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Volume adjustments don't seem to be a problem, but I do really have a good handle on the in-line controls yet. Long pushes have a different meaning from quick taps, so sometimes I wind up fast forwarding music on accident.

I've had Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs on those boards. I've run a Q9400 on one and I have a few E5400s scattered in among much older E6300s. Sometimes a BIOS update is needed, but that's not really an impossible hurdle to clear.

Ages and ages ago, I had issues with Asus Pentium 4 motherboards having a hard-coded thermal shutdown limit that was set too low. Those systems didn't freeze. They'd go hard-off and then display a boot time message indicating that the CPU had experienced a thermal event. You might want to look...

As I understand it the truly dedicated Bitcoin miners are using ridiculous rigs, like 8 GPU SLI configurations, to quickly create value. I'm not sure I understand the value of using $60 worth of electricity to run one machine that's going to generate perhaps $70 worth of pretend computer money...

All of the local content type players I have used are either discontinued or have their own drawbacks. The Boxee Box was a local content champion and has a blazing fast UI, but it falls down for network-shared content and limited support for many kinds of online services. The Popcorn Hour C200...

The full, paid version of Swype includes Dragon Dictate's voice recognition engine. It's really quite good. I notice that it can transcribe radio content with accurary. I believe S Voice uses Samsung's voice recognition, which is the same one found in the Samsung keyboard (which is "swipe-able"...

I did pick them up and I've had them for a week. Here's what I can say: 1. The earbuds are bigger than I thought they'd be. They stick out a bit from my ears. I've found that if I wear them with a stocking cap or any tight ear covering, there's too much pressure on the earbuds to vibrate and I...

How quiet is quiet? My file server at home has a pair of Scythe Ninja HSFs (LGA1366 Xeons) on an Asus workstation board inside a giant Norco chassis. I'm using a standard Seasonic Gold-class power supply because there's simply no way to get a quiet rackmount PSU. I can tell that the machine...

Belarc Advisor shows keys for pretty much all installed products that have them. nmmm

I have 16GB in my T420 that's supposed to max out at 8GB. It works just fine. I don't think I'd worry too much about RAM limits.

I was slightly mistaken. There are dual HDMI models (meh), but there are two Mini-PCIe slots on all NUCs so NICs can actually be added if you need 'em.

Is Mozilla disabling because of deal-breaker day-0 security issues? That's... not wholly unreasonable on some levels.

More pixels are always better than less pixels, but good enough for general use is highly subjective. I could do a lot of work with one if I had to, but frankly I could do a lot of work with anything that has an RDP/VNC client and access to Google Drive.

As far as I know DVD Shrink doesn't even run on Windows 7, and since DVD Decrypter hasn't been updated in seven or eight year it's more or less guaranteed to fail on precisely the DVDs people most want to copy - the Disney movies everyone's four-year-old wants to love to death. There's DVD43...

The newest revision of the Galaxy Note 10.1 is a freaking hot rod of an Android tablet. It's light for a 10" device (1.2lbs), has a 2560x1600 screen, has Samsung multiwindow support, a card reader and 3GB RAM. It costs as much as a decent laptop, but I got to mess with one today and it seems to...

Almost all the systems I see that have Minecraft installed are being used by teens and tweens. Many of them don't even know how to install software, to the point that I've seen numerous machines that have (no joke) more than 200 copies of Minecraft.exe in the Downloads folder.

Does Ashampoo Burning Studio Free support removing DVD Video copy protection?

I guess I should re-phrase. The larger issue is that I've read that Intel's HDMI audio support is lacking in some respects and can have A/V sync issues above and beyond what can come from normal video decoding.

If an end user installs Java, whether it's to play Minecraft or for any other purpose, are they going to have the technical ability to disable the Java plug-in from their browser? Blackboard in all the implementations I've seen, most definitely wants users to have a JRE plugin as well. As far...

Fast isn't the issue, it's doing it with exclusively FREE software. It's something I know one of my relatives is going to be pestering me about at our forthcoming holiday gathering.

It's pretty much true that everything we do online results in a net loss of our privacy, but I'm not sure Microsoft can legitimately point any fingers about tracking. Google is the biggest advertising company on the planet, but the SECOND biggest is now Microsoft. I understand that it doesn't...

It's pretty much true that everything we do online results in a net loss of our privacy, but I'm not sure Microsoft can legitimately point any fingers about tracking. Google is the biggest advertising company on the planet, but the SECOND biggest is now Microsoft. I understand that it doesn't...

My workflow for dealing with discs is to use Handbrake with AnyDVD HD. I never write back to disc and I've owned my copy of AnyDVD for something like 10 years now. That system obviously works, but I can't justify telling someone to go buy a $150 program just to copy a few discs. I know DVDFab...

NUCs are fantastic little boxes. They make dual NIC models that can work as micro-servers as well as NIC/WLAN versions. Since you pretty much have to pair them with Intel or Crucial mSATA drives and they have Intel-branded guts anyway, the only potential source for vomit would be the RAM, and...

