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I am not happy, but at least I have join.me and/or Teamviewer.

net share music=c:\users\username\music /grant:"company users",change /users=5 Share your personal Music folder as \\localhost\music, granting the Company Users group ("Everyone" is probably also a safe choice if you have NTFS permissions in place) with Change rights (instead of read or full)...

That would be a great box for that purpose as long as you can work out a control scheme and front-end that you can live with. I suggest XBMC and either a Rii or a Logitech k400r if you'd like a device that's a bit larger. The one down side in XBMC is that streaming plug-ins can be fussy, but you...

I'll keep you in mind next time I do a pass at my spare parts bins.

Dell desktops don't have standard parts because they're Dells. That's how they are. You might as well be annoyed with the sun for rising in the east for all the good it does. The people who buy machines like that know full well that the systems are going to be disposable and they will act...

My big file server has 29 internal 4TB drives (29? Yeah. There's a bunch of empty space inside the chassis in front of the power supply and I had the extra SATA ports that were just going to waste...) and another 12 3TB drives in an SAS enclosure and potentially another 8 2TB drives in an eSATA...

Stop judging my data collection habits! :P

UPS shipping to a residence for something that light would be around $12. USPS could cut it down to maybe $3 if you're willing to tolerate crappy handling and no insurance. That said, it's highly unlikely that your current laptop has a socketed CPU and there isn't going to be much of a...

net, netsh, same difference. :) But yes, I also hate netsh.

Here's the relevant command reference. Try: net int ip set dns name="lan2" source=none

Video Downloadhelper is a ridiculously handy Firefox add-on in the first place, but I just noticed something that makes it even better: In Firefox, if you right click on selected text that contains Youtube links, you'll see that you have the option to "Download video from selected Youtube...

My thinking is to just disable DNS on that interface entirely, something that should be pretty straightforward: net int ip set dns name="lan2" none Will work I think. netsh doesn't directly have a context for dealing with NetBIOS-anything so I think you have to do that with wmic. Again, the...

netsh is one of those commands I kind of hate, because it's so overloaded with functions. Does that interface need to handle DNS at all or is it just a static route to some other single NIC or address range?

The more I use this thing, the more I think that I could live with it if three problems were fixed: 1. Either a different web browser or some ability to customize modern IE. Modern IE doesn't leave tab controls or even navigation on screen. That's pretty awful for someone with my browsing...

I have strictly indoor cats. They go out on the balcony in warmer months, but the biggest difference is that my girl cat is willing to tolerate sleeping next to the boy. She's normally very territorial about my bed, which is the one place she thinks is hers. And hey it was only -6 today, so we...

Look at it this way: You have an Athlon 2600 that's still technically useful some 10 years after you bought it. :)

-16F on my balcony this morning.

It more or less only works when every firewall along the the transit path has been configured to allow it. You can very rarely assume that to be true. I stick Crossloop on all my client's PCs for remote support or use Join.me (which is also a LogMeIn service) for people I don't think figure out...

The MakerBot people announced some kind of huge deal with Dell today. Also: .

Those are definitely some bad circumstances. Let us know if there's something we can do.

i3-3220 4GB Crucial DDR3 120GB Kingston SSD Foxconn H61 ITX motherboard ITX chassis + PSU $350 That's more or less the exact PC I'm building for office systems right now. It's a modest machine and I'd prefer a nicer motherboard (Gigabyte or Asus H77, maybe, but those are twice as expensive)...

That's true, but part of the advantage of the ridiculous i7 rig is being able to do other things at the same time as video encoding. The CPU utilization for my main home system stays pegged at somewhere north of 90% for days on end from batch video encodes, but when I'm interacting with it (even...

If it makes you feel any better, I just had to drive two hours to a customer site (in Siberian cold-ass weather) because some other vendor was screwing with LAN cabling in the server rack and plugged its ethernet cable into its IPMI management port. At least Google fixes their crap when they...

One of the multinational insurance companies a couple customers of mine deal with still requires IE6 for at least one of their internal portal sites. Everyone has an XP Mode VM that's a shortcut to THAT SITE and I even went through the trouble of changing everyone's IE favorites to launch the...

The RealVNC Viewer is free on the Play Store right now. It's usually $10. There are freebie VNC viewers out there but RealVNC is probably the best known commercial implementation.

