Posted 11/25/2008 at 10:11:54am

As a talented IT professional, I wouldn't be long for my company if they thought they would dock me time for this...  The management making these decisions would do well to understand that they are alienating their workforce by cutting their pay.  Few things make people more bitter than a smaller paycheck for the same work.  They need to implement a solution to the root of the problem, rather than charging employees for some perceived cost.  Whether they instruct employees to hibernate their computers rather than shut down or put in a time clock machine that's always on instead of using their personal PCs, they have to find a better solution.

Posted 11/18/2008 at 05:30:05pm

I have so far only tested windows 7 in a VM, but even in a VM, with fairly gimped specs, it runs more quickly than either winXP or Vista on a hard machine.  granted i was never a vista-hater (and still maintain that as long as you have a machine that can handle it, it works better than XP for the VAST majority of users).

Posted 11/08/2008 at 07:06:02pm

We have touchscreens at my school and they work fine.  Maybe it is because we have the new toshiba hp and gateway tablets. Eitherway, the newer the touchscreen the better they will get.

Posted 11/08/2008 at 07:04:07pm

Bad Ass.  That is all I can say.

Posted 10/17/2008 at 12:20:01pm

While he may be right to say that most users wouldn't be immediately affected by the included DRM, eventually many would.  I, a typical power user, have a desktop and a laptop at home and upgrade pc's often.  With three licenses, I would run out the first time I upgraded pc's.  That is insufficient, but ultimately not the issue here.

The crux of the matter is this: Nobody likes being told what they can or can't do.  DRM tells people what they can and can't do.  Nobody likes DRM.  Simple.  A=B, B=C, A=C.

If I didn't mind being told how far I could drive my own car, then maybe I would lease.  Forget that the lease gives me 12,000 miles a year and I only drive 10,000.  The point is - Don't tell me how far I can drive.

John Riccitiello is just as out of touch with his customers as is all of the RIAA and MPAA.

Posted 10/01/2008 at 04:54:14pm

Paint.Net is a great free photo editing application.  Lots of useful tools, lightweight, and fast.  Did I mention free? www.getpaint.net

Posted 09/17/2008 at 06:13:23pm

Tried every tactic in the book; Acronis TI, Acronis Migrate, Norton Partition Magic, Ghost v11-14, Paragon Series of tools, numerous freeware utilities(UBCD and Hiren's Boot Cd included)... to clone or backup & restore this Dell drive, the end result every time is a corrupt MFT and failure to boot-BSOD. The drive does not feature a Restore partition like many recent Dell products, but does have the hidden Dell Utility part. Have tried copying partitions over with and without the Dell Utility part. and changing needed options in Boot.ini, but always same result. Have tried many tools and many drives(thinking it was bad hard drive) and even eliminating the Dell from the process using a surrogate to do the clone or backup/restore and still no go. Asked dell if they could give me some insight on what may be the problem and they were overwhelmingly unhelpful.

Posted 09/10/2008 at 11:59:34pm

Guys checkout this page

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12152_na/12152_na.HTML

Scroll to the bottom of the page and checkout the battery life in hours. None of them is even close to 24hrs.

Another observation, this article was posted on 9/9/08 and even the page on HP's site was updated on same date. 

MaxPC <= A&&Holes do you just want traffic on your site or is HP paying you to write such crappy shit??

 Please provide us with some real news... 

Posted 09/09/2008 at 01:05:31pm

i think i just came.

Posted 09/08/2008 at 03:00:13pm

 Why not just go to NVidia?

 http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_175.19_whql.html