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I honestly think that the Windows 10 launch and aftermath is going to be very similar to Windows 7's. After it's been out for a short amount of time, it'll be as if Windows 8 never existed.

I think that it's fair to say at this point that all the niceties of UNIX are present on your Linux machine. Apple has nicer fonts but its GUIs will have roughly the same amount of bothersome inconsistency.

I'd be willing to agree that the MBP has solid specs. The nice screen and moderately not-sucky GPU sort of make up for the keyboard, trackpad, lack of service and upgrade options (max of 16GB RAM? Really?) and uncomfortable palm rest. I'll accept the value proposition there, even if I wouldn't...

So, how 'bout that Comodo-affiliated tool that completely breaks SSL?

There are tools for building MSI and MSTs from pre- and post-snapshot images, but they're very time consuming to use if you don't deal with those things all the time.

I went through something similar with a customer about a month ago. They upgraded to a new version of their turnkey application, which previously hadn't even been certified to run on Windows 7. The directions, once I read them, essentially involved turning off every single one of Windows 7's...

I work from system images. Since my normal practice is to buy the cheapest hard disk on any laptop I buy, I don't think I've even used the original hard disk on anything I've deployed I the last three years.

Why doesn't the vendor have a script to use? Christ.

Does it need anything besides IIS and MSSQL? MSSQL is a PITA to install, even interactively. You have to assign rights for various features to user accounts and crap. IIS is just a Windows Feature that gets added. It's easy either way. That said, for 40 machines and somebody who doesn't script...

I've never had a problem with it before.

The Asus MX279H. I bought a couple of them for a customer and I was fairly impressed given the cost.

IIRC, that thing takes eight ink cartridges and prints maybe 10 photo pages or about 40 text pages before it runs out of ink.

My fleet of Intel 946 and G31 boards all seem to work fine. I've found that some but not all 915s work. I've never bothered with anything older than that.

I really only buy Brother printers. I support one Canon MFC that I want to murder and my boss won't allow anything but Xerox solid ink, but almost all of what I support are 9970CDWs or HL 4570s and those have really been more hassle free than I could ever expect. The 4570 goes through toner a...

I have already made these points. I think Tannin's mad 'cause he built a lot of AthlonX2 machines and his customers gave him an ear full. ;)

Just to add a somewhat different perspective: one of my labs got used for a crafts class last year that made heavy use of photo printing. I bought three each of Epson, HP (1200Ds, supposedly "workgroup" inkjets), Canon and Lexmark photo printers. After the six week class where each printer...

I watched the US version first. There are actually multiple European versions. Apparently, the series has been produced everywhere one might find a bridge that crosses international borders.

They each have distinct noise floors, but the 4k7000s are definitely louder. Review sites I checked say they're all between 30 and 35dB with WD on the lower end and Hitachi on the upper. It may be a case where one noise is subjectively less agreeable than another (we had a similar disagreement...

The Hitachi 4TB drives are distinctly louder than the Seagates but absent a solid basis for comparison, you'd never be able to tell. None of them are anything like the old 10k drives.

This is just somebody's VFX demo. Someone spent a convincing amount of money making it happen, though.

First, those machines aren't bricked. They're running Windows 8. They can do everything an 8.1 machine can, with some very minor interface differences, just like Vista can do everything that 7 can. Second, trying to explain minute differences in CPU architecture is incredibly difficult and...

The UI changes since Windows Vista lend themselves more to users searching for the function they want than needing to know the UI path. If you've been doing that for the last eight years, having a different view of control panel is irrelevant. As far as apps not working, there's a HUGE break...

The weather has sucked and I have some kind of respiratory infection that makes doing things more challenging than being supine and under blankets too much work so here are TV things I have been watching over the last couple months that I liked. Black Mirror - kinda like the Twilight Zone, but...

The best answer to that question is probably "her regular place" and the worst answer is probably any other orifice you care to name.

IE is lacking a real add-on ecosystem. STILL. But it has tracking protection lists, which do most of the work of an ad-blocker and can be easily pushed out to clients via Group Policy settings, and is acceptably vanilla for almost all things. I think the Flash Player for IE is faster and less...

The NX bit was implemented on both Intel (on Prescott P4s) and AMD (Starting with the Athlon64) in 2004. As it happens, some vendors were still shipping motherboards with chipsets that did not support the implementation of the NX bit for some considerably longer period, but if somebody was sold...