For whom? I'm still really undecided about the Surface. It's frustrating for me because I know what I could do on an Android device and all of those features that I miss, like the swipe-able keyboard and consistent data sharing options. Having real Microsoft Office plus Remote Desktop plus a...

Congratulations, man! Get out now and enjoy the things life has to offer. Like model trains and strippers. Looking at how my folks have done, one thing I have got to say is make sure you have plenty of reasons to be out of the house. I can see a huge difference with my uncles (and also with...

Support for multi-socket configurations, ECC and more RAM.

Clock speed is a dead horse right now. Everything you get north of 4.2GHz or so is a gift and even if you buy the most ridiculous LGA2011 CPU and strap a Frigidaire to the heat sink, you're still not even going to make it to 5GHz on more than six cores. Evem with whatever-blah-something new...

$20k would get you in a 40-core, 80 thread Xeon E7 with 64GB RAM... Doesn't Photoshop offload a bunch of stuff to the GPU now anyway? Does moving to something with ever more CUDA cores represent any sort of real-world improvement?

Is the impacted account configured for Exchange ActiveSync or as IMAP/SMTP?

My hatred of WD is based on a lifetime of collected data. The WD20EADs drives I have are supposed to have an order of magnitude higher MTBF rating than WD Blue drives but I think that only 17 of the 24 I had still work. I did use a lot of the 1.5TB -AS drives in one of my file servers for...

The short answer is that there really hasn't been that much progress on the performance front. I don't wanna say that Intel doesn't care about desktop CPUs any more, but Intel doesn't care about desktop CPUs any more. They're rapidly becoming a niche market.

Going with the pure computer-related mistakes: 1. Using "wall" (write all) as a demonstration command for something ordinary users wouldn't be able to do on campus UNIX systems. What I didn't know was that my student account had been granted some extra powers because of my duties as a lab...

Do you really want to be testing on hardware dissimilar to what you're using in production? As I understand it, Opterons are generally in the same place as mainstream desktop CPUs. The performance per core doesn't hold up, so AMD is selling on the basis of providing a lot of low-cost cores and...

I'm not sure if this covers Hamachi or not. The language of the press release suggests that it does, but Hamachi in and of itself has always been outside the main LogMeIn software suite. I use Ignition about once every two weeks to get to a machine at home via my tablet or phone, but I could...

Well, I've definitely dropped a case of hard drives but I think my biggest and most costly mistake was bothering to get an academic degree to work in IT. Not just because I had to pay off student loans but because I skipped out on the .com boom and the opportunity to move to San Fransisco in the...

Lunar, if your computers are noticeably louder or hotter than other normal office equipment, you need better computers. People have slept in the same room with my big file server and never noticed it.

That's one of those things that makes some people proper Engineers with the rest of us are just IT guys.

I'd rather eat the cost for leaving the drives running all the time than have them do anything but run 24x7. Servers I manage have had very few disk problems over their lifetime, something I'm thankful for, and I attribute that in part to not bothering to spin down drives.

Apparently HP is going to resume shipments of consumer PCs with Windows 7. They are touting this as a feature.

I didn't really think to mess with games, but the first two non-trivial titles I picked from the Windows Store, Avengers Initiative and Disney The Little Mermaid Undersea Treasures, both hang on startup on my Surface 2 even though both of them indicate they support ARM processors and that...

Firefox asks permission to install Addon updates when it starts. They're not mandatory.

Chrome REALLY doesn't have the rich Add-ons ecosystem that Firefox does, but the funny part about this to me is that it's going to impact the tiny percentage of Chrome users who are aware that they can install add-ons at all. It's not just that it's a new attack vector, it's an attack vector...

Unlike human infants, absolutely all cat-babies are adorable.

15 years of UI consistency!

As much as I dislike nVidia-based cards, you're most assuredly better off with that Geforce 2. You can find legacy drivers to work with it at Omega Drivers.

In order to get Intel's motherboard drivers installed properly, you need one or two things: The Chipset driver and/or the Intel Management Engine driver (though I don't think that applies on the i865 as it's too old). If your video driver isn't installing properly, it's because one of those...

Lunar wouldn't be the first person to use that line!

OpenBSD is kind of the Cult of Theo de Raadt. I wonder how many well-meaning supporters he has chased away over the years?