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The quick answer is "Doing stuff that Tolkien didn't write about." I don't think having extra elves really hurt anything but I would have liked the first meeting with Smaug to have been closer to the book. All in all though I thought this movie was more like "The most awesome D&D adventure...

45F temperature swings are hilarious but at least I got the frozen wiper fluid out.

You appear to have some fundamental misconceptions about what security software can or should be doing. Here's the thing: Anti-virus applications are supposed to prevent VIRUSES. Malware, regardless of its specific function, fails to meet the crucial definition of "virus" since it does not...

Amazon is offering an interest-free quarterly payment plan for Fire HDX models, now until the 24th.

Don't use AVG. It's a lead balloon on your system's performance in the first place. Consider Avast Free instead. Or Avira. Or MSE. Or absolutely nothing. Because all of those things are better options.

I don't understand why people pay that for them. I don't think they're any more comfortable than any other chair. I do want a mesh back and seat though because I think it'll age better.

I have a Windows 98 machine running on an LGA775 Pentium 4 with an Intel 915 chipset and a Radeon 9700 graphics card. I built it to be a retro-gaming machine and yes it can talk to the internet, albeit not very well. Just to gainsay Coug, Windows 98 is ironically not as insecure as using 2000 or...

I didn't know anyone who had a Commodore until I went to college. By that time the Amiga was already kind of a dinosaur, but some people were still using them. My high school used Macs for the newspaper class, but mostly what I remember about that was how annoying it was trying to interchange...

Of course, she's inquiring about BUSINESS service to her home, which is probably regulated differently. Also, this is Indiana, a state that's right up there with Texas and Kansas in terms of commitment to building a regulation-free Objectivist utopia.

The Aeron Side Chair can actually be had for under $300, but they don't look that comfortable to me and I've never liked full size Aerons anyway.

They need to go the extra 7000' down because of course Comcast's internets come from the fiery pits of hell. Duh.

I'm only oversimplifying a little to say that laptop graphics are never upgradeable. A few boutique notebooks support doing so, but the upgrades themselves are very expensive and in my experience also have dubious compatibility and even worse reliability. I know it might be nice to game on a...

Anyone know where to buy an all-mesh type chair with a sled base and low back? That isn't a $500 Aeron?

Nits was one of my students. She has a house that's just a tad too far from actual civilization. Which, in my estimation, is that place where one can't get cable internet.

Usually just the one but sometimes two bedrooms and up to three strippers so now that I think of it this is apropos.

Speaking of the joys of home ownership, Ms. Nitsirk has delightfully crappy DSL and consumer cable isn't an option in her area. She finally convinced Comcast's Business unit to come survey the area and she's been telling me for something like six weeks that she's going to get cable internet any...

I like my apartment. I have lots of nice trees and a spare bedroom full of stripper, and if I don't have a garage and can't have a grill, at least I don't have to take care of a lawn or deal with an HOA, And on the day I need to leave I just have to pay a little bit of money to break my lease...

I think there's a lot to be said from being able to send a video in real time to a person on another continent while you're standing in a national park, or being able to browse imgur while enjoying quiet 9AM porcelain vacation.

No garage. I've decided that I just don't have enough interest in home ownership.

Well I can't very well get it out NOW, can I?

The best part for me is when the wiper fluid in my car freezes and I get stuck behind a salt truck going to work four days in a row.

My family always had computers around the house. I remember an Apollo workstation from back when I was a kid. The first computer that was absolutely meant to be a "family" computer rather than part of my father's studies or work was a 4.77MHz XT clone. It had a 10MB hard drive and dual 5.25"...

I'm guessing that if a non-Windows client is having an issue, it's probably because the option to only allow connections using Network Level Authentication is turned on someplace. I'm definitely able to connect to vanilla Server 2012 machines with rdesktop and a variety of Android clients though.

The way the system Youtube has for identifying music works, it basically flags everything it can identify and report it to a content owner. If the content owner makes an issue, it's an issue for all matching content. It's a pretty lousy system but anything less would be a piracy holocaust as far...

From what I've read, it's apparently because some music licensing company that represents video game music composers is suing one of the major "Let's Play" video channels. Or something. The companies that actually make/own/publish the games themselves seem to be saying that they don't have a...

