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Yes it was a good movie. I saw it this afternoon. Recommended but not for kids. I'm looking forward to the superman movie. Latest trailer was good. But let's talk about this hardcore hank movie or whatever it is called. This looks completely dumb. A first person shooter as a movie?

Is the Brother MFC-9130CW good? Any opinions on the LED versus Laser? How about dell printers? The E525w? I'm looking for cheap consumables and inkjets are out. Looking to replace our Epson NX230. Printing quality has gone to crap with it. They replaced it once under warranty already.

Well I installed all the updates after. But the machine currently has Windows 10 Version 1511 (OS Build 10586.71). That is what winver returns anyway. Here is the screenshot of the install options.

Are you screwing motherboard post mounts into wood? What alternatives are you using. Think of resurrecting my old system as a linux playground but have no case for it now. So I was thinking of just screwing motherboard posts into a piece of wood.

When I just used the MCT to create a usb disk, it offered Pro or Home when I was in the installation process. It didn't offer it during the media creation I think. I think it just makes one that does both.

Okay clean reinstall really helped. About 7 seconds to desktop when logging in now. Good to hear about the temps, sed. I may not replace it after all. I do have some rewards dollars ($250) that I was going to spend towards a replacement. Was thinking of this laptop from best buy. I'd swap the...

This is an HP dv6 AMD Turion II 2.3Ghz 4GB RAM laptop. Installed windows 10 when it came out and since has been really slow. Took it apart a while back, there is probably a thread around here somewhere, as I thought the temps were too high. Thought I had those under control but I don't think the...

Amazon had the PNY CS2211 240GB SSD on sale the other day for $65. I bought a couple (one for this box). HGST 4TB NAS drives went on sale at newegg yesterday/today for $140 (their normal discounted price - nothing spectacular) so I bought two. Thus ends any reuse of parts. I'll use one as the...

I use swype though I wish it gave a bit more control over the keyboard layout. I often want a numeric line at the top for passwords. And certain keys shouldn't be on the secondary keyboard.

The new DVD drive worked fine. No reset messages in event viewer. Exact Audio Copy ran just fine. the new Dream Theater - The Astonishing is now ripped and I'm listening to it. As to mercutio's suggestion, my frustration is really not knowing what caused the problem. I've replaced nearly...

Confirmed, reset message is no longer with the dvd drive detached. With SSD and hard drive, it doesn't appear. Flashed the firmware update from CC24 to CC29 on the three seagate 3TB drives. I did it from linux boot flash drive. I couldn't figure out how to run it at first. But I figured it...

I think I've tracked down the reset. Seems to be the DVD drive. I ordered a replacement. I tried ripping a CD tonight and it just keeps dropping. Weird as I installed windows from it. Anyway maybe it was dying. For $20 I just bought another one ASUS DRW-24B1ST. When just the SSD was...

Okay that reset error didn't go away. Seems both drives I tried on the ESATA port have it reported for them. Though not sure. I used a bracket that I had with two esata ports and a 4 pin power in the middle. Those were hooked up to sata ports 0 and 1. But now it happened again with only the...

So the reset to device messages did not go away after removing that drive. And checking with the Intel Rapid Storage Technology app it thinks port 0 is the data drive. So I googled this some and it seems other people are experiencing these messages. So I looked for the updated intel driver...

So I think I narrowed it down. After installing stuff and letting it go (nod32, picasa scanning, crashplan indexing), the machine blue screened a couple times. I couldn't access folders on the backup drive or certain folders on the data drive. It just hung explorer. Reviewing the event viewer I...

In general yes. But then you drive on the salted wet roads and it is dirtier than before. Car washes when it gets above freezing are usually quite busy. My craftsman snowblower belt came off twice. To fix it requires draining the gas, turning the snowblower on its front, removing the bottom...

Yes lot's of snow, probably 30 inches. Here is my car before. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1q0zcfi8wi8l5oy/2016-01-24%2009.14.49.jpg?dl=0 Note those fence posts are like 4 feet high. The middle one has my charger attached and buried...

martian dvd is $10 at target. Cheaper than a ticket.

Currently I put my old graphics card in my new box. But I'm wondering whether the integrated graphics make it outdated. Skylake i3 6100 integrated graphics or AMD Radeon HD 7770? Which is better?

So laptop failed again. I gave up on it. But parts came before the near 3 foot snow storm. So I spent friday night assembling them. Worked great. What's more macrium now saw the data drive without those weird partitions. And it let me image it in forensic mode to the backup drive. Then...

Yes we're getting a blizzard here near philadelphia and just about every weekend event has been cancelled. Even the boy scouts cancelled the Klondike Derby.

So the backup drive ran through chkdsk on the laptop (hooked via usb - sata thing). It was fine but my actual backup images were not there. As it had no more useful data to me I formatted it. Took forever (I did not do a quick format) but still 0 bad sectors. Then I was like how am I going to...

