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I have over 150TB of drives but in terms of raw data, it's only about 60TB. The growth rate of my storage demands definitely has accelerated over time.

Palemoon is a thorough enough fork of Firefox that I don't think XUL support is going to be an issue. They didn't adopt the post-25.0 UI. I'm a little worried that will spell the end for some existing addons and I'm most worried that it will kill NoScript, which relies on deep access to code...

It's kind of "Things that are worth watching" at this point. The new Minority Report is kind of interesting too, from the pilot that's been leaked all over the internet for a couple weeks. But anyway, I like that Mr. Robot acknowledges that there are different OSes and graphical interfaces. The...

Mr. Robot is very enjoyable. I don't know who they got to do their tech consulting, but when they talk about hacking and show off computer screens, the details are actually right.

The specs page says it is.

Woot.com has a 2TB Sandisk SSD for the low, low price of only $1500.Which is as cheap as I've ever seen an SSD that big, refurbished or not.

Have a thing that needs to be a Windows service but isn't? Surprised to find that srvany.exe has been deprecated for a decade? Don't feel like figuring out why your sc.exe command didn't work the first two times you tried it? You need nssm, the Non-Sucking Service Manager!

I like K9 but it has its own quirks, like having to manually configure server settings and not having an easy multiple selection for message deletions.

I've been a Red Hat user since 1996 and I've stuck with Fedora for most production installations. I use OpenSuSE on my Linux workstation. I have a longstanding antipathy of Debian and Debian-derived variants, mostly because I remember the GNU people being complete fuckwads to everyone else in...

Kernel Process data lives in /proc/slabinfo. I guess you could individually parse the data from each entry in /proc/$pid/status, looking all the Vm* entries to break things down the way you need and add that to the output from slabinfo, but that seems like a lot of unpleasant work and I'm not...

This Powershell cmdlet is supposed to help with local search isues. It didn't in my case, but maybe it would work for someone else: Get-AppXPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Never, internet connection or no. I'd say that it might be an artifact of upgrading, except that it doesn't work right on a fresh install either.

I've been looking at using the CD slot in my stereo as a mount point, but my specific phone requires access to the back for hard buttons. Because of the shape of my windshield using it as a mount point seems inconvenient. I'm auditioning replacements now.

None of those searches work for me on any Windows 10 device. Even if it's an account-based setting, how completely fucked does the search index have to be to lose applications like calc and mspaint?

Oh hey a new CPU socket! 1155 to 1150 to 1151. How nice and not even a tiny bit confusing that will be!

People have been worried about Microsoft looking through their computers for pirated software since before you were born, sed. Seriously, there was a gigantic bitch fest over the fact that Windows 98's upgrade process looked for a specific list of about 400 installed applications. Today, I've...

Cars are a goddamned scam, man.

I wasn't asking for money either.

New(er) Element is a 4WD 2011 EX model with 60k miles on it. I paid $16k, which isn't wholly unreasonable. It has painted body panels instead of plastic but I'm thinking about swapping them off my old one. I like the tupperware better anyway. My other major contender had a salvage title and I...

I can probably hook you up, sed. I have a bunch of 4GB sticks sitting around.

So what do you all use for phone mounting in your cars?

It's interesting to me that there are crap-tons of people for whom 2GB RAM is probably still plenty and there are others for which 16GB isn't enough. There doesn't seem to be an in-between point. If I were interested in something in a small form factor like that, if it came down to a Thinkpad...

I'd wait. You have a decent PC now.

The Windows 10 upgrade seems to make my tablet-style devices work a lot more. Both my Surface Pro 2 and my Dell Venue get quite a lot warmer now. :/

It's my experience that pricing on enterprise licensing is out of the question for the size of organizations I deal with. I'm not sure what volume one has to have to qualify for a substantial pricing discount, but if I price out ~30 seats of Windows + Office, it's usually around 3x the cost of...

So it's a Surface Pro 3 variant with the upgraded touchscreen back? It's probably pretty nice.

El Capitan has some forthcoming issues of its own, as Apple has decided to disable OS features that previously allowed for a lot of UI customization through third party tools. Non-rooted Android really does talk to Google a lot more than it needs to, especially if you have location services...

