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Plex allows for sharing server access to anyone you've invited. That means that you can make your Plex server available on someone else's xbmc setup, assuming you have the bandwidth to support their requests. As far as the appliances themselves, I don't know that things have changed enough...

Plex is about a zillion times better than it was the last time I messed with it. And it integrates with XBMC now, too.

The twist I've run in to with Lenovo laptops is that the internal controller writes a unique ID to drives as they are set up for the notebook. You can USE any drive you want, but you need to make sure that if the drive is going to be used on the internal controller, that it is in the internal...

Must've missed this when it was new. Anyway, I've been using PrivateInternetAccess.com for few weeks. Unlike BTguard, where I almost never saw torrents transferring at over 200kb/sec, I am actually sustaining almost 4MB/sec in aggregate downloads right now. It's painless to switch the location...

There was laughter and it was of the out loud variety. Bravo!

Back in December, I took my ladyfriend on an adventure to an Apple store to get her iphone fixed after it fell out of her purse. It wasn't under warranty, so she paid $150 for a replacement. In January it fell out of her coat pocket onto concrete floor and the screen broke. Rather than pay...

Seagate announced the other day that they're discontinuing 2.5" 7200rpm drives in favor of high capacity 5400rpm models and hybrid drives for performance. Seagate also announced some 3.5" hybrid drives. I've had a few hybrid drives and, other than a modest subjective improvement in boot/resume...

Are you doing any kind of dismount or backup on SQL Server? That's something you can configure through Management Studio and the instructions for doing it are completely google-able. I'm not sure how to tell you to test, except that a live database would be wonderful. The problem I always have...

I've not been very impressed with Acronis Nonstop Backup in any implementation to date. I have not tried the 2013 version. Are you trying to back up live VMs? Are you at least going to snapshot them or something prior to imaging? My guess is that you'll wind up with technically bootable .VMDKs...

The important question is, does one maintain bowel control while doing mid-air acrobatics on a busy expressway? ;)

In the last month, I've had five different people ask me if I could convert some misbegotten PDF back in to its editable source. Sometimes, it's possible and sometimes it's not. Today it was a Powerpoint presentation so the answer was no. I suspect this is going to become a bigger and bigger...

Is the Note 8 official now? I thought it was still just a rumor.

It came and went so I guess we won't be getting anything like that. Samsung is having an event in a week or so and they're definitely launching a new Galaxy phone. I'm curious to see if they also update their tablet line. The Note 10.1 is the current flagship, and it's a BIG step down from the...

Used graphics cards are always kind of scary since you don't really know how they've been abused, whether the cooling solution is still attached and working etc.

That might be true, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the functional use of the product. "OMG they didn't put a pull strap under the tablet in its snug little box so it's automatically wrong forever" isn't a valid criticism of the product unless the product you're reviewing is the...

What's wrong with Classic Shell? The default is to provide a Windows 98-style start, but in its own settings, it can be switched to an XP or Vista-style start experience pretty easily.

From the article: "The packaging and unboxing experience is Apple-quality. " ... and that was the point where I realized the author is a waste of oxygen.

That sounds like a job for an Intel Next Unit of Computing rig mounted under a table and carefully set up to automate tasks at hand.

I have a DLink Wireless USB kit that I was messing with in relation to some point of sale equipment. It was kind of awful. It DOES work for things like printing, but it loses connection all the damned time and data rates are abysmal unless you're standing so close that you might as well plug in...

I'm almost positive that ESXi is limited to only one physical CPU of up to six real cores. That's how I read the license agreement anyway. Xen seems relatively straightforward and it's already baked in to some *nix systems. The thing that still gives me pause with all the available...

There is a usb over IP implementation but, again, not at usb 3 speeds.

FreeNAS ZFS performance on 99% full volumes is UGLY. My primary array filled last night and file copies - even internal volume to internal (well, eSATA) drive on different physical controllers - are presently around 1.5MB/sec.

Wireless USB is only certified for operation at "2.0" or Superspeed, and even then only at ranges under 3m. At 10m, speed drops to 100Mbit. Good luck with that conduit.

A lot of my stripper friends carry various models of LG Optimus - which is uniformly hated by all I know who have them, or the HTC One V phone, which seems to be better-liked. The girls invariably buy completely crappy Android phones, find out that they suck (like 600MHz phones with 256MB RAM...

