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Google Voice will give you one in the same area code. You can have it forward calls to another number.

The folks with the lowest user numbers on SR had admin-created accounts after the MBF. I remember seeing P5's login back around the time Windows 98 was released, which is as early as I started visiting. I posted a short message about him in SR's Bar and Grill but I doubt it'll get much...

The latest Firefox for Android update killed all my settings on all my devices, but Adblock Plus for Firefox mobile now has feature parity with the desktop versions - you can subscribe to multiple lists now and and you get the same post-install UI on it that you do on desktop Firefox or Chrome.

I had Google voice port my parents' old land line number. It's an easy number to remember. That number and my office phone number (Vocalocity, now a Vonage subsidiary) both just forward to my cell. It works great, though I'm always a little worried that Google will decide to up and drop Google...

There was a pretty huge leak of specs on the LG G4 yesterday. It's going to be a tiny bit wider and taller but the same thickness as the G3. The screen is the same 2560x1440 IPS, but it's going to have a 64-bit CPU, and it will continue to have a replaceable battery and card reader. Apparently...

I wonder if there is a family in Salem that someone could contact. I don't recall him ever indicating that he did or did not. He did not write much at all about his personal life.

I don't know with any certainty that it's him, but that's not something I wanted to find.

There is this. I can't find any further announcement or corroborating information.

Does the ML350 not use a standard LGA1366 mounting? I might have something sitting around. I'm guessing this would also do the trick.

I think I'd be pretty happy just to get LTO7. 6.4TB uncompressed for probably under $30/tape? Yes please.

I don't know what BSODs you're referring to on ATI driver installation. Examples of legitimate ATI driver weirdness: ATI under-scales TV displays connected via HDMI on Windows. This has to be fixed in the registry or in the driver settings on EVERY boot. I've found that ATI mobility Radeon 3xxx...

I believe Mark is in his 50s. He's some sort of admin or infrastructure-type IT person, though he's never been very specific about where he works or what he does.

There's someone with the right name and location posting on Twitter but P5's real name is so common even that isn't necessarily the right person. Is P5 a high school football coach who had a kid in December?

I shot him an email.

The first five minutes of Daredevil probably sell the whole thing, but I have to say that the fight scenes are top-notch. Like Winter Soldier, everything is paced slowly enough to see every blow and you see the lasting impact of DD's lifestyle on his body. There's something interesting about...

He was posting under another name for a while and generally more in the computers topics than social. He's never shared much about his personal life. Maybe the relative lack of traffic in the top half of the forums? I'll see if I have an Email for him. mubs also hasn't visited in a while. Buck...

That doesn't much help for the people who took a PC out of a box and did what it told them. Except the part about remembering a password. Windows does prompt people to make a password recovery disk but I've never in the history of time heard of anyone doing that. One of the best parts of the...

My new least favorite thing: People who don't know their Live account password OR the password to their email which they can only get to if they can sign in to their Live account. Somewhere, there's a poor bastard at Microsoft who has the job for re-setting Windows 8 passwords for clueless baby...

This is just a reminder that Marvel's Daredevil will begin streaming on Netflix at 12:01am PDT tomorrow.

The US Legal system. Who benefits from how our laws are structured? It's not the people who needed the ACA and WIC. But people who own patents or have interests in corporate governance certainly do. And do remember that our legal system in the US also believes that corporations have the same...

Sure, as long as you accept the possibility that they won't have you send shit to the wrong address if it ever does stop working. Which you wouldn't think would normally be a problem. Not that I'm bitter.

Because the people who have the most are also making most use of government services.

Sales taxes are highly regressive. They penalize people at lower incomes to a much greater degree based on percentage of income. Do you really want single mothers and elderly people on a fixed income giving any more of their money back just because they're not bringing in a living wage of $15/hour?

I've found that BTsync chokes and dies if you throw 4TB of files at it. We could be each other's crashplan partners easily enough. Or just start a communal Google/Onedrive account.

If I didn't have an accountant I've worked with for years, I strongly suspect I could get away with just filing a 1040EZ and not report any of my contracting income. I don't really feel like risking it though. I worked on an IRS agent's personal computer last Thursday. I saw Turbotax 2015 on...

This tool for HFS recovery under Linux is still under active development. I've been aware of it for a while but I haven't had a reason to try it yet.

There's a big difference between devices that have limited functionality and those that are actively being developed. I do think Windows (and specifically Windows 8) makes a better media center, but Chromecast, Roku and FireTV are pretty great for some definition of the word.

