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Hiro Protagonist, who thinks he is a lion.

You can do it using a combination of the Windows Automated Install Toolkit, a program called RT7Lite and driver packs from driverpacks.net.

Your configured DNS server might be dying under load. You could look into that with a tool like Namebench. Or you could just manually assign your DNS servers to be 8.8.8.8 or 4.2.2.2 and see if your stuff magically speeds up. You can also check the Internet Traffic Report to see if there's some...

A LOT of general purpose computing these days is exceptionally complex because we're in essence running miniature operating systems that sit on top of operating systems in the form of web browsers. Shit, Chrome has its own natural language speech processor now. Web browsers have an AI/Expert...

As I recall, post-SP1 is around 90. Pre-SP1 might be 140. I create new install media every few months with updated driver packs and integrated updates. I have to install from an 8GB thumb drive, but it's still worth doing just to be able to shut a newly-deployed machine off instead of letting...

There's no reason to panic. You check the update history, find the one or two things that failed and then search out what retarded thing failed. 90% of the time there's a 2-minute auto-fix from Microsoft that makes it work and the rest of the time you have to edit something in the registry by...

I just replaced the whole LCD. It was a PITA, though I think doing the headphone jack and related assembly was actually worse, which is a big part of why I just bought a new phone when my old one started messing up. Doing phone/tablet stuff is mostly just a matter of patience and record keeping...

$70 for a screen assembly and probably 90 minutes of your time the first time you take one apart, if my iphone experiences even remotely have any bearing.

This $85 Jynxbox is an Android appliance with XBMC, Play Store support, built-in Ethernet and 802.11 and support for USB ATSC tuners. It reportedly works with optional XBMC components like the Fusion repository and comes with an air mouse for remote control. That's probably pretty close to an...

I'm 10 miles from an outlet mall with J Crew, LL Bean, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and about a dozen other clothiers. My reaction to almost all of that stuff when I walk in to those places is "These are not what I want to wear." LL Bean stuff is at least well made. I can't comment on J Crew...

There's an outlet mall not too far from where I live. J Crew definitely tries to frame itself as more upscale but they're both sort of "preppy" brands. Wool slacks are a pain in the ass and you have my sympathies for having to wear them, time. I have one pair of Van Heusen wool pants and I've...

The Grand looks like kind of an odd product. It's the same size as my S4 but has specs that are more in line with the S2. I don't tihnk those are offered in the US.

I've actually been strongly tempted to get an Intel NUC system except that HD4000 graphics have some pretty serious compromises if you want a full AV experience. Given that nVidia makes high performance ARM SoCs and GPUs, in another generation or so I suspect that we'll have an Android-based...

Because she dropped it (or threw it at a wall) and that isn't covered by the warranty.

The same customer who gave me a hardbound, signed by the author copy of the Jobs biography last December gave me a Chia Romney this year. They are being used as stands for my busts of Lenin and Marx, respectively.

7x00 ATI GPUs have hardware support for decoding and displaying 4k video, which means the other, wrong-er people probably can with current GPUs as well. For the rest I'd probably look at a low power i3 and run XBMC.

One of my friends has a 920. It has a very nice screen and seems fast and responsive. She has to reboot it every few days because it stops making data connections after a while. I don't know if that's common to that model or just a problem with hers.

One of my friends' iphones did something almost identical after she threw it at a wall. I may have added a bit more emphasis this time.

On the other hand, I think there's a lot of wisdom in the 2:00pm scheduled naptime.

RIM just announced that they're releasing Blackberry Messenger - their closed IM client, basically - available for Android and iOS. I don't think I know anyone at this point who still has a Blackberry but I'm sure this is a significant milestone in the death watch.

Why is it easier to extract content from an ipod touch (no "use as hard drive" option) using Linux than either Windows or OSX? Yes, even with itunes.

On the other hand, PS/2 and VGA are standard connectors and they always work on systems that are equipped to have them. That is not true of DVI (DVI-I vs. DVI-A vs. DVI-D etc) and may not even be true of USB for some poorly configured BIOSes or operating systems. How many different video...

It's not just that the Apple thing is different, it's that the individual could not accept that 1. Someone wouldn't be immediately be prepared to cater to her Apple-centric need or that 2. Someone might have something negative to say about Apple, even if it's something like "Hey, everyone who...

