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I work at home for Company H, and we are partnered with Company P on a particular contract. I use Outlook for email connected to my company's servers that face the public internet. I don't have to be logged in to my company's VPN in order to use my email (though I can be). Company P performs the...

I've noticed an ironic situation play out with increasing consistency. More and more websites are sensing that you have an ad blocker installed, and display a "popup" within the website (that isn't technically a popup) that you usually must dismiss before being able to view any content. The...

Our main desktop computer came with a 500 GB mechanical hard drive and Windows 7. I upgraded it to Windows 8 then 8.1 many years ago. When Windows 10 became available, I bought an SSD, cloned the mechanical drive to the SSD, then did an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 on the SSD. I just swapped...

The old (2005 or 2006) 32" Sharp television we have in our bedroom finally went out. Many years of faithful service (though, if I'm honest, it doesn't have a ton of hours, being only a bedroom TV). We replaced it with a 32" Sharp Roku TV. We really like it -- super crisp display (1080p) and...

What would you do with this modified 10/22 stock? I bought this stock off eBay (from Numrichs) because it looked interesting to me. I liked the look of the cheek riser and it also had somewhat of a finger groove forend. The pistol grip was also recurved some. But, after a lot of paint...

This probably a basic question...if a computer has more RAM, will it use more RAM? Background: my personal desktop computer has Windows 10 and 4 GB of RAM. RAM usage is typically somewhere between 1.5 and 3 GB, depending on what I'm doing. My work laptop has Windows 10 and 16 GB of RAM, and I...

This is similar to another thread, but I didn't want to hijack that one. We moved, this summer, into a house built in 1996. At the time it was built, the ventless gas inserts were extremely popular. It has the "doghouse" fireplace bump-out commonly seen on homes built during this timeframe...

Our daughter got an early Christmas present this weekend, in the form of a Moto G4 Play. I've had great service from my G4, and we expect no less from the Play version. It was on sale at both Amazon and Motorola for $129, so Best Buy matched those prices (theirs was $149). She wanted an iPhone...

You guys know I like Chromebooks. I've lately been intentional on using only my then-only Samsung Chromebook Series 3 (the original "cheap" Chromebook, with the ARM processor) as my only personal computer. It's worked well, but it is aging and some of the track pad coating is now starting to...

If anyone owns a 20 ga Remington 870, I would appreciate it if you could let me know the following dimensions (preferably with calipers): A: outside diameter of the barrel just above the magazine tube B: outside diameter of the magazine tube C: distance (air gap) between the barrel and the...

With recent threads about hitting deer and potholes at night... Please slow down, and don't out-drive your headlamps. With most headlamp systems, 50-55 mph is about as fast as you can go and still have enough reaction time at night. You often cannot see a road hazard until it's within a couple...

I have a little M2 SSD in a 2.5" HDD adapter tray in a laptop onto which I installed Neverwear Cloudready some weeks ago (a Chromium OS build). Worked great until I closed the lid and tried to re-awaken it a few hours later. Basically, just garbled response...messy display, etc. I turned it off...

I'd like to replace some fuel line on my new-to-me snow blowers, and I'd like to use the same type of fuel line that Honda uses -- that lighter grey silicone-like fuel line. Does anyone know if you can buy it in bulk anywhere, or even what it is? Does it have silicone in it? It's the longest...

I'm looking to purchase a snow blower for the first time in my life, and would like to get my feet wet with a used one. I'm no stranger to fixing lawn mowers, and enjoy that kind of stuff. But a blower is completely new to me, and I have no idea what to look for. In terms of type, I know what I...

I mentioned in another thread a number of weeks ago that the Anniversary Update seemed to brick one of my laptops, a Dell XPS12 that's by all measures a very nice laptop. I'd like to keep using it. But, it's ultimately not our primary computer, so it sat on the closet shelf until tonight. I...

I may have an opportunity to buy a 2014 model Raleigh Cadent i8 demo bike from a local bike shop. They said the selling price back then was about $850, and they've got $350 on it now. I don't know what a "demo bike" means -- it's a local bike shop chain -- maybe they had this bike out at events...

I just found this and thought I'd share. If you have an older laptop that doesn't support the two-finger scrolling gesture out of the box, this little applet may indeed work for you. If you have a Synaptics trackpad...as most laptops do... https://github.com/awahlig/two-finger-scroll It works...

We're about to buy our 11 year old her first real bike. Went to a couple LBSes yesterday. She really likes the Raleigh Alysa 1 in teal color. Raleigh lists it as a $399 bike on their website, and the LBS has $329 on it. It seems like a decent bike. Another LBS, who doesn't sell Raleigh, sort of...

This came across in my YouTube subscription list a day or two ago. I think this is probably the newest 1,000,000 mile vehicle I've seen. I didn't come away from the video without questions, though. The odometer reads 9999999. Does it just stop counting at that number? I would expect it to...

It looks like it's going to build only Jeep and Ram models in the US. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/07/28/fiat-chrysler-ending-car-production-us/87649136/ And this is really curious: Quote: Despite FCA's plans to stop producing the Dart and Chrysler 200, Marchionne continues...