Posted 09/26/2008 at 01:23:32pm

Seriously, I feel naked without this thing:

Victorinox Cybertool 34

I love the interchangable heads, they give you several sizes of phillips, a slotted, and several hex heads.

I rarely find anything electronic, PC, laptop, or otherwise, that I cannot take apart and put back together with this thing.

-Helmet 

Posted 03/11/2008 at 09:25:04pm

Dunno if you guys check comments for Podcasts this far back, but here goes. Gordon: It is perfectly OK to be using your Windows Mobile Phone while on the crapper. It is natural. It is good. Don't fight your true nature... :) Think of it this way. The previous generation read the paper or a magazine while on the crapper, right? Well this is just the 21st Century digital equivalent. In fact, you should be applauded for advancing into modern times the art of entertaining yourself while pinching a loaf. I'm all for moving forward, whether that movement be bowel related or technology related, it's all good. :) -Helmet

Posted 03/10/2008 at 07:28:20pm

Dunno if this would solve the suspend/resume issue, but I know on XP I have seen noticable performance increases when you disable the swap file on systems with 4GB of memory. (For the those reading that do not know, Windows defaults to setting your swap file to be 1.5 times the ammount of RAM you have. Do the math and thats a lot of useless data constantly being written back and forth to your hard drive.) Not sure if Vista even has the option to disabled the swap file, but thought it was worth a mention. -Helmet