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I've been wearing Jaybird BT headphones for a couple years. I've had to replace them twice. Once because my cat ate them and once because the charging port cover fell off and I don't feel like I can wear those outdoors any more (those are a back-up pair now; they didn't stop working). I've...

Well the thing is that you weren't getting no sound at all, so somewhere along the line, something wasn't being amplified like it's supposed to. I'm given to understand that contemporary Onkyo receivers have real problems with inputs just dying for no reason.

It's Indiana, so the big advantage of the water park over the beach for a lot folks is that the water park is a lot more friendly to smokers. Yes really.

$75 really isn't bad for an OEM battery. The T450 has a second, internal battery aside from the rear one. It's just to the right of the touchpad and under the palmrest. It is fairly trivial to replace once it dies. I have several CPUs that I drilled through and use as key fobs, which seems as...

What is amplifying the mic?

The water park directly across the street from my office opened today. As one might imagine of a water park located in northwest Indiana, it's a lot like getting to see "People of Walmart" but in bathing suits. I'm sure timwhit can come by later to support me on this one.

A single core Atom with 256MB RAM or some crappy ARM system can handle everything you need out of a NAS, Lunar. We're talking about sharing data via SMB for a single user, not differential, deduplicating file replication for hundreds of people.

If you want to be safe, I think Noscript + RequestPolicy + whatever decent ad blocker with a good set of subscriptions is the best way to do it. Some people say uMatrix (and is available for Chrome) is better but I find it far too fiddly even compared to Noscript.

I don't really think that it is, based on the number of Chrome installs I still have to clean.

You probably need to take it up with the people who make the NAS at that point. Why are you shutting the NAS off in the first place?

All of the major browser except Mozilla-derived ones offer sandboxed tabs, but I think I'd rather have Moz's capability for scripting controls via addons than accept Chrome or Edge's baseline security model. Out of the box Firefox is basically swiss cheese as far as security, but I'd never use...

It's been in every Windows release since Vista.

Open up Credential Manager. Delete whatever weird crap you have saved in there for that IP/hostname. Try again.

Windows Home or Pro?

Windows 10 does have IE11 and there's nothing that would prevent you from having crappy old versions of Java or Acrobat. If nothing else, you can upgrade and back out of it, just to have the license. I'm getting second-hand angry about the whole ordeal involved in doing this. It shouldn't be...

To be a bit more nuanced: The last third of the movie is set in bad green-screen CGI. I'm talking Phantom Menace level bad. They know it looks like crap and they don't care. Jennifer Lawrence doesn't seem to be present as a performer and her role doesn't make any sense based on the history of...

My review of the new X-men movie: meh

I believe the caching function is something that is handled automagically by the OS. I don't really know how it works in that case because I've not actually tried that sort of configuration. I do think it's sort of lame that they'd give you the slot and not let you use it. Wait a year or so and...

Here's sed's card. I usually have several greeting cards in my car and/or desk at work. I just used one of the ones I had handy.

If the drive was in a *nix based NAS system, creation of multiple primary partitions with some empty space between them would be standard operating procedure.

I started with enough college credit to skip my entire freshman year, which wound up being the worst thing ever because I was placed in a calc class I didn't belong in (I should've retaken Calc I but I was too proud of my AP credit) and in O Chem, which is just not a good starting place since...

Mainstream full ATX boards, insofar as those are a thing that exist, still usually have one. Asus still puts one on most of the newest (LGA1151) boards it offers. Gigabyte seems to have dropped PCI entirely.

You can always run whatever in a VM. Your Centos/Debian/Yggsdrasil install will probably fit nicely in 20GB with plenty of room to spare for all your projects.

The T460 actually had a bit of a pricing premium that would've pushed it out of budget and I didn't just have RAM sitting around for it so you got a T450. Another mild disappointment: upon research, while the T450 has a 42mm M.2 slot, it can't be used as a boot drive. Firmware doesn't support...

sed has licenses for 7, 8.1 and 10 on that machine. Now let's watch and see how many of them he loses. ;)

I downloaded all of the Windows 7 updates. All 2GB of them. Rather than wait for multiple hours for the update servers to finally decide to offer a pathetic 476MB file. The offline updater will just apply whatever updates you don't have. It takes around 30 minutes to run. A .MSU is a Microsoft...

Does that apply to all games or is it only an issue for one title?

