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Everything is on a tabbed interface, just like a web browser. Stuff doesn't move. It's fixed to the tab associated with that tool. In practice, that means that 98% of the crap you'll do in MS Word will be on the Home, Insert or Page Layout tabs once you get a document started. It's not rocket...

I went to an old fashioned Stand-Up arcade last night. Because I grew up in a very rural area, I never really go to spend much time with stand-up machines even though I certainly did live through the arcade era. I can remember businesses that would have an arcade game or three set up in some...

The controls are always in the same place. The most common tasks are on the Home tab and anything else is divided on to other tabs of the ribbon.

Pacific Rim is basically the result of someone taking every trope from Tranzor Z, Gigantor, Battle of the Planets, Robotech and Power Rangers and making it live action. That's not a bad thing. There's stuff going on that makes 3D more worthwhile than it usually is, particularly in the middle...

I have some students like that. 9/11 truthers, guys who say Obama is a Pakistani-national Mossad double agent. The really hilarious thing is that there are so many weird double-backs built in to their theories that none of it is even remotely coherent. Someone with that mindset thinks a person...

It IS heavy, but it's in a different functional class from something like a Nexus or an iPad since it does "real computer" stuff and not mobile device stuff. I think the argument in favor of the RT is that it's this device that does mobile device stuff, that isn't susceptible to malware, that...

Surface Pro is interesting now. It's a great device in a great form factor. I think it needs a less stupid power connector and I wouldn't say no to another USB port, but it's super fast as-is and has a fantastic display. I really liked having four RDP sessions and the vSphere Client running with...

Microsoft knocked $150 off the price of the Surface RT. They're still about $100 too expensive for what they are. Worldwide sales estimates suggest it's only sold about a half million of 'em since launch, a number Samsung or Apple would probably categorize as "a good week."

I don't think it did. It was slightly warm to the touch, not really hot. I had it resting on my leg while I was messing with it and I think it was probably warmer while I was running Chrome than anything else I did with it. It may be that this is just a marginal unit that made it out of QC, but...

Sadly, if those geeks don't particularly have a sense of humor about it, it's just as likely at this point that you'd wind up having dinner with an FBI agent.

Well, judgment made. Pivos failed. And I mean that literally. It powers on but not longer displays video. I was able to use Android XBMC briefly and I have to say their build is fantastic in terms of support for data formats and delivery. Their XBMC client only has limited support for NFS and...

I am sad for Lunar's inability to watch all of the breathtaking jiggle.

... people tell me to do that crap for whatever social network they want me to participate in. It's kind of a BS thing, because without a lot of tuning on both your local clients and specific digging in to the site's privacy settings, even if you fail to disclose your real name there's still so...

Is the RAM you're using explicitly validated with that model?

Hm. Whatever. I suppose it's amusing insofar as gaming Google Search Rankings is a career option now, but no one with the ability to recognize words that are in English would ever mistake the site in question as anything but a porn site. This is not porn - it's just a girl riding a bike to the...

An individual claiming to be doing SEO work for an extremely popular web site keeps e-mailing to ask me to remove a single link to the site he claims to represent from a single web page that I maintain. His messages are generally only a single sentence long and while he normally responds within...

From my perspective, it's important to learn to deal with vanilla whatever. There's nothing wrong with Ribbons as opposed to menus. I can legitimately see how they're useful to new users since more options are immediately visible to new users. It would be nice if both ribbon and menu were...

Pivos Xios DS Initial impression: It's a little clunky. The included remote is particularly awful. As far as I can tell it is a remote that is designed to do absolutely nothing. On the other hand, my little Rii worked the very instant I plugged it in. In a couple "You've GOT to be kidding me"...

For you guys the biggest difference is presumably power requirements anyway. If you're short a few cores you can just migrate a system on to another host, right?

Xena looks like she'd be a character. She's artfully disheveled. :)

I've had good luck with PhotoRec and Recuva among the various free data recovery apps.

Two hours of down time once a month is a lot more palatable for the people I'm working for than tens of thousands in software licensing costs. Just to be even slightly on topic here, I can see a mature and free XenServer going over very, very well in an modern server room simply because it...

It's not horrible to use any old random SCP client. I have an old copy of Veeam but I never observed backups to be fast enough to make messing with, especially since it's not scriptable. I generally back up to an attached virtual drive and periodically stop the VM, copy the whole VM to a Backup...

I tend to think of vSphere as the management client, but yes, the backup options are... distasteful. vicfg-cfgbackup -s blah.local to get the host personality + ghettovcb.sh to handle the VMs.It's yucky.

