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I don't ever need to search for files. I'm anal-retentive about putting things where they belong so I don't have to. Email, maybe, but even then it's unlikely. Even though I keep every message I have in my inbox I can usually narrow down date and sender that searching isn't an issue.

There are some very heavily used web sites that do a lot of heavy lifting with Javascript. A Yahoo mail or Google Maps session is probably something a browser developer would find it worthwhile to optimize.

They're regular glasses. I got them from smartbuyglasses.com. I just needed my prescription and my pupilary distance to order them. Locally the frames were $300 and the lenses I need were another $250.

Here's the nightly build directory for Chromium, a version of Chrome with extension support.

I *finally* get my car back today, if I can make it to the body shop before it closes. CarMax had records of having removed the front bumper during its initial inspection of my car, so they figure the mechanic just forgot to put that piece back in. Which is kind of scary on its own. I bought...

MSDN/MSDNAA/Action Pack subs list product keys for Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Ultimate without regard for x86/x64. If somebody needs an .ISO, just shoot me a message and I'll plop it up on FTP. You're on your own for a key, though.

Displays are going to get thinner and offer higher contrast ratios in the near future. We'll start to see large OLEDs sooner or later, and in entertainment-size screens we're going to see network-aware displays that can handle internet streaming video (probably Flash/Silverlight, rather than...

If you look on the bottom of that notebook you'll probably find a Compal part number. You might have an easier time if you can equate your Gateway to either a generic Compal design or with a Sager or similar "generic" notebook from a vendor with better download support. I've found it easier to...

I know the UAE is 9 hours different from my time zone. OMG Stereodude must be part of the Marine offensive in Afghanistan!

I drove to Detroit to have lunch with a friend/former student today. My shitty rental car DID get 34 MPG, which was almost but not quite enough to make the trip on one tank of gas. It probably would have been able to do it if that particular vehicle had cruise control. I didn't even know it's...

Is your setup cabled properly? Are you sure it's cabled properly? Are you REALLY, COMPLETELY SURE it's cabled properly? What are you using for backup software? Is it supported by the drive or by HP? Are there other things happening at the same time on your SCSI bus when you're running these...

I don't have any idea whom to believe. These shitheads have had my car two months and supposedly put $8000 worth of parts and labor in it. Are they trying to scam for even more money? I had a clean car history report and a national used car chain that supposedly has a certified inspection...

Well, my car is "done" but I just got a call that my car is missing the interior reinforcement for the front bumper. I've never had any work done front of my car, and the Carfax report doesn't show any accidents, and the car passed its original inspection from Carmax, but now the shitheads who...

There's an Extension called Video Downloadhelper that's really useful for that. Also, I tell Adobe to die in a fire all the time anyway. I just waiting on the rest of the internet to join me.

Now, if only every video site in the world would switch to HTML5 native video objects so we can collectively tell Adobe to die in a fire, that would be swell.

Those javascript tests tend to be synthetic benchmarks. There may be no real-world difference most of the time.

Keep that R handy, Tannin. There's a pretty decent shot that you'll be able to find a used replacement board for far something more like AU$500. Assuming the board is what's dead.

Seems OK. Memory use is down a bit. A bunch of my extensions don't work, but that just means it's time to turn off compatibility checking. I like the standards-based video. Anything is better than Flash.

Not all GHz are created equal. Not all motherboard logic is created equal. Some of the things that are done as a matter of course on desktop boards aren't even possible on workstation/server boards. More than that, Greg, YOU DON'T NEED THAT STUFF AT HOME. You're not going to generate a...

Why? The only compelling argument I can see for Xeon in a home setup is to get exotic expansion ports and therefore cheap high-end SATA/SAS controllers.

Has Intel ever made any effort to simplify its product offerings? I knew i5s were coming and with them hopefully some cheaper motherboards. No one but Intel has a license to make LGA1366 motherboards. I suspect they're going to be expensive for some time to come. :\

Every once in a while, Microsoft puts the MSDNAA version on sale and, amazingly enough, does not check for academic affiliation. That's how I got mine. I've even renewed it twice.

The Academic MSDN does include that stuff. I have one of those, too, and it's only $300 a year. :D

That's it. I'm suspending your nerd card.

