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It's going the wrong way for a straight conversion. You actually have to have some ICs someplace to turn the analog signal into a digital one. The boxes for doing that usually cost $60 - $100 unless sechs is extremely lucky and got a display that supports DVI-A... which is a connector I haven't...

Disney seems to have perfected the art of making this blockbuster genre films. I'm not in "need a change of underwear" territory but that looks like a Star Wars movie and I want to know more about everything that's going on, like who the hell the guy in the black robes is and what Forest...

There is such a thing as DVI-A, which would allow direct connection to VGA, but I wouldn't expect a new monitor to support that. You can buy a $60 converter box but at that point, you might as well just go get a different monitor. Honestly, I'd probably move monitors around until I got one with...

It's $2 or something. I'd pay that with no hesitation just to remove ads. I paid for ES File Explorer at one time as well.

Not that it isn't all over the internet but here's the first full trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One. And for Lunar's benefit, this one happens in between the 70s/80s movies and the Prequel films. It's doesn't involve characters from the other movies (well, Senator Mon Mothma) and the plan from...

The Nanostation 2 WLAN I've been playing with between my apartment and a building across the road from my place is called "OMG Ponies."

Firefox runs in a monolithic process that is not sandboxed (or running in a least privileged session, which is something IE does) from anything else. That's not news. That's its design. It's a trade-off for memory efficiency, or at least it was.

Meanwhile, here in Indiana, a T1 is still $450 a month.

io9 has an interesting piece about the Time-Warner reaction to the overall fate of Batman vs. Superman. In short: they thought they had an absolute smash hit. Turns out it probably won't be, even given basically three weeks of zero competition. They're also refusing to move Zack Snyder off the...

ES File Explorer went stupid a while ago. It has a bunch of bloat in it now, most egregiously an "App Analyzer" that likes to push out extra notifications that it's doing (useless) things. The fix is Solid Explorer, which has a more or less identical feature set, including the robust file...

Another helpful hint: Root the stupid thing before you add your adopted storage card. Rooting resets the crypto signature of the tablet, so the tablet can't read its former card. My now-rooted Shield will now play X-Com, but only because I'm running a tool that reports and reprocesses the ARB...

In a typical home, that lower propagation is basically OK since you probably don't want a signal going much beyond your balcony/deck/porch anyway/hot chicks hut anyway. Since almost everything that makes a 5GHz WLAN will make a 2.4GHz one at the same time, all you really have to do is give both...

A pretty serious down side to that is that at that point you're maintaining multiple copies of files (or maybe deleting high quality copies because some of your clients are lame). I know that's the suggested solution for ARM-based Plex servers but it's not like it's hard to come by a...

They were fixed a couple versions ago. You can configure a Source, which can be a top-level directory, and specify libraries underneath it. It doesn't do a great job of hiding passwords from other potential users, but it's not like your Kodi install is portable anyway.

My preference most of the time is Kodi for presentation and direct file playback, Plex for wide "appliance" client support and external access. Plex used to have fully featured Netflix and Youtube clients and could directly play content from Comedy Central and a few news sites, but the API keys...

Kodi. Just configure your NFS shares as a source. Nothing has to be stored on the client other than its internal database.

Assuming Plex? A Haswell or newer i7 for 5x1080P@8Mbps or so. Most of the time, you're not going to need that because Plex will deliver the source file to a LAN client that's capable of playing it without transcoding. If your transcoding it for the web or shared non-local library access, there's...

I realized I had $60 in Amazon credit, so I went ahead and got a Shield K1. It's just small enough that I can put it in my back pocket if I want. Battery life is not fantastic, which I suppose is to be expected, and X-Com: Enemy Within is marked as incompatible with that device, which is a real...

Single sign on in the home? Maybe look at OneLogin? I think they're free for a small number of users and tools. I'm not sure what it's reporting options look like there's probably something. What's the application for it in the home?

I've tried both ways. I normally just copy them over, but it shouldn't matter since SIDs et al aren't terribly relevant and are relatively easy to fix after the fact in any case. My thinking is that Microsoft is fingerprinting the guest OS installs somehow, or that switching from an up-level...

I'm not sure but I've observed it to be the case when I move the guest files from one Hyper-V host (e.g. my laptop to a full-blown Server 2012 install) to another. Oddly, I haven't seen Windows Server guests do it, just desktop Windows. Ideally, I'm trying to find some combination of settings...

qbittorrent also. It works the same way on everything. I think it even has native FreeBSD and OS/2 support. And it definitely doesn't have any built-in ads or rely on JRE.

That still doesn't appear to be true, at least not for a 2x2 antenna on both client and AP-side and a network with no contention for access by a single device. Protocol overhead is a real thing and the rule of thumb that you'll get somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 rated speed appears to hold just...

Here's an interesting question for folks: Does anyone know what if any format I could get away with for building a semi-universal collection of Guest Windows OS desktops that I could use without running afoul of Product Activation? I've found that if I virtualize on Hyper-V, I definitely have...

