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I think that it could be out of Sony's hands. EA - the same people who thought that SimCity was a good idea, and Ubisoft, who keep trying Assassin's Creed - will keep telling Sony how much money they're "losing" on not having those features in PS4 titles and it will either get rolled out...

They work pretty well as coasters. Really, they aren't completely worthless. They run apps. The apps do things. I suspect a lot of the stuff that a typical office worker does can be done just fine on an ipad. The ipad just has all these silly and arbitrary limitations and no particular...

Consoles need DRM to kill used games. Yes, some people will mod their machines to play pirated games. I suspect that's a vanishingly small minority of console owners, especially for the only console with a strong online gaming component, but that's what they'll point to, not the impact on used...

People in my life already know the score in this case.

The chances are pretty good that the dependent libraries and their installed locations will be the same for whatever MySQL you happen to use. There's probably some stuff in /var/lib or /opt/lib or something, but if you're going to be reinstalling all that might mean is that you either overwrite...

No boys thusfar. I gave a key to my place to one of those special friends, for times when she's too wasted to drive 100 miles back to her actual home. I get a weird wake-up once or twice a month. She's getting better about being quiet when she comes in but back in February she came in at about...

I can support five simultaneous 3Mbps streams from Plex off my cable modem now. I can't even imagine what it would take to do 24x7 streaming to thousands of clients.

Amazon had the HiSense Pulse Google TV box on sale earlier in the week. I pulled it out and set it up and... Yup, it's a Google TV box. The experience is definitely improved from the Logitech Revue and the included remote is super slick, with full QWERTY, a touchpad, standard universal remote...

If I had a good enough reason to need to download 16TB in a month, I'd goddammed better be able to do it since that's what I'm paying for and what my contract says they'll deliver to me. Yes Comcast probably hates me.

From midnight to 11:59PM on Friday I downloaded 119GB of stuff and sent another 31GB out. That's way above average even for me but it does kind of suggest that bandwidth caps on fast connections are pretty stupid. Why have a 50Mbit downstream path if you can't use it?

That's predicated on the idea that there's a game for Playstation that's worth playing and/or borrowing. My PS3 exists entirely as a reminder that I need to dust around my media center more often.

If the shit is worth that much to the end user, they're not going to have a problem with a $50 expense for an Ebay purchase. The more work you have to do the more verbal abuse you can heap on about backups later.

By deleting all the files it installed. If you're feeling ballsy you might just pipe a find command into rm. Personally I don't think I'd be down with that for a production machine.

Get a T7 screwdriver and replace the PCB (which IIRC includes the data connector) from a known good drive.

Zorn Software's Win Library Tool allows easy modification of Windows library locations for times when Microsoft's own tools for doing so are inconsistent in scope or behavior.

... and here's the aw, fuck it, it works answer.

On further investigation, I can make this work on one Windows 7 machine out of three where I tried and on a Server 2008R2 system, but not on two other 7 machines or a Windows 8 system. There's clearly a step I'm missing, but the behavior seems to hinge on the ability to add UNC paths to Index...

After a certain point, tape really does start looking like a reasonable option again.

I sometimes do implementation stuff for a Primavera consultant and he's been saying more or less the same thing for the last two years or so.

I sold it not long after I got it. I really don't like using gamepads. I do own a PS3 but I don't use it for games either.

Portal is a hassle to play because of the unacceptable encumbrance that goes along with it.

I swear to crap I downloaded more than 60GB of stuff at home yesterday. I know it's a function of bandwidth and availability but I can't imagine that I'd be a happy camper if I had a 9.something Mbit connection that I could only use full-out for something like 15 hours a month.

Oddly enough, I find a lot of embedded images that are from Intel press releases and not much of anything from anyone else. Wikipedia has a nice table listing what CPU has which IPG, but you can safely assume that most of what will be sold will be from the GT2 line, which is supposed to be in...

The important bit about Portal 2 is the quite charming voice acting. The whole game can be viewed on Youtube without all the hassle of actually playing the damned thing. I do know that Doom 3 and Quake 4 are available and would be a good test for modest systems. Painkiller is supposed to be...

The biggest selling point for Crashplan IMO is not having to deal with managing external drives in the first place.

"It depends." The speed of the Haswell IGP is supposed to be around the same as the nvidia GT640 or AMD 6670 at the top of the food chain, but to get that sort of graphics power, you're talking about having a high-end (mobile?) i7.

