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That's true but he's also apparently spent quite a lot more time looking at Windows desktops than most people his age.

All those Intel motherboards and not a single mATX BH61.

They're officially called "Modern Style Applications", I think. Some of them are even pretty nice, like News Bento or Netflix. You also have to remember that modern style programs aren't being made for you. They're being made for younger people who have grown up with Xbox 360 and mobile devices...

Sed, you might want to watch "Master and Commander", with an eye toward what Cabin Boys doing on those ships.

Online FPS games that aren't requesting map textures in every new game aren't going to contribute to bandwidth utilization in any kind of meaningful way. The mid and late 90s games in particular were designed to be playable over dialup speed connections. Five minutes of Pandora probably creates...

Yeah. It's god awful, especially if you regularly switch between external network configurations. Would you want to walk an end user through reconfiguring their vSwitches? The desktop version also doesn't support clipboard sharing. We're supposed to do everything through RDP, but if I...

I'm going to make my class tomorrow about installing it. I have a couple crappy notebooks and a desktops from early C2D to lga1150 i3 systems and it'll be fun for everyone to see what it will run on. Also, unlike any beta version of Windows I can remember, it supports an upgrade install from 7...

Talking about Windows versions in common release you have Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7 and 8, so the next one would be the 10th major launch. Maybe? One of my big concerns is the extent to which software will be deployed from the Windows Store vs. normal updates. I also want to...

Shit. That's just shit. Do please say something if we can help somehow.

This can be the thread about Windows 10. I'm sure we'll need one of those. So far, what we know is that it has an unholy combination of start menu and start screen, modern style apps can be made to run in windows, virtual desktop support, apps can be docked to corners and the standard console...

I was addressing time at that point. The 750Ti seemed like a better choice than his suggestion for a GTX660.

Sounds like we're all falling apart of late. :\

Something weird about Windows RT/Modern-style Windows apps: My Microsoft account exposes a certain amount of music that managed to be saved in the standard C:\users\username\music Library from whichever machine I accidentally saved music into that folder from. So that music shows up if I sign in...

Why not a 750Ti for modest gaming needs? I've seen them as cheap as $115 and the much lower TDP probably has real value in a small chassis.

You can connect with anything that supports OpenVPN, PPTP or L2TP. You have all kinds of options there. Maybe Coug's computers can use his time of infirmity to rest up before the beatings continue. ;)

The Prodigy is absolutely enormous for a "small" case. I have a couple that I have filled up with hard drives for off-site backup purposes. I will say that they're quiet-ish and, at least with i3 CPUs and no video card, they aren't a problem as far as heat management.

I run it on single dedicated machine. It would be completely fine on a VM. The provider allows I think four or five simultaneous connected clients and they have instructions for connecting with a number of different client types and protocols.

Days of Future Past was way, way better than I had anticipated. I'd be perfectly happy to ditch Wolverine-centric movies in favor of the McAvoy/Fassbender/Lawrence cast and in fact I love the period piece setting. Yes this is the movie thread. I'm going to talk about TV now. Cope. Agents of...

When I started using it, I set up what I thought would be a HUGE storage pool. And then I actually filled it to the provisioned size. And then it was a pain in my butt.

I had a need for custom printed flash drives. I bought them through Alibaba. They were made right away but then took about 20 days to ship to me.

You could've just asked me for those. I already had both of them. I can even see the cases from where I'm sitting. I also have the Blood and Chrome and Caprica series soundtracks, which were similarly limited.

Maybe the Asus characteristic is now "Don't behave properly after a power outage?"

You might want to be sure that you're OK with the work involved in adding zPools or expanding existing ones. If you have limited numbers of ports, bringing a new, large zPool online to copy your data to is going to be beyond your resources. If you're under any kind of time pressure, upgrading...

Over the course of a month, the Seagate and Hitachi drives both seem to go on sale for at least one week at both Amazon and Newegg, but limit 2 and limit 5 are both very common. Just play a waiting game and you'll get your setup working sooner or later. What platform are you planning to use...

The device is normally called "High Definition Audio Device" on just about everything. The driver on everything newer than XP is provided by Microsoft.

