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  Talk to me about Amazon FireTV and similar devices
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  FIVE STARS! Would watch again.
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  Toto: block ads, buy tv dongle, use it to play 80s rock
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  FWIW, if you're casting to the Chromecast from the YouTube app on mobile, I think it does sync the fact that there's an ad playing, and has a button to skip it on the mobile device. Of course, this is entirely dependent on keeping your device awake for that, so it's still rather inconvenient at best.
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  Is there something like an intro or a short manual for Powershell targeted at those who know lots of Unix shell scripting?
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  @wft said:or do only selected classes have dual-style invocation? A cmdlet class can only be invoked with the cmdlet syntax if it has the appropriate attribute decorations on it. PowerShell doesn't mangle the method name, it searches for a method with the correct attribute on it.
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  I want chrome windows side by side
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  @Onyx said:Open in new window and then use your WMs tiling options? I'm guessing Windows, so it can do halves, at least? Don't remember if it can do quarters. Win10 can do quarters.
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  Music help?
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  @blakeyrat said:Mostly I'm just nostalgic and grumpy thinking about the excellent easy-to-use music composition apps that existed in the mid-80s and that do not, apparently, exist at all anymore 30 years later. I hate IT. You change-fearing old Luddite, you. /ducks
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  DoubleTake vs Clinical Systems
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  This is very true. Looks like my day will be testing unsupported crap to figure out what that thing does.
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  My team needs a bugtracker
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  So, TF2's item server was down, but that didn't stop me from using Source Filmmaker to do it. I probably should have exported it as PNG, but the smallest file was 4MB as opposed to 300K for the jpg.
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  Mono, mvc, razor, Googlefu #help
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  @cartman82 said:Get with the times. snorts awake Wait, huh, um, what? Filed under: What do you mean it's 2015? I just barely got a machine with VS 2012 installed on it!
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  Block Carbonite
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  @blakeyrat said:not only would they not have to clone BITS, they literally cannot clone BITS because it relies on data the OS has but applications have no access to. (Specifically, how much bandwidth other users on the system are using.) Right, because Linux is obviously such a piece a shit that it could not possibly include a world-readable file called /proc/net/dev that contains exactly this information.
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  Faxing
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  I hope to mitigate most of these by disallowing actual access to outbound dialing. I don't yet have any IP phones at all (it would be fairly pointless, nobody would use them), and the only thing that would be allowed dialing would be the fax-sending mechanism, which (I believe) I can lock down to only dialing 800 numbers and local numbers. Essentially, I'm not providing phone services to the house, I'm just making a digital voicemail/fax machine combo that can shove incoming messages onto a file share and deliver faxes once in a while.
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  Windows 10 and the lid of my laptop
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  I never tried playing music with the lid closed. I did used to close the lid from time to time, and it never slept before. But I didn't know if, as you had postulated, it stopped the CD-ROM drive or shut off the audio drivers.
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  Air compressor recommendations?
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  Almost all tire joints do if they aren't swamped. Costs nothing but sunk costs and they eyeball the tires in case they're done and they can make a sale.
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  JW Player
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  So when will I be able to see the damn porn again? Not seeing much in the way of user takeaway so far.
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  What (Who?) needs research
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  @ijij said:I think I was mis-remembering it FTFM ;)
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  SysPart?
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  Now, the problem is writing the patches and that's not interesting anymore.
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  PXE network boot - is this feasible? (EDIT: Yes it is, at least for Ubuntu)
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  Too late, I scrounged. We had enough unused equipment lying around to set up a decent 3 TB Ubuntu server without needing to purchase any hardware. So it's kind of in a pilot stage at the moment, if more people use it and it's considered useful we'll build up a proper rackmount server. I like the setup, it works well. For the first time ever, I have most of our supported Linux versions installed on my system, and setting them up via PXE/NFS is actually quicker than local installs since I don't have to deal with GRUB/LILO/whatever breaking the bootloader each time I add a new OS. Doesn't feel slow at all over Gigabit Ethernet but we'll see what happens if other users start doing this too.
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  Team collaboration software something something recommendation
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  @loopback0 said:He's not going to check this then either, so you needn't bother. 'd when I told him he would be trying to piss up a rope. ;)
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  Do you people buy clothes online?
