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Maybe he's doing a crap-ton of work in a content creation app that can take advantage of CUDA? Honestly, when I see a gamer with a ridiculous monster system now, I mostly just question why the hell they spent the money. MAYBE he's gaming in 4k and just has stupid amounts of money but hopefully...

"Check out my awesome Minecraft Battle Station!"

OF all the stupid reasons to have to completely un-do a build, today I learned that none of the rear USB3 ports on my X99-UD4 actually work. It's not that they're negotiating to lower speeds and they are definitely detected and installed by the OS. They just don't do anything when I plug in a...

Merry New Year Evemas to Americans and Happy New Year to the rest of you fine folks. :) Apparently I'm celebrating the new year with the gift of being designated driver. yay.

It's a kick in the balls to suggest Acer, but I've seen Acer's FHD Chromebook for $219. That screen will break if you breathe on it since that's what Acer screens do, but given the battery life and form factor, a Chromebook might be the best option. Low-end x86 right now isn't even worth...

You're pretty much going to have to connect a 4k screen via Displayport I think. 2 port KVM models are affordable. 4 port models cost more than a decent laptop.

You're lucky that you missed out on the dumbest update. The 8 --> 8.1 update is a 3.3GB download plus about 40 minutes of install even with a Core i and an SSD. That's an insane deal. I bought a couple $130 Celeron NUCs a few months back (when the Xmas deal crap first started) that didn't have...

You could wait another two weeks and see what reviews on the 8TB Seagate drive are like. I'm probably going to buy a couple as near-line backup targets, so I suspect I'll have something to say about them soon enough. Hitachi drives in general handle heat beautifully. It's absolutely the last...

I have TrueImage 11 and can make you an ISO, but if you can take the machine offline for any length of time you should be able to make a .TIB that can be read and converted to a VHD or VMDK.

I usually buy Canon scanners. I like the small footprint. Scan speed is comparable to Epson and HP models made in the last five years You're better off scanning negatives if possible, but there's so much variability in photo prints that I don't think the subjective quality of the scanner's...

NT4 would leave you stuck on something derived from Gecko 2.0 like Kmeleon or else whatever misbegotten Opera release.

I have a fancy Boccia watch that I wear about once every three years. I don't like typing with an extra lump around my wrist and I'm at a keyboard almost all day, so for the most part a watch would be more of an annoyance in the first place. The appealing things for me are being able to look at...

"Into the Woods" was... more straightforward of an adaptation than it should have been (Red Riding Hood should have been played by a teenager, not a little girl - the stage version is not particularly subtle about what the Big Bad Wolf is singing about) and at times the lines weren't sung with...

I've been alternating between Saturnalia and Kwanzaa all week but have a happy whichever of those is most appealing. Unless you're on the bottom of the Saturnalia sandwich, in which case all I can say is go slow and use lots of lube.

It's been my experience with Intel, Tyan and Supermicro server products that if it's not specifically compatible, it's a crapshoot, especially if you're thinking about mix and match with something else or filling every bank with it. Not to say I wouldn't try it, but make sure the return/restock...

For looks, I'd probably go with the Moto 360 (round face) or Asus Zenwatch (rectangular face). The Pebble Steel is too thick for me, but it's the clear winner when it comes to battery life. Pebble isn't Android and therefore may or may not be the best choice for software compatibility, but it...

I see a Sony phone as more of an MDMA user's choice. Really, the iphone 6 (but not the 6+) is the perfect accessory to a coke habit. Yes, if you like a Sony phone, you'll probably also dig bright lights and Ecstasy. And that's an official Android tip.

Both. The scam is incredibly common, international in scope and I suspect they scam less savvy people for at least hundreds of dollars on a regular basis. I probably hear from one or two people a week who get those calls.

Was he asking if you had those programs installed? Was he trying to get you to install them? I've never gotten one of those calls but I know probably dozens of people who have. At least here in the US, the common pattern seems to be that people who get the calls tend to be over 60 and well off...

There have at times been open identification schemes that aren't tied to somebody's walled garden, but of course none of them took off. But the whole point of the internet should not be "Require everyone to make a Facebook account" or even "Require everyone on the internet to use their real name...

I halfway have a new cat. New in that she's only 3 years old and halfway because she technically belongs to my friend and occasional roommate. Her name is Sugar and she's completely white and very, very sweet. Gracie does not like Sugar at all, so there is a definite feline personality conflict...

Also very handy for doing lines of coke.

Third party authentication is a mess all its own and to be honest I'm not sure that doesn't just obscure the problems rather than correct them. Not everyone wants to trust Google, Microsoft or Facebook.

You don't reverse the hash. You apply a transform along with a "fudge factor" so there's no constant value in the stored hash.

