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Yes. Opti says they're UL/cUL (1X0V), CE, and GOST-R (2X0v) certified. I don't know what any of that crap means besides UL.

I think the people who are saying "it doesn't matter" are also people who don't have to support other users. I had to go to three different meetings to explain to one of my customers that the reason they couldn't "just get ipads" for all their students was that there was zero chance of getting...

Tablets in particular are made for content consumption, but someone who uses smaller streaming video sites will often find that they're locked out from viewing content on their ithing because the sites were constructed to use flash. Someone used to playing Flash games will likewise have a...

Adobe Creative Suite is either the first or second most pirated software on the internet. If you can't trip and fall over a decent copy on a torrent site I do not know what is wrong with you. While I do not condone use of Adobe software for anything, I will say that I would rather people steal...

The simple rule is this: Anything based on DC Comics characters that is not Batman is going to flat-out suck. Batman sucks about half the time. A big part of that is the fact that DC is owned by Warner Bros. and the comic book people are allowed very little say in movie treatments of the...

Unfortunately, half the phones in the US are CMDA and no one else uses that but some carriers in the US. There's no arguing that it's a better option, but if my choices for using one are Tmobile or AT&T, that's not really much of a choice, is it?

Quake's music isn't exactly my style, but there's no arguing that it was anything other than atmospheric and groundbreaking. I think it could be argued that Wendy Carlos's work on Tron (I'm thinking of the arcade machine here, though it also showed up on Intellivision titles at the time) and...

I went ahead and bought one. I'll see what it can do sometime next week. Assuming it doesn't explode when I plug it in, I'm sure it will be OK.

Some of the HP Probooks are fairly reasonable.

A bunch of console crap is the "greatest" video game music? No Mechwarrior 2? No Quake?

It's essentially a Sprint phone that would be locked to Sprint's CDMA network. You could presumably take it to Virgin or Cricket.

I have an X100. It's not quite the same thing as a netbook, though mostly in ways that skirt the edges of technical definitions. Mine shipped with Windows 7 Professional and 4GB RAM for example, and neither of those things are what Microsoft and Intel say Netbooks are supposed to be like, and as...

Start with the $100 one because it will probably do everything you need.

Anyone ever bought or used an Opti-UPS TS2250B? That's a huge battery for the price, but I haven't used or run across an Opti-UPS in at least a decade.

Actually, to the best of my knowledge, no one I know who bought a netbook three years ago is still using it. I don't think the problem is unique to MSI.

On the other hand, a nubile 18 year old girl telling me how wonderful a razor is would be just fine.

Republic Wireless offers $20/month "unlimited everything" service with purchase of their phone and the catch that they expect you to use 802.11 as much as humanly possible. And yes, they use Sprint's network.

Dammit, my quest for getting the purchase price out of all those drives that haven't been turned off in three years might be thwarted.

Sometime in the next month I should be retiring around 60 1TB drives. Given the number of power on hours they have, I was thinking I'd use them for non-critical functions but at this point I bet they'd fetch a ridiculous price on Ebay.

Supposedly, one of the contributing factors to blade wear is oxidation. Immersion in an anaerobic environment would indeed help with that. Makes sense to me.

I bought quite a few MSI U100s when those were the new thing. They have a cheap feel but they distinguished themselves by offering 3, 6 or 9-cell battery options at the same price. The original U100 could also run be made into a Hackintosh with ridiculous ease. That said, I don't think anyone I...

I've heard that storing your razor in mineral oil can also prolong its life.

I've encountered both in the wild. Usually on Netbooks that were purchased in South America. It should be pointed out that you can always do an Anytime Upgrade to move to a less retarded version of Windows later on. Anytime Upgrades are completely painless. I'm not sure there's even any change...

Or maybe it is too early and I have one confused one for the other. Whatevs.

