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I read this article Television licensing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The BBC admits that no detection evidence has ever been used to prosecute a licence fee evader." Long story short, if their door-to-door inspectors see you watching TV from the door step, or can...

How exactly are they going to do this? Crack WPA2 at each household? Last I heard, WPA2 with a strong key is nearly unbreakable. Even if the iPlayer sent packets out to identify itself for the purpose of van identification, those will get encrypted before being transmitted on the LAN. To me...

WD RE is 'entry level enterprise' or 'capacity enterprise', and would be my vote for certain applications. However I don't know your exact application so won't weigh in. I would point out though; 1) WD Red are not enterprise drives, they are home NAS drives 2) You may not need enterprise...

Impressed with and looking very closely at Meraki. Thanks for the input all.

I'm looking to retire a Cisco ASA-5510, which is discontinued and out of support contract. We are considering another Cisco, however, I work in a very small team whose expertise lies mostly in software development and server admin, and not networking. We likely use less than 1% of what our...

+1, but can be a tough sell to "do it right". A proper build with ECC, the capacity burnt on parity disks, etc. gets expensive and not being able to mix disk sizes efficiently nor 'easily' expand pools turns people off. It is the most rock-solid approach to storage though (ZFS, specifically)...

I knew someone like you would show up. People who don't use Facebook are so immensely proud of themselves and jump into every Facebook-related thread to tell everyone. This is the case on every forum I visit. If you don't use FB, the next time you see "Facebook" in a thread title, please just...

I probably shouldn't have said "no effort" then - I'm not aware how much she did, or did not do, to achieve this payout. At the very least, managing TV appearances and all the contracts is some work. The amount of work put in is irrelevant though - if I could work hard, or not at all, it...

Half-witted? Are you nuts? No, the owner didn't create the meme. Yes, it's tacky as hell. Yes, the owner cashed in and got rich. If an opportunity presents itself, you take it! Don't tell me you wouldn't do the same. It's the kind of thing we'd all love to happen to us - no effort, big...

Sorry, evil bit in IPv4! Where the heck is the delete/edit post button on [H]?

LOL - "I am not a bot" checkbox - they'll never think of that one! Remind me of the RFC for an "evil bit" in HTTP; https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt - make sure the baddies always set the bit, then we'll know what to block. And yes, I followed the link and see that there's more to it...

One hypothesis I've heard is that societal expectations of women have led them to be ashamed of being sexually active ("slut shaming"), while men are considered to be successfully proving themselves as masculine when they are sexually active. Because of this disparity, women (1) become the...

She's not wrong, but she's merely reiterating the mandate of the NSA, which we already know. Yes, the NSA's job is to surveil foreign threats, not Americans. The fact remains however, that the NSA DOES surveil Americans (and innocent folk from other countries like myself), because that's how...

Total myth. This has been (repeatedly) debunked. The facts are: SACD added nothing human-detectable to recordings over classic Red Book CD. CD audio was designed to be a future-proof format that would never need replacing, and it is. Poorly engineered, highly compressed (as in dynamic range)...

Sorry I didn't see an edit button, but here's a good YouTube clip showing how win10 will be better than 8 for desktops. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu0sqRPx9Dw This is MS acknowledging that not everything is mobile and their OS has to work for a wide range of devices.

They have - check out Win 10. Depending on your hardware, it will default to desktop mode and run Modern/Metro apps within windows. Win10 is promising because MS is stepping back from everything being mobile-first.

This. I dropped Dropbox and OneDrive when I found BTsync. (I still use a paid backup service though, but it's cheap and client-encrypted, and means I don't have to burn a terabyte of a family member's storage) I use BTsync to get photos from mobile devices directly onto my home storage...

Looks like they aren't trying to sell the game to consumers, but instead have it playable at blood-bank operated collection events. They want to tour with the game, and have it always be operated safely by people certified for the task. Doesn't sound nearly as bad once you read the page...

I'm going to have to agree with this. It's less about how good the game is, especially now, compared to a decade of newer games, but about the impact it had. Just like HL1, when Valve released the game, the gaming world shook and changed direction. A good parallel is how the iPhone re-defined...

Since having my first child last year, I've begun taking a much more serious approach to protecting photos and videos. In addition to moving to ZFS with snapshots, I've been toying with different backup strategies, onsite and off. One idea is the 'irregular off site disk', where I drop a...

Let me get things back on track with... "TK-421" Stormtrooper-inspired build for a Star Wars fanatic and all-around film buff. Advertised space: 40 TB Usable space: 32 TB Disk configuration: 10x 4TB in single RAIDZ2 vdev Operating system: FreeNAS 9.2.1.7 Supermicro X10SL7-F Xeon E3-1220V3...

