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I'm almost positive that you can upgrade with Windows 10 Pro media as well. I'm not sure why Microsoft ended the Upgrade Anytime program. It's really useful for making images since I can set my baseline at Home and switch based on the product key I need to deploy rather than create multiple...

It does. The Basic VGA driver that ships with Windows 8/2012/10 supports resolutions up to at least 1920x1200 and 32 bit color, but using that isn't going to make SD's fancy GPU-assisted video processing work and it's not going to help for DirectX/OpenGL. nVidia is doing something fucky now too...

This is still an issue and it makes me a sad panda.

Speaking to that, my 24, 27 and 30" Ultrasharp displays all failed at least once in their warranty period and the 24" and 27" both failed after the warranty ended as well. I could NOT find service manuals for anything. I can swap the TCon board on a TV just fine and I figured the monitors...

... upwards of two of those are possibly even good for storing data!

That USB interface on the bare drive is never OK.

Weren't you pretty disappointed with your previous Seiki purchase? It's all delivered over the internet. Samsung and Sony have proprietary delivery services and Netflix, Youtube, Vimeo and Amazon have a certain amount. I don't expect it to come out of Cable/Satellite TV boxes for some time and...

It's a matter of bit rate more than anything. I've seen "1080p" content off cable TV that barely looked DVD quality to me. I don't actually know what Amazon is delivering with 4k. Maybe that's a thing to investigate next.

I bought three $19 128GB flash drives, a new FireTV, a Fire Stick and a pair of $104 5TB hard drives. The only deal on that list that was for Prime Members only was the Fire Stick and frankly if you're buying one of those, you're probably already in the bag for a Prime membership. I'm incredibly...

Amazon fulfilled from multiple sites because no single location had the quantity you need. I just got a delivery to my parents' home. It's almost 10PM here. The delivery was made by a US Postal Service employee. I don't know what Amazon is doing but I do believe they are serious about getting...

I don't think it's bad at all, but I also don't ever go more than five miles from a major highway. I certainly don't think it's worth a 150% increase in my bill to have Verizon or AT&T.

Actually, I do think I'd give an IP to a TV if it supported Miracast, like the LG 4k TVs do. Can you tell from moment to moment if the 4k stream is actually being delivered? I realize the the difference for a lot of content is going to be inconsequential, but I'm guessing that it doesn't take...

It would be decent for something other than gaming. For gaming, it's actually going to be CPU and I/O bound. Putting a mid-range GPU in that thing is a bit like sticking a Corvette engine in a Toyota Corolla.

Captain America: Civil War, from the guys who made Winter Soldier.

That's still a pretty anemic CPU, Clocker. As a shorthan, the big difference between the Pentium G and i3 CPUs is basically that the i3s have hyperthreading and some virtualization features enabled. For a single-thread task, an i3 and a Pentium G should be pretty much identical if they're...

I put a GTX960 into a Core 2 Quad machine a few months ago. I thought it was a stupid-ass idea and I said so, but it runs Call of Duty 4 at 1080p and apparently that's more important than having a generally decent PC.

NUCs aren't THAT small either. The HDMI Stick type machines are massively underpowered for anything more than basic document editing or browsing in a small number of tabs. They're not pleasant and they tend to be both RAM and CPU constrained. That's not a winning combination.

I hate to says it because it because I still think the GNU people are pricks and therefore all things derived from Debian are suspect, but Ubuntu probably has the biggest collection of support resources for someone who doesn't know exactly what they're doing.

There's a case to be made for not repurchasing probably $20k in software licenses if the existing stuff is doing what it needs to, but editing powerpoint in RDP seems like a bad setup in the first place. It may just be a matter of wanting the administrative benefit of a terminal-style login but...

Given how lousy the feature set is on any SmartTV, I don't know why I'd bother to give one an IP in the first place.

If sound is important, you might want to hunt down a Via Envy-based card. They're a big step up from the crappy onboard audio of the time and don't have the shitty driver issues of Creative Labs stuff. I might have an Asus Xonar sitting around, now that I think of it. AGP Graphics card are a...

I saw a 60" Vizio M-series display at my local Sam's club for $979 this morning. I'd definitely call that within the threshold of active affordability for a large screen. I can't find a store that stocks both Vizio and LG 4k panels. I'd love to see them side by side.

It's not a very good movie, but the books were progressively worse as well. The latest movie is paced terribly because they did the "Let's break it into extra pieces so we can double our box office!"-maneuver. The new "Man in the High Castle" series from Amazon looks pretty good, so that's my...

Are these users working in the same file at the same time?

Quebec does not need grass mowed. It has vast fields of moose and poutine, not grass.

Based on reactions among my friends, it is very hard for women to watch it once the implications of what the villain can do become clear. It's a kind of evil that hasn't really been seen in comic book adaptations before. To put it another way, the whole series can use a trigger warning. It...

