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I had good results at 3Mbit/720p using it as a Plex client. Pushing up from that gave me occasional stuttering jumps. You'll get better results for around the same price with a Chromecast, though those aren't as friendly to tinkering.

In the MCU, it's vibranium rather than adamantium (the word is X-Men IP, so it's for Fox to use). In the movies, Ultron is a drone controller invented by Hank Pym in the 60s. Stark tinkers with it and a new villain is born. A lot of the footage we saw is of Johannesburg and Andy Serkis is in...

Plex makes a lot more sense if you have houseguests, kids or travel. I don't use my server that much myself either, but I'm glad it's running if only so that whomever is staying in my spare bedroom can happily enjoy whatever they want without occupying my living room.

The one thing I can say is that absolutely no one can make the Startech HDM I capture card work.

The Surface product line actually has a locked bootloader. You couldn't dual boot anything on one even if you wanted to.

Plex Media Server is really more for organizing and presenting local media than for streaming. There are "channels" where it can act as a front-end for specific online content like Youtube and Netflix, though client support for those is considered optional and may not be implemented on every...

Actually, is anyone else actually using Plex Media Server yet?

So... new Avengers 2 Trailer. Spader's voiceover at the end is a pretty big payoff. Also, this is Air New Zealand's new safety video. Featuring Eliza Wood, Sylvester (Radagast) McCoy, Peter Jackson and a surprising number of Orcs.

That device accidentally strips HDCP all on its own. Actually, a lot of HDMI splitters just happen to do that. You can google "HDMI stripper" to find other, cheaper ones, but the Monoprice device is one I know specifically to work. A lot of people who do console gameplay recordings for Youtube...

You need a this thing.

Unsupported App Installer for Plex Media Server. Adds access to questionably legal streaming services, adult metadata scrapers and content streaming, perhaps most importantly, Google Play Music and Spotify from within Plex clients.

The lycanthropy should only be temporary. You're going to get some of that when you start a new medication.

Hyper V was in Windows 8 as well. Now let's have an argument about how useful it is to have to use RDP to have a fully functional guest OS, 'cause having to do everything through the Hyper-V Connection Manager blows goats.

Gaffgun is a literal, rather than software, tool. I don't know if anyone needs one but it's actually just cool to watch.

We don't really need any sort of software monoculture. We need different web browsers, programming languages, E-mail clients and operating systems. I'm glad that the option to use "something else" exists, even for the technology where I'd never use that other option myself, just because there...

Compare a modest i3-4360 to an i7 920. Progress has definitely been made, even if the subjective experience isn't that different most of the time. I'm probably going to pull the trigger on a Haswell-E desktop soon. Broadwell is supposedly coming any day now, but it's a mobile-only design that...

Like it or not, we all have to deal with Windows. Even the guys who actually do get to spend their days on *nix or OSX systems still encounter Windows with some regularity. It makes good sense for Windows to help make Windows the best OS that it can be; it really is the point of commonality for...

At least you can look forward to bad skin and hair in some fantastic new places. It's just like being a teenager.

What's the justification for the ifruit that costs $200 more than the Samsung equivalent? Magical Apple fairies aren't sprinkling value-adding moon dust on them, you know. Also, here's the thing about the 8.9" form factor: You get the same number of pixels as a 10" tablet in a weight that's...

One of my students was whining about it yesterday, but if you're enough of a techie to understand why that hack is so useful and how great having RDP access is, you also probably could guess that wasn't going to be a reliable tool. The funny thing is that Microsoft probably closed the loophole...

The big thing about the 7" Nexus is that it was powerful and inexpensive. I heard that some of them had hardware issues, but overall those guys drove a lot of people in to a pretty nice device for the money. I suppose there wasn't a reason to refresh that model when there are also 6" and 9"...

It's good to see the Bartender again. This place has been dry for many long months. It's like he retired or something.

The rumors were pretty much true. 4:3 display, quad-core 2.3GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, no sign of a card slot. I'd say it's a sideways step from a Fire HDX. It's 50g heavier and has a 4:3 screen, and there's no 64GB storage option. From a hardware standpoint, that's a little disappointing.

Android 5 - "Lollipop" - was released today. Phones are finally getting user accounts and guest access and there's supposed to be notification prioritization in addition to the usual BS about improved performance and battery life. I'm concerned about is the degree to which 5.0 will cripple...

