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They basically said "We try to make it so people who are not technically adept can use the service we have already but we'll look in to it." There are tools for managing mobile devices and the apps they have installed but I haven't seen any that allow for arbitrary file sync services. Google...

I've kept an i7-2600k at 4.5GHz pretty much since I built it. On the other hand, it only has 1x4GB RAM since that's the only way it stays stable 100% of the time at that speed. I had it up to 4.7GHz but it wasn't stable enough to leave there. It's definitely easier to overclock on one stick of...

The more I talk to the people I need this for, the more it sounds like they just want someone to work Amazon's music service for them. I actually send feedback suggesting such a thing and I did actually get a non-canned reply about it.

I've never heard a 1U server that sounded like anything other than a jet aircraft getting ready for take off. 1U machines aren't anything you'd want in your house. Possibly not even in the garage next door to your house.

The only way that HCR was going to happen was by spending all of that political capital. If you ask me, it still didn't happen since we do not yet have single payer but rather a big wet sloppy blowjob for the insurance industry. Any improvement is better than none, and it's not like we could...

The thingy I've found works well is Sysinternals Disk2VHD. VHDs are a standard image format that are used by tons and tons of Microsoft tools and everybody else supports using or converting them to a native format as well.

Amazon DOES do an awesome job with drive packaging. On the other hand, I got a box today that probably could've been used as a coffin for a five year old and all it had in it were three power supplies and a metric assload of those little air-filled bags they use.

The election went relatively well from my point of view. Mourdock and Akin were both (deservedly) defeated and Maryland and Washington state voters affirmed that gay people have rights after all. The thing that would have had me dancing in the streets, though, was the Bachmann-Graves race in...

I'm not sure the files would be identical. As I understand it, purchased audio files are pretty much always watermarked so that distribution can be tracked.

If it's handled in an organized and systematic way, content owners will scream "piracy tool", just like they do for every other damned thing.

I'm thinking about this. The big problem I see for something along these lines is that I'm kind of talking about media files that would be accessed by more than one person, the "administrator" and the "owner." That probably doesn't work in any legal framework in the Western world.

So you want kind of a front-end for webdav? Something like this, maybe?

I can't say I have much use for twitter, but these are pretty damned funny

Right click on the area around the Address Bar and choose customize to move the icons around to where you're used to having them. :)

"Whoops. It fell in the toilet JUST as I flushed. I mean, I could've gone after it, but I had Ethiopian for dinner last night and, well, really I think it would be for the best if we just went ahead and set up Activesync on my real phone."

That's an interesting question. Maybe? Actually, I could see building an online service around this, or scripting it around Dropbox/Skydrive/Google/Amazon cloud storage.

That is making the assumption that they're someplace where they'd have wireless internet access. From my observation, the sort of person who needs something like this is the sort of person who would never connect their device anyplace but at home since they probably don't know how to do that...

What I was thinking was that, say, Amazon for example would have a "push music to device" feature. But it doesn't. The ideal would be something that talks to an internet service and allows an administrator somewhere to queue files to download onto a device while it has an internet connection. I...

First of all, I do have a preference for personal music players, the Sandisk Clip+, which supports .flac, has a simple UI, long battery life and a microSD slot. BUT: I want to manage music players for other people. Remotely. Over the weekend one of my customers paid me in part to put a bunch...

You pay for the domain name. $10 a year or whatever. Apps is free for 10 users or less. Your calendar view is managed from calendar.google.com. The stuff you see on your mobile calendar should be the same stuff you have selected there.

For what it's worth, I'm at -12.5 and -16 diopters, respectively. My right eye actually can't be corrected to 20/20 with just lenses. I'm almost to the point that I'd have to wear contacts with glasses to have fully correctable vision.

The way I handle Google Calendars is to create an Apps domain, share and give edit permission to everybody's calendar that needs to see one, and then add all the members to the default view for them. It takes a while to set up since I don't know a way to automate it, but once it's done people...

I'm fairly certain they'll be that cheap again soon.

