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Random thought? Is the boot/system drive in the first enumerated SATA port? You've got six drives. Is it possible that the system power management is powering on the other drives before that one, causing Windows to think that one is not responding quickly enough?

They changed the way that new or renewed subs work so that you have to use all the activations on a single key before you can request another one. This means you can't collect all your product keys and .ISOs on the first day of your sub and never visit again. They also removed some products from...

You can Anytime Upgrade using a valid Windows Pro license. I have observed it to work with the $40 download version, which is for all practical purposes identical to a full OEM license as far as I can tell. Were I really concerned, I'd probably dig in to the actual EULA and play "spot the...

Merc has, of late, been a very lucky guy.

I copy the whole BD structure on a machine using AnyDVD HD and feed the output folders to Handbrake. Handbrake supports fully preserving soundtracks and can operate in batch mode through the GUI or from a command line. My output from a typical BD is between 3.5 and 15GB, depending on my personal...

The completely valid argument is that the author started from a faulty premise couched in nothing more than his own opinion. He did not demonstrate that a problem actually exists, which is something that fundamentally needs to be done in order to justify the many thousands of words that...

I've got it on a dual core T60. It's... adequate. I don't think you're missing anything though. I think the oldest CPUs that are officially supported are the top-end single core Athlon64s, and those things are nine years old.

I just got a nice new US Naval issue wool peacoat. It's nice and warm, and it looks formal enough to use as an overcoat as well as standard cold weather wear.

The mandate for my training job is to configure Windows with as few changes from the vanilla UI as possible. I have to be familiar with the defaults. But every Windows 8 system I've configured for an individual has had Classic Start on it.

This may actually happen. I'm kind of asking people I know if they know any actual scotch drinkers and so far the answers have been like "Well I saw my third cousin ask for a shot of whiskey at a wedding one time..."

Neither dd nor SD has made any attempt to suggest we should value their theatrical insights and neither of them have been paid for those insights, either. Unlike some doofuses.

Merc abstains from alcohol and does not know anyone who would appreciate fine scotch. I am not sure it's legal for me to sell it. I have a very expensive paperweigh Maybe I can trade it for ham.

Well the point of doing anything with WMI is that it's ridiculously easy to script stuff and push it out to clients. Keep it on a thumb drive or stick it on a network share for occasional use. One of the things that I do as an admin is copy a collection of scripts, batch files and install-less...

Well the point of doing anything with WMI is that it's ridiculously easy to script stuff and push it out to clients. Keep it on a thumb drive or stick it on a network share for occasional use. One of the things that I do as an admin is copy a collection of scripts, batch files and install-less...

Laphroig

Here's a friendly little how-to on doing it with WMI as well.

I work with a bunch of professional drinkers. Every year my office holiday party is an exercise in middle aged woman public intoxication. This year, instead of some kind of monetary bonus, I was given a 30 year old bottle of Scotch. :twistd: A few years before I was given an expensive bottle of...

That's probably a good candidate for a little powershell action. I can't think of a way to do it with just regular DOS commands off the top of my head, but more of that kind of functionality is exposed to powershell and VBscript.

There's a tutorial. It plays the first time a user account is created on a machine. I have observed this to happen after a sysprepped system is configured (how an OEM system would be) and on new installation. The tutorial basically says "The new start thingie is called Metro and it's in the...

That guy is also a doofus. I expect that this particular appellation will be more broadly agreed upon than my previous one. Metro bites, but a lot of crap he was complaining about I'd covered in the tutorial you see on user account creation . The rest is whole entire google search away, even...

But entirely accurate. This guy might be the world expert on high frame rate filmmaking, but if he can't convince me that a problem exists without resorting to his judgment of a single audience's reaction and he can't explain the problem with some kind of quantitative statements (as opposed to...

I'd guess that the project got killed because the projected ROI wasn't high enough to continue to make the R&D investment.

Netflix relies on Silverlight and I believe that Netflix support in WMC is via third-party plug-in rather than native to the app. I'd probably start with a repair install of Silverlight and/or removing and re-adding Media Center from Add/Remove Windows components and see where that gets you.

Were he not a doofus, he would have written a better article. QED.

There is nothing meritorious about this person's qualitative statements. You say he's an expert. I say that if he is an expert, he should be able to provide more instructive analysis than statements couched in his opinion. I'm not arguing that there might be something wrong with 48fps filmmaking...

The author makes a rather large number of statements that are grounded in his personal opinion or his judgment of an audience's reaction. There are an awful lot of sentences in that piece that start with "I think..." or include utterly unquantifiable observations. If the author wanted to write...

