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Youtube and Netflix have 4k streaming and there's 4k porn because of course there is, but AFAIK there's no TV-based standard for delivering a 4k stream, nor any boxes that support decoding it. I don't even think Fox broadcasts in 1080p yet.

Historically, Microsoft has allowed users to roll back an upgraded installation of Windows, but as long as you have the product key for your old version you should be able to wait and use the upgrade media on a new disk drive if you'd like.

There's an Amazon Reseller called Computer Upgrade King that typically offers SSD-equipped Thinkpads at competitive prices instead of nutso-bonkers Lenovo retail. The laptops are new and carry their manufacturer warranty. I haven't had any problem extending that warranty after purchase. I've...

There's a game called Tabletop Simulator that looks super cool other than the obvious drawback that you can all probably guess. The super-amazing thing about it is support for 7-person multiplayer and a pretty decent selection of implemented games including Android:Netrunner, Mage Knight, Cards...

Here's what I think is the primary source for ridiculous screenshots. They probably have a lot of guidance for modding. Technically you can do the same thing with Fallout 3 I guess. I don't think it gets pretty, but it looks like you can make it less baby poop yellow. I do wonder if modders...

This method does in fact work on a Verizon GS5 that hasn't taken the Android 5 upgrade. I tested it on a co-worker's 4.2.2 GS5 just now. Some models are a little different, but Odin is Samsung's tool for screwing with boot loaders and ROMs and the only real trick is getting in to CWM Recovery in...

The nice thing about most of the rooting tools is that they either work or they don't do anything. You're not trying to install a ROM, so it's unlikely that you're going to brick your phone. I'm toying with the idea of installing CM12 on my phone since it doesn't appear that it's going to get an...

I suspect that your old key will still work as long as you're reinstalling on the hardware where it has already been activated. I have observed this to be the case for 7 to 8 upgrades that have been rolled back.

There are posts on Imgur pretty much every day that are full of ridiculous screenshots and descriptions like "This is my sorry-ass old PC running these 182 Skyrim Mods. And it's an A4 with a GTX550 and 2GB RAM!" And then someone else will come along a half hour later with "And here's what it's...

You won't be getting a usable .ISO from the "reservation" download. There's probably a .WIM file or something that could be use to build an ISO, but it's highly probable that Microsoft will make the ISO file available for people who need them through normal techie channels. Since Windows 7 ISOs...

I use a tool called Drives to visualize space utilization in combination with ES File Explorer to actually handle file management. I also have a 128GB card in my phone and it's basically full, but that's because my response to having any amount of free disk space is to fill it with something...

The preview 100% has a time bomb in it. Doesn't your laptop have an embedded OEM key like the last one did? Good to see you again sed. How is Kentucky?

I have 1Gbps at the datacenter and I can say that there's really not a practical difference for normal home user activity between 100Mbit and 1Gbit. Youtube still won't load instantly and you still get occasional jaggies on Netflix for reasons that have nothing to do with the speed of your pipe...

I saw this on Slashdot and thought it was interesting: Phoronix Compares Socket 478 Netburst devices to modern Intel and ARM CPUs.. I've been telling people for a while that the CPU in my cell phone is probably faster than their XP-era Pentium 4 and it turns out that it's almost certainly true...

Blame consoles. Gamepads require terrible, terrible UIs. Also, just as a point of clarification, are you talking about Skyrim as it was launched or Skyrim with the crap ton of mods and updated texture packs that everyone who still plays Skyrim has?

The official path for a clean install of 8.1 for machines with an 8 COA or firmware embedded key was: install with an un-activatable known key for system imaging, then enter your Windows 8 key after the install was completed. That's really not THAT bad, except that I have no earthly idea how...

Most of my UPSes are also hand-me-downs for client sites. I'm sure I have a couple that are over 10 years old.

Allway Sync looks like the UI was developed in about 1994, but a pretty good option for keeping files synchronized if rsync would be overkill.

If it has big-boy desktop CPU and a dozen or so hard drives (like the "spare" old rigs many of us would have), 400W isn't out of the question.

I generally prefer Tripp-Lite because they're local to Chicago but if I wander around around a datacenter for any length of time, power protection will be overwhelmingly trusted to APS devices and I've probably installed dozens of its 1500VA units. My crappy experience with the boat anchor in my...

As I understand it, it's derived from total power-on hours across a small fleet of sample units, which is probably done in modeling rather than physical units. And we all know how meaningful MBTF numbers are for individual hard drives, right?

No updates happen on lab machines at all. I can't do Domain memberships either because I'm supporting a multiboot Windows configuration and the machine account passwords on domain accounts get changed every 42 days whether they sign in or not. My systems get restored from a master image. I use a...

"Supported Lifetime" means the duration of time for which Microsoft offers support for that combination of Windows version + its underlying hardware. Something that is bothering me more than a little is that my lab PCs have Windows Updates turned completely off as a group policy setting. I...

I don't think I noticed it before, but something new that is being deployed with Windows Server 2016 is direct support for Docker Images. I've only done a little bit with them, mostly to spin up SugarCRM (which uses an ancient version of PHP), but the option to spin up...

