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The one knock I have with Windows 8.1 (and Server 2012r2) is that it still has the Charms bar. The Charms bar blows. Honestly, I think I'd take Windows 8.1 as a starting point, but at least complete the upgrade to 10 so you can have it in the future if you some day want it. From a...

Yup. They've been out since this spring. Of course that leads to the obvious question "Why 200GB and not 240?" and I don't have an answer for that.

That machine seems expensive for what you're getting. I understand why that is, but you're really paying a premium for what would easily be under $1000 otherwise.

I still haven't been able to buy a fully functional replacement screen for my G4. None of them have had a functional light sensor.

Unfortunately, that error can mean lots of things, like missing BCD data or a registry that won't load properly or because the installer is looking for some specific partition layout. Lenovo does usually install a bunch of its tools after the base system install with batch files. Sometimes...

Plenty of people won't use a touchpad. I think that's more than a little foolish, since having to carry and use a mouse is just one more thing to deal with and the touchpad is always available.

I've done Windows 8.1 on a T540, but that was off included DVDs. Where did you get this USB drive? Also, if you're doing Windows 8 or 8.1, you can install from any OEM disc without need of a product key. The OEM branding will just magically appear. I can make you the relevant media if you need it.

The only touchpad I've ever had difficulty with is Apple's. The T450's doesn't bother me a bit, though I do think it's bigger than it needs to be.

Are you sure you're a root user?

Just a tiny correction since I just noticed this: The full-on Txy0 or Txy0p models DO have two DIMM slots. The Txy0s models just have one slot. They're the slimmer/lighter guys and lack some of the modular characteristics anyway, so that's not wholly unexpected. I really don't like the...

Parts of HP's web site not being available is just business as usual, as far back as the mid-90s. Shitting in its computers probably should be as well.

Every time I try to do something with Veeam on ESXi, it either won't work or it's ridiculously slow. I've had better luck just directly enabling SCP and copying that way. Maybe it's better if you have licensed servers, but at that point you also have access to a better suite of tools in the...

There are M.2 to single port SAS adapters. I think you'd be losing out on the real whole "direct connection to PCIe" aspect of M.2 if you went that route. I don't know if you've noticed, but M.2 SSDs get really, really warm. I'm not sure I'd be too happy having to air cool a bunch of them.

I got to play with a Steam Controller and Steam Streaming tonight. I built a gaming rig for a friend and we downloaded and messed around with her game collection for a while. I was just curious as to whether streaming actually works and... it sure seems to, as long as you're plugged in with...

If we were given open access to our hardware, rooting wouldn't be necessary. This is the same problem OSX has with its current rootless UNIX and cheap Wintel machines have because of UEFI.

At times, fire is righteous. Thus is the whole of my word.

When I was looking in to Infiniband stuff, I saw a lot of guys ranting about how hot 10GbE kit was. I thought they might've been exaggerating, but that graph suggests otherwise. 5W/port is hotter than some x86 CPUs at this point. I did finally hook up my cables for long enough to verify...

Where is this? Is that an employer plan?

OSX is going through user space bullshit right now as well. They've disabled root access (without going in to single user mode to disable the package that keeps users out of it), so users with lots of shell mods and UI customizations are hosed. Many people think the ultimate goal is to move OSX...

Some people in my office are saying they upgraded their home computers over the weekend, but not voluntarily. They basically got a message that said "When you next restart, you're going to start installing Windows 10." These are Windows 7 Pro machines and I do believe the people using them are...

The people who created Battletech want a new Battletech strategy game, similar to Mech Commander but using the tabletop rules. Their kickstarter is at just about 10x its funding goal with 14 days remaining. It will use the same 3D models as MWO, but on an isometric map. Best part for me is that...

I've either been a contractor or worked places too small to offer plans. My current employer is exempt from subsidizing my coverage or offering a plan of its own and I make too much money to get a subsidy of my own. My $300 - $450/month plan choices under the ACA basically amount to either 40%...

I've not had a job that offered insurance since I was an intern with Honeywell in 1996. What are these companies that offer insurance? WRT Ears are a serious issue because hearing aids are astonishingly expensive in a way that's really unjustifiable given the underlying technology. I can see...

A fancy sort of person might have such a watch. A fancy sort of person who wouldn't be shopping at an Aldi's. We have those here in the US. My company actually does some training for their corporate offices. I had no idea it was international.

