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The right answer is probably still "it depends" but more and faster cores definitely help it. If you're seriously bottle necked in your workflow by your CPU, moving to an LGA2011 system with 6/12 cores would be a start. In my case, I found the biggest problem was having to wait an hour for 30GB...

It's even better knowing that the people who take them mostly make about double what I do. They take my screwdrivers, too.

I suppose it's mostly the cable connector, though I haven't seen a real PC speaker in years. I suppose it would have to connect through the AC97 audio header? What's happening (and I can't believe this is THAT MUCH of a problem but everyone bitches about it), is that in my classrooms, people are...

I have a Makerbot Replicator sitting in one of my off-site classrooms. I'm supposed to figure out how to work it so I can teach other people, but so far I haven't even taken it out of the box yet.

I couldn't get a decent picture since he was never that close to where I was. I have couple fine images of a grey blob that could be ostrich but might also be evidence of bigfoot.

There's an ostrich running around the subdivision and the water park that are next to my office. An OSTRICH.

Does anyone know where to get the full-range internal speakers that show up in inexpensive business desktop machines? I've heard them in HP and Dell machines. I'm not talking about drive bay speakers; the machines I'd like to outfit don't have a free 5.25" bay.

My eye is slowly getting better. I've spent a tremendous amount of money on diagnostics that are supposed to be interpreted next week, but at the moment I no longer have what I would call persistent double vision. Instead, it's conditional. Basically, my vision seems normal unless I'm tracking...

Against my better judgment, I went to see the new Transformers movie. That movie treats plot and characterization like the Germans treated the Warsaw Ghetto in 1938.

If nothing else, white space is gained, making the page less crowded and easier to read. I'm still willing to call that a win. Advertisements presented through typical ad networks might involve as many as five parties between the person creating the content and the device on which the content...

Ads are still a fundamental problem. 1. All ads are intrusive. Even by taking space on my screen that could be used for content, they are unwelcome. 1a. I am fully aware that some web sites need revenue to operate. As an individual, I would rather donate or pay a subscription fee than see ads...

I have mad, mad hate for Konica document centers and their terrible software, but I also don't have a Synology NAS on a domain so I can't speak to what features might or might not be disabled. Technically, CIFS is a superset of SMB networking that includes stuff like addressing directly by IP...

I've never tried one. I've been aware of them for a while. It was a crowdfunded project that seemed like a good idea, but a little bit too expensive for what it does.

It is, but that's why we have RAM in the first place. Internet advertising is an arms race and Adblock Plus (or Edge) is really the best way to stay ahead of the bad guys. You could do hosts file blocking or buy an adblocking appliance, but I know from experience that at least hosts file...

IIRC, CIFS has to be specifically enabled in the management utility. I think it hides under the LDAP options someplace. It's just a checkbox, so it would be really easy to miss.

Did you enable CIFS support?

Is it at least a pleasant walk?

I'd call $3k for a 50 - 60" brand-name 4k TV reasonable, and there are a couple options that are in that ballpark.

My dietary requirements leave me with ridiculously limited options. I eat very little processed food. I avoid carbs from sources besides fruits and vegetables (e.g. broccoli) or grains (mostly steel cut oats for oatmeal). I avoid sodium, artificial sweeteners and caffeine (I do drink tea). I...

I gave up on my FreeNAS machine about 18 months ago because of the expense and annoyance at tracking down compatible 4GB+ ECC FBDIMMs for my system. I saw a big performance gain moving from 4GB up to IIRC 12GB. I could see that I would've been happier still if I could've gotten 16GB or more, but...

If there's a normal Windows browser besides Firefox or Chrome, it's not one that's worthy of consideration as normal.

My FreeNAS machine was RAM limited for much of its life. Even though it had 8 cores to work with, I felt there was a subjective decrease in performance for using Plex on it. I switched the server over to a Windows box and I stopped noticing when anything was streaming, probably because the...

When I was your age, I had already had a subscription to Playboy for a almost two years. And my parents knew about it. The condition was that I had to prove I was READING it, but at the time it was interesting enough that wasn't really a problem. I almost got thrown out of my high school's AP...

I found that it was easier to just host files on FreeNAS and run my server on a Windows PC.

I've been using it for a couple years, maybe? Every once in a while I find a site that doesn't work properly, but even seeing how many third party scripts run on mainstream sites is enough to ensure that I'm going to keep using it.

Surprisingly, the biggest problem is just that userland tools on Android aren't allowed to access certain application settings for security reasons. You can get calendars and messages, but you're not going to be able to grab your savegame on Bubble Shooter or saved login credentials for the...

