Search results

WinSXS on the notebook I'm using at the moment is 12GB. This install is perhaps 15 months old. But I've seen Vista machines with 70GB WinSXS directories, which makes me think that the potential for massive directory bloat exists.

A Windows 7 install that is regularly updated will eventually grow larger than 50GB thanks to the WinSXS folder. It will certainly fit in that space initially, but over the course of a year or so, maybe not.

I have come to the conclusion that it's just not possible to get a 2U rack system to anything like quiet. I didn't mind so much when it was warm enough that I needed the fan in my bedroom running on high all night, but now that it's cooled off I can definitely hear that machine all the time in...

Personally I think SF is perfectly usable on my phone as it is, but if we're talking about improving the site, I can kick in some cash for that as well.

Yahoo answers is one of those things like Youtube or Digg comments sections that will just make you hate humanity the more you look at it. Best to avoid it except for the occasional laugh.

It's an incremental step to getting my array of punched card readers up and running. :P

At a guess, I'm going to say there might be a CSS fail going on there. The rest of the page is fine. There's clearly more text on the Nexus screen even in spite of the weirdness in that one part of the page.

I was unsure about a 4.3" screen when I got my Evo. I knew I wanted as much real estate as I could get, but I thought perhaps it might be awkward to hold or put it in my pocket. It's not. It's fine. 5" screens would probably also be just fine. 7", the size of my Galaxy Tablet, yeah, that's too...

Cough. Though I have to say that it would be a lot easier to put together a 72TB file server with 18GB drives than with 3TB ones.

The inconsistency in Android comes from the handset manufacturers and carriers trying to distinguish themselves from one another, just like the inconsistency in the PC experience comes from OEMs trying to distinguish their products from one another. Some products are more successful than others...

I remember being particularly annoyed at Samsung's Email program. For some reason, it doesn't guess or apparently try to guess the connection settings for non-Gmail mail services. I can't tell you how many times I've had to manually type in SSL ports so that someone can use their ISP's email...

As I understand things, there's a strained relationship between Samsung and Google right now. SenseUI on my HTC phone isn't horrible, but I can't stand Touchwiz. The Samsung versions of applications seem horribly unpolished to me.

I've seen people do some pretty slick looking stuff with a Windows customization tool called Rainmeter, but to me all that stuff just looks like extra cruft.

Do you think there's a filtration process for removing the Western Digitalness from it? That poor water. It wasn't hurting anybody and then WHAM, Western Digital all over it.

Hopefully, Western Digital hard drives make better sponges than they do storage devices.

Just a nifty video of the sky from Tannin's neck of the woods.

The *770 cards have been my go-to recommendation for a good long while. Those models seem to be the sweet spot of price and performance on the ATI side of things. Of course, the usual pattern is that shortly after the cards fall below $100, a new model is introduced and the previous generation...

One of the demo maps for the original UT, something you could play without even buying the game, was a level called Morpheus, a low gravity map set between three tall buildings with a narrow platform far, far below the main source of action. To play it, you had to be able to deal with threats in...

I was going to go with this one, but whatever.

More capacity is always welcome. I have to say that I approve.

I think I just didn't like the weapons and maps quite as much. UT3 with original UT's maps updated would be great fun.

They'll get you squared away. Just do what the doctors tell you, correct a few bad habits and completely totally change your lifestyle forever. Nothing to it. :)

Aren't Ferraris maintenance nightmares and Civics reliableworkhorses? That is perhaps a flawed analogy, 'cause I'd take a Civic every time.

I quite like Boxee in its Windows version. I figured it would just be a straight copy of XBMC with a Boxee-looking skin on it, but I like that it integrates with my browser so I can tag things for viewing in the app or the appliance. It found art for all the movies in my Movies folder (only...

I had a respectful moment of contemplation when I read that last night.

Perhaps because of the costs involved in getting a professional installation and calibration for the unit?

Well, you'll have to do a repair install of Windows if you're moving to such dissimilar hardware. And it's not like that board didn't have an unnaturally long life compared to all the other A7N8Xs I had. I'm shocked that it worked as long as it did. That's probably a pretty decent build for...

Do you really think there won't be a decent GPU integrated on the motherboard if there isn't one directly in the CPU? Actually moving CPU and GPU into one package is kind of a neat trick no matter what. It certainly keeps Intel on its toes. AD: You're not wrong, but the pattern with AMD is to...

At the end of the day I think the original Unreal Tournament was the best of the bunch. It's far and away my most-played first person shooter, though UT 2004 is probably a close second.

Intel has some rather steep manufacturing advantages, IIRC. One might say it's a amazing that a company a tenth the size of Intel can compete at all.

No but it's really easy to set of media streaming and never deal with a disc again. Unless you're playing BDs in your car or something.

The short answer is "I doubt it." Basically what we got was a mandate that every adult in the US purchase private insurance. Theoretically, means that I'll be lumped in some big group plan with a bunch of other currently uninsured people, but there's absolutely nothing stopping an insurance...

I try not to be unrealistic in my hopes and aspirations.

The thing is, we don't know how much potential is in the architecture yet. They might be specifying a modest part to keep yields high or costs down. "Cheaper than an i5 and with a decent integrated ATI GPU" is still a pretty appealing product if you ask me.

I fall in to too many high risk areas. I'm not going to even try to get coverage unless I can do it on a group plan tha1t there's no chance that I'll be forced out of. There's no longer any such thing as a "pre-existing condition", but it's still perfectly acceptable for an insurance company to...

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.