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Second generation FireTVs were just released. Looks like they added a significantly better GPU and 802.11ac support, plus porting in most Amazon Echo functionality through the voice-enabled remote. The new model can do 4k video streams and has hardware support for HEVC, things that no other...

Child windows just pawned the task of window management into the browser and the limited real estate of the parent, instead of making multiple windows that could managed like any other running applications. There's a reason almost nothing uses MDI any more. MDI as implemented by Opera, or by...

So the spam doesn't even stop if you actually sign up for an account? Nice.

If Opera supported tabs prior to 2002, it at least wasn't part of the default operating view. I know Opera 6 still had those god-awful resizable child windows.

Opera's god-awful multi-page interface was MDI Windows, not unlike Windows 3.1's Program Manager. I have no idea when it joined modern UI styles and finally added proper tab support, but I can recall using tabs in Mozilla Phoenix in... whatever year Phoenix was released. 2002? I'm fairly certain...

Battery optimizers, depending on how they work, can actually cause more power drain on your phone than just letting apps run. It depends a lot on how often the app wakes up the phone for data transfers vs. how aggressively the app tries to restart when it's killed. Something that really does...

I can at least attest to the fact that Coug's real name is a seriously uncommon confluence of letters. I'm guessing the guy who spammed you is probably the victim of some kind of weird, Linkedin-based XSS attack, especially if there's no professional crossover in your circles or friends lists...

Have you considered a Trackball at all?

The 486 was a hand me down from my dad's engineering company. The two Pentium 133s and dual CPU board were cheaper at the time than buying one Pentium 166. I also had a dual Pentium Pro 200, albeit as my first "server" machine and well after the point they were considered high end, and a Celeron...

Opera invented a terrible multi-document window interface that wasn't functionally any better than having 20 open browser windows and it invented a lot of keyboard shortcuts that didn't exist or follow the standards set by Mosaic or Netscape. I wouldn't exactly call those things favors to end users.

My 486 machine of that era was a dual (SMP) DX/33. It had EISA for a Fast SCSI controller and a VLB slot for a pro-grade 2MB Tseng Labs video card and it had an unthinkable 16MB RAM. It had been an engineering workstation before I got it. I believe it was manufactured in 1991. By the time it...

Some parts of Windows have a 255 character file path limitation. This has been an issue for as long as Windows has had long file name support. There are ways around it. Most of them involve third-party file managers, but you can get by using a plain old subst command at a cmd prompt and...

That's a particularly special pipe dream given how historically poor Opera's track record of ignoring conventions for shortcuts and UI elements was.

Most of the USB charging devices I have do support Quick Charge, so I have something like this at home and at work and one of these in my car. OEM charger do seem to be wildly inconsistent. My LG G4 says that the quick charger for my FireHDX isn't a quick charger. My old Galaxy S4 doesn't like...

I think AMD has been done for a while. It's also demonstrating mini-systems with nvidia graphics and just restored ATI to its previous state as a distinct business unit. I have no idea what the out could be for it at this point.

It's really easy to turn off, but it's one more thing that users have to turn off. I really do think Mozilla is being terribly managed at this point. I can't recall the last time it made an announcement I actually thought to be a positive development.

Only if they have unmanaged clients that aren't getting updates through WSUS in the first place. The Windows 10 updates are basically the ONLY update I've every blocked from sites using WSUS, though. It's nominally the Windows Admin's job to look and see what the updates are for and what they...

iOS 9 will introduce the concept of lower case letters to the default on screen keyboard. Apple device owners can expect basic literacy to follow sometime thereafter. No word yet on when Apple invented the concept of letters but I'm sure we'll hear all about it soon enough.

You could always try something like Enlightenment to see if the eyecandy improvements are more to your liking. Font handling is an odd case. It's substantially better on Windows now than on OSX. I can see how it would drive some people nuts because thing do look just a little bit different no...

I think nearly all the actual power saving advantages come from being able to block communications that stem from advertising data; the processing requirements of the apps themselves tend to be pretty minimal.

Linux is great, especially if you don't have any hard-coded demands to run any specific Windows application. It's the same internet no matter what tool you're using to access it.

That machine sounds like it would be a complete pain in the ass to travel with. Especially if you have a human child you have to travel with already. If you don't have time to process photos, what makes you think you have time to screw with the construction of such a rig and what are you going...

Oh hey look at this. It was written just after the Surface was released, back in 2012. (Sorry for NSFW language but we've all seen those words before) The webcomic is Hijinks Ensue.

Go to iegallery.com/tpl Tracking Protection Lists can be bent, spindled and mutilated in to an ad blocking role, though that's not what they're meant to do. You can also just install Adblock Plus for IE, which works on all versions, all the way back to IE6.

