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Marc Laidlaw, the lead writer for the Half Life and DoTA series (among a few others I believe) left Valve in 2016. Last night he leaked the story on his web site HERE. He changed the names of the characters presumably avoid copyright infringement claims against Valve. A version of the story...

Next year we'll be moving all of our servers to VMWare hosts, and since we're still running Server 2008 I'm interested in upgrading the OS as well. At the moment I have some other enterprise software to test, and assuming it's supported I'd like to try it on Server 2016. Is anyone using Server...

Stated by TPCast themselves in this interview: http://www.revvrstudios.com/rev-vr-podcast-ep-146-evening-tpcast The interviewer asks "Is it coming for the Oculus Rift?" and they said it'll be ready for Rift in a couple of months.

Has anyone with a Rift (or ReVive for you Vive owners) tried the Echo Arena beta yet? It's 100% free during the beta, and will continue to be free for Rift owners after release on July 20th. Vive users will need to buy Lone Echo (its single player counterpart) in order to play Echo Arena...

https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/07/oculus-announce-rift-touch-price-drop-to-399-for-summer-sale/ I've long heard that $400 is the sweet spot to achive widespread adoption of VR.

Understanding DNS is probably my greatest weakness. I know what it does, why it's important, and the basics. But I'm lost when it comes to the more advanced functionalities. For example: Where I work I have two Win2k8 R2 domain controllers - a primary and a secondary. Both DCs are running...

I'm trying to decide whether my next system upgrade should be put towards a new video card like the NV 1080 (or possibly the generation after that) or a new CPU. I've read a lot of conflicting articles lately about this subject, and I'm unsure of what my next move should be. My current system...

I have a project that I've been thinking about and the biggest issue I have is I need a blank 5.25" bay cover that I can cut to fit surface mount components. Something like this, only without any cutouts. I scoured the internet for a while and haven't come up with anything I could use. But, I've...

I'm a surprised there aren't already any threads about the upcoming HMDs - the Oculus Rift and HTC's Vive. Does anyone plan to get one of these at the end of this year/next? Personally I'm holding off on any new monitor purchases until these are both on the market, as I'll probably get one of...

My brother's gaming machine is getting long in the tooth and needs...something. It currently has an ASRock 970 Extreme3 motherboard, and a quad-core Phenom CPU. In games such as GTA V, the CPU's cores run at full bore and don't seem to feed his video cards fast enough. It's clearly time for an...

Sprint Galaxy S4. Includes original data cable, charger, unused headset, manuals, and even the box! In 100% working condition. There is a small, invisible scratch on the screen (can only be seen while the screen is off and light is reflected off of it just right). The plastic outer edge has...

I recently started a new job, and this is the first place I've worked in years that isn't visualizing anything. Since we're still running a bunch of Server 2k3 systems I'm thinking now is the time to migrate everything we can to an ESXi environment. At my last job everything was virtualized in...

At work I have a Windows AD domain, and about 160 computers joined. These 160 computers can all see and utilize GPOs on the domain without any issue. The problem I'm having is that some of these systems are going off lease and are getting replaced. According to GPResult, after being joined to...

Switched to a new carrier and I used that opportunity to upgrade my Galaxy S4 to an S6. The S4 works great, and looks great aside from some chipped paint around the edges of the phone (totally cosmetic). Since I still have my old Galaxy S2 sitting in a drawer "just in case" I feel as though I...

I'm looking for an app that can be installed on an iPhone that will forward all texts to another device/number. AFAIK, this wasn't possible with iOS 7, but it is with 8.1. Does such a solution exist? I've seen a lot of apps that go the other way (Android to iPhone) but not vice-versa.

My trusty D5 pump is failing (I think). It stops/starts a few times a minute, and when it does start, it runs slow. I've tested the PSU power connector it's on, and it tests fine. I've checked the speed setting and it's still on the highest available (5). I drained the system and opened up the...

Here at work, we have a folder share which contains user data. The parent "Users" share is visible to everyone and anyone can list the contents of the folder. However, each subfolder has specific permissions so that only the user in question can view the contents of all folders within. I need to...

I have a computer GPO set to run the following script upon boot: @echo Off :Created: MArtin Mayr / 20130624 :purpose: Setup SAP GUI 7.30 and patches if exist c:\SAPInstalled.txt goto end echo SAP Install-started to %computername% on %date% %time% >> \\MI-NORFS01\temp$\SAPGUI\SAPInstalled.txt ...

About 3 weeks ago we migrated all of our users from one AD domain server to another pre-existing server. 2 Weeks ago we migrated our file/print server to that same domain. Ever since we migrated the file & printer server, users randomly lose their connection to the print queues. The only way to...