Even Valve thinks Steam customer service is an atrocity. I bought Prison Architect from GoG earlier in the week. It's a tiny install and it's fun in about the same way as the old Bullfrog titles like Theme Hospital. Also, Sentinels of the Multiverse, my favorite Android game but also a PC...

Fix? Not really. There are tools that concentrate controls for the obnoxious stuff in one place though.

So India is very much in the model of overly commercialized health policy, much like the USA. I'm somewhat surprised, given its close ties to Great Britain, though I suppose implementing an equivalent to the NHS would be problematic in a country where access to modern plumbing still can't be...

What's health care like in India, anyway?

For what it's worth, my ACA-approved plan added about $4000 to the cost of care for my eye issue last year and provided no benefit. I literally paid Blue Cross of Indiana $4000 because I wanted to see doctors. Turns out, I'm exempt from coverage. The second lowest-cost silver plan for a male my...

Unifi devices don't have any way to bridge, but AirMax devices can. You can set up a transparent AirMax bridge to a Unifi AP if you want.

Went to the dentist for the first time in 14 years and a month. Only need a deep cleaning. No other problems. Now I feel like maybe I didn't really need to go to the dentist.

1 hour of HD video takes 8GB on my phone's highest quality setting. Plenty of Android phones are sold with only 8GB of internal storage. Putting aside my preference to carry around a huge library of content and switch in other cards for days that I need the camera, remember that losing the card...

Acer tend to have decent hardware specs for the money but they are way too delicate, especially for travel. Acer also doesn't have a business-grade machine. It's strictly consumer products. Lenovo should be an option (X-series or maybe Txxx-s series), but Asus Ultrabooks are another choice to...

Every board I've worked on that used them needed multiple BIOS flashes before those would even boot. Also, what do you suppose the actual real-world gain from using just one might be? I'd put money on under half a second faster for Windows boot time.

Hardware hackers have figured out how to add aux out to an Amazon Echo, who is a pretty cool piece of hardware for a lot of other reasons. I'm not sure it's practical for Aviation, but it would work well in a home setting.

Another aspect of that is that a company that most competitive on that basis may be so because it's not offering advantage in other areas. Sprint is priced lower than Verizon because it can't offer nearly the coverage, for example. I don't think anyone here would consider buying an AMD CPU right...

I have a hard time justifying the pricetag for something I can't add RAM or disks to but I'd have no trouble at all recommending one for other people.

At $8500 each, surely it would be better/cheaper to just have an array of 1080p projectors, right?

There might be patents or something? Or maybe it's because of how the reversible locking mechanism on the thing works. My guess is that it's going to be some lesser form of Quadro rather than a consumer chip. It sounds like it's getting a mobile-grade CPU rather than a ULV if Microsoft isn't...

3Mbit is probably right on the threshold of what I'd call tolerable. At least that's fast enough that you aren't really waiting for pictures to load on a web page. To give you some idea of how fast 110bps is, I can remember being on a 300bps connection and being able to watch individual words...

They added an nvidia GPU to the new Surface Book. That's pretty serious compared everything else of similar form factor.

Storage Spaces has a LOT of weirdness like that. Things that have to fixed with cmdlets in Powershell because the GUI doesn't work or isn't implemented. It's fairly aggravating, though the actual storage is robust enough.

It's exotic right now, but at one time, so were DLP and OLED displays.

My solution is to use Mozbackup to push the settings I want people to have. Unfortunately, it won't actually allow a scripted restore yet, but it's still faster than manually changing all the crap that's wrong with a default Firefox install.

My least favorite things about Windows 10, at least from a support aspect: 1. Cortana's local data indexing breaks a lot. Windows Search 4.0 on XP worked better. There's a set of powershell commands to make it reindex, but holy crap why is it losing track of things in \windows or my PATH...

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I use Adblock Latitude for my own needs. I advise others to run Adblock Plus because it is a single brand that is available regardless of one's choice of browser. However, I also have explicit directions for what blocking lists should be installed/enabled, because I think the acceptable ads list...

These are the components I'm most interested in using. I have a system deployment that I'm kind of dragging my feet on so that I get 2016 licenses rather than 2012r2 and actually use the new features. I will say that 2012r2 has significant improvements (software RAID6) over plain old 2012.

They should be, but if you've had updates fail they might be listed more than once.

That was put forward by pundits rather than anyone actually on the Windows product team. I think it's been pretty thoroughly debunked.