It's not as hard as I thought it would be. For my server with two physical NICs, I created a third interface (vSwitch). I installed m0n0wall and set it up to use one physical NIC and my pretend one. I put an ESX management IP on the pretend switch, made sure that VMs on the vSwitch being served...

For what it's worth, I do have a functioning firewalled ESXi setup now. So it is possible. Just a total PITA.

I've have Samsung, LG, Pioneer and S*ny drives. Pioneer drives have been the only ones to fail on me. The fastest drive I have for ripping is a slimline Samsung drive in a USB3 enclosure.

Well, it WILL run on Xen 6.2, which is an improvement. And since the hypervisor is basically Linux, you've got access to a much broader array of tools. I went with ESXi for my current project because at the time I started researching, Xen didn't support Server 2012. ESXi is kind of awful in that...

I think I've almost got it. I'm working with m0n0wall right now and I can connect via OpenVPN. I had planned to do PPTP but I must be formatting something incorrectly because it won't let me connect with that.

I suspect you can get away with anything that does iSCSI, which FreeNAS certinly does. As a down side, you can't add zpools to an iSCSI share, so whatever size and storage configuration you use is what you're going to have unless you feel like bringing down and recreating the disk pools. From...

Is it possible that your shell replacements are running with a different set of credentials than Windows Explorer? Do things work with Windows Explorer?

I'm actually working on the 4th and 5th. Those will be good days to get stuff done since no one will be around and the "sacrifice" of missing out on festivities means extra time off and a higher labor rate for contracting, so I'm fine with it.

I hate fireworks. I probably won't get a decent night's sleep until next Monday or Tuesday. D:<

I don't think Action Pack subscriptions are going away either. They seem to use the same portal/interface as Technet, but I haven't gotten any messages that say anything is happening to them. Of course, Action Packs have an extremely limited collection of software. They really only support the...

The license keys once issued don't go away. They never have before at least. But keys are issued individually now rather than all at once, so users no longer have a pool to draw from; they have to use all the activations from a single key before they can request another. After the service goes...

It really doesn't matter. The least expensive MSDN sub that includes the implementation products rather than just developer tools is ~$6,000.

Yeah that's the setup guide I was looking at. I thought I linked it but apparently I forgot to do so.

Nothing. Maybe MSDN will still be available?

The deeply sucktastic part for me is going to be rebuilding seldom-used demo/test environments for classrooms and labs every time I need them. Is there a generic tool somewhere to back up and restore Exchange/SQL Server/Sharepoint "personalities" in terms of content, config files and data...

I'm playing with the setup now using a m0n0wall appliance I found online. vSwitches are something I've never messed and I'm more than a little concerned that I'm going to wind up with a system I can't interact with except from the console. Thanks for the thorough reply, too!

Microsoft is discontinuing Technet Subscription sales at the end of August, 2013 and will no longer activate purchased subscriptions on October 1st of 2013. If you want Technet, get it now.

I need to get it done before I put that machine in to production. I found instructions for doing it using a Gentoo Linux instance.

Of course, If I just stick a $100 Firewall appliance between my server and the internet, I also lose out on all the nifty management stuff the hosting service is supposed to provide me. And I'd have to worry about the damned thing needing reboots, which seems to be what happens with every SOHO...

This is a big part of my decision to use Server versions of Windows on my "big" desktops as well. The fix is really to put shortcuts for the things you actually do someplace that's legitimately convenient for you; probably pinned to the taskbar, shortcuts on the desktop or even using extra...

That's actually kind of a big deal. I hope it pushes more features in to competing products.

You'll have to call them. A human being will ask you about your troubleshooting steps and for every tiny little detail printed on the CPU. Then they'll issue an RMA and packing instructions. You'll ship the part to Kentucky and your replacement will be shipped out next business day. For me this...

I'm getting ready to install a 1U server at a datacenter. I just realized that I'm going to be exposing my ESXi server's management interfaces directly to the internet unless I figure out some way to lock that down. I have two public IPs and ESXi of course doesn't give me any utility to work...

It's limited so Intel can continue to guide users to Extreme Edition or Xeon CPUs. If you have a task that requires a working set big enough for that to matter AND don't have the cash for a $400 Xeon, AMD probably has something that's kinda-sorta the right fit.

The summer has been decidedly pleasant here, which is actually kind of disappointing to me since one set of windows in my office faces a gigantic water park that's only been open five days since the beginning of the water park season.

What happens if you boot off a Linux Live CD?