I just read all that and it sounds like some doofus is grasping at straws to justify his dislike of progress.

I normally buy the smallest drive option available, swap out the drive and set it aside in case I need to send one back. I've never had an issue getting warranty repairs from Lenovo when they were needed.

For what it's worth, both Sharing and Security permission changes take effect immediately, but authentication tokens are not refreshed until either a shutdown or logout/login has occurred. I just spent 45 today tearing my hair out because a remote user didn't understand the difference between...

I'd say that the Evo is adequate for everything. If you think an Evo is slow, try working with a BN Nook (800MHz) or one of those $80 generic tablets with half the RAM.

Architecturally, Windows likes to have a pagefile, whether it's needed or not. My SOP for solid state drives is to provision one on a secondary magnetic disk and disable the one on the SSD. I avoid wear on the SSD that way but still have the pagefile if I need it.

It's difficult to justify and frankly other than games it's doubtful that there's any need. The expectation in the market is that tier-1 OEM devices may have anything from a single core 1GHz ARM to a 1.7GHz quad core, but any normal app needs to work just fine with the low end of that range...

Whereas good RMA service is of course the only reason to buy a WD drive, being that concrete bricks serve better as both magnetic data storage and a building material. I will say that I haven't had a problem with a refurb drive in any recent time frame. I usually relegate them to use as backup...

That is counter to my experience with the Momentus XL, which I found to only offer improvement in terms of boot and resume time and almost no benefit for actual help for other disk-based latency.

I'm a big enough fan of the Lord of the Rings movies that I listen to all 12 hours of the score at least once a week, usually in a single sitting. Of course I'll go more than once. Especially when I have girls to take.

So far I've seen The Hobbit in 3D, IMAX 3D and un-enhanced 24fps. As usual, I'll say that the penalty of color fidelity is too high to justify the 3D experience, even if it is occasionally pretty neat. I'd like to see a 48fps showing but I don't feel like going in to Chicago for it. I was on the...

My go-to speaker set at this point is the butt ugly but marvelous-sounding Genius SW-G2.1 set. They're inexpensive but sound better than other sets that cost three times as much. Unfortunately, they ARE butt ugly.

That is... interesting. As far as I know, there's no support in Outlook for CalDev/CardDev. I'm guessing there's a commercial addon someplace, but for as much as I hate it plenty of business systems live and die with Outlook integration. This blows.

4x3 screens do still exist. It's not like they've been plucked from the surface of the Earth.

For what it's worth, Samsung 210Ts (21") can be had for $99 from ebay or places that sell refurbished kit. Those guys are a huge upgrade over typical $150 22" displays.

I did a little bit of reading about it and I guess they effectively leave an open IMAP connection between compliant clients and the various GMail services for data transfer. That's how their server-side push works, anyway.

That chassis you linked is a super POS. I've used them before and it's really easy to break the tabs on the front cover. You could do well with something like this though.

Two of them are shared with eSATA... which I'm also using.

The big problem with OSS systems for push email is that they tend to be missing something or other. You're either going to pay money because someone actually licensed ActiveSync (e.g. Zafara) or there's a push implementation that doesn't support something-or-other or has insane package...

I'm given to understand that USB notebook docks all tend to suck, and multi-bay USB enclosures are ridiculously expensive for some reason. The Elite 120 actually has a gasket for running internal-to-external cables, so you could probably get away with rigging up some unholy combination of USB...

As of last Friday, it is no longer possible to register for Google Apps for Domains as a free service. Existing domains are not impacted, but any new domain will be billed at $65 per user account per year.

Some people don't like the intense concentration of information that Google has about us. Of course, Google isn't the worthless dangling shitberry that Facebook is, but there isn't anything it does that can't be done reasonably well with some other combination of online services. I will say...

On my way to visit my folks in Knoxville, I stopped at a Gas Station and Jerky Store someplace in Kentucky. I thought they might've been kidding but I had to see it. The Jerky Store was real, probably 400 square feet of floor to ceiling jerky varieties, including stuff like Chipotle Alligator...

With the Cooler Master case I'm referencing, I wouldn't want an i7 or a graphics card much over $150. I wish I could've found an ITX board with 6 SATA ports though. I actually could use all of them in that case, including the 4-in-1 bay.

So I put together a system in the Cooler Master Elite 120. It's a sweet little rig, an i5-3570 sitting on an Asus P8Z77 Deluxe, 16GB and a Radeon 7770. I put in a 4-in-1 2.5" to 5.25" bay, which is where the boot drive (a spare X25) lives. The thermals on that system aren't so great. The fan...