IIRC, you're confusing Windows 7 Starter Edition with Home Basic. Home Basic is in fact sold in the USA on some netbook systems. Big issues: Limited support for RAM (2GB) and multitasking. Issues that will actually make people want to upgrade: Users cannot change the default wallpaper.

The GoFlex line is extra-special problematic. I'm not even attempting hyperbole. They're terrible. I'm thinking it's because they have an extremely poor quality power supply or transformer or something but they break. A lot.

I think we're doing some kind of Harry Turtledove thing at this point.

I found this nifty little page on making acoustic panels for your home theater system today. Because ddrueding needs more weird crap to do to his house.

I'd sort an Ideapad into the same category as a Dell Inspiron or something Asus branded. It's a big step up from Acer or HP consumer garbage but at the same time it's still a consumer notebook that only cost $300. Though Coug is right about the hard drive situation.

Yeah. I have a completely different setup for the porn machines. Actually the reason that machine doesn't go down very often is that it's where the overflow disk space for my file servers lives. I really need to get the 32TB system up and running.

Let's not throw stones at anybody who is up for having their ass rocked. At least they're not buying motherboards with fans on the bridge chips.

I snagged the whole thing from Demonoid. The first two seasons were under 2GB total. I don't have any idea what the legality of that is, but somehow I'm guessing that Oz's copyright cops have bigger things to worry about than some dude in Indiana stealing all the episodes of their three year old...

FPS gaming was basically perfected with UT2003 and Quake 3. Everything since then has just been a failure to live up to those ideals. There is a shooter game I'd like to see, called Six Days in Fallujah. It's based on real events that occurred during the most recent war in Iraq and from what...

Something something something make your own heat something something bedroom something.

You Aussies have been holding out on us. Somebody turned me on to The Gruen Transfer and it's awesome.

Because of how man hormones work, there's no such thing as permanent hair removal for guys for as long as we have our testes and aren't ingesting massive quantities of feminizing hormones for some reason. As big a pain in the ass as shaving is, the only dudes who are going to benefit from laser...

I recognized all these words but they make no sense in this order.

Yeah. You definitely can keep a living area warm enough. I'm more worried about the water and the pumps.

Yup. Two of them. Patriot something-or-other.

This machine doesn't actually need any more than 4GB, so I don't really mind. If I see a game use more than 2.5GB I might get a little worried, but I like the fact that I have a completely ridiculous fast system (it's also home to a Vertex 3) for the one place where I'm really, really going to...

I'm pretty sure there are easier ways to make stuff warm. That sounds like a bunch of points of failure and I'm somewhat doubtful that it will help that much to actually keep your bedroom warm since heat will be lost through the whole system before it gets where you want it

They both just resell Sprint. Which should be OK. That means they'll roam on Verizon towers. That's not a bad thing.

It's official. I can do 4.7GHz stable if I go with one stick of Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600. 4.67 with two sticks of 2GB the same RAM, and only 4.3 if I use either two 4GB or 8GB sticks. I guess there might be a power supply issue, but that machine already has a 750W Seasonic and I don't see myself...

I shave in the shower also. I'm fortunate that my facial hair is generally fine. The hairs on my neck are horrid, and I tend to break out if I shave my neck every day. Going every other day day, shaving in a hot shower and then rinsing my face with the coldest water I can get out of the tap...

I guess I can only get 4.460GHz with 16GB RAM. My game machine really doesn't need more than 4GB. I might put it back the way it was.

Go look at what Virgin or Cricket are offering. I believe they're both pay as you go and reselling Sprint, but last time I looked, they're the cheapest way to get a smartphone and a data plan without getting in on something like the deal I have.

I'd probably shave every day too if there was somebody around who was concerned with the status of my chin stubble.

That would thing is butt ass ugly. I like wooden cases. Just not that one.

I use a Mach 3. I shave three times a week. I change blades about once a month. I've tried a couple electric razors. I can't stand them.

Yes, the Thermaltake CLP0303 is indeed a quiet little guy. The power supply is still louder than I'd like, but the machine is substantially quieter than it was.