You can do that easily with Linux, including Word document editing. You can also do it with Windows, though I'd tell you that it doesn't run all that well unless you have a 64GB+ USB 3 flash drive because there's a setup process that has to be re-initialized every time you use it on a different...

That's the idea. I have people asking for cheap notebooks all the time and I can't think of anything better to offer. I got them off Ebay from a church of all places.

7 has a non-destructive upgrade to 8. XP did not have a non-destructive upgrade to 7, which may be what you're remembering. Other than that, you can back up your Firefox profile with MozBackup. In practice I've found that Chrome doesn't like userlaned tools that mess with its Profile folder...

I'm assuming you want to do GPU folding. My go-to combo at the moment is a Gigabyte H81N with either an i3-4160 or a Pentium G3220. Down side is that's an ITX system that can only handle one graphics card.

New Marvel series on Netflix tomorrow, Jessica Jones. woot!

I loved programming in school when I was working on projects that were actually interesting. Real-life developer work made me stare longingly at a sharp objects. I graduated right as the first cycle of the internet boom ended, so my feelings on the matter might be the product of a particular...

You could always just boot a custom ROM that does what you need it to do. That's the next step after rooting and unlocking the boot loader anyway. Everyone likes CyanogenMod, but you can also play with something like SlimROMs or BlissROM if you want something a little less vanilla.

I got three i5 / 4GB / 180GB SSD T420s for $500 last week, but I'm just now getting around to checking them out. These things make me so happy. One of them even has the 16x9 panel and nVidia GPU. I'm going to add 4GB RAM since I have the DIMMs just sitting around and I'll resell two of them for...

sed, I teach CompTIA and Microsoft Professional certifications as part of my day job. My co-workers do MOS stuff. If you want study materials or something, let me know. I don't think the A+ represents a good value at the moment. The cert is only valid for two years and costs over $250. The...

Looks like last year's $300 Android Wear devices are this year's $125 or less impulse buys. I still don't need one, but Amazon has an LG G Watch for $90, which is cheap enough that I'd consider it just to play with.

First, the product key and media of a full Windows CoA can be used for a license/region appropriate upgrade. You can't upgrade a Volume License copy and I'm not sure if an OEM key will upgrade a retail (say, Technet) edition either. My guess is that it would, or at least it would if you called...

Perhaps you could do a moderate amount of product research and offer up some baselines of your own. For example, there's probably not a huge difference between a 2-drive Buffalo SOHO NAS and a Drobo 5N. They both have ARM CPUs and a relatively tiny amount of RAM. When you move up to the 8/16-bay...

I'm aware of the limitations of the GPO (which don't really help on home machines), which is why I was looking at scripting... except that Modern-style apps aren't really scriptable, even from Powershell. It's even kind of a pain in the butt to launch one from a script. I don't really like the...

With regard to the second point, you'd almost certainly want some kind of up to date discrete GPU but you do have one of the few machines out there that could probably brute force respectable 4k. ;)

I'm also looking for a way to autmatically set Edge's search to something besides Bing, but as far as I can tell Edge isn't even a tiny bit scriptable. The most I can really do is start it and tell it to go to a specific site.

Did you look at the Optional settings? There are some additional controls to stop communication with Bing and Onedrive, stopping Cortana and disallowing Office Updates. I'm not sure I understand the motivation for the last one (piracy?) but I ran everything on a vanilla machine and saw that it...

I'll check it tomorrow when I'm at my basically dial-up site. Apparently, the fall update to Windows 10 has a couple unwelcome behaviors: it re-sets some app defaults back to Microsoft's software AND it uninstalls some security and monitoring tools. I noticed in particular that it removes...

As a matter of some interest to people who might want to root their phone to remove stupid apps, some kind soul at XDA Developers has created the Debloater, a tool for disabling and hiding third party applications that does NOT require root.

This reminds me that I have something to tease strippers about this month. Especially the one who keeps clogging up my bathtub drain.

When I was looking at getting 10GbE stuff, it looked to me like the cheapest I could get away with was around $300/port. US$1500 - $2000 probably isn't wholly unreasonable right now.

I've had no better experience with Brother inkjets than any other brand but you're right that you're not going to have many choices given your format needs.

Most ISPs where I live give their users free Norton Internet Security or Mcafee-whatever in the New Customer install disc that includes their support software. I think Comcast subscribers just get NIS free regardless. I can very easily see someone being confused about this. I've also seen...

Oh! And just to be slightly on topic: Another new feature in the Windows 10 Update! You can now set an external drive or camera card to be the default for new program installations by default through a system-level preference.

Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended on January 13th, 2015. It's security updates only from now on. 8.x is much faster than 7 in two subjectively important ways: boot/wake-up time and in opening huge folders full of files. File copies are also (slightly) faster and the progress estimates tend...