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  FWIW... since more $$ than Kohls... I've had good luck with LLBean and Lands End... especially if you're looking for long-sleeves and you're funny-shaped. Pants not working as well - especially trying to make sure they're not selling me elastic-waisted pants -also cuff quality has gone way down... they're fraying within a year... I have much older (smaller) pants that show no wear at all. Cheaper manufacture to keep prices the same. Feel your pain on good shirt you can't replace - found a great shirt at Target with hidden button-down buttons... can't find anything similar without buying custom at $75 or more a pop. IANAL.
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  Speaking of Foxpro...
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  Well, I was taught Foxpro in my secondary 6-7 and was required to take public exam on it. IMO, Foxpro is like VB... it allow people who don't know much about database to build applications on it. Since the data don't actually leave the process's boundary, it allows coding styles that should cause problems in other programming languages to run without any obvious performance issue. Maybe you think it's ugly, but it does get the job done and was one of the most favourate choice of programming language at the time (I mean days around 90s). My chemistry teacher had the reputation of Foxpro expert when I was in school and he'd built a few handy tools for school administration. Clipper or Foxpro, pick your poison.
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  Why Insider program cannot replace solid internal testing
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  @blakeyrat said:My theory is that the phone line robot is programmed to always approve your request, and the long sequence of like 58 numbers is just to determine whether you are worthy. You could validate that theory with real-world testing. If you don't tell it no computers are using that key, you'll fail. (But you can call right back and try again. Hint: When you are asked how many computers it's installed on, they mean other than the one you're calling about.) If it can't understand you say the letters it'll make you repeat the block.
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  Already confused by the Windows 10 upgrade...
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  @Magus said:I doubt they even know. While it's possible they test every possible configuration of every piece of hardware, software, and drivers available, something tells me they don't. They almost certainly leave getting the drivers right to the people who write them and design the hardware. Then too, the certification may have been done long ago when it worked, and the company has since abandoned updating it. It's like the nVidia thing. They handed Microsoft drivers with the wrong version number and screwed everything up. The problem is dipshits like Atheros release the driver update for new hardware and then proceed to specify it is still compatible with XYZ old hardware when they never fucking tested.
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  What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
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  Thanks.
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  Proofreading Technical Writer Wanted.
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  Ten Job Interview Questions
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  Time tracking?
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  I assume you have some spare server space. Take a look at OpenProject. It may be overkill for just the time tracking, but you may be able to consolidate some systems to it. Installation is a bit of a bastard, so be warned.
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  Internets Radio software reccomendations?
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  @tarunik said:I have heard recommendations for BUTT aka "Broadcast Using This Tool"... Now I want to start an Internet radio, if only to be able to tell hundreds of people they're now listening to my BUTT. More on topic, this stuff seems popular, but I'm not an expert at all. Win8-compatible, though.
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  RDP to work laptop connected to home network, and VPNed to work network
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  @izzion said:The Internet based RDP works because it's public IP based. And that's also why it's sooooo much slower. With Teamviewer, the network flow becomes: @xaade's work PC <--> home public Internet gateway <--> work VPN gateway <--> work public Internet gateway <--> Teamviewer servers <--> home public Internet gateway <--> @xaade's home PC that's why @xaade was complaining that teamviewer was slower! i don't know why i was under the impression that his work laptop was still at the office.... teamviewer has no visible difference to me because i always use it when i'd have to go through the VPN tunnel to get to the machine, not when the machine i'm connecting to is just across the room from me, connected to a VPN
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  What kind of phone should I get?
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  I'm fairly sure they're still collecting lots of data at the moment. Windows 10 on my computers felt much faster after the release. All i want its to not have It say loading when I press start.
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  Is there a site like Daily WTF that explains why it's a WTF?
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  Well, take each post as a learning experience. I can't recall anything specific right now, but I learnt a lot of stuff by investigating something which was posted (usually in the SQL land I'm pretty lost) and when trying to troll someone
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  [Solved] Windows believes it is actually connected via usb... help? Okay, now lets bash some Linux!
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  @accalia said:poke me tomorrow Poke Filed Under: Cortana doesnt speak with me because Laptop mic Also Filed Under: I dislike that sadface... whatever