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In Microsoft's version of reality, they'd move to only supporting one OS and people would want theri tablet devices to be susceptible to the same malware bullshit so they could run a copy of Office. Android absolutely has a place, but it has drawbacks of its own.

If you do, it will be only just. You're seriously better of trying to do that with XP or with a Linux install. My classroom install of Win7 + Office is 28GB including the pagefile and hibernation file. That's not much room for useful data storage.

Having read everything you and others have written, I'd probably just tell you to replace your motherboard and be done with it.

I have a few Vista Home Premium licenses sitting around.

I find it very difficult to find the hot spots on the touch screen to bring metro back up and the charms menu and the like. My touchscreen is 1920x1080 rather than more typical resolutions, but it's not something that I should be fighting with.

Several of the farmhouses outside the town where I grew up still had party lines in the late 70s.

.ape does kind of annoy me, but I'm surprised that release groups stuck with xvid as long as they did. I'm also surprised that there came to be an ecosystem of compatible hardware. I guess I just never paid any attention to that.

The install is just writing out a disk image. It's ridiculously straightforward. Mine runs on an 8GB SSD. Performance seems to depend on available RAM more than anything else. The support documents I've read seem to suggest that an individual zpool should have four or five drives in it. Mine...

It includes Server releases and "server" stuff. You don't get dev tools.

Pirate Release Groups switch to x.264 en masse, causing amusing degree of controversy for downloaders with crappy hardware players.

Seriously, spend the extra $30 or whatever it is to get a Technet Standard sub. You'll get two keys for each version of Windows that can each be re-used 11 or 21 times (depending on version), plus you'll get MS Office keys.

I don't have much of a life, but folding a paper airplane and making it go really far is still a pretty cool art and also a test of engineering discipline.

Do Amex cards have limits? I thought one of the things you got with Amex was no pre-set limit on the cards? I don't know if mine does or not.

With all of HBO's original programming, I might find four or eight worthwhile hours of programming there in a typical month. I'd pay $10 to $15 for that, in line with what I'd pay for three movie tickets or a one month subscription to an MMO. However, the day that HBO - which has always been...

I think I started with 8.0.2 and have moved to 8.0.4.

Tannin and I used to discuss the optimal system for quantifying temperature: degrees cats. As in, the closer that cats feel like being to you, the warmer or colder it must be. In this case, a British gentleman has is own unique issues with the measurement system, and the company that made his...

We have GOT to do something about changing contrast between things.

Do you have a link?

I use "seed phrases" to generate good passwords for things that need them, quotes from books or movies or something that revolve around some common theme. Lately I've also taken to using the XKCD example and just combine two or three memorable words with some punctuation between. Web site...

Windows 2000 should not be available through MSNDAA. Nor should Window 98. Both were distributed with Microsoft's infringing Java runtime and they were pulled years ago. I got as far as installing Windows 8 on a system with a Planar screen that supports multitouch today, but I didn't really...

Note to self: never, ever re-use or write down passwords for anything.

It's been pointed out to me that the universe described in Blade Runner and the one used in the Alien films is compatible, and there are a few details between the two that support that idea.

XP will have had something like 19 years by the time it's completely removed from Microsoft's web site. I'm still building and selling XP machines. In some cases that feels completely ridiculous and retrograde, but it's the only option that will maintain application compatibility in an...

Is 1/3 the cost of a new device that will in all likelihood be several times faster and have quadruple the storage really going to be a worthwhile expense?

Honestly, you won't care. You won't. In three years, by the time the battery craps out, you'll want or possibly even already have, something better. Now if the batteries don't make it two years, that's a different story. But at the three year mark, I doubt it will matter much to you or any...

The problem with that is that there are so many small shops and developers working with some tiny, tiny market. Microsoft makes tools for development and presumably new stuff would integrate into Microsoft's offerings, but what about folks who are writing code with non-Microsoft tools (Delphi or...

40GB is gobs of space for an OpenSUSE installation.

I don't think they can force an "app store" on x86. They probably can for the new ARM stuff, but there are too many legacy binaries and independent developers out there that need to be able to run to push everything through whatever qualification process to make that the only way to install...

