Comment Re:I hate InfoWorld (Score 2) 226
MS does license MSE for installation on their compatible server products, and the installer works without problems. They changed the terms almost a year ago with the release of MSE 2.
Comment Re:Figures (Score 1) 514
Yeah, I bought an A500 for $300 from Staples last month. It is a very nice tablet. The model with 16GB of built-in storage is currently on sale at both Target and BestBuy for $400 with a $100 gift card, and Costco has the model with 32GB of built-in storage for $450 with a $100 gift card. I've read that the Costco unit includes a case, but I can't verify this.
Comment Are you at risk if you use an "alternate" browser? (Score 2) 49
Are you at risk if you use an alternate web browser like Firefox, Opera, or Chrome?
Comment Re:Hand crank charge (Score 1) 229
They stirred salt water in coconut shells once to charge the batteries from their portable radio. That Professor was a smart guy!
Comment Datura stramonium will make you do these things. (Score 1) 314
Datura stramonium ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium ) will make you do weird things like this. I knew a guy that took way too much and the cops found him roadside in the grass, swimming.
Unreal Tournament 3 For Linux Is Officially Dead 190
ndogg writes "There is no longer any uncertainty surrounding the release of Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux. It's official: the port is now dead. No reasons were given, but no one should be waiting for it anymore, if anyone still was."
Comment Re:Windows - Microsoft (Score 2) 205
What are you talking about? Microsoft Security Essentials has been, and still is, available for Windows XP. I installed it on (yet another) XP machine earlier today.
Comment Re:Does the "Flashblock" plugin for Firefox help? (Score 1) 244
Thanks for the reply.
Comment Does the "Flashblock" plugin for Firefox help? (Score 1) 244
Does the "Flashblock" plugin for Firefox help block this exploit? The only sites in my whitelist are YouTube, Amazon.com, and NewEgg.
Comment Re:No (Score 2, Funny) 138
You're a couple of posts behind on this stuff...
Comment Porn sites have a built-in defense mechanism (Score 1) 122
Porn sites have a built-in defense mechanism. It's hard to hack when your hands are busy.
Comment You are supposed to hold it with your pinky out! (Score 2, Funny) 427
It's just like drinking a latte.
Comment Are they jets or starships... (Score 1) 111
...and why do they need them?
Comment Re:XBMC on Ubuntu (Score 1) 304
XBMC is a great app, although the reason why you're finding it runs fine with your video card is that XBMC does not use any hardware acceleration. So you could have the best card in the world, and it wouldn't help performane.
That's not true. XBMC on linux supports hardware video decode via VDPAU ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ). nVidia Geforce 8xxx and later chips are supported, as are a couple of S3 Chrome chips. Depending on the age of the chip not all video codecs are accelerated, but all the supported chips include at least some support for H.264 and VC-1. Geforce 210 and later even accelerate XviD and DivX. Currently neither ATI nor Intel include support for VDPAU in their linux drivers.
XBMC has also recently added hardware decode support to their Windows build. It uses DXVA2 on Vista and Windows 7, and there is experimental support on XP using DXVA.
Comment Re:Our formar SSID: (Score 1) 422
Bionicman. You can probably guess the password.
Was it "da da da da da da da da"?
