Posted 10/26/2009 at 12:45:04pm

Word and OneNote do not work as of yet.  Excel and PowerPoint work great in IE8.

Posted 10/22/2009 at 01:32:33pm

I've been running Windows 7 since the Beta stage.  It's worked well for everything I've needed.  Stable, fast and easy to use.

Posted 10/07/2009 at 01:04:03pm

http://tweaks.com/software/tweakslogon/

That is the fastest free way to do it.  It even makes the image compliant with the 245kB size requirement without requiring anything more from the user than a simple button click.

Posted 10/04/2009 at 06:17:28pm

Windows XP Mode is NOT for gaming!  It is for business applications only, ones which require very little, if any graphical acceleration.  I had trouble playing video files in VLC Media Player for crying out loud!

Posted 10/04/2009 at 06:15:56pm

I can't believe there's actually a Help and Support entry on opening a Windows Vista box!  ROFL.  I've had 7 since beta and am running MSDN-AA code now.  Nothing has shown up that would send me back to Vista.  I intend to run 7 until 8 arrives.

Posted 09/19/2009 at 11:04:15am

This is a killer buy.  From a "poor college student" perspective, you can certainly save electricity this way.  Power's there only when you need it.  You can also remove the distraction of work documents from the gaming machine :D

Posted 09/18/2009 at 01:48:51pm

Click the link for "Need to join your school's network domain?  Click here!"  It will show Windows 7 Professional is the same price ($29.95) as Windows 7 Home Premium.

Posted 08/15/2009 at 09:59:36am

While the majority of people might switch to laptops (leaving desktops a niche market), desktops will never die.  You can always get more bang for your buck in a desktop.  There are some components that just aren't available in laptops.  Find me a laptop that can drive a 30" LCD @ 2560x1600 with acceptable framerates.  Hard to do, isn't it?  Desktop tri or quad SLI (or CrossFire) would do much better.

I'm sure laptops will continue eating away at market share (heck my desktop doesn't even see much use) but there are just some things that are better done on desktops for the moment.  How many game devs, 3D animators or engineers rely on laptops alone?  I highly doubt that those professions will be chucking their workstations out the window anytime soon.

Posted 08/14/2009 at 10:50:22am

The whole "if it's in the EULA" defense is stupid.  There's a difference between asking to install adware and installing something that uses your CPU at full bore.  If you pay for your own electricity, then they're in my opinion stealing from you.  If you're going to run my CPU full-bore (like F@H does), you damn well better make sure you've thrown a huge box in my face telling me.  The fact that it sneakily runs after your PC has been unused, then shuts itself off when you get back is even worse, since you wouldn't even notice it unless you heard about it.  All you would possibly see is a higher power bill.

Just because you can hide things in the EULA doesn't mean you should.  It may be "legal" but it still strikes me as wrong--many companies take advantage of the fact that Joe and Jane Public don't read EULAs becaues they're long, full of legalese and impossible to understand. 

If Digsby is also starting to follow this trend then it's just shameful.

Posted 03/12/2009 at 07:09:58pm

WANT!  Well only if I can boot my OS off it...