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The i865 is compatible with Windows 7 and you should really go and get proper drivers for the graphics and system chipset (you may also want/need the Intel Management Engine component to make everything work properly if Windows didn't pick it up and is being weird about detecting hardware). I...

Lenovo sent someone to pick up my T420 (with the cracked palmrest) at quarter to 7 Tuesday night, at the place I specified. It was overnighted to a repair depot 500 miles away and returned to me 8:30 Thursday morning. I spoke to a single Lenovo support rep after a hold time of less than 10...

I've spent a couple days now using the RT-version of the Surface and I have a few thoughts. Most of them are complaints borne out of past experiences, but overall I'd call it pretty positive. 0. Surface needs a swipe-to-type keyboard. 1. There are no decent web browsers. There's IE. But TPLs...

As a general rule, major-revision software upgrades on older devices are usually going to result in some sluggishness. The new software is almost always going to be built on a set of performance assumptions that aren't going to hold for older hardware, such as more CPU cores or available RAM. In...

Right now my main file server is a Server 2012 machine that uses a combination of SoftRAID1 or RAID5 arrays plus SnapRAID to maintain redundancy. FreeNAS/ZFS works, but it's much better with NFS than SMB, and NFS on Windows is somewhat lacking. I don't like how complex my file system structures...

Hint: Stick a copy of your preferred ninite executable on your Skydrive so you don't have to sully yourself with IE. That's also a good place to add whatever other freeware downloads and web shortcuts to get your clients set. I actually have a whole Windows 7 and Windows 8 default user account...

It was a good movie, especially for a "Holiday" release. I was a bit worried that it would be a bit of a diabetes-inducing glurge-fest, but it didn't quite tip over that line. It was a sweet story that deserved to be told. American Hustle, though, deserves to be seen if only for the moments...

The magic glue of all things ebook is Calibre, which runs on everything and deals with every format. If you buy the book from Amazon, you can use Amazon Kindle for Windows (NOT Cloud Reader, which is a different product) to get a copy protected .mobi on to your PC. Once it's there, you can use...

Hard as it is to believe, I have to teach a dozen people to use non-Pro Surfaces in two weeks. Anyone have any favorite Metro apps they wanna mention?

Squee! Demonoid's web site isn't back up, but there is activity on its tracker again. Yes I still have five year old torrents open and there now there is activity on them. So for that guy who has been trying to download my copy of the Complete Works of J.S. Bach since 2011, mazel tov. Also, I...

A cat simulator game.

What did your daughter do to have itunes inflicted on her? Was she torturing kittens? Getting bad grades? Was it arson? It was arson, wasn't it?

My biggest annoyance with Microsoft Mice is that Windows downloads and installs Microsoft's extra configuration software if it detects one. My second biggest annoyance with Microsoft's pointing devices is that they don't make a proper thumb-control trackball. Logitech is the only company that...

There's a dude in Montana or North Dakota who keeps trying to sign up for Facebook and some other services (Christian Mingle and Plenty Of Fish) using an email address that's registered to me. We have the same surname but we aren't related. If I had any idea how to actually contact him I would...

You may very well be in the odd state of actually needing a monitor definition file and/or discover that some other video modes become available with a graphics driver update.

The skills you'll want and need will be vastly different, as will the interests and demands of employers. To put that in to perspective: 18 years ago, something like a quarter of my CS classmates were actively headhunted to go work for booming .com startups because they could write HTML...

"OMG it's ugly" seems to be a perfectly valid reason to reject something for people who use Macs. Historically, OSX had handled device independent scaling (and WYSIWYG color calibration, which I understand is the big reason people stick with OSX for content creation) a lot better than Windows...

Apparently, OSX has pretty serious problems with 4k Display support. Given that a sizable chunk of professional-grade content creation is being done on OS X, that suggests a real disincentive to bother with getting decent desktop-size 4k displays for the rest of us. Goddammitsomuch.

They're Gaming/Hobbyist machines, similar to Dell's XPS line. I read that as "Has a discrete GPU with a cooling system that will fail and kill the system well before the end of the laptop's useful life", but that's more of a general sentiment regarding gaming laptops than any specific...

Completely fine. There's just a hairline fracture running along the palmrest where I normally set my left wrist. I'd take a picture but there's nothing to see. I can definitely feel it as I use the machine though.

Another how cold is it: It's so cold that the palmrest on my T420 cracked from being left out in the car for a few days.

Newegg offers free ground shipping on most non-bulky items these days. Not as handy as Amazon Prime but definitely better than per-item charges.

That looks like a perfect secondary monitor to me.