So something like this?

I think we had a thread for budget pc builds, was this it? What would you build in 2016?

Currently I was running 1 3TB drive for data. A second one online but removable for backup images. A third as spare offline. CrashPlan as offsite backup. With the NAS idea, it would be the primary location for storing my important data. I'd probably do redundant disks in it to avoid a...

This is pre UEFI. 9 years old. Q6600. I was waiting for Lenovo to release the P50s and P40 laptops to evaluate them as a replacement. I think it is time to implement the NAS. Suggestions for entry level devices at low cost? Build a cheap system and throw freenas on it?

My usb linux stick wouldn't boot. Queue research and finding plenty of others with usb stick booting issues and gigabyte. So I loaded a DVD and tried that. Yeah it booted.... the first time. Then nothing but problems. I gave up trying to use that machine. I'm thinking it is actually dying or...

So I think I had this figured out, started happening when I hooked back up the old UPS and I think because it isn't active pfc supported it must have been causing issues. So I disconnected the UPS from the computer and all was well. I could leave it on and come back days later and the drive...

I have airdroid but never used it. See my phone is not on the same network when I would want to use airdroid so it doesn't work for transferring files. At home I can just plug it in so I don't need airdroid.

Any text editor with syntax highlighting for php might of helped pick that up. gvim maybe, notepad++

Yeah they like their circles and jughandles (left turn by going right). We had some jughandles here near me in PA but they replaced nearly all of them when they widened the street to 3 lanes each way. I preferred the jughandles. NJ is one of only two states where they pump the gas and motorists...

IIRC the note4 has the band 12 too.

Here is the coverage map. Inside the building is the problem. Outside not so great either but at least I get a data signal.

Tmobile Note4 just got android 5.1.1 like a couple days ago. I have one. Supposedly a marshmallow update is in the works. I used to have touchdown installed for corporate email. Now corporate requires you install this thing that basically gives them full access to the phone. I said no, so no...

My understanding is that yes they still need the keepass database open, which requires the master password. So in order for this 'hack' to have any effect you would need to leave it open and have your machine hacked in the first place. It uses simple dll injection, which is a process in windows...

Hmm... let's try to get back on the original topic. So some skylake laptops are out, notably the microsoft surface book. Any other good ones announced worth considering? Only hard work it will do is photo processing as I'm not a PC gamer. Needs decent screen but I'll probably hook it up to a...

Well best deal but requires a specific phone.

Ting is a sprint/tmobile mvno. If you bring a sprint phone, it will work on sprint's network. If you bring a compatible gsm phone, it will work on tmobile's network. Ting is great if you already like those carriers coverage and don't use a lot of data. If you use more than 2GB a month...

Since when did we keep threads on topic...

I bought a 2015 volt in red. I got $4265 off msrp and then another $4000 in rebates. $35665 down to $27500. Then there is a $7500 and $2000 tax rebate coming early next year which will take it down to $18000. That's when I'll refinance the loan. It feels like a spaceship.

Still waiting for skylake myself. Windows 10 basically crippled my wifes laptop though. Linux is the order of the day there. A cheap SSD might also be in order but we're trying not to put any money into it.

In pure dollars/mile? It will be less expensive for sure. But some estimates are many years. Depends on how much electric you drive and how much gas costs. I want an electric car to reduce dependence on non-renewable energy.

My current lease is up soon. I want to buy a Chevy Volt but am considering whether to extend my current lease so I can wait for the 2016 volt or buy one of the 2015 or maybe even a used one.

This is the same tech they announced a breakthrough for many years ago. It seems to be PCM or something very similar. So I'm very tempted to believe this is finally working. But until we get some actual performance numbers I'll keep my expectations in check.

old htc evo 4g is my house phone on freedompop

Got the replacement power connection (it would not always connect reliably) and put it in. While there I put the thermal stuff on the chipset instead of that huge pad that was on there. Temps dropped almost 10C. Diskmark benchmark What do you think?

Linux seems really quick so I don't think it is the hardware itself unless it is the hard drive. I'll run those other benchmarks. I got it mostly back to not too bad by the ccleaner registry cleaning, disk cleaning, uninstalling MSE, disabling windows defender, installing nod32, uninstalling...

So my wife has a HP DV6-2157US laptop. It was just shutting off. So I opened it and checked for dust and replaced the thermal compound between cpu and the heatsink. It doesn't shut off anymore. View of fan / heatsink View of CPU My first question is should I have replaced the thermal pad on...

Most carriers in US block tethering unless you've paid for it. So you need to root and use that app or similar.

Anyway I messed with it some more. The power profile already had the hard drive set to always on. I must have set that previously to try and resolve the issue when I had the samsung drives. I tried updating the bios and the chipset driver to the intel storage matrix one. But it happened...