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Now Canon just needs to put a 2.5" drive bay in its next dSLR.

Has anyone found any kind of cause or even correlation for the "Critical Error: Cortana and Start Menu are not working" crap that seems to happen all the time on Windows 10 machines? My lab PCs don't seem to have a problem, but it's far and away the most common problem I see on Windows 10 machines.

I fell asleep during Birdman and never saw a reason to give it another shot. But I liked Philomena and American Hustle and the Grand Budapest Hotel, among recent award nominees.

I wasn't entertained, but I've never been a big fan of DiCaprio.

I have a Plextor drive and I believe dd and LunarTunes have Samsung. I've observed both Samsung and Plextor to get hot in the same fashion. It's just something to look forward to next time you put together a PC.

I guess my cousin got to be an usher at the Oscars this year. He's done it before but it still amuses me. As far as the awards themselves, I thought The Martian was a far better movie than The Revenant and I wish Mad Max: Fury Road had won at least one of the major awards instead of just...

I stuck a heat sink on mine as well. At first I thought mine was just residually hot from proximity to my GPU, but after I read a bit about them I realized it's just one more thing to keep cool. Kind of surprise since mSATA drives really don't get hot at all.

Kind of an interesting Google Recruitment tool, narratives from its Engineers regarding the development of some of its products.

Nope!

As I said, this is all low-use stuff, legacy systems (2 of the drives haven't written one full terabyte of data since they've been deployed, including swap space) that are still irregularly needed. Sometimes, we wind up with parts we don't particularly like because they're what is most readily...

XP was the last version of Windows to use NTLDR and boot.ini. Contemporary versions of Windows use Boot Configuration Data with GUIDs to find bootable Windows installations. Editing BCD entries by hand is a PITA, but EasyBDC is just what it implies and will probably fix you right up.

I'm not running anything that only has CNet and Softpedia downloads on a production system.

So it's domestic espionage then? Congratulations SD.

1. No. 2. Looks like. And EVERYTHING says the drives are OK by SMART settings. It's only when I go look at details in the Samsung Software that I see a problem.

Not really. This is production stuff. It's low-use/low volume, but I can't predict when it's being used, either. Right now it's more of an annoyance than a major problem, so I'd rather not put a bunch of billable hours (and the argument over getting them paid) in to dealing with it unless I'm...

The guys I teach these days are all about Fire Sticks for access to Kodi + Fusion Repo Pirate Streaming sites. That's trivial for a Pi but the Pi is also slower and more expensive (and doesn't have a remote) in comparison. I know you can do stuff like implement a 3D printer with one but you can...

Handy, you don't have access to a full-blown Vsphere setup for personal use? I know you switched jobs but for some reason that surprises me.

Ordinarily, I'd pull drives at the first sign of problems but here's a case where my diagnostic tools don't agree and I can't create a reproducible issue. SSD drives have odd fail states and thus could just be something I don't recognize, which is why I'm third-guessing at this point.

I have a Hyper-V host with four Samsung 850 Pro drives in it, each home to a guest OS install and nothing else. There's also a Intel SSD with the host OS install, but the host is perfectly well behaved and in fact I think it's only ever restarted for Windows Updates maybe five times, total. Two...

Most recently with an LGA1150 board. As I recall, I tried Kingston and Crucial DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMMs and the damned thing wouldn't boot until I stuck in one particular Samsung module. Edit: This bastard.

Given that these things are stuck using an SD card for storage anyway, I'm thinking that lack of a gigabit port isn't a particular bottleneck. I have to teach Rpis as a class in May, but I'm not supposed to be teaching any sort of programming. I have no idea what I'm going to actually teach. It...

I've been punished for not buying tested RAM for a Supermicro system in the past. You don't do that too many times before you just buy something on the HCL. I'll admit that getting the narrow heat sink is a hassle but I'd pay $20 extra for a fuss-free Asrock board, given than I already have my...

There's something to be said for an unused board and you also have to remember that if you're buying a CPU of a certain age, it's going to cost a quarter what it did new and probably still have 80% of the per-core performance of current top-end stuff.

From what little bit I read, it sounds like the only thing you can really do is bump up the DPI of your system fonts or change your screen resolution until they're readable.

Short answer: Yes. Even LGA1366 Xeon Systems can be objects of lust when you can get 8 or 12 threads for under $100.