It's coming in Q4 2015. It's probably worth waiting since it'll have actual architectural changes and tech improvements that will matter for the long term, like DDR4 support and a whole new chipset nomenclature.

Broadwell-DT parts. Usual story: Improvements in power efficiency due to die shrink and modest per-clock performance improvement. Yawn. These guys add a potential L4 cache and apparently offer slightly-better-than-AMD integrated graphics, which I have to say is something I would not have guessed...

My file server started a complete virus scan yesterday of all attached drives. I think it might finish by Thursday.

My only client machines had the Preview installed fresh rather than upgraded, but all my lab machines have the notification.

I'd get a Brother HL2280. Anything with an XP driver would work in 2000, but in the worst case you might have to open up a downloaded .exe in 7zip or something to dig out the files you need.

I truly don't like 17" screens. They're too heavy, too delicate and they suck battery for what I'd call insufficient surface area benefit vs. a 14" or 15" screen. To my mind, either you need a portable device or you need some kind of a desktop-size screen and the 17" laptop is the worst of both...

Up sides to the MBP: Good overall specs and weight, lovely screen. Bad things about the MBP: No upgrade options, love or hate input devices and questionable support if you don't live within five minutes of an Apple store, expensive. Good things about a Surface Pro: Amazing specs and weight...

Storage Spaces can't implement RAID10 but I don't think I'd want it. Slow writes are really only a problem once in a very great while.

Here are the NICs and cables. And just for laughs, best case sequential read off the fastest disk array I have top out at 3100MB/s. Writes are a different and much more depressing story but that's RAID6 for you.

The second cable was purchased as insurance in case the first one is bad or gets damaged or something. I don't think channel bonding will help enough to bother setting it up. Also I'm pretty much positive that nothing I have will move 5GB/s unless I start building disk arrays out of M.2 drives.

And in a moment of weakness, I am now the proud owner of a pair of MHQH29B-XTR 40Gbps (yes, 40) Infiniband adapters and a pair of 10m QSFP cables. All for under $200. A little more reading regarding Windows and IB says that Server 2012+ fixes the performance issues that were present on Server...

Looks like cheap Infiniband has some pretty serious limitations, at least for Windows and Linux. I suspect that not much has changed since the article was written in 2011.

Neither of the sites where I could potentially source my connection will let me put up an aerial to mount my antenna. I could still do it from my apartment, if I felt that strongly about making it happen. My apartment is facing the wrong direction and I'm not sure I have any rights to mount...

As long as my databases snapshots are happening and getting dumped to where they can be backed up, I generally don't have to care too much about the machine configuration on most of my VMs. The most obnoxious thing for me is finding a vendor puts their stuff in an oddball like, say, Gupta...

I'm sure Enterprise SSD manufacturers would love the idea. The biggest single production host I have runs nine guests. If I *had* to, that machine does have the capacity to run enough drives that I could feasibly run each on a dedicated drive, but in some cases the machines are virtual...

That 24 SSD machine looks oddly familiar. Mine only has five SSDs in it though. :D

Given the explanation in the article, perhaps the best practice is to dedicate an SSD to each guest?

Having some fiber in place means being able to switch your layer 2 technology as soon as it's economically feasible instead of waiting for the day that someone solves the issue of implementing that speed over copper wire. Your backbone stuff can be different from your client hardware. That's normal.

The reason for the warning is the (very funny and intensely passive-aggressive) in game commentary from the AI in the game. It wants you dead. DEAD. Not alive any more. I'd expect even a seven year old to handle it just fine but I can see how some people would object to kids hearing that, but...

There was a parade in my town today. There were still a couple WWII vets in town spry enough that they felt like putting on their uniforms, but at least this year none of them were trying to march with the Korea and Vietnam guys, but nothing is weirder to me than seeing the guys in their 20s and...

A 970 would be a modest upgrade from a single 690, but the 690s were incredibly expensive cards and they're still quite credible for overall gaming performance. If your customer is looking to blow $500 on a new card, the right answer is probably to look at another 690; even an SLI pair of 960s...

It's just layer 2. Whatever it is, you put SMB, NFS or iSCSI on top of IP and I don't think it matters other than the data transfer rates. I had a tab open about 2000s-era supercomputing that mentioned Infiniband repeatedly, which is what inspired me to go look at parts pricing (14 year old NICs...

It's straight up AV with limited antimalware, a web filter and a VPN client. The web filter can be configured to your needs or shut off. I think actual multiple-system management needs Fortigate, but since I'm not putting it on client machines I don't care so much about that part. The bottom of...

I am going to say this in this thread also, since I just had it kind of save my ass: Forticlient is a big-boy grown-up Antivirus application that runs on Windows Server editions and does not cost money. One of my co-workers nearly hosed my production VM host with a Flash drive full of Autoplay...

Goddammitsomuch. I gave away the osciiloscope I kept in my car for YEARS just maybe 15 months ago. The sound you hear in Australia is me sobbing as I pull a 40kg UPS out of my rack.

In my case I only need point to point. If I were willing to cheat I think I could get away with a single 10m cable.