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Part of the appeal of the Samsung phones is that they're so damned light and thin. I don't see any reason to give that up for the dubious "protection" of an otterbox. I've seen too many broken smartphones in undamaged cases.

A 7" tablet will fit in the back pocket of most men's pants, but probably shouldn't. It'll also go in the interior pocket on a lot of sport coats or suit jackets, but again it looks pretty weird to put one there. I was thinking about that a few days ago. I'd really like to have a coat with an...

As a proof of concept and entirely because of I spilled a cup of tea on my regular handset, I used a Nexus 7 as my office phone all day. I use Vocalocity (basically Vonage for Business) and their mobile app lets me transfer calls and things just like my Cisco handset. It was a little silly, but...

I believe the trend of building specialized single-site web viewers originates and is necessitated by older iThings, where some combination of missing Flash support and relatively low buy-in from web developers for mobile-friendly sites meant a fairly broken web experience. Things have mostly...

The Microsoft LifeChat is an inexpensive device geared toward VOIP rather than gaming performance. There are a few of them floating around my office. I was using a Logitech H600 for recording stuff to put on Youtube, but I switched to my Jaybird Bluetooth set since I got it and passed the...

Newegg does at time have a larger stock of certain products, particularly computer cases.

A sharpie and a roll of masking tape would go a long, long way.

It's definitely heavier-weight than it used to be, but it's still lighter than Defender or Avira. The tools are getting worse. I don't think that's your imagination.

Take a look at this.

As far as I know, no Macs have any such configuration. Windows Vista supported a technology called ReadyBoost for doing high-level disk caching of disk drive access, but that wasn't supported on Windows 7 (the Readyboost hardware was just formatted and configured as if it were a USB flash...

A machine with those specs should be fine for original UT (which I still play sometimes). UT2004 should also run sorta-acceptably on a GF2MX from what I remember of running support at LAN parties. Are you using the original, retail install media or did you get it through a service like GoG.com...

Quickbooks is permanently and always completely terrible. I'm a big believer in QB Online. At least it doesn't fuck up your Windows install when it has problems. I usually tell people to budget for two days of paid time to do a Quickbooks upgrade or new install, even for a simple two-station...

I actually did try that, but the System Writer isn't technically part of the Backup Features and that didn't seem to help. I wound up making a database backup and then restoring Windows from the last good system image I had. I'm not going to run a production system with no working backup.

Every reasonably sophisticated forum site is going to have per-user preferences and probably shit tons of viewership metrics on each account. Everything is done in Javascript for maximum slowness since that's all Web Monkeys know how to write these days, and the size of ads and scripts being...

I would definitely in no way know absolutely all about that since easily 2/3s of the comments on every Slashdot thread today were about it. I miss the circa '96 Slashdot. I still think of the Slashboxes as the "new design."

Oh and also here is this thing that I totally must have, a Dungeons and Dragons novel that Audible.com paid to have a Gangster Rapper narrate.

I live in Portage, Indiana. I'm physically close enough that I have on a couple occasions walked from my apartment to Miller Beach in Gary (it's not really a fun walk though). It's a great neighborhood. Strip club-adjacent.

An WD800BB could be 12 - 13 years old, though WD had a habit of changing underlying platter properties without changing the model number. Buck is the person who would be able to tell exactly even if the warranty is so far gone that the validator just laughs at you.

If you create a Bookmark with this code javascript:(function(){if(location.host%20==%20"www.youtube.com"%20&&%20location.search.indexOf("v=")%20!=%20-1)%20{open("http://www.youtube-mp3.org/#v="%20+location.search.split("v=")[1].split("&")[0]);}})(); and click it while watching a Youtube...

Amazon and Netflix are both trying to convince ISPs to accept peered content boxes that the biggest share of their data can come from internal networks rather than cross over more expensive links. I can't believe that Verizon doesn't have a bunch of 100TB Netflix boxes at strategic locations...

Why not just make the notes using Google Docs in the first place?

The thing that's strange to me about all that is re-naming a pet. My grandma had a Golden Retriever named "Lady" when I was growing up who was definitely not that. She said she figured it out a couple days after she got the dog but she couldn't think of him any other way.

I know someone who would happily share her Loki/Doctor Who slash fiction. I don't think Coug's PC could take the abuse it would get if he saw it, though.

Youtube was rolled out for the Roku 3 just before Xmas, with promises that it would be added as an available channel to everything but the original-model Roku. I have no idea on dates, but I did see it on my uncle's Roku a couple weeks ago. You might want to give Plex a try as a DLNA...

