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I stuck an old X25 in my T61 and gave it to one of my friends. She's basically convinced I gave her a top of the line machine.

You might as well add RAM. It's cheap and will definitely improve the experience. An SSD would also help you, but it's tough to say that it's justifiable. Perhaps if you knew that you have another machine that could use it if the Dell dies.

Oh, speaking of inexpensive but nice tablets, The Nook HD had a firmware update over the weekend that added support for the Play Store, so stock Nooks are finally something besides completely retarded. And the 7" model was dropped to $150.

At least in the US, premium tablets usually offer the option of cellular internet service. Usually there's a $100 premium over non-aircard equipped hardware. It's hard to justify on a tablet since you're likely going to be paying $40/month for a data plan for it. But how ubiquitous is 802.11 in...

I was looking for something better than a $100 Big Lots tablet to recommend to people. You know, the 7", 640x480, 512MB with 2GB of fixed storage with no card slot and no access to Google's branded applications? I get asked for that sort of thing quite a lot.

It deploys through ninite. That's pretty damned straightforward if you need it.

I did replace my Galaxy Tab's battery. It did help. I got an extra two hours or so of power-on time out of the one I put in and the whole operation only took me about 15 minutes. So anyway, I was looking for a cheap tablet just now and I found this guy. $135, 1280x800 IPS, 7", quad core, 16GB...

I'm getting decent performance using a dual core Atom with Untangle. I was afraid that it wouldn't be enough of a CPU, but it's within 5% of the wire speed of my cable modem and was ridiculously easy to configure.

It would definitely be easier if I could take all the ladies I know who will go to such a thing in a single outing but alas that never happens. IMAX definitely wasn't worth it. The deal with "Will there be another one?" rests on the fact that Marvel sign an enormous multi-movie (three Iron...

Iron Man 3 is very, very funny and incredibly comic-booky. They did something very clever with The Mandarin that I wasn't really prepared for and it was quite lovely to have a super hero movie with absolutely none of the hints of origin story that have been present in essentially every other...

My phone very often autocorrects "busy" to "busty" but it's almost always funny enough that I just leave it.

Here is a thing that is completely and entirely on topic for this discussion.

Here's the Indian guy as golden age Flash, surrounded by what I'm guessing are models. Better angle. I was probably about 18 inches from the photographer when he took that shot. Jerk. And here's a bunch of people wasting their time pretending to be DC comics characters: Very popular...

Because RIM/Blackberry lives in a bubble reality where they think they're still remotely relevant?

Nope. That's just the first thing I saw when I walked in the convention center. Ms. Marvel, Spider-man, Captain America, Luke Cage (aka Power Man), Black Widow, Daredevil. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop version), Squirrel Girl, Hulk, alternate future Hulk's Daughter She-Hulk (yes really), Winter Soldier...

The problem with applying NTFS compression to everything is that you're going to waste a crap-ton of cycles trying to compress files that are already compressed in their native format. It might be worthwhile for a drive that's full of text files and logs but most userland data is just going to...

It's always funny to me to see which of my students didn't bring their reading glasses. I can tell because they're the ones who will pull a 22" LCD close enough that many of them have noseprints on them.

I think we're all waiting for a sea change in technologies that are presently considered exotic because the current marketplace isn't directed toward our interests any longer. We want 4k screens and massive SSDs and the market thinks anything that isn't a mobile technology isn't worthy of...

I was at a comic book convention all weekend, but I don't normally visit SF all that often on weekends anyway.

IPv4's address space is a fully compatible subset of IPv6. You don't REALLY have to change anything and it doesn't really matter what's happening internally on your LAN as long as NAT is happening properly anyway. IPv6 mostly means that there are different and different-looking sets of numbers...

Maker of extremely unsuccessful tablet says tablets won't exist in five years.

Ever had something that's all kinds of useful sitting right under your nose? On any Windows 7 machine, there's a folder located in %windir%\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\ that is just chock-full of hilariously useful VBscripts that work on EVERY version of Windows. In particular...

Gracie-cat loves League of Legends. She talks to it. She smacks it. She's generally a total shit about it.

Unrelated to Coug's topic, but perhaps of general interest for people who get to do large-scale deployments, I found this link on Slashdot a little while ago, describing the peering requirements for ISPs who want their own private Netflix, as well as the machines they use to deliver content. If...

I did finally trade that bottle for a set of new tires for my car. No cured pork, but you can't win them all.

Depending on what benchmarks are important, I think it's between 5 and 7 times as much graphics horsepower.

