Posted 11/21/2008 at 11:07:17am

I can see this being a bit of a pain in the butt, but I'm actually glad to see them airing on the side of paranoia...  I mean, this *is* the military after all.

Maybe they need some kind of device that they can run the storage media (ie, flash drive or writeable DVD/CD) through to determine that it's "clean"?

Posted 11/19/2008 at 06:19:06pm

I was going to write something like this but read the comments and found it already well-put.

Consider this sentiment seconded. ^^^

Posted 11/19/2008 at 06:13:06pm

Lots of security suites muck around with delicate system settings...  And it's not like Symantec (ie, Norton) is free anyway.  And One Care *isn't* free...  So if you're referring to it as crappy in the present tense, and then trying to say you get what you pay for when you're talking two programs that you have to pay to use...  What gives? I'm lost.

Normally I would like software that can accomplish multiple related tasks, but when it comes to my PC's personal bubble I'm not so sure.  I'm at a bit of a piece-wise approach with separate software for AV, Firewall, sypware/crapware, and a removal tool for those nasty little rootkits that I pray I never have to use.  Sure, that's four pieces of software, but they're all good at their individual purposes...  And I'd take that over one piece of software that's average at all of the above.  The point?  Live One Care is an integrated security suite.  If it's going to compel me, it's going to have to be better than the majority of software in its respective areas and at least comprable in others (as applicable).

Posted 11/19/2008 at 09:29:50am

"Adjustable UAC options"

Thank God.  This has always bothered me.  I don't like that I have to turn it off, but I have a couple things that just don't play nice with it...  Hopefully this will let me pick a "medium" setting I can tolerate.

Posted 11/16/2008 at 02:19:48pm

Well, I personally can't afford to build a system (of that magnitude, anyway) right now...  But I get to basically put together one for a friend who has been wanting a new machine (I told him to wait for i7).  So I'll get to do a complete system build with one of these guys in about a week.  The proc.-o-choice is the 940...  And I'd like to point out that my prediction for the pricing on that part on Newegg is exactly one cent lower than I predicted...  If only that prediction were written down somewhere...  Heh.

Posted 11/13/2008 at 07:00:14pm

Am I the only one who couldn't help but chuckle every time I hit this?

Posted 11/10/2008 at 09:39:38pm

"It ain't our fault!"

Posted 11/10/2008 at 09:37:13pm

Package size.

Posted 10/29/2008 at 12:13:08pm

Keith, can you explain to my why you think that 2 sets of three channels is somehow not a perfectly natural extension of 2 sets of two channels (and think about how many boards today have 2 pairs of corresponding DDR2 slots...)?  This board's RAM slots make WAY more sense than that bizarre dual-tri hybrid that was going on.  I sincerely think that would've confused people a lot.

Posted 10/24/2008 at 11:36:48am

Uh, what's the point?  Perhaps MSI missed the memo, but netbooks aren't performance-oriented....  Even an overclock doesn't cure the severe performance limitations.  Not that they don't serve a purpose, but...  I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that people interested in overclocking their machine probably want something more substantial than the typical netbook.