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Remember to mention my demands for apologies followed by ritual murder/suicide.

I had a student who found instructions and built a projection box with a stable mount for a modern-ish camcorder so he could transfer everything to a digital format. It was basically a large cardboard box and some towels, but with everything measured out so the camcorder was always in the right...

What is Yahoo Serious doing these days? ;)

The royal pain in the ass bit is tha MBAM no longer has a straightforward offline update system. I don't know why they stopped supporting it, but they did.

The most comfortable answer is that it's shady.

Dammit I've seen it at least two places.

4x makes more sense to me than 4k.

I found it on a well-known torrent site.

Also, for anybody who has a spare 8GB flash drive, there's a thing floating in various places that's called mObscene, which is the most ridiculously useful collection of techie tools I've ever seen in one place.

It's substantially bigger than my Sandisk Cruzer Contour and probably weighs twice as much as the 4GB PNY Attache drives I used to carry. It's large enough that it can be difficult to fit something in adjacent USB ports.

Do you still use Firefox or IE? One of my big problems is that there are times when I have a legitimate need to be logged in to four or five different Google accounts at the same time and I don't want anything to mingle from one to any of the others; computers where I do work wind up having a...

It wouldn't be so annoying, but in my opinion nothing Android is fully functional until I have superuser access (and I'm not sure that any istuff is EVER fully functional, given the app sandboxing and reliance on itunes). Things don't ship with the Google versions of tools, or they don't have...

30 - 50% better GPU performance over Sandy Bridge is certainly nothing to sneeze at, and those are the figures that are floating around the interwebs today. That would put Intel's IGP in-line with what AMD was offering two generations ago, or around half as fast as the current Radeon 6450 IGP...

Looking at all the ridiculous hoops I've jumped through, I think something I'd kill for is a single general-purpose Android rooting procedure. There isn't even a single procedure that works on every Samsung or HTC device. I don't mind the vendor-imposed UI irregularities or App markets, or the...

One of my students has been taking certification classes with me for the last nine months. Today was her last day with me. She's heard "Lord of the Rings" music coming from my office probably countless times. As a kind of going-away present she gave me a Samwise Gamgee action figure and an Eye...

Even 70MB/sec is pretty damned good for most needs. I did think stuff would be faster. I have a 128GB Patriot Supersonic that I kind of hate because it's so damned big, but since I could eliminate three other flash drives I was carrying I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

I've tried four USB3 flash drives (Transcend, Kingston, Patriot and one I don't recall). They all seem to transfer data at around 70 - 75MB/sec, which is suspiciously identical to the top speed on my USB 3 SATA drive cradle. I'm not completely convinced since my sample size is three PCs with two...

That thing probably has a steel bottom. As I recall, the last Model M I handled did too.

... not from what I could tell. They said they had an industry-specific focus, but there wasn't anything specific in their marketing materials that made me think they did anything but put a webDAV server someplace with a fat pipe and some decent backup and redundancy.

The videos? Well, there's 12.2GB of them from that one list.

One of my customers just got a quote from a "cloud" data service suggesting that his utterly paltry 16.5GB of company-wide data could go live on a server on the internet someplace for the low, low price of just $490 a month. Apparently all of us are in the wrong business.

I had to eat at a "Hooters" a couple weekends ago and I swear every other guy in the place was north of 250. Maybe it's flyover states in general.

That's too bad. But I got all of it anyway.

I actually went ahead and snagged all those videos from Vimeo. Now I have ~6GB of completely safe for work high definition video. It feels wrong somehow.

I'm guessing it will be an "extreme" variant and it will cost $1200.

Xmarks is by far the best of the syncing services. FF Sync seemed to work well enough for me but I got annoyed when I had to close Firefox to sync bookmarks back up in Chrome.

Since I had to order replacement boards for some of my classroom PCs today, I used OEM XS. They charged me $22 to ship (ground!) four motherboards and the only available payment method was Paypal. I'm glad I could find a good approximation for the boards I have but there was a whole lot of...

Say what you will about rape. At least you got to participate in some sex.

Then I have to take into account that there is only so much available surface area on any given laptop.

In some cases, the Logitech software has the discrete on/off codes that aren't even available on the device. In some cases I've been able to obtain them from visiting "Remote Control Enthusiast" web sites. In some cases, there simply is no discrete code on the device for the thing you're trying...

Having just spent the best part of an hour trying to tell someone that they must have accidentally turned their 802.11 off on their laptop and then spent most of that time looking for the correct procedure for turning it back on, I now believe that every laptop should have a STANDARD key or set...

The biggest problem I see with them is that people don't want to take the time to program or troubleshoot them, any more than they do any other remote. I've had to set them up for a dozen or so people. When I later find out "It doesn't work", it's invariably because one key code someplace is...

Most of the time, the way to get rid of ads is to pay for something or root your device and use a hosts file. I use the crap out of hosts files. :D

Logitech has a Harmony remote app as well. I have no idea if works or under what circumstances, but it's out there. It might just be for their Google TV stuff.

More properly speaking, both of them derive from a classic demonstration program that was often written in BASIC (and maybe other things before that), which allowed two guns or gorillas or tanks or slingshots with birds to choose an angle and velocity in an effort to hit the other gun, gorilla...

An SAS expander would fix that problem as well.

Most of my viewing is done via XBMC. My environment is controlled enough that I can set the volume level on my receiver at a high-ish point and otherwise control volume and playback on my HTPCs. I can VNC into those machines if I need to do something that isn't terribly convenient to do with...

Most but not all of my classroom computers use Seagate drives because at the time I bought the systems I could get a limited but functional copy of Acronis TrueImage to use with the machines. By-and-large, those drives have been fine. Over the years since I've run in to jaw-dropping RMA rates...

OK actually this is the master list of awesome time lapse HD movies. I found it on io9. I actually had many of them bookmarked already because I like to just let these run sometimes.

As I said in another thread here, "My crusade will only be ended when everyone who has ever owned stock in or worked for Western Digital issues a collective apology in the form of seppuku." Yes, I really do believe that after a certain point I'm allowed to take a product's ongoing ability to...

I've not had a problem with Harmony remotes, though many home automation types absolutely despise them for some reason. I normally look for authorized refurbs on Amazon, which can be found for as little as $25 or $30 for the introductory models. The present incarnation of my entertainment...

Totally sweet time-lapse photos of the sky with original music by Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary.

I'm sure that's the case. But I found it amusing.

You would load the OS image into local RAM. It's very possible to set up a modern *nix-based OS that way.

In the ongoing quest to be as annoying as possible to our inconsiderate landlords, my students were at one time offering me ideas for vile music to play at sufficient volume. Ever heard of "Lords of Acid?"

These are discs from a company that is very well known for messing with DVD file structures. Either that or that company has bent the laws of space and time and somehow managed to actually put 78GB on something that isn't even read with a blue laser. The other somewhat amusing disc I found...

The obvious answer is a soulful white-person and acoustic instrument rendition of a traditional African American melody such as "Me So Horny" or "Straight Outta Compton."

Fast pipe plus something that will forward RARP to a listening server someplace on the public internet... it's not impossible to do now.

I'm more worried about bandwidth caps. For the most part the infrastructure to get decent speeds are available everyplace that cable is, and even DSL is technically a lot more capable than what's advertised. Of course we're going to lag more densely populated countries for data service...

I just received some really weird discs today. They have DVD logos on them rather than Blu-Ray. The file structure on the discs uses Video_TS and .vob files. It's just that there are 60+ 1GB .vobs on each disc. I can only assume that it's some kind of fairly unique mastering weirdness; one of...