Yeah. Or flip the power switch on the PSU. What seems to happen is that he BIOS reverts to "Safe Defaults" including IDE mode SATA.

Microsoft's high level run-time is .NET, which is implemented on other platforms as Mono. It's more of a competitor to Java than a full application ecosystem. I have no idea how widely used it is to develop software for *nix or game consoles, but if you write C# for a living I guess it's better...

Vizio released a line of highly affordable 4k TVs this week. The least positive thing I can find anyone saying about them basically boils down to "Still better than the cheap Samsungs." 50" for $1000, 60" for $1700, 70" for $2400. No full reviews seem to be available yet, but the early word...

Updated binaries are already coming online. As I understand it, the issue is that the OSes in question are set up with environment variables that invoke /bin/bash. It's not simply a problem of someone somehow remotely invoking a shell script; the systems will probably do it on their own as...

I do use it for torrents and they run at about 1/3 as fast as they would without the VPN. It's fast enough for my needs.

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I'm sure you're using the same Realtek Audio driver that every other Windows computer built in the last five or six years is. Is it possible that your audio is skipping when you're at high CPU utilization or high internal temperature?

The Dell Venue 8 7000 looks like sexy stuff. I suspect it's going to be a $600 device though.

A couple interesting things I've noticed in the last few weeks: Toshiba says it's planning to step away from consumer laptops, starting by axing products for new markets, which I take to mean zero-profit machines for India and China. And Samsung says it's going to stop selling laptops in Europe...

Microsoft announced a branded Miracast receiver today. Which explains Windows 8.1 getting full support for it in a recent update. Miracast on Android is pretty much perfect. It just works (other than the increased battery drain) and it's fine if it's a thing that you want. Miracast on Windows...

$20/month for an unlimited monthly account is definitely high but probably not out of the realm of reason if you get a lot of content from Newsgroups. I pay $40/year for my VPN account and use a dedicated PC with a full time connection to that VPN, including DNS requests. The provider retains...

Microsoft already has a high level universal run time of its own. I think Android-as-run-time is potentially interesting mostly because it might be able to bring about a degree of desktop/mobile device integration that Microsoft itself has not.

The 8.9" FireHDX is 2560x1600. The rumors I've seen all seem to suggest it's an iFruit Air clone in terms of weight and form factor.

I thought the Nexus 9 compared unfavorably to the FireHDX 8.9. It has a 4:3 screen it's kind of miserly in terms of display DPI for a high end device, and on top of that it's pretty heavy for its size, but then the FireHDX isn't Google-licensed and most models don't have GPS (and none have a...

Chome is now a quasi-runtime for using Android applications on any platform that can run Chrome according to this Lifehacker guide.

Changing the disk controller mode back and forth causes Windows to bluescreen until it's in the state that was used for Windows installation. It's straightforward to fix. DEL to enter firmware. F7 to enter Advanced Mode. Go to Integrated Peripherals, set it to AHCI again, F10 to save. It's also...

I guess it might just be me, but seemingly every Asus motherboard I've picked up that was manufactured in the last three or four years will auto-select the disk controller to IDE mode after a power loss. I have this problem with workstation boards and budget desktop products. I don't have THAT...

As far as I know, the VLC encoder is source-only at the moment. Which isn't terrible, but of course I'm looking for something a little more production ready. ffMPEG also has limited HEVC support, though I understand it's a little picky about what it will actually decode. I know most of you guys...

It looks to me like playable 4k framerates are still a couple generations off for sub $300-hardware. Getting there at all with a card that runs at 165W is definitely an accomplishment. My ears perk up at the idea of hardware HEVC encoding, but I still can't find free software for handling that...

I got bronchitis so "arr" is about all I can manage but this seems to fit the holiday spirit.

It should and it does. Those C2D systems could still have years left in them.

FileHippo seems to have started repackaging binaries in the same way that download.com does. Sigh.

You know you're in for a rough week when you've already worked 40 hours and it's still Monday.

I'm OK with that.

If those drives are capable of acting as if they're compose of SLC RAM, why wouldn't we want them to ALWAYS act as SLC RAM?