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Hrm. I misread the cost for Glacier storage. I thought there was another decimal place. Even ignoring my vast collection of media files, I'd be looking at about $1000/year to keep things my personal data there. Suddenly running buying an extra Crashplan Pro subscription doesn't seem so bad.

No one is making a 4" Android device with large uSDXC and water resistance. I see a market for that device as a media player, either as an entry-level kid-safe device or an easy-to-use music player, especially for exercise use. I love the SanDisk Clip+ to death, but looking at what people will...

I'd be interested in seeing what the memory footprint on Arq is like. Crashplan is a pig in that respect.

I have tapes, at least until the drive dies. I shuffle a box with a relatively complete archive back and forth between my place and my parents'. Important stuff is replicated in several places. The most important data to me is my email, which is thankfully also one of the easiest things to manage.

Kodi has super-easy 10' navigation and it's my preferred interface for media, but core plugins like Youtube keep breaking and the name brands in streaming services don't work with it unless you're on Android and can use it as a launcher for your normal Android app. Windows also doesn't have a...

The holy grail is a generic Android interface that actually works for an STB. Yes, I could miracast a tablet on to my TV, but that will annihilate the battery. Plus Miracast isn't perfect mirroring and only streams audio as stereo. A trackpad or trackball might work but in my experience, some of...

OK, Matricom Q2 mini-review, executive summary: This thing is a pain in my ass. It's responsive enough and it is capable of decoding 30fps 4k content, but I can't stand it for what might be the dumbest reason of all time: I can't figure out for the life of me where the cursor is. The launcher...

I'll be interested to hear what battery life is like with that 4k panel.

At least your surname lends itself to availability. Shoulda bought mine in 1994 when I first thought of it.

I ran in to that as well. Sometimes it works if Ad blocking is off. I guess some of the site assets are on some CDN that's primarily used for ads? I've shrugged and used it in IE or on my tablet.

Everyone else I know who has gotten married did a justice of the peace thing or something distinctly different from a christian wedding, like a Pagan Handfasting. An actual church wedding is new to me. Free booze at a reception is a lot less appealing if you're not a drinker. I'm guessing the...

The steel mill where most of my students work uses Surecall hardware. They originally tried just getting Verizon boosters but enough people in the plant have other carriers that they had to move to something multiplatform.

Amazon has Fire Sticks for $25, FireTVs for $70 and Matricom Q2s (same basic hardware as a FireTV but with AndroidTV instead) for $75 today.

Other than some mild annoyance at how I have to configure file sources, the differences between Kodi on a FireTV or a Shield and x86 are pretty damned minimal as far as I can tell. I'll have to look and see if the Music library is rendered properly or not, since I never look at things that any...

I like the guys who make HackMaster, which was originally a joke from a comic book but morphed into a fully-formed update to 1st edition AD&D rules. The best part is that they tracked down a bunch of the original TSR artists to create new art for their products. I've never played a table top RPG...

With any luck, this will mean that AVG will stop being a thing, because it is awful and needs to stop existing.

I can't think of a way to turn a pi on. Maybe you could bash together an IR receiver or something? I think I mentioned earlier in this thread that it's possible to add MySQL as a backend to Kodi, which might help with maintaining a config between clients.

It's in the system print dialog boxes, not the print drivers. Chrome, because it's its own damned operating system, doesn't use system print dialog boxes, which is a big reason why I was able to deduce the problem as quickly as I did.

I need the lightest lenses I can buy because my eyes are god-awful. I've been talked in to getting the "computer screen" coating a couple times and I feel like there's a subtle loss to contrast in my vision for having it, so my last couple pairs have omitted the coating entirely. I sort of think...

It's a dead simple fix. Un-tick the boxes for"Auto-fit" and "Auto-Center" and "Auto-Rotate." But apparently two devs in my office spent something like 30 man-hours this week trying to figure out why the the output they were creating didn't match. But it's something you probably wouldn't even...

I've seen Samsung CLP-* printers here in the US drop to under $150, which definitely is cheap enough to make the economics work out the way sechs suggests..

Well here's one of those hilarious new things you'd probably never notice unless you ran into it. By default, Windows 7 prints documents "Actual Size." Duh, right? By default, Windows 10 (and at least 8.1, though I haven't checked 8), print things "Shrink to fit" and will always shrink things...

I describe them as being about as powerful as a five year old smartphone. When I have to do things with one I usually spend most of my time wishing they offered an increased RAM option.

I know I saw a lot of them that would lose wireless or switch functions but continue to route just fine.

