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Those of you who have health care should be thankful you have health care.

I visited my parents. Does that actually count?

I'm awfully sick of hearing people say "He was the Edison of the computer industry!" Granted that they both stole ideas from other people, but at least Edison had a lot of genuinely good ideas of his own.

Out of curiosity as much as anything else, I listened to WBEZ.org's webcast on my phone on my last trip home from Knoxville to Northwest Indiana. The only place I lost my connection was in a long tunnel just east of Louisville on I64.

Sprint is the only player in the US market that still offers uncapped data plans for mobile phones. iThing users are known as notorious data hogs. There should be some pretty obvious overlap in interests there from the consumer perspective.

I wouldn't bother dual booting on a home machine. Just install 7. Use XP mode if you need it. I'm sorry to hear about your upcoming tribulations, mubs.

I wouldn't bother dual booting on a home machine. Just install 7. Use XP mode if you need it. I'm sorry to hear about your upcoming tribulations, mubs.

He's going to have to use mastering software somehow. Some people would call that involved no matter which one he chose. Nero Vision is my usual go-to for such things, but it only has spotty support for .mkv files via a plug-in. Apparently AVS Video Converter will do it natively, but as I recall...

I've found that they can be PAINFUL to implement. They're very intrusive on business machines and you'll really have to work with the vendor if you go that route.

Could you maybe get away with using parental monitoring software?

You could audit for file access, though that won't tell you when usage stops.

Arduino stuff comes up all the time in relation to Maker-type off-the-wall projects. It might be worthwhile to sit down and figure out the code yourself if your needs aren't pressing.

This guy has a page demonstrating an Arduino-based system that uses a serial temperature control.

Try Windowed mode. That's a sane and well-behaved choice.

Does it have to be native ethernet? Seems to me that there should be a metric assload of RS232-based process control stuff out there that can do what you want.

Freedom is the original server. It has the highest population, so you're most likely to find teams. People who play on other servers will also tell you it has the highest population of morons. Exalted is VIP (paying people) only, but it's very popular since it just went live. Virtue is quite...

No one with any real understanding of technology has ever thought he was anything but a very good businessman.

I'm more like Anhedonic Sam.

... and nothing of value was lost. The Gates Foundation will be Bill Gates' legacy. Steve Jobs spent 20 years trying to get San Francisco to let him tear down his landmark mansion so he could build a bigger one.

Crotean seems to understand their target audience very, very well. All the other Serious Sam games have been exactly what they were supposed to be and I see no reason to doubt them.

"Console Games dressed up as PC games" is one of the reasons why everything I play these days is so damned old.

It's supposed to be transparent to everything except the person making the mount point. They're normally made using Disk Management; that's not something end users should be messing with.

Mount points should be irrelevant on that level. Only the machine that's maintaining them should even know they're a shortcut in the filesystem in the first place. I'm actually not sure if the issue at this point is something weird about Samba or the fact that my clients are running whatever...

Did anyone try Rage? I'm not going to play it. I understand it has retarded DRM. But it's an id title and probably represents the height of graphics stuff for the next few years so I feel obligated to be at least interested.

When I was messing with it at first, I was happy to just have a flat grouping of files, but with almost 19,000 video files it's not going to fly like that. I do see that music works in a somewhat more acceptable way. Some of my nicer appliances can browse SMB networks natively, but none of...

It's fun just to try. Honestly, most MMOs are fun to try. The hard part is finding one that stays engaging for any length of time. I was a beta tester for Everquest and I've played Dungeons and Dragons Online, Everquest 2, Guild Wars and Lord of the Rings Online. I gave a long, hard look at...

Well, they added an "End Game" of endless new tiers of special abilities that homogenize characters and reward people for running the same "raid" content over and over, for the people who didn't do enough of that in every other MMO. The raids are certainly pretty damned cool the first couple...

That reminds me: I need to move my phone back to Cyanogenmod.

Oh, the folder structure if there. \TV Shows\Show Name\Season#\files \Movies\Genre\Series\files etc. Mezzmo just doesn't seem to present it through DLNA. My choices for browsing are "All Files", "File Type", "Recently Added", "Year" and "Last 50 Played."

Perhaps my customer's issue was having to enable Push then. As I recall, the way push stuff works without Activesync is kind of a hack in the first place. Something about invisible SMSes or the like.

I have an OpenSuse desktop at home. Flash has never been very good on Linux. I don't think that's Linux's fault. I have to admit that I'm not entirely on top of software updates on my home machines. I dislike closing Firefox so I'm lazy about keeping some things up to date.

Oddly enough, Sam's Club has a whole aisle for those.

And so, a little over two days after I started, Mezzmo finally presents the full list of stuff on my little WHS via DLNA... Which means dozens and dozens of files that are named "S1E01 - something" without any organizing folder structure. I must be doing something wrong with setting up the...

As stale as things are in the world of desktops and notebooks, it's interesting to note that while there's plenty of news in the mobile sector, it's almost all due to litigation rather than legitimate innovation. Samsung and Apple are feuding. Microsoft is bullying handset and tablet makers...

Does your Google Calendar sync in real time on the phone?

Costco is a large supplier for everything Greg needs. Except Xeons.

One of the reasons I'm probably not a very handy person is that my father has the kind of brain where he can just go grab pieces of wood, cut them and assemble a finished product without even a hint that there were any plans or diagrams. We built my loft (a desk under a bunkbed with shelving...

Calendar Sync on iThings works with actual Exchange but only works with gmail if you have paid Google Apps. When you have Android, your calendar is just synchronized, period.

City of Heroes has gone free to play. You should all stop playing other, inferior games and play City of Heroes now.

I've worked with the 7" Galaxy quite a bit. Specs-wise, it's basically just like my phone but with a larger screen. I have not used the 10" version. I don't imagine it's much different.

I suspect we've all wanted to play a proper Aliens game since the first time each of us saw that total conversion .wad for Doom.

Could be. It looks like it's only offering the stuff that had files in top-level folders though.

Either Mezzmo doesn't work very well when you throw 7TB of movies at it or else it can't handle a nested folder structure.

The dual core Atom D510 is also a significant improvement

Since it's an AMD, it should have decent onboard video processing and I'd imagine that 720p will be fine. The Athlon 170u is indeed an ultra low power chip that's meant to be used in the same sorts of applications as the Atom. Unfortunately, that's not going to stop companies like Compaq and...

I would think that such things would be better off in a cluster configuration where each x CPU cores would have its own access to a pool of RAM. Even with 2TB of RAM, there's only so much bandwidth available to access memory, and anything that's going to work well in parallel across 80 cores is...

I've got a couple different USB3 enclosures and I've been using them a little bit for the last couple days. One of them seems to top out at around 60MB/s and the other around 70MB/sec. That's... disappointing.

Exchange murders RAM and disk I/O. It's not really that rough on CPUs. But 80 CPU cores and 2TB RAM seems to me like it would be pushing into mainframe territory. I have no idea what mainstream application that would have besides hosting virtual machines. And it would probably be cheaper and...

Funny you mention deer: My uncle lives just outside an Illinois state park. He hits a deer on average once every 18 months. My uncle retired back in May, and as a retirement gift to himself he bought a completely restored '69 Charger with 19,700 miles on the odometer. Basically the car he...

Not really. I think I got an email about it back at the beginning of the year.