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I like the desktop Picasa application for managing personal photos. I like that it recognizes faces. I like that it's easy to add tags and I like that it integrates with Google's online photo galleries since I was actually using Picasa even before Google bought it. But, like a lot of things...

Does anyone else have problems with Google Play Music not respecting metadata on uploaded files, or is it another one of those things that only happens because I like classical music and nothing understands it? Case in point: I upload this album. It is fully tagged with both the front and back...

Here's the latest update. They ditched the one problematic Seagate 3TB drive model. WD looks like it's generally unimpressive now. Those HGSTs though. Wow.

It might be, but no hardware seems to be using it if it is. This is actually a matter of some concern since I can get any Android web browser you care to mention to die from lack of RAM with very little effort.

I currently have a 2013 model. The display flickers off sometimes like the inverter went off.

That is genuinely cool. I'd actually really like to see some efforts to make old Windows software run emulated on mobile devices without having to jump through a lot of hoops. It's not like an eight-core ARM or low-end Atom doesn't have the resources to make that happen.

Is it just me or has progress on high end tablets just sort of stopped? The Samsung Note Pro 12" tablet is still as far as I can tell the best representative of a state of the art Android device, now two full years after its introduction. Android seems to top out at 3GB RAM, 8 core 1.8 - 2GHz...

Proper comic book fans tend to be middle aged adults with decent levels of disposable income. A single comic book with 22 pages of content usually costs $4, so reading lots of them gets expensive really quickly, especially since a fan will probably be buying 10+ titles in a given month. Even...

I like the idea but I think I'll wait for a humble bundle or discounted GoG release. I'd probably like the game a lot but $20 for four hours is a bit steep.

It's entirely possible that they're better than they used to be. Splash used to swear by SuperMicro stuff but I found it to be really hit or miss over the years.

Deadpool is probably one of the most popular comic characters created in the last 25 years. The script for the movie has existed for 10 years. Fan outcry after test footage was leaked on the internet is what got the movie made in the first place. There is definitely a pre-existing fan base.

Two of the main characters were a talking raccoon and an ambulatory tree. The final battle included a dance sequence and the soundtrack was basically 1981's greatest hits. What part of that ISN'T suggestive of comedy? With regard to familiarity with Deadpool: The movie is fully aware that only...

That's a big part of my reasoning for owning an LGA 2011v3 system in the first place. It's definitely coming in handy as I test things like SQL Server failover clusters.

I have yet to come up with a palatable arrangement of cables so that I can keep my big desktop in my bedroom closet but all my stuff at my desk. I can make it work but it's really ugly and I'll have to leave the closet door open, which I have in the past found to be problematic for...

Twinax is twinax as far as I've been able to find. Why not look in to infiniband (40Gb) if you're at the point where you're doing something as exotic as using anything that has SFP ports in the first place?

Deadpool is EXTREMELY funny. Funnier than Guardians of the Galaxy, if that's anything to go on. It's also a hard R-rated movie. There's tits aplenty. Bodies get mutilated. Ryan Reynolds shows ass at the drop of a hat. Stan Lee has what might be his most memorable cameo. The character directly...

I really want to see an Android release of X-Com 2 but apparently 2k Games closed the division of the studio that made the Android port of X-Com: Enemy Within. The PC release is another one of those Steam-only things. Firewatch does look beautiful. I saw a bunch of screenshots from it on Imgur...

It has a miniPCIe slot. I'd probably stick a high power Atheros card on it if I go that route. I'm more than half tempted to just get a UAP AClite and call it a day but I do have several devices with 3x3 antennas.

Firefox does still run on Android 2.3. In my experience, it's pretty crashy on anything less than 512MB RAM, so that's of limited value for low-spec devices.

I have several UAP-LRs sitting around already. I haven't found them to offer superior range over and above my current AP and I'd rather not have to deploy two APs to get 5GHz coverage. There might be a workable solution in just getting a better antenna or messing with TX power but I have a...

I'm almost positive Dell printers share an OEM with Lexmark or else there's someone at Dell who decided to take "being as crappy as Lexmark" as some kind of goal or obligation. I have a few customers with Brother MFC-9xxx printers. No one complains about them, which is more than I can say about...

Necro-posting for the win! Something I've encountered a couple times in the last few weeks, most recently and most infuriating in my apartment building: DirectTV's newest TV box has a ridiculously strong 5GHz transmitter and that really messes with anything I'd expect to use a fixed 5GHz...

