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Never had a taste for coffee, but I've managed to get myself down to ~4 diet cokes a day. Supplemented with Sprayable Energy if needed.

For me the question is about what kind of DRM they're going to stick on it. All my 4k screens are operating as computer monitors.

None of the shows I watch are on any of those. There are a dozen or so YouTube producers that I pay directly for their content, and I'm pretty happy with the situation. How happy am I? The pay is entirely voluntary for all but one of them.

Ah, thanks, but I already have a very quick and reliable Ubiquiti link in place (a pair of PowerBridge M panels) hidden completely in the attics of their respective buildings and still showing 65+ Mbps and very low latency. Their uncertainty is that they don't have experience with wireless...

I Googled but couldn't identify "FSO"?

...and once I talked to their IT guy he was totally cool. They use VMWare on their hosted product and completely support the latest Server and DB versions. The only thing they are concerned about is the wireless bridge between two of the buildings. I'm sure it won't be a problem, they're just...

For a punishment to be effective, it must cost more than was gained in the first place. I'd bet they still came out ahead on this behavior.

This seems almost entirely legit. I didn't really find myself in trouble regarding passwords until I had to start diversifying my finances. Once the number of accounts exceeded a dozen or so I knew I was in trouble.

I've seen similar specs on a couple occasions: 1. When it was copy/pasted by a manager from some bigger, more impressive competitor. 2. When it was written by programmers who don't actually know much about hardware.

Thanks Bartender! And that look isn't accidental; she really likes looking mean and roaring. We're working on teaching her that this doesn't give the best first impressions.

Hilarious. Much water under this particular bridge...

Not sure if you've looked into this (or read Mercs analysis) that closely. It is incredibly unlikely that anyone's actual passwords were compromised. At the same time, using this service means that changing all the passwords becomes pretty darn easy. Keeping a single list locked up would be...

Who would that be? Is there a single company with more than 1M users that hasn't had a data breach?

For some reason copying the text out of their PDF breaks the formatting impossibly. Like Stereodude, I've never had an issue with SSDs in RAID1 (or 10 for that matter).

You don't know how good a company is until something goes wrong. Anyone should be able to look great when things go to plan, but a company willing to do what they can in a pinch is worth aligning yourself with. <Anecdote> When I was having hardwood installed in the entire house, I took delivery...

Lastpass has an application and browser plug-in. So long as those are installed it does a great job tracking password changes. I'm actually spending some of today going into all my major services and having LastPass generate brutally long random strings as the new passwords, where there is no...

Thanks for that, was in too much of a rush and just got to the Intel offerings.

Start with the news: LastPass was recently hacked Their response to this was so impressive that I signed up almost immediately. I've known I should be using some kind of password manager for quite some time, but this pushed me into it. The software and interface are way better than I had...

Thanks for the info CougTek, but that completely blows out the budget. This machine will run the POS system of a small country club, 3 office employees and 5 registers. The software alone (they are requiring full Server and SQL installs) is going to be a killer cost and the hardware shouldn't...

Trying to work with a software vendor to approve running their software on moderately modern hardware. As much as going back to Server 2003, 15k SAS, and quad-core Xeons would be a walk down memory lane, I'd like something a bit....faster? Quieter? More energy-efficient? I'd also like to run...

Holy crap. Mine is just about perfect at the moment. Just a touch too humid.

Exactly what Merc said. Computer Upgrade King is great.

Thanks for that. Unfortunately already running 5.0.

Holy Crap. I might be able to download/install some percentage of those if I commit all the gaming time I have for the week to the cause. Those are awful pretty, though.

Sounds a bit too sweet? The sweetest drink that was ever my "regular" was Bacardi "O" and soda when I was a teenager.

I'd love to root the S5, but can't find a method that works and smells legit. Not even that worried about bricking the phone as it would be a great excuse to get an LG G4.

Re-downloading Skyrim from Steam and just subbed every "pretty" mod in the top two pages and the "Hi-res texture pack" DLC. I'll try to get a review put together in the next few days.

My 16GB S5 is pretty much full. I've moved everything it will let me to a 64GB SD card, but the number of apps that won't move or can't be uninstalled is most annoying. It also seems the author of the root technique was hired by Google to patch it? What tools do you use to...

Awesome. But the snow... And I'd take the 1Gbps@$35/mo over the 10Gbps@$400/mo any day. I know how to aggregate connections ;)

As it launched. I'll need to look into the mods/texture packs/etc, as that could make the game amazing. It's been years since I played through that game. The characters themselves are far more detailed than Skyrim was, but the world itself just isn't as pretty.

Not particularly impressed with Witcher 3. Both the graphics and the UI seem considerably behind Skyrim, which shipped 4 years ago? Home1 runs it just fine @4k with everything maxed, but it just isn't that pretty.

Turns out the Titan X was eligible for the Witcher 3 promo as well. Can't figure out how to get two keys for the two GPUs, but one should work for now.

I have a dozen or so of the smaller Cyberpower you linked above and none have failed. I also have some of their rackmount units but not the one you linked. I still go with one of the bigger companies when it REALLY matters, but Cyberpower has never given me a reason to distrust them.

Netgear Prosafe GSM5212P claims an MTBF of 766,618 hours. That is 87.5134703196347 years. How did they come up with this number? Down to the hour?

....I say, then look in the systray to see it. Interesting...

One of my friends called today who got this message. I haven't seen it myself.

Thanks for that. It was attached to an old HP 4200N, but we'll see if the service guys can get it running again. The printer started spitting up hard chunks of toner that had clearly pooled on the paper as it was going through.

If you had to buy a printer today specifically to print small reports (~30 pages twice a week) from a Windows 2000 Pro system, what would you get? I'm tempted to get a Laserjet 4, but ideally I'd want something new.

My Forgestar wheels are going to good use while the new one is built....

RAID10 is like a Range Rover. It is never strictly necessary, but it makes you smile every time you get to test its abilities.

I was thinking of trying it out just to see some eye-candy on the crazy rig at home (none of the games I'm into at the moment would be called "pretty"). I was thinking of this or GTA V.

This is why I like RAID10, but Synology won't let you resize a RAID10 array.

So you are going to run 2x40Gbps between the two? That'll be epic. I was planning 2x10Gbps and thinking that would be cool.

Sweet. I will have 3 Intel X540T2 NICs and a Netgear Prosafe Plus XS708E on Monday. All for about 15x that much ;)

Not sure if anyone else here is running Veeam or some other real-time-ish backup solution? I'm grabbing snapshots of production VMs every 30 minutes or so without needing too much overhead (but the 10GbE would help). I don't bother with RAID1 on the SSDs that run the VMs, and the big-ish ones...

Recently discovered the YouTube channel LinusTechTips. He has done a bunch of things that I have (pretty much) done, like these: https://youtu.be/48A_Yqj965c https://youtu.be/b8bLtg9J1Oc And a bunch of things still on my list, like these: https://youtu.be/N0qtu5NXhuQ...

I didn't read in the article what environments they were testing in (the images weren't loading)?

I'm talking to the SolarCity people next week. If that goes ahead I'll probably start folding during the day.

Merc nailed it. Very fun, though some of the puzzles can be maddening if you don't see it the way they see it.

Unless I'm missing something, the switch I linked to supports both SFP+ and RJ-45 for each of the 10Gb links. A decade ago a wealthy friend of mine took a general conversation we'd had and ran with it. In their new $10M+ home they'd put in 3 runs of fiber to each room. No Coax, no TP, just...