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Google Desktop is part of the default software load on Lenovo/IBM laptops. It does make searching your PC faster, but to me it felt like a real drag on performance, particularly disk performance. It likes to update its index at pretty much random times. I didn't find it useful, since I'm more...

Switch and tell them why.

You would install Wine as appropriate for your distro and then you would use winetools (linked on the Wine download page) to install and configure IE. Or you'd drop the moronic requirement to use IE for anything but a Firefox download.

Fred Rogers was a Presbyterian minister. Snopes debunks the sniper thing.

There's a program called HTTrack that I find extremely useful.

Soundblaster cards are pointless. Headphones are uncomfortable and damage your hearing and make you more prone to ear infections. And actually, all my comments from the beginning of the thread still apply.

Photoshop loads its own memory manager, or it used to. Lunarmist could well be right if only for that one application.

Tier-1 OEMs have stopped shipping PCs with XP, mostly. But on the other hand, I can still get a shrinkwrapped Win95 license if I really want one, and my local Office Max still has a couple copies of Windows 2000 in stock. I think you'll be fine.

To relate to Chewy's experience, rather than my own sub-rant: A scientific study of personals profile fibbing.

I've been on, at different times, Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac and Celexa, mostly for periods of between two months and nine months. All those are SSRI inhibitors and doctors hand sample boxes of them out like candy. I've also been on Wellbutrin before, which has by far the most obnoxious set of side...

A normal PC with a 400W+ CPU should be able to handle four drives, even if one of the drives is a 15k SCSI drive. Some motherboards *do* have a staggered startup option. You should look for that. Issue #2: Yes, there are devices that just don't work properly when plugged into a USB hub for one...

Logitech, Creative and nVidia apparently weren't aware that a new version of Windows was released.

When you install on Vista, remember that it makes redundant copies of almost everything. If you installed on a less sucky version of Windows, you'd find its footprint quite a bit more reasonable.

Thank you Tea for that wonderful mental image. You need to stop taking those dares DrunkenBastard makes... Also, Summing up frustration.

Vista Upgrade Flow Chart.

Here's a whole bunch of neat stuff all in one place.

e_dawg, I can say conclusively after years of trying therapy and varying doses of a half-dozen antidepressants that they amount in total to a complete waste of time and money. The amount of time it takes to put a pill in my mouth was wasted. I might as well swallow a pebble as take a Paxil. If...

I also just found this which is quite interesting in its accuracy regarding my personality. :(

I don't think we need to start a contest over who is the most socially awkward person on SF, Sol... Obviously there is a thing that works for ddrueding. To me it seems like it's a superficial sort of method. I don't think it translates for those of us whose superficial qualities are not...

Battlestar Galactica season 3 gag reel. 13 minutes long. Maybe spoilers if you aren't current on aired episodes.

It installs to roughly the same size as Office XP and 2003. It's slightly under 1GB, split about 70/30 between Program Files and crap that goes under your Windows directory.

It does not work yet.

The other people in my office - MOS Master certified instructors - make gagging noises and stare longingly at the veins in their wrists as they are working on Office 2007. Shockingly, I already know of two largish (100+ employee) companies which have deployed it. I don't know what the big deal...

No, I've done a little research. It's just that only certain audio chipsets properly support digital I/O under Vista. Nothing that uses the generic AC97 audio driver in Vista supports digital I/O. Nor any Audigy product. SB Live! does. C-Media codecs don't, apparently. So it's just spotty...

A clean, new install on a C2D is pretty reasonable. Less time than XP takes, I think. Sadly, that's probably the last time Vista is faster than XP at anything. Anyway, the guy who called me this morning has hardware that isn't fully supported with Vista; he's using fancy speakers with digital...

Some Vista versions are not licensed for use on a Virtual Machine at all. I don't know how the OS could tell, but I don't think any Home Version or Business basic are allowed as guests in VMware or Parallels or MSVPC. When I look at my MSDN key list, I have listings for Home edition and...

