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Amazon has a ridiculously good deal on a huge bundle of THQ Games.

You mean you don't love the command line find utility? ;)

That's four hours by car. But, knowing how international air travel works, probably four hours by plane also.

Also: RAID1 is not a backup.

Intel motherboards are essentially rebadged Foxconn products, but I've paid for Intel due to the quality of the attending support. I'm guessing they've crunched the numbers and decided that the ROI isn't there to keep working in the desktop space. Perhaps we should look at this as an early...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025926/intel-exits-the-desktop-motherboard-business-to-focus-on-new-form-factors.html Not any time soon, but that's still a pretty huge issue for those of who build and maintain systems.

Data recovery is a precious gift. You should be happy you're getting back anything at all and go forth a disk-crash fearing, backup-having man. Or lady. Whatever.

I live in the midwestern United States. I'm at least four hours' travel from another country. Also, the phones I was looking at were CDMA, which no other country even uses as far as I know. I'm relatively certain I could find a 32GB Android phone and add a 32GB uSD card for it for less than...

I very seldom bother with burn-in testing. Maybe once in a great while on a $1500+ desktop or on a server.

Surprisingly catchy ditty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OpCJzdWxEbQ

Can someone please explain to me why an 8GB used iphone that's been banned from multiple carriers is still worth $150?

At the point that a memory test is finding errors, it's just time to replace the RAM. RAM is cheap. I've seen quite a lot of RAM that can pass memory tests all day long yet was still defective, but I will also say that modern RAM is vastly more reliable than the stuff we were getting 10 or 15...

Many moons ago, I recovered about 1200GB of data from a RAID 5 failure. Even though the recovery was perfect in that I got all of my files back, I still saw minor corruption in recovered audio and video files. The chances of having additional hard errors during a RAID recovery on a large volume...

The Steam Store for Linux doesn't have many offerings, but Swords and Sworcery is well done, as is World of Goo. I think both were part of the Humble Android Bundle. And for what it's worth, most Humble Bundle titles are cross platform, so that's something to look out for.

I don't like the way Windows deals with Bluetooth because losing connection really, really sucks. Basically I don't think Bluetooth keyboards and mice should be the only ones on a computer whereas I'm completely fine with those little... Favi-things (aka Rii aka Chinese OEM of the week). I've...

Memory tests of all kinds - even the ones that use a hardware tester - are notoriously unreliable. Passing Memtest86 really just means that RAM passes Memtest86, not that it's certifiably problem-free.

I have a couple of them sitting in my office. Seagate sometimes ships drives to me in them.

One of my customers let a salesman go last week. He shipped his T520 back in a large, unpadded envelope, wrapped one time around the wide axis with bubble tape. It works fine.

Did anyone notice that Amazon recently added a digital version of every physical CD you've purchased from them in the last 15 years to your Cloud Player library a couple weeks ago?

I've got two T420s side-by-side here. They both have 8GB RAM and i7-2640 CPUs. One has a 120GB Intel 320 and the other has a 240GB Crucial M4. The M4 is, subjectively, a tick faster for almost everything while Windows is running. Given the differences between SSDs, "a tick" is probably about as...

I have the Rosewill 8-bay unit that I believe is identical to that. As I recall, there's a pretty serious limitation to the number of SATA ports supported by the SiL RAID controller that I presume was provided with your enclosures, such that the controller will only address a maximum of five...

Technically, I could reach him several ways. I'm pretty certain I still have his phone number if it came to that. I suspect he does not want to communicate, particularly not with me.

Random thought? Is the boot/system drive in the first enumerated SATA port? You've got six drives. Is it possible that the system power management is powering on the other drives before that one, causing Windows to think that one is not responding quickly enough?

They changed the way that new or renewed subs work so that you have to use all the activations on a single key before you can request another one. This means you can't collect all your product keys and .ISOs on the first day of your sub and never visit again. They also removed some products from...

You can Anytime Upgrade using a valid Windows Pro license. I have observed it to work with the $40 download version, which is for all practical purposes identical to a full OEM license as far as I can tell. Were I really concerned, I'd probably dig in to the actual EULA and play "spot the...

Merc has, of late, been a very lucky guy.