IIRC she stopped sometime around 16 weeks. She had a factory job for a little while before she realized how crappy working for a living is. Baby daddy threw her out and hasn't done a damned thing for her since long before baby was born. She lives with me between dudes. I'm mostly OK with this...

Toshiba warranty service is a PITA to deal with in the US. It's probably not going out on a limb to guess it's not going to be better in India. Warranty service is the one and only thing WD has consistently done well.

My long term houseguest made her with some help from the worst possible choice of reproductive partner in the history of time. The baby isn't terrible. Not my thing. Mostly I pick her up and take her back to mom, or hand her things that she can't hurt by putting them in her mouth. That's stuff...

Coug, I am also sorry to hear about your co-worker's situation. I hope her partner can bear the burden that has been set before them. The last time I saw my mother's mother alive, she was so deep in dementia that she thought I was my grandfather. And it was their wedding night. It's even...

I may get to do something with a Pi3 sooner rather than later. I have to do another Pi class. It's going to be awful since anyone who takes the class will just be asking about Kodi or will leave as soon as they find out that "computer" doesn't equal Windows, but at least the boxes are...

The RAM is meaningful even if nothing else is. Less re-opening your browser and having to wait for tabs to completely reload because Android decided to kill your last Firefox/Chrome process. I don't have any long time experience with Atom-based Android devices. I'm curious to hear what the...

Here is a valuable lesson: don't sign up for classes that meet before 10:00AM.

Asus ZenPads are decent low-cost options. You could also look at the Fire Tablet line since you mostly care about this product's ability to run one or two trivial bits of software. These guys are all going to fall in the $120 or less category.

Android calendar software is weird because you can have multiple programs installed that are called "Calendar" in your App drawer and none of them are necessarily the Calendar provided by Google or even your handset vendor. The last Samsung Calendar I installed had a silly wood-grain trim along...

You can install ClamAV, which is a free, on-demand scanner for Windows viruses. Linux doesn't have viruses as such, but it can deliver Windows viruses to Windows machines. For a home system, it's not I'd be all that concerned about.

Neat.

This technet article on defining the User Shell might also be helpful. The issue you're experiencing should be fixable. You might also try System Restore if that looks like too much work.

You might have to overwrite ntuser.dat to get it going again. Signing in to see if another account works should at least tell you if the problem is with the user or system registry entries.

There is at least some evidence to suggest that TSMC will have a working 7nm process by 2017. Given AMD's track record, I'm not holding my breath for shipping product, it appears to be in keeping with the state of the art at least.

Neat. Maybe create and sign in to a new user account by using Task Manager and the net command?

You could potentially roll your own thing with btsync or owncloud, but I've found that btsync doesn't like huge (multi-terabyte) backup jobs. I did try Acronis, since it was "Free" with my annual license, but I found it to be even slower for uploading data than Crashplan. I've been tempted to...

There are also economies of scale. It's a lot easier to deliver ANY utility, transit or health service someplace where there are a lot of people, and there's also the matter of having the opportunity to live where creative, intelligent folks do. If art or live entertainment are as or more...

There's at least one Youtube channel devoted to getting AAA titles running on minimum-spec hardware. I remember seeing him play Witcher 3 on Intel HD graphics. Your best graphics experiences will probably be on older MMOs or less intensive strategy games than graphical showpieces like driving or...

Why Skylake over all the cores, extra RAM and PCIe lanes you can shove in an LGA2011 system?

That's what cocaine, hookers and golf outings are for.

I've found there are places I can drive that will always cause audible interference (static) on my bluetooth headphones or speakers. I suspect it's just a problem with there being some sort of strong 2.4GHz signal in those places since the hardware is completely fine the vast majority of the time.

Or Lunar could let me or dd put something together to get him started.

The NAS has some pretty hefty performance penalties from being built on an ARM or Atom CPU. It has limited amounts of RAM for caching and, functionally, it's also a software RAID, probably one built on Linux LVM or somesuch, only sitting on extremely limited hardware. On FreeNAS you can add RAM...

None. You let FreeNAS handle it in software. Get an LSI-something-or-other in IT mode if you need more ports than your motherboard has and add gobs of RAM and/or cache drives to your zPools if you want to improve performance.

Why not at least give FreeNAS a try? You already know the NAS you bought isn't doing what you want and I'm sure you have some kind of PC sitting around that you can use with it.

We know you don't get rid of old systems. Do you have an LGA1366 system sitting around? An 1155? I'm sure it's loaded up with RAM already, but make sure it has crap tons of RAM. All the RAM. Take that machine. Add a tiny SSD. TINY. 8GB, even. Hell, boot it off a thumb drive. That's how little...