Posted 10/23/2009 at 05:28:43pm
I guess people are upgrading instead of buying new PCs?I always buy WD hard drives and have never had one fail on me- until this year. Both my own and my brother's WD hard drives failed recently.Per ...
Posted 10/07/2009 at 11:43:08am
Does this mean Zune software will support iPods, or that the Zune software will be ported to Macs? ...
Posted 09/13/2009 at 11:04:31am
I dual boot XP and 7 RC 64-bit. My XP Program Files folder has 150 items. I haven't reinstalled since January 2006.While I'd like to be able to do an in-place upgrade from the 7 RC to the final ve ...
Posted 07/29/2009 at 05:19:13pm
...because Apple can decide to disable something at any time. ...
Posted 06/15/2009 at 12:20:03pm
I hooked up an old computer to my 52 inch LCD and it's fine for watching DVDs and DVD-rips but it chokes on anything that uses flash video or h.264 because it's only a P4 1.7.I upgraded the video card ...
Posted 06/15/2009 at 12:13:21pm
I use GV for my business and recently moved to another state. I bought a new number that forwards to my GV number. I can't wait until I can move it over to GV and get rid of the annoying delay tha ...
Boycotting Time Warner would on Time Warner Working to Shut Down Local Providers of Affordable Broadband
Posted 04/25/2009 at 09:48:03pm
Boycotting Time Warner would be nice if you had the option.Sometimes your choices are Time Warner or much slower DSL, or none at all. ...
Business decisions don't always make sense on As If You Needed Another Reason Not to Buy Laptops from Office Depot
Posted 03/19/2009 at 08:52:35pm
"Why would ANY business want to destroy their reputation with nonsense
policies that punish employees and customers at the same time?"Why would any company give millions in bonuses to emplo ...
Posted 03/19/2009 at 08:45:33pm
"Let me guess, I bet none of the accidently shared docs contained Google corporate information.."Those are probably stored in encrypted Word & Excel documents in a secure location at Goo ...
Posted 03/17/2009 at 10:44:26pm
During a recession, school enrollment always increases.As for the claim that "computer science entails little more than sitting cooped up in front of a PC banging out code," I (somewhat) agr ...
I've had some trouble on Microsoft May Ship a Free Version of Office 14 & Will Still Work on Windows XP
Posted 03/08/2009 at 03:18:17pm
I've had some trouble opening Word docs in OOo, particularly ones with a lot of tables. They just don't show up right. ...
Because they'd get slapped on Microsoft May Ship a Free Version of Office 14 & Will Still Work on Windows XP
Posted 03/08/2009 at 03:14:36pm
Because they'd get slapped with a huge antitrust lawsuit. ...
Why doesn't it come with my computer anymore? on Microsoft May Ship a Free Version of Office 14 & Will Still Work on Windows XP
Posted 03/08/2009 at 03:14:06pm
I wish PC vendors would just give you Office with a new computer like they used to.Office 2007 Home & Student is only $150, and the OEM version is probably a fraction of that. ...
Posted 03/03/2009 at 05:34:41pm
I've also noticed that as computers get cheaper, manufacturers sacrifice things like complementary installations of Microsoft Office and antivirus software (they used to give you lifetime updates, the ...
Posted 03/01/2009 at 02:17:09pm
...for lawyers.We now live in a lawyer's paradise, in which we can't do anything business-related without hiring one. ...
Posted 02/27/2009 at 07:39:52pm
What if someone with the same name as you Twitter's "I hate my job?" How will your company know it wasn't you? ...
Posted 02/27/2009 at 01:20:39pm
She must have been "friends" with her boss or something, because I don't see how he could have known otherwise.If that was the case, she should have been fired for stupidity. ...
Posted 02/15/2009 at 10:43:24am
Tools like John the Ripper make it easy to append numbers to a wordlist, and there are plenty of wordlists of peoples' names. They're probably the most common type of password, and if you ever use u ...
Posted 02/15/2009 at 10:40:23am
If you use Windows, even that is vulnerable. If you have file sharing enabled and use a weak password on any account with Administrator access (not sure about Vista, but definitely in XP), any hacke ...
Posted 02/05/2009 at 10:46:48pm
They could offer the source code for Windows but still charge for CDs of compiled code.Most of their OS sales are OEM anyway, so as long as Dell and HP keep giving them money, they're good. ...
Posted 02/01/2009 at 10:00:30pm
Windows 7 is supposed to fix Vista. It's basically like Windows 98 SE.Do it right this time. ...
Posted 02/01/2009 at 09:00:37pm
True, the performance delta may be negligable on a high end computer, but try installing it on a Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM or less.It makes no sense to upgrade from XP to Vista. If it comes with you ...
Posted 01/21/2009 at 11:31:04am
Yes, there are those known problems, but Tor is better than nothing. I'd rather have logs of my questionable browsing habits on a server in Germany than at my ISP's office, which has my address and ...
Posted 12/24/2008 at 04:27:54pm
giggidy giggidy giggidy giggidyAwwwl right! ...
Posted 12/22/2008 at 05:26:17pm
I've got a better idea: if you don't give a shit about legacy apps, use an open-source operating system and ditch Microsoft completely.Microsoft should care about legacy support because it's why every ...
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