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LGA2011 AFAIK is always on the rectangular pattern, but I've been able to mount other Noctua coolers on other LGA 2011 boards without issue. I want to say I'm probably just missing hardware that should've been in the box but if that's the case their docs are still wrong.

The coverage of the decision to remove the new Batman game from sale is quite interesting. Apparently, there were only 12 programmers assigned to port the Playstation 4 version (?) to PC. Which is very telling from the standpoint of the wider priorities of game studios. I did watch...

There's room for it and the HSF fits in my 3U enclosure (in fact, there's a bullet point on the box about its 3U compatibility) but the brackets they gave me look like they're only sized for 115x and not 2011 and they're either too short or I'm failing at basic geometry. But Noctua's...

I have a Noctua NH-D9L sitting here that I can't for the life of me fit to an Asrock EPC612D8A. Noctua's docs say it should fit 2011v3 but if it does I have no idea how.

Isn't Redhill an AMD shop?

Well now you know about some of the extra special hate I have for consumer laptops and HP in particular. You could be seeing thermal throttling, but on a name brand notebook, that's probably something you have no ability to control. Would replacing the thermal pad on the chipset help? Maybe...

I think you wrote about it before but it's heartbreaking nonetheless. :/

My apartment is supposed to support two window units. The landlord provided one is only rated for 3000BTUs or something. It can barely cool my living room. I'm not allowed to replace it. My specific apartment simply doesn't have the other space I should have for a window unit. Since I'm right...

I notice desktop Chrome using the wrong fonts or incorrect font properties quite often. Which I might expect on Linux or Android, but not on Windows or OSX.

Sprint actually goes a step further and has marked a lot of tethering apps as incompatible in the Play Store. So even if the app would work with your device, you can't install them on your handset. Almost all the apps I tried that don't require root will trigger a "Hey, you're not subscribed to...

I spent a while looking for an 802.11 tethering application that actually works the way it's supposed to. The "free" ones are universally scams or trigger a "You must subscribe for wifi tethering" message on my phone, but the $3 Wifi Tether Router does indeed work as intended if you've rooted...

I don't have functional air conditioning at home. I put huge bowls of water in front of fans in the rooms where I spend my time during the summer. My computers just get hot, so I turn their fans up to a higher setting and live with hot computers. Fortunately, it hasn't gotten that warm so far...

You guys do know that PDF printing can be handled by gobs and gobs of things, right? Foxit, Nuance, PDF995, Primo, PDFcreator, Word 2010+... Neither Firefox nor Chrome has particularly great PDF handling yet. I do suspect the main reason Chrome is being more widely supported and adopted is that...

Backblaze had some blog posts indicating that just after the Asian floods, it was seeking Cost/Capacity above all else, to the point of sending employees to purchase and de-shell external drives from discount retailers like Walmart and Costco. It wasn't buying enterprise drives because...

Firefox seems to want to chase Chrome in terms of UI. I don't particularly think Chrome has had good ideas in that direction, but I don't want to bother with Classic Theme Restorer on every Firefox installation I touch, either. There are a couple decent Firefox derivatives, Pale Moon and...

The outer siding of the building is aluminum, now that I think of it. Though I've put APs in similar buildings without issue. I'll probably see what happens if I turn the Tx power down next time I'm out there.

One of my least favorite aspects to smart TVs is that they are updated both briefly and infrequently. It's very easy to find TVs with orphaned features, such as devices made in 2012 that can no longer talk to Youtube, or with support for abandoned services like Redbox's online streaming option...

There weren't any other 2.4GHz 802.11 sources in the immediate area, according to my site survey.

Most of my Youtube subs are somehow related to my musical tastes or are people who make amusing short videos. One of my favorites is improvelectronic's channel devoted to his insane ability to improvise arbitrary music in the compositional style of arbitrary classical composers. About the only...

Desert Island recordings are a real thing. This is something that has been discussed in record stores for probably nearly a century now. My desert island stuff goes on my Google Play Music account so that I should always at least have one accessible copy of it even if it's not on the PC or...

So the real-world range improvement from a UAP-LR over a standard $40 Trendnet AP? I'd say it's around 20 feet or 6m (in radius) in an open floor cubical farm area. That's not nothing but it's also nothing terribly dramatic. Ubiquiti claims 180m range and I'd say it's off by 130m or so.

First x86 PC in the house was an XT clone with 1MB RAM and a 5MB hard disk that ran Xenix. There were other computers around, but they were scary things I wasn't supposed to touch. I definitely remember an Apollo workstation from around that time. The first PC that was definitely, explicitly...

MMmmm. I don't know if I agree. People want and like curated content. TV Channels serve that purpose very well. I do know of people who will just watch HGTV or Animal Planet all day because they know they'll find something agreeable every time they flip on that channel, and at another extreme...

Buck might have some additional insight to the current management structure because of reasons. And it sure is nice to see some of you folks around. Tea, DB, Bartender, Clocker, mubs. You guys are missed when you're not about.

