Posted 11/21/2008 at 10:23:53pm

I find this funny that they are just now disabling access to thumb drives and burners.  My wife and mother-in-law both work for a major health care company, and they both have company issue laptops.  They order them sans optical drives and all usb ports are disabled so you cannot use a thumb drive, ext. HDD, or usb burner.  They have been this way for years, nice to see the military finally catching up to the private sector.

Posted 11/10/2008 at 02:05:00am

I saw that there was a lot of talk about slipstreaming SP3 into a SP0 disk.  Well I just did it a few minutes ago, and installed the system with it, and it works flawless. 

Also in about how to do the old school slipstream, you download the service pack, copy the contents of a XP CD to a folder, ie X:\XP-CD, and to to run type:  "X:\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe -x"

That will extract all the files, it should prompt you to create a directory.

 Then open command prompt and type and make your way to the location of the above extracted file then type:

"WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe /integrate:X:\XP-CD"

where X:\XP-CD is the location you copied the contents of your cd to.

Posted 11/03/2008 at 09:51:43pm

I dont know about you guys, but have to ever tried to open the easy open ones?  They are just as painfull to try and open as the regular ones.  I alway end up getting the trusty utility knife and slicing it open, then hopefull tear the packeage open with out cutting myself on the razor sharp plastic that is left.

Posted 10/31/2008 at 01:56:32am

If you own the upgrade or retail versions of the software you are allowed based on the EULA to install it on what ever machine you are currently going to use.  If you get the OEM software you are supposed to install it on a machine and that machine only, if you go by the EULA.  With the OEM, it is licensed for that computer, but it used to be very vague as to what was considered still that same machine, I have rebuilt my moms machine a few times, over now, but used the same optical, case, and harddrive, what has changed was the mobo/cpu, I think in that case you are supposed to buy a new copy, but the online activation of XP went through with out a hiccup so who knows.

Posted 10/30/2008 at 07:40:58pm

Why not just put an eraser tip in the middle of the damn thing like they do on laptops or even a touch pad built into the board near the space bar, at least that makes sense.  The last thing I want to do when typing is move the entire keyboard around to make my cursor move anyways.

Posted 09/24/2008 at 09:33:13am

You guys never enven mentioned the Snap-on electric screw driver model CTS561.  Evey tech at my work has one of these, and they are the greatest.  Allows one handed operation, and they are low torque so you dont strip the heads off.  Plus with the battery pack at 90* to the head, they can get into the tightest of places.

Posted 09/19/2008 at 09:08:54am

The drive that you have there is a different model.  The other drive has since be deactivated by newegg.  Its a shame too, I have a small notebook that I use for work, and was looking to install one of those in it, it gets bumped around a lot riding in my service truck. 

Drive Link

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227344&Tpk=N82E16820227344

Rebate Link

http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/rebate/SH/OCZ8MIRsSep17Sep3008jh28.pdf

Posted 09/17/2008 at 11:47:21pm

You forgot to mention the industrial espionage ordeal that resulted in hundreds of thousands of bad capcitors, that would pop or rupture over time.  I think those were also from China.

Posted 09/17/2008 at 11:31:39pm

Does the switch to the high-lead soldier mean that nVidia will no longer be in compliancy with RoHS specs?  Its been a while since I looked at what the actual specs were for compliancy, but I thought it was no lead based soldiers or components.

Posted 09/15/2008 at 08:29:17pm

Can I borrow that thing for a day or two so that I can run folding on it.  I would love to see my score with a couple of 1 million point days in there.