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I rather thought a solemn moment at 11AM followed by many shrimps on the barbie (or the mid-autumn equivalent) would be in order.

Andy Grove is gone, so there's no danger of the company ever being run by engineers again.

Happy ANZAC day to the antipodeans among us.

How big of a library? Is the collection already cataloged? Why not use the LCC instead of Dewey? Do you want or need to automate tracking (e.g. barcoding) at all? I ask because most people would probably just make a spreadsheet if their collection is small enough and anything more than that is...

Maybe it'll dump a bunch of the money it has saved into acquisitions. IMO, Intel is already at a point where it's at least competitive with high end ARM for mobile and if it ever gets a Skylake or Cannonlake Atom with Iris Pro into shipping mobile devices, I'd even say it's ahead of the game...

Well that will never happen. Those sales guys make Intel the money! ;)

I've had three 128GB Lexar USB3 flash drives die in the last two weeks. Normally, they're not worth the time it takes to send them back but that's so offensively crummy that I think I'm going to do it on general principle.

This is probably news. What's going on in the world of semiconductors that Intel no longer feels like it needs 10% of the people who work there?

Video capture was never 100% hassle free for me, no matter how hard I tried. I could get 98% perfect, but that last 2% just would not happen, which is why I gave up on vidcap. Now you're dealing with protected content streams and hardware that only has a barebone software suite and doesn't...

They're ALL integrated with SmartThings. The problem is that none of the Voice Assistants are willing to acknowledge that people use services from outside their own walled garden. Google's can't even access a lot of other Google services.

One nice thing about the basic Rii is that, while it loses connection easily, it also reconnects instantly.

You Adobe-loving Photoshop Slores should like that Google has made Nik's filters available free of charge.

No doubt you can do a lot of automation with If This Then That recipes, but these things are still limited in a lot of cases because the companies that provide them want to wring every tiny bit of data out of you they possibly can and the devices they're most designed to work with are limited by...

I can see why Amazon does it. It's a big enough trial getting some people to go to a web page or type in login info that they should definitely know. I have people tell me pretty regularly that they don't have any need for logins and passwords in the same breath that they say they do online...

I started looking at it primarily because one of my customers keeps asking me questions about the Amazon Echo. The fact that none of these things are completely aware of files or work-related tasks speaks to the direction technology companies want to take things.

The closest you can get right now is that the assistants can open the apps for you on the device where they're running. Although now that I say that, I haven't tried it with Alexa.

I've been messing around between Alexa, Google Now and Cortana lately. Shocking me all to hell, Cortana seems to be the most generally useful of the bunch as a voice assistant, but that may be because it's actually aware of files on my PCs, not just a small number of branded applications. I...

The best answer I can give is, it depends. Kodi supports themes and isn't constantly fucking with its Android interface (how many times do I have to switch from "Discover" view to "Browse?" On every device? Every time I upgrade? Gee thanks, guys), so you have a lot more control over...

My phone sits on a charger at night. It wasn't doing it prior to the most recent point upgrade. It also retained all my settings through a major version change (from L to M), but not whatever the hell just go rolled out. I don't see any settings other than the one for leaving 802.11 on while...

My phone got a minor Android version update over the weekend that re-set almost all my personal settings. It also reinstalled system apps I had removed, re-set my dialler preference, removed most of my custom sounds and deleted the two daily alarms I have set. It also lost its bluetooth...

I bought a "massager" for a friend a few years ago. Years. I *still* get recommendations for them almost every time I hit the site. And that's why I have a blank user profile for any time I need to put my PC on a projector now.

It's complicated, but the rules boil down to the absolute canon being the films, then the in-canon TV shows (Clone Wars and Rebels), then the comic books and the newer series of novels. The movies have precedence over everything, so if there's a contradiction, the movies win. Any secondary...

In the mid to late 2000s, Dell was shipping a lot of systems that used an alternate arrangement of components. This arrangement, called BTX, was never widely adopted except by Dell and HP. Your Precision T3400 uses a BTX motherboard and a modern, standard ATX or MicroATX board can't be secured...

I have a USB to micro adapter.

When I plug my headphones in to it, the charging light comes on.

My Shield tablet can also kinda-sorta stream PC games, but the only game I own that it supports is Fallout 3. I tested it, and the game actually does display on the PC's primary local monitor while sound is redirected to the tablet. It ran acceptably to a non-local network, but I think it's...

I have an extra phone battery in my laptop bag, another in my car and a third in my jacket pocket. It's unusual for me to use even 50% of a charge during a typical work day, but if I need an extra, I *really* need an extra. The LG charging cradles double as external batteries as well, which...