... and just to amplify my previous comment, since I remembered that the WSUS Offline downloader is a thing that exists, I used it to download all 2GB of Windows 7 x64 updates, which took about 15 minutes, and now I'm applying them to the machine that was trying to install the rollup. Which is...

I tried it this morning and it turns out that the rollup hits the update servers the same way as any other process. I've been watching a Windows 7 machine not install updates using the update rollup for the last three hours. I'm pretty sure you're better off using the Offline Windows Update...

Anyone know Sed's surname and care to PM it to me so Ican get this this thing shipped out today? And while I'm thinking of it: The T450 has two DDR3L slots but only a 42mm M.2 slot, so none of my existing M.2 SSDs will fit in it. I also noticed that there are three different screw sizes on the...

Clonezilla will have the same issues as Acronis with regard to secure boot/GPT disks. There's a really easy fix if you're the one responsible for installing the OS, which is not to use secure boot and GPT, but it's definitely a problem if you're trying to image arbitrary Windows systems.

Acronis's recovery environment is Linux-based. For a system that was built on a Secure Boot/UEFI setup, it doesn't have the security keys to read the content of the protected drive since it doesn't have a trusted bootloader, even for the 2016 version. You pretty much have to have a modern...

If you want fast rebuild times and 10GbE that doesn't cost a fortune, what you want is called a PC.

Wouldn't you buy a computer-only GPU if that was your concern?

Based on experiences with ~12TB arrays on ARM-based NASes, you're probably over 48 hours.

Here's a video of someone achieving a perfect game on the highest difficulty setting of the new Doom. It's five hours long. The single player game looks fantastically fun and atmospheric, and I can see a lot of notes about what id always said they wanted Quake to be like. I'm most surprised at...

Apparently they aren't. Rufus, which now as an automatic Windows to Go mode, says the MCT-created .wim files are specifically made to not conform to Microsoft's own standards. One assumes the USB installer would have the retail .wim, but it's anybody's guess what Windows build you'll be getting.

Funny thing I just discovered: The install.wim files present in the Windows 8 and Windows 10 Media Creation Tool downloads are not actually standard .wim files and can't be used for Windows to Go images. You have to have a retail Windows ISO to make a Windows to Go disk. I have the 8.1 Retail...

I use Acronis. It works for my needs, which include goofy stuff like cloning multiboot configurations. Every once in a while it barfs on something, usually GPT/UEFI boot setups that its Linux-based imaging tool can't read, but for those machines it doesn't seem like anything works unless it runs...

Maybe it's time to try a different drive clone tool?

How is your system configured to boot? EFI or BIOS?

I usually run 2TB+ drives through Seatools long diagnostic before I put them into service, no matter how I intend to use them. Seatools will test multiple drives in parallel, though it doesn't like being used on systems with more than 10 connected drives.

The reserved partition is most likely the result of an interaction with EFI on the machine. I don't think that's new behavior and I don't think it's exclusive to Windows 10.

Gmail absolutely makes URLs linkable. In fact, I don't think you can stop it from doing that even if it's unintended (throw a space in someplace if you don't want it to be). Gmail won't allow a whole range of file types to be attached directly to a message, including .EXE and script data. I've...

Proper file permissions and GPOs, particularly those that surround EFS/Bitlocker key distribution, would go a long way. I don't actually think anything is going to stop everything. If you have an up to date security suite plus the normal collection of appliances and proxies between users and...

Weird carp are probably a much bigger problem down in Oz. Probably poisonous. Or venomous. Or both. And covered with tentacles. And always carrying on about witnessing them at the gates of Vahalla.

Oh and also, I got sed's laptop today. Amazon sent me a Thinkpad L with a mechanical drive rather than a T with an SSD, so that thing is going back on Monday.

Mild deviation from topic to follow: VDI on Server 2012 is a pain in the ass to get running. I've done it for classroom sessions and it is, no joke, worse than setting up Slackware was in 1994. I'm fairly certain that Microsoft's instructions for getting it working probably qualifies as sales...

Who said anything about rechargeable? I have an MPOW Bluetooth receiver and a pair of monoprice Monitors rigged up. I use my old 8.9" Samsung tablet as a display/control system for it if I'm not running it from my phone. It more or less lives on a dock on a shelf above my towel rack. It's not...

You're putting them in a bathroom though, where you're unlikely to want or need a prefect listening experience. How long are you spending in there?