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A few companies are now talking about extremely inexpensive x86 machines with small SSDs and low-res screens that will run full-blown Windows 8 in the ~$200-$250 range. They'll be limited to 2GB RAM, which basically makes them Netbooks redux, but they're probably closer to what a lot of people...

I've been using Waterfox lately. I loaded up 80 pages of tumblrs full of animated .gifs and crap and got RAM utilization up over 3.5GB for the waterfox process and I've left them there while I do my normal browsing. I'd say that it's working fine, though I suspect that if I loaded several tabs...

Since you now have your cool little HP box up and running, have you tried it out for video content yet? Or is it dedicated just to audio at this point? I'm curious to know whether it behaves well enough for high bit-rate video playback. Not to advocate something totally, completely that is...

Do third graders get the metric system? I think you should at least try to communicate this in metric since it lends itself better to scale.

This Universal USB installer is pretty handy. Yes, it'll turn a random Linux .ISO into a bootable thumb drive. But I also noticed that it will do a lot of techie tools and rescue CDs without a whole lot of work. Also, here's a Lifehacker tutorial on making a Live Windows install on a thumb...

This is so much better it's not even funny. Thank you Doug.

I get something like 65/20 when I speedtest to the nearest site but only 40/12 when I test to my Colo in South Bend. The important thing is that I'm getting service that's fast enough that I don't have to worry about how fast my service is. I have one customer that's stuck on a 192k DSL line. I...

There are "lite" versions of XP. One that I've used in a couple specific circumstances would load on an original Pentium and only required 40MB RAM. Of course, it wouldn't take updates and had a lot of functions stripped out, but in most other respects it was functional. I believe it was called...

Nope. Chrome has a Reload button to the left of the address bar. IE is the one that put Reload off to the right where it doesn't belong.

It's probably a registry issue rather than a problem with the font files themselves. There's are a couple programs that are supposed to Fix Windows 98's fonts folder, but the standard practice for fixing anything about Windows 98 was to just do an in-place reinstall and that's what I'd suggest...

I want the constellation of icons to the left of the address bar to be Home, Refresh, Back/Forward. I use an Add-on to make the Stop button kill animations, so I'm sure I'm in the minority of people who still use Stop as well. Mostly I think that putting Refresh at the end of the Address bar is...

I messed with it for a while this morning. It's tied to the Music app. Opening "Music" turns Screen Mirroring on for some reason. It doesn't go off until I manually enter settings to turn it off. That's seriously aggravating.

I finally got sick of having to manually select my Google Drive folder structure while Saving stuff in Office 2013, so here's a script that adds it as a "Place" just like Onedrive and Sharepoint.

I see nothing wrong with paying for a game using whatever legal means are needed to do so and shifting the format to a pirated copy that does not include DRM misfeatures that I do not agree to have. Do I trust the pirates more than the developers and publishers? Absolutely. No question.

You should have backups in %appdata%/roaming/mozilla/firefox/profiles/profilename/bookmarkbackups. Firefox normally makes a backup every day and keeps about 2 weeks' worth of copies.

Android XBMC kind-of supports SMB, but when last I messed with it, your shares had to allow anonymous access.

The FireTV can have XBMC sideloaded and they definitely are fast devices.

Uninistalled and reinstalled, yes. It's actually one of those apps that can't be disabled without root, but I do have root. Since I actually do use it, I'd rather not take it off completely, but it beats the hell out of me what is happening to turn it back on. For a while I thought it might be...

Chromebooks run Android apps now, so IMO, they're vastly more credible devices than they were six months ago. My mother does really well with an Android tablet instead of a Windows PC.

I realize this is a long shot, but does anyone else use the screen mirroring function on their Samsung device? I do, and it keeps turning itself on after I turn it off. I don't want to remove it because I actually use the feature, but the phone isn't respecting my choice as to when it should be...

I'm the post-child for using shit-tons of tabs. I have 91 of them open in Firefox right now and another 12 in Chrome. But what's the functional change? The "X" moves with the open tab. You still have to navigate to the tab to select it and close it. I can understand being annoyed with losing the...

Server 2012r2. Gotta do something with those Technet licenses. I know I installed an Intel driver and I have the Desktop Experience installed. When I get home I'll check. I actually like the tile interface on the TV. It's kind of an abomination on Windows Server, but functionally it's pretty...

You're probably asking the wrong person. I'm the guy with all the porn and the stripper collection and absolutely zero contact with children. But, OK, violent things happen in this movie. It's comic book violence, but people get disintegrated. Space ships blow up. Some of them are visibly...

There's probably a video driver update I haven't bothered to do since the day I set the thing up. Music playback is going to depend a lot on how you organize and how you've chosen to preserve metadata. I do a lot of my playback in XBMC, but my collection is well organized to browse by the...

