I totally agree about some issues encountered when streaming, especially on sub par connections (I'm a Sprint user so I know a thing or two about sub par data speeds :) ). But in the case of going on a trip in an airplane I'd rather cache the video because I too highly value the crispest picture I can get. Then when…

I've never ran across a video that Plex won't play, but I almost universally use MKV with H.264. I have had issues with Plex stuttering, skipping, looping, etc. but only when streaming to a 360. If I play the same video directly to the Plex app on my phone or TV, I have no issues and from what I can tell by looking…

I wonder if we're talking about the same thing. Do you mean rendering or transcoding?

I don't just use Plex to stream to my Xbox. I've used it to stream to the Xbox, my TV, my phone, my tablet, a web browser on the same network, a web browser on a different network, etc. I can see if you're going to distribute it via YouTube or the like how you would still need to control compression and codec, but…

Is there any reason to do this anymore when programs like Plex or XBMC exist? I'm not sure if XBMC has the same transcoding abilities as Plex, but let's just go ahead and assume it does.

The Progressive thing is called "Snapshot" and my wife signed up for it. You install it and then drive for a month, then they take a look at the data and determine how safe you were and what discount they'll give you. After the initial month, you can either accept or decline the discount, but if you accept you have…

Oh I know... I get in these ruts where I order Jimmy Johns every day for a week and then I'm like, I just spent $50 for lunch this week. That's absurd! But it tastes so good....

Well I'm a web developer with my own VPS. I actually just moved to KnownHost's VPS from using shared hosting with HostGator (due to their incredibly awful migration to Provo that ruined over 20 of my sites). I definitely am struggling to learn their VPS though because WHM is nothing like the cPanel that I'm used to…

If you're concerned about a money trail leading them back to you somehow, some VPN's and proxy's accept Bitcoin.

BTGuard is pretty awful. As Whitson mentioned in the post, they used to recommend them and now they don't for a multitude of reasons. I'd stay far away from BTGuard.

Have to agree totally on BTGuard. Tried it and was severely disappointed. I then tried PIA (I wrote another comment on this article about my experiences with that).

AFAIK, it isn't necessary at all to use anonymity for Usenet. From the ISP's perspective, they just see that the user is connecting into a Usenet provider's server, but they don't know what for.

I've used both BTGuard and PIA. PIA is definitely better, but there are a few caveats:

I bet they do. Mine typically has less than 450 MB of RAM free after I've killed my apps. I've expanded the storage to over 32 GB with my SD card and the processing power does what I want it to.

Well for starters, your terminology is a bit incorrect and I'm not being a jerk, just trying to enlighten. :)

Edit: I know the OP is talking about an iPhone. I'm just bringing up the possibilities for Android.

I'm running a "nightly" build of CyanogenMod 10 on my Epic 4G Touch and I absolutely love it. The stock Touchwiz crap that comes on this (and many other Samsung phones) is terrible. It looks horrible, eats more resources, and has the worst UX out of any other interface I've seen. This CM ROM has made me crazy about my…

Wow thanks for the write-up. I'm definitely going to have to look into this. I'm pretty certain that I'd have to run the wires through my cold air return as well since we have what sounds like the same setup as you (basement, ground floor, 2nd floor). So how exactly do you run the cable from the air return to the…

Absolutely. I think the guy who built a Raspberry Pi microwave is a genius and it intrigues me to look at his build and the logic that went into it (because I'm a programmer and in IT), but would that make my life better to have a voice-controlled microwave? No. And it definitely wouldn't save me time to learn it…

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