I was under the impression that EU regulation required smartphone vendors to standardize on a single data/charging connector. I'm not sure how Apple gets around that. Maybe they just pay the fines.

The iphone5 cable only works with the mini and the newest ipad model.

That's a fucked up screen and a user not willing to admit that they dropped it. One of my friends' iphones did something almost identical after she threw it at a wall.

As far as I know the iphone is the only smartphone made in the last three years or so that does NOT use the same micro-USB connection as every other smartphone being manufactured. The problem isn't that it's a weird $2 cable, it's that the individual simply refused to believe that I didn't have...

Also today someone was actually incredulous that I did not "just have" Apple-appropriate data/charging cables because "every computer guy has an iphone, right?" It would've been justifiable homicide. The app I was using as a test case for gifting was a $1 game called "Color Sheep" and I forgot...

Things I learned this morning: Windows Marketplace does not do gifting. This is probably not surprising. Google Play has no mechanism for gifting apps. They tell you to buy gift cards instead. Amazon does, but it's not even remotely intuitive, and a vanishingly tiny portion of Android users...

Other Momentus XT drives I've had have been very clicky.

Android updates are weird sometimes. Even if the handset manufacturer has provided an update, the carrier still has to distribute it or choose not to. Samsung does have another update mechanism built into Kies, its PC connectivity package, but I suspect that very few people are aware of or use that.

That was 2560x1440. I've seen a few things in various shady places but it's relatively easy to find camera samples and the like.

You can close a one window and open a different one if you need to. And the windows are freely resizeable, which is the kind of advanced technology that Microsoft should some day employ for Metro apps.

Apparently it does work in IDE mode per Intel, Samsung and Crucial.

Chrome, the stock browser, Gmail, the Samsung Email App, Youtube, Google Maps, the Gallery App, the stock SMS app, Google Talk and a half-dozen other weird Samsung apps all work with it. Firefox does not and I don't see any other media players that do. Google Drive and Dropbox don't. I tend to...

The S4 supports dual windowed applications. Seriously. I can have Youtube and Gmail open at the same time, on the same screen. I can adjust the proportion of the screen granted to each app. If I rotate, the layout adjusts automatically. I weep for wonder. It only works with some...

Does this mean you gave up on FreeNAS?

Has the Windows machine been rebooted recently? When did this start? Did it ever work and then stop all of a sudden? Samba is goofy sometimes monthly updates and this is just about the right time for that.

That is the scrotum of my waking nightmare.

Having GPS coordinates in EXIF data isn't an entirely horrible thing. There's something to be said for knowing exactly where a picture was taken. If you'd prefer to keep that information personal, I know there are various scripts and standalone executables that can scrub that data out of...

I don't know what that thing is but now it is going to haunt my nightmares.

I quite like Swype. Both are paid apps now, but Swiftkey wants a second purchase for tablet users for some reason I don't really understand.

1. Wow is that screen bright and sharp. Like, WOW. 2. Any time anyone gets a new Android device the first thing that should be done once it's connected to 802.11 is to hit play.google.com to push all your apps down to the new device while it's charging. I really wish there was a "Clone Apps from...

Does Samsung have a decent operation over there? From your price list it's certainly an appealing option and I quite like the 840.

In that case I'll just say that I've purchased four or five different BT adapters and I haven't found any of them to work as well as it does on my phone or tablets. It's AWESOME to have to track down a proper keyboard so you can re-pair the wireless one that lost its connection.

I know nothing of Audis but I thought it was pretty funny that they slipped in a lens flare in almost every scene with New Spock. And used the theme from "Galaxy Quest."

I'm rather fond of Logitech's unifying receivers, which are kinda-sorta Bluetooth, but not. I was surprised to discover that my wireless trackball and headset can be run from one connection, and since then I've also added a keyboard to the setup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs&feature=player_embedded

That sounds more like a poor firmware implementation than anything else. DHCP traffic should traverse a bridged network just fine and I doubt you're using a different subnets for wireless so that seems... misfeature-ish.

After some debate between the Note 2 and the S4, I went with the S4. I did it for a completely stupid reason - the headphone connector on my Evo is loose and I'm tired of messing with it - but the fact that it's a larger phone with four times the pixels that weighs less than the one I have more...