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My SO's mother apparently had a class with me in high school even though she's a couple years older than I am. I haven't met her yet but I'm not looking forward reminiscing about Mrs. Vance's government class. re: First snow, it's best when it's on a weekend, so you don't have to do the thing...

I have no idea why they strip expansion slots off boards that should have them. I'm actually glad that nobody is still trying to make PCI video cards because I can't tell you how often I've seen someone who thought they were making their $250 crapmachine better with a $250-from-Best-Buy PCI GTX430.

Now is the time to try SuSE or Mint or something. I don't think you can justify wasting an OS license activation on a machine that old, and you probably just want a Facebook/Youtube/Web Browsing machine anyway.

That was about $300 worth of parts in 2008. The E2200 was a half-step above a Celeron. The motherboard might've sold for as little as $45 and the hard drive might've been $50 even back then. It wasn't a fantastic buy.

Either Windows 7 or 8 would really be a waste of the license activation on that machine.

At least with regard to Hyper-V, the CPU requirements have been pretty much fixed since Server 2008. Virtual PC (and therefore XP Mode) didn't require those things but it also supported only a subset of all the features. No, a lot of older CPUs and MOST laptops are completely SOL on Hyper-V, but...

Properly speaking, they're only for SOME Pro/Enterprise/Ultimate licenses. It depends a lot on how the licenses were purchased and how the organization manages them. Individual OEM licensing can actually be slightly different on a per-OEM basis from the whitebox OEM licenses we're probably most...

Probably, but you can't interchange Windows versions like that. If you're on the 64bit version, you can't upgrade to 32 bit.

Probably. The place where a normal human would most likely encounter Windows Embedded as opposed to Windows Mobile or RT or some other stripped down version is in point of sale equipment. Some of the register systems I deal with now have pretty fancy dual core Atom CPUs in them for no particular...

Were I a betting man, I'd guess that if you left one sit on top of the drive for a couple weeks, it would be sufficiently hosed. It's already unreadable by dint of whatever other aspect of the drive has failed and somehow I doubt that anyone at WD is going to break out the bunny suit and...

... and that's not even getting in to the special layers of .NET dependency hell. Basically the repair instructions boil down to "Make sure you install every single dependent Sharepoint Component, plus all the updates and THEIR dependencies, in exactly the same order they were installed in the...

Doesn't everyone have a bunch of rare earth magnets sitting around someplace?

You could always just de-magnetize it, send it in for an RMA and pass its replacement along to someone who would appreciate it.

That's a good-sense reaction to a piss poor product, but if it already exists in his organization it's probably the path of least resistance. Be glad you've never had to fix a broken one.

Without knowing any other details I think I'd probably start by trying to do some data recovery or maybe let a third party SMART tool analyze it since DFT isn't being that helpful.

The top review here is worth a read, I think.

4.3 was the last version released on Floppies. The install set is 25 disks. I'm pretty sure both Windows 95 and OS/2 3.0 could be installed from floppy. Both of those weighed in at around 100MB. I also distinctly recall installing/compiling pre-1.0 Linux from a 19.2kbps serial line, which was...

I was JUST going to say that setting up a Sharepoint-based wiki is ridiculously straightforward if you already have the ingredients (Sharepoint 2010, basically) on hand.

Just for Coug. And probably better if you've recently indulged in recreational pharmacology, I give you: Friendship is Manly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z7UnO66q9w

.ISO files aren't really a problem, though Microsoft can no longer legally distribute Windows 98, ME or 2000 because they shipped with Microsoft's unauthorized Java interpreter, but some of us ARE bound by an obligation to provide legal copies of software to our employers and customers. ;)

There are two releases of Swype. One of them was packaged with a lot of devices by default, including my Galaxy S4. It does offer voice typing, but the for-pay enhanced version that I somehow have (probably from one or other device on my Play account) has a different Voice Typing symbol and uses...

OK, what about a QoS setting? Are you doing anything with that? Is it possible you're getting some traffic delayed because the router is reserving capacity for some or other reason?

I thought the movie version of Catching Fire was better than the book, but that might just be residual crushing on Jennifer Lawrence. The third book was pretty bad, so I can only hope there are some departures or at least some editing in the film version. Also that Jennifer Lawrence decides that...

I gave away my T61, which hat a T9x00 CPU in it, about nine months ago.

Since I can still buy a Windows 2000 license if I really, really want one, I wouldn't be worried about availability. I do think that there are some consumer-friendly forms of Linux that make every bit as much sense as a move to OSX. Install Firefox/Chrome and VLC and you're probably just about...

