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Thankfully, that is why I live in a city with municipally owned utility companies. (Okay, more like it was random luck) The electric rates are half of those an hour's drive north of here. ;)

So, the brother's account was administrative level? That sounds like the issue, you Mother would have to type in his account password in order to make system level changes since she wasn't an admin level user. If you want auto-login, just don't type in an account password during the install...

Not like anyone couldn't see this coming, even with AMD's impetus no longer driving it.

Well, after playing the game some after the update... I think it's a great update, but it is also one of the buggiest I've ever seen to date from Valve. 2 out of 3 map loads now results in a game crash, and despite Friday's patch there are over a half dozen achievements that don't work or...

There isn't any advertising during the Windows 7 install process. The only user delays are a few seconds pause before each restart. As I recall the only time Vista had "advertising" was a brief couple lines while the OS ran it's graphics system benchmark, thankfully something they did away with...

For computer accessories... could be. Not been many new mice/keyboards of note, RAM prices have more than doubled in some instances, Intel's SSD's are still selling for $100 more than their MSRP and the Vertex isn't exactly cheap anymore. Even ATI's latest 5800/5900 cards are just barely...

Was the article pulled? Link doesn't go anywhere. I am definitely curious to see how much this improves installation times. Regardless of SSD or HDD I seem to ballpark 13-15 minutes or so, so I suspect the optical drive is the bottleneck. I'm keen on seeing just how much I can shorten that...

I could hit >700W with just a Q6600 at ~3.8GHz and 8800GTS 320mb, as measured with a P3 power meter. Sure if you factor in PSU efficiency the actual PC power consumption would be about ~15% below this figure, but it doesn't surprise me at all. Overclocking can more than double a system's...

To chime in, Intel's goal with Larrabee has been to attempt to offer GPU-level computational performance while allowing users to code in C++, or other x86 languages that you cannot on a modern GPU. I'll just borrow a quote from Tim Sweeny, the guy behind the Unreal Engine: Source

I can't play when I have finals to study for! So far so good, here are some links worth checking out. This one links to most of the ongoing contests, comics, and other stuff that's going on concurrently. http://www.teamfortress.com/war/part3/index.htm First weapon reveal for the demo...

Hm, interesting idea. Thanks for posting the walkthrough to help readers out, 2Tired! Honestly I'm not a fan of using MPC HC as my music player myself, Winamp has better hotkey and keyboard support and will play FLAC files natively.

That at least sounds a bit more useful. But I'd have to question how long it would stay warm unless it runs an internal battery to store a small charge?

I wouldn't consider memory prices that low, after freefalling through the summer they have begun climbing over the last couple months which is why DDR3 is already roughly at price parity with DDR2. Yet a 2GB DDR2 kit went from $15 is now back up to $45. 4GB kits went from $25 to $65...

Sounds like a dual dual-GPU setup to me... then again if he was overclocking the crap out of it in a freezing room I can see two single GPU's and a Core i7 easily hitting 1,000W draw from the wall. My own rig can pull over 700W from the outlet according to my own power meters, and it's just a...

Well, I should say I assumed he meant IM "chat" clients... if he's simply referring to those online help chat clients, then that is something else entirely.

I'd have to say both. I think chat clients are indispensable as they've been a good tool to have. Frequently I'd need to chat with one or more people in real time to confer on projects, exchange notes, etc, and being able to exchange links, data, and files quickly and efficiently helps with...

Way way more. They are buying databases of info and cross referencing them I'm sure. I had zero friends on my placeholder Facebook account when I created it, yet it recommended more than a dozen people I've never met and don't know that share common interests with me. Peculiar interests that...

It's leaps and abounds above Vista, and although I'm still using the RC version due to recent time constraints I'm quite happy with it overall. Once I install the RTM version and have had eight months to torture it I'll make up my mind though... it took some use before Vista really started to...

That's good info to know! As those ATA commands are tied into how it functions as it does, then I guess it wouldn't change under Linux either.

Hm, perhaps ICANN should rename the domain to .con