Comment computers or windows installations? (Score 2, Insightful) 413
computers don't get infected. Windows installations are usually the problem. Besides, I dont need no internet driving license
Comment Shweeb (Score 1) 133
My seemingly short-sighted imagination doesn't let me see how Shweeb can work in the real world. Is that a good idea to invest expecting serious results?
Comment http://explainthefee.com/ (Score 4, Informative) 138
Information about the $10 "4G tax" can be found in http://explainthefee.com/ . There's a new post about how to cancel service without paying ETF in case you want out
Comment helium shortage (Score 1) 363
Even if it runs on renewable energy, isnt there a Heluim shortage that will make it dependent on a scarce non renewable "propulsion" source?
Comment html5 (Score 1) 172
we will have better luck waiting for mass adoption of html5 than waiting for a REAL release of the adobe flash plugin. Maybe html5 is whats causing them to wake up
Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" 319
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
Comment trolls trolling trolls (Score 2, Interesting) 241
hard to choose which is the less evil side
Comment Re:Ok, I'm just going to come out and say it... (Score 1) 341
32bit XP limit of 3.5GB is an artificial limit imposed by MS, same as 32bit win2003 standard. 32bit Win2003 Enterprise can use PAE to handle above 4GB. 32bit Win2003 standard is limited to 4GB unnecessarily
Dont know if Vista7 32bit has the same limitation but wouldn't surprise me
Comment war (Score 3, Insightful) 416
Nothing like a little war to advance the state of technology.
Comment about time (Score 1) 117
I was wondering why they went browser based if it was only going to run on windows. Lets just hope that linux/mac support remains a priority. I seen other "cross-platform" games were linux/mac support always lag behind windows support.
Comment Re:The problem extends to other Dells (Score 1) 310
The hard drive was giving SMART codes. To be safe now Im running a HardDrive monitoring utility from windows (DTemp). The utility reads all HardDrive parameters and SMART status perfectly. Its just that the BIOS doesn't read them or if it does, its not acting on them.
Now Im forced to run yet another service to compensate for DELL lazyness (l8kfan and DTemp). Im pretty sure that a BIOS update could easily add SMART support to the BIOS but I dont think they care.
