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It has a miniPCIe slot. I'd probably stick a high power Atheros card on it if I go that route. I'm more than half tempted to just get a UAP AClite and call it a day but I do have several devices with 3x3 antennas.

Firefox does still run on Android 2.3. In my experience, it's pretty crashy on anything less than 512MB RAM, so that's of limited value for low-spec devices.

I have several UAP-LRs sitting around already. I haven't found them to offer superior range over and above my current AP and I'd rather not have to deploy two APs to get 5GHz coverage. There might be a workable solution in just getting a better antenna or messing with TX power but I have a...

I'm almost positive Dell printers share an OEM with Lexmark or else there's someone at Dell who decided to take "being as crappy as Lexmark" as some kind of goal or obligation. I have a few customers with Brother MFC-9xxx printers. No one complains about them, which is more than I can say about...

Necro-posting for the win! Something I've encountered a couple times in the last few weeks, most recently and most infuriating in my apartment building: DirectTV's newest TV box has a ridiculously strong 5GHz transmitter and that really messes with anything I'd expect to use a fixed 5GHz...

I think Microsoft has demonstrated its commitment to making good software for Android, OSX and, so far as is possible given the shittiness of the platform, iOS.

The media creation tool will let you create a 32 and/or 64 bit ISO of either Home or Pro.

I've been researching uMatrix as a potential replacement for Noscript. Here's an interesting post describing the reasons for looking at competing security addons. I've linked to the Google cache because the raw page actually errors out, but the content is good and interesting.

As far as I'm aware, the 1115 media is the newest release that was made available.

Here's my idea: Put Outlook into offline mode Close Outlook. Change the name of the "good" .ost. Copy the "bad" .ost to the good one's old name. Open Outlook. Export the messages to a .pst. Close Outlook. Rename the "good" file back to its old name. That might work.

Probably. I'll look around. I have scads of C2D boards and CPUs that I can't quite bring myself to recycle yet.

Better theory is that Vista machines are much more likely to have an unsupported CPU configuration and so they can't take the upgrade anyway. Why get people's hopes up?

Are these clients still part of an Exchange-managed organization? I think you can just attach the .OST files per this. You might have to do some screwing around with re-naming files to get them to open.

Switch to the desktop app. You can install it through Ninite. It's better behaved anyway.

Correct. I have every confidence that it'll work just fine. Remember that a hardware ID is generated and passed during activation regardless, so they're probably just assuming that the key that passes the static "legit check" at install time is fine and can be assigned to the new Windows 10...

That's going to be a seriously nice little machine.

Are you using the Desktop program or the Modern-style built-in app? They are different things.

Outlook is shitty regardless of its intended platform. Excel and Word are very usable. Onedrive and OneNote are very solid tools. Definitely more hits than misses.

8 or 8.1. And you have to start with the November 2015 Installation media, which I have but was generally pulled from public access. I haven't tried with 7 because Windows 7 keys actually have value in and of themselves whereas the only thing I'm ever going to do with a Windows 8 key from this...

That Turion P520 can be outperformed by some Core 2 Duo CPUs and is 30% slower than a first generation (c. 2009) Core i3M. That guy is going to be slow in a way that just isn't going to be fixed.

I don't know that it's actually a bad thing. Windows BADLY needs a better on screen keyboard and actually almost all Microsoft's software for Android is pretty damned good if you have some reason to want it.

I've found that I can use Windows 8 product keys from fresh installs of the updated Windows 10 media from November.

For about two days, I was getting a "Upgrade to Chrome!" message when I hit Youtube on Palemoon, the same message that IE6 or weirdo third party browsers (e.g. Dolphin) users get. And then I stopped getting the message. I don't know if that's something Palemoon did or something Youtube did...

Palemoon isn't constantly packaging new third party software. Palemoon has no plans to discontinue fully functional NSAPI plugin support. Palemoon isn't fucking around with a touch friendly default theme that absolutely no one asked for. Palemoon doesn't change user defaults when its sponsorship...

I'm sure I can, but it's a case that I'd rather be seen in metrics as using a current, modern browser so that it can be counted and considered for support.

Palemoon no longer uses Gecko as its underlying rendering engine, but rather a fork called Goanna. Absolutely the only change I've noticed because of this is that Youtube now gives me a message that I need to upgrade to Firefox or Chrome when I browse there, and defaults to a much less...