I copy the whole BD structure on a machine using AnyDVD HD and feed the output folders to Handbrake. Handbrake supports fully preserving soundtracks and can operate in batch mode through the GUI or from a command line. My output from a typical BD is between 3.5 and 15GB, depending on my personal...

The completely valid argument is that the author started from a faulty premise couched in nothing more than his own opinion. He did not demonstrate that a problem actually exists, which is something that fundamentally needs to be done in order to justify the many thousands of words that...

I've got it on a dual core T60. It's... adequate. I don't think you're missing anything though. I think the oldest CPUs that are officially supported are the top-end single core Athlon64s, and those things are nine years old.

I just got a nice new US Naval issue wool peacoat. It's nice and warm, and it looks formal enough to use as an overcoat as well as standard cold weather wear.

The mandate for my training job is to configure Windows with as few changes from the vanilla UI as possible. I have to be familiar with the defaults. But every Windows 8 system I've configured for an individual has had Classic Start on it.

This may actually happen. I'm kind of asking people I know if they know any actual scotch drinkers and so far the answers have been like "Well I saw my third cousin ask for a shot of whiskey at a wedding one time..."

Neither dd nor SD has made any attempt to suggest we should value their theatrical insights and neither of them have been paid for those insights, either. Unlike some doofuses.

Merc abstains from alcohol and does not know anyone who would appreciate fine scotch. I am not sure it's legal for me to sell it. I have a very expensive paperweigh Maybe I can trade it for ham.

Well the point of doing anything with WMI is that it's ridiculously easy to script stuff and push it out to clients. Keep it on a thumb drive or stick it on a network share for occasional use. One of the things that I do as an admin is copy a collection of scripts, batch files and install-less...

Well the point of doing anything with WMI is that it's ridiculously easy to script stuff and push it out to clients. Keep it on a thumb drive or stick it on a network share for occasional use. One of the things that I do as an admin is copy a collection of scripts, batch files and install-less...

Laphroig

Here's a friendly little how-to on doing it with WMI as well.

I work with a bunch of professional drinkers. Every year my office holiday party is an exercise in middle aged woman public intoxication. This year, instead of some kind of monetary bonus, I was given a 30 year old bottle of Scotch. :twistd: A few years before I was given an expensive bottle of...

That's probably a good candidate for a little powershell action. I can't think of a way to do it with just regular DOS commands off the top of my head, but more of that kind of functionality is exposed to powershell and VBscript.

There's a tutorial. It plays the first time a user account is created on a machine. I have observed this to happen after a sysprepped system is configured (how an OEM system would be) and on new installation. The tutorial basically says "The new start thingie is called Metro and it's in the...

That guy is also a doofus. I expect that this particular appellation will be more broadly agreed upon than my previous one. Metro bites, but a lot of crap he was complaining about I'd covered in the tutorial you see on user account creation . The rest is whole entire google search away, even...

But entirely accurate. This guy might be the world expert on high frame rate filmmaking, but if he can't convince me that a problem exists without resorting to his judgment of a single audience's reaction and he can't explain the problem with some kind of quantitative statements (as opposed to...

I'd guess that the project got killed because the projected ROI wasn't high enough to continue to make the R&D investment.

Netflix relies on Silverlight and I believe that Netflix support in WMC is via third-party plug-in rather than native to the app. I'd probably start with a repair install of Silverlight and/or removing and re-adding Media Center from Add/Remove Windows components and see where that gets you.

Were he not a doofus, he would have written a better article. QED.

There is nothing meritorious about this person's qualitative statements. You say he's an expert. I say that if he is an expert, he should be able to provide more instructive analysis than statements couched in his opinion. I'm not arguing that there might be something wrong with 48fps filmmaking...

The author makes a rather large number of statements that are grounded in his personal opinion or his judgment of an audience's reaction. There are an awful lot of sentences in that piece that start with "I think..." or include utterly unquantifiable observations. If the author wanted to write...

I just read all that and it sounds like some doofus is grasping at straws to justify his dislike of progress.

I normally buy the smallest drive option available, swap out the drive and set it aside in case I need to send one back. I've never had an issue getting warranty repairs from Lenovo when they were needed.