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There weren't any other 2.4GHz 802.11 sources in the immediate area, according to my site survey.

Most of my Youtube subs are somehow related to my musical tastes or are people who make amusing short videos. One of my favorites is improvelectronic's channel devoted to his insane ability to improvise arbitrary music in the compositional style of arbitrary classical composers. About the only...

Desert Island recordings are a real thing. This is something that has been discussed in record stores for probably nearly a century now. My desert island stuff goes on my Google Play Music account so that I should always at least have one accessible copy of it even if it's not on the PC or...

So the real-world range improvement from a UAP-LR over a standard $40 Trendnet AP? I'd say it's around 20 feet or 6m (in radius) in an open floor cubical farm area. That's not nothing but it's also nothing terribly dramatic. Ubiquiti claims 180m range and I'd say it's off by 130m or so.

First x86 PC in the house was an XT clone with 1MB RAM and a 5MB hard disk that ran Xenix. There were other computers around, but they were scary things I wasn't supposed to touch. I definitely remember an Apollo workstation from around that time. The first PC that was definitely, explicitly...

MMmmm. I don't know if I agree. People want and like curated content. TV Channels serve that purpose very well. I do know of people who will just watch HGTV or Animal Planet all day because they know they'll find something agreeable every time they flip on that channel, and at another extreme...

Buck might have some additional insight to the current management structure because of reasons. And it sure is nice to see some of you folks around. Tea, DB, Bartender, Clocker, mubs. You guys are missed when you're not about.

The 400MB tapes were Travan. They ran on a ftape (floppy tape) interface, Parallel or SCSI interfaces. In ancient days, I actually had a mounted /tmp filesystem on an Yggsdrasil Linux machine. It was just as slow as you would imagine. The other option was DC2120, which were 60, 80 or 120MB tapes...

It's the Cartoon Network after some time of day. The put on things that stoners like instead of six year olds.

Well hey a legal copy of Windows Server 2016 will only cost you about $600 + $30/user so I have no idea why you wouldn't just be jumping all over that. ;)

Adblock Plus now has support for managed deployments. Available now for Chrome, Safari and Opera with Firefox support forthcoming. The web page is woefully short on details at the moment, but maybe that will change sometime in the near future.

Those who lie in congress with swine must be made to repent and suffer glorious and just wrath. Blessed be the platters and the magnets and even the tiniest bits, for it is not fault of data that it must reside in the inequity and despair of Irvine's Gehenna. re: DB's helpful link. Those...

It doesn't matter if they can't make a profit on something or other. They're the common carrier. They can make profit in other places and for that matter in a lot of cases they're accepting money in the form of tax rebates and subsidies that are supposed to support the un- or less-profitable...

jtr, you can get 20 miles outside Chicago's city limits and find areas that don't have good internet access, let alone the unpaved roads and farmhouses of middle America. We let these companies get away with murder in the hopes that they'll deliver on their promises and that is exactly the...

Here's an interesting graph showing which TV channels people would pick if given an a la carte subscription option. The major US broadcast networks are all at the top of the list, but Discovery is ahead of four of them. Supposedly mandatory ESPN is only a requirement for 30% of those surveyed...

That's actually really good news.

Those also factor in to my decision not to advocate in this case.

With regard to tape, I don't think it makes much sense unless you're at the point where your backup volume would require multiple hard disk drives under any circumstance. An LTO drive will cost probably $1000. Tapes are cheap and each one will hold 800GB or 1.5 or 2.5TB apiece, but you have to...

Looks like some of the big OEMs are releasing refreshed Z97/X99 motherboards now that there's a minor update to the USB spec (for 3.1, not C). I'm pleasantly surprised by that.

Dedup is in the Windows Server feature set, just like tiered storage and parity/double parity stripe sets. You can do those things cheaply and easily with FreeNAS if you really want them.

At least they're letting you use SQL Express. Whatever they're doing can't be THAT serious.

There are tricks you can do to remember passwords. I'm fond of using short pass phrases that are based on quotations from some particular media (e.g. poems of Robert Louis Stevenson or lines from the movie Clerks) that I associate with that customer as a seed for what I use. I might use the...

In a typical data breach, you'd find out that internal safeguards don't exist or weren't actually being followed. Personally Identifying Information stored in an unencrypted format would be stolen and, since this is the USA, the only reason anyone would be notified of the issue is if the data...

The Linux kernel code does indeed have a long list of misbehaving drives. The article mentions Samsung models as bad actors and IIRC Crucial drives are known to behave poorly on Linux. Not to be that guy, but we really can't have any idea what other OSes are doing for this stuff because we just...

They don't provide terrible service. They had a security leak. They disclosed it and communicated the extent of user exposure. That's substantially more than a lot of companies are willing to do. As it happens, exposure it this case is pretty limited unless the guys who got the data are...

The write performance on Seagate archive drives is horrific. They write just fine in bursts, up to maybe 10 minutes at a sustained high speed. But in single drive or RAID operation, with or without an SSD serving as a cache drive, they slow down or stop writing entirely for periods of up to a...