Gaming video cards are kind of like Italian sports cars, I think. They're awesome when they work, but it's just as likely that they'll suck and die.

Amazon had those Seagate drives down to $110 earlier in the week.

It's a little bit over 6lbs, actually.

There are bunches of online glasses outfits. I go to WalMart for my eye exams and tell the people working there that I plan to order my glasses on the internet. They give me all the relevant measurements and then I go shopping. The most recent pair I purchased from a company called...

You can also get an ultrabay battery. They only add two cells though.

That does sound like video card in this case, but you might want to investigate a different display as well. My 27" Dell crapped out in a similar fashion.

The extra battery adds about one pound to the weight of the unit. Making it six + a few ounces instead of five + a few ounces, or about the same as what most 15" laptops weigh in the first place. Anyway, I've only needed it a couple times. The slice battery is installed in place of a docking...

Every year when I go vote I have to deal with hassle from the local pollworkers who keep insisting that I need to go to the OTHER nearby polling place. For reasons I cannot fathom my apartment complex is divided up between two polling locations. I actually think this is done to make it difficult...

The extended pack is another 9 cells that is connected via the docking port. That's in addition to whatever standard battery is present.

What does the app situation like? Do you have any other mobile platform experience to compare to it? Is Office support the thing that justifies it, or is there something more going on?

I think it's safe to say that he probably has bigger things to worry about if he hasn't checked in by now.

I can tell you that with a nine cell battery and a fairly normal work pattern that involves moderate network activity, I can manage an entire working day without plugging in on a T520. I'd rather not do that, but I can get away with it. I have the extended battery pack as well, which pushes the...

When did Apple have a dominant platform prior to iOS?

You don't buy either those things from Lenovo in any case. Anyway yeah, the 1600x900 screen and i5 CPU are perfectly good options for most people. There's not much subjective difference between the mobile i5 and the mobile i7, so you're probably better off.

At some point, RIM is going to be appealing to someone or other if only because of BES. They need to either accept the inevitable and port it. Can anyone think of a situation in the tech world where a platform has come BACK after a catastrophic loss in user base?

A couple times a year, Lenovo does half off on warranties. Since the quality of service is a big part of the reason I'm willing to buy Lenovo in the first place, that's what I wait for. You're never going to get to do HUGE coupon stacking like you can with Dell sometimes, but the last couple...

I stopped selling on Ebay years ago. It's not worth the hassle. Craigslist isn't worth it either, to be honest. I have a bunch of electronics I know have real value, but I'm not giving them away to strangers, particularly not if they want me to drive to the north side of Chicago to deliver them.

The fastest I've ever seen over USB3 is 110MB/sec (Lexar USB3 flash drive) and it's usually more like 75MB/sec for a mechanical drive, so that's probably about right.

You should also register directly with Lenovo to see its discounts, and if you own at least one share of stock you can get its Shareholder/Employee discounts as well. They change pricing rapidly, sometimes several times a week. It's about shopping for the discount that you want. My particular...

Yes. Yes I did.

You don't. The hosts file isn't set up to deal with variable addresses. What you want to do is make an address reservation on a DNS server someplace.

I believe I have one I never used for anything. If I can find the stupid thing.

Unfortunately, "bring your own" is an IT support nightmare as well. Because one person will be able to do something that other people can't, or one person won't be able to see something everyone else does. Like, hey, two calendars at once. :)

I think dd is shooting for energy independence. ;)

Under 10 seconds from the last of the EFI messages to a login prompt on my Server 2012 machine. It has an SSD, but so would anything you'd be using. ;) Resumes from hibernate are also really fast, but I haven't really tried to time one.

Conversation view is actually a deal-breaker for some people. I really hate it and some of the aspects of Gmail's labeling system, e.g. "Whoops, I just trashed 600 messages with the same subject line because I miskeyed something on my phone." I'm willing to put up with it on Android because...

One of my iphone people moved to a Galaxy last month. He gets along OK with it, but he hated conversation view in Gmail, which can't be turned off in the app version. I told him to try K9 and sent him a link with the proper settings to make it go. I probably got 150 emails over the next three...