The 400MB tapes were Travan. They ran on a ftape (floppy tape) interface, Parallel or SCSI interfaces. In ancient days, I actually had a mounted /tmp filesystem on an Yggsdrasil Linux machine. It was just as slow as you would imagine. The other option was DC2120, which were 60, 80 or 120MB tapes...

It's the Cartoon Network after some time of day. The put on things that stoners like instead of six year olds.

Well hey a legal copy of Windows Server 2016 will only cost you about $600 + $30/user so I have no idea why you wouldn't just be jumping all over that. ;)

Adblock Plus now has support for managed deployments. Available now for Chrome, Safari and Opera with Firefox support forthcoming. The web page is woefully short on details at the moment, but maybe that will change sometime in the near future.

Those who lie in congress with swine must be made to repent and suffer glorious and just wrath. Blessed be the platters and the magnets and even the tiniest bits, for it is not fault of data that it must reside in the inequity and despair of Irvine's Gehenna. re: DB's helpful link. Those...

It doesn't matter if they can't make a profit on something or other. They're the common carrier. They can make profit in other places and for that matter in a lot of cases they're accepting money in the form of tax rebates and subsidies that are supposed to support the un- or less-profitable...

jtr, you can get 20 miles outside Chicago's city limits and find areas that don't have good internet access, let alone the unpaved roads and farmhouses of middle America. We let these companies get away with murder in the hopes that they'll deliver on their promises and that is exactly the...

Here's an interesting graph showing which TV channels people would pick if given an a la carte subscription option. The major US broadcast networks are all at the top of the list, but Discovery is ahead of four of them. Supposedly mandatory ESPN is only a requirement for 30% of those surveyed...

That's actually really good news.

Those also factor in to my decision not to advocate in this case.

With regard to tape, I don't think it makes much sense unless you're at the point where your backup volume would require multiple hard disk drives under any circumstance. An LTO drive will cost probably $1000. Tapes are cheap and each one will hold 800GB or 1.5 or 2.5TB apiece, but you have to...

Looks like some of the big OEMs are releasing refreshed Z97/X99 motherboards now that there's a minor update to the USB spec (for 3.1, not C). I'm pleasantly surprised by that.

Dedup is in the Windows Server feature set, just like tiered storage and parity/double parity stripe sets. You can do those things cheaply and easily with FreeNAS if you really want them.

At least they're letting you use SQL Express. Whatever they're doing can't be THAT serious.

There are tricks you can do to remember passwords. I'm fond of using short pass phrases that are based on quotations from some particular media (e.g. poems of Robert Louis Stevenson or lines from the movie Clerks) that I associate with that customer as a seed for what I use. I might use the...

In a typical data breach, you'd find out that internal safeguards don't exist or weren't actually being followed. Personally Identifying Information stored in an unencrypted format would be stolen and, since this is the USA, the only reason anyone would be notified of the issue is if the data...

The Linux kernel code does indeed have a long list of misbehaving drives. The article mentions Samsung models as bad actors and IIRC Crucial drives are known to behave poorly on Linux. Not to be that guy, but we really can't have any idea what other OSes are doing for this stuff because we just...

They don't provide terrible service. They had a security leak. They disclosed it and communicated the extent of user exposure. That's substantially more than a lot of companies are willing to do. As it happens, exposure it this case is pretty limited unless the guys who got the data are...

The write performance on Seagate archive drives is horrific. They write just fine in bursts, up to maybe 10 minutes at a sustained high speed. But in single drive or RAID operation, with or without an SSD serving as a cache drive, they slow down or stop writing entirely for periods of up to a...

Has there been some change in the status of RAID support with SSDs that I haven't heard about? Every time I've tried to RAID1 SSDs, even with SLC drives, they've died inside of a year.

I really liked the first two Fallout games. The third game got the tone dead wrong by dropping the humor for ever-greater darkity grimdark and was critically short on different models and textures for what was supposed to be an open world/sandbox RPG, but it was one of the last mainstream games...

Lastpass uses salted hash lookups based on your master password to store everything. If you change your master password, it changes the salt value and the software has to rehash all your passwords. Even if someone got everything they store, they still can't see anything unless they want to sit...

I know Doom 3 was terrible because it was heavily pre-scripted and didn't have all the cool action or ability to both see and shoot, but this looks like a wild over-correction. Maybe they're just emphasizing the mayhem above and beyond the atmosphere, but original Doom was terrifying and kept...

On a somewhat related note, I just bought a couple UAP-LR access points that supposedly have a range of 600 feet. These are for an unrelated project, but I was kind of curious if they would work, especially over that kind of distance and I need to buy access points anyway.

I'll try it and let you know. I'm willing to bet that it'll be fine.

I suppose I should have said "Telecasts." I believe it's at least possible to get a 1080p signal from at least some cable or satellite boxes from all the major networks except Fox.