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It's a family obligation. My brother would rather inconvenience me than sit on a bus, train or cab with the poors. Fortunately, he hasn't done that to me in a while. Midway isn't terrible to navigate and actually that neighborhood along Cicero and Cermak has a lot of great restaurants but it's...

Every time I have to pick someone up from ORD, it's a four or five hour ordeal on my part. I love the South Bend International airport. Yes, it's international. It gets flights from Canada. It can land a big boy plane. It's also free to park in the lot and the terminal is across a two-lane road...

Rooted Android is still a bit odd since most software is written with the assumption that you can't manage the system yourself, but you can certainly find applications that do enable those capabilities. At the moment, there's no way to change the Windows on-screen keyboard to something else...

Surface (not-Pro) tablets are 12" and have decent-ish Atom CPUs. They run around 10 hours before they have to be plugged in, which will get you through a working day. Windows as a mobile OS has some issues, mostly because typing is a hassle, though Microsoft just bought Swype, which should...

There is wisdom in being a single loner-type person.

I think what I'd really like to see is a Shield Tablet with a Tegra X1 SoC. Supposedly there's one in the works, including indicators that working versions have been demonstrated and benchmarked, but nothing to indicate when if ever such a device might actually ship. The Shield Tablet K1 is...

The one time I was on a plane, I found the experience inconvenient. It's like being on a bus or train, only with worse air, nasty germs and uncontrolled children. When I travel, even to someplace familiar, I tend to sleep very little. The longer the trip, the less pleasant the experience...

I've never been west of the Mississippi.

I'm not aware of an Office 365 plan with a single mailbox capacity limit of more than 50GB. Coug's users say they're too busy to deal with mailbox management as it is. Even if that works OK for the time being, how long would it be before one of his users hit that particular brick wall?

I didn't like Daredevil Season 2 as much as the first season. I think the writing for the Punisher was pretty flat and there was a missing human element from not having the Ben Ullrich character around. There also aren't many ties to the other Marvel Cinematic properties and there's no clear big...

Windows 8+ can sometimes have weirdness related to defaulting a network connection to Public if it thinks for some reason that it's been connected to a new network and/or if an OS upgrade has been applied. Some of my classroom desktops have two LAN ports so even connecting an ethernet cable to...

I'm from central Illinois and I went to middle school in Urbana. Most of my immediate family lives in or around that area. Urbana has an art house theater and Roger Ebert's "home theater" at the Virginia - an honest-to-god movie palace, complete with granitework and a pipe organ and a huge film...

If I had said "Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo", it probably still would've taken a Google. This is my favorite picture from the day. Not pictured: Her dad had a leash so he could just drag her around on her skates.

That's hilarious. When I was in college, my dorm room had campus phone number 3456 for three years, so I got a TON of random calls like that. It was actually pretty common for guys to not believe me. It was all the more reason to just leave the modem connected all the time as far as I was...

Truly, the holy grail of childhood bagged lunches.

A derby pie is kind of a chocolate chip cookie with a pecan-bourbon filling. There's technically a pie crust involved but let's be honest and say that's just there for decoration.

I suggest Derby Pies if we're talking about weird regional dishes with "pie" in the name that are more or less cookies. But anything that's not filled with marshmallow and coated with some kind of sweet plastic-like substance would be an improvement.

It's a southern thing, like NASCAR and boiled peanuts. Moonpies are gross. Like NASCAR and boiled peanuts.

Thanks. I'm sort-of mulling the feasibility of putting one of those in my office as a test rig, but I'm not going to mess with it unless I can get away with desktop cooling

I notice now that when I view an SF page with unread posts, mobile Firefox takes me to the anchor for the first post on the page rather than the first unread post, which I'm about 98% sure is what it used to do.

There are actually fancier Rii (or similar generic) MCE remotes with alphanumeric keyboards on them but I've tried a bunch of them and generally don't like any of the above. I've gotten things like this and while I don't think they're great as remotes, they might be what you're looking for.

Well the phone-based remotes have the software keyboard. Or you can get something like this or this.

If your phone doesn't already have a sensor to tell it when to use the lock screen, you can use Llama or something to establish when it should be running. Or just run your control off a tablet that probably seldom leaves your house anyway.

Does the S2600CP board you guys are buying have a rectangular or square LGA2011 socket?