Youtube, apparently in an effort to suck even more, has decided to crack down on "Let's Play" videos as a violation of terms of service. The thing is, I actually LIKE Let's Play videos quite a bit. They're how I've been able to experience games like Portal and how I've learned about some other...

Youtube, apparently in an effort to suck even more, has decided to crack down on "Let's Play" videos as a violation of terms of service. The thing is, I actually LIKE Let's Play videos quite a bit. They're how I've been able to experience games like Portal and how I've learned about some other...

A machine like that will find a home regardless of how long dd borrows it for his own purpose. I run across places where I wish I had even a spare i3 or even a Core 2 Quad machine probably weekly, and I can think of at least a couple of my customers who probably should migrate off their old...

In theory, that means it's a client-side script that's just counting the number and range of characters you're using. That's pretty trivial as far as code goes.

Mega-improvements to Chromecast were launched yesterday, including Plex support.

OEM licenses (the kind I was referencing with "almost always" since as I understand it they're about 75% of the licenses sold) are tied to hardware with their Windows Activation Status, which monitors 10 hardware categories including a motherboard ID string and the MAC address of the NIC that's...

Sure. Whatever. "Some guy I know from the internet" is probably going to amount to the same thing though.

I was inspired to write this out just now, explaining to someone why I don't want to work on his 11 year old, 512MB RAM, Celeron-having Dimension 4600 with AVG 2013 installed: Quick, Counter-Intuitive Advice for People Still Using Older Computers 1. Internet Explorer is not now and never has...

I think the password I use for SF is the single stupidest password I use anywhere except the systems where I have to share an admin account with someone else. Some of those are actually dumber. Oh and my Netflix password, but that's only 'cause I let someone else use it for streaming.

LM got a movie reference and dd admitted he hasn't seen the greatest comedy since "Ghostbusters." What is the world coming to?

You're still ultimately responsible for whatever is done with the credentials being used in authenticating.

But think of how sweet those ultrawides will be if you buy three of them and arrange vertically! ;)

I just noticed that if I use Swype to type the word "love", its predictive text says that the most common word for me to type next is "lamp." Also "tacos" is the fourth place word. And because Lunar won't get it: it's a quote from the movie Anchorman.

They're not COMMON but they are available. You just have to put up with an oversized display and some compromises with regard to connectivity, color accuracy and refresh rate. And god help you if you wanted to game on one. I'd be happy to get 2560x1600 at 20 - 24" from a recognizable brand name...

Hey the new USB port is reversible! That's true scientific progress right there!

I recall support for USB boot on AMD-based machines of that vintage as finicky. I wasn't able to move fully to using Flash drives for OS loading until I started deploying Core 2 Duo machines because of random compatibility weirdness. I don't know if this is the case here but I'm willing to...

Given that the bulk of laptops being sold are $300 - $500 vomittops, I think it'll be a while before mSATA drives are a factor.

Think carefully and decide if you really want an answer to that question.

That's HIGHLY dependent on chipset and BIOS support. That board SHOULD just work with nVidia nForce drivers, which would probably install the NIC and enable the IRQ steering or whatever the hell it is that's keeping your machine from seeing what was IIRC just Realtek audio, but if you're used to...

I'm all set for ridiculous file servers, but you might be interested in this chassis. The damned thing has minimally twice the internal volume of a typical mITX enclosure but it supports nine 2.5" drives if you need 'em.

This AsRock board is the Atom C2000-series available on Newegg. I have no idea how it works as a server-class product, but it supports 64GB of desktop RAM and has 12(!) SATA ports on an ITX form factor. If nothing else that's pretty drool worthy for a storage server.

d'oh! Forgot the link.

Something that might've escaped your attention, dd: Intel does make Eight-core Atom CPUs meant for low power servers. This Supermicro board includes a C2750 and has a TDP of 20W. The whole thing only gives about half the horsepower of an E3-series Xeon but if you're consolidating legacy servers...

Woot.com has a pretty sweet deal on Mach3 and Venus cartridges right now, 8 sets of blades for $10 At last I can afford to take care of that unsightly bikini area! ;)

The thing I worry about in that configuration is noise. They're using a ITX PSU with a 40mm fan and several slot coolers in there, and none of that stuff is what I'd call quiet. Also their pictures don't show power connections, which look like they could be messy. Obviously they need a real PSU...