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The idea of a camera was tossed around, but it was decided that would be actionable on their part because most of the individuals we'd be looking at would be parents with their school-age children. Which is a huge, huge no-no in the USA. The current basis for the landlord's litigation is that...

Not through Hamachi. Technically, Hamachi is not for commercial use. I make my work pay for an account for me and kind of use it wherever I want.

You can get away with it, usually at least once, without them complaining too much. You'll probably have to do a manual reactivation and you say something like "Well, I got my computer fixed and now it's doing this..."

The dead simple setup I'd use would be LogMeIn Hamachi for VPN access to the server and all the clients. That way the end user could easily and securely have both RDP and SMB access to whatever he needed. I would probably try to avoid messing with a VPN router for the very simple reason that...

I really think you need to adjust your expectations downward, blakerwry. All home routers do is suck and die and getting one that does that more slowly is really just luck of the draw.

The people who are doing that bought Intel or Asus workstation boards for theirs. If I have an opportunity, I'll see if I can borrow a CPU and make it boot on a standard z68 board.

I'd consider Windows Server in that scenario. I'd also consider WHS (which does offer RDP and RDP Gateway stuff), something like a Synology NAS. I could probably roll my own setup using FreeNAS or something, were I so inclined. But I'd probably start by quoting those three things and explaining...

I got a box with very similar verbiage to "An error occurred during the installation of assembly..."

My Clip+'s battery is basically dead after about 15 months. I used it perhaps 90 minutes a day and charged it irregularly. I was using it to carry about 40GB of music. For now I've moved to just keeping around 30GB of stuff on my phone and playing music from that, but sometimes I miss the small...

I've not seen this precise issue, but I had something very similar happen on several systems where the .NET updater would fail repeatedly due to some nebulous combination of issues with the Windows installer database and the order in which some programs had been installed prior to imaging the...

I typically plug them into UPSes. They still die a lot.

The dead-simple way to set up file sharing over a VPN is using LogMeIn Hamachi. You manage everything from the LogMeIn web site and it keeps users from having to muck around with external firewall configs and the like. Stuff just works.

The building where I work was purchased by a charter school that didn't do enough due diligence to know that there is a tenant leasing space in the building. The school is suing us, trying to get my company evicted from the space, but for right now we still occupy the space. Anyway, everyone in...

There isn't one nearby. The option would be to take it to Chicago or something, and not everybody is going to want to pack up a desktop PC to do that.

I was working from a guide, actually. Eventually I figured out that I wasn't the first person to be in that particular Mac, and the last guy had removed all the tape and crap that I had expected to find. The glass is minimum $100 from a third party. I told the user they can live without it.

Yes. I totally need a $130 drive that will have to be RMA'd three times in its warranty period.

You are using that word, but I do not think you know what it means. Last time I cleaned up my office I probably tossed two dozen Linksys WRT-something routers. Unfortunately, nothing else is actually any better.

I know that Crossloop.com's underlying viewer switched from RealVNC to UltraVNC because UltraVNC doesn't automatically disconnect remote viewers during UAC prompts. I'm not sure what's different about RealVNC that it doesn't behave the same way.

... and then the fucking glass that covers the LCD shattered when I tried to put it back on the way Apple says you're supposed to. Anyway, no, there's nothing wrong with that machine as a computer. It's decently fast for its age and I can understand why someone would like that form factor but...

Someone brought me a 24" Aluminum iMac. Needed a replacement hard drive. Time spent opening the stupid thing: 40 minutes, mostly 'cause the person who had it had messed up the one external Torx screw and I had to drill it out. Time replacing the drive and actually reinstalling the OS: 1...

No, that's just the first one to roll off my keyboard. You're talking about the issues with UAC and VNC right, Bozo?

Yes. Switch to UltraVNC instead.

Home routers just suck. There's a reason I built my own.

I think every Lenovo-branded Thinkpad I've gotten has had a Hitachi drive in it. I didn't know they put WD drives in them.

So very much this.

I have a few winning times for Kyodai Mahong in that layout that are below three minutes. Since none of my high scores have changed in years I think I got to the limit of how fast I can match tiles.

IIRC, usually the second one is physically a 16x slot but there are only enough PCIe lanes for it to operate at 8x speed. But I think you need to go by what the manual is telling you.

Yes. The work of being a container for waste water for unclean lady parts and/or rectal cavities.

I dislike fairs.

I'm going to take that from the context of the denouement of Team America: World Police, in which case you are absolutely correct.

Intel makes plenty of money pretending that AMD doesn't exist so I suspect that's the route they'll go.

No, because they're going to be WD drives and therefore unsuitable for any task other than very expensive building materials.

I'm doing a computer building class right now. Interestingly, I told my students about the E3-1220 and a couple of them were really interested in building on that platform. And nine out of 11 of them are getting at least an 80GB SSD.

What the hell kind of datacenter doesn't have backup generators?

Not at the moment, but I'm curious to know what sort of workload your customer needs six hyperthreaded cores vs. four generally faster hyperthreaded Sandy Beach ones.

Why are you still looking at 1366 stuff?

Replacement power supply for an Acer H340 = $120 by the time shipping is added. Ouch.

I think right now is actually a pretty good time overall. We're at a stable point with CPU interfaces. DDR3 is in its mid-life. Expansion interfaces aren't likely to change any time soon and even in SSD-land, we're not long past a wave of new products. There's probably something new in the...

Honestly, I don't see Bulldozer doing much of anything to Intel's pricing unless it eats the i3/i5 alive. And if it does that, it will probably be priced accordingly. More than likely, it will create more downward pressure on low-cost parts, a space where AMD is already the big winner for...

Douchebags

I like Bubbleshooter.net

If your streak is long enough, that is horrible.

Basically, what's happened is this: Somebody in an office needs a personal printer. They've had some creaky but indestructible Laserjet 3 or something since the first Clinton Administration, but they get tired of it or they suddenly want to print color or something, so they go buy some newer...

We all know there is no such thing as enough SATA. But that Gigabyte board is pretty much the one I've bought for LGA1366.

802.11 in any form loses about half its theoretical bandwidth to protocol overhead. Just the process of negotiating and maintaining communication with access points is going to make your connection a lot slower than the reported speed. On top of that, the bandwidth is shared among all connected...

That looks like way too much work.

Bah. Not enough SATA.

We are your friends and we love you and you need to take that thing back and leave it where you found it. COME TOWARD THE LIGHT COME TOWARD THE LIGHT

I need to make sure the CPU works first. Gonna slap it in my ESX machine and if it works OK I probably will be in the market for another board.

Why are you doing this graphics heavy work on a laptop in the first place?