It probably shouldn't surprise you that own both of the printed collections. I've met the writer and artist. You get extra naughty doodles if you get an autographed book. Webcomics and podcasts are basically the things I support financially since I stopped buying movies on disc and comic books.

Avast Free (only install the virus and web shield components. It'll also install "Safe Browser" after the first time it updates and I go back and remove that as well). Avira. Forticlient.

Might be another one of those things where Oceania has issues because it's Oceania. Or maybe I don't see it because I have a paid account?

Stupid Android Trick: You can upload music to Google Play Music from a desktop, but not from your Android thingies. If that's a thing you want to do, make a monitored folder on Google Drive/Dropbox/Onedrive on one of your PCs. Tell Google Music Manager to Monitor that folder and to upload new...

I don't think it's the actual driver that's a problem for the Radeon. I think it's the attending Catalyst software. And it can be worse. Something I'm pretty used to doing because I frequently use Windows Server systems as desktops is having to manually edit the .INF files so I can use the full...

Something I noticed this morning: if you let your FireTV update to its most recent software version, it now puts Kodi on the Recent Apps carousel. That makes alternative launchers like FireStarter or shortcut hacks like using Llama conditions a lot less necessary.

I found this today regarding ways in which the novelization of The Force Awakens clarifies some parts of the plot.

DSD won't technically matter anyway, since nobody has a PC-based audio subsystem that supports it.

Anyone here use HammerDB for anything? There are apparently straightforward instructions for using it on its web site, but if I follow them in the order directed, they either don't work because the DB creation script barfs or because the load testing script fails because the database needed for...

I was mostly looking at game capture systems. If you can find one of the first-gen PS3s, one of the ones that supports PS2 and PS1 discs, there's apparently a fairly simple tool that simulates a bad firmware flash that causes the unit to default to its original shipping firmware. Once you're in...

Actually as I read it, it looks like most of the non-professional HDMI capture devices will only grab stereo audio.

I ripped my SACDs by buying a legacy Playstation 3 that had never been updated. It worked just fine. I understand that it's technically possible to de-flash a PS3 to the earlier firmware now, where it wasn't back when I did my discs, but I haven't really had a reason to keep up. I sold the PS3...

Anything that uses Temporal Keying (TKIP) is considered vulnerable at this point. CCMP-AES is only vulnerable to brute force. If AES is broken any time soon, it'll be an encryption holocaust but TKIP has been considered insecure for several years now.

Everywhere I use Displayport or HDMI, the connections are mediated by an A/V receiver that will play sound regardless of what the screen might be doing. I don't expect you to go buy such a thing, but an HDMI switch might be just the fix you need.

Are you absolutely sure you aren't running a spam relay or something? The amount of work required to hack WPA2 isn't really proportional to the amount of benefit from uploading 15GB of data in a day. If nothing else, your AP should have an indication of what MAC addresses are connected to it...

A lot of Star Wars does not encourage careful thinking about Physics. Hyperspeed and the like, no just planet destroying directed energy weapons or invisible, projected shields that protect an object the size of a small moon. On the other hand, canon sources say things like "The Galactic...

I believe the point of the new movie is to reinforce the cyclical nature of the force and the Skywalker family's role in its fate. Anakin and Luke unified the two sides, but it could not remain whole. It fractured and the cycle had to start again. I'd say someone basically filtered out all the...

I've tried a bunch of them, probably 8 or 10 different mini-keyboard/trackpad/air mouse things and none of them are perfect. Range is an issue for everything, including Bluetooth. Nothing seems to work reliably past maybe 4m, though I did finally use a USB hub and a pair of extra-long cables to...

Ustream is an early live video streaming/recording service. My guess is that someone tried live streaming off a mobile data device and the slideshow is the result of not having the upstream bandwidth. The buzz is probably the ground loop from a poorly configured mic. dd, with regard to comics...

I had to go through customer retentions to switch from Comcast Home to Comcast Business service. Including the part where they offered me discounts to stay on consumer service, even though they had also just told me I exceeded a monthly bandwidth quota by 10x and would terminate my service if I...

It pains me to do it, but I need to get rid of some books. I have more books than I have shelves for books. I suppose at the same time, I should make a similar effort to find homes for most of my comic book collection.

You can always go to play.google.com and buy from a desktop browser. I suspect you'll have exactly the same protections (SSL + whatever 802.11 encryption you might have, if you're using 802.11) either way.