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MSE is worse than no security software at all, since it provides both the awesome false sense of security that comes with being a completely ineffectual product with slow response to new threats and a limited feature set. It's free and it's still not worth the money. I suggest Avast, though...

I don't see anything to indicate that it's been changed. I really wish Microsoft didn't consider software RAID1 a "Server" feature for Windows. LM, if you want more than four cores on Intel, you need to look at LGA2011 or at Xeons. Or you can buy an AMD CPU, I guess.

Tonight I got to play Cards Against Humanity with a dream team line up: Four lesbians, two transsexuals, a (culturally) Jewish Doctor of Unitarian Theology, a Medical Doctor, an English Lit prof and two seventeen year olds, who were both dating AND both of whose mothers were somewhere in the...

Microcenter will have that shit on sale. My advice is to go to Microcenter and buy your CPU for 2/3rd the price it is on Amazon and get whatever Intel or Gigabyte (or Asus, if you're one of THOSE people) motherboard best matches your price range.

Short answer: Because the software gets updated a lot more often than the documentation. Truth is, most of the folks who work on this stuff know enough about conventions that if they're even sort-of in the right general area they can work out what needs to be done and the documentation just...

I need to name him. He is utterly unbothered by my proximity and he's out there every freaking time I look. I have determined that he's perfectly happy to eat my grilled chicken and I'm pretty sure he's aiming shits at my sliding glass door.

Why do I see more weird rendering problems with mobile Chrome than any other browser? Any of you web people have insight? A lot of stuff renders perfectly on "Internet", the stock Android browser, which I *think?* is also just a webkit derivation; mobile Firefox from time to time gets directed...

The first day of halter top season: It's just like Christmas, except that I actually celebrate it.

Pushbullet. Use Chrome on whatever to send a link to that thing on your Androids. No Firefox support as of yet but I can live with that for now.

That setting is Vin Diesel's baby. He's put up his own money to make games, cartoons and comics set in that universe. It's not just some rip-off cash grab.

Here in the US, there's usually a substantial discount on "two models back" Thinkpads, which at this point are Tx20s or the like. Which is what I'm typing on right now. Those are the units that I hunt down and offer to individuals who want something decent and are more concern with price than...

What's stopping you from installing without the SATA drive on the native port and adding it after the fact with mknod?

Point of fact I just replaced the 802.11 card on a K-series Asus this weekend... and that's not a repair I've had to do very often. I was for a time actually suggesting Asus notebooks as an option for people I thought might otherwise be tempted by HP Pavilions and Toshiba Satellites, but they...

I'd flat-out tell you to drop dedicated graphics. It's silly. It's adding heat and noise and unless dad is a gamer you're not going to notice any benefit at all. HD3000+ can run two or three displays and does all the HD video decoding goodness we can presently do, so it's not a joke in the way...

I think there are commands for formatting volumes in diskpart.exe. e.g. select disk=2 clean create partition primary assign letter=q FORMAT FS=fat32 LABEL="LMs_Pr0ns" QUICK ... or something like that.

The new Star Trek movies are a magnificently convoluted bit of meta-fiction. Spoiler if you know nothing of the 2009 Trek movie. 1. Everything that happened in the pre-2009 Star Trek universe still happened. The Star Trek MMO and some novels actually do continue in that continuity. 2. In the...

With the Thinkpad you can also install your SSD in the mSATA slot on the bottom of the laptop, though your mSATA drive selection is rather limited. I have a 240GB Crucial m4 in mine. I actually do think 120GB is plenty for Windows and programs, but you'll need to know how to move data around to...

I'm a little bit surprised there isn't a commercial product out there that adds work-alike functionality. Implement a *nix feature on Windows used to be a vibrant market and I suspect that it often led to the inclusion of new features in new versions of Windows.

The civil penalty is as much as $125,000 in fines per infraction of material that's probably available for under $20 if it isn't already hosted free-of-charge on Youtube. In what way is that anything other than ludicrous even setting aside the possibility of criminal justice on top of that?

Baz Luhrmann movies are uniformly god-awful. I'd rather sit through "A Serbian Film" followed up by "Salo" followed by a light dinner and then a Twilight movie marathon. Star Trek was just "meh." I didn't pay to see it. I really don't like Kirk but then I never have. I found myself wandering...

Until extremely recently copyright violation was a purely civil matter. It's only criminal in the US now because of a rather substantial amount of lobbying by content cartels. You know that, right?

Even if he's the #1 seeder for the whole Pirate Bay, unless they can positively associate his assigned IP with illegal activity, that visit will end at his doormat.

I think the story is that HP, Dell and IBM have custom firmware on rebadged SAS drives. I don't know if that's still true or not, since they all pretty much use rebadged LSI controllers with custom firmware as well. Were I a betting man (and last time I was, I wound up with blue hair for a...

