Recent content by jardows

Remember that this is for Windows 11 Home. It does not apply to Pro or Enterprise. That is only part of Pro or Enterprise, so not affected.

Years ago, I worked at a small college that was almost exclusively Novell Netware based for our servers. We made extensive use of eDirectory, ZenWorks, and BorderManager firewall. As part of our license purchase, we also had McAfee Anti-Virus site licensed for all computer systems. Our finance...

My experience working for the past 6 years at a large university, supporting a mixed environment that is probably 90% Windows, 10% Apple: Apple hardware is built better - externally, not internally Less third-party hardware in Macs - yes. Most 3rd party stuff out there just doesn't work, so...

My $.02 The best warranty is the warranty you never have to use. I have never had to RMA an ASUS product. ASUS channel support is way different than their end-user support. If you have any sort of "business" building computers, look into being an official ASUS partner. It's quite easy to...

As a file server, I use pure FreeBSD, and it works great in that role. It is much less bloated than major Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora, and isn't a constantly moving target with massive changes every version. You do have to get used to editing config files, but the documentation...

Or, the ARM ISA has limits to scalability, and incrementally improving the performance without drastically increasing cost or power usage is much harder than it is with AM64 ISA, meaning that Apple got most of the low-hanging fruit with the M1, and there just isn't room without a drastic...

Someone who wants to learn really should stay with major or base systems. If you want easy - Ubuntu If you want to learn for professional use - Fedora/RedHat (or SUSE if you live in Germany) If you want to learn the inner workings of a Linux distribution - Slackware If you want to learn how an...

Just remember "Net Neutrality" is not "net neutrality."

It's good, but make sure you do all the side quests, as the main quest/story is way too short. Definitely worth $7 though!

That's a pretty big risk to take for a potential product. If the AppleVR is designed to be working with the Apple ecosystem, then this all makes sense. But there is no Apple ecosystem for VR, and may never be one. Would Apple invest heavily in a system that is used to develop products that...

Wow, some people need to go get a sense of humor.

Pfft. Youngsters. I remember when you didn't even need a fan or a heatsink to cool your CPU! This is a real problem with modern technology though, and shows that lack of low-level innovation for performance. The only thing that really is going on lately is throwing more electricity at the...

Thanks for the glabels tip. I've been looking for a program like that for a while.

May have to give this a try. Lots of old pictures taken on cheap 35mm cameras that could definitely use some touchup. It's available as a port for FreeBSD, though currently at a slightly older version (1.1.2). It doesn't look like it would be too hard to manually install or update the existing...

Honestly, how many times are users needing to utilize a CPU warranty? I've been working in computer repair for over 25 years, and can only think of one or two genuinely failing CPUs I've encountered. I'd say, if you don't break your CPU with the process, don't sweat it.