I think Microsoft has demonstrated its commitment to making good software for Android, OSX and, so far as is possible given the shittiness of the platform, iOS.

The media creation tool will let you create a 32 and/or 64 bit ISO of either Home or Pro.

I've been researching uMatrix as a potential replacement for Noscript. Here's an interesting post describing the reasons for looking at competing security addons. I've linked to the Google cache because the raw page actually errors out, but the content is good and interesting.

As far as I'm aware, the 1115 media is the newest release that was made available.

Here's my idea: Put Outlook into offline mode Close Outlook. Change the name of the "good" .ost. Copy the "bad" .ost to the good one's old name. Open Outlook. Export the messages to a .pst. Close Outlook. Rename the "good" file back to its old name. That might work.

Probably. I'll look around. I have scads of C2D boards and CPUs that I can't quite bring myself to recycle yet.

Better theory is that Vista machines are much more likely to have an unsupported CPU configuration and so they can't take the upgrade anyway. Why get people's hopes up?

Are these clients still part of an Exchange-managed organization? I think you can just attach the .OST files per this. You might have to do some screwing around with re-naming files to get them to open.

Switch to the desktop app. You can install it through Ninite. It's better behaved anyway.

Correct. I have every confidence that it'll work just fine. Remember that a hardware ID is generated and passed during activation regardless, so they're probably just assuming that the key that passes the static "legit check" at install time is fine and can be assigned to the new Windows 10...

That's going to be a seriously nice little machine.

Are you using the Desktop program or the Modern-style built-in app? They are different things.

Outlook is shitty regardless of its intended platform. Excel and Word are very usable. Onedrive and OneNote are very solid tools. Definitely more hits than misses.

8 or 8.1. And you have to start with the November 2015 Installation media, which I have but was generally pulled from public access. I haven't tried with 7 because Windows 7 keys actually have value in and of themselves whereas the only thing I'm ever going to do with a Windows 8 key from this...

That Turion P520 can be outperformed by some Core 2 Duo CPUs and is 30% slower than a first generation (c. 2009) Core i3M. That guy is going to be slow in a way that just isn't going to be fixed.

I don't know that it's actually a bad thing. Windows BADLY needs a better on screen keyboard and actually almost all Microsoft's software for Android is pretty damned good if you have some reason to want it.

I've found that I can use Windows 8 product keys from fresh installs of the updated Windows 10 media from November.

For about two days, I was getting a "Upgrade to Chrome!" message when I hit Youtube on Palemoon, the same message that IE6 or weirdo third party browsers (e.g. Dolphin) users get. And then I stopped getting the message. I don't know if that's something Palemoon did or something Youtube did...

Palemoon isn't constantly packaging new third party software. Palemoon has no plans to discontinue fully functional NSAPI plugin support. Palemoon isn't fucking around with a touch friendly default theme that absolutely no one asked for. Palemoon doesn't change user defaults when its sponsorship...

I'm sure I can, but it's a case that I'd rather be seen in metrics as using a current, modern browser so that it can be counted and considered for support.

Palemoon no longer uses Gecko as its underlying rendering engine, but rather a fork called Goanna. Absolutely the only change I've noticed because of this is that Youtube now gives me a message that I need to upgrade to Firefox or Chrome when I browse there, and defaults to a much less...

I did have some weirdness when I upgraded my storage box from Server 2012 to 2012r2. The LSI driver wouldn't initialize until I uninstalled and scanned for new hardware in Device Manager. I wrote a script that automated doing that, but some time in the last few months it started detecting and...

You've definitely had more patience with that whole system than I would have. Especially over a bad DVD drive. I'm not saying to set it on fire and then piss on it but I'm just going to say that's something that's made me feel better about a bad DVD burner in the past. ;)

I also like Dark Matter, though the premise seems to be more "How close can we get to re-making Firefly without getting sued?" than anything else. It's definitely B-grade material but I liked it.

Over the weekend I binged on a TV series called "The Expanse." Thomas Jane is the only actor I recognize in the cast, but it's a hard science fiction conspiracy thriller with high production values and good acting. Only eight episodes have aired as I write this but it's well worth checking out.

Intel's web site is a goddamned marvel of organization compared to HP's. Just be glad you don't have to go looking for that sort of stuff on anything more than a very irregular basis.

Check it now. It's all there.

You misspelled "strip clubs"