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I can't find any evidence that they're available in the US, but the Asus Zenbook UX301 was announced a couple months ago and looked drool-worthy from a specs standpoint. The Zenbook Prime has been my go-to choice for an ultrabook since this summer and I've gotten them for as little as $550.

New Thor. Tons of fun. I liked this one much better than the first. As with the last, Tom Hiddleston and Kat Dennings steal the movie. I'm not sure why they needed to cast Christopher Eccleston as Malekith. He has all of about five lines in English and his normal voice, and he's under heavy...

Sturgeon's Law applies.

That's funny 'cause I've tried my collection of -EADs drives in Synology and Drobo boxes and found that I usually get a dropped member disk from a RAID5 within the first 48 hours after initialization.

I do not know what sorcery is involved in their construction, but WD's Sharespace NAS products work perfectly well in RAID0, 1 or 5 using WD Green drives. Or at least as well as anything that has WD hard drives in it can be said to work. The product documentation even touts use of Green drives...

Granted that the collective membership of SF probably sits around Dell Ultrasharps and 50" TVs for the most part, but does anybody have any strongly held preferences about all around decent monitors at this point? I need to buy about 60 of them. Amazon has been selling Asus VS247Ps for $150...

I'd like to postulate a new theory for determining the quality of electronics: If you have to peel a layer of plastic off something to protect its glossy black finish, it's probably a piece of crap.

When you set up Windows 8, it prompts you to create a Windows Live account, which you might already have because you're a Hotmail, Windows Live, MSDN or Xbox user. You don't HAVE to create a Microsoft account, but you lose one of the nifty advantages of Windows 8, which is global storage of your...

Even if storage is abstracted for end users, someone, somewhere is going to have to care about its distribution and management. From the end user perspective the only issue with network storage is "Is there enough space for me to save this thing?" and that's been true for my entire professional...

Maybe next year ;)

I just noticed that Windows 8.1 re-set all my Windows Firewall profiles to Public and won't let me change them from the GUI. I had to do it with powershell. Lame.

I've been on a Debussy kick lately. Over the weekend I sat down at a piano in one of my customers' restaurants and noodled around for a while, something I haven't done in six or seven years. I really stopped playing because my eyesight got bad enough to make learning new music frustrating, but I...

That seems kind of sexy-fast for a 5400rpm drive, too.

I'd never heard of the Windows FOREACH command until this morning. It's one of those ridiculously useful scripting tools that keeps someone from having to reinvent the wheel. forfiles /p "C:\somedirectoryr" /s /m *.* /d somenumberofdays /c "cmd /c somedoscommand @path" e.g. forfiles /p...

I'm thinking there's going to wind up being a drive controller someplace, probably in some little box that looks about like an ethernet switch, but the drives can be distributed to where ports are. So you pay Seagate for a drive controller instead of Synology or EMC or whomever. I imagine that...

So... the drives aren't by themselves going to be smart enough to do anything but store data and there's no underlying concept of a filesystem other than what KOSP applications expose? The data just magically exists and we can totally just trust that without having to have any understanding of...

Did the user set the firewall rule for the new network connection to allow any sort of interaction or did he choose "Public" when he was prompted? Because that would explain the inability to ping and such.

And a link to the relevant wiki page.

I love Terminals. It has a handy tabbed interface for multiple remote RDP/VNC sessions. I usually have a half dozen or so sessions open so it's a generally good deal for keeping my taskbar uncluttered.

No, but that's what a dedicated drive for transaction logs might be doing.

Try setting up this.

Does that prove anything for any more than the drives in the sample?

Behold the dread lord Cthulhu!

I am working on an HP Pavilion 15t, a model that's new enough to have Windows 8 on it. On it, there's a sticker that says it has "Award Winning Support." And that really does beg the question: Who are these people who give awards to HP's support and for what are these awards given? Are these...