If you look, they say Premier users will get free returns and zero restocking fees. At the moment, Newegg only covers shipping on some minority of orders. They almost always tell customers to take it up with manufacturers and I've been told that I'd be charged restocking for clearly clearly...

More than one of these got an actual out loud laugh from me. Generally safe for work, possibly less safe for good taste in a few cases.

I think the dream we want to live is to get a desktop with a performance profile that's similar to or exceeds current-gen consoles at a comparable price. Without Windows that is ENTIRELY possible ($350 i3 rig + $100 *770 graphics card + goofy wireless gamepad = ~$500) and it's just going to get...

That's kind of a big deal. It's crucial for backups. It's crucial for THIRD PARTY backup software. If it's not working and nothing short of dropping back to my last good system image is all I can do, I don't know how that's even remotely cool. I have no idea what caused it and no idea if it will...

Newegg is now offering a competitor to Amazon Prime. Here's the web page for it. It's $50 for 3-day shipping, which doesn't seem all that helpful, but free returns and supposedly better service might make it worthwhile. I'm undecided. Newegg's customer service is atrocious but I still buy from...

I've done "Living Room PCs" a few times. My own personal bias is to make systems that are capable as media consumption systems rather than gaming machines, but I've made those as well. SteamOS is supposed to be a front end for a Linux system, and I suppose that means it will be modded to hell...

Civilization 5 is supposed to be getting full offline play Any Day Now and coincidentally, the new Humble Bundle is all Sid Meier games. I've never heard of Ace Patrol and the bundle doesn't have either of my actual favorite Sid Meier games (Pirates! Gold or Alpha Centauri), but that is more...

Hitachi's been offering five platter drives for ages (e.g. the 75GXP). I can't remember the last time I saw non-Hitachi drive with five.

Anyone who visits has to clear the spammer verification. I don't know if Handruin grants approvals by hand or not but there are automated systems to minimize the forum annoyance factor.

They're kind of slow. They have kind of dim screens. They're tiny for an x86 tablet. But on the other hand, $200 is a HELL of a price for a fully functional Windows 8 PC, let alone a tablet model. Awesome deal if you live near a Microcenter.

I decided that the Windows Backup was sending me a coded message that I don't get nearly enough practice doing Windows Server restores.

And for the record, since they changed the procedure again: The Hamachi config now lives at HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\LogMeIn Hamachi\. You can either copy an old config folder to that location or specify a different one. It's a DWORD in your registry. I make use of Hamachi's relatively static...

TrueImage Server has been tried and did in fact puke.

Has anyone run in to this before? I have a relatively new Server 2008r2 system, perhaps six weeks old (running as a virtual machine on an ESX 5.5 host, if that matters). Backups worked fine until Saturday night but since then, when I try to fire off a backup, I get this error message: "System...

I'm personally quite happy that I listened to 35 minutes of NPR this morning and no one mentioned the big game. They played a 15 minute interview with Philip Seymour Hoffman but sports were not discussed. I'm glad there's a media option that understands that there are more interesting things to...

Some of the "Z" (enthusiast) series motherboard chipsets do, but that is of dubious utility if your main drive is already an SSD.

I suspect they have yield problems when bit densities get too high. And Hitachi was the only company that really messed with 4 platter+ drives in the modern era. They're just leveraging something they know how to do.

I am not happy, but at least I have join.me and/or Teamviewer.

net share music=c:\users\username\music /grant:"company users",change /users=5 Share your personal Music folder as \\localhost\music, granting the Company Users group ("Everyone" is probably also a safe choice if you have NTFS permissions in place) with Change rights (instead of read or full)...

That would be a great box for that purpose as long as you can work out a control scheme and front-end that you can live with. I suggest XBMC and either a Rii or a Logitech k400r if you'd like a device that's a bit larger. The one down side in XBMC is that streaming plug-ins can be fussy, but you...

I'll keep you in mind next time I do a pass at my spare parts bins.

Dell desktops don't have standard parts because they're Dells. That's how they are. You might as well be annoyed with the sun for rising in the east for all the good it does. The people who buy machines like that know full well that the systems are going to be disposable and they will act...

My big file server has 29 internal 4TB drives (29? Yeah. There's a bunch of empty space inside the chassis in front of the power supply and I had the extra SATA ports that were just going to waste...) and another 12 3TB drives in an SAS enclosure and potentially another 8 2TB drives in an eSATA...

Stop judging my data collection habits! :P

UPS shipping to a residence for something that light would be around $12. USPS could cut it down to maybe $3 if you're willing to tolerate crappy handling and no insurance. That said, it's highly unlikely that your current laptop has a socketed CPU and there isn't going to be much of a...

net, netsh, same difference. :) But yes, I also hate netsh.