mine through the WAIK. It's only a total pain in the ass the first time you do it. Once you have an image, you can do all kinds of things to it. I can even run an image in VirtualPC and (un)install or update an app that isn't supported for direct upgrades.

That's a good deal right now, yes. I suspect that 'round about Xmastime, we'll be seeing 512GB drives below $300 though.

I finally caught up, having listened to every episode from #1 up to the most current one, as of a few weeks ago. I was listening to them on my walks. Now I'm using a podcast downloader to grab stuff like the Savage Lovecast and APM's Marketplace and I listen to that stuff instead.

This American Life had an awesome segment on 419 Scam baiting. Well worth the listen if you have 20 minutes.

I think it reads from a gyroscope that's built in to the host device, not the disk drive itself.

The T420 I have technically does not have an Ultrabay. It has a slot that's exactly the same size and shape, but lacks the release lever. I was able to install a different drive bay in mine (one that I had owned for years), but I had to take a couple screws out of the bottom of the notebook to...

Technically, it's not supposed to be that hard, but at the same time there really isn't anything I want to do with an Android device right now that I can't do. In the overwhelming majority of cases, I can do it for free. One of the biggest annoyances I have isn't the inability to develop...

I believe there's something about magnesium in the chassis covers, but IIRC the structural components inside are titanium.

Perhaps it's becoming disabled because the sensor is in some kind of error state? Do you know if the program works when it is installed?

I've watched Thinkpads bounce off concrete floors after three foot drops and not even stop running. They have magnetic-tipped power cords to prevent a snagged cord from pulling the notebook off a desk anyway. At a time when I weighed 330lbs, I put my full weight on a (closed) T20 and did not...

I'm also wondering if some of the software features being touted for the updated Fire models will be back-ported to the original.

You can install Go Launcher within even having to root the device. I read the instructions for doing that and actually did it in the parking lot within 90 seconds of unboxing it. The lack of a decent keyboard option is a little bit harder to deal with, but I was able to find Aldiko, AndSMB...

Rolling it off seemed like cheating. I wanted to pry it off.

When I was a little kid, I found something the size and rough shape of a shotgun shell in my dad's office. It was some kind of rare Earth magnet. I found that out because, as I was rolling it over his wooden desk, I got a wee bit too close to a steel file cabinet and the magnet made the rest of...

I doubt very much that it matters. Whatever you're getting will almost certainly be a reference design. If you want something that's been customized and seriously validated, you're almost certainly looking at a rebadged LSI controller at this point. Both the Dell and IBM controllers mentioned...

It is just a regular old Kindle Fire, not one of the new ones. Sniff. I just got it and it's in a glossy retail box. I didn't know they could be purchased that way. BUT, Lunar, from a specs standpoint, the Fire 2 looks really interesting. They're 7" or 8.9". The larger one has a 1920x1200 16x10...