I picked up a tricked-out Dell XPS 17 laptop a few years back. It worked great until it stopped recognizing my genuine Dell PS (just outside of my warranty period too... which SUCKED). That in turn caused the thing to run at a REDUCED clock speed and REFUSED to charge the battery. After a bit of digging, it turns out that there is a 1-wire protocol between the PS and the laptop. If that goes down, you are left with a slow running, paperweight. Dell doesn't like you running after-market PS on their devices, but also screws legitimate customers because the engineering behind it sucks.

The thing that irritates me the most is that I *know* this is just a software check in the BIOS. If they would release an unlocked BIOS, I'd be good to go.

Needless to say, I've never bought another Dell since then. I've been extremely happy giving ASUS my business instead.

Monty Python beat these guys by several decades: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRZVCg31fE

After a short bit of searching, I was able to bring up the lat/long coordinates on my navicomputer. Check it out: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.842823,+7.779038&hl=en&ll=33.842618,7.778471&spn=0.001635,0.004128&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.644639,135.263672&t=h&z=19

The Joo Janta Corporation reports a down-tick in peril-sensitive sunglasses sales on a mostly harmless planet in the vicinity of Sol.

XMP FTW! I played that hell out of that. Unreal II. Meh. But XMP? OMG OMG OMG!

It's my body and I'll die if I want to,
die if I want to, DIE if I WANT to,
You would die to if it happened to YOUUUUUUUUU!
Seriously, though. If the patient wants to take the risk. Let them!

Similarly, I answered only question #1... just like I did back in 2000 when I got the "long" form. After which point, I was 'harassed' on a weekly basis by census workers that wanted me to divulge more information than I felt the US Constitution required I provide.

We'll see what happens this year.

I could watch 44DDs all day long.

Red alert! Shields Up! All hands brace for impact! New Internet meme inbound in 5.. 4.. 3..

It really depends on what you are looking for. Are you wanting to index file names or do you want names and contents? For me, I typically know what I'm looking for based on file name, so Locate32 works out great. It's the Windows equivalent to 'slocate'.

Not quite circular enough. Let's have another go:

Abit suck, but Asus are good
Asus suck, but Gigabyte are good
Gigabyte suck, but MSI are good
MSI suck, but Abit are good