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I don't see Verizon or Sprint changing their radio technology just because Google doesn't like it, either.

To be honest, I like the GUI of the Linux boot environment better than the stupid GUI they moved to in Windows. Dealing with the boot environment is mostly just a matter of being familiar with it, but it hasn't changed much in the last three years. In any case, it's also reasonable to expect...

I should be ordering 60 Intel 330s by the end of the week. So that's good.

All the apps you've installed are listed on play.google.com under My Android Apps. If you have multiple registered devices, they will each be listed, effectively offering a set of apps for each tab. You can push apps out to your devices from the web interface; you don't even have to do it from...

I don't have anyone to take because I live in a shitty place that entirely devoid of appropriate social outlets. Were I 15 years older or had I interest in sports and beer rather than arts, I might be better off but neither of those thing are true.

Pop over to their dating advice section. That board has a long ass list of what's appropriate to post. Some thing should go in /relationships rather than /dating. Some things should go in *_advice. Some things should go in /sex or /loneliness or /okcupid or /depression or whatever. Many of those...

Internet people I know in Baltimore, D.C. and Brooklyn all say it's not anything that exciting.

Are you seriously suggesting that the option should be taken off the table just because you and Todd Aiken and Richard Mourdock are OK with the idea?

In my experience that usually means there's a hardware issue with one of the drives participating in the operation.

Economics, as a science, frequently models human behavior using the supposition that consumers/markets are rational and proceeds from that point. Which, of course, they aren't.

Did it auto-select the correct drive? Because it should if there's only one possibility.

I heard it before. There isn't much to say about it, except perhaps that I think there might be better frameworks for understanding our electoral system than economic and financial ones. Also that we really do have an obligation to vote if we've already made the investment to become informed...

If the drive is completely empty, you need to go through Tools and tell Acronis to set up the New Drive so that it's initialized enough for TrueImage to interact with it.

I made the mistake of letting the thing come on by itself and then morbid curiosity took over. I broke out of the install, loaded the thing up in Safe Mode and looked: There's only one configured application starting up, basically rather than having a system image that includes all the HP tools...

Absolute first impression: HP's software loadout megasucks. What the hell is it doing that it needed a half-hour of automatic software installation on first boot? The display is nice but not as bright as I might've hoped for.

I don't get Reddit as a community. There are eleventy million sub-communities that seem to tend toward massive overspecialization or else they are so completely general that they'll immediately be lost among thousands of posts.

Breadcrumbs are the little clicky bits in the Windows 7 Address bar that let you quickly navigate to other folders on the same level in the directory structure as whichever one you clicked on. If you click on the one next to Computer, you see all your drive letters. If you click the one next to...

Yes. The person for whom I purchased my second ticket has since decided that she is rather more interested in other people.

I'd like to take someone who legitimately likes the idea of going.

I think we all just need to accept that when a new version of Windows comes along, they're going to change some stuff. The Metro lack-of-start menu is kind of a big deal, but having breadcrumbs and a Back button instead of an Up button really isn't.

At the end of the day, we're not going to do anything about it, because the problem is so large and requires us to work outside political boundaries and plan for the long term. It's not going to happen, and humanity is going to suffer for it.

I've known I need to find someone to take to the opera for about 10 weeks. Can't find anyone to take. A ticket to Lyric costs about half what my monthly rent does and now I don't even want to go.

I strongly suspect it's being overplayed in the way that all weather that impacts New York City is overplayed. I realize it doesn't take all that much to do damage in so densely populated an area, but New Yorkers are whiny little bitches about weather and I've known people who have slept through...

Why would anyone choose to get any amount of news from Fox?

To be clear, there ARE improvements. It boots and resumes much faster and I like the way it handles things like image previews. Metro is lame, but I never look at it or think about it, so it doesn't matter. It might be more useful in a while, after there's been more of a transition to Metro...

Almost everyone I know is either completely happy with Windows 7 or extremely wary of anything new from Microsoft that isn't Windows XP. Windows 8 has a tough row to hoe as far as adoption is concerned.

10" tablets are all too damned heavy. That's why mine basically never moves.

10" Nexus-branded Tablet: 2560x1600 screen, dual core 1.7GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and no microSD support.