Put another way, they're willing to copy a bunch of crap and ship you a 4TB drive for $165. That still seems pretty reasonable.

I think Intel has better standards for motherboards. I also appreciate that Intel has inexpensive boards of its own, but a good while back Tannin made a remark that Intel boards don't really have the good sense to die. And they don't. At least, not very damned often. I just retired dozens of C2D...

It looks like I'm seeing about 900kB/sec for ~80MB of PDFs and Word documents. That's not great but if it's the difference between having that data or having nothing, I don't mind waiting.

I've been buying Barracuda 7200.14 3TB drives. They're well behaved and reasonably fast. I have about 30 of them and in the last year I've had to replace two. That's more than I'd like but not entirely unexpected based on past experiences with Seagate. 3TB models dip to $110 on Amazon/Newegg if...

The problem is that Microsoft has a crap-ton of Xbox exclusive stuff that people actually want to play and all the media integration crap going for it. People are going to bitch about Xbox and then buy one anyway. It works for Valve and it will work for Microsoft.

If you're using Windows 7 and the drives are set up as GPT disks, they should show up and be usable. If for some reason you format them on an XP machine you're going to wind up with weirdness.

Goddammit. I know I've done this because my laptop sees music on my file server in its library. I'll play with it a bit this afternoon to see if there was something else I had

One of my customers recently went from having an enterprise-wide need for perhaps ~10GB of storage to consuming 200GB more or less every weekend after they started taking HD video of live music performances in their restaurant/lounge/bar-things. I was awfully surprised when the drive on their...

I can sustain 6.6 flights of stairs per minute for an hour without resting according to the horrible machine I use every day, but I doubt I could double that pace for any serious length of time.

Yup. I have established that he's a he and I've been calling him Shitmonster after what he does to my balcony and what my cats think he is. Now when my cat are bad I tell them I'm going to let the monster get them.

My problems with Microcenter are the half tank of gas between me and any savings and Cook or DuPage county sales tax. But I buy a CPU every single time I'm in Westmont so I figure it works out.

Don't PSUs become less efficient over time? I'm sure that a 500W unit is overspecified for the machines you're talking about but caps age about like batteries do so at some point they aren't going to be as good as they were when they were new, right?

I thought this was hysterical. http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/california-prisoners-are-free-read-much-werewolf-erotica-they-want/65856/

It's acceptable if you're already in an application supported by the interface, like the Store. It's god awful for general purpose search because unlike Windows 7's version, it expects you to either search for a program by default (probably wrong) or else immediately choose the context for the...

May I ask what you're upgrading from? Are you just going to run onboard video with it? I'm thinking carefully about making my next system an ITX machine, just to avoid the inevitable outcome of building another giant mid/full tower rig so I have another place to put hard drives.

Honestly, the only thing that's wrong with the desktop experience on Windows 8 is that some things involve Metro and the Start screen.

Microsoft also makes tons and tons of money supporting application development. Visual Studio is probably the best development environment I've ever seen and the documentation and ecosystem for building code really are first rate. Of course Microsoft wants to encourage people to use its tools...

The short answer is that there are workarounds for that. The bar-none easiest one is to just drop a shortcut to the path you want to include in the library. It's not exactly the same thing, but it works no matter where the files actually live. There is a handy little add-on I forgot about: You...

Wait. There are people who like MetroUI?

Windows 7 and 8 support Libraries, which can be located on any computer new enough to make use of the Windows Search Service (basically 7 or Server 2008R2 and 8 or Server 2012, plus Storage Server 2011), can locate applicable data on any folder that's been incorporated into any particular...

Google Drive/Dropbox/SugarSync/Skydrive? If you put a shortcut to a network location in one of your local library folders (e.g. shortcut to Images_on_LiamcsWorkstation.lnk), it is in fact indexed properly, even if the network host doesn't support the Windows Search Service, so that makes stuff...

I think HP Probooks are a lot like Dell Vostros or Thinkpad Edges. They're essentially the same thing as Pavilions but they get real support. I'm not super impressed with them, but they're the cheapest business notebooks out there and that by itself has value.

It's an inevitable outcome of being in the same place for long enough for the roots to take hold. We'll be bronzing your and Lunar's bar stools soon enough. ;)

It looks like the only thing you get from moving up to the $135 board is two extra USB3 ports and a fancier heat sink. Meh.