The extra threads are more advantageous than the per-thread execution speed. An i7-980X is a better Plex host than a Haswell i3 for the same reason. The AMD x4 could probably be refurbished and passed along to another family member. You have plenty of fast machines on hand. The FireTV as a Plex...

Let's update DNS and get over there.

I've been repurposing fast spare machines (and out of warranty 3TB drives) as Plex servers rather than backup targets. You don't need a super CPU for crashplan, but the ability to support eight threads is super-helpful for Plex's video transcoding tasks. If you have the disk space and interest...

There are two conflicting bits of conventional wisdom. One is that you want different sorts of drives to prevent manufacturing or firmware defects from hosing an array. The other, which stems back to the days of EXTREMELY picky hardware controllers, is that if there's even a slight size/geometry...

It's an Intel device, so it's possible that it actually WILL work in RAID0, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that there's a configuration other than an Intel Rapid Storage RAID0 on Windows that's functional and supported by drive, OS and storage controller. Sure, you could try it, but it...

This kind of bullshit is why I tell people that they're better off with STBs that incorporate internet functionality rather than leaving it up to the TV itself. Can't you get Roku or even Chromecast down there?

Nits lurks semi-actively. I don't think she logs in, but when we talk on the phone sometimes she tells me her opinions about goings-on here. I'd meet more of you people if I ever traveled and/or there were a single justifiable reason for anyone to pass through the terrible place where I happen...

One way to circumvent the legal requirement of public availability would be to present your services only to members of an organization that agrees to specific terms of service. I've been in places that use language like that to circumvent smoking bans. Of course, you're basically also...

A ton of internet-based production is in Miami now, actually. The company that owns most of the "Tube" sites, Brazzers, does most of its business there. Most strippers are just people. I think they have an interesting job and they usually have some cool/funny stories to tell if you get them to...

The thing about the smoke trap certainly does, but they actually do explain the firmware problem they had with their GPSes (they flashed consumer firmware on a Trucker GPS for the larger display). Gearheads seem divided about the amount of customization they did but that it basically checks out...

I wouldn't mind having a few more spare H61 boards sitting around for quick hardware swaps, but looking at what they have available, anything they've priced under $70 is basically sold out right now.

I'll probably get around to replying to some of jtr's points later but here's a long-ass article about the latest breaking of the "Cannonball Run" record.

Of course, I've been within probably a couple blocks of timwhit's home and I've never met him, either, but it could happen.

I do so with full justification. If you want to live in an echo chamber where everyone who disagrees with you is an oppressor, you're free to do that. Just go ahead and be the victim you feel you need to be.

Further evidence that Indiana is a shame to the entire goddamned country: http://www.wncn.com/story/28664509/first-woman-in-us-sentenced-for-killing-a-fetus

Technically, the folders list that shows up under This PC are just personal folders in your home directory. The Libraries/Home Directory folders distinction is something that a lot of people don't understand and moreover, drives a lot of people nuts. I wish Microsoft would merge or somehow...

Which is why we don't prosecute fundamentalist mormons for polygamy and sexual assault of minors? Oh wait. We do exactly that. Your right to religious freedom ends when it impinges on the rights of others. You don't get to choose what part of the general public you serve if you claim to serve...

1. Human relationships are not about biological imperative. 80 year old people still marry. 25 year old heterosexuals decide to remain childless. You can think gay sex is icky and everyone is OK with that. I promise I can find a dozen or so human beings in a Golden Corral buffet or a Wal-mart...

There's no discrimination here. If your religion says it's OK to murder nonbelievers, it's still against secular law. Are you being oppressed for not being allowed to kill heathens? Or are you simply paying the price of living in a regulated and civil society? If you really feel like you HAVE to...

If you buy the Holiday Season sets, one of the bonuses is a printed white card with your real name on it. The second year I bought, I got a card that says "(Mercutio's) Butt." It's not quite as much a trump card as "Bees?" or "Bigger, Blacker Dick" but it's still my favorite.

Well, that's close enough that timwhit or I could pop in for a checkup I guess. :)

The sixth expansion set launched Monday, by the way. We played at my company's holiday party. In most businesses, that would probably violate every HR rule known to man but given the amount of tequila around the table, it was just a good time had by all.

It's a Microsoft web browser, so I didn't expect much. I suspect that it is pretty fast, but the lack of ad and script blocking support for the moment means that it's unacceptable regardless.