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My classroom PCs are triple-boot. I have to do amazing acrobatics of imaging software to make their image install at all. If I do a step out of order at least one and probably all of the OSes in the image will not boot and I have to re-image. There's a reason that basically nothing officially...

Nope. What's wrong with your phone?

... or maybe you just need to load a boot-time driver.

I think that's what the Pre-install Kit is supposed to do for you.

I really think 400g is a sweet spot. That's one of the reasons I'm so happy with the 8.9" Galaxy (470g). Did they fix the fact that ipads only have one speaker yet?

It's that 1.4lb. weight that I find bothersome. That resolution is much, much better than the ipad2, but as an e-reader or a camera, what the hell do you want with something that weighs two thirds of a kilogram? Well, and it still runs iOS. Maybe some Android hackers will fix that part though. :)

They aren't ALL too expensive. Entry level Sandy Bridge Xeons start at $200, comparable to Core i5 desktop chips. Yes, they need to be paired with expensive motherboards and expensive RAM, but most of us here buy expensive motherboards and RAM to begin with. I don't think I'd give any serious...

Hitachi's 2.5" drives needed to die anyway. They were notoriously unreliable.

Yes I am.

Intel finally got around to releasing 5-series Sandy Bridge Xeons. Dual and quad Socket systems can now join in i7 love at up to 8 cores and 16 threads per socket. Looks like somebody could build an absolutely monstrous 16-core system for about $3500.

Just like computer gaming, I'd say you concentrate on what most people have (Android 2.3) and plan ahead accordingly. I'm not aware of any Android applications I use right now that require any newer release of Android than 2.3; almost everything comes down to either file manipulation or access...

The comments on that post are gold. I've never seen a tech forum with a hate-on for Windows XP *and* all inferior previous versions of Windows before.

Android adoption rates are of lock-in by the carrier or vendor. As an end user the newer releases really aren't all that different anyway.

I strongly suspect that the amount of work and aggravation involved in replacing your motherboard will be lower than continuing to troubleshoot an issue that will in all likelihood lead to you replacing your motherboard.

No doubt. We couldn't do this without you man!

Well I just looked at this thread for the first time like 8 hours ago, but my intuition is that it's a motherboard issue just based on the variety and frequency of issues. It's relatively simple to slap in a different power supply and see if the issues go away. It's actually relatively simple...

The second screen is hugely useful for making Win8 usable on a desktop. By default, it ALWAYS shows the Desktop application, and stuff that sits on that screen is always visible and available. Also, all views of the desktop show the full taskbar, including pinned applications, and each Desktop...

In Microsoft's version of reality, they'd move to only supporting one OS and people would want theri tablet devices to be susceptible to the same malware bullshit so they could run a copy of Office. Android absolutely has a place, but it has drawbacks of its own.

If you do, it will be only just. You're seriously better of trying to do that with XP or with a Linux install. My classroom install of Win7 + Office is 28GB including the pagefile and hibernation file. That's not much room for useful data storage.

Having read everything you and others have written, I'd probably just tell you to replace your motherboard and be done with it.

I have a few Vista Home Premium licenses sitting around.

I find it very difficult to find the hot spots on the touch screen to bring metro back up and the charms menu and the like. My touchscreen is 1920x1080 rather than more typical resolutions, but it's not something that I should be fighting with.

Several of the farmhouses outside the town where I grew up still had party lines in the late 70s.

.ape does kind of annoy me, but I'm surprised that release groups stuck with xvid as long as they did. I'm also surprised that there came to be an ecosystem of compatible hardware. I guess I just never paid any attention to that.

The install is just writing out a disk image. It's ridiculously straightforward. Mine runs on an 8GB SSD. Performance seems to depend on available RAM more than anything else. The support documents I've read seem to suggest that an individual zpool should have four or five drives in it. Mine...

It includes Server releases and "server" stuff. You don't get dev tools.

