I haven't commented on shashdot in years but for your comments I just wanted to say your comment fits the idiocy of what this site has become. Russia agitprop Whatgarbl devoid of any substance. Please actually die.
The problem with that line of thinking, while true, is it's fatalistic. If we accept we're already fucked there is no reason to try to avert disaster.
I'm guessing Bucharest? It's not necessarily indicative of the whole continent. In France where I live we were too far from a dslam to get anything above 7mbit until the fibre rolled in this January. Much of europe's infrastructure is good, but a lot is old and needs to be upgraded, just as it has to be in the states: a much bigger country anyway.
Any chance of getting a location on that apartment building? Might be moving to the area in a year or so. I have 500down 200up FTTH where I live and I cannot live without it anymore (think streaming your media library from your server to a Chrome-Cast in another country).
Unless you want to play a windows game or do something else like 3d modeling in which case it's actually quite handy.
I used to have a G5 tower. Didn't know they came with a liquid cooling option. Mine had a giant heatsink the size of a watermelon and two fans that sounded like a jet taking off when the system really got going.
You probably know this, given the site, but if you stick a paperclip in the little hole, you can get your CD out. I sympathize with the optical drive problem. Has happened to me as well more than with any other component.
I've had the worst of luck with optical drives, especially in laptops. My previous two laptops went through a grand combination of two *each*. My previous desktop's dvd burner failed, as did the desktop before that. Granted I did use the drives a lot, but still. Thankfully they're not that necessary anymore. Also power supplies, but not nearly as bad as the optical drives. I've had pretty good luck with HDDs.
No kidding. I've been considering returning to 10.9 considering the stability of Yosemite at 10.1 is what i'd expect from a preview image.
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