Talonz has it right: if bitrot is your worry, then you can't truly cure it without ECC. Since bits can flip on disks, as well as in RAM, it's really a matter of covering both bases, or neither. If you aren't able to make the leap to ECC hardware yet, you're probably better just holding on to...

A lot of 4-in-3 HDD cages with backplanes, as well as USB external enclosures, have specs like "up to 3 TB HDD supported". Do these specs actually apply/matter? ie. Any reason not to put a 4 TB drive in? Especially with a backplane, which I would expect to be nothing more than a direct...

Yes, you'll need the subwoofer to hit those really deep notes. I ditched an old Logitech 5.1 system for the M-Audio AV40 (a 2.0 stereo pair). Yes, the sound quality is very good, but no, they can't match the Logitech sub for depth. A good tradeoff for me might have been the Promedia 2.1...

My WD reds (also 5400rpm) can keep up with two HD streams no problem over Plex. The green in my desktop has always seemed sufficiently snappy for working with video files.

Depends entirely on use case. I've always preferred small laptops for portability, being a desktop user primarily. I figure, if I already have a desktop, I'd rather my portable machine be portable. That said, my work machine is a 17", and is a complete beast, putting my home desktop to...

That's exactly what all the anti-Tesla noise stems from. The big auto companies getting Tesla banned from opening up showrooms, etc. makes it quite clear how they view Tesla: as a threat. So naturally, whenever one crashes, it turns into a huge media stink spreading across the Interwebs...

I'm with 450 and pcjunkie. Reloading a Win 7 system takes far longer than it should, waiting for a slew of updates to download. All I would expect from SP2 would for it to be a big rollup of updates. Especially given that a lot of corporations are just now in the process of rolling Win 7 out...

To those warning of a system crash dooming everyone on board, I have to point out that modern planes already lean on technology to that level. A pilot's ability to see out the window today, won't help them overcome a failure of the electronics. Networks of sensors report to computers in the...

If by reliability, we're talking about data durability here, and you really mean business, you'll want to go ZFS. If you go that direction, no, 2GB won't be sufficient, you'll want ECC, which will push your costs up. My ZFS build cost me about 2K, including six 3TB drives. It has 16GB ECC...

I moved from PS3MS + PS3 to Plex + Roku, and think it was an upgrade. The Plex app on Roku isn't quite as good as it is on a PC, but it's much better looking than the PS3's massive text-based media lists. Agree that there are occasionally a few things that won't transcode, but I had that...

I think the first question to answer is which operating system you'll be running, since it may dictate which hardware you purchase. To answer that question, you need to know your use case more specifically; - Which file system and RAID setup do you want - how much do you value performance vs...

When I switched from my old HTC Desire (3.7") to a Nexus 4 (4.7") I noticed immediately that my fingers were straining to reach UI elements. The Desire was a dream for one-handed operation, while the Nexus involves both hands. However, now that I'm used to it, I'm OK with it. I agree it's a...

I'm a HL and HL2 fanboy, and won't deny it. However, I can articulate why Valve games, especially these, are hugely ahead of anything else in their time, and even years later. In the case of HL2, Storytelling. No cutscenes or other clunky story mechanics, just a highly discoverable world...

I gave it a go because I wanted to get away from using commercial cloud services, and I wanted to sync photos and videos off the Android phones that are mine and my wife's, onto a basement server. The MS One Drive client will upload photos and video, right after being taken, on Android...

My modest home server build- Fractal Design Define R4 Mini Xeon E3-1230 V2 SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-IIF Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 FreeNAS 9.2.1.5 6X Western Digital Red (5400rpm) 3TB in RAIDZ2 leaving 12TB / 10.7 TiB usable. Getting ~78 MB/sec copy...

Tried sysprep'ing before transplanting - system just shut off during boot. Tried using 32 bit Windows instead - screen glitched out during install. I think I'm going to give up on these machines, neither of them seem able to boot or install, Windows 7. (They ran XP solidly for years in their...

Legit ISOs from my Technet. Two DVD burns and one USB stick image. Tested on other systems to be working. Memtest on the HP passes flawlessly. They shipped with Vista, which was wiped upon purchase and they ran XP 32 for the last few years. Thanks for the tip on using sysprep - I will try...

I have an HP DC7800p convertible Minitower, and i'm trying to get Windows 7 on it. (Dual core, 6GB RAM...) I've tried installing from two different Win7 DVDs, as well as a flash USB installer, which I have confirmed work on other PCs. The installer hangs, with a corrupted screen during...

Having ECC is always better than not having ECC. That said, though, you can reduce your risk of losing *all* your data on a non-ECC system by strategically picking a file system. I'm no expert so I won't make a specific recommendation, but what I'm saying is "something other than ZFS". ZFS...