Has there been some change in the status of RAID support with SSDs that I haven't heard about? Every time I've tried to RAID1 SSDs, even with SLC drives, they've died inside of a year.

I really liked the first two Fallout games. The third game got the tone dead wrong by dropping the humor for ever-greater darkity grimdark and was critically short on different models and textures for what was supposed to be an open world/sandbox RPG, but it was one of the last mainstream games...

Lastpass uses salted hash lookups based on your master password to store everything. If you change your master password, it changes the salt value and the software has to rehash all your passwords. Even if someone got everything they store, they still can't see anything unless they want to sit...

I know Doom 3 was terrible because it was heavily pre-scripted and didn't have all the cool action or ability to both see and shoot, but this looks like a wild over-correction. Maybe they're just emphasizing the mayhem above and beyond the atmosphere, but original Doom was terrifying and kept...

On a somewhat related note, I just bought a couple UAP-LR access points that supposedly have a range of 600 feet. These are for an unrelated project, but I was kind of curious if they would work, especially over that kind of distance and I need to buy access points anyway.

I'll try it and let you know. I'm willing to bet that it'll be fine.

I suppose I should have said "Telecasts." I believe it's at least possible to get a 1080p signal from at least some cable or satellite boxes from all the major networks except Fox.

Youtube and Netflix have 4k streaming and there's 4k porn because of course there is, but AFAIK there's no TV-based standard for delivering a 4k stream, nor any boxes that support decoding it. I don't even think Fox broadcasts in 1080p yet.

Historically, Microsoft has allowed users to roll back an upgraded installation of Windows, but as long as you have the product key for your old version you should be able to wait and use the upgrade media on a new disk drive if you'd like.

There's an Amazon Reseller called Computer Upgrade King that typically offers SSD-equipped Thinkpads at competitive prices instead of nutso-bonkers Lenovo retail. The laptops are new and carry their manufacturer warranty. I haven't had any problem extending that warranty after purchase. I've...

There's a game called Tabletop Simulator that looks super cool other than the obvious drawback that you can all probably guess. The super-amazing thing about it is support for 7-person multiplayer and a pretty decent selection of implemented games including Android:Netrunner, Mage Knight, Cards...

Here's what I think is the primary source for ridiculous screenshots. They probably have a lot of guidance for modding. Technically you can do the same thing with Fallout 3 I guess. I don't think it gets pretty, but it looks like you can make it less baby poop yellow. I do wonder if modders...

This method does in fact work on a Verizon GS5 that hasn't taken the Android 5 upgrade. I tested it on a co-worker's 4.2.2 GS5 just now. Some models are a little different, but Odin is Samsung's tool for screwing with boot loaders and ROMs and the only real trick is getting in to CWM Recovery in...

The nice thing about most of the rooting tools is that they either work or they don't do anything. You're not trying to install a ROM, so it's unlikely that you're going to brick your phone. I'm toying with the idea of installing CM12 on my phone since it doesn't appear that it's going to get an...

I suspect that your old key will still work as long as you're reinstalling on the hardware where it has already been activated. I have observed this to be the case for 7 to 8 upgrades that have been rolled back.

There are posts on Imgur pretty much every day that are full of ridiculous screenshots and descriptions like "This is my sorry-ass old PC running these 182 Skyrim Mods. And it's an A4 with a GTX550 and 2GB RAM!" And then someone else will come along a half hour later with "And here's what it's...

You won't be getting a usable .ISO from the "reservation" download. There's probably a .WIM file or something that could be use to build an ISO, but it's highly probable that Microsoft will make the ISO file available for people who need them through normal techie channels. Since Windows 7 ISOs...

I use a tool called Drives to visualize space utilization in combination with ES File Explorer to actually handle file management. I also have a 128GB card in my phone and it's basically full, but that's because my response to having any amount of free disk space is to fill it with something...

The preview 100% has a time bomb in it. Doesn't your laptop have an embedded OEM key like the last one did? Good to see you again sed. How is Kentucky?

I have 1Gbps at the datacenter and I can say that there's really not a practical difference for normal home user activity between 100Mbit and 1Gbit. Youtube still won't load instantly and you still get occasional jaggies on Netflix for reasons that have nothing to do with the speed of your pipe...

I saw this on Slashdot and thought it was interesting: Phoronix Compares Socket 478 Netburst devices to modern Intel and ARM CPUs.. I've been telling people for a while that the CPU in my cell phone is probably faster than their XP-era Pentium 4 and it turns out that it's almost certainly true...

Blame consoles. Gamepads require terrible, terrible UIs. Also, just as a point of clarification, are you talking about Skyrim as it was launched or Skyrim with the crap ton of mods and updated texture packs that everyone who still plays Skyrim has?

The official path for a clean install of 8.1 for machines with an 8 COA or firmware embedded key was: install with an un-activatable known key for system imaging, then enter your Windows 8 key after the install was completed. That's really not THAT bad, except that I have no earthly idea how...

Most of my UPSes are also hand-me-downs for client sites. I'm sure I have a couple that are over 10 years old.