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This is dead-on. End users cannot purchase Enterprise licenses, since only businesses or academic entities are allowed to buy them via subscription. As an academic user, I have Enterprise licenses for all of my lab's computers, and they all have to be authenticated through the central server...

Back in the CentOS days, I ran KDE for 5.x since it was exactly as I wanted it to be, having come up on Red Hat and later, Fedora. I even used it during my CentOS 6.x days, but once I switched to 7.x, it seems that they really dumbed down the interface to the point where it became an...

Aw heck, it's an honor to finally know someone who made that video. I remember seeing that video decades ago, and getting a good chuckle out of it. I only wish that they would have done that for real to some of the cheaters in the Team Fortress Classic community. It would have done me a lot...

If you think you'll get significantly better performance out of the RTX 4070, and if the bang / buck is worth it, then you can't really go wrong with it. You should be getting about a 50% boost in overall performance. There will still be a decent market for that used 6750 XT, and you'll be...

Brother RHL-L2320D arrived yesterday, and it works beautifully with either the starter toner cartridge, or the 3rd party cartridge I bought off eBay. The 3rd party cartridge is about 90% as dark as the OEM toner, which is good enough for my grunt work printing. Not bad for 70 bucks...

My HP Officejet 7000 just bit the dust for good. I've been using it for over 8 years now for my dojo, and it was used by the previous owner for several years as well. I was only using it to print 8.5" x 11" rank certificates for my dojo, and have long switched to greyscale only. The third...

Those who do take those jobs with their heads in the clouds find out quickly, that they'll hit the bottom pretty quickly. A minimum wage fast food job isn't what it used to be. Before the craziness had set in, a fast food employee would typically be given an assignment for the day, whether it...

I've finished converting almost all of my computers to use SSD only. The main PC at home (for gaming, as well as work) now has a Crucial MX500 2 TB SSD drive, using the SATA ports as its only hard drive. The main work PC has a 2 TB Intel M2 SSD drive. The secondary work PC has a 1 TB Kodak...

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There's a chance it could be legit, but the odds are so minuscule, that it's almost entirely likely a scam. If you're willing to spend that much for such a card, get it form a reliable member here, and the above link to sk3tch's ad is a good one.

Yes indeed. If you were trying to do too many things with your system at one time, you would get a buffer underrun and make a coaster. Or, if your burner were a POS, and if you tried to do anything at all, even if the screensaver popped up, then you'd generate a coaster. Most of the time...

My first CD-ROM drive was a Plextor 4-Plex drive, with 1 MB of memory. I never had any incidents of stuttering on it, even with other processes running in the background, and this was on a Pentium 90 system with 16 MB of memory. I kept that drive for about 6 years, even using it as a source...

I'm still running my Antec Truepower Trio 650 watt unit (Seasonic build) in one of my office PC's. I think I got this power supply either in late 2007 or early 2008, and there was no worries about there being any of those satanic Fuhjyuu capacitors in it. Voltages are stable, and it's still...

I've had great luck with G2A, for Windows 10/11 Pro, as well as Office 2016 and 2019. None of my licenses have been deactivated even after several years.

Parts of Toshiba will probably be liquidated or sold off, closed down, etc. It will still exist as a company, just in private hands, and maybe this is a good thing to make them leaner and meaner. I hope they can emerge from this a stronger company. With regards to their electronics, there...

No big deal, as far as most Threadripper owners would see. The way I see it, if you can afford a Threadripper CPU, then you're either going to take care of it and run it as it should be run, or you have enough money to blow that you don't care about the cost of replacing it.

Valuable indeed. You can get tire changes done, a gallon of gasoline in case if you run dry in your tank, or locksmith services for your vehicle. You can also get towing. Just keep in mind, though, that the "basic" membership only covers up to 3 miles of towing. Anything beyond that and...

I was using AT&T DSL, that had an 18 mbps download, 2 mbps upload, and until last week, that was the only internet option in my neighborhood aside from Spectrum, which I absolutely hate. I just got my AT&T Internet Air installed. So far, it's pretty smooth, and I don't notice any real...

Former professional... While I was in grad school, I worked a side job at my friend's computer store, where we were often times doing wholesale jobs as well. If there were anything wrong with computers from the DOS 6.22 / Win 3.11 For Workgroups / Windows 95 / Windows 98, I could always...

This is absolutely correct. SATA II / III drives present a nightmare for this Southbridge, and they can't work in SATA I mode with this chipset. In some Socket 754 motherboard BIOS settings there is an option to run your SATA drives in IDE emulation mode, but I'm almost 100% sure that VIA...

