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I saw the thing about the recovery tool. Right now I'm not too worried about hacking or jailbreaking the phone. The main missing function is tethering and most folks are pretty sure an app will be released shortly that handles it. The Pre can do it but Sprint blocks it. I agree with the...

Will - Get your wife a BlueTooth headset. That way the phone can stay on the counter or in a pocket. I believe you have 30 days to cancel any cell phone account so worst case you can sign up and see how well it works. If you get the Pre you'll definitely be doing data so make sure your area...

I've never bothered with the coverage. I take care of my phones. I keep it in my front pants pocket (screen facing me) and don't put anything else in that pocket. After I use it, back it goes. With BT, the need to remove the phone for a call is greatly reduced. I know people who empty their...

I've never had a bad CS experience with Sprint and I've used them for over 10 years. I've actually rarely had to call them; probably less than once a year on average. And really, if you lok around, all of the carriers have piss-poor CS at some point. Never had a payment problem either. A...

Udaman is on my ignore list, but since Stereodude quoted his post, I'll respond. I have no bias against the iPhone per se. Or Apple FTM. My issues are more with the need for iTunes to do anything useful with the device and with AT&T as a carrier. I guess you could say I wonder at the...

Loading apps isn't the fastest thing. They generally take a few seconds. Once loaded most things are quite speedy, which they should be considering the CPU. The Pre is very data-centric, so it will hold the data connection on basically all the time. WiFi can be faster but seems to take a...

Got the Pre this morning. Love it so far. I'm not going to use the iTunes capabilities; I've just used drag-n-drop to put music & pictures on it so far. And some PalmOS apps to run under the emulator. All of the setup was a breeze: Gmail, Exchange ActiveSync, Wifi, BlueTooth, Pandora...

Before reading the article I was going to say the Chevy Citation, but I think the author is right in that it started before even that.

Yep, she can watch Jeffrey, I can watch Gabrielle (who's in a constant state of THO), and we both enjoy Bruce. He gets the best lines. And really, overall the writing is good. While I could see the client-of-the-week part getting old, the injection of spying techniques keeps it fresh and...

Densha Otoko: A.K.A. "Train Man" in the US. Here's the Wikipedia entry. I never picked it up myself. As to regular TV, I'm currently waiting for season 2 of both Chuck and Burn Notice to come out. Will get Chuck on BD.

Well, I can't really help. I did see 8GB as the limit for the W7 Home Basic, though, and wondered for a moment if MS might have set all versions of the RC to that. I haven't tried the RC so far myself, but this has prompted me to d/l it to put on a spare machine.

Howell, the guts of the machines don't really vary all that much. I'd suggest going to a retail joint like Best Buy and playing with the models on display, focusing on the screens & keyboards. For me, the Wind became the obvious choice based on the keyboard layout & feel. So I've concentrated...

Some Googling shows people telling Windows to reinstall the USB driver or roll back the driver to a prior version. You might try those. BTW, I'm guessing that simply deleting the devices and having them be re-detected does not actually reinstall the drivers. Other posts claim it to be a power...

IIRC GM does offer a 5 year/100K warranty on at least some vehicles. But one problem right now is consumers wondering if the warranty is even any good. Perhaps GM needs to additionally provide 3rd party or government backing for the warranty. Maybe extend the warranty service provider network...

Interesting new MSI Wind U115. Atom Z530, 8GB SSD + 160GB HD (runs off the SSD, activates HD as needed), 3 cell battery w/optional 9 cell (up to 18 hour run time) at just over 3 pounds. Once the price is released I'll compare it to the 6 cell U123, possibly with a 60GB Vertex to replace the...

Another point: Larger, heavier vehicles cause more wear and tear to road surfaces. This can be mitigated by way of the annual license plate fee. Some states, like Illinois, use a flat fee for all vehicles. Others, like Indiana, use an excise tax based on a supposed value of the vehicle (it's...

You should, then, be unhappy with the software developers haven't embraced 64 bit Windows. That they haven't done the work to make their apps run on x64 doesn't have much of anything to do with Windows itself. And I'm not being an apologist for MS. I've run into an app or two that don't...

30K+ employees globally; 6K+ in the US.

$70 a month for 100GB? Yikes. We pay about $500 a month for Recall to pick up backup tapes every day. That includes door to door service, off-site vaulting, reporting good for the auditors, and up to x tapes a day (not sure how many, but more than one and we use LTO4). And we get tapes back...

There you go. Definitive proof CAFE works. Killing other drivers takes cars off the road, reducing emissions. :poke: On a more serious note, I'd like to see the numbers that compare deaths per capita and also deaths per mile driven in small, light-weight cars pre-CAFE and post-CAFE with a...

The A in CAFE does stand for Average, so for every Suburban GM sells, they'll need to sell a Cobalt or two to bring up the average. This may limit the supply of guzzlers but it certainly won't take them off the road. And it should encourage manufacturers to innovate towards higher economy in...

My limit has been reached. People have tried to help you with your problem accessing the site. But you have not only not followed their advice, you've taken to insulting those who tried to help, including me. Udaman, you are now on my ignore list.

