I thought he was joking actually... but no-one has moderated yet. Could somebody please moderate and tell us whether this is supposed to be a funny?

I am surrounded by fields, but I still use encryption. I take my portable out into the workshop about 20 yards away, but I just can't get a reception. My router is in the window, and there's only an old tin garage between the asbestos workshop and the house... need an external antenna I guess.

The single player Bad Company 2 isn't too bad, and you feel a bond with your squad mates that you don't often get... not bad at all.

I think it was the latest Medal Of Honour however, that actually brought a tear to my eye in one part of the story. This is certainly one of the few games ever to have this effect. Maybe I was just feeling tired or something.

I attacked the problem from another angle. My single screen cost was around £1300 (~$2k) when I bought it a few years ago... probably cost around half that to buy one similar now. I have this 40 inch 1080p LCD on a desk I built myself so the screen is a better height. I turn the FOV up a little above standard in first person shooters, not terribly high but just what feels right to me. I am happy... I would like a few small screens to go around my main screen now though I think.

Really? I have an Asus board and although it has lots of features, it takes longer to POST than it does for Win7 to boot from an SSD harddrive. When I go into setup, it doesn't look much different than the BIOS of twenty years ago. I had a board back around '96 which gave me a pseudo WIMP environment. For 2010 when I bought the board, this is poor.

Maybe Asus have awesome BIOS's compared to most other manufacturers, but it is still a turd.

Never underestimate the ability of a cow to get people interested in whatever you have to offer. I'm a dairy farmer. I somewhat overestimated, but hey, cows are really cool and all that.

When we're discussing Southpark, they are called God Damn F-cking Jews.

Seems rather obvious to me... I've always had my / on the first part of the fastest disk, and had /usr, /home and /var elsewhere. It makes it far easier to upgrade or mess around with multiple distributions when its partitioned like this, but Linux distributions often dont encourage it as much as they should.

You probably just have one or two directories that are huge, such as your Southpark collection and maybe some porn. Just put everything on the SSD, and have the few large directories of rarely used sequentialy accessed files on a cheap green drive. If you don't already have all these sorts of files grouped together, changing your way of working won't kill you.

I'm currently using Windows7 off an SSD, and won't ever be without one in the future. There is no way that 200 quid spent on a processor or ram or graphics card can make a system so responsive as only 100 quid spent on an SSD. My other drive in this system is a Velociraptor, but in hindsight I'm thinking perhaps I should have bought a slower larger drive. Then again, I guess that is what NAS is for :)

I think we should nuke it just to see what happens. This wouldn't be with the intention of killing it, but rather helping it to evolve faster... and just in case it is intelligent, let it know who's boss.

Are you kidding?! The Song is called 'Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me' is it not? That's like a Slashdot Anthem if ever there was one...

I hear black pudding (congealed blood sausage) is off the menu over in the US... they class a lot of things as offal that really are quite delicious. Am I right in thinking you don't eat kidneys or liver either?

A convicted fraudster, in the uk, becoming educated in business studies. What could possibly go wrong?

Is she on /.?