If you're tempted by a consumer desktop and have a good working knowledge of hardware, all I can say is prepare to be disappointed. I've opened up HP desktop machines that had no (ZERO) expansion slots on a MicroATX board. In 2012. It's not at all uncommon to find desktop machines that only...

I largely disagree about Java. The biggest single non-corporate use is almost certainly Minecraft, though Blackboard is also a pretty big deal for college students. I don't think Minecraft justifies the continual risk for malicious applets. As far as Linux goes, no you don't need an antivirus...

Philippine prisoners escape from prison, rebuild their homes and their communities and report back to jail.

Chrome on Windows is bundled with its own Flash libraries that get updated at the same time the browser does. It's a special case. Since Chrome updates are always background, behind the scenes things, Google can push out an update that just updates its Flash library. Chrome's installer and...

This got a laugh out of me.

As a point of order, Yahoo free mail accounts have neither POP access nor the ability to forward mail outside Yahoo without having a for-pay account.

If you have ever paid for a Yahoo Mail account, even if you don't pay any longer, a flag gets set on your account that gives you access to a bunch of things that make Yahoo webmail barely tolerable, like POP3 access, mail forwarding and the ability to set the spam folder to auto-delete. I...

"Single" drives are packed in cartons of between eight and 24 drives depending on the manufacturer, at least as far as shipping to the local vendor. The interior of the carton is custom foam of some sort so there's very little room for the drives to move around. The singles are pulled from one...

On your desktop, look in System Properties, Advanced System Settings, Advance, Startup and Recovery. Make sure that Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit is the default OS and un-tick the box for "time to display list of operating systems." Failing that, I'm going to guess there's something goofy happening...

I was googling for random crap I wanted to hand out to my students for a class tonight and I ran across some guy's repository of collected "cheat sheets" on various topics. Lots of useful things there and they might be worth a peak.

All I'm going to say is that I seem to have a statistically significant number of additional problems with WD drives vs. anything else I have ever purchased, no matter where bought them or how they were delivered to me. That is the least biased comment I can make about it. My common practice...

Apropos of almost nothing, HiSense is selling a 50", 4k TV through Walmart and Costco for $2000. Nothing to do with Ultrasharps but that's definitely a step up from Seiki on the OEM food chain.

I don't have any specific complaints about browsing under Linux, but the computers I use the most from day to day are Windows machines. The Linux machines sort of sit quietly and just behave themselves. Most of the time if I'm using one it's through a shell prompt anyway.

Have you named them yet? ;)

It's just a side gig. I kind of don't want to link it. Maybe if I actually decide to publish something. I post there under my unique internet handle rather than the one I use here and one of the things that's keeping me away is the desire to preserve that identity since I argue a lot about the...

I have a older 22", 24" and 27" Ultrasharps at my desk and I've been messing with those Asus 24" IPS displays and here's what I can say: For day-to-day work, the quality of my older Ultrasharps and the Asus monitors is subjectively very similar. They're all worlds different from crummy TN...

It's available when you want it, man.

During a workout I'm most concerned with drowning out the shit they play on the PA (the gym has a some kind of weird religious affiliation so half the time it's Jesusy Heavy Metal and the other half there's a 100% correlation to what gets played in a strip club and it's terrible either way)...

Speaking of random, I just got an out of the blue job offer to write techie how-to articles for a web site based on nothing but discussion thread participation.

I use S voice and Google Voice Search in my car quite a lot, particularly to select music and navigate. The Xbox One is supposed to support voice commands in a way I'm intrigued by. I'd very much like to be able to say "Computer, bring up MyHarto on YouTube and play the newest video" and have...

I almost hate to ask this, but does anyone have any strong opinions about bluetooth headphones? I've had BT headSETS that were pretty crummy for audio quality, but I'd like to find something I can use with my phone while I'm working out that: 1. Doesn't require a cord and works with my phone or...

For what it's worth, a guy I went to college with still maintains a 486 and contributes kernel patches to Linux 2.4. Or at least he was still doing in in 2011. He did finally give up and start compiling binaries on a Pentium 4 in 2008 or thereabouts. For all the haters all I can say is that...

Just to argue this a bit: Firefox has a different layout and javascript engine than Chrome/Safari/Opera, so one thing it absolutely is NOT is a Chrome clone. I know you've never liked or appreciated the power of Firefox's addons, but for the application that we probably all spend the single most...

How complete do you need? I have a stack of E6300s (the OLDEST C2Ds) on Intel G31PR boards with 2GB RAM and a bunch of old 250GB SATA drives that will start XP/Vista/7.

I'll probably send something like a Gigabyte G41 microATX board. I have a few brand new ones set aside for spares. I also have some Intel boards but they were purchased as refurbished and those are more valuable to me because they match my fleet systems.