That's a tough row for anyone to hoe Chewy. We all know that we will age and our bodies will deteriorate, and most of us can face that with relative good cheer, but it's another thing entirely to find out that one's body and brain aren't on board for the whole trip. :\

That's not terribly difficult. A cache drive in a ZFS storage pool of sufficient size; a drive that's acting as a target for disk images; somebody who dumps a vacation worth of .RAW files. I've been putting 250GB SSDs in servers as a sort of intermediate upgrade to a full hardware replacement...

The price is right and the form factor is excellent, but that's a 10" tablet with a 1280x800 screen and a 2x1.2GHz CPU AND only 1GB RAM. That would've been perfectly acceptable a year ago but now it looks a little anemic. I'm sure they're doing that in the name of that 18 hour ("all week long")...

But that's the problem with PC gaming: The number of individuals with multiple-monitor setups or screen configurations larger than 1920x1200 is vanishingly small, and most PC games are just going to be shitty console ports with only the most minimal of graphics engine improvements over and above...

Outlook is not unique in its ability to store a local copy of email messages. You could move to Thunderbird or Postbox.

Maybe he's finally having something done about that superfluous third nipple. ;) I had to take down a file server for one of my customers this morning. After I told my contact over there that I was doing it (at 8:05 on a Monday morning), he put my on speaker phone so I could tell EVERYONE not...

I'm sure these things are breathtaking for GPU computing, but do these things offer any subjective improvement for 1080p single-screen gaming over the $500 cards that were out a couple years ago?

You can probably go in to the Add-ins Manager and tell Outlook not to trust content from AWIL software. Or something. Or stop using Outlook, which I think is a fantastic idea on general principle.

That is seriously cool. And probably better than the JJ Abrams movies!

New trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier is up. I'm excited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLWsK1ZFunA

Other than the conveniently placed open sunroofs, I like that the building interiors resemble some kind of actually functional layout.

To be fair, they'd do a better job than republicans.

One of my friends dances to this version as part of her set. She likes it better and some other girl who works at the same time does the one you linked. No, I can't believe I know that either.

Apparently the new version of Avast can create a bootable disk. That's possibly useful.

OK, I just ran another 8.1 upgrade on a Thinkpad T510 (i5, 4GB RAM, 120GB SSD, about 80% full). It took about an hour and a half, which is not bad at all. It's a pretty vanilla machine though, with just Office 2010 Standard and Avast on it.

The LONG upgrade process for a single-version upgrade has been common among all versions of Windows since Vista. Vista to 7 usually takes at least four to six hours for a typical PC, and the upgrade time seems to depend a great deal on the amount of user data present, so a ridiculously long...

Ebay is horrible to deal with for a lot of things but unfortunately Craigslist is now just as bad if not worse for scammers. All I can say is good luck.

Astroglide is kind of a weak sauce lube. Liquid Silk is a much better general purpose option.

Avast just updated and completely changed its UI again. The Settings pages are most impacted, with a lot of the stuff that I care about changing now located under "Appearance", including the option to make it stop talking. However, the new version no longer makes 8.1 machines whine about app...

Since ATI2012 does in fact work with EFI, I'm going to go ahead and blame WD, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

I saw Das Boot when I was a little kid. That movie gave me nightmares for probably two or three years.

The New Humble Android Bundle has Worms Armageddon, Bard's Tale and Ticket to Ride. That's a lot of really good games for a pretty small amount of cash.

I think the Samsung My Files manager is probably more user friendly that AndroZip, which is what I normally use. I'll send you a link to it.

I think they pretty much had to. As far as I remember, the old version was based on the 2008 version of the product, and as I recall it didn't deal with large drives or GPT partitions very well.

I'm curious as to what could even possibly make a "cloud" security product better than a local one. Of course, one thing that's probably true for almost all of us is that we only really get to see the things that are broken or awful or screwed up somehow. Which is why so many of us are willing...

Hey at least your lot has the good sense to congregate in huge urban centers that it makes sense to wire for access. Oz has the same problem as the US: the people are too damned spread out. Granted most of them are on a coast, but there's quite a lot of coast to go around down there.