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Apparently, something that WHS and WHS2011 can't do is back up Windows 8 with GPT disks. Those backups just fail. There's supposed to be a patch but didn't seem to help for my clients. That's pretty aggravating given that's more or less the only reason I've deployed WHS.

Towelroot is apparently a universal Android Root tool. It uses a Linux kernel vulnerability, so there's no mucking around with boot loaders. Probably not the best news for overall Android security, but it's convenient.

The utter lack of warning of failure on the 840 is definitely in line with my experiences.

Actually, the IDEAL would be "present my user interface on whatever screen is closest to hand, including the audio component", but I'd just take audio as a start. I'm sure I could rig up something with X10 gear that would work inside a home, but control over home automation hardware is either...

Those guys are talented videographers, but if you're using crane and helicopter shots and have shit tons of money wrapped up in cameras, lighting and stabilized mounts, you're probably to be able to pull off some pretty nice projects. Those Lindsey Stirling videos, shot on site in New Zealand...

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That's not really the case. I still can't drive anyplace and reading is a pain in the ass.

I found a studio that's producing porn content in 4k. That's mildly interesting if only because, other than a few clips on Youtube or Vimeo or one particular S*ny streaming device that only works with S*ny TVs, there's no commercial source for 4k content. Porn still sits at the forefront of new...

Back to mubs's link: I have no idea how to prove or disprove the functionality of the product. Exploits are by their nature generally not well known or documented outside the communities for which they are a primary concern. If I install an anti-exploit package and I continue to not be impacted...

Functionally, Songcast doesn't do anything that I can't already do with Plex or XBMC.

I make maybe $150/month with a colocated i7-2770 that has five virtual desktops and an Act database on it. I'm 45 minutes from the datacenter, so I can go fix it if need be and if I really HAD to I could bring the whole system up in my apartment in about 20 minutes. The big problem here is that...

Amazon's offering is missing at least one of the major labels. For most people, it's going to be functionally incomplete. It's probably a lot easier for a small player to strike up licensing deals, even if those deals are somewhat disadvantageous. The small player can be acquired and a bigger...

As far as I know, there's no such thing as real-time malware removal. The only thing that paid versions of Malwarebytes do is update automatically. It's possible to immunize against known theats, which is why I install both Spybot and Spywareblaster and combine them with Adblock Plus on all...

I'm thinking about turning sources on and off as I move around. Right now, I can send local content to a specific device in a specific room via Plex (or XBMC, depending). Which is cool all by itself. But the cooler thing would be a relatively seamless handoff between receivers so that for...

Looks like it is to me.

I suppose that would depend on your needs. FreeBSD or OpenSolaris with two four-disk RAIDZs and a pair of caching SSDs each? That's some pretty serious hardware. A hypervisor with one dedicated core and each 3.5" bay as an independent disk per guest? Storage Spaces on a Windows Server...

I've spent a while the last couple days trying to figure out a way to script bluetooth audio device changeover. The AVRs in my bedroom and living room support bluetooth directly. I have MPOW receivers in my bathroom and back bedroom. GPS doesn't have enough sensitivity for so small a space and...

Apparently that enclosure would pretty much have to be mated with an Asrock C2750D4I in order to fully utilize both the chassis and the motherboard. I'm just going to have to find and excuse to try that.

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Amazon just added free music streaming for Prime Members. This might explain why the FireTV's music offerings were somewhat lackluster.

... back to that comment about ITX boards not having enough SATA ports.

Stick it in a colo. I bet you could make $1000/month just hosting Sharepoint or something.

Schneier.com comes up for me and if Facebook was generally broken on any browser it would be international news. Self-absorbed moms and frat boys everywhere would be inconsolable.

I bought three more. I was shipped two 64GB models and 1 32GB. They're all two-tone white and grey, but since this borders on too good to be true, I actually verified all three. They write at about 50MB/sec and read back at just under 80MB/sec, but all three passed verification.

I'd concur that there's something else. Maybe you've got a plug-in that isn't closing cleanly? But I am seeing that Firefox on my two main systems is spending a lot more time around or at the 2GB RAM mark. I don't care all that much since I pay for the RAM so that I can use it, but on the other...

My standard practice is just to keep one of whatever the cheapest and oldest socket-compatible thing is on hand for BIOS flashes (a Sandy Bridge Pentium G for 1155, say). I went through this a couple years ago with brand new boards lacking support for Ivy Bridge CPUs. In fact, I just ran in to...

