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So I figured out how to map my user libraries (can't think of a better name for them, but they aren't the libraries that shipped with Win7+ -- I'm talking about the ones you find in the This PC folder in Windows 8.1) to the hard drive by right clicking the folders and hitting Properties. I'm...

There was a minor scare involving the graphics card and Windows 8.1 x64 drivers, but I got that ironed out and it looks like we're in business. I'm torn between spending the cash I've got on a GTX750Ti or a 1080p monitor, or simply holding on to it. I've got nothing but the 15" 1024x768 panel at...

Today was a good day. Picked up a Dell Studio 540 for free without a hard drive. Works great. It's got a Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHz, 6GB DDR2-800 RAM, and a discrete Radeon HD 3650 or so. The grep output for lspci wasn't particularly specific, narrowing it down to anything from an HD 3650 to...

Well, honestly, now I just feel inadequate. ;-) I completely understand how that kind of data just piles up for you guys, but on my own with no setup files to worry about (seriously, I've got about 130GB of setup files sitting on the NAS) I have serious issues filling up 250GB. My videos folder...

All this talk of multi-terabyte systems and I have trouble filling 500GB. What do you guys run in your personal systems? Daily drivers, that is, not home servers or whatever. ddrueding and Santilli are the only two people I can think of off the top of my head who detail system specs in their...

Yeah, Flint's apparently the murder capitol of the world. I learned that today, when discussing a subject unrelated to this.

The latency would be terrible for me, definitely, seeing how I'm still using an 802.11g router.

I can get Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter. I'm grabbing the Datacenter version now. That's what I will be running on the A10 build instead of Windows 8.1/10. I looked at a chart detailing the differences between the versions, and while I will probably never use the virtualization features...

Vivaldi is shaping up to be pretty cool. It seems to be aiming to replace the Presto-based versions of Opera, in terms of features aimed toward power users. It's based on the same rendering engine as Chrome, so expect roughly the same amount of speed as with Chrome. It's got just about no addons...

I might actually do that on my A10-5800K build when it's done. I honestly don't do anything that needs a server release of Windows anyway, but hey, it's a free, genuine license for Windows that isn't an OEM version.

I'm of the same mind as Lunar. Why was it made illegal? Actually, scratch that. I don't think I'm even old enough to legally talk about this stuff yet.

I'm salivating. Is that normal? I... think I'm getting dehydrated over here...

Yikes. Is it responsive after it boots up? What's kind of funny is that I could get a free license for Server 2012 R2 (any of three versions, Essentials, Standard, and I can't remember the third one) through the DreamSpark program. That's how I have VS 2013 Pro, and Office 2013 ProPlus (though...

Yikes. No thank you, I'm not dancing this dance today! I have to say that I'd be surprised if the asking price was anything below $1250, as you said. But I imagine that to someone that can use it, it'd be worth it. Also, I will probably never be able to use flagship hardware to its full...

Might just have to grab this one. Maybe if I turn the settings down far enough it'll run favorably on this laptop! On another note, I've got a couple months before this happens, but I'm getting a new desktop. I'm not building it specifically for gaming, but that will be a facet of it. I'm going...

Thanks for the clarification, guys. I agree with Merc. With the hype that Windows 10 is getting, in combination with the actual improvements (that people other than power users/sysadmins care about, because let's face it, even though Win8.x's task manager is nice, do you really think grandma...

I have to agree with Tannin here -- there is just no excuse for completely dropping support for a line of otherwise perfectly functional machines just because they don't support a single feature that rarely if ever actually gets used in any meaningful capacity. For example, the NX bit is of...

Figured out the issue. The NaCl plugin wasn't set to always allowed, for some reason. Fixed it. At it's finest, I can only expect to get maybe 5-10000 ppd from this Sandy Bridge i3, as GPU folding isn't an option for Intel HD chipsets. And that's if I let it run at full tilt all day, everyday --...

What he said! I had to go back to using the desktop F@H client -- for some reason, the NaCl client does not work in Chromium, which I chose to install instead of straight Google Chrome, which doesn't appear to be in Linux Mint's stock repositories, and I'm not too certain that I want to add...

I imagine these are marketed to the people who see a big, impressive number that isn't entirely incorrect and want to buy it, no matter the cost. Same deal with the 3.0+ GHz Pentium 4's, although those at least had some real merit. They had nothing on an Athlon XP/64 in normal use, of course...

I love how such high capacity hard drives are getting so cheap, but PCs are still being sold with 500GB hard drives as standard. You'd think 1 or 2TB would be standard by now.

I'm just imitating his style for the posts in this particular topic so it seems more cohesive with the others. I'm not about to start my own thread about it, that'll just make me seem like even more of a copy-cat. Also, I'm pretty sure most of the things I'm learning about and find useful are...

WindowPad (scroll down in the first post and click the attachment to download) is a neat little utility that enhances Windows 7+'s Aero Snap capabilities to do snapping in quarters and in the center of the screen. It will also run on XP/Vista, giving them Aero Snap functionality. Yes...