No, I don't have anywhere near 10 machines: 2 laptops, 4 desktops, and the WHS box. So I've plenty of room for the netbook I'll eventually pick up. And really, 2 of the desktops are in my Folding farm (which is idle at the moment) so they could easily be deleted. And one of the notebooks is...

As I've been saying, WHS does far more than a traditional NAS. If those features have no value to you, fine, but you shouldn't dismiss their potential for others. Sure, some NAS units do come with add-ons that provide some of the WHS additional features, but those units aren't cheap. I'd also...

uda, if you don't stop the insults, everyone will have you on ignore. It's uncalled for and won't help when you have something of merit to post. As to your problem accessing SF, configure your machine to not use the obviously lacking DNS provided by your ISP. Use 4.4.4.2 through 4.4.4.4...

Tannin, around here the recycling is much the same. Glass, plastic, metal, paper all get tossed in a single truck and the sorting takes place at the center. Personally, we separate paper from the rest , but that's more for our own convenience as the glass/metal is frequently wet from being...

WHS presents the storage space to the client machines as one aggregate; you are not limited to the capacity of a single drive for your share. I'd suggest that most folks wouldn't want to do the data management themselves. Even as an IT professional, at the end of the day I've had enough...

Why? You get data redundancy without having to manage anything. Drives with duplicated data can be pulled & taken off-site for backup or connected to other machines for file access. You don't have to buy identical drive types, speeds, capacities, etc. Doug could, for instance, buy a single...

Interesting, but you have to expressly add a WiFi module & an AC adapter. I'm going to guess that once configured similar to an Atom-based machine the price isn't any better. The idea of using AAs is neat and gives you better power independence v. a proprietary Li-Ion battery but the...

As discussed in another thread, I went the Windows Home Server route. Add drives as you want, no RAID to manage, the OS handles file duplication automatically. You can set up remote access to files on the server & RDP to your Windows clients from the 'net. Mac & Linux aren't directly...

But charging the tax up front does nothing to guarantee the electronics get recycled either. Unless the program includes curb-side pickup, people will still opt to just toss it in with the rest of their trash when convenient. The only differences are the tax/fee is collected ahead of time and...

So .. Hindu goddesses are taxing west coast people? On a more serious note, here in Illinois there is no tax. We have specific electronics recycling centers that take things free or for a minimal charge ($5-10 per item).

Read all about it. Verizon Business conducts breach investigations for their clients. The investigations are global and include all kinds of breaches - insider attacks, web attacks, etc. What is reported are successful attacks; i.e. ones where data was stolen/copied by the attackers...

I'm trying to visuallize your set up. Is it (Cable box) --Line Out-- (Modulator) --Coax-- (DVD/VHS) --Coax-- (TV)? The DVD/VHS box doesn't do Line In? Where I've used the RadioShack box, the setup has been: (DVD) --Line Out-- (Modulator) --Coax-- (TV) (Antenna/Cable) --Coax--^...

Your search provider knows what you're looking for. Your ISP knows what sites you visit. If you use an anonymizer, then your ISP knows as much and the anon service at some level knows what you're doing. Your cell phone provider knows where you are by proxy whenever you keep your cell with you...

The masks don't help much. Maybe not at all since the flu particles are apparently smaller than the masks filters can block. Also, common masks leak too much around the edges. Respirators help more but obviously aren't as common or convenient. Better to be a hermit as much as possible.

Comcasts's DNS servers resolve to the 67. address for both.

So .. XP's a slut. :rnd:

I've the LG HD/BD combo drive in my main PC but I haven't used it to watch any BD discs so far. As noted in another thread we bought an LCD TV & Samsung BD player last November. We currently buy movies on either DVD or BD, depending on pricing and how much we feel the movie experience would be...

Fear and the Availability Heuristic

When pigs fly! .. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Not dual-tuner, but I picked up one of these recently. I haven't played with it much other than to set it up. Ran $40 after rebate. I don't really care to have a TV tuner on the PC but I wanted some thing that would let me rip my aging VHS, S-VHS, and LaserDisc source material to the PC. For...

IE8 was designed to actually adhere to web standards, at least mostly. It should do a far better job at rendering accurately v. prior versions. Fair enough but you should test at least one WebKit browser against your site. It's popularity as an engine is on the rise. The smartphone I'm...

Fear tactics are being practiced by the governments and media. Yes, it deserves attention and precautions and people should practice good hygiene as a matter of course. But for crying out lout we lose well over 1000 people a day to heart disease. And another thousand plus daily to cancer...

I think our service vacuums weekly. Or maybe just weakly. Which is how I would describe their ability to dust. At least the trash & recycling bins are emptied daily. I use my laptop's keyboard & mouse so I don't have to worry about other people's finger grime. My concern is the phone...

Just take it out of the cartridge and read it in a DVD-RAM compatible drive. See the last paragraph of the spec.

Odd that the D630 doesn't include an ExpressCard slot; my D830 has one in addition to a Cardbus slot. Anyway, the modular bay (optical drive) has an option for an 80GB HD. Maybe get one of those and swap in your big drive. I haven't used that particular accessory; I use the bay to house a...

In normal mode you can gain a couple of pixel rows by switching to small icons on the tool bar: View - Toolbars - Customize and check Use Small Icons.

Add "-cart -basket" to the search, perhaps?