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I really, really hate how "router" has become synonymous with "access point" or "repeater" for almost everyone. I had to spend almost a half hour in a class last night explaining the difference.

Yes but you buy Linn for everything. ;)

I try to stick with XFX, Gigabyte or Sapphire. Most of the companies that I've had a problem with don't make graphics cards any more.

Once upon a time, I owned nine Western Digital Hard Drives, yet I found myself doing 13 RMAs that year. Years prior to that, I had another bout of WDC shittiness that cost me cost me almost a whole year of coursework and two years of well-written libraries of code I had made for my classes...

You're not going to notice the fading because it's gradual. It certainly does happen though.

That's Diamond Distribution, whose principle claim to fame is that they're the only company in the US that is allowed to distribute printed comic books. They also suck and are a horrible company, but it's not Diamond Multimedia.

Properly direct vitriol is always worth the time and effort. If nothing else, I always know why I'm not going to make certain choices. 6. OCZ 7. Gloria Jeans Coffee (not a tech company but fuck them anyway)

There's a released that's tagged "Restored" that has all the goodies left in. My .iso for version 13 is 680MB.

Yes. I make my hate well known. 1. S*ny 2. Western Digital 3. Adobe 4. Symantec 5. Apple

The nicer ones have remotes and a control unit. I'm a big fan of Yamaha sound projectors, too. They can be very inexpensive when purchased used.

You could get a decent 2.1 set of computer speakers, Lunar. And plasma sucks because of the possibility of burn in. LCDs will burn in, too, if you leave the same image on the screen for a month. Plasmas can burn in under an hour.

Yes, but that probably means your Exchange server has some excessive mail processing and/or routing happening.

Given the number of other notebooks I've seen with cracked or missing hinges, I'm not sure if that's funny or not. For what it's worth, my experiences with the X200 series lead me to think that they could break more often. They have more fiddly parts like the rotating touchscreen, and they rely...

Do you bite the heads off of live chickens?

They're lucky to have shoes. ;)

My understanding is that a bottle of rye and a bug zapper constitutes a good evening's entertainment south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Battery lasted 10 hours in moderate use. I think $12 for a second one is entirely reasonable.

Apple is now using nonstandard screws on new iCrap and in repairs on existing iCrap. Awesome. Not specifically a dig at the iphone for once, but since I just this very morning had to dig out a Torx screwdriver to open up an old Compaq I must say this is rather pissy of them.

The price premiums are on "push" delivery and wireless sync, and those premiums are insane. They create vendor lock-in to a really lousy software platform and the justification is, what? That some douche can't be bothered to stick his phone on a cradle for 90 seconds to sync up with his email...

Hey! The JoJo is on! Hi The JoJo! Haven't seen you in ages.

There is a class of business users, whom I simply call Douchebags, for whom simultaneous mail delivery and address book syncing are for some reason absolutely critical business needs. All that crap is tied in to having an Exchange ecosystem to deal with E-mail, so there's a whole class of...

My Thinkpads have a nifty little 2GB readyboost module I can use for that but more to the point, Bozo really seemed to be talking about systems with more than one drive.

Call me a nut but I'm just not a fan of data loss.

The way Windows paging works, it uses the disk that has been configured with a pagefile with the lowest queue length. My assumption is that a data drive is going to be relatively idle while the SSD probably has at least some active IO going on, and everything important enough to have an impact...

Assuming that the machine has a decent amount of RAM, I'd move it to prevent a bunch of pointless wear on the SSD.

Did any of you Evo guys spring for the 1750mA battery?

It doesn't appear to be filled with stupid gamer lights. And it doesn't have a spoiler or giant rims. So it can certainly get worse.

Definitely cool looking.

I don't, which is why I resent paying for it.

I'm kind of annoyed that I have to pay for texting now. I didn't before.

Sprint has SERO Premium now for existing SERO customers who want to move to newer phones. My new Evo will be $45 a month. I realize that doesn't help anybody else but I think it's pretty cool.

If I had to guess, it probably goes in the space in front of the CPU fan. There's a PSU-shaped cutout there.

That's nifty but I'm still not sure I'd stick a dual-slot video card and a serious CPU in a shoebox.

Google Apps Premier also offers ActiveSync and BES support for no additional charge. Hosted Exchange with either one of those two components is usually $13 - $15/month/user based on my research. What blakerwry's company presumably delivers is far better customer service, but I doubt they have...

$50/user/year really isn't that expensive for email services given the administrative overhead of things like spam filtering and costs for the kind of hardware needed to host any kind of grown-up Exchange installation.

There's a copy function in Outlook. It works just like copying stuff that's not retarded Outlook data. If stuff is sorted, it stays sorted. It just winds up in a different folder. I am as willfully ignorant of Outlook as I am allowed to be, and I'm not sure what's going on with Auto-archive...

Start another, local .pst. Copy your crap into that.

My x100e arrived. It scores a 3.1 in Windows 7's processor benchmark and 3.5 on Graphics. It feels more solid than a 12" Edge and the overall construction is similar to the SL-series, but has an Edge-style chicklet keyboard. It doesn't choke on 1080p Youtube video, which is a good sign.

I've always trusted it before. The gauge reset is supposed to, you know, reset the gauge for a particular battery. All my batteries do have the same mA rating though.

I just ran the battery gauge reset in Power Manager 3 on my Thinkpad.

The problem with that is that the only OEM batteries I have access to have at least nine months of charge/discharge cycles on them already. Best I can recall, a new OEM 9 cell 7600mA Thinkpad battery will drive a 14" T-series notebook for around 4:30 in reasonable usage (802.11 on and being...

Perhaps the better lesson is that mother nature can overcome any expected assessment of her behavior. I suppose we could get into the impact of global warming on environmental risk assessment analysis, but I don't think I want to open that can of worms with you.

Just think how the residents of New Orleans felt.

Either way, one drum and cartridge will probably last a sizable fraction of a decade for most people's personal printing needs.

They're zippy for budget systems, though subjectively they aren't much different from upper-end Core2s. Motherboard: Gigabyte H55M-USB3 RAM: DDR3 from one of the usual suspects (Crucial, Corsair, Kingston, Mushkin)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/17/princeton-study-shows-that-easy-fonts-make-things-harder-to-reme/

Nah. My friend hates her stepsister. Also, since my friend is 26 and has never had an official Capital R relationship, "slut" is not a word one could use to describe her. She did tell me today that she plans to come back to visit again this spring. And I offered to take her on a vacation to be...

The theory goes that, because text is so easy to read, we need to less cogitation to comprehend it. Because our brains don't have to work as hard, we don't retain.

I buy almost everyone 22" screens. They're the monitors that cost $120 - $150 and it's just that simple.

A Nook Color is a fairly capable tablet device and I kind of like that. My biggest complaints about e-ink readers are that the screens updates are comparatively slow. The user interface on a Kindle is kind of awful, too. On the other hand, the text is very sharp and readable and ebooks are very...