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Well there are a couple worrisome trends. One is the focus on multi-cell memory rather than single cell and the second is the simple fact that smaller transistors mean reduced reliability. I understand that's the only way to make stuff cheaper, but both those things seem to run counter to the...

Found on Slashdot, reposting here. I don't know if I care about long-term limitations of technology because engineers are great at improving stuff, but it seems that we're going to run into them headfirst.

A lot of malware is distributed by completely mainstream Advertising Services like Doubleclick. All it takes it for one ad with a snippet of javascript that invokes an Acrobat exploit to run once every 10,000 impressions on a big site like cnn.com for a half hour or so and a malware author is in...

You probably need to change your grub.cfg file. Here's a gentle introduction. As with a lot of Linux things, you're going to have to do a bit of reading.

That must be one of them old guy things.

Would it make you feel any better if I said "1.7:1" ratio?

The whole point of rootkits is that they penetrate everything. And most of the time they work regardless of other security measures. Neither MBAM nor Spybot do anything about real-time protection, though I've found that many people don't bother with the immunizations that actually make it so...

That's beautiful man.

If you hit the right rootkit, it doesn't matter how many layers of VM there are. Your mistake was probably browsing the web without some combination of ad blocking and javascript sandboxing. Chrome has its own system for updating its PDF reading and Flash components, so at least you were spared...

You might want to have a doctor look at that.

Aldiko (the Android reader program I use) can also take a ridiculously long time to import titles, but I have a pre-selected set of books that I load, so it's something I've only needed to do once per device I have.

I've managed to find a few cheapies. Even $5 seems excessive for a flat piece of aluminum with a few strategically placed holes in it. This is just one of those things like companies that want $3 for a molex to SATA converter. It's not a big deal for a one off but if you need to buy lots of...

If I bought a bracket like that for every drive I use, that would entirely negate the savings from buying the 2.5" drives in the first place. My biggest needs right now are for low-cost builds (~$350 desktops) and to replace ailing 5-year-old drives in my classroom machines. In either case...

Desktops. I'm not really all that keen on the idea, because I wind up having to half-ass the mounting. I actually think 2.5" drives are more reliable than 3.5" drives anyway; they're designed to be moved and I've certainly replaced fewer of them, but it bothers me quite a lot when my best...

My yellow cat alternates between staring at the shelf where I keep cat treats and catnip, and staring at my fridge. He likes the fridge so much that he's worn the paint off one edge of it from rubbing on it so much. He'll sit and watch me or my other cat eat, even if he's not particularly...

There is an Internet Traffic report that you can look at, though it's just as likely that one of your neighbors just discovered bittorrent or something.

A few things I can tell you: 1. .mobi and .epub have essentially the same format. One is used by Kindle and things that are compatible with Amazon's offerings. The other is used by almost everyone else. They both offer limited support for embedded graphics and use flow-able, resolution...

I do, but I don't have a data limit. You can set it to notify and then download just while you have 802.11.

Bluetooth = douchetacular.

I'm finding that right now it's cheaper for me to buy 2.5" 7200rpm drives rather than 3.5" models. So that's what I've been doing. I don't really like doing that because not many desktops really fit a 2.5" drive well, but works and keeps costs lower.

I'm not a big fan of birds, but they spread seeds around and help the ecosystem and crap. Plus you will also be feeding squirrels and squirrels can actually be kind of cute when they aren't chewing on your telephone lines and stuff.

5" sounds about right? It will still fit in a pocket. For as much as I use a smartphone as a phone, I'm sure it would do just fine.

It's certainly silly to equate copying bits in any form with theft, if that's the direction you're taking. The penalties for many forms of felonious assault are less severe than what RIAA and the MPAA have forced through our legal system for dealing with unauthorized copying.

Samsung has 7", 7.7", 8.9" and 10.1" 16x9 tablets. They have 1024x600 or 1280x800 resolutions.

I have a Lexar 32GB class 10 card in my Evo. I noticed that my file transfer rates over SMB more than tripled when I switched from the class 4 SanDisk I started with. It helps but I think the best transfer rates I've seen to SD are on the order of maybe 3MB/sec.

This thread was looking lonely at the bottom of the pile so the US Government is apparently ditching BB in favor of ithings and green robots.

There's really very little difference between a Nook Color (800MHz single core) and a Galaxy Tab 7.7 (1.4GHz dual core) for about 85% of stuff you can be doing on a tablet. It matters if your habits include a lot of multitasking or decoding HD video, not so much if you just browse and watch...