I actually don't mind the aesthetics. As I said, I have a touchscreen here and I'm going to install Windows 8 on that so that I can get some idea of the touch part of the experience. I'm also going to go ahead and run a couple extra monitors, because something I'm really curious about is how the...

I do use FreeNAS. It's been completely plug and play. I have it set up as two six-drive zpools of 18TB each, which works just fine for my needs. SMB performance is a little weak. NFS works a lot better. Other than that I don't have a whole lot to say. It's an appliance and I treat it as one.

Since no one else has mentioned it, there is a new build of Windows 8 available for download as of today. I wasn't terribly excited by the last one, but I do happen to have a nice 22" touchscreen sitting around so I suppose I'll give all that a whirl later this week.

"Used to" have social phobias? No, it's very much part of my life. It doesn't help that the place where I live is a giant void of anything interesting. Since my life doesn't revolve around high school athletics, church or a bar, there's really not even any reason for me to go out in the first...

Does anyone here do anything with x10 stuff? I've never really looked in to it, but controlling appliances and lights and crap from a PC is possible and kind of interesting.

Not everybody who takes off their clothes for money has baggage. I've met, like, two chicks who did it and were pretty well adjusted regardless. :P But anyway I know most of her issues. It's not stuff I can fix and I know it. But I think spending some time with somebody who is very different...

Someone in Quebec has a sense of humor about their electioneering.

That's what I was describing. I'm not annoyed, exactly. It's something I've done on accident, basically the result of being unused to the new forum and more used to other sites that have a "post" button right about there.

So far I've been using Quick Reply. I've used Firefox and Chrome. I've observed that the forum will restore things that I've typed after I've navigated entirely off the site and allowed a reasonable period of time to pass (~45 minutes?), as long as I'm typing in the same thread where I started...

I'm more curious to know if that's a characteristic of the qualification methodology they use. The conventional wisdom still says to keep SSDs out of critical business stuff unless there are a bunch of other layers of redundancy available. Did anybody at Corsair even test that kind of workload?

Be it known that Handy has also been a recipient of some pretty damned indulgent gifts that were basically my idea. :P I'm generous with my friends. People I *know* to be friends.

Every once in a while I navigate away and come back to write a post, it shows up. I also see when I write lengthier posts.

It bothers me a little to do that, if only because the devices generally aren't designed to allow for battery replacement.

I've seen 350lb. goiter-having land whales with some poor dude twisted around their finger. Not everyone is going to act that way.

Has anyone else accidentally clicked the "restore saved content" button instead of "post reply" and lost stuff they had typed yet?

I think I mentioned in another thread, the thing to do with the tablet is to just and keep the charger somewhere around your nightstand and plug it in every couple days just before bedtime . You're probably not going to kill the battery with one marathon session of use. I've done that; you have...

Funny story: I met her on another forum site and just knew that she worked somewhere close to where I live. It is possible to give directions to my apartment by strip clubs, adult bookstores and liquor stores; my town exists to give truckers a place to stop before they get to Gary, Indiana or as...

BofH hasn't really been funny in a decade or more. I have a date on Friday. With a stripper. Even if it's a train wreck, I'll always be able to say that I went out with a stripper and that is awesome. I'm just feeling rather pleased with myself.

I've read poo-flinging on Slashdot and Engadget about it. That's why I said "apparently." Both Engadget and Gizmodo are biased to the point of uselessness in favor of Apple hardware. It's almost impossible to discuss developments in Android devices on either site.

You certainly will eventually, especially after the ipad3 is released. Maybe you could start with something simple and inexpensive like a Kindle Fire (bleh) or a refurbished Galaxy 7" Tablet? I suspect we'll start to see 720p screens on tablets in the near future, even if we don't move all the...

I finally had the opportunity to test a Google TV under conditions that involve its actual feature set. The good: It DOES control your TV and your receiver. The program guide is kinda spiffy. The web browser is fully functional. The keyboard is a good size. The bad: Basically everything else...

EMC makes ridiculously high margins on its products. It's tough to blame a hardware company for moving into that space given how commoditized PCs and components have become.