Pirate Release Groups switch to x.264 en masse, causing amusing degree of controversy for downloaders with crappy hardware players.

Seriously, spend the extra $30 or whatever it is to get a Technet Standard sub. You'll get two keys for each version of Windows that can each be re-used 11 or 21 times (depending on version), plus you'll get MS Office keys.

I don't have much of a life, but folding a paper airplane and making it go really far is still a pretty cool art and also a test of engineering discipline.

Do Amex cards have limits? I thought one of the things you got with Amex was no pre-set limit on the cards? I don't know if mine does or not.

With all of HBO's original programming, I might find four or eight worthwhile hours of programming there in a typical month. I'd pay $10 to $15 for that, in line with what I'd pay for three movie tickets or a one month subscription to an MMO. However, the day that HBO - which has always been...

I think I started with 8.0.2 and have moved to 8.0.4.

Tannin and I used to discuss the optimal system for quantifying temperature: degrees cats. As in, the closer that cats feel like being to you, the warmer or colder it must be. In this case, a British gentleman has is own unique issues with the measurement system, and the company that made his...

We have GOT to do something about changing contrast between things.

Do you have a link?

I use "seed phrases" to generate good passwords for things that need them, quotes from books or movies or something that revolve around some common theme. Lately I've also taken to using the XKCD example and just combine two or three memorable words with some punctuation between. Web site...

Windows 2000 should not be available through MSNDAA. Nor should Window 98. Both were distributed with Microsoft's infringing Java runtime and they were pulled years ago. I got as far as installing Windows 8 on a system with a Planar screen that supports multitouch today, but I didn't really...

Note to self: never, ever re-use or write down passwords for anything.

It's been pointed out to me that the universe described in Blade Runner and the one used in the Alien films is compatible, and there are a few details between the two that support that idea.

XP will have had something like 19 years by the time it's completely removed from Microsoft's web site. I'm still building and selling XP machines. In some cases that feels completely ridiculous and retrograde, but it's the only option that will maintain application compatibility in an...

Is 1/3 the cost of a new device that will in all likelihood be several times faster and have quadruple the storage really going to be a worthwhile expense?

Honestly, you won't care. You won't. In three years, by the time the battery craps out, you'll want or possibly even already have, something better. Now if the batteries don't make it two years, that's a different story. But at the three year mark, I doubt it will matter much to you or any...

The problem with that is that there are so many small shops and developers working with some tiny, tiny market. Microsoft makes tools for development and presumably new stuff would integrate into Microsoft's offerings, but what about folks who are writing code with non-Microsoft tools (Delphi or...

40GB is gobs of space for an OpenSUSE installation.

I don't think they can force an "app store" on x86. They probably can for the new ARM stuff, but there are too many legacy binaries and independent developers out there that need to be able to run to push everything through whatever qualification process to make that the only way to install...

I actually don't mind the aesthetics. As I said, I have a touchscreen here and I'm going to install Windows 8 on that so that I can get some idea of the touch part of the experience. I'm also going to go ahead and run a couple extra monitors, because something I'm really curious about is how the...

I do use FreeNAS. It's been completely plug and play. I have it set up as two six-drive zpools of 18TB each, which works just fine for my needs. SMB performance is a little weak. NFS works a lot better. Other than that I don't have a whole lot to say. It's an appliance and I treat it as one.

Since no one else has mentioned it, there is a new build of Windows 8 available for download as of today. I wasn't terribly excited by the last one, but I do happen to have a nice 22" touchscreen sitting around so I suppose I'll give all that a whirl later this week.

"Used to" have social phobias? No, it's very much part of my life. It doesn't help that the place where I live is a giant void of anything interesting. Since my life doesn't revolve around high school athletics, church or a bar, there's really not even any reason for me to go out in the first...

Does anyone here do anything with x10 stuff? I've never really looked in to it, but controlling appliances and lights and crap from a PC is possible and kind of interesting.