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Looks like I'm going to wind up teaching this as a class. Bleh.

I like being able to run Samba on my phone, enable tethering and turn on the 802.11 hotspot capability. Also to remove some of the cruft that came with my phone, like a Nascar racing application and the Facebook app, neither of which could be removed prior to obtaining root privilege.

Game of Thrones is set in a fantasy world where magic has kind of dried up. Most of the characters belong to one of four noble families. Three of those noble families were involved in a civil war that took the kingdom away from the fourth family. The last two members of the fourth family now...

In theory, the boot image should be disposable. You can make a Sysprep image if not a one time re-deployable backup. You can redirect a user's important folder to a webDAV share or something to make sure their documents get backed up. There's just no chance I'd trust an end user with an extra...

I suspect you're right.

I don't have that much faith in any laptop user I support.

re: Android Phones and battery life. Mine (a notorious battery hog) lasts about 36 hours of casual use if I don't charge it at night and it'll go more than 60 hours if I entirely forget that I have it and don't use it for a whole weekend. I just charge my phone when I get home from work.

Ooh! Ooh! Was it everything in the first two sentences?

I suppose it won't work in a laptop configuration, but on the other hand, what laptop user is going to bother to plug in another disk drive to keep his or her backup refreshed enough to actually minimize downtime?

Why not just enable RAID1?

But not all of the C2D chipset implementations support dual outputs from G31 and G41 onboard video chipsets. I'd be more surprised if the Sandy Bridge stuff did not at least handle two monitors.

She's playing Jane Foster, Thor's girlfriend. I've never known anything to be wrong with Portman's acting. I think she did the best she could with a material in Star Wars and other than that she's generally quite good. Thor also stars Kat Denning, who looks like this when she isn't wearing...

Oz will have had Thor for three weeks before I get to see it. It's really too bad about Portal 2 being a steam title.

Check out SD's post about the impact Sandy Bridge had on his bluray re-encodes. I have an apartment full of i7s and I still have happy pants feelings about getting my hands on one.

Well, you're getting the architectural improvements of a Core i CPU over a C2D, but you're getting that on a ULV chip. The i7-2617 clocks up to 2.6GHz/core and supports hyperthreading, so if nothing else you're going to see benefits from those things. Knowing what you're generally doing with a...

First thing that went through my mind, too. Especially since so much modern development work depends on team-based practices.

I typically don't do motherboard RMAs all that often. Maybe once every four or six months I'll gather up what's sitting around and take care of them in one batch. I've been trying to RMA motherboards to Gigabyte since the second week in March. I have six boards, including two LGA1366 boards...

I just got 19 copies of that Email. You still have a couple weeks before the 10 user limit goes into effect, so make accounts now while you still can.

Cash flow is a bigger issue for both myself and for the business where I work. I operate my personal stuff on my American Express card, and I never have as much on it as the credit limit, but it's not uncommon for me to pay off $5000 or $7000 in a month and have another $5000 or $7000 on it two...

Our debt probably looks a lot less appealing when foreign currencies trade less favorably, so in order to continue to borrow, so on that level devaluation is a good idea. Of course, current debt stakeholders are less happy about that, since that makes their investment worth less in real value...

My parents saw golf-ball size hail and seven straight hours of thunderstorms that dropped around four inches of rain, but they live on top of what Tennessee calls a mountain and really no ill effects from the storms except a freaked-out dog. I'm told that the display was quite impressive though.

Cars are boring and I can't be bothered to make a more proper analogy unless it involves Ricardo Montalban.

It's all about the details, like the spill proof keyboard or fine Corinthian leather.

An Ideapad has about as much in common with a Thinkpad as a Chevy does with a Cadillac.

I thought you switched to Gmail for all your mail services. Are they using a client program or is there something I haven't noticed in the admin dashboard?

On an odd, tangentially related note, I met a USS Indianapolis survivor a couple weeks ago. He said he was 89.

Essentially because it's an assumption Microsoft makes about how Windows will operate on a computer. I'm kind of pissed about it. I can run Linux without any swap space if I want, but Windows really expects it to be there. Every time I try to turn the pagefile off I wind up having something or...

They are heavier. They probably have one more platter than the other models.

Damned Japs what made Aussies get along with Americans and New Zealanders. T'ain't natural.

We know full well that jesus wasn't born on December 25th but that's when it's celebrated. Why the hell can't jerkass religious people just pick a day and stick to it?

You do not even want to KNOW what I had to go through to get a triple-booting sysprep image working on my classroom PCs. I have to lay down an initial image to get the geometry of the partitions right and then re-image each of Vista and Windows 7 so that their installers don't fuck up the...

It's random. It can go here.

My laundry schedule should not in any way be impacted by bronze age rules about what the moon might or might not be doing.

Yeah. That's what they did when my friend had her tumor out back in December. Are you doing better now?

My Contour is the fastest thumb drive I have, actually. You're right that I largely don't care since the content on my drives is fairly static, but it does help when I'm pushing out ~19GB of my triple-boot classroom system image. I'm probably going to buy a USB3 64GB unit next time I need one...

Your two year old netbook is a modern CPU, Tannin. It has the benefit of seven or eight years of engineering, materials and manufacturing advances over and above a Pentium 4 or Athlon CPU. Windows programs that support the ribbon are actually completely usable, unless you're one of those people...

Both. Yes, you can technically make compatible documents with OpenOffice, but normal people don't understand how, and pretty much every Freshman at every college in the USA has to take a class on how to work Word, Excel and PowerPoint where they're graded on whether or not the documents they...

Serious answers: On Windows, it's all about keeping up with security software. And it's ridiculous. Modern Antivirus software likely as not will bring a decent Pentium 4 to its knees. Not to mention the number of truly awful Flash applets and web sites that use Javascript in unspeakable and CPU...

I watched original BSG when it aired, but that is not the one I am talking about.

I did not know it was Easter. I thought Easter was last week. People keep changing it and I don't care enough to keep track. Anyway, nothing in my town is open today except Denny's and a couple gas stations. It's rather annoying, because my cat horked on my extra bed and all the bedclothes need...

OK, OK. The way things should look is this: There is a System process, which I had forgotten about. It basically does one thing, which is kick off user sessions. Most stuff that runs at system authorization should be spawned by wininit.exe. I was expecting to find out that you had a dummy...

Get thee behind me. I one thousand times rebuke you, minion of the prince of lies.

It was not a good day to wear my "I use my powers for evil" T-shirt to get breakfast at the Denny's across the street from the Catholic church.

Process Explorer should give you the chain of programs that is involved in creating the file. If you search for the file handle you should find a nested set of executables. "System" is essentially a user account, not a process, so there's something else involved.

From what I've read, they're for high CPU density configurations where physical space is at a premium. So they make sense for easily parallel applications like VMs and web servers in small data centers or at colocation facilities.

What does process explorer have to say about that file? What is creating the open file handle?

I would only show someone who had only seen the recent aborti^H^H^H^H^H^Hmovie Deep Space 9 and maybe a couple episodes of TNG and Enterprise. And then I'd put them straight on to Battlestar Galactica.

I did want one. In fact, I needed one. Mine is LTO4 and holds 15 tapes + the cleaning tape, for a total uncompressed capacity of 12TB. The tapes are cheap, they'll last essentially forever (probably eight to ten years based on my expected usage pattern) and they're easy to store. Given the...

I bought a Quantum product just last year.