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About a year ago I sent an important email. Fast-forward to today, it turns out the other party has no recollection of receiving it. Now, I don't care if it was opened or not, or if it went to spam. All I care about is delivery. I sent this email through Gmail using one of my email aliases. I...

I'm not a Windows developer (or even a user), but soon enough I will have to build a native Windows application. Knowing almost nothing, here's my dilemma - should it be a universal app or a desktop app? Mobile devices are of no concern, an app already exists for those (I believe written with...

I would like to play some older Windows games. I run Linux on a daily basis and don't want to dual boot. I'm also not interested in Wine. I have a motherboard that supports VT-d. Specifically, I have: Mobo: Intel BOXDX79TO CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 Video: NVIDIA GTX 460 A single keyboard and a...

One of the awesome perks of Project Fi is that... It works pretty much everywhere. I've been on vacation for the last 10 days or so in Istanbul and Athens. Great experience - had no issues whatsoever. Data cost me barely anything at $10 / GB. Of course, I used WiFi while in a hotel. I'm...

I have an older i5 750 system (LGA1156) with an even older HR-01 Plus cooler. Back-plate is currently being used with screw-in pins. I am planning to purchase an LGA2011 (v1) motherboard and a CPU. Officially, the HR-01 does not support LGA2011. However, according to some sites out...

If you have Project Fi... You may get something from uncle Google this holiday season. :D Don't look if you don't want your gift spoiled!

I just received an invite to Project Fi. Going through the "wizard", it says that Project Fi is first available on Nexus 6. If I choose to get a SIM card only, will it work on Nexus 4? I understand Nexus 4 is not capable of connecting to Sprint networks, but I'm fine with T-Mobile only...

Have you / do you own any hardware that surpassed your expectations, big time? I've got two pieces, both keyboards: 1) HP keyboard that came with a Pentium III PC, 2001. Still use it to this day, every day, a few hours a day. I may have to get a PS/2 to USB converter with my next PC to...

Two days ago I was overjoyed when I was told I can use a framework of my choice on my next project. My workplace tool is a proprietary CMS / framework spaghetti-code behemoth. It gets the worst of all worlds. It's slow, as it uses XSL transformations for its views. Working with DOM is a...

The last time I looked for a job in the web / software development field was about 3.5 years ago. I was then freshly out of college and in about 3 weeks I had 3 interviews and 3 different job offers afterwards. I just started looking for new work again and things out there seem hugely...

I have recently worked on a referral-like website. By "referral-like", I mean that the services provided are fulfilled by other businesses. Website looks great, works and performs well. I started to advertise on Google Adwords of which I know little about. So far, it doesn't seem to be paying...

So, I just opened Steam and what do I see on my list of games? Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition Not sure when it happened but must have happened recently. The Steam page doesn't have it listed for Linux yet. I've never actually played Baldur's Gate but played two a number of times and...

I just put together a new PC and wanted to share something I've come across with ASUS's USB BIOS flashback. Essentially, it's a BIOS/UEFI flashing method without powering on the system. Great if the motherboard won't POST for whatever reason. Plug in a USB stick with a BIOS image, press a button...

I have not been paying attention to computer hardware for about four years now. I have been asked to put together some kind of mid-range PC (~$750, no monitor or peripherals). I did a bit of research myself but I'm still not completely caught up. My questions are... 1) Ivy bridge vs Haswell...

With Plasma 5 KDE is getting a "modern" face lift. http://dot.kde.org/2014/06/10/plasma-5-second-beta-needs-testing Screenshot in the article is by no means any kind of final design but it shows that KDE is hopping on the "modern" train. With that said, it looks like the theme is...

I'd like to build a kiosk-like machine that would run Chrome or Firefox fullscreen. It needs to be as cheap as possible and needs to come in a small form factor. I'm considering getting Raspberry Pi (model B) for this, but I'm not sure if it's powerful enough. The software would be: Arch...

FreeBSD 10 is just about out. Anyone here use FreeBSD? Any opinions or thoughts on it? I've been a Linux user for quite a few years now but have never tried BSD. I'm considering it but with so little commercial support it's rather tough - I'd have to dual boot my current distribution to...

Hey guys, I will be moving out from my house in about two months. I've been living with my parents and have been "the it guy" of the house. Now that I am leaving, I want to leave my folks a friendly HTPC-like setup from which they can watch Youtube, Hulu, browse, print and perhaps do some...