Not really. They both booted on as little as 40MB RAM, it's just that a server with AD installed took longer to boot. Pretty much the same as current Desktop Windows and current Server Windows now. I can rattle off the other difference but honestly it's all ancient history. To provide a touch...

Newegg has a 120GB Kingston V300 for $70 today, if you're a person who gets their email specials. I suspect there will be a LOT of heavily discounted OCZ drives in the very near future.

If it makes you feel any better, the first time I installed Linux, I did it over a 9600bps serial link and the first time I recompiled my own kernel I had to involve an ftape device because I didn't have enough local storage for all the dev tools AND code. How fast is 9600bps for you young'uns...

... Or they could be like my company, where updating the web site is about as high a priority as ensuring the office supplies are alphabetized and color coordinated.

A bit of ancient (REALLY ancient) history.

I strongly suspect that Windows 7 will be supported for rather longer than 8.x, in much the same way and for much the same reason as Windows XP was. Beyond that, Lenovo and Apple are the only two companies that offer internationally valid warranties on notebooks; most notebook warranties are for...

It could just as easily be a 3GHz CPU at a modest Speedstep value.

It was banned from the Play Store, but device-wide Adblock+ is available for Android Devices in the Amazon App Store. Some people say it causes problems with some other apps, but I haven't observed any issues yet on the devices where I've tried it. It does not require root and I've been using...

One other issue that relates to using Libraries: It's not all THAT uncommon for them to get messed up somehow. My Windows 8.1 trashed my non-default configuration and I only just got around to fixing it on my laptop, even though I did have the correct configuration saved. It's also possible to...

I couldn't get gas just now because both the gas stations where I stopped had pumps that were too cold to operate.

Just remember that as cold as it is for those of us in the upper Midwestern US, this crap is what Coug calls "a brisk autumn day."

Windows 7 and 8 both support Libraries and can be made to look both places without losing the default folder functionality. If you're configuring multiple machines in the same way, you can back up/restore a Library config or include un-indexable folders in libraries using Zorn Software's...

I have a few of the Seagate units from several generations. They're kinda-sorta faster than magnetic drives, but the only place I can really tell a difference is startup or resume from hibernate.

It's -22 on my balcony right now. My office closes if there's a snow day at the community school so I already know I won't be working tomorrow, either. My nose froze shut while I was cleaning off my car this morning.

Meanwhile I just spent the last four hours cleaning off my car so I could go get groceries, driving approximately 10mph to the store, driving 10mph to another store that was actually open, cleaning off my car again, driving 5mph back to my apartment and then getting stuck in the completely...

That's weird. Mine doesn't say it's blocking anything on SF on desktop or under Android.

Vostro notebooks I've seen in the past are rebadged Inspirons. They're still supported by the consumer products group, not the people who support Latitudes and Precisions. So that would be vomit, then. As far as specs, just about anything with a mainstream CPU is probably fast enough. Unless...

Paugie how did you come through the storms over there?

The 2014 trial version of TrueImage no longer creates a fully functional boot/rescue environment, which is something that really pissed me off. Clonezilla has real problems cloning bigger drives on to smaller ones (the most common path for SSD upgrades). It's do-able but it's far from...

If you were using ZFS, you could designate your SSD as a cache-only drive. I'm not aware of any such feature within Windows or any of the common Windows-based file system overlays like SnapRAID. I also didn't notice any subjective difference in using an 80GB mSATA drive for hardware-based...

He might be doing weirdo proprietary Synology Hybrid RAID, which should functionally be RAID1 but which might do things just differently enough that non-Synology Linux doesn't know what to do with it.

I had the opportunity to get a couple top-end T430s and here's what I can say. 1. It's pretty much the same as the T420, except for the keyboard and native USB3 ports. I hesitate to say that the old keyboard is better because I actually like most of the layout changes - Pageup and Pagedown are...

Yup. I posted a bunch more times. I do that here. :) Anyway yeah I probably know a dozen girls who would be THRILLED to get a Slave Leia Pony. I actually just ordered a Clone Wars birthday cake for one of my friends anyway.

Thanksgiving, my birthday (12-10), my cousin's three kids (born 1 year apart on 12-24, 12-25 and 12-26 - late March must be an anniversary or something) plus nominal Xmas - NYE, my father, two uncles, one aunt all have birthdays in the first two weeks of January. The first week of February I...

Backup on Android is weird. You can do it using Dev tools or you can run a real backup app on a rooted device (e.g. Titanium Backup), but some apps put their data in userland storage and some put data in protected storage. There's also a lot of "It OUGHT to work this way" where things DON'T work...