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If you can start at least enough to get a command prompt, like through "Repair Your Computer", you can use the net stop command to prevent the relevant drivers from loading. Which is a pain in the ass.

I question the value of doing the "CPU as an add-on to the GPU" arrangement that's under discussion here. Other than game consoles, what needs that kind of configuration? Maybe there's a scientific computing application, but is there a big enough market to drive the billions of dollars in R&D?

I alternate between an ultrabay battery and a third hard drive in my T420. Neither of those things seems like wasted space to me. I really, really like having the mSATA drive but hardly anything supports them besides some Thinkpad models and a few HPs.

It sounds like you want some kind of ultrabook form factor, since you're actually against the idea of having the optical bay. In Lenovo-land, that suggests the T430u or whatever the current X-series. I don't think Dell is doing small form factors in Latitudes and HP's Envy Pro doesn't have the...

So it turns out that a Playstation 4 will basically be a PC, with eight 1.6GHz AMD cores and presumably something ATI-ish and APU-ish in the graphics department, plus 8GB RAM. One assumes it will be locked down so that it can't run Windows and given the architectural differences I'm thinking...

I've never been terribly fond of Ubuntu, but this Tablet demo has all kinds of Do Want in it. Particularly the side screen for multitasking and the actual login screen for differentiating user accounts. I am excited to see that, but I wonder how well it runs on real hardware...

I never learned to write cursive. I just scribble.

I really don't see why the C redistributable needs to be installed with every damned application. Are we assuming that we're installing on a Windows 2000 machine that's never seen an update? It's Microsoft's OS and Microsoft's library file. Why isn't it just being pushed through updates?

Higher-end graphics cards are a lot like Italian sports cars. They're really fast, but they break down a lot. I'm just glad that almost everything now supports onboard video for times when the proper graphics card is crapped out.

Any person in the catholic priesthood at the diocese level or higher has to some degree been complicit in pederasty of some form.

The two things I know can generate that error are using system tools after a pending restart from a PC name change in Windows or Mismatched system libraries for .net or Visual C. Sometimes updating to the latest redistributable for those things fixes that stuff, but I've also encountered .net...

I encounter stuff like that pretty regularly, at least as far as IT spending by nonprofits goes. It's often because they have grant money they're allowed to spend on technology purchases and can't use for other things. I don't know if that's the case here, and yes the consulting firm did take...

It's now Coug's Xeon 5570.

Clear's tech underlies Sprint's older 4G offering. I'm under the impression that reception on it is spotty, mostly on the basis of where I have to be in Chicago to be able to connect to it on my phone. ORD? Yes. Midway? No. Inside the Loop? Maybe. South of the museum campuses? Not happening...

I find faith to be perversely admirable in people I suspect are otherwise intelligent and rational. At the same time, I also think that for the vast majority of believers, faith is the result of youthful brainwashing or a weak-minded reaction to a troubled life. I can't conclude the same things...

Virgin uses Sprint's towers, which does not have 4G service in Ft. Lauderdale.

Granted, there are file trading communities all over the place. The thing that made Demonoid interesting was that it was well-curated and full of otherwise unique content. NNTP and most torrent sites aren't terribly well organized but Demonoid absolutely was, which made it a lot more rewarding...

Apparently demonoid.hk will be a thing. For people who are into that sort of stuff.

Colbert actually did some pretty interesting stuff with that last night as well. His guest was particularly interesting: a person who says he's a practicing Catholic who wants the notion of clergy to be abolished. Religious people are weird.

In the US, your 4G options at present are either AT&T or Verizon (Sprint is still transitioning to LTE and coverage is sparse at best). Verizon is probably the better option since its coverage is almost certainly better in my experience, but Verizon equipment is essentially Verizon-only and not...

It amazes me the sheer number of times that I have the "Oh, you need an access point" conversation takes place.

I also listened to Marketplace last night. :)

I have a new in box Xeon 5570 here. 2.93GHz Quad Core, Hyperthreaded. This is an SMP-able i7 CPU. I'm probably going to try to move it on Ebay but if anyone from SF wants it, I'll sell it for $100. Yes, you need a workstation class board for it. They sell on Ebay for ~$100 - $200. I thought I...