I need about 20GB to store good sysprep image and another ~6GB for different versions of MS Office. All of the drives I bought have at least that much stuff on them and all of them have been used to restore that data at least a couple times.

A company called BuyDig.com is offering Lexar 32GB USB3 thumb drives for $12 on Ebay. I bought a couple and they came in the same obnoxious retail packaging as the ones I've seen at Microcenter.

Sure, but also definitely educational. You have to start with transitioning from a.out binaries to ELF binaries. You'll go through two or three boot loaders. You wind up changing C libraries, Windowing Toolkits, disk formats and of course kernels. if you can manage all those changes and maintain...

For a good education about what things do and how they work, go salvage a Pentium 2 or the like and try to make it run a pre-Linux 1.0 Slackware. then look at what it takes to upgrade to successively newer software.

I've put them in offices. I know they have pretty decent range, but there's not much actual 802.11ac equipment floating around to try them with. I don't care that they're refurbs since home routers are not terribly reliable in the first place. I actually figure that the ones that have been...

Some manufacturers replace the standard Power controls with their own software. You may find Windows behaves better if you remove their power saving utility. Of course, that could also kill your battery life while you're using a laptop. And yes, you may need to go poking around in your firmware...

Crashplan is $50/year and you can keep all your movies on that if you're worried about it. Your best bet for basic testing is probably the manufacturer tool: WinDFT or WD DLG or Seatools.

Look for refurbished Netgear products.

It was OSS, but the principle devs were supposedly anonymous even to each other. The chain of trust has been compromised at this point, so it really doesn't matter.

The most reliable large (3TB+) drives I have are Hitachi Deskstar models. I've had "enterprise-type" Ultrastars fail but not the Deskstars. I have a reported SMART failure on the 4TB Barracudas on a roughly quarterly basis, which doesn't make me very happy, but those drives are also in the most...

It looks to me like the coded message is that 1. The NSA made us change our code so they could decrypt it. We complied and then stopped all our work. 2. They told us not to say anything about that 3. We also know that every other OSS encryption product has been back doored 4. We think Bitlocker...

One thing worth mentioning is that 802.11ac equipment, with its premium price and early adopter tax, typically has ridiculously nice host CPUs that don't make it down to budget products. That means support for more simultaneous connections, both external (torrents, basically) and internal (lots...

You can. The main reason applications become incompatible is Firefox UX designers really hate the Add-ons bar at the bottom of the screen. They have tried to remove it at least twice, and that is the reason that fairly popular add-ons like ForecastFox do not work right now. I am very aware of...

Since I just had to do both of these things... Time to regenerate a failed 3TB drive in a 5-drive 12TB Server 2012 Software RAID5 Storage space: 3 hours 44 minutes. Time to regenerate a failed 3TB drive in a 5-drive 12TB Synology NAS: 57 hours. The Synology array was only about 22% full. The...

Short version: I am as prediabetic as it is possible to be. A1C of 6.4. This is in spite of being incredibly careful with my diet and maintaining a level of physical activity. That by itself is bad enough, since preventing that state of affairs has been my #1 goal in life for the last few years...

Did you look in to Google Drive at all? You get 15GB by default there.

Have you tried it? Does it actually do anything?

Well this is the pub so perhaps you should also pour a glass and share your woes of late.

I already eat like I'm a diabetic. Tiny meals, controlled portions, almost no sweets. I go to the gym at least three times a week even when I'm ridiculously busy. It's kind of miserable, since eating has been one of the only pleasures I consistently have. I lost a huge amount of weight and got...

IIRC there's a HUGE efficiency gain for chest-style freezers. I don't know if that applies to the bottom drawer style but that efficiency gain may be the reason for the uptick in its popularity in French door fridges. Most American kitchens in single-family homes are arranged in such a way to...

Where I grew up, I was more than once within about a mile of where a tornado touched down. Sometimes my house would be pelted with corn or bits of snow fence. One time I found a car tire in my yard after a tornado went through. A couple years after I moved away from central Illinois, the town...

Diabetes is just a very slow and very expensive death which for me would largely remove what little joy I could take in life.

It's possible to do that, but the way it's been explained to me is that this is something that usually just goes away on its own. Right now I'm looking for medical conditions for which this could be a symptom, like advanced diabetes or brain cancer. If that stuff has been ruled out then the...