Having recently taken apart an S6, all I can say is if you even think you might have to take apart your phone is don't go with the Samsung. Rear glass should be fucking illegal.

The LG G5 has a QHD display, removable battery (now 4000mA vs. 2800 on the G4), card reader and apparently some kind of internal expansion port. Neat. In other news, the SD card and waterproofing are back on the Samsung GS7.

Consider that after the floods in 2011, these guys were going around to Sam's Club and Costco to buy up local stock so they could de-shell cheap external drives. I'm guessing they're not big enough to get the breaks they want/need directly from drive vendors or top-tier suppliers but too big for...

I suspect there might be newer definitions and legal standards for that stuff and the problem relates to the search terms you're using, but then I also know my state has electronic service's that still mandate IE, so... Maybe?

As long as you have the 1115 media, yes. I can put the ISO someplace if you want my copy of it.

Yeah. They actually say that it has a lot to do with OEM availability from their channel partners.

As far as I can tell, this is perfectly acceptable, but if you use it that way, I don't believe you can reactivate that key for Windows 7.

The most current report makes WD look worse. Once the 3TB "DM" Barracudas were removed from their pods, the rest of Seagate's drives fell in at approximately average levels of reliability, including the other 3TB Seagate models. If you read the whole post, they basically say that the Seagate...

Buck said it's operating independently. I trust his insight on the matter but I don't know why they wouldn't be replacing everything they do with HGST tech.

Actually part of the fun for me is explaining what some of the terms mean. Bukkake. Heteronormativity. The Nietzschian Concept of the Ubermensch. Aaron Burr. Today someone played the printed card that says "(my real, full name)'s Penis." We had to stop for about five minutes because not everyone...

I got the employees of my local Deja Vu so hooked on Cards Against Humanity that nighttime dancers actually started coming in on their off time because t's all the daytime shift people talk about. We had an 11 person game this evening and most of the players were dancers in street clothes. I...

I did get a UAP-AClite. Range is a bit lower than my homebrew AP, especially on the 5GHz band, but my signal hasn't dropped all day, so my FireSticks and tablets are happier.

Music Pump is a particularly nice Kodi remote. I've tried a couple others but this one supports sharing media to Kodi via DLNA, which makes it really useful for picking and screen casting YouTube videos, among other things.

I think that I don't like uMatrix as well. It's really neat for showing what's running and what it does, but Noscript is ironically less of a hassle because I'm having to go back and sort out script and object dependencies again, something I already did when I started using Noscript. I also find...

I've wasted too much damned time dealing with Outlook misfeatures. Glad you got it.

The issues aren't quite the same as what I'm experiencing, since it's actively adding incorrect information to replace the data that's already part of the file. I was actually annoyed enough by the behavior to try chatting with a Play Music support person. She insisted that Play Music accepts...

I like the desktop Picasa application for managing personal photos. I like that it recognizes faces. I like that it's easy to add tags and I like that it integrates with Google's online photo galleries since I was actually using Picasa even before Google bought it. But, like a lot of things...

Does anyone else have problems with Google Play Music not respecting metadata on uploaded files, or is it another one of those things that only happens because I like classical music and nothing understands it? Case in point: I upload this album. It is fully tagged with both the front and back...

Here's the latest update. They ditched the one problematic Seagate 3TB drive model. WD looks like it's generally unimpressive now. Those HGSTs though. Wow.

It might be, but no hardware seems to be using it if it is. This is actually a matter of some concern since I can get any Android web browser you care to mention to die from lack of RAM with very little effort.

I currently have a 2013 model. The display flickers off sometimes like the inverter went off.

That is genuinely cool. I'd actually really like to see some efforts to make old Windows software run emulated on mobile devices without having to jump through a lot of hoops. It's not like an eight-core ARM or low-end Atom doesn't have the resources to make that happen.

Is it just me or has progress on high end tablets just sort of stopped? The Samsung Note Pro 12" tablet is still as far as I can tell the best representative of a state of the art Android device, now two full years after its introduction. Android seems to top out at 3GB RAM, 8 core 1.8 - 2GHz...

Proper comic book fans tend to be middle aged adults with decent levels of disposable income. A single comic book with 22 pages of content usually costs $4, so reading lots of them gets expensive really quickly, especially since a fan will probably be buying 10+ titles in a given month. Even...

I like the idea but I think I'll wait for a humble bundle or discounted GoG release. I'd probably like the game a lot but $20 for four hours is a bit steep.