Posted 11/26/2008 at 08:02:37pm

I am looking forward to Chrome getting extensions.  I use FF3 most of the time, but every once in a while I will use Chrome.  Inevitibly when I'm surfing something irritates me and I think "why is my extension not working to stop that?".  Then I remember I'm surfing in Chrome and I can't hide ads, digg with a click, or grab an image as easily as I can in FF3.

Extensions make me more productive, and doing stuff with the content you are viewing is the name of the game these days, is it not?

Posted 09/29/2008 at 05:35:26pm

I've tried to get the episode through iTunes for a couple of days now and no luck.  I try again today to get the ep directly from iTunes and there are no episodes of MPC listed.  Trying the MP3 dl now.

Posted 06/28/2008 at 09:41:16am

More pictures of inside the case would be nice.

Posted 11/19/2007 at 08:46:36pm

I, like the Murf love to look at stats like these and compare my rig to other PC's that are out there (although I did drop Statistical Methods of Psychology shortly after the semester started!). I have participated in previous Valve hardware surveys but did not participate in this survey. I built my rig almost 2 years ago and based it on an AMD socket 939 architecture. I have 2GB of RAM in my machine so I'm in the minority there (0.43%) but I'm squarely with the majority of AMD users because I'm running a single core (75.36%) 3700+ San Diego Core at 2.29GHz (20.77%). So I'm above average in RAM but in the proc area I'm not sure if I made a good choice or not. For the money the chip I have is great, but I do wish I had gotten that FX-60 when I had the chance. I do have a dual core chip that I could put in my machine but I never felt it was an improvement over my old processor. I think the most surprising stat for me was the video card breakdown. I could not believe how fragmented this area was! I don't see how video card manufacturer's make money when the pie looks to be cut so small. There is basically 2.5% difference in the top 5 video cards that a majority of the users out there are running (on valve games anyway). Something else that stood out in my mind as I browsed the stats was the breakdown of the bus types. It looks like PCIe x16 is the majority with 51.75% of the PC's out there but AGP 8x systems are still out there chugging along at 28.67% (sadly I'm in this group). I would have thought newer systems would have more RAM, but I guess 1GB is still the sweet spot for most. To wrap this up I guess in my mind the evaluation of my machine is like this: considering what I paid over 2 years to keep the PC running (aprox $700.00), the cost/performance I get is pretty darn good. I know it could be beter, but my rig can hold it's own in most of this Valve pack. Sure this is just my comparison of the sampling from Valve servers vs. my specs, but isn't that why stats can be fun? In this case they helped me to tale stock of my choices in relation to others who share a common interest. I feel pretty good about my PC in general, but man, I really do wish I had picked up the FX-60 and bought a PCIe 16x motherboard!