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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.

I create a "skeleton" account to store shared contacts and export that information to each client and account as they are configured. I'm not really worried about privacy, given how much google knows about everyone anyway.

Nope. It's supposed to be painted Monday though. I might get it back Tuesday or Wednesday.

For my X25-Ms I cut holes for the power and SATA connectors in their shipping boxes and used tape and strips of cardboard to make the whole assembly into something I could screw in to a 3.5" bay.

I think I missed the part of school where men learn what things like "joists" and "dadoes" are.

GhostBusters has really, really high production values and features almost all the original cast of the movies (except, I think, Rick Moranis). I'd like to tell you how great it is but I can't make it not crash. I even assembled a different rig in case it's a hardware issue, but it doesn't seem...

It's kind of a difference between want and need. You're trying to balance the needs of the host OS vs. the needs of the guest. Remember that both Server 2003 and Linux run pretty well on 384 or 512MB when you aren't screwing around with a bunch of GUI stuff.

Cowon S9

Funny thing about Macbook Pros...

I've tried everything. I've tried multiples of everything. 3Com, Belkin, DLink, SMC, Buffalo, Microsoft (which was really SMC), Apple, Linksys, Netgear, TrendNet, Hawking and Zonet. They all break. They all break all the damned time.

It seems endemic to home routers, to me. I replace them all the damned time. APs seem a little better, but they don't have to actually DO as much, which might be the difference. At home I built my own. My office's internet access is run by the top-end Linksys model. I noticed that the high end...

Thinkpad T400 torture testing courtesy of Engadget.

May just be what I'm used to but I've always liked Onkyo/Integra better than Denon. I'd probably start with something like this and move up the product line until I found all the features I need.

The problem there is more than likely that you got someone else's product return from Fry's. In my opinion there's no such thing as a robust consumer-level router. You can get closer on something that uses dd-WRT or Tomato firmware (VPN endpoint, multiple WLANs etc), but anything you can just...

Not a Win7 issue, but it's driving me insane and I'm sure Win7 will have something similar: In my kid classes, I'm seeing significant numbers of systems where Vista's Software Licensing Service dies and cannot be restarted. It may be a problem with the software load from Dell, but the thing is...

I shrug and work with whatever is put in front of me. Win7 isn't awful, but it's not what I want right now. If it's allowed to get as long in tooth as XP clearly did, I'm sure I'll grow to appreciate it, if only because my 32 core system with 256GB RAM and 16TB SSD will run it really, really...

I'm following the situation in Iran in threads on Fark.com. Fark is a place where professional journalists like to hang out. There's some crossposting of Tweets from people on the ground in Tehran along with some international members who are either Persian or Farsi-speaking. I am utterly...

Dell has an inexpensive 22" non-TN panel. I've bought dozens of them but the model name escapes me. 2208WS maybe?

Apparently, there were some Android-based handsets at E3 running on 1.7GHz ARM CPUs. I can't imagine what a mobile phone would need with that kind of horsepower, but just as a tech demo, it suggests what a G3-type handset might be like.

I think the goal is to let OEMs bundle third party browsers with their systems. IE-less Windows is hardly crippled, just as Media Player-less XP isn't. The presumption is that the vendor will provide something, not the end user. Another thing I sorely hate about Win7 is the continuing tradition...

I'd call tethering support fundamental to my needs for a mobile device. I would also say that the ability to multitask is critical. I absolutely want to be able to browse the web and compose an E-mail at the same time. That's important to me. I'd far rather have the core functionality of the...

I've seen a couple BSODs now from machines coming out of sleep (not even hibernate, sleep) in Windows 7. This dulls my enthusiasm for its release somewhat, as one of the complaints I have about Vista is that it's still crashy. Apparently they haven't fixed that yet. No one should use Windows...

There are some special builds of Linux designed for k-12 use, like Edbuntu. I've been helping a woman through another forum whose school district was eaten by a virus back in January. No computer in the entire district can be legally cleaned, since they don't allow anyone but admins to install...