I bought several Samsung 840s earlier in the week from Amazon for $89. I believe that was an everyday price.

This dude is my new hero. I think I have a better storage setup than he does though.

Foxconn also manufactures Intel's motherboards, albeit to what I'm sure are somewhat higher specifications. This is something of an audition. I don't think I've ever used a Foxconn-branded board before.

I was just looking at reviews for the newest $1000 video cards on a couple sites when I noticed that they're testing performance across three 1920x1080 screens since that's the only way to get meaningfully distinct results out of top-end hardware. Which I think says a lot for the present...

Has anyone found any Metro Apps they actually like?

I'm looking forward to the day that PS3 games get as cheap as PS2 games are now. Maybe I'll finally find one I like when I can buy six or eight for what one game costs now.

I read the hell out of the Amber books when I was about 11. I read more science fiction and urban fantasy rather than high fantasy, mostly because a lot of series (e.g. the Shanarra series) are really just an excuse to see how much Tolkein they can steal without being called on it. I also had a...

You're not a Gamestop customer in the first place. The people who are buying and selling used games are for the most part young people for whom a $40 expenditure represents a significant chunk of income rather than the weekly sum of the value of their workplace bathroom breaks. Don't the...

I don't think even for a second that it will fail in the marketplace. It looks like MS has negotiated a pretty killer set of exclusives. S*ny is still hamstrung by its entertainment division and its need to prevent all manner of non-approved media access, so a lot of the cool stuff the Xbox can...

A couple of you hold him down. I'll be right back with the bag of Micropolis hard drives.

I gave the Belgariad and Mallorean books to Nitsirk a few years ago as a birthday present. She loved them. Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow, Thorn" books are excellent. The first in the series is called The Dragonbone Chair. I don't see Raymond Feist on this list either. His "Empire" books are...

The obnoxious thing about Netbooks was the MS-imposed limitation on screen resolution, RAM and CPU speed. Yes, they'll run real Windows, but only at about the same speed as a 10-year-old Pentium 4, with at most 2GB RAM and with no more than 768 vertical pixels. Chromebooks don't run Windows and...

I fix way too many broken ones. Especially screens. And I have to say Acer/Gateway/eMachines stuff is generally about as sturdy as a wet tissue. And this is Coug we're talking about. Also, Acer is really awesome for magical mystery hardware. Give them a model and serial number and the best...

The only issue I'd like to raise is the possibility of finding a Samsung, Asus or HP rather than an Acer device, solely because I hate the idea of giving those bastards money. Regardless, I think an Android/Linux machine is probably a great idea. I want so much to tell my students to Just Give...

Xbox One. Pretty much the same hardware as a PS4 only with more "online" and "motion" and "TV Integration." I don't see anything anywhere that says it can handle either 4k video or 3D TVs - gaming being one of the few things that might make a 3D TV kinda neat. They run something Windows 8-ish...

I really don't envy people who only own consumer-class laptops with room for a single drive. Yes, you CAN have more than 1TB of space local to your computer, but to do that you have to give up all hope or pretense of performance.

Are you looking at value brands at all? I bought Vizio 60" TVs for a couple of my classrooms and I've been really happy with them.

This fucker was going contemplating a Hiro-snack this morning. There was hawk-poop on my TV and my little yellow buddy was cowering under the couch. I didn't even think he FIT under the couch. Needless to say I closed my screen door. No zoom on that. I was about 18" away when I took that...

DOSbox Turbo really does work on Android. I copied over a few games from my retro-gaming machine and I've found them to be amazingly playable on my phone with a BT keyboard. Apparently it's possible to get Windows 95 working on DOSbox. That might be an interesting project.

Here is what will happen: 1. Adobe will release their cloud thing. 2. Two days later, one of the many, MANY pirate groups will have disassembled all the online components and removed them. There will be a moderately annoying install process, but 99% of the functionality of the Cloud Thing will...

I was in the room with the people who were being gifted. They did not receive them immediately.

Use a native SATA port?

Mildly not safe for work because of words, but wholly apropos and very, very funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa2umu1vILI

Monoprice.com or Amazon.

I have no idea. Apparently the gift purchases aren't processed until the next day at the earliest. On Amazon, I can buy an eGift or send a gift card and everything about the transactions occurs in real time. Givers even get feedback when the recipient acknowledges the gift, which for example is...

Absolutely all of my feedback-less gift transactions went through on itunes. For future reference, if you buy a gift app using iOS itunes or the App store and the window turns completely black and the app freezes, that is the ithing telling you "Yes, I made a successful purchase that Apple will...

I really hate the Surface's on screen keyboard. I love having real shift and alt and all the keyboard shortcuts, but it needs to offer a drag-style keyboard in the worst way. I'm probably three times faster at text input on my phone and that's just sad.