I did have some weirdness when I upgraded my storage box from Server 2012 to 2012r2. The LSI driver wouldn't initialize until I uninstalled and scanned for new hardware in Device Manager. I wrote a script that automated doing that, but some time in the last few months it started detecting and...

You've definitely had more patience with that whole system than I would have. Especially over a bad DVD drive. I'm not saying to set it on fire and then piss on it but I'm just going to say that's something that's made me feel better about a bad DVD burner in the past. ;)

I also like Dark Matter, though the premise seems to be more "How close can we get to re-making Firefly without getting sued?" than anything else. It's definitely B-grade material but I liked it.

Over the weekend I binged on a TV series called "The Expanse." Thomas Jane is the only actor I recognize in the cast, but it's a hard science fiction conspiracy thriller with high production values and good acting. Only eight episodes have aired as I write this but it's well worth checking out.

Intel's web site is a goddamned marvel of organization compared to HP's. Just be glad you don't have to go looking for that sort of stuff on anything more than a very irregular basis.

Check it now. It's all there.

You misspelled "strip clubs"

The 7770 is substantially better for gaming but Skylake has full hardware decode support for modern codecs (e.g. HEVC) and of course the 7770 is going to have much higher TDP and extra fan noise. The answer to that question for the most part comes down to whether or not you card about fill rates...

I'm just going to say that Handy's assessment of OSX is almost entirely the same as my own. I see a lot more "Hey, why doesn't that just work?" on OSX than I ever did on Windows (where things do actually mostly just work, or else I know exactly how to configure them anyway) or Linux (where...

Off the top of my head, at the grub prompt, hit e, then add the word "single" after the word "splash" in the grub config, then boot with F10. You'll come up in init mode 1 with a passwordless root prompt and you can sudo passwd root so it's something you actually know. Edits to the running grub...

The book is well written and very amusing. And, having spent time around a lot of engineers and physicists, it's also quite tonally accurate in a way that's not common in filmed entertainment.

You can always boot into single user mode and reset the root password.

I was curious to see how well games would play at 4k, so I pulled out my GTX970 and tried it on my TV. Frame rates in games I have are mostly in the high single digits. 4k isn't really practical for gaming and I'm not aware of any games that are designed with 4k play in mind, but it was that's...

I set up RetroPi, an emulator front-end, and IMMEDIATELY hit the wall of the thing not having the horsepower to play games I wanted to play on it. I've done RasPlex and OpenElec on them, but it turns out the Pi has a hard time with high video bit rates and won't decode some sound formats. They...

Of course, it's the same problem as the Pi. I had to struggle to come up with an application where I wanted to use one instead of just running my work through a fully functional computer that I already have.

Static, text-only content created and hosted on the server with the content you actually visited is probably the least objectionable case.

I am happy that it missed Chicagoland for once but you have my sympathies, Bozo (and probably jtr).

Azure's pricing is unreasonable based on our current needs.

It's licensing hell no matter what we do. The mandate is to get two machines in two different datacenters with full failover so that the whole stupid thing can operate on one out of four nodes. All of this is coming from one person overpromising on availability to someone who is really, really...

Having now tried it, 4k on a GTX970 is not very impressive, but you get a lot of time to appreciate the details of each individual frame. The GTX750Ti is extremely capable at 1280x720 and max detail. At 1920x1080, almost everything intensive I can try drops below 25fps. On the other hand, this...

It's telling that the project isn't based on Mozilla software, but I still see Chromium-based browsers as having very limited privacy controls and a weak addon ecosystem regardless. Moz doesn't do Sandboxing, but it does have Noscript and RequestPolicy and it also has NPAPI (I have things that...

choco install -y flashplayerplugin choco install -y flashplayeractivex My fun new project is setting up four a four way SQL Server cluster. I've never needed to do that before but I have to get it done sooner rather than later.

I literally just paid $10k for four 64GB E5630s and associated hard disks and crap. You're just doing this to taunt me. :P

I've seen a couple videos that included a "Hey, if you like this, watch what I do on Youtube Red!" Functionally, those channels are now full time ads shilling the idea of giving Google, rather than the channel creators, more money. Of course, I'm also not going to be watching an external ad any...