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Office 2007. The ISO file size is 3GB or 6GB depending whether you want one or both the 32 and/or 64 bit editions.

I buy Seagates and HGST drives. Most of my bulk data is on Seagate drives but every once in a while I'll get lucky and score an HGST drive at a comparable price. I'm also fully willing to de-shell an external drive and lose out on the crappy warranty. The 5TB Seagates perform like ass but I can...

On the other hand, I moved the largest DB server that I deal with from running on a RAID1 of 2TB drives to a dedicated SSD for each of OS, DB and DB logs (with the RAID1 drives as local backup) and I was told by the product support guys for that system that it was almost eight times faster by...

I've done four upgrades so far and I really haven't had any issues at all with Windows. The only real problem I've run in to is that Office 2003 doesn't install, but I don't think that's even remotely unexpected. The Media Creation tool works really well and yes, Lunar, you can just download...

The biggest problem I had with MWO was the community. I understand that it's a game with a PVP focus but I couldn't find anybody that was familiar with or interested in the backstory of what was happening in the game. You HAVE to group and you HAVE to use to voice comms to play and if you don't...

Some things that would be helpful to know are how large your organization is, what desktop and server platforms might be present (do you have Windows Domains? A single sign-on system? Are there Apple or Unix machines? Do VIPs expect to use iPads instead of things that are actually useful?) and...

The Geforce 750 can be found as a low-profile card that doesn't need PCIe power. It's in about the same performance niche the 4770 occupied during its day. It pains me to recommend one but they're the easy choice for modest gaming needs.

Using an i7 in an ITX rig seems like a brave choice. How are you keeping it cool? Windows 10 is just fine. The hassles and bugs are fairly minimal even if some of the UI components probably still aren't in the best state.

Nope. They're the right length but don't align to the attachment points the HSF would otherwise use. I wonder if I just got the wrong set.

Not quite three weeks later, I finally get the mounting kit for the NH-D9L and it doesn't have any instructions and I don't see any way to make the brackets they sent me securely fasten to the motherboard that I actually have. There's $5300 worth of computer in pieces around my office for want...

Since Windows 7, there has been an application called Problem Steps Recorder that makes a JPG every time time there's a user-generated change to a window on-screen. It's amazingly useful for writing documentation, but I'm sure bad guys could also use THAT to spy on users. Creating a stupidly...

IIRC, XP Mode is a VHD that's packaged in a ~700MB .MSU file or something. If you can find the .VMX and .VHD, you can copy them to another machine and either re-import them to Hyper-V or migrate them in to Virtualbox if you'd rather.

Ant-Man is very much in the same vein as Guardians of the Galaxy. It's consistently funny, albeit in a different way from GotG. It's self-aware of how ridiculous its premise is but it runs with it anyway. Ant-Man is fun. It's funny and works in part because of the physical comedy and in part...

OK. It turns out that the very difficult to diagnose occasional instant-spikes-to-100% usage-of-all-cores hard locks on my SQL Server development machine were being caused by a deeply terrible interaction between it and Forticlient. No more Forticlient on things that are kind of important.

Porn sites are EXTREMELY forward looking and tend to have good techs working for them. There's a strong impetus for moving porn to HTML5 anyway since it's marginally harder to block HTML5-based ads. Unfortunately, HTML5 is still a bit of a mess since AFAIK no two major browsers will handle all...

Also, it's pretty hard but not impossible to get a legal, single desktop Windows Enterprise Edition product key. Anybody who has Technet/MSDN probably has some for older Windows editions. They're also frequently sold in campus bookstores. Since older editions of Windows Enterprise aren't...

Here's the deal with updates: Updates for non-Enterprise customers are not optional. If you have Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, you (or someone with admin rights on Active Directory) can choose when to update. Consumers and unmanaged Windows Pro systems are effectively managed by Microsoft. You...

Considering the number of actual, legal adults I know who can't manage to keep $20 to their name, you're doing fine, sed.

I'm not going to complain. Tiny dots suck. Tinier dots suck less. If they're building these things and they're practical, it's only going to filter down to the tech we are actually interested in. We can buy a 50" 4k screen right now at a Walmart for $600. Three years ago that would've been...

On the other hand, I'd hate to have to support a one-off $4k desktop that isn't my personal machine.

Turns out the 10m cables I have are about 24" too short to use without putting holes in more walls.

Knowing Samsung, probably soon. It's definitely not a company I associate with paper launches. Affordable 1TB SSDs would make the collection of servers I manage vastly better.

PRTG is genuinely pretty sweet if you want more or less real time monitoring and notifications on a server. It looks at SNMP and WMI info and it will collect data from pretty much everything that comes to my mind when I think of server stuff. I really like how it ties in to a mobile app as...

I'm more worried about the orbiting death lasers.

Sell them to me.