It's a new thing, like the Start Screen in Windows 8. Settings looks like this:

I think the goal is to get consumers on board for a streaming release cycle. Other than one very minor change (no execute support, which was implemented in Athlon64 and last-generation Pentium 4s as long as they have ca. 2007-era chipsets) going from 8 to 8.1, there hasn't been anything...

I actually think IE 11 with ABP 1.3 installed ranks higher than Chrome. Which isn't so much saying something nice about IE as saying something is seriously wrong with Chrome now.

Or, I dunno, pay somebody to put together a solution for you. You want a single user file server. That's not exactly rocket surgery.

Netgear makes an 8 port, $1000 10Gbase-T switch, but I haven't seen any NICs yet for under $500. On the other hand, bonded gigabit links usually don't feel slow to me, even when I'm moving terabytes of stuff around. I know it's going to take a while, so I start whatever process I need to start...

Because Samsung couldn't be bothered to do the right thing when they lost my drive while it was supposed to be in their custody.

Synology is my favorite from a firmware and features perspective. Performance on the ARM-powered NAS devices is universally lousy, though it sounds like you'd be looking at an eight bay model which will probably have an Atom CPU. All of the four bay or larger devices do have some kind of double...

I added a Plextor M6e to my GAX99-UD4 machine. I had to upgrade my firmware to the F12 revision so that it was recognized as a boot device, though the Windows installer recognized it immediately. The firmware also had to be set to UEFI mode, which I typically don't use when I can avoid it and...

All of the drives with "Archive" branding are 5900rpm. That's not to say that there aren't 7200rpm drives, but Seagate makes lots and lots of 5900rpm models.

It's not unusual for me to have three outages a week in the spring and early summer. Lots of wind and lots of old trees equals lots of time in the dark. I have UPSes but past a certain point there's just not much I can do about it.

I have these in different places in my apartment. I don't exactly need high audio fidelity in my kitchen or bathroom, but it's nice that I just do not miss notifications any more. I had enough computer speakers sitting around that I have a decent solution for everyplace I might be.

Relatively few people will shop for machines with drives that large and those that do will be buying more drives regardless. The unit pricing difference between 320 and 500GB is not terribly significant for consumers who are aware of the distinction. It's $5 on Amazon or Newegg, but that turns...

It might be more productive to move to a bluetooth speaker set or a bluetooth audio receiver. There really isn't any extra space along the edges of a laptop chassis for a speaker of a different design than the ones the machine shipped with, so regardless of any other consideration, you're only...

I use just enough of a cover to keep my camera lens from scratching if I set the phone down. One of the really wonderful things about the S4 is how thin and light it is and I really see no reason to spoil that, especially given the number of devices I see that are damaged in spite of the...

I don't know but that is clearly a crap-ton of work and probably even scholarship on the part of the people attempting the restoration.

I've seen posts on a couple tech sites that say that Samsung is cutting way back on the crap it's loading on the next model year of its phones. Honestly, it's hard to make a bad decision on the flagship Android devices. Between Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola and even Sony, there's a lot of good...

Is it even possible to use four Radeon 295s some kind of Crossfire configuration? And if so, why would you want to? What else is going to get a desktop to that kind of power draw? I've got a dual Xeon with 30-something connected hard drives and the only concession I've had to make was bump the...

There was a link to a rapidshare-like site. I've got the files on My Google Drive. I can share them that way if you'd like.

I just used plastic pry tools.

Pretty sure they're 5900rpm.

The cheapest way to get those high capacity disks is by tearing them out of external enclosures. I got a couple 5TB drives for ~$135 over the holidays.

The 6" phones are massive enough to have legitimate 36 hour batteries. It's nothing special about the Note4. I'm still amazed by how much difference there is between 5.5" devices like the LG G3 and phablets like the Note 4. 5.5" = totally hand and pocket friendly 6" = that is a monster meant...

I left Chrome with one tab open on cc.com (Comedy Central's web site) over night. The only addon I have installed is Adblock Plus. Chrome has six threads and is using a combined 1640MB RAM. I am going to mention this the next time someone tells me Firefox is a memory hog.

I think we all just send PMs for non-public discussion.