The only thing I really don't like about 10 is Cortana, which seems to prioritize finding things with Bing over being actually useful. Win-X still brings up the mini-menu of tools you'll actually use and the All Programs list still contains what it normally does, and Classic Start can still be...

If you qualify for early admission to university and actually obtain a degree, it doesn't matter. I had completed all of my HS graduation requirements in the state of Indiana by the end of 10th grade, so I was pretty serious about trying to get out. My parents made me stay another year, but I...

The screen side is slightly curved as well. If you put a G4 face side down on a table, the edges touch but the glass doesn't.

And while I'm bitching about things that use RAM: I had a single Chrome tab running that was using 3.8GB RAM by itself and a second that was using 1.2GB. Just now. One of them was just a tumblr page and the other was just Comedy Central's site. Both of them had been open for about 12 hours from...

I like Palemoon and Adblock Latitude enough to switch full time. I decided that it wasn't worth trying to track down a problem that's only happening in one Firefox variant and anyway almost all the work I was putting in to customizing Waterfox's UI was just to make it look like Palemoon anyway.

Sometimes I post stuff just because it'll be picked up and indexed for search and I guess this is one time that it really helped out. So that's pretty cool. Glad it helped.

I put a simple back cover on mine. The new Note was released and, like the GS6, it no longer has a proper battery or card reader. An amazing number of Slashdotters now seem to think that getting an external battery or battery case instead of having a battery you can just pop in and out is a...

Maybe they'd give me one for the $250 I've been trying to collect from them.

I set a security policy to on lab machines that are on an extremely slow link (128 or 160kbps DSL) to not use Windows updates. So far, they don't appear to be updating, but they've only been on 10 for a week-ish. I'm not sure if that will be respected or not. I'll deploy WSUS there if I have to...

This was an Enterprise Rental.

86,000 miles on it. Suspension feels like it's run over a few deer or something. Someone either smoked in it or used it to commute to a cigar factory. Automatic-nothing. I didn't even know you could still get cars where you have to actually turn a crank to roll a window down. Granted that it was...

My guess is that this is a way to emphasize or de-emphasize the importance of some executives or projects that were formerly part of Google. This is probably just restructuring an org chart.

I'm driving the world's worst rental Impala. My old car hasn't even been inspected yet.

If you can handle ~70/16Mbit and on a third floor, I probably have as much as you could possibly want of that.

Sync some personal stuff to it through Owncloud or btsync maybe? I'm sure whatever NOC it's in would have better power and connectivity failover than anything else you could run across. Stick a Plex server there and use it to sync your music and photos. The data load would be small enough to be...

I found some random guy on the South Side of Chicago selling a 2011 Element with 304 (three hundred four) miles on it, for $10,500. He said the first owner was 82 years old and drove it in to the side of her garage about a week after she got it, so there's some body damage, but as it happens, I...

I don't want to pay for an actual new car. My thinking at the moment is that I buy a reasonably new model Element and use my mechanically sound but airbag-less vehicle as an ongoing source for parts. I'm not really satisfied that there's a vehicle with a similar level of utility otherwise.

I'm cheating a bit since the machine in question is plugged in to the same switch as speedtest server in question but dammit it's still a faster upload. :P

I live in Suburbs/Exburbs, jtr. I have to drive multiple places that are only a few miles apart but not close enough to walk between every single day. Further, as close to the lake as I am, I occasionally get extreme weather such that forgoing an automobile would be impractical no matter how...

Gary, Indiana is doing those programs, too. I know somebody who is trying to rehab a $250, 1300 square foot home and I'm told it's a nightmare.

Nobody gave me a ticket. I wasn't going very fast (maybe 15mph by the time I actually hit the pole). Elements are tough to find used, or at least Elements that have less than 150k miles and are less than 10 years old. RAV4s seem to be common used cars but the Mazda CX5 seeminlgy can't be had...

Part one yes, part two no, unless you're fresh installing inside the VM.

I'd probably buy a used one. A car isn't important enough to me to want to spend $25k on something to shuttle me back and forth between a half dozen offices. To be honest, I could probably get away with a bicycle eight months out of the year except that I have all the stuff I need to carry. The...