Where did I say that it wouldn't be public? :confused:

I have a QuakeNet account and a IRC client that I have set to autologin and autojoin a couple channels. I use it for chatting with a few people from another site. Lunar, just in case you weren't being sarcastic, IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. QuakeNet does have a webchat thingy made in...

Out of curiosity, do we have an IRC channel?

So would I! What's the seeming obsession with mechanical keyboards over here about? I can't say a whole lot, because I've never used a mechanical keyboard, but rubber dome keyboards do the job alright for me. From my perspective, for what they're asking for mechanical keyboards, it better be...

Apparently, it's going to be a free upgrade for 7/8/8.1 users for the first year after release. It's kind of vague about what happens after that. Does it switch to a subscription model? The readers at Ars are having it out in the comments of the story as we speak. Link.

I'd imagine, being three years old, that it's out of warranty at this point. And yes, it is better. Very much so.

Why is that?

A friend wanted to trade me his Satellite C655, specs detailed in my signature. He wanted the HDMI and USB 3.0 ports that were provided on my machine that I didn't utilize, and I wanted his obviously faster CPU. The RAM is a bit slower than I'd like, but I figure it really doesn't matter too...

The saddest thing of all? CNet's been like this for at least the last 5 years.

Yeah, except the Linux version only has 1 GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. And it comes with Ubuntu, which is decidedly NOT light enough to run on such a small amount of RAM or even such a small amount of storage. It'd be very cramped, to say the least. Now, if it came with something like...

I was referring to the flash drive that he might have been using, which I do often see formatted in NTFS these days. I remember taking my old 1 and 2GB flash drives and formatting them in NTFS (they came to me in FAT32) to get a little extra space. Remember, these were 1 and 2GB flash drives...

That seems like the best course of action, although you may end up with the data sitting on a useless host if you can't get it off there in some form, whether it be using floppies, a LAN, CD-Rs, or even USB drives. Windows 98 has a generic driver available for USB mass storage devices, however...

In the past three days with NaCl I have roughly tripled a point count that I spent a couple months getting with fahclient. Of course, points aren't so much the issue here for me, but getting WUs in and out in a timely manner is -- I don't always remember to leave this on overnight and so I may...

Well, about three and a half hours and a couple of headaches later, I have a working system again! Everything went fine, mostly. The first headache was just waiting for it to complete and my system to be able to leave the live environment. Well, I actually hit one minor snag. I didn't end up...

I tend to do 2.5x, just to be safe. Though I might just get rid of the partition entirely, and resize my root partition while I'm at it. I really wish I had the foresight to make this all one big partition, and I might still be able to yet, by copying the data from it and editing my fstab so...

Yeah, I think we can say my issues have been sorted out -- I went to bed at about 3 AM (terrible sleeping habits, I know, please don't give me the lecture) and woke up at around noon to being about 2000 points richer. Is it 'richer'? I don't know. I had 2000 more points now than I did when I...

Well, I'm happy that you have what you need, but I don't think I'm going to need 32GB for at least another five years. Even 8GB is more or less a luxury for me. I've never used more than half of it in normal use, which leads me to ask myself just why I spent $70 on the upgrade. I have not...

Well that's just not fair at all! I upgraded my Celeron Satellite C55 to 8GB RAM and a 240GB Kingston SSDNow 300. No new battery here, though -- I get about four hours off of my current one and a larger one won't do me much good. I was in awe of just how much snappier it is -- previously, it...

It'd be great if I could reliably get WUs - it finished that last one, and has been stuck on trying to get another one for the past couple of hours.

Thanks for the link. I didn't think there would be, but just to be sure I tuned the search to a more general model, the c55-b series. Nothing notable there. But I imagine that if I look hard enough (especially now that I know the exact dimensions of my screen and what connector it uses) I can...

Probably because my name isn't Ross Ndeek, it's Jacob Turner. No, I do not play baseball, and frankly sports in general do not capture my interest in the slightest. Very useful and entertaining information, by the way. I'm finding it hard to believe that you came up with such detailed profiles...

What'd be especially great is if there was an interest for panel upgrades in laptops. You can bet that if I could find a 1080p 15.6" panel for my laptop, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Good to know. :-D

Thanks for the support guys. timwhit: I just got the NaCl client working, and holy crap is it quick. It's roundabout the only reason I put Chrome on my computer, but in case I need an alternate browser I installed Eversync on both Firefox and Chrome so I can sync my bookmarks between the two...

No such Option "TouchpadOff" entry can be found in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, and none of the other files exist. Getting a loaner drive may or may not be an option sometime next week, but I'm banking on a 'no'.

According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it's ignoring touch events. Why would it do that? In every single mouse control panel, it lists itself as enabled. Hmm... Oh, and I misread the size of the IMG -- it's 512 bytes, not KB. I am using GRUB to boot.

Tried it. The ISO has a file in it called "Bootable_HardDisk.img" with a size of 512k, and nothing else even though the ISO is almost 30MB. No dice. My BIOS does NOT provide the option to upgrade from within itself. Chewy: I did read that article. The flashrom utility will not work with my...