The only place where I've found to be Hamachi anything less than fully reliable is notebook computers, since Windows is kind of stupid about renegotiating the connection after it's been a sleep or suspend state. I get around that by turning my laptop off when I take it someplace, but it's a...

When I was at school, I worked for the Campus Computing Center. They put me on a 30-hour a week schedule, which was at much as they were allowed to do for a full time student. I liked my job as a Lab Manager more than actually being at school. I made OK money and I was already on campus, it was...

It looks like yet another IM client to me. If Email sucks or the tools that you're using for Email suck maybe the answer is to fix your habits and/or your client.

I have a few problems with it as a concept. It's web based, which is fine and everything since at least it doesn't require another goddamned client, but it also makes every conversation available by virtue of being searchable. Which just means that some conversations will wind up "out of band"...

There's some IT Operations superhero stuff going on there and I see that this is really a matter where their intended temp space got to be stable enough to be seen as permanent storage, but this issue was entirely created by users doing things they weren't supposed to be doing. It's temp space...

I've observed incorrect behavior on dozens of machines regardless of how they came to run Windows 10. Internet results load first. For me, it's nearly always easier to bring up a Run command or type the name of the program from a shell prompt than to bother using the Search box. Yes, Windows 10...

Some Chinese outfit or other will undoubtedly build a non-spec HDMI splitter that just happens to strip the Protected Media Path bit off output and away we'll go.

The basic display adapter will display true color in 24 bit. It just doesn't offer audio output support or hardware acceleration features, which is fine considering you're using Aspeed graphics in the first place.

You can also choose not to use online help the first time MS Office is run for a given user profile. It's on one of those screens you click past because you really just wanted to do something in Excel.

Right now, no one knows but I'm guessing Intel isn't going to keep making Ivy Bridge and 6-series chipsets just because 20% of their corporate customers standardized on Windows 7 and don't see a reason to switch.

Yes that. Exactly.

I suppose I should have said that the update functions are working again. I'm actually a lot more likely to use DVDfab since it ran in WINE on Linux machines with my auto-ripping scripts, but since AnyDVD always updated in a more timely fashion, having access to both always seemed like a good...

Not that it's free, but if you have a Slysoft license, the software is working again and your product key can be transferred to Redfox, the new ownership, supposedly until April 30th, 2016.

It's pretty easy to see on my classroom PCs, since they're in a relatively vanilla state. Basically, you start typing and Internet Searches immediately start rolling in, in real time. Wait a few seconds and maybe some local files matching your results will show up, even if what you're searching...

I find that search from the Start Menu or in a File Explorer window: 1. Breaks a lot. The front end is a modern-style app. Modern Style apps seem to randomly stop working on Windows 10. We've talked about that. 2. Seems to prioritize internet results over local files (look at what comes up...

Even that's not entirely true. Microsoft won't be providing drivers. That doesn't mean drivers won't be made available. Will Intel stop writing system drivers for old platforms? I'm guessing that it won't, if only because not every large corporate customer is going to want to move their complete...

Essentially all the telemetry crap from 10 has been back-ported to 7 and 8 at this point. Something like Spybot Anti-Beacon can be used to remove it temporarily, but only until Microsoft decides to toss it all in with another round of critical updates. There are real problems with 10: search is...

UPNP doesn't solve the problem I want to solve, which is to maintain the watched/unwatched status of items. Sharing library locations is trivial. I can do that with Plex or Emby as well, but in this case the specific issue is keeping people in one interface (there are addons for Plex and Emby...

Here's a set of instructions for configuring Kodi to read configuration data from a central server, since I just had to Google them.

That's my position as well. I'm fine with Linux in any case but usually it's easier to use Windows, even the versions that kind of suck. And really, the last version of Windows that was actually bad was Vista. 10, for all its warts, is something I'd rather use than 7 or 8.

Has anyone ever managed to get Zotac to accept an RMA? I have a GTX970 that needs to go back and I've completed their warranty registration and tried to RMA several times in the last month, but I've not gotten any responses yet. It's an expensive enough card that I don't really feel like eating...

sed, does that mean you're living on campus or is that money just tuition?

Most of my friends are dancers. I can pretty much always find one or two or four of them if I want to go out and do something, but that doesn't mean I have end-of-evening bedroom company. What I understand to be the problems boil down to these things: 1. Batman doesn't act like a detective...

I don't like Superman as a character and Zack Snyder has made exactly one decent movie (Watchmen), so I don't have any interest in Batman vs. Superman. Since Wednesday (four days at time of writing), its critic score on Rotten Tomatoes has dropped from 40% to 29% and Metacritic has it at 44%. I...

I only mention it because of the annoyance at having to convert 100GB+ files from one VM file type to another. The only mention I could find is that it uses "RAW" files, which I suppose in this context is probably dd images or something.

From my recollection, they've been "nicks" since the early 1990s. What format are you using for your virtualized desktop? Am I wrong or does Unraid use yet another weird VM format? It doesn't look like it's set up to handle import of VHDs or OVF files.