I also have a three story house and a WAP in the middle. Reception is horrible, horrible, horrible. I think it's all the insulation material (class B house) and the floor heating (a lot of water in the floors) and on top of that the floors are concrete. I now have a second access point, one on the second floor.

Cellphone reception is also terrible in the middle of my living room. My best bets are turning off Data on my cellphones so that it doesn't try to negotiate quicker speeds.

I'd really like to know how to improve things. House has been built last year. I expect this to be a common problem in low energy houses.

Yes, that the famous model where a BIOS was leaked and where you need to short to pins to be able to flash it. It's a special case, not applicable to most Chromebooks.

You can't do that. Chromebooks don't have a BIOS/EFI as we know it. Not 100% sure, but pretty sure tough.

bringing it back to TFA, given that these beers are ancient, they're not American. YHBCT*. YHL. HAND.

/*You Have Been Counter-Trolled.

WIN. You win.

It's funny because it's always poignant; as long as something is a good tool for some job, it's got legs.

I meant the way how Google manages G+. By coercion (Youtube!) and "my way of the highway".

I like Windows XP. I have ranted before that the IT industry totally lack a concept of maturity. XP is a prime example of it: sure, it's not perfect, but it is so well known, that securing it and managing it is a breeze. Oh, well, I stand alone with that opinion. What can I say?

Thanks for the infographic. :-D

Oh, and I did notice you were using G+ more frequently. There is not much going on on G+, but I still post, just to keep my social network usage diversified. This is also why I have an increased usage on twitter.

It does feel very Microsoft-Like, eh? ;-)

Didn't you have a chimp as Persident of the United States a few years ago? /me ducks and runs...

Nah, not at all... Plenty of choice and they are now coming more and more on Sandy/Ivy bridge Celeron models. (Dropping the Atom. I was a huge Atom fan, but they do have a lot of downsides for the applications I wanted to use them) At my local supermarket netbooks tend to be Acer Aspire One. Those sold there are Celeron 847 based machines, which are relly quite good chips.

Me? I went Ultra book, but only because I could get the Acer Aspire S3 for dirt cheap.

The dumpster is your friend. Core2Duo class machines with 4GB RAM are starting to show up. My computer at work is a Core2Duo and is 5 years old. My boss sees no need in spending money for something that works. (And it does, so I'm not complaining)

I remember and have seen DOS bootsector viruses, which were still occasionally seen in the 9x days, but I was ignoring those because they wouldn't be able to infect a Windows NT based system if they tried to.