The UPS Bastards know that you'll be back sooner or later. I have similarly strong feelings about FedEx (which is why UPS was used to begin with), but sometimes I still can't avoid dealing with them.

You have to remember that a lot of these practices came out of the realities of the early '90s, when Win32 was a new thing and servers were very different beasts than they are now.

Please. Corel is a Canadian company. They would politely ask me to stop and then apologize and offer me some Tim Horton's.

I've shipped things internationally via UPS before and have not run into this issue.

According to my math it's about 400MB/s. Whatever. Same difference. ;)

So it seems likely that the Galaxy S4 will be announced on March 14th. The rumor mill says 5", 1080p screen, quad core 1.9GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, storage options between 16 and 64GB + card slot and touchless gestures using the front camera for eye tracking and the gyroscope for positioning. Looking...

The thing is, we're slowly getting there. I have a 4.7lb. machine with 2.2TB of disk space right now. Image sensors keep improving so Lunar's expectations for what he needs keep changing, but I think computers and storage are going to catch up to those needs. The good news is that Lunar still...

Since I see this, I brought up the Details tab on a couple other machines. My machines that are using a "Standard XYZ" controller, which I assume to be a Microsoft driver, list the drive serial number under Driver Details SOMEWHERE, but on the H61-base machines in my classroom it's actually...

I'm not sure how that is justifiable. It was a ground shipment. It wasn't delayed by customs. What did UPS do other than have it on their truck?

I just bought four CorelDraw x6 licenses. The license numbers are all identical except for the last digit. Anyone want to bet on what would happen if I used the next number in sequence?

My experience is that ntdstil is really poorly documented, or perhaps that the tech experience with it is so diffused that there's no wide consensus on what to do when you need to use it. So those guys dd is referring to have tons of experience dealing with it and the rest of us are just trying...

The disk ordering rules are pretty much the same as the rules for ARC paths in the old boot.ini files. The computer I'm using right now has its C: drive on IDE1, disk 0 - it's the first drive on the second physical controller. It's listed as drive2 in Disk Management, after the two disks on the...

You can absolutely have a DC with only one physical drive, if that's what you're asking. Moving the database location with ntdsutil might be an exercise in one's patience on a working install, but if you're starting from scratch it's not really an issue. If you want to use Windows softRAID 1...

Server Backup will back up through iSCSI or to network shared drives though, so that's one workaround.

I'm guessing there are a bunch of identical drives, right? Device Manager will show the drive serial number under the details tab, listed as "Siblings." If you you look in Disk Management, you should be able to see which drive is considered port 3 (which SHOULD be the 4th port overall) and...

It's not so much "insists" as "will put on another drive by default if there is another non-removable drive present." The theory is that there's enough disk I/O from the OS that the AD database should be located on another drive. The thing to do, if you're uncomfortable with that arrangement -...

Yeah, there were a bunch of press releases about it yesterday.

Oh yeah, well nVidia doesn't have TressFX! :D

I've never had a mission critical DC fail, but I've demonstrated DSRM in the classroom and it's painful enough that I hope I never have to do it for real. On a single server (the kinds of setups I manage, mostly), it's not THAT bad, because restoring system state amounts to an authoritative...

He's SSDdrueding, remember?

As a note, Windows internal backup supports directory service restores in ways that some third party backups do not. If you're going to use third party disk imaging, you should use it in conjunction with regular system state backups (AD is part of system state on DCs). Methinks time is about to...

The thing is, it's just a Windows 8 machine, albeit a particularly lightweight one. I don't know what there is to say except "The battery life seems to be X and I use touch vs. the stylus vs. the keyboard in Y proportions." I'm trying to justify one myself, but between all the tablets I have...

It's completely drool worthy. It's an i5 with an SSD and an awesome screen that weighs less than 3 pounds. What's not to love? I really don't understand why people whining about the disk space, either. Is it somehow news that Windows takes up space?

I don't think I want to know that much about dd's sex life, man.

This is a "PDC". Is there another DC someplace and the version numbers are out of agreement now? What server currently has the FSMO roles?

It's a little more work, but any machine with IE8, 9 or 10 can now get the same Ad-blocking as Adblock Plus using Tracking Protection Lists. Easylist + Fanboy's list is equivalent to what I set up on Firefox and/or Chrome. That's a big, huge step forward for IE and it's about goddamned time.