And yet I have still provided the correct answer. In a less flippant form, you really want an 802.11 interactive remove because bluetooth and IR suck at least some of the time and may not be compatible with the device you wish to use. I can operate Kodi on the TV in my living room while I'm...

Music Pump for Android. It works with Kodi's builtin web server and can also be used to share/cast media from a device to Kodi as a DLNA server, so there's no question of controller range or interface compatibility. It just works with all the Kodi systems you might have.

mubs is right though that there's no reason that signed code and an available checksum are odd omissions.

I've been messing with nightly builds of Kodi v17 lately. They've completely reorganized it and made it more difficult to get third party addons installed or found once they are installed. "Third Party Addons" on Kodi mostly means illegal streaming services, but that's interesting to me because...

My guess is that Intel releases an Atom CPU (Kaby Lake, maybe?) with 20 better per-thread performance than Skylake Core Ms... which are themselves 20% faster per thread than Broadwell. Even if it's a paper launch and actual product doesn't ship at any time in 2016, it'll crater the possibility...

It's pretty easy to copy and paste from a Google search.

Send that module back and get a different one? I've never found IBM/Lenovo notebooks to be super picky about RAM, but I usually go out of my way to buy Kingston or Corsair or (most often) Crucial-branded sticks.

Can I just say how much I love it when important functionality is buried in cmdlets but not exposed through management tools? Storage Spaces have the same issue.

There was no way to reset the counter given the software available, but after watching the drives for a couple weeks, one of the suspect drives had its bad read count increase by 97 (from a base value of a little over 200000) and the other had no change over a two week time period. All SMART...

To whom? Most places that offer hosted Exchange are on the order of $8 -10/user/month and would probably balk at trying to migrate Coug's mail stores in their current state, especially given the time-sensitive need for a fix. Is Coug's employer really going to be OK with a ~$15,000 annual...

With regard to screen shape, I vastly prefer a 16x9 screen held in portrait orientation. That gives the sensation that I'm actually reading a book. Most tablet manufacturers subtly hint that you should hold their devices in landscape mode, but why would we care about what they think? Other...

I have a 600-series sitting around my personal pile. I remember it as being eerily thin and light for the time, though now it's chunky compared to all the sexy ultrabooks out there. Another funny thing about those guys: How ever IBM developed the BIOS for those things, they're the oldest...

Right. I want the key give because it's placed where I want to swipe for the space bar. I think it might be an anti left handed person conspiracy.

Yeah, the smiley key. Lower right corner, occupying room that could otherwise be used by more space bar or a carriage return key. I also installed Kik and Whatsapp and it shows up in those as well, but not in Email software, Web browsers or note-taking apps. Like there's some kind of Android...

Do you use Gchat or Skype? There appears to be something with messaging apps that causes it to appear. It does not appear when I type in Firefox or K9.

Can anyone explain to me why the Android keyboard sometimes truncates the spacebar in favor of a key devoted to inserting graphical smiley faces? I've tried all four of the keyboards on my phone and they all do it in at least some applications, most notably Hangouts, but also Skype and other...

Bitlocker is a standard feature of Windows Professional editions as of Windows 8 and one of the most compelling reasons to consider Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise edition for a power user. I don't remember what Lunar uses, but it's clearly not out of reach for him to have it.

They are both built in features of Windows.

Hey, did anyone else start getting GWX crap on WSUS-managed Domain clients in the last couple days?

Kind of a unique idea, this game company is developing a title in which you control a cat who scampers around Kowloon, the walled city/slum in China.

Depends on workload. I'd murder users who started emailing 50MB PDFs every time they scanned something, just on general principle.

It's my experience that EVGA's modular cables aren't even compatible across product lines.

Well, there's the Ricoh option, for which their service techs apparently recommend a freeware FTP server on client desktops in preference to using SMB at all.

If you're on a Windows machine, you have EFS and Bitlocker available to you. Yes, there's something to be said for having a OSS package rather than trusting Microsoft's stack, but it's right there for you to use and if nothing else it's probably strong enough to prevent intrusion from anything...

Still better than my experience with Samsung.

@SD, this is why we should all be very proud of sed. @Handy, timwhit: I'd rather use a roll-up membrane keyboard than any native Apple model. It's not just the lack of standard keys. It's also the lack of key travel. I don't feel like I'm actually typing when I hit the keys. For a company...