Posted 10/21/2009 at 10:37:47pm

Unless of course... ...you're the average person who never ever clears the cache, resulting in 49.999MB of space used out of the 50MB allotted (default size for Firefox, varies from browser to browser). I don't see how forcing the browser to figure out which of the over 9000 files is oldest really helps the situation typical for most... It's really a context tip, not universal.

But then again, we read Maximum PC: we better have better cycles of maintenance over most. :P

Posted 10/12/2009 at 04:26:13pm

How comfortably is Windows 7 going to run on a machine that was meant for Windows 98?

Posted 10/03/2009 at 06:28:41pm

Something else for people to falsely point the "cause of cancer" finger at. Personally, I prefer my wires - wires are constant and (mostly) secure. They're also usually better in the performance aspect. Also, this is Sony: when it first comes out and probably before any competition it'll be wildly expensive.

Posted 09/26/2009 at 02:09:55pm

I use a Samsung Epix to start. I find that the handset people use has a WHOLE LOT to do with their service quality, in addition to the area they live in. I've been back and forth betweeen South Jersey and the middle of Delaware a couple times and had at least OK service if I didn't have great service. I'd also say I'm a very heavy data user, using the phone to get email off multiple accounts, remote back to a home server, and browse the web frequently. The only problems I've seemed to have are losing media connectivity after an hour of straight downloading (the handset might be to blame as this actually makes it quite warm) and a couple billing errors when modifying my plan (which were quickly and easily fixed).

As for the article, I take Google's side as they are not the ones in charge of infrastructure and providing direct service. Google's services rely on others.

Posted 09/23/2009 at 04:57:27pm

Sometimes it's better to start over than run into the possible glitches (or rootkits). This is especially true when your install is a couple years old anyway - even though it shouldn't take a catastrophe to get you off your bum for a reinstall.

Posted 09/23/2009 at 04:27:27pm

Really? AOL? For protection? For anything? Put that software out to pasture!

Posted 09/15/2009 at 04:21:27pm

Feed the troll.

Posted 08/28/2009 at 01:58:52am

People are oblivious to the ramifications of information, as well as the amount of connectivity they either have or are capable of.

Case in point is the majority of (very active) people in social networking: teenagers. Teens are quick to pick up something if it's easy enough, but are poor at judging the ramifications of it. I had a bit of a personal experience at one point with this "lack of foresight" when I recieved an "image" of someone from someone I knew who is a teen. They were spreading this image around as a sort of revenge.

"TAKE THIS PROGRAM CALLED FILE SHREDDER AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO USE IT ON THAT FILE. Are you a [expletive] idiot?"

 Need I say more?

 Personally, I deleted my MySpace and never gave in to the pleads to move to Facebook. I don't use social networking.

Posted 08/28/2009 at 01:36:59am

I think part of the problem is people not understanding exactly how to install Flash, or having weird random issues. (I'm totally serious.)

How many times do you look at a machine and find between 2 and 10 copies of the Flash installer from the same day or week?

 I literally have a friend who just would reject YouTube links, no matter the hilarity or interest factor, because Flash was "broken" and "wouldn't work."

 I got to sit at that machine eventually and fixed it in 30 seconds.

Posted 08/28/2009 at 01:30:40am

A better approach might have probably been to name a link about the controversy.

"Trouble, however, soon reared its ugly head when famous – and sometimes infamous -- author Orson Scott Card parked his own float in the Shadow Complex promotional parade, licensing the videogame property from developer Chair Entertainment and writing a series of books that take place in the game’s universe. *Some of Card's personal views are where that trouble lies.* However, that's not the focus here..."

I've seen that approach used on MCP often enough. Just throwing it out there - personally I thought the extra blurb went too far from the focus.

 Otherwise interesting, though!