Screen to Gif does exactly what it says. Size the program window to the area of your screen that you want to record, hit the record button, do a thing. The program will turn it in to a GIF. Awesome for making little tutorials.

It's still on Fanboy's page, which is why it's odd to see that it's removed from the official list. Fanboy is one of the maintainers of Easylist, which is the main ad-blocking tool that pretty much everything uses. The "Annoyances" list is specifically interesting to me because it includes some...

Something I've just noticed is that Fanboy's Social Blocking and Annoyances lists have been removed from the list of official Adblock Plus Subscriptions normally found here. Fanboy is also one of the maintainers of Easylist, but I find the Annoyances list compelling enough to seek it out and...

The first PC I built from parts for myself had a Hercules (high res mono-green) screen. I couldn't afford EGA and 4 color palettes are lame.

I thought it was Mississippi but yeah, might've been.

As a wise man once said, "If something is legal in only two states, one of them will be Indiana."

That pretty much reads as an ad for the Cooler Master Gemini HSF, but I do prefer to have a top down cooler. If nothing else, they tend to be easier to mount and remove.

I'd bet you a considerable sum that Hobart, Oz is at least more livable than Hobart, Indiana.

You would have to root your phone for a decent global block. Adblock+ does help, but it's not perfect. You can either use the Adblock Plus browser (a fork of Firefox with ABP preinstalled) or install Firefox and run the ABP addon to have a less ad-filled experience. Rooting allows you to...

There's something to be said for endeavoring to understand where we came from.

CC2014 is silver-rated and the very recently updated CC2015 is currently listed as "garbage" as it currently won't even install. The initial Creative Cloud release is gold rated, as is CS6.

Has your Windows 98 media been used for anything else? It could just be a media error. VxDs are real-mode (full hardware access) drivers, and they're entirely capable of crashing the whole machine, but the ones you'd probably have on that machine would've come directly from Microsoft. The most...

All three of those applications have gold or platinum ratings in WINE.

WSUS Offline Updater. I'm going to be trying this at my slow lab site.

That's not my speed, LM. Jonathan Demme apparently gave up proper movie making after Philadelphia and IIRC everything he's done since has been one concert movie after another. A new Star Wars teaser, scored to a new orchestration of the Imprerial March and ending with the reveal of a blue...

Windows Backup would be an exceedingly poor choice for such a thing, since there's a storied history of incompatibilities between versions. Likewise, I don't know of a tool to make a subset of directories into a VHD file, something that does seem to be a stable standard in Microsoft's world...

Man, that Brian Cancer is a dick. Did everyone see that the estimated ratio of actual female users to males on AshleyMadison.com was approximately 1:2800? I'd love to see the figures for other personals sites. Given the lack of human interaction I've seen on Match.com and OKCupid, I'd be...

My first thought about this thing: where am I going to get an SFF power supply that will deliver the combined ~400W one might reasonably want for an ITX gaming rig? I know it's possible to get ITX chassis that support ATX power supplies, but those rigs typically support full size graphics cards...

You can either trust Microsoft or read the patch notes yourself or migrate off Windows. Linux really is completely credible for user-land needs as long as you aren't a gamer and don't need Windows for your livelihood.

That's an amazing deal. I read something not that long ago that suggested EVs like the Nissan Leaf are massively over-represented in Georgia because of extremely generous tax incentives. If ever there were a case of playing against stereotypes, that would be it.

Here's The Windows Club's Window 10 Privacy Tool, which adds a GUI interface to the combination of GPOs, registry settings and miscellaneous checkboxes that we need to tweak Windows 10. It seems to have a lot of general functionality as well and it might be a useful thing to keep around.

I am so sorry. Is there anything we can do?

Actually, you may even want to feel lucky that they only want MSSQL. I got to see the bills for an Oracle based job management system at a company that might've been 30% of your size and the numbers on that make Microsoft software and CALs look downright affordable.

The "falls off a cliff" sustained write speeds are definitely in line with my experiences, but I don't see anyone writing large copy managers with built-in break times so a drive can catch its metaphorical breath, either.

Only if you have WSUS. I turned off updates on 10 Pro with a GPO. I haven't observed them to update yet, but I'm not sure what the trigger condition for updates is so I don't know if that worked or not at this point. If that doesn't work, I'll configure all my lab machines to think they're on a...

Sadly, Thunderbird is still the best cross platform desktop Email client, which is really damning it with faint praise. It's just that everything else is some kind of horrific abomination. In its favor, I have never, not even once, had a Thunderbird-related message or address book file corrupt...