Posted 02/13/2009 at 03:32:54pm
Now someone please tell Comcast. ...
Posted 02/13/2009 at 11:06:31am
I suspect MS is going to release Win7 in late August rather than some time in the fall as they're currently claiming. Hopefully, they'll keep churning out updated beta builds until then. ...
I'd be more interested in on How to Justify a Kindle 2 Purchase to Your Significant Other -- 5 Case Studies (Updated!)
Posted 02/12/2009 at 03:14:37pm
I'd be more interested in the Kindle if it was guaranteed that every book I want was available in electronic form. As it is, it's just a small subset. Since the books I read tend to be tehnical and/or ...
Posted 02/12/2009 at 03:08:41pm
Was there a great demand for this? It's not like Silverlight has taken the world by storm. ...
Posted 02/10/2009 at 11:54:03pm
Not only glitches, but serious bugs.Max PC is the first review I've seen that's under 90% and isn't babbling on about "game of the year." Fallout 3 is good, yes, but it's just too f-d up tec ...
Posted 02/06/2009 at 02:00:26pm
Still the best PC laptops out there. Who isn't losing money right now? ...
Posted 02/05/2009 at 12:00:19am
WoW cannot be defeated. Give up. ...
Posted 02/02/2009 at 03:30:22pm
I'm not nearly paranoid enough to do full disk encryption, but I've been using Windows & Linux TrueCrypt for a couple of years to protect password files and the like. Great little piece of softwar ...
Posted 01/31/2009 at 11:37:37am
Has anyone here actually been warned by their ISP about exceeding the bandwidth cap? I have Comcast, and have never heard a peep from them. I stream several Netflix movies to my Tivo and/or PC each we ...
If my experience with iPods on Bought a Scratch-Prone iPod Nano? Get Some Scratch (Money, That Is) from Apple
Posted 01/29/2009 at 04:26:39pm
If my experience with iPods is any guide, few people still have 1st generation Nanos. They're all broken or lost by now. ...
Posted 01/28/2009 at 04:17:00pm
Considering SSD write performance is considerably worse than magnetic drives, I'm struggling to understand why they're desirable. Makes sense if you can dedicate them to something overwhlmingly read-i ...
Posted 01/27/2009 at 07:05:37pm
I love Newegg for its wide selection, but sadly those of us in California have to pay sales tax for Newegg orders. Add shipping to that, and I can sometimes get common items for the same price or less ...
Posted 01/27/2009 at 06:56:39pm
Who cares that Belkin employees are attempting to buy reviews. The important question is, which sites and/or publications have accepted the money? ...
Posted 01/24/2009 at 02:15:52pm
Which drivers? Neither XP nor Vista work. For any of them. ...
Posted 01/22/2009 at 02:45:46pm
The percentage of PC buyers who actually shell out for "boutique" machines must be about the same as the percetage of car buyers who shell out for Ferraris, Lamborghinis, etc. Makes even les ...
Posted 01/22/2009 at 10:37:56am
Gah...I've tried three different network cards and both 64 and 32 bit versions of Windows 7, and the base installation doesn't have drivers for any of them. Doesn't seem like a good sign. ...
Posted 01/19/2009 at 04:05:50pm
I choose (2) with a side helping of (1). ...
Posted 01/16/2009 at 02:53:47pm
A MacBook and a Che Guevara t-shirt = the official uniform of hipster tools everywhere. ...
Posted 01/16/2009 at 12:38:52pm
You've never heard of SSH? Connecting to a Linux box remotely is considerably easier than Windows.My painfully computer illiterate mother is using an Ubuntu box I built for all her email & web bro ...
Posted 01/08/2009 at 11:51:00am
Who buys movies?? You can rent anything you want, and I suspect most people are like me... once you've seen a movie, how many times do you need to see it again? ...
Posted 01/05/2009 at 06:30:41pm
Hint... playing video games doesn't make you a geek.Olivia Munn? Please. She's a model who hosts a TV show. When she earns a PhD in particle physics, you can add her to the "geek" list. ...
Posted 01/02/2009 at 01:48:41pm
Really? Wow.I bought the game a couple of days after release, played it long enough to get to the planetary exploration phase, and pretty much lost interest. Being "wide in scope" doesn't me ...
Posted 01/02/2009 at 01:39:38pm
Considering how much I use Wikipedia, I had no problem donating. ...
Posted 12/29/2008 at 05:54:27pm
Fry's is useful if you need a part now. Otherwise, I agree. Shopping online just makes more sense. ...
This guy was the senior on Computer Engineer Who Held San Francisco's City Computer Network Hostage to Face Trial
Posted 12/29/2008 at 05:51:21pm
This guy was the senior network admin for the city of SF. He wasn't dealing with end users.Anyone who's dealt with SF city employees, however, wouldn't have any trouble believing that both his manager ...
