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I went and saw it tonight, and have to agree. I've never read the comic but it felt like they just walked through the basic origin story for the character and used whatever time they had left over to shill the Avengers movie. Loki got a tiny bit of character development and everyone else's got...

I just started watching Game of Thrones the other day, hadn't realized it was an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire. It's a well put together adaptation though (The casting especially seems spot on with how I imagined the characters) and I read the books long enough ago that I don't remember...

Would a USB NIC help with isolating the NIC from the host OS? Or you could look at an Atom or VIA mini ITX system, maybe with some creative case modding and a heat pipe or water cooling setup to make it air tight without overheating.

Assuming your brother wants his phone to function in English the safest place to buy it from would be the UK. Unfortunately probably not the cheapest, but the available options are generally pretty good. I'm not really sure which bands they use in the Czech Republic but I've never heard of a...

Somewhere to go in Europe or somewhere to go in the US to get the phone for Europe? Play.com and The Carphone Warehouse are the 2 that immediately spring to mind.

At least one guy at work has a wildfire, I'll ask him about battery life if I remember on Tuesday. I'd have thought he'd have mentioned it if it was anything special though, he generally has at least 3 Android phones on hand for testing so he has plenty to compare it to. I don't know anyone who...

Wow, Portal 2 has been out over a week and Aus is only just getting it? I didn't think that happened anymore.

The 2 Androids on the list will probably have the worst battery life of any of those, they're full smart phones and that's just the nature of the beast. That said, as long as the battery will last out a day without trouble you just have to get used to plugging it in every night. Since I've moved...

I always assumed that Easters lunar calendar came from the same place as the name and all of the symbolism (According to Wikipedia - Ēostre a Germanic goddess of the dawn.) I really hope all the people arguing about it for so long had some serious evidence that that wasn't the case or they'd...

It looks like this product ticks all of your boxes, including jumbo frames (Assuming that's what Up to 580Mbps throughout with larger packets means), and it's a bit cheaper than the Netgear. http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=90

I have a Super Talent Pico C. Sounds as dodgy as hell but they're actually not a terrible brand and the drive itself is damn near indestructible. Had it attached to my keys for years now and it still ticks along perfectly well. It does take a little bit of force to get it in to really small USB...

If you really want shallow DOF with a wide lens then maybe what you need to look at is the minimum focus distance... I have a Tokina 11-16 2.8 which can produce some great bokeh because it can focus inside of 30cm. Of course that may well not actually help you take the photos you want...

Gigabit switch and basic router would be my suggestion as well, simple to set up, probably gives you slightly better speed than the switch in a router, more ports and less to replace when you switch from cable to DSL or whatever. My experience with jumbo frames has been similar to everyone else...

No but it attracts EMF from the satellites, so if you put your head between it and the satellites then it will attract the EMF through your head. (Or it will try, obviously the EMF particles will mostly be absorbed by your brain giving you some form of highly localized and completely...

A Krispy Kreme recently opened in the shopping center over the road from where I live. There was a queue out of the store, out of the shopping center, and a little way around the corner. The Welsh must really like donuts... (Although right now I can see people queuing around at least 2 streets...

I'm not surprised that it doesn't work but it is surprising that it won't even boot...

Windows 7 is a lot less frustrating once you realize that using the mouse is almost a backup way of getting around. If you know what something is called then you don't have to worry about where to click or how many times just hit the windows key, type a couple of characters of the name and there...

I'm not sure that rule is right (If the source is the wan then shouldn't the dest_ip be the routers external ip?) but I'm not entirely sure it's needed. If you're using luci you could just install the luci firewall app and configure the rules with that instead. It might be simpler.

The cards are definitely mini-PCI not mini-PCI-E I use an Atheros based one (It was easier to just get the cheapest 108Mbit card I could find than try to figure out what chipset every card used.) but broadcom chips seem to be well supported also. (I'm not sure if there are any Intel wifi drivers...

I use a Ubiquity Routerstation. It runs OpenWRT out of the box and costs about half as much as that bare bones system (It doesn't come with a case or power supply though). There are a couple of other options for dedicated router platforms aimed at the wireless ISP market, I went with the...

Those demos don't strike me as things you could do to a PC that was actually plugged in... Or maybe I was just unsuccessful at forgetting what CPU stands for and am looking for excuses to hate the product...

I had the same issue swapping between Asus P67 boards (Both B3s but only one with PCI slots), the driver for whatever chip the PCI slots hang off is referred to as a manager of some description on the driver disk so I assumed it was some useless crap I didn't need and didn't install it.

I've seen it done on quite a lot of professional art work (especially smaller pieces) and it looks fine. (My father is an artist so I got dragged around a lot of art galleries as a child) If you do a google image search for "framed lino prints" for example the majority of them are framed with...

Could you just get the next normal size up and use some paper of an appropriate colour as a background?

I'm thinking of going with mechanical switches for my next keyboard... Stupidly expensive but I feel like I can deal with that if I don't have to replace it for a couple of decades...