LotR is better off without Tom Bombadil and Tauriel at the very least does no harm to the Hobbit. Her part gives life to an otherwise nondescript Dwarf. Also, her leitmotif in the score ("Feast of Starlight") is a favorite of mine. If all that was filmed was what Tolkien wrote, we'd have six...

I've run in to that one as well. I have a live Windows 7 thumb drive that I had been using to access hosed machines, but I've found that it's basically nonfunctional on modern laptops. The builtin Windows backup has always needed to be the same version as files to do restores, but 8.1 is a...

I was impressed with the Noctua D14. Mounting is straightforward and the fans come on and off easily.

OK, last Hobbit movie. Two words, which should say all that need be said: Bear Paratroopers. Either that's awesome and totally sells the film, or it's a disgrace to the world that Tolkien created. In the book, if I remember right, the battle of the Five Armies was dispensed with in something...

Likewise on the lack of 10Gbit hardware, though I've been watching prices for entry level equipment fall. Hopefully we'll be able to get eight ports for $100 sometime next year. I'm disappointed that I can't get a 1TB M.2 drive yet. I'm not going to whine that I can "only" get 500GB of high...

... and in the latest "You've GOT to be kidding me", Windows 8 has to be fully upgraded to 8.1 before an 8.1 system image can be restored. And if the system was booted on UEFI, the recovery disk has to be in UEFI mode. And if the system cannot be configured to boot USB drive in UEFI mode, hope...

Disk clones often fail if more than a certain percentage of the drive is in use. I frequently find that it's necessary to pull user data off a drive prior to cloning. That's something that is theoretically scriptable, but can still take a stupid-long time. The magic number for cloning success...

It's still going to happen. HDDs will move to a near-line archival storage option, but Seagate and WD will do everything in their power to extract every last dollar of consumer demand for traditional magnetic disks before that happens. Tape is still the only viable option for real backup though.

Dammit. I bought eight $180 4TB Hitachi drives to use for backups just four weeks ago. I would've jumped on these in a heartbeat.

Did you not get sufficiently buff and hairy from the last course of stereo ids?

Ghostery helps a lot with that stuff.

Just saw the half-season cliffhanger on Agents of SHIELD, and something I thought might be true for a while was confirmed for the comic book nerds. Sky's dad is given a name: Cal. Which is probably short for Calvin Zabo. Further confirmation came when he hummed a song called "Daisy" for his...

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The grab bag works. Do not knock the grab bag. It also scales very well to the hardware capabilities of the client. It's relatively lightweight overall, but components can be omitted for older or limited-use systems, whereas integrated security products are more or less designed for hardware...

For comparison, I was probably 200lbs. when I was 12 and a few years ago I was wearing pants with a 56" waist. I need to get more serious about weight training. For some reason it's a lot easier for me to find the motivation to spend 75 minutes on an elliptical than 20 minutes with a dumbbell.

In my system images and classroom PCs, I've also gone ahead and impregnated the Default User account with properly configured Adblock Plus settings for Firefox and Chrome. If those browsers are installed (and on a machine I'm responsible for, they are), stuff is configured beforehand for...

You can search for "abp subs." On first install, Adblock Plus asks if you want the Social Blocking and Malware Domains lists, but many people don't scroll down far enough to see that and just close that tab. The full list I use is Easylist, Adblock Warning Removal (for sites that bitch at you...

182lbs. today. Not bad.

There are 3rd party controllers that work pretty well with the FireTV/Nexus Player. The one I have was made by Nyko and I think I pad $18 for it (also: gaming on FireTV kinda sucks and there aren't enough games unless you really needed another platform on which to play GTA:Vice City). Also...

Science says you'd need a couple football field lengths of speaker wire before there's distortion significant enough to measure due to attenuation. Just run long cables and be happy.

On my not-stick FireTV, I actually use XBMC as an external player rather than playing videos in Plex. I lose the ability to resume if I stop watching, but XBMC has full support for multichannel audio and thus can handle native playback of more video files without transcoding. IIRC I had to get...

AVG is heavyweight to approximately the same degree as an aircraft carrier's anchor and its default behavior to do a daily virus scan, most likely as part of system startup (i.e. "Please let us make the first 45 minutes you spend on your computer today the worst experience possible."), does not...

One suspects those entities license things in a different fashion. My cats have an daily event called Cheese Time that happens when I come home from work or around 6PM if I didn't go anywhere. They all know when 6PM is, and even if they don't all run to the kitchen, they at least quit hiding...

Cookies aren't intrinsically bad and insofar as there might be any real concerns that come from them, it's related to privacy much moreso than security. There's really nothing IN a normal cookie to cause a problem and frankly if they're doing something weird with data from third party sites...

RAM soldered to the motherboard?

An almost word for word re-enactment of what happens every time my boss wants me to do something on her latop: