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The Nook Color weighs more than my Galaxy and needs a rooting every bit as bad as the Kindle Fire. Fortunately, it is a straightforward process. BN even tolerates third party Android builds loaded off the SD slot.

NitroPDF is really nice. It has a nicer UI than Foxit and doesn't install crap. One of my clients has a site license for it. Since the UI for Nitro looks like Office 2007, the fact that it's better than Foxit might say something about how retarded Foxit has gotten. Either way it's still better...

It doesn't molest the source PC other than the resource drain required in its operation. On the other hand, based on my limited experience I could not get it to make an image that was actually bootable, either. I had better luck with the old fashioned p2v assistant.

You can add aliases to an existing domain. That's completely valid. Several of my customers have done that in order to claim domain names in the various new TLDs that have come along in the last couple years.

I'm completely psyched for Lord of the Rings Lego. Legos were what I played with as a kid. I didn't have GI Joes or Transformers. I had the Lego castle sets. Lego Moria and Weathertop would've been eleven-year-old me's wildest dream that didn't involve boobies.

Sometimes it takes a few days for outrage to build. Wait for it to hit BoingBoing or Slashdot.

OK, going with just the plainest of plain vanilla configurations I have in separate VMs a 32-bit SBS2003 system with SBS 2.0 and Office 2010 running on it and as far as I can tell it's fine if I connect to it through RDP and make blank documents and stuff. I have Server 2008 R2 with Office...

Did you have a Windows Server at the time with an ungodly amount of RAM?

flagreen would play the "Left Behind" game.

That's something I'd really expect to see out of a decent file server.

Ironically, I'm having some difficulty rooting one of my Evo 4Gs. I suspect it's because it's never been activated as a phone. Anyway, it did two updates from whatever the hell the original shipping version from HTC was to something that's still Android 2.2, and it refuses to acknowledge that...

Actually, something like a desktop widget that shows CPU/RAM/Disk Queue length in some format that's prettier than Performance Monitor would probably be enough for my immediate need, though I'm sort of curious as to what people do on their own for professional work as well. One of my customers...

Every time I've spoken to anyone about it, I've come away thinking that people have NO IDEA what they're giving up by using Facebook. I'm not surprised at all to find that to be the case. I guess you should feel fortunate that you can do anything at all about it, though I suspect at this point...

Does anyone have any server monitoring tools they prefer to use over others? In particular, one of my customers really wants something he can look at on his desktop to see what's going on with his three server systems. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to like simple Performance monitor graphs.

My local Walmart has a boxed set called "Popcap's Greatest Hits." It sells for about $15 and includes Bejeweled and Zuma. I bought five copies of it with the idea that I will give them to 60 year old divorcees who keep bringing me their PCs that are full of spyware from the shifty online game...

Windows Media Player has or at least used to have some pretty bad drawbacks. It used to not support ripping directly to MP3 without purchase of a Windows Plus pack and would instead rip to .WMA, a format that isn't very compatible with much of anything outside the Windows ecosystem. While I...

I'd like to read that sentence again, but next time in English.

Documents, once put in Sharepoint, are difficult to get out. Once you start working in a Sharepoint framework, it's very hard to turn around and stop using it. Which means that you'll forever thereafter need someone to administer it and the servers it runs on. It also has it's own underlying...

I'll try to build something and test it this week. Have you looked at your IE add-ons at all or tried working in IE's safe mode?

You just need a recipe for Sexy Pancakes.

Somewhere in my office there are five 32GB MicroSD cards. Very possibly on my desk. Damned if I know where though.

I wouldn't store passwords on a mobile device if I could help it, but there are password managers like lastpass that could do the job if you really needed such a thing. I mainly use the stock Android browser, though I do keep Firefox installed. Every once in a while I find something that's...

Didn't we already know that Intel was going to do that?

Which version(s) of Sharepoint are we talking about? I can probably set something up to test with. I don't have Sharepoint installed on any 2008 servers, but that doesn't mean I couldn't.

I know a little about Sharepoint 2 and 3, but mostly I have learned that the proper answer is "don't use Sharepoint", which probably isn't very helpful.

This deserves its own thread. The idea is that each of the topics leads to an instructional video link tailored to the needs of the recipient.

Torrents are still around. They're just less open and more specialized in their content. There are also Newsgroups full of awesome stuff. But you're right that you are not a person who needs some monster Xeon rig.

I think it says good things about my chosen media outlets that, while I'm aware that there was a big football game, I still don't know what teams played or who won.

Walmart is offering the Kindle Fire for $200 with a $50 gift card this week. Which is a pretty good deal if you already buy groceries and stuff there. It's kind of a toss-up between the two. The Nook Color is really heavy (almost 1lb.) for a 7" tablet, and it only has a single core CPU. But the...

I'm still at a bit of loss as to the actual definition of "server case." But since this is Santilli's thread I'll put forward that decommissioned quad core Opterons or Core2-based Xeons or even (if you feel inclined to be exotic) Itanium systems are ridiculously cheap and readily available out...

I think something that would make certain aspects of my life easier is a web based iOS mock-up. I got motivate to go look and I'm kind of surprised that there isn't one out there already.

Are any of these servers under your direct control? Looking at the configuration file for, say, Dovecot imapd, I'm pretty sure there's settings there to magic away those differences.

Tablet-y deal of the day: Overstock.com is selling refurbished Nook Colors for $130. The Nook Color has a slightly off-kilter Android build on it. Most of the on-device storage is reserved for ebooks with only 2GB available for non-book data and the default app selection is pretty lame. But it...

Cracked.com dispenses wisdom.

Can I just say right now that I hate Seagate's RMA system with the passion of a million exploding stars? The web based tool refuses to create RMAs for me because my postal code is shared by several municipalities, so I have to spend a half hour on the phone and then get lectured by the phone...

I'm still trying to figure out what your issue is. You have users hitting IMAP servers with several different client programs and they aren't behaving in anything like a uniform fashion? On a desktop client you should at least be able to create rules or filters to move mail where you think it...

Android users put out. But iphone users get laid more often. Before you completely dismiss that, the people who run OKCupid are enormous statistics geeks. OKCupid actually runs on a custom web server that exists to collect and ferret out and quantify information about its users. That's one of...

I can state with absolute certainty that it's possible to have a decent RDP experience over a sub-28.8kpbs dialup connection, because I used to have to do that. The big magic is Hamachi and its configuration-less VPN. I use it a lot to maintain systems so that I don't have to make office visits...

I deal with a couple Avaya systems that regularly make me want to strangle someone. PBXes are not my favorite thing.

That's the thing I need to figure out.

In theory, it's pretty trivial to move databases, especially those built with Microsoft tools in the first place, into MSSQL and some sort of asp.net front end. I've seen those sorts of things developed very quickly. I'd like to lobby for more use of Google Docs et al but realistically...

Application and device compatibility were god-awful. A lot of it was eventually addressed, but for example there are an awful lot of Inkjet printers that flat out couldn't be made to work with Vista, especially the 64-bit version. On top of that, a LOT of Vista systems, especially notebooks...

How long is a day Östersund this time of year? I was really excited last week when I noticed that it was after 5PM and still light out.

We had a week where it snowed, warmed up to 45, snowed warmed up to 45 and then snowed and warmed up to 45. Where are you in PA, Will?

I'm about to make a proposal for changing the way my company works from having a large suite of offices and classrooms to a single storefront containing one large classroom and one much smaller one. I figure we can maintain a space for printers, perhaps a corporate fax line and as a mail drop...

Last night, one mile from the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan, it was 59F at 11:00PM. It's suppose to get to the upper 50s today. Man our weather is screwed up this winter.

Using Thunderbird and various mobile clients and interfacing with Gmail or other IMAP server, here's what happens: Items sent are delivered to the "Sent" folder for the relevant account on each IMAP server (i.e. Inbox > Sent). If the message was sent via Gmail SMTP, the message also goes in the...

The standard Android client can look at Sent Items and other folder on IMAP servers just fine. The Gmail-specific client has a nicer presentation, but that's to be expected. I do get frustrated with mobile Gmail, but my issue is that I have damned many different identities that it's easier for...

I'm actually a huge fan of Google Reader, though I'll admit one of the main uses I have for it is keeping up with the various webcomics I read. I also use it in combination with the Android-only Google Listen to make sure that I'm up to date on the podcast versions of various NPR programs I...

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