My guess is somebody has proof Ratzy diddled a kid himself.

If it makes compatible discs, it's absolutely worth it.

I've never bothered to try, but that was the gist of Intel's documentation a couple years ago.

You're not allowed to route the same address pool on both the source and destination ports of a router, which is probably what's going on with your setup. You can probably get away with assigning the Linksys to have a static address like 192.168.1.250 and turn of its built-in DHCP server...

The cheapo Rosewill/SiL 8-bay enclosure won't make an array with more than 5 drives, even in RAID1, and Intel Southbridge RAID doesn't offer the option to do RAID5 unless you're using a Server version of Windows for no good reason I can think of. You may be better off with something like Windows...

Baldur's Gate, the undisputed classic RPG, has been made available on iOS and will soon be released for Android with new content added.

OK, it's worth it to hunt down an SVHS VCR that supports S-video output. Those are going to be the Rolls Royces of VCRs in the first place, but between far better tape heads and just generally better output from S-Video, you'll get a much cleaner transfer. You'll need a Video Capture device...

Oooh. That is a good link. Thanks!

It may very well be that the the disk controller's CPU is swamped with the extra parity calculations that come from the 4th drive. JMI controllers are very low cost parts and it just wouldn't shock me if that's the case. Those graphs were from a Perc5 or Perc6, right? That's not exactly an...

If your stuff is all plugged in to a receiver, it will convert whatever you've got into whatever your want. That's the point of having a receiver.

If Austin is the price we must pay to rid ourselves of Dallas and Houston, I say that it is worth it.

If we're going to start canceling states, can we do Texas next?

I stumbled across Dorco this morning. I'm intrigued, but I just bought a bunch of cartridges for my razor so it will be a while before I'll feel the need to try anything different. I just paid $32 for a 16-pack of 4-blade razors and Dorco wants $25 for 24 6-blade razors, so I can see real value...

I believe prices are set and controlled by Microsoft. So discounting will be whatever little scraps Amazon or Best Buy or Newegg feel like offering.

The best circumstances are around 25C and modest levels of wind and humidity. Also acceptable: 35C-ish and surrounded by chicks in bikinis.

She acts like she's quite a bit older. I thought she was in her mid or late 20s. She thought I was in my mid or late 20s. Whatever. It's working.

I really don't see why MS doesn't shave $100 off current pricing for Surface devices. They're selling a whole ecosystem against a couple different ecosystem. I'm sure they did analysis that set the price points, but the almost universal reaction seems to be "it's too expensive." But these things...

So Surface Pro is out. It's fast. It's a real computer that runs full blown Windows apps. It weighs under 3lbs even with the keyboard. And all people want to do is bitch about how the battery only runs four and a half hours and has a small SSD. I can't help but think that if an i5 with a...

I can honestly say that I am no longer dating a teenager. Because she had a birthday.

Do you have a particular application in mind here? Why are you so concerned with being able to ID people from your camera?

DVDflick: OSS/free video file to DVD converter.

Do you have a Windows Server with WSUS 3.0 installed? You can make it a crapload more useful with Local Update Publisher.

I've set up these guys a few times. They're 640x480, which is actually just fine for continuous recording and a nice step up from crappy analog security cams in more or less the same way that a full-motion DVD is an improvement over VHS tape that was recorded at four frames per second. The...

Weekends are usually a lot more busy for me than weekdays, Lunar. This week was not an exception. One of the old servers in my apartment hat a flame-out today. I do mean flame. It set off my smoke alarm and got me a call from my landlord. As near as I can tell, the video card (which probably...

Defender and MSE are fundamentally the same thing as Endpoint Protection, other than the management aspect. They both block or remove the same viruses and malware and use the same definitions and they all have for-shit heuristics, which is the biggest problem with all of the above.

Not a big deal either way.

I know how to work the shutdown command. But power management should be doing something that it is not. In other good news, as of Tuesday, ninite's installer will once again replace Windows Defender with either Avast or Avira. That makes me happy, since Defender is a giant pile of suck.