Yes, I just got my first "Vista Upgrade fucked up my computer!!!" call. 8 hours, 43 minutes after the public launch.

I can't ever recall an Inwin case that I would call quiet. The good news is, it'll be sturdy. Maybe Coug will need a hammer to properly express himself when a steel-toe boot doesn't cut it. ;)

Yeah, I'd have to go where women are, then. I don't know where that is.

Bill + John Stewart. From, like a couple hours ago.

In my experience ICS usually works well enough for what it's for; the biggest problem I've had with it is a small ICS network where someone mistakenly adds a wireless router which they just want to use as an AP (easily solved by making the router the primary gateway but a source of trouble...

I looked at doing that but the pixel pitch on a TV is rather too high for my liking.

See previous post, but for today.

It's only my choice to look for myself. I can't make anyone else look back at me. FWIW, I'd rather have something that is more emotionally meaningful than a cash transaction in the relationship department. Call me old fashioned but I'd rather have nothing at all than something which is...

I see your Windows 386 and raise you Introducing Windows 95 with the cast of Friends. Which I still have on VHS...

I've had a profile for well over two YEARS with no actual responses. I had the only straight, young female I know edit it (and I must say, her fiance is one lucky motherfucker). The full set of lesbians (being female and therefore somewhat helpful, and some of them used to be straight, so...)...

Did you have much trouble finding proper RAM settings?

Probably because the smaller guys are commodity items while the bigger PC displays still have the cachet - and profit margin - of "high end" items. I'm sure there's no end of folks who are ditching their 21" CRTs and picking the only LCDs that's measurably bigger than what they had, which is a...

I can "borrow" 802.11G to cable internet connections from SIX of my neighbors from anyplace in my apartment. Some day I plan to build a machine to aggregate all of those into one conduit for my personal torrenting needs. ;) MAC filtering is trivial, TRIVIAL to walk around, particularly on a...

Pure cuteness.

I know of no such thing.

Linux+ is a joke for anyone who has any real experience with Linux. Also, all the Linux certs I've looked into a deeply focused on command line and config file level subject matter, which might not be the best thing to learn for someone who is used to Windows. A+ is a joke for a tech or...

The good news is, personals sites are obviously doing something for you, even if you don't see it that way. You've gotten dates and contact with other human beings that way. It certainly does not work that way for everyone. At this point, I'd gladly pay several hundred dollars just to have the...

I'm still struggling with that choice myself. I just rebuilt my Media Center PC, but I have yet to load an OS on it. I *need* to spend time with Vista, but I can't stand the thought of putting it on a PC I'll actually use.

I've purchased four of the Dell 2405s. I have one myself and I've bought others customers. One thing I will note about them: All of them have had at least one stuck pixel. After sitting at the Dell, it's very hard to go back to lower brightness and contrast of the 17 - 20" LCDs I have.

I use a $15 Vantec USB2 to SATA/IDE adaptor. No case, it's just a pair of cables. Very useful. Actual eSATA is certainly faster, but unfortunately not as portable as I would like.

I'd say you're welcome, but you haven't paid me yet. So technically you have a nice, free 512MB DIMM from Merc.

Most thumb drives are formatted as FAT32 and will therefore support file sizes of either 2GB or 4GB depending on the application and OS in question. You normally would not have problems with sub-1GB files unless there is some kind of external issue. Were I to guess, I'd say you've got some bad...

The box could also be infested with wallabies. I hear they get into everything. Could also be dingos. Hard to go anywhere in Oz without stepping on a dirty baby-stealing dingo.

Does anyone know of a good, cheap overclocking board for a Core 2 Duo? All I buy are Gigabyte and Intel, and neither of those really let me play. In my experience, every E6300 and E4300 I've tried seem to be able to do 50% overclocking without issue, even more reliably than the old Celeron...