As a note to the all zero of the rest of you who have any sort of Windows 8 deployments, do BIOS updates on everything you have. Gigabyte, Asus and Intel motherboards, even new-ish ones released in the last six months all seem to have some kind of odd behavior, most often with power management...

Untangle says it wants a 3GHz Pentium 4. That seems like an awful lot of CPU for tasks that can be competently handled by a 200MHz MIPS chip.

Could you possibly just set up a VPN (using, for example, Hamachi) and just remote in to a trusted machine? That's how I normally do things.

My cats are awful at sitting still but I tried to get a shot of Gracie cat playing League of Legends last night. Her cat bed has been right next to a computer monitor for the last 13 years and absolutely the only thing on a screen that has ever gotten her attention is that game.

Since I have melted four $200+ consumer routers (most recently a Prosafe FSV336) in the last four months, I need to put some kind of desktop-based router system together. I have a dual gigabit NIC and an abundance of CPUs and motherboards that I *could* devote to this. I'll probably start with...

How much graphics horsepower do you need? A few companies make Radeon 7750s in fanless configurations and I typically buy Radeon 6450s to get simple multiple monitor support on office machines. I have a Radon 5750 that has about 1lb. of heat sink on it and I'm just going to say that it gets hot...

Outside of Western Digitalness, nothing about about modern hard drives pisses me off more than than that particular form of deliberate crippling. It was one thing when RAID was a deeply exotic technology only widely embraced in datacenters, but it's something else entirely when a $30 ITX...

I've had a Dreamhost account for seven or eight years. I have probably 30 domains hosted on my $100 a year account. Most of them are for very small web sites, either six or seven static pages or a Wiki or a Joomla site or the like. Almost all of them have MX handled by Google Apps (they make...

Crashplan might be doing more integrity checking than is typical for SMB file transfers, which could account for some of the difference, but the bursty nature of your transfers is really the result of buffers emptying and filling again. More RAM would help that, but it's still probably not the...

It's more that water cooling and oil immersion have a much lower wife acceptance factor.

It's extra surface area for silent air cooling.

You don't need a more powerful PC. You need a few extra 2GB DIMMs. It will run on 2GB RAM. You'll just see that write speed will be slow. Which might be fine, depending on your personal needs.

Something that supports an e7400 should support 8GB RAM. You do definitely want the RAM. My FreeNAS machine was god-awful until I upgraded it past 4GB (I wound up with 24GB of registered, ECC DDR2. Thank you Ebay). As I recall, my disk transfer rate for writes approximately doubled when I...

I believe this is the original, mubs. Though I happen to think I already own the most awesome kitty ever.

The Mac Pro that was intended to by my "work" machine got co-opted by my boss's teenage daughter since I never used it and other than that I've always provided my own office hardware, so it was a pretty easy sell.

With a proper keyboard and pointing device and a good-size screen to output to, it's A LOT more credible as a computer, just as one might expect. I actually have a pretty cool multimonitor set up right now where my tablet is propped up below my real monitor and it's kind of great. The Metro...

This is a commercial for Farcry 3. I'm not sure what the hell they were thinking but the level of late 80s/early 90s cheese is note perfect. Cartoonishly violent and gory and there's a naughty word. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuJyJBM_J4&feature=player_embedded

This is a commercial for Farcry 3. I'm not sure what the hell they were thinking but the level of late 80s/early 90s cheese is note perfect. Cartoonishly violent and gory and there's a naughty word. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuJyJBM_J4&feature=player_embedded

TABLE. Not Tablet. Though apparently it'll run for two hours on a charge. It's a novelty item for sure, but I can't recall a time that an all in one desktop system genuinely caught my interest prior to this.

That's because no one outside southeast Asia thinks it's seriously going to happen.

True science fact: It takes longer do uninstall the Bing Toolbar than it does to uninstall Visio 2007.

I really like that Gigabyte board as a high quality/no frills option. What are you upgrading from? I kinda-sorta want to upgrade my HTPC machine to an i3-3220 since I have one spare, but at the same time I know I completely don't need to because of how that machine gets used. Odd as it might...

Ninite stopped being useful last week. It no longer supports single click installs for Flash. You're OK if you use Chrome or if you're using IE under Windows 8, but everyone else has to get Flash from Adobe, which means either dealing with crapware bundling or knowing the specific, hidden place...

A lot of tabletop games are made to appeal to geeks. There are a crap-ton of them that involve zombies, Lovecraftian horror or Fantasy/Scifi/Super-Hero tropes. And I'm completely fine with that because I like that stuff. But at the same time, some of the people I might be playing with might NOT...