Hey this is a thread I've never posted in. A hilarious thing happened to me today. My car's key recognition system failed. Meaning that, even though I have the correct ignition key and there was nothing else mechanically or electronically wrong, my key would no longer start the car. This...

Transparent Aluminum was invented by Dr. Nichols of Plexicorp of San Francisco in 1986, with assistance from a mysterious "Professor Scott" from Edinburgh.

Waze has a social or peer to peer aspect where data is shared with other Waze users. Areas that have a lot of Waze users (like Chicago's western suburbs or probably the Bay area) get ridiculously good traffic data in essentially real time. I don't think Google Maps has that component. If...

I don't like the Gmail app. It makes incorrect assumptions about how I want my mail presented. I replace it with K9, which also runs on my Amazon tablet. I don't like Hangounts. Hangouts behaves poorly since I don't have a G+-enabled account. I replace it with IM+ Pro, which can also sign in to...

All of Sprint's, all of Samsung's, most of Google's.

Look, if a half million dollar car does not have EZ Clean upholstery, somebody didn't spring for the full option package.

Samsung supplies a tool for unlocking their phones. The tool is called Odin. You run Odin, then you flash an alternative boot loader on to your phone, boot while doing gymnastics on the power and volume buttons and run SuperSU or something to get your root access. It takes about two minutes if...

Both Android, so yes. Although that can be complicated and misleading, since carriers and OEMs frequently replace stock apps for versions of their own. So for example you might find that the Contacts or Calendar apps you're used to are nothing like the ones you had on your last device. Because...

Here's some instructions for adding tidal information to Google Calendar. Traffic is trickier but I believe Waze integrates real time data pretty well.

I worked into the wee small hours last night and did maintenance call earlier today. Holidays are good for that kind of thing.

Microsoft has its own app store service for Windows Mobile, yes.

Happy Freedommas everybody! I'm mostly celebrating by having bronchitis, but tonight I'm gonna Ron Swanson myself a $92-at-retail 29 oz. Porterhouse and some green beans with every kind of pork I could find thrown in for flavoring because Freedom.

The Bluebuds Sport X headphones I bought a couple years ago pretty much never come off from around my neck if I'm awake. I have noticed that Bluetooth earbuds are no longer super-exotic (I bought five pairs of cheapies for $12 off Ebay a couple weeks ago), but the Bluebuds do still sound a lot...

Windows phones definitely aren't awful. They're just not Android. The biggest problem is that they don't have enough developers building apps for them because their market share is tiny. This means that well known internet services might not have official apps on that platform, or perhaps that...

My Hamachi VPN software doesn't work in Windows 10 either. In fact, Hamachi is the only application I use regularly that isn't yet supported on 10. I usually just RDP in to a client that does have it when I need to do something.

Verizon has the most towers. It also has LTE service in more places, but in places where it hasn't upgraded its towers, it also has the worst voice quality. Verizon also charges more than any other service. Verizon's coverage advantage is especially huge in those states west of the Mississippi...

The just plain not-Pro Surface 3 is perfectly respectable all on its own. I haven't really done anything with my Surface Pro where I've really thought "Hey, I sure am glad this thing has an i5" but I've done lots of things where I've thought "I sure am glad this thing runs real Windows software...

Battery life on my G4 is wildly inconsistent. An hour streaming a podcast over LTE to bluetooth headphones inside a metal building? Use 1% my battery during the whole time. Ten minutes of short Instant Messaging while on a strong 802.11 signal? 10 percent of the battery.

The VPN connections, like firewall profile settings, seem to migrate in every new version of Windows. I think they're visible if you double click the regular network connection icon in the taskbar but you're right that it's lame to not have the icon you're used to seeing.

Intel CPU nomenclature is kind of god-awful. Modern Atoms aren't necessarily terrible and Atom cores are being stuck in things that are branded Xeon. It's definitely a slug by desktop standards, but that it's not like anyone should be trying to do desktop computing on something in the form...

Removable battery and support for microSD up to 200GB (for some reason, there's a 200GB card now). The G4 is on every major US carrier. I have no idea about regional and pay as you go carriers like Virgin or Cricket or US Cellular.

All Thinkpads are Lenovos but not all Lenovos are Thinkpads. As a general guideline, I would avoid any product line that doesn't at least offer a 1080p option for the screen. If someone put a gun to my head and made me buy a consumer notebook, I'd go out of my way to get an Asus if anything...

I can't make it happen, but I tend to work from odd combinations of browser, platform and addon installation. My thinking is that there's a server-side script that interacts with certain combinations of identified user agents and referrers. When I look at the DuroFlexworld Page, I can't really...

Ask a spouse who thinks a partner is cheating or somebody in the middle of a break-up that question.

Is it still sluggish? The drive itself is what I'd expect it to be.