No. The Xoom, Galaxy Tab, Thinkpad Tablet, Asus Transformer and Toshiba Thrive all have some legitimate claim based on a tiny number of characteristics that distinguish them. The Samsung tablets are ligher and have nicer displays but crappy storage options. The Asus has the battery in the...

I don't know if it's necessary or not. I suspect that we would all continue to use the forum as a forum regardless. When we had the news site, I still chose to land on the forum page and go look and/or comment on news as something secondary to the forum. I guess it might be nice to have posts...

I have a page open on one of my PCs at home that basically says there's zero difference between any headphones that cost less than $100. Which is pretty much what we all think about computers that come from retail outlets, so I suspect there's some truth to it.

I refuse to believe that anyone who can work a web browser can't figure out ways to listen to this person's music without paying for it. Even my mom knows she can wander over to Youtube and find somebody's video playlist if she really wants to.

I suspect that's quite unlikely. Most Android systems are built from off the shelf hardware, and panel manufacturers largely think in 16x9 these days. Given the choice between 1280x1024 (290,000 pixels more than 1280x800) and 1600x900 (416,000 more pixels), I think I'd still go with the raw...

Technically, the ipad is a 10" tablet. It doesn't seem like it's 10", because the current display is missing 230,000 pixels that other larger-than-7" tablets have, and because it uses a 4x3 aspect ratio rather than 16x9. I don't have any problem with the extra vertical pixels, but the overall...

I keep one of those in my car. They're horrible to type on.

I've made that observation as well. That doesn't make up for the fact that their drives fail as a foregone conclusion, but at least they're good at getting you another shitty drive.

Portlandia is funny in a sort of low key way. Which I suspect is precisely the point. It's pretty amusing that the whole town seems to be in on the joke. The sitting mayor of Portland makes appearances on the show, for example.

I've been recommending Radeon *770 cards for mainstream gaming for years. It's nice that they're consistent enough in their naming that the capabilities continue to match up to that. Your customer should be fully aware that his system precludes high-end gaming. Get him the card he can get and...

Apparently the iPad3 will sport a 2048x1536 display, enough pixels to handle 1080p video with room to spare and a reasonable resolution for PDF and web page viewing That will at least be some justification for being so goddamned porky.

It looked to me like LSI firmware was pretty well understood by third parties. The bigger issue is that you'd be putting your hardware in a configuration that isn't supported by Intel or LSI, so there is some risk involved with making those changes.

Ah. OK. So if I'm accessing Sharepoint on SBS2003 via a Server 2008 machine, that's a reasonable test of functionality? Because that works fine for me. I don't have any actual Terminal Server licenses, but I can still RDP.

I found a 16-year-old Kohl's credit receipt this morning. It was barely legible but they still honored it.

Youtube has a video of 1080p gameplay. I looks acceptable to me. The 6750 is just a touch slower than the Radeon 6770, and those are generally pretty capable for midrange hardware.

Nah. Gay people are people. They just like something you're not interested in, in a way that impacts your life not even a tiny little bit. Likewise with Glee fans. Among other things, Jane Lynch was the boss character in "40 Year Old Virgin."

As someone who had two hours of choir plus another two or three hours of music lessons a day all the way through high school and who has liked Jane Lynch in essentially every role she's ever had, I actually liked the pilot episode of Glee. Unfortunately, I think it became a victim of its own...

I bought myself a couple new laptops, rotated up most of my desktops and added a new file server. I bought several tablets (most given away as gifts) a number of hard drives and quite a few USB doodads. Most of my new kit was obtained by barter rather than direct purchase.

The most aggravating part about Foxit is the ongoing UI changes.

We've trusted your judgment regarding forum software for this long. If nothing else, the money should pay hosting costs for a while. Speaking of, Imma need your paypal address or something, man.

Handruin, At this time we, the members of StorageForum would like to take a minute to express our ongoing gratitude for the considerable time and effort that you have undertaken on our behalf. You have provided us with friendship and community for more than a decade now, and to express our...

That phone is basically an Evo 3D. It has a different camera from the Evo 4G (the phone that timwhit, Will Rickards and I all have), slightly better screen resolution and two cores rather than one. I don't have much problem with the on screen keyboard on my phone. On the Evo 4G, the microSD...

Still no mainstream press regarding Address book security in iOS. You're right Maxburn: This is getting pretty ridiculous.