At this point I am mostly just thankful that they didn't change the driver model this time. I remember when they released Vista and I spent the first three days it was out telling early adopters that their scanner/printer/keyboard/sound card wasn't supported and there wasn't anything I could do...

Yup. And if the version of SCO is old enough, you can directly modify the contents of /etc/passwd, too.

OK. Given the materials at my disposal, it will be made of cat hair and occupy a central location on the shelf above my monitors.

My thinking was that it would probably be more productive to drop the source drive in a Linux system and find some way to mount and edit the FS than to screw around with SCO's primitive and poorly-documented crap. I haven't touched anything SCO in around 10 years but even back then I remember...

OK. All credit to Coug for that one. ;)

Which SCO? Unixware? What version? The deeply sucky thing is that there were a bunch of goofy proprietary filesystems that exist on SCO and no place else, but Linux and FreeBSD can mount some drives that were used on SCO systems.

I had a whole defective shipment about five years ago. It was horrific for me since the DIMMs were distributed to about 50 systems before I realized I needed to find and replace all of them.

Memory tests are notoriously inaccurate and I think it's only gotten worse as DIMM capacities have increased. If anything, I'd probably look for some kind of general-purpose burn-in like repeated runs of 3DMark looking for signs of instability.

The Kindle app no longer opens on my Kindle Fire. No error messages. Nothing. Just doesn't work. I cleared the data, rebooted the device etc. Nothing. Amazon says I have to do a factory reset to fix it. Awesome.

It doesn't matter. I suspect issue has a lot to do with underlying device driver for video acceleration and how their recording technology accesses what's happening on the screen. I suspect it would have the same problem were I trying to use their software to record the playback of a video file...

More for Lunar, Surface Pro is regular x86-compatible Windows 8 in a tablet form factor. It might be interesting, but I suspect it's going to be another generation of clunky x86 tablets saddled with crappy batteries and underpowered CPUs. Going forward, the fact that both x86 Windows and ARM...

I do understand the technical reasons behind the layering issue he alludes to: It's about the VM using privileged GPU stuff to run acceptably, and it does only imapct recordings, not live presentations, but they sold me a product that's supposed to be able to view and record my presentations and...

Apparently Apple released a new thing yesterday and the tech world is still slobbering over it. It's an ipad2, but smaller and ironically still priced identically to an ipad2. Which brings me to another amusing point I just noticed: A 5" Samsung Note is "too big to fit in a pants pocket" but the...

Gotomeeting / Gotowebinar / Gototraining are not capable of recording the activity inside a virtual machine Window. In my testing this means VMware Player / VMware Professional and Virtualbox. This seems to be true regardless of hardware settings, though at this point I have not tried reverting...

This was absolutely fascinating to me.

Classic Shell for Windows: A skin-able app that allows users of newer versions of Windows to revert to the appearance and UI widgets of previous Windows versions. Want Luna or Aero on Windows 8? Missing the Up button on the Explorer toolbar? Here's the fix.

The experience of doing that is a little too limiting for my taste, but when I've shown something similar off using my Xoom tablet, it gets a lot of ooohs and ahhhs. From people who then don't want to take a class to learn more about it. Jerks.

I'll update with more thoughts once I get them in my hands. They're Sandy Bridge CPUs though, so these machines were probably made sometime in 2011. Don't care. The price and features were right.

Basically, yeah. But when you're talking about investing in 32 CPU NUMA setups and all the tech necessary to feed one, you probably also have a dedicated Cisco guy and a dedicated Oracle guy on hand as well. When I worked in process control it was pretty typical for Honeywell to have an...

I think our national ego is too wrapped up in the metaphorical size of our military wang. There's no such thing as perfect security and the sooner we accept the fact that an Oklahoma City or 9-11 is going to happen every so often no matter how many brown people we kill or middle aged women we...

Aircraft Carriers and Nuclear Subs aren't exclusively military technology. They're a statement of the regime's foreign policy priorities. We keep a carrier group in the Mediterranean Sea, a crapload of them in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf etc. It's not quite the same thing as gunboat...

There's no practical difference between Windows Server editions except the big-boy one is licensed to handle extra CPU sockets and more RAM. Which means there's no difference. As I understand it, real-world, working Datacenter-edition copies of Windows Server weren't let out in the field unless...