Posted 09/18/2009 at 09:39:10pm

I'm running XP Pro OEM.  I started with an MSI SiS chipset, died from bad caps (that was the year a lot of the vendors got stuck with capacitors with substandard oil), an ASROCK I don't want to talk about with a VIA PT800 and finally and Abit with a PT880 (yes, I'm still running a Precott).  At least four CPU's and five AGP adapters and never a peep from re-activation.  Just goes to show your milage may vary.

Posted 09/16/2009 at 12:05:48am

Ok, what about all the Hackintosh articles on this site?  To run a Mac OS on a non-Apple box (or an emulator, SheepShaver, Basilisk, etc), you still have to copy (or download) the ROM from a real Mac.  It's not hundreds of dollars in software, but I doubt Woz and Jobs see the distinction.  I'm coming kind of late to this discussion, but I also see a link to a new article on build your own MAME cabinet.  For that matter, what about console emulators, surely there is one for the original XBOX. The only distinction is that I guess you could argue Mac and old console ROMS aren't encrypted, so they don't fall under DMCA.

Posted 05/25/2009 at 03:25:56pm

Actually, I meant he should have travelled back in time in his own universe and fixed the nova before it reached Romulus and whatever else it got (wasn't supposed to originate in another solar system, and if so it is moving faster than C?).  If you accept New Voyages as cannon :), he could also fly through the ship sized portal on the keeper planet.

Posted 05/23/2009 at 05:24:03pm

And you can't print data out and carry it out because USB printers never work.  Seriously, I've been working with Vista at a school now for a year and only recently realized what a crap shoot it is getting USB printers and thumb drives to work (the school printers are all networked).

Even if Spock could repair the timeline (why not swing around a star and get there in time to save Romulus in the first place? "Suddenly, the unthinkable happened" - What, Spock got the calculations wrong?  There are no pilots other than the oldest living Vulcan?  Did he get sleepy and have to pull over for a nap?), the 6 billion dead Vulcans time line would still exist, all he would succeed in doing is moving himself back to the classic timeline, where he's old and all his friends are already dead anyway. 

 I was going to say it was silly that that whole original crew is is the academy at the same time, but I just looked it up and Shattner is only five years older than Koenig, one for Abrams. 

 After a sudden attack and loss of personel you would probably see the entire upper class commissioned (didn't that happen after Pearl Harbor), but they would go in as Ensigns with a fast track to Liutenant JG, but not promoted over line officers.  They tried that in DS9, and the cadet in charge was depicted as delusional.

 What the heck is Red Matter?  It only takes a drop to destroy a planet or stop a super Nova, but Spock fills up a beach ball with the stuff (maybe it he made less he would have saved Romulus).  And detonating the whole thing a few minutes warp away from Earth sounds like a good idea?

Posted 05/20/2009 at 12:51:05am

The first hot video cards were VESA Local Bus Windows Accelerators, like the ATI Mach32 (just like it sounds, they rendered panels in Windows 3.0 faster).  The first 3D cards all had different proprietary interfaces.  When PCI 3D cards came out a few months later, the games were still proprietary to the 3D chip, good luck buying any games other than the ones bundled with card, until "generic" API's like Glide and OpenGl came out.

Posted 02/05/2009 at 05:07:29pm

Next up: The Nazi Zombie Roadsign Podcast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ESMVQe3t4

Posted 08/30/2008 at 05:52:48pm

Posted 06/14/2008 at 01:47:04pm

Idea for next publishing week: MaximumPC Podcast: The All Outakes Edition :)

Posted 04/12/2008 at 03:30:07pm

That was a "King of the Hill" episode Better yet, let everyone run on their own home tracks and compare the times. Nobody goes anywhere, all kinds of fuel gets saved, and NBC doesn't hijack my TV set for two weeks.

Posted 08/22/2007 at 03:45:38pm

Would you consider adding a Links page for those of us too lazy to rewind the podcast and look up sites and downloads for ourselves? Love the magazine, love the show.