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  1. Alkorin

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I'm a bit late on this one, but... I've owned two Fusion Hybrids. I currently drive a 2014 Hybrid Titanium (non-Energi), and I can tell you a few things, at least about the regular Hybrid. 1. The trunk space in the regular Hybrid is passable. That's about it. It's worse on the Energi due to...
  2. Alkorin

    Desktop Computers

    No beeps during POST? Are you sure the sticks are all good? In any case, it's not like 12GB is a small amount.
  3. Alkorin

    Windows 10

    I love the wave of bullshit fanboyism in the comments. "OMG GUYZ IT'S A PREVIEW, OFC THERE IS A KEYLOGGER, JUST CHILL."
  4. Alkorin

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    There are only 2 or 3 semi-active people left in the guild. I only log on for the luls every now and then, no time to play any more. If people want to reform it I can transfer ownership, or make a bunch of people officers, or whatever.
  5. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    This will probably become more common (cannibalizing 2G/3G to boost LTE) now that VoLTE is starting to see wider adoption. But there is a whole (huge) generation of phones that don't do VoLTE, so it'll be a while.
  6. Alkorin

    Jerle Committed Suicide Today

    Kate Von Roeder Death: Transgender Woman Leaves Heartbreaking Suicide Note On Facebook Former Riot employee and Dota 2 commentator dies after apparent suicide Not sure if serious news sites, but it looks pretty real.
  7. Alkorin

    Computer Issues

    Who knows. Copy protection goes a long way back, as far as VHS, even. Remember Macrovision? A different recorder won't necessarily solve the problem. It's the DVR that is honouring the no-record bit. You could probably output to a capture card on a computer and record that way, but even then...
  8. Alkorin

    Jerle Committed Suicide Today

    A life is a life, even if the community doesn't particularly like the person behind it. RIP.
  9. Alkorin

    Computer Issues

    LOL? Are they contracting Comcast support out to Nigeria these days? Kidding aside, everything is done over IP these days, so sure, it's remotely possible that they can see something trying to be sketchy through a DVR, but this is where the luls start: "a CSRSS.exe virus that was interfering...
  10. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    No, not being sarcastic. I honestly thought that pretty much everyone had dropped CDMA in favour of GSM a long time ago.
  11. Alkorin

    Windows 10

    Assuming the above is true, though, they'd have destroyed a bunch of lazy queries, Lenas. Looks bad for PR.
  12. Alkorin

    Windows 10

    Completely plausible. Programmers are lazy as fuck when it comes to this kind of thing. We run into this a lot at work with lazy LDAP queries/WMI filters/etc, especially with things like OS versions. Rumour also had it that they wanted to call this version "Windows One" (a la Xbox One), but...
  13. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    There are still CDMA carriers out there??
  14. Alkorin

    Windows 10

    Unfortunately, we can't all eat caviar daily when most games require a shit sandwich. At least the bread doesn't look mouldy from here.
  15. Alkorin

    Computer Issues

    Yeah, on second thought, don't bother with TreeSize. We use it at work, but didn't realize it was $25+ for something you can get FOSS.
  16. Alkorin

    Computer Issues

    TryTreeSize Pro. Free trial will work fine, or I think there's a free version that works too.
  17. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    iPhone has always had a removable SIM. No removable battery, but meh, easy enough to do yourself if you choose to do so. Just watch out for them wireless antennas.
  18. Alkorin

    Windows 10

    Obligatory "because 7 8 9" here.
  19. Alkorin

    Computer Issues

    Download a copy ofHiren's BootCD, boot off of it and use it to reset the Administrator password (or the UpdateUser password, if you want). Bang, you have admin privileges again. I can't recall but the tool might even be able to add him back to the Administrators group.
  20. Alkorin

    HomeLab thread? Whitebox, PowerEdge, ESXi, Hyper-V...

    ^ This may actually change my mind in favour of Hyper-V. I need to be able to virtualize ESXi for some learn-work-stuff-at-home shit that I'm trying to get done. Really, the only things that VMware has in its favour at this point is appliance support in the broad market, and (unless things...
  21. Alkorin

    HomeLab thread? Whitebox, PowerEdge, ESXi, Hyper-V...

    Yep, that makes sense, then. I'm using a 3930K in my VM box and it's good with 64GB. And don't get me started on System Center. We use it extensively at work and it tops my list of most hated solutions.
  22. Alkorin

    HomeLab thread? Whitebox, PowerEdge, ESXi, Hyper-V...