My company is in the process of moving to a new managed backup solution and so I am pulling the backups from the original company. There is about 10 TB worth of data that needs to be stored for 5-10 years depending on the age of the backup itself. Right now I'm thinking of getting a few 3 TB...

It's been brought up a number of times in the Home Improvement thread in Genmay, and it seems that most users would find a [H]ome Improvement subforum a welcome addition to Genmay. See here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1744678 How about it mods? :D

I'm looking for a hardware and software inventory management solution that will work with computers which are on and off a Windows AD server. Basically, something that "phones home" with all the software and hardware installed on the computer at any given time. I believe I need something...

I've been using MSIA (Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer) trying to get a count of (primarily) MS Office 2010 Pro installs to update our license count. The problem is out of the 56 machines it can see (where I happen to know every one of them has Office 2K10 installed) it can only count 6...

Now that I'm moving into a house, I'm splitting up my BT server from the machine that plays videos to the TV. To play videos, I'll be using XBMC running on a Raspberry Pi, while BT runs in Vuze on a separate machine connected though a wired Gb connection. So, I'm looking for software which can...

In an effort to lower my electric bill, I started using an old P4 laptop as a file server/torrent box. It works fine for the most part, but my only real complaint is extracting the .zip files can be SLOW - 2-3 minutes depending on the size. This is because the laptop has a 100mb Ethernet...

I've seen a few guides for this on Google, but they're all for Windows Server 2003/XP... I'm running a Windows Server 2k8 R2 with Win7 x64 machines. I need to push out Win Media Player to all users using a GPO. Does anyone know how to do this? I must admit I'm a bit of a n00b when it comes to...

At my company (of about 170 employees spread over the world) we are looking into some new system management options. Currently we use Keseya, which is supported through a 3rd party, but we are looking to get rid of them and replace them with something we support ourselves. So the options I was...

At work we're looking to upgrade our current AV system (AVG) to something more modern. Here are the requirements: Exchange scanning SQL scanning Centrally managed Deployable AD integration Now, If I'm not mistaken Symantec offers these features, but I've never been a huge fan of their...

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate system I would like to backup every day to an old laptop with an external HDD. I've tried using Windows' built in Backup and Restore software, but it insists on backing up both my 120 GB SSD AND my 1.5 TB storage drive if I want it to make an image. In the end this...

I have an old laptop with a Celly 2.6 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM. I'd like to be able to use it as a low power torrent box, allowing me to shut off my gaming PC when not needed, and in the end saving a lot on electricity. I've tried Vuze on it. While I like its features and overall dependability...

An old customer of mine has an older system, with an old 130 GB IDE HDD that was grandfathered from one machine to the next. Its still in working condition and there's nothing "wrong" with it other than its starting to feel slow next to newer drives, and the customer would like something faster...

For the past 3 years I've been using my gaming rig (in my sig below) as an HTPC. It works great, but the machine is not cheap to leave on 24/7 for downloading/seeding Linux distros. I've been looking into building a cheap, low power HTPC that would handle playing HD video, Bittorrent...

...or at least it will be in 2013! http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24180 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kztNWdhRdnw

My brother has about ~$250 he wants to spend on a gaming video card. I've been looking at benchmarks of the 6950 and 560 ti 448 and they seem to be very closley matched. Simple question: Which card is best? He plays a lot of Skyrim and various FPSes. Right now he's using my old 8800 GTS 512 so...

Bought this for my Samsung GS 2 last night. Very impressed with how it runs and how easy it is to control. Playing a game like this on my phone would have really blown my mind 10 years ago.

I overclocked my i5 2500K to 4.8 Ran through the intel stress test for over 10 passes, I'm 90% sure its stable. Temps under load never go above 65*C Something I noticed in CPUID, that even when the CPU is under load with either Prime95 or the litmer test, the CPU speed rarely reaches 4.8 GHz...

Finally set up the WC system for my new rig (see signature). Here's what I have: Danger Den TDX (Not MC) CPU block XSPC RX360 Radiator, with 2x 200mm fans running at 700rpm Laing D5 pump in an XSPC rez. With my 2500K OCed to 4.5 GHz and a vCore of 1.2V, I am getting a Prime95 load temp of...

Thermochill PA160 radiator + matching shroud and stainless steel 1/2" barbs. Excellent condition. Accepts 120mm fan (not included). This radiator hasn't been made for years and is widely considered to be one of the best PC watercooling radiators ever designed...

With the purchase of a new case (CM HAF-X), my old PA160 radiator will not fit. Lucky for me, the case will fit a 120.3 radiator out of the box. Question is, what radiator should I get? The fans the HAF-X has pre-installed are 200mm low RPM fans. Right now I'm only cooling my CPU, and I am...