I am SO FUCKING GLAD my eye is better. New Marvel movie, new slobbering BJ of a post about a new Marvel movie. The first thing I'm going to say is that the stinger at the end of this one - I want to spoil it so bad. There's a reason it didn't get shown to critics. I roared when I saw it...

It's a Samsung UN65ES8000. It's supposed to though I admit that I've never messed with it.

RAM usage looks to be tied to the number of files being synchronized. I sync'd about 100GB of fairly large files overnight (in addition to my normal activity) and RAM usage remained pretty low, around 200MB. I added in just 5GB of pictures and it increased to 360MB. I have resources that I can...

I'd be curious to know if that machine can actually keep up. Yes, it's a 15 year old MMO, but presumably they've made some improvements in their technology over that time.

A few devices have 50/60Hz options but no 24Hz among the ones I actually have plugged in to something. Doesn't look like my NUC will do it either.

The main process on my server here at home is using a whole 48MB RAM.

BTsync seems to work with whatever, at least on Windows and *nix. I use it to move database snapshots from customer sites in extremely short order. The one complaint I have is that the monitor application on Windows is tied to the user account running it, so if you're logging in under a...

I have enough spare drives that I think I'm going to experiment with replicating my data set off-site. I tried BTsync for a 50GB collection of .jpg files and found that it was able to build a complete off-site replicated filesystem in a day and a half and a 15GB disk image in just a couple...

Oddly enough, there really aren't very many pictures of me in general. :P One of my customers is getting a 300Mbit synchronous internet connection put in this week and oddly enough I just figured out where I want to put my spare i7-980X. :D

Here's a nice HTML5 implementation of Settlers of Catan that requires other humans to play.

I was actually referring to my very likely low testosterone levels. Imma get that checked next time I get blood drawn anyway. :\

Honestly, I'm not sure what the general use case is for huge drives. Video storage and centralized backups are about the only things I can think of. Big single drives are a huge PITA to back up and even virtual machines do better if they're given a spindle to themselves rather than having to...

I want large consumer-class disks that are still capable of operating properly in an array. Buying 7200rpm drives seems to be the most straightforward way at the moment to ensure that. If the slower drives weren't deliberately crippled, I wouldn't have a problem with drives being slower, but...

I've been trying to get back here to reply in this thread for five freaking days... I think Groltz just moved to a more lurkerish mode. But I agree that it's great to know he's still around! Also, thanks man. Nitsirk also lurks all the damned time and never posts anything. I talk to her on...

As far as I can tell, I can't even get a WSUS or SCCM package for it as a non-volume customer. When I deployed it in my classrooms, I just pushed out a new image, but looking at the updates I can authorize, it doesn't appear to be classified that way.

I tried installing 8.1 from an 8.0 key and I wasn't able to do so. I'd be shy about handing out 32-bit media, if only because you know sooner or later, someone would actually use it. If you aren't giving people the discs, that's a good choice. Option (d) is still on the table. It is tedious...

You can get the same stuff from lots and lots of different sources, but there's still something to be said for encoding the stuff yourself so you can preserve soundtracks and grab extras from a disc if you want.

Good: 32" waist. Down from 56". Bad: Gotta buy a bunch of new pants.

IIRC, MakeMKV seemed a lot slower at ripping Blurays than using DVDFab or AnyDVD. Has it gotten better?

I always just run DVDFab under WINE

Coyotes are indeed pretty much assholes. They're kind of all over the place around here, too. My aunt and uncle lost a beagle to an owl once, which is a laser-guided, death from above statement about the natural balance of life, I guess.

Goshen is ~85 miles away. The fact that it's ~85 miles away is the reason I have an occasional semi-roommate/houseguest/large number of hair ties in my shower, since that's where she nominally resides.

Handbrake supports a work queue and it's highly scriptable (the GUI is just a front-end to the CLI anyway; it even shows you the command it's going to run). You can spend hours copying source files off disks, but it only takes minutes to set up a job queue of 10 movies, and you can process the...

There are people who will take anything, even if it's tied down. No one takes my desktops, monitors or keyboards but I've found that if I put USB mice out, they get taken. PS/2 mice? No one takes. The OEM Apple keyboards and mice on my Macs haven't been seen since about a month after I set them...

It's weird to think of a GS3 as a mid-range phone now, but it is. Phone screens in particular have improved tremendously over the last 18 months. Why did you pick the G3?

I did kind of play around with running handbrake on 2 -3 4CPU Hyper-V guest instances on my big home server vs. my 3770k, but only with 5 minute test clips. I wasn't doing anything too serious, but the 8 cores of relatively new i7 about 20% faster for doing the same work than two 4 core VMs on...