It's a lot of ancient history. BSD *is* UNIX, with a code base that dates all the way back to Bell Labs in the late 60s. The "B" in BSD refers to the University of California at Berkley, which is where some of the most substantial modifications to original UNIX code originated. BSD has more or...

Doing so in such a way that includes applications and all secured data requires root access to the device. It's definitely possible, but generally looked askance by handset manufacturers and service providers.

Aw man that's terrible. I hope he pulls through.

I found this post easier to read in the original Klingon: 'op meq narghtaHvIS 'oH wabmeyvetlh reset phone pagh QaQ, meq. DaH fir Androgen google ghel 'oH)) mu'wIj 'oH pagh clue vIghaj. vay' onlibe, 'ach yhe wa' poH uTerus ngaQ account jatlh QaH. DaH totally screwed im 'e' app jom. Sumqu' 'ej je...

Dorco handles and blades are on Amazon now. The price is certainly a big step in the right direction.

I finally found an SSD that's failing gracefully. It's a three year old Corsair Force 3, sitting at about 20% health according to SMART data. It's giving errors on (most) writes but the whole disk has absolutely no read errors. Also, I've been able to buy 240GB SSDs for under $100 all week. I...

It's 55 degrees here on the south tip of Lake Michigan today. The winter was so cold the lakes haven't really warmed up yet.

This would be the point where something like a FreeAgent Theater, WD TV Live or Boxee Box would be worth a lot more than a Chromecast. Anyway, yeah. You could install XBMC and configure an XBMC remote to run that off your tablet. It would be pretty straightforward.

The RAM isn't soldered on. It's in an internal socket that IIRC is under the keyboard where it's a PITA to get to, but not inaccessible. And if you have a Latitude from that era with Intel video, count yourself lucky. The versions that had the nVidia graphics were born to die because of a...

Never mind. I'm confused. You'd need the laptop on the same WLAN as the Chromecast for that to work. So everything would have to run through your phone. Which would probably run about two hours unless it was plugged in to AC power. You'd be better off just plugging you laptop straight in to an...

Is your phone either rooted or supported by Foxfi/PDAnet?

Thunderbird on Windows underlines and changes color immediately after you add the link, if you use the "Add link" button instead of just pasting in the address. I suspect that it's not being marked up as a link because the editor is relatively simple and doesn't look for content to mark up, but...

I don't think that's because of Plex but just because the Chromecast wants one when you first start it up? I haven't had mine plugged in for a while but the first thing it does is demand a connection to a WLAN.

I have a cover for my lens, but since I live along one of the busiest travel corridors in the midwest (Interstates 80, 94 and 65 are all within a few miles), I try to confine myself to surface streets. People do stupid things on the expressways. I really only wear the cover when I'm driving...

Does your Chromecast just not have an internet connection?

Probably the RAID0 of 4TB SSDs.

1366x768 is basically the mark of laptop (or desktop monitor, I guess) shitty-ness, but it's incredibly common now as a low-cost display option. I tell people to look for 900 vertical pixels at a minimum, because the thing you don't want is to have some legacy application with a window that...

I'm not sure I understand the problem. The messages are sent as HTML unless you have recipients marked for text only or change your default settings. Most people use only the most basic of formatting, which the software on the other side will render as appropriate for the client. Which is what...

Of course, that also brings in to question the actual value of the enterprise stuff. I suspect a lot of places have $1000 Cisco APs that could do just as well with $50 Netgear models.

There's no actual treatment. I have done a lot of tests to see if I have other problems, but nothing can be done for my eye. If it doesn't get better on its own, I can elect to use a specially curved lens for my glasses that will prevent the overlap in my vision, but doing so will more than...

For what it's worth, the Synology NAS does have some network-based file sharing features that become available if they're exposed directly to the internet. They can do WebDAV and FTP with relatively little configuration. It's definitely not out of the question that a small business would have...

I don't think we should be at all surprised that a prepackaged storage solution like a Synology NAS would have swiss cheese security. I'm kind of impressed that somebody could make that much money cryptocoin mining on a bunch of Atom CPUs.

Amazon's internal return policies are really simple. In most cases, they just give you your money back and pay for return shipping. In rare cases, they charge you a restocking fee. I really never buy electronics from third parties selling through Amazon and straightforward returns and fast...

The AMD 5350 APU looks relatively credible for a budget consumer system. Looks like you could build a low-power/low noise rig with a 120GB SSD for maybe $250.