Posted 10/05/2008 at 06:57:16am

People who won't use Asus anymore, that's fine..obviously. There's a certain line you can't cross and Asus has crossed it for them.

For me, however, Asus is still incredibly solid stuff. I won't consider Giagbyte though. Why not? Why does a company want me to take them seriuosly when they have neon pink/yellow/green on their motherboards. Like PINK! 

Posted 09/29/2008 at 08:45:19pm

How about wife of the month?

Posted 08/27/2008 at 09:07:47pm

Actually leopard is quit capable of running 64-bit apps. Also, Apple is now compiling OS X with the llvm back-end and gcc front-end which is why OS X runs quite well on simliar yet different (slower AND faster) hardware than base/custom macs.

 Apple can get up and go wherever they want to with their code base very quickly, imo, far superior foundation than MS. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Apple is the only one removing old and useless habits (security blankets?) of computer engineers and MS just keeps on with their requirements for RAID drivers (via FLOPPY). Apple is also planning to dump GCC front-end. Where is Ubuntu on this one? Oh yeah, they don't care.

Posted 08/27/2008 at 08:59:35pm

If you are actually impressed by Ubuntu's "app manager" you'll love PC-BSD's PBI management system. Not to mention the lack of - which version of kernel? which library? What toolkits? Silly Linux.

Posted 08/27/2008 at 08:52:28pm

8. Secure in our insecurity - You love to tout the lack of viruses targeted towards Macs as an indication that Macs are more secure, but could it be that even hackers don't give a f*** about Mac users? In a way, it'd be like invading Iceland. It's not that it can't be done, but what's the point?

Give this one a rest already. Microsoft is not taking the blame for being secure and reliable by design - end of discussion. 

Posted 07/15/2008 at 08:44:54pm

Auzentech still pwns, not too mention replaceable op-amps. For games though, higher FPS with Creative solutions...not sure about Vista for anything, I'm using FreeBSD :)

Posted 07/15/2008 at 08:16:01pm

Dayuuuum, you can just tell that guy KNOWS what he is doing. If I met him, I wouldn't talk, just listen and try to soak up everything he says.

Posted 07/09/2008 at 05:29:04pm

I have had to reinstall Windows on two machines thus far. Both machines used wireless (a laptop and my media center), however, I think that is irrelevant. I do know that both systems were fresh installs updated from SP1 up to SP2, then to SP3.

 Issue: Computer was unable to login to Windows in safe mode and in regular modes. The errors exclaimed that Windows was unable to allocate sufficient resources to create the user profile (and some other vaguity). 

 
The apparent solution (I haven't upgraded these machines to SP3, laptop is running Windows Server/PC-BSD) is to ensure having Windows Installer 3.1 or above prior to updating SP3. One must chose custom, obviously and select Installer, deselecting SP3 of course. If Installer 3.1 is not visible to Update, then one must search Microsoft's Download site for the executable. I haven't tested this, but others whom I have e-mailed report the same exact problem and the above appeared to solve their issues.

Good luck!

Posted 07/08/2008 at 08:14:31pm

http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2981

 ergo, you don't need real-time scanning, just scan every now and then and stop giving up precious resources and CPU cycles on unnecessary applications. Use Linux or FreeBSD (PC-BSD is VERY easy ergo, I haven't googled a how-to on anything thus far).

Posted 07/07/2008 at 06:28:24pm

How the hell does Vista save me MORE money than FreeBSD/PC-BSD? PC-BSD is free, (less ppl needed to distribute the software since no one needs to SELL PC-BSD), little to no marketing, no packaging and the power saving algorithms in Linux and *BSD are quite good for open source OSes. Oh and no licencing stickers to waste environmental energy on stickers that are "required". Sorry Microsoft, but you failed again.