Hey guys, I was wondering what happens at the end of the release cycle for non-LTS Ubuntu server versions. Say, I have an Ubuntu 12.10 running, at the end of the cycle - does it get updated to the next non-LTS release? Or, is it a manual upgrade process? (change the repos and hope for the best?)

Hey guys, I got a Nexus 4 in early December. Up until ~2 weeks ago I didn't have any problems with it. Since then my Nexus turned itself off three times. I couldn't pinpoint the time as in all three occurrences it happened during my workday. Battery was high in all three cases. At work, I...

Hey guys, So, there's an app on Google's Play Store, "Hardforum.com Hardware Hardware Forum". I recently downloaded it, thinking it was an app made by Kyle or some of the guys here. I just found out that it's not. Doesn't this raise potential security issues? For all I know, my Hardforum...

Hey guys, My parents do a lot of calling to France and Poland. They spend a lot of time on the phone, I figured I'd find a VOIP company to replace the phone land line that they use. They use the land line to make the calls, but through some local calling services they do get reasonable...

Hey guys, This might be a bit of a silly question. So, the primary aim of Redhat or Redhat based distributions are servers. When operating a server, stability and security are of the utmost importance. I can see how these distributions achieve stability - but how about security? How secure is...

Hey guys, I'm a rather big Linux geek and thought I'd give Steam on Linux a try. I haven't played anything on Steam for quite a while (~2 years), but I have a decent library, nonetheless. Anyways, I installed Steam on my Arch through AUR (Arch's user repository). It was a fairly...

Hi guys, I currently use a service called browserstack to test mobile websites. It's basically a service that runs virtual machines which run Android, iOS emulators / simulators and desktop browsers. The service is great but I want to drop it in favor of doing testing on a single physical...

Hey guys, I have been playing around with different OS / distribution combinations that cat fit my work style. I have just moved away from a Linux Gnome 3 + Compiz installation to a hackintosh Lion. I am getting burned out at this point with trying everything to work perfectly. Probably my...

Hey guys, How hard is it to move from a mouse to using a trackball? I've been recently doing everything to improve the speed that I can use my desktop with. I'm a Compiz Linux user, I use VIM all the time when programming, and been wanting to move to a keyboard + trackball combination...

Hey guys, I have a webserver hosting about fifty different websites. Recently, all of the websites have been taken down from Google's search results and I am in the process of trying to determine why. Before this happened, these websites were very high up in the search results. The domain...

Hey guys, I have already written about this a few days back. My issue is that the website that I am working on has absolutely positioned divs on it and I need to add a content footer to the website. To solve this problem, I ended up positioning the divs relatively to each other instead...

Hey guys, I have a LAMP vps server with multiple websites on it. Every now and then the server keeps crashing. My vps panel shows that the CPU usage goes through the roof, effectively locking up the server. Connecting to it afterwards isn't doable. Normally the CPU usage hovers around 0%...

Hey guys, I have recently received a "Customer Satisfaction" email from Blizzard regarding my recent support ticket. But I have never filed a support ticket. I immediately logged in to my account and noticed that I have a suspended WoW account (I never had WoW on my account) and a...

Hey guys, I have a website that is essentially composed of multiple divs that are stacked on top of each other with absolute positioning and different z-index values. It gives it a very interesting look without the use of graphics. The trouble that I am having is that I do not know the...

Hey guys, I have multiple websites that are essentially the same. The only difference is a single line of JavaScript. The rest is generated dynamically through Ajax and PHP work. I am running Apache webserver with Ubuntu 10.04. I have a virtual host configured for every single website...

Hey guys, I have a table containing about 15 million rows. Queries on this table take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes, which is unacceptable. The database looks something like this: CREATE TABLE `state` ( `fips_code` CHAR(2) NOT NULL...

Hey guys, I started to write a script that tracks people's actions on a website. Before I started to write it, I didn't know much about sessions and how they behave with objects. In particular, I thought object destruction occurs when a session is timed out, and that the said object is...

Hey guys, I have recently found a programming/web design gig that I could perform. Nothing major, it would require me to write some PHP code, possibly modify an SQL database, and set up some cron jobs on a webserver. I am not a professional in the field, just a computer science student...