Don't you have 802.11 on your phone?

Longest stretch of work for me was 63 hours. I spent a summer writing an enormous batch file to handle a Netware 3 to Netware 4 conversion. I got the job for being the intern that no one quite knew what to do with, but I could program, so someone had the bright idea to give me this job. So I...

I am interested in seeing the new ultra-thin netbooks that are on their way. I believe Asus and MSI will both be shipping machines with form factors in line with the Lenovo X300 at a substantially lower price. If I had any interest in a netbook for myself, I'd prefer to have one as small and...

Maybe the right thing to do is blow $25 on something more friendly from a nice Chinese Ebay seller.

My car is paid for and my insurance card is in my car.

The hilarious thing for me right now is that I've had the paperwork to renew my license plates for a month, and I haven't been able to because one of the fields on the form is for my VIN number, which I don't know, because it's on the car that I haven't seen for six weeks.

I've been there, too.

There's more to it than that. Howell is right that Wright often made poor choices for materials and construction techniques, but his homes are wonderful for their suitability to purpose.

I haven't had anything that bad for a while, but getting home after 14 or so hours of actual work time (as opposed to work + long drive, which is generally a bit easier) all week is kind of obnoxious, especially when it's for my salaried job where I just took a 20% pay cut.

I'm giving my dad's car back Friday and taking their rental, and also I'm going to strongly suggest they pay my insurance deductible. It's only $50 but at this point I don't feel like I should have to pay for anything related to this.

... or maybe next Monday. Apparently they fucked up my dashboard when they put it in and now I need a new one. Sob. Next week will be week #7.

When I went on a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's home in Oak Park, Illinois, the docent was a lot more excited that Bob Vila had paid a visit with his TV show a few weeks before than he was about the fact that he got to work every day in the home of the master of 20th century architecture.

I got home last night at around 11 due to hellish stupidity from inconsiderate coworkers. When I get a chance I will be taking a look.

Of course, Firefox and Adblock only solve issues while you're using Firefox, not IM software, Email or any of the other Internet tools one might have, where using a proper hosts file and/or proxy can take care of all your filtering needs.

dd-WRT will do it, or you can buy a stupidly expensive 802.11 to ethernet bridge. Most routers don't have the firmware set up to allow this, though their hardware is certainly capable of doing so.

Both sides have to support the higher number of available channels. Not a problem if the guy is overseas and somebody's using channel 14, but if his card won't switch to channel 14, that's a problem. One possibility might be to look to see if there's a different driver available on BCM's...

Merc is still working at the moment.

I have screens all over my apartment that are 16:9 or 16:10. The vast majority of them - TVs or computer screens - are 16:10, being slightly taller than the visibly rectangular 16:9. If I'm not getting an edge-to-edge picture when viewing 16:9 content (not 1.85:1), those extra pixels had to...

If they support an on-screen resolution of 1920x1200, they're 16x10. When displaying 16:9 content, they have small black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, which both MY HDTVs do. Sir, you are wrong. Admit your mistake.

Nope, they aren't, if you go look at them. In fact, I can't think of a TV that's properly 16:9. They do 16:10 probably as a concession to 4:3 content. Plug in a PC and they're all 1920x1200. Notebook PCs and 17 and 19" computer displays are the most likely actual 16:9 screens.

16:9 = 1920x1080 16:10 = 1920x1200 Most HDTVs are 16x10.

I've been considering a Cowon player based on three things: 1. Flac/Ogg support 2. Battery life is reportedly exceptional, as is audio quality. 3. That display. I'd really like to see another product refresh to get to 64GB before I bought one, if only because the "standard" music folder I...

You can set up a hosts file or run Squid or a local ad-blocking proxy like privoxy if you need ad blocking and want to use Chrome. I've done it. It's not that hard to set up. Chrome v2 is supposed to have its own plug-in architecture. I tried Chrome. It's pretty "meh" to me. I have several...

Most consumer NAS devices support access via FTP. FTP is not a complicated thing. You can probably just turn on IIS on one of your file servers and set up a folder that's already being shared through SMB.

I don't think it's possible to be bored enough to make that worth watching.