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Exactly. http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.asp is THE place to go for cables, adapters, and related bits and baubles. They aren't just a seller, they're the front-end to one of the major manufacturers, so basically you are buying direct. They quote specs on everything and offering models...

I can't comment as to WD's external drives, but overall external drives so suffer quicker failure rates, it's just the nature of the device combined with more components to possibly fail. Even before the Seagate FreeAgent series came about, all the major drive manufacturers had problematic...

Hard to believe that for over a century gentlemen used just a straight-edge razor for shaving! Those seem to get the best shave still... I've tried one of those 5 blade razors, and while it certainly cut my facial hair damn smooth it also did the same my skin. I stick to 2 or 3 blade razors...

Man, I've not even had a chance to play the campaign at all yet! I'll have to wait until next week at minimum, when I get back. :p

Yeah, the uncapped framerates bug at the menu screen is rather odd, but other than wasting power and generating heat it shouldn't affect stable systems. If a GPU is already borderline, hot, or power starved then it would only take something like this or Furmark or the OCCT burn tool to take the...

I like that pump mod! I hadn't seen that before and it's relatively simple to pull off compared to most others I'd known of... I'll have to remember that one! Does it affect the pump noise any?

NAND reliability doesn't seem to be as major an issue as you or I would think. Even if the NAND began wearing out it would take time before the GB's of spare area would become depleted, and user tools exist that show how many bad sectors have been remapped. To date all the SSD failures I'm...

Haha, that is so silly looking it's just crazy. Next thing you know in 10 years they will be building the motherboard directly into the GPU card. Instead of having an integrated GPU on chip, they'll just put a processor socket on the back of the GPU. :p

Those ribbons are getting harder to find this year! I'm only at eight so far and out of new places to look, argh!

If I install a clean version of Firefox, automatically it picks up Java and Skype add-ons and about a dozen plug-ins. Office 2007 plug-ins, Foxit Reader, Java, WMP, several NVIDIA plugins, Shockwave, Silverlight, Winamp, and still more. And it even has a plugin titled "Mozilla Default Plug-in...

Hey Demure, it's best if you could get a good price range to work within. What monitor/resolution is he using, too?

You may have spoken too soon! While not <$1, the SiliconEdge Blue 128GB can be had for $1.55 per GB, no rebates, no codes, no tax, and free shipping. Even made a news blurb for it: Link It was only a few weeks ago I noticed the entry-level SSD's were trending down towards $2 per GB, so this...

I agree, if you need encryption on your flash drive then http://www.truecrypt.org/ is the best bet. It is free, it works, and it doesn't require additional partitions or otherwise affect how the drive is accessed. It also has the option of instead of encrypting the drive itself, it only encrypts...

Okay, I just finished laughing really hard. I also love this, not only is it a really smart idea but it's just great. I'll have to see if a few friends of mine know about this particular distro. :)

For most people, that is the full truth. Those Core i7 Quad/Six-core Processors are as fast as they need to be, and they won't have a real reason to upgrade for many, many years now. For the first time I'm running the bleeding edge in technology, but I've also maxed it out. Folding@home is...

That's usually not a bug as much as the result of an add-on. If you do some work you can likely narrow down which add-on is causing that problem and uninstall or replace it with one that works properly. Stuff like that is exactly why I don't still use Firefox and their add-on system, I just got...

That's a pretty large decline in Mac users... but I bet I know why. All the TF2'ers went with a mac to get a free set of ingame iPod earbuds. Virtual machines, hackintoshes, borrowed laptops, whatever, all they had to do was install steam and play a few minutes to get the item drop. Only ~6% of...

Hey Robertxon. You've probably already found out by now, but if the network drive was configured in RAID then there isn't anything you can do to recover the data directly. If the data is extremely important you could buy a second enclosure, substitute the drives, and pray that it would work but...

You can shut down or reboot windows machines remotely through the RDC. It is also possible to configure Windows to shutdown at a specific time, or after the machine finished a task and went idle. :)

The irony is rich... but truth be told anyone using an SSD has to worry about disk space, just as if we were back to the era when 120GB was considered huge and most PC's shipped with 40GB drives all over again. :D I always thought 60GB was sufficient, but it's not. Unless I uninstall/reinstall...