Seeing the terms "Counterstrike" and "cheating" brings back old memories of the original from the 90's. Back then, the old common sayings in the Team Fortress Classic community were "I only cheat in Counterstrike!" or "everyone cheats in Counterstrike!"

Star Wars: The Old Republic follows that story line, especially the Jedi Knight class' story, and just about everything from the two KOTOR games is in the game somewhere. If anything it concludes the story from the KOTOR world, including the novels.

I built my main PC from a Ryzen 9 5900X combo that I bought from a most gracious member here last year. The case I bought is a very nice one, and does have a 5.25" bay, but you have to do some sawing of your own to get such a drive installed. I decided not to bother with it. This was the...

Early 50's. When it came to getting those DOS games to work, I was either the luckiest SOB alive, or maybe just got lucky with QEMM getting almost everything to work beautifully. It didn't work with that awful Voodoo memory manager used by Origin for Ultima VII and Ultima VII part 2...

Diamond Stealth 32 PCI video card This was probably the best card for DOS-based gaming, using the Tseng Labs ET4000 W32P chipset (a rarity). It also did exceptionally well in Windows, which is probably why Diamond pulled this card, since it was cannibalizing their Stealth 64 sales. I...

No hate for them at all. This PC is using one from G2A for both Win 11 (actually 10 Pro + upgrade) as well as Office 2019. I'd use them for my work PC's, but since I have a Windows Enterprise site license and a perpetual Office 365 license for them, there's no need.

From what I understand, there are three type of starch in the broth packet, and some of the creaminess comes from the use of tapioca starch. There's also a good bit of dissolved collagen / connective tissue, along with dissolved bone matter in the broth packet (labeled as "thickeners"). You...

They also carry the tonkatsu udon (thicker noodles) as well as dan-dan mien at Costco, and those offerings are also good.

Yeah, it's best not to drink the broth after you're done with the noodles of those instant ramen servings. Any instant noodle package is going to have a high salt content, and even those ones packaged with fresh noodles and liquid broth concentrate, will have a similarly high content. The...

The base: 2 lbs pork neck bones (or leg bones if you can find them) Minced garlic Ginger Kosher salt Black pepper Chopped up green onions 2 tablespoons of soy sauce (regular Kikoman works fine) 2 teaspoons of sugar If you want a bit of extra flavor, take a cast iron skillet, put about a...

No argument here. It's terrible to say the least. It's just that your average, every day user, and actually many a "power user" simply wants something that works and is all but transparent, and won't really care how much longer it takes. I guess it was about the same thing as many folks who...

7 Zip here as well... WinRAR was good for what it did back in the 90's and 2000's, but given native support in Windows it's simply not needed anymore. That being said, ARJ was the king of compression utilities in the 90's, both for DOS and Windows. In the days before CD-ROM drives were...

Preface: I make my own ramen broth, taking time to boil a bunch of pork bones and garlic cloves overnight to get that base stock. Yeah, it's a bit snobby, but hey, pork bones are cheap, and highly nutritious. I agree with Falkentyne, that the Nong Shim brand is superior (their instant...

That was probably from DEC's founder, Ken Olsen, who had said "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." That quote may have been taken badly out of context, though, since he was apparently referring to computers that would actually control the home.

Apple's slogan of "Blow minds, not budgets" from the late 90's still comes to mind... I wasn't impressed at all with the Power PC-based Macs of the time. They were horribly overpriced, and compared to a similarly priced Pentium / Pentium II or even AMD PC, ran very slowly. Nevertheless...

Just out of curiosity, did they ever stop making the default Nouveau drivers a PITA to uninstall? I haven't done a Linux install with a Nvidia card since CentOS 7, and every time I've tried to uninstall the Nouveau drivers was a tedious process. Thankfully, the folks from ElRepo pointed out...

Every reasonably modern smartphone has scientific calculator capabilities built-in. For a standalone calculator, unless she really needs graphic capabilities (in which case you're better off using a computer), then the good ol' TI-30 series does just fine, at a cost of 10 bucks from Wal-Mart...

Just to completely rule out the RAM not wanting to work in dual channel mode, can you set the timings on the RAM to something more conservative? It could be that your RAM may be marginally good enough to run in dual channel mode, and that as time progressed, it could have degraded just enough...

True, but by that time, programmers were far more adept when it came to coding for multiple processing units (not just CPU's or CPU cores) working at the same time. That, plus the CPU was already an order of magnitude more powerful than the previous generation, that programmers could afford to...

Genesis / Mega Drive was easily the most successful of the Sega consoles. While it was a bit lacking in color depth, and the sound chip wasn't quite as good as its other 16 bit competitors, the fact that it was basically the same guts as the System 16 arcade board made for some excellent game...