I have a whole, whole bunch of unused Windows Vista licenses! ;)

You'll have to live yet another year with those troublesome extra penis inches.

They normally address the message to the Apps account administrator, so you should have something like ddrueding@hookersnblow.com or whatever your domain is.

Are there parameters on the attack checks? It's allowing the connection, but is it possible that it's timing out because of some other part of the firewall config?

Maybe to justify a higher price for large organizational buyers?

I suspect that it's more a matter of having a validated configuration for a mobile workstation. Just like you sometimes want to buy HP hard drives for HP servers.

Toshiba's business line is called Tecra. And Apple's laptops are certainly good and well supported products even if the company is collectively synonymous with a container of fluids for the cleaning of body orifices. HP Probooks are effectively Pavilions with business support, but Thinkpad...

There's a certain case to be made for inertia. If you already know how to work one thing and it does what you want, it's really hard to just move on from that. VMware works just fine and dd has already addressed the deficiencies it has (in his case by running it on a desktop rather than ESXi...

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Volume adjustments don't seem to be a problem, but I do really have a good handle on the in-line controls yet. Long pushes have a different meaning from quick taps, so sometimes I wind up fast forwarding music on accident.

I've had Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs on those boards. I've run a Q9400 on one and I have a few E5400s scattered in among much older E6300s. Sometimes a BIOS update is needed, but that's not really an impossible hurdle to clear.

Ages and ages ago, I had issues with Asus Pentium 4 motherboards having a hard-coded thermal shutdown limit that was set too low. Those systems didn't freeze. They'd go hard-off and then display a boot time message indicating that the CPU had experienced a thermal event. You might want to look...

As I understand it the truly dedicated Bitcoin miners are using ridiculous rigs, like 8 GPU SLI configurations, to quickly create value. I'm not sure I understand the value of using $60 worth of electricity to run one machine that's going to generate perhaps $70 worth of pretend computer money...

All of the local content type players I have used are either discontinued or have their own drawbacks. The Boxee Box was a local content champion and has a blazing fast UI, but it falls down for network-shared content and limited support for many kinds of online services. The Popcorn Hour C200...

The full, paid version of Swype includes Dragon Dictate's voice recognition engine. It's really quite good. I notice that it can transcribe radio content with accurary. I believe S Voice uses Samsung's voice recognition, which is the same one found in the Samsung keyboard (which is "swipe-able"...

I did pick them up and I've had them for a week. Here's what I can say: 1. The earbuds are bigger than I thought they'd be. They stick out a bit from my ears. I've found that if I wear them with a stocking cap or any tight ear covering, there's too much pressure on the earbuds to vibrate and I...

How quiet is quiet? My file server at home has a pair of Scythe Ninja HSFs (LGA1366 Xeons) on an Asus workstation board inside a giant Norco chassis. I'm using a standard Seasonic Gold-class power supply because there's simply no way to get a quiet rackmount PSU. I can tell that the machine...

Belarc Advisor shows keys for pretty much all installed products that have them. nmmm

I have 16GB in my T420 that's supposed to max out at 8GB. It works just fine. I don't think I'd worry too much about RAM limits.

I was slightly mistaken. There are dual HDMI models (meh), but there are two Mini-PCIe slots on all NUCs so NICs can actually be added if you need 'em.

Is Mozilla disabling because of deal-breaker day-0 security issues? That's... not wholly unreasonable on some levels.

More pixels are always better than less pixels, but good enough for general use is highly subjective. I could do a lot of work with one if I had to, but frankly I could do a lot of work with anything that has an RDP/VNC client and access to Google Drive.

As far as I know DVD Shrink doesn't even run on Windows 7, and since DVD Decrypter hasn't been updated in seven or eight year it's more or less guaranteed to fail on precisely the DVDs people most want to copy - the Disney movies everyone's four-year-old wants to love to death. There's DVD43...

The newest revision of the Galaxy Note 10.1 is a freaking hot rod of an Android tablet. It's light for a 10" device (1.2lbs), has a 2560x1600 screen, has Samsung multiwindow support, a card reader and 3GB RAM. It costs as much as a decent laptop, but I got to mess with one today and it seems to...

Almost all the systems I see that have Minecraft installed are being used by teens and tweens. Many of them don't even know how to install software, to the point that I've seen numerous machines that have (no joke) more than 200 copies of Minecraft.exe in the Downloads folder.