    Yeah, except that it doesn't virtualize VT-x/d, so if you want to do a lab within a lab (such as, for example, virtualizing Hyper-V or ESXi), you can't. I'm running Hyper-V on my VM server over here and it's truly annoying that I can't play with ESXi inside of it (with 64-bit support, anyway)...
  23. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    I put my 6+ in my pocket all the time. It fits just fine. It doesn't bend. It doesn't snap. What the fuck are people doing to their phones to make them bend and break?
  24. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    1. TFA says "at launch". 2. Someone will find a way through jailbreak anyway.
  25. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    The fact that this much disparity exists in the Android ecosystem is and has always been the solutionandthe problem, tbh. iOS is no great shakes, but at least there's only the one fork. When they get it right, they get it right for everyone. When they get it wrong (and boy, have they gotten...
  26. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    As someone who actually wore the Nano 6G on his wrist... no, absolutely no. That thing was useless as a watch. If I have to hit a button to see the time on a watch, that's a gigantic Hell No. If I can't install apps on a smartwatch (I mean, even the Pebble can do this) but they went to great...
  27. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    It wasn't possible for me at the time due to my old wireless carrier being a bunch of douchebags. I switched carriers a couple years ago, but as I said above, I have way, way (WAY) too much money invested in apps to bother at this point. I read something a while back about some mod that lets...
  28. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    I know, I was saying that tongue-in-cheek. I've been an Apple guy since the iPhone 3G. I'd have considered a switch to Android by now if not for the staggering number of apps I own in the Apple ecosystem (and I detest the stock Android UX, but I hear the mods are really decent). Funny thing...
  29. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    Sold my 5s, pre-ordered a 6+ this morning. Time will tell if I actually turn into a sheepling irl or if it's just my wallet that starts bleeting.
  30. Alkorin

    Smartphones

    I am admittedly fairly sheep-like when it comes to Apple gadgets, but I'm on the fence about this one (just as I was on the fence about Apple TV, and didn't end up getting one). I already have a Pebble that I rarely do anything smart-like with. Unless this watch is somehow the second coming...
  31. Alkorin

    Laptop Computers

    Oh yeah, battery life on SLI models may as well be a 10 minute UPS substitute for power bumps. I don't go anywhere without the power brick when I'm lugging my Alienware around. There's just no point, especially if I'm gaming.
  32. Alkorin

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah, you do have to do some homework (or have a competent healer that can adjust for bad pulls the first time through) due to some pretty unforgiving mob placements in some dungeons, but let's be realistic here: It's no EverQuest. You have to try pretty hard to pull 3, 4, 5 packs of stuff, and...
  33. Alkorin

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Tanking in this game is the easiest tanking experience I've ever had until you hit harder content (some primals, later turns of Coil, etc). If you aren't a complete tool, and your healer isn't AFK, you're generally good to go even if you screw up a pull or two. That said, aggro is one hell of a...
  34. Alkorin

    Chrome update 37 WTF

    So, it's a scaling problem. With your DPI. Which is set to 125% by default (for my system, anyway) and looks like shit. I turned it down to 100%, and I don't have this problem with Chrome, so no need to implement this fix. Sounds like it's relevant to me. It also fixes scaling for everything...
  35. Alkorin

    Chrome update 37 WTF

    I bet half of the people having problems with Windows 8.1/Chrome 37 haven't actually changed their system font size to be Smaller, and have it set at Medium instead (which is the default if I remember right).
  36. Alkorin

    Desktop Computers

    3x 780GTX SLI here. Runs most things at High/Ultra at 5760x1080 and (from what I've read) should do fine for 4K. Might have to tone down the settings a bit, though.
  37. Alkorin

    Chrome update 37 WTF

    I don't have this problem either. Could very well be a driver thing, though, being DirectWrite.
  38. Alkorin

    Desktop Computers

    Apparently it's really good for a TN. Thinking about going to this one from my 5760x1080 setup, but I don't need the SSD. I bet it'll be cheaper soonish.
  39. Alkorin

    Desktop Computers

    Today's overkill is tomorrow's standard, and next week's low performance. Figure out where the price point is and stick with it. You will never overachieve for long and paying 300% premium is never worth it.
  40. Alkorin

    Desktop Computers

    He said closer to $1K. He didn't say $200. It probably saved him $50 or so. (And it's still a bad idea.)