Google announced Nexus Player today, which has features very similar to the FireTV, right down to Voice Search and bluetooth gamepad support, but it's running on a quad core Atom with 1GB RAM and a PowerVR GPU. One thing I don't see is an ethernet port, but it does 802.11ac.

Microsoft's official Windows Features Suggestion Forum. If you sign in, you get 20 "points" to spread out among suggestions or you can make your own.

This is technically safe for primetime TV but may not be safe for work and you should watch it anyway because it will change your life unless you are an uncultured prude.

It looks like your recovered the Windows recovery partition, which is probably just about completely useless. There's almost certainly a recovery path from Symantec that your corporate IT staff would know or be able to get a support ticket to find out. If somebody made the decision to deploy...

The nice thing about Play Books is that, like Play Music, you can upload a library of content you already have. Down side is that Play Books may not be the simplest cross platform choice (there's no ModernUI or Windows Phone or iOS version - those users can work through the web if that's...

As in self-publishing or just a service where they can purchase books?

There are a few hundred thousand files there. The way I understand things, it's supposed to match tracks to content that Microsoft has a license to stream. Maybe it just hasn't hit the popular music yet, but either it's glacially slow or it doesn't match anything but top 40 music. The stuff...

You just haven't been around long enough. I've been letting my Windows 10 testbed machine do matching for streaming through Xbox Music. I have about 3.3TB of music files, but it's primarily classical music. It's been running for 6 days and so far out of everything I have (and it all has correct...

The Roku OOBE is: Set up networking, to go to the web site, type in a code to ID your device, register an account if you don't have one, enter a credit card (mandatory), then hit the channel selection directory to find content, with stuff like Netflix and Youtube front and center. You have to...

Windows Server beta is also available now. There's some particularly interesting stuff going on for storage pool tech: "Windows Server 2012 introduced Storage Spaces, a method of pooling physical storage devices (hard drives or SSDs) into logical volumes in order to boost performance and...

The palmrest and touchpad are a single part on most laptops. You could try opening up the laptop and re-seating the internal cable. That may or may not be within your comfort level. You could also spend $25 or so on a new palmrest and touchpad. Or you could just plug in another pointing device...

It's pretty much the same thing, Bozo. They're based on the same code, it's just that one managed by people who got pissed when Oracle bought Sun and the other is managed by the people who stayed on (and now work under the banner of the Apache foundation).

You might try doing your work and saving from Google Drive instead. When you choose to download a .gdoc, you can choose the output format and .docx is an option.

Does the S3 have an IR emitter?

Netflix usually is. The FireTV has a good out of box experience.

Suremote is awfully handy as a universal remote app. I like the UI and ease of setup. Way easier than dealing with a Harmony remote.

My default recommendation is the FireTV. It's not the cheapest box, but it has a good overall Netflix and it talks to most of the other stuff I think of as major video services. I'd never actually looked at how much original content Amazon was making available, but it's looking a lot like good...

You could maybe look in to something that gives you virtual desktops. Like Windows 10, anything that runs X, or a program like this.

In the world of STBs, that's actually a tough question to answer. Netflix has a different UI on almost every platform. Some of them almost require users to interact with a PC to pick the titles for viewing. Others have UI issues with browsing or searching.

Over the weekend, Roku announced that the 3 and its HDMI stick would be getting Miracast support. Also, somebody is building an inexpensive FirefoxOS-based competitor to the Chromecast called Matchstick. It was funded within 18 hours of its Kickstarter campaign and it's interesting because it...

As a rough timeline, many members from SF were active on Storage Review's forums in 1998 or 1999. We've been talking about computer stuff for probably at least as long as sed has been alive.

Relax. It's for software testing. You should know better than to do anything secret or mission critical on a Microsoft beta OS that's going to expire in six months anyway. If it makes you feel any better, it's not like Microsoft is going to do anything other than datamine the hell out of what...

That's... not how it works. The number of pixels is fixed. Period. You get however many pixels the display natively supports. When you put a flat panel display in an unsupported mode, one of two things happens: Either the screen will simply display that correct number of pixels and simply not...

Is it too late to return the baby for a less complicated option? Feline infants largely stay where you put them and don't make much noise in the first place, for example.

I saw Windows 10 running on five different machines today and was able to do side by side comparisons between 7, 8.1 and 10 on identical hardware for two of those. My students saw a tiny (like, 1 - 1.5 seconds) boot time improvement between 8.1 and 10 on older machines but I really could not see...

Here's a kind of handy article on how to set up cloud storage folders on a PC so the data from one gets synchronized to the others.