I had to use VS and C# for the first time since Uni late last year. I remembered VS being pretty damn good but after a few years of using Java and Eclipse it's looking a bit shabby. I'm sure I'd have gotten more used to it after a while but a few things just bugged me. Auto-complete isn't...

I bought myself a nook color to use for viewing photos on holidays... I like it, but I don't have a huge list of things I'll use it for. At $250US I'm O.K with that, for the price of a Galaxy Tab, iPad or Xoom I wouldn't be. Plus I can run Android 3.0 on the NC now which is kind of cool. (It's...

I think the confusion was that you specified "laser" printer paper, as though maybe you had several reams of ink-jet paper sitting in your back room, but that just wasn't going to work in this new printer because it's a laser...

A relative of mine is looking to replace the laptop he runs his business on. He's asked for something rugged (That'll stand up to the attentions of a new puppy or being dropped on the floor) and fast. Usage is mostly web based stuff, but he also uses a few VMs so I could see this thing needing...

I wouldn't have expected that problem from Sprints WiMax network but CDMA will definitely result in a somewhat gimped experience for some iPhone apps. We're building an iPhone/BB/Android app at work at the moment and it will be severely limited when used on a CDMA network unless you have WiFi...

Agreed, the ability to make and receive calls is handy, but it's one of the functions of my phone that I use the least (Only notably surpassed by playing music which I have never attempted with it). As for 3G or 4G, I find the experience on 3G perfectly fine for everything I want to do on my...

I can't imagine that replacing the screws like that would be legal if you expressly asked them not to do it. Even if you asked them after the fact I would imagine they would have to swap them back for you.

I use a S*ny eReader, much the same thing without the cellular connection. I got used to the slow refresh rate pretty quickly, you eventually get so you can push the next page button just before you get to the end of the page and finish reading as it refreshes. Once you're used to it it's faster...

I second the USB 3 option. If USB 2 was O.K then USB 3 should be fine, and the drive will be the bottle neck anyway. I've seen issues with SATA cards where they've somehow used the same resources as the on board sata (IDE channel emulation or some such stupidity) and consequently only worked...

The seriousness of these floods really came home to me when I heard that there have been sightings of sharks in some areas. It seems like there are often crocs when severe flooding hits northern Australia but sharks are a whole new problem. (On the whole crocs scare me more, but this isn't an...

That is sickening... In the UK I can get one for a shade under 3 times that much...

Even high school footballers are going to have issues with raw steak...

I was suggesting that the client machine on your local network would connect via VPN to the remote router. So the client machine itself would be on the remote network (Or actually it would be on the VPN network and the remote router would route between the VPN network and the remote network)...

My general solution to avoid missing plot elements is to pause... But I guess if you really had to watch something live you could consider some sort of powerline video transmission (I assume you don't plan to run the TV off batteries). I would imagine that would be more reliable than wireless...

Sounds like the file's trashed... Have you tried something like killbox?

If you already plan to have a router running tomato at the remote end then you could just configure the router to do dynamic dns and have the client kick off the WoL (probably via ssh and a script/shortcut) when it needs the remote system. You could get the router to do some or all of the...

If the nail like things are what I think they are then they should have a slot cut in the pointy end so you can squeeze them with a pair of pliers and they'll pop through the board. It's surprising that the 939 back plate didn't come with the bracket. Back when 939 was common I remember always...

Thanks, they were mostly learning shots though... Like learning not to use F 1.7 for macro shots unless you want 3/4 of your subject out of focus (In my defense I thought the smaller sensor would make up for it). The weather here actually hasn't been that bad... It's been hovering around 0C...

Sorry I'm not trying to say that that hack works on anything but Canon P&S cameras. The hackable firmware is great, and would probably get me to buy a canon over a nikon P&S, but if you want a pocket-able replacement for an SLR I think there are much better options. I got a PEN EP-1 a couple of...

I don't think there are any PCI based USB3 controller chips. (Presumably if there were we'd see multiple cards based on the same chip) Possibly the inability of a standard PCI interface to allow a USB3 controller to run at anywhere near full speed makes getting such a chip certified problematic.

So does a PEN, but without de void.

I'd really like one of these for reviewing photos on holidays. If I could get one with a full size SD slot, 10" IPS screen and Tegra 2 SOC (Just cause I like the look of it) I'd probably get it right away. The closest I've found now are; Toshiba Folio 100 - SD slot and Tegra 2 check, shitty...

Don't know about this problem specifically but I've had similar issues with other D-Link modem/routers (320T). The problem in that case was that they seemed to have only tested their kit with windows PCs, most Linux distros just didn't work and the DNS cache issue you've read about meant that...

At the moment I'm splitting my gaming time between Civ5 and Fallout New Vegas... Civ5 is probably my favorite Civ since the original and new New Vegas is more of Fallout 3 which is no bad thing (Apart from the bugs which I really didn't need more of...) I was generally pretty unimpressed with...

I rationalized my console purchases based on the idea that there exists a class of games that just work better on a console... Oddly many of the games that seem to really sell, and sell consoles, are not actually in that class (I.e. FPS games which are generally much, much better on a PC) But...