Recent content by darkpaw

The whole point of this is to compete with Chromebooks for educational/enterprise markets. Completely locked down for security and as little administration as possible. This isn't supposed to replace a desktop OS.

Not surprised. My launch 2600k is still happily humming along in my son's system. Unfortunately, his MB is going bad, which would be the second time I've had to replace an MB for that chip. Probably not worth buying another used one at this point even though the CPU is perfectly good. Intel has...

Yeah I really have no idea what westrock is talking about, the article is about FPGAs in servers used inside MS.

Last year was the first year I didn't upgrade my phone annually since my first smart phone. There just wasn't enough improvements in the current generation to make it worthwhile, even when I manage to cover most of the cost by ebaying the previous phone. Still not very pressed to upgrade this...

Thanks, bought a damaged box AC unit for the bed room and ended up saving a pretty decent chunk.

I read that entire article and was exactly how I felt too. Holy crap, it was one long "why doesn't everyone else see it's the Illuminati?" rant.

Considering that Nintendo has by far the worst online support, issues transferring content between consoles, and dial-up like download speeds I'll have no interest at all in a digital only Nintendo platform. For everything else I've come to prefer download almost exclusively, but I have zero...

That kind of density in a single drive will absolutely still have a place in long term storage where size is a much greater concern than speed.

I've never met anyone that was actually happy they worked at Amazon, but some did really thrive on the challenge. Personally, I need a balance between challenging work and being able to live my life, but whatever drives people good for them. No mater how hard a white collar worker goes, they...

I have several Asus boards still running after who knows how long

I've been saying for fifteen plus years that network defense needs to be its own branch without all the physical fitness BS. I took the ASVAB for fun and had recruiters calling me for years after high school and would have loved to serve if not for some of my issues. I spent years on the civ...

I was very excited about this until I saw it wasn't water resistant (only splash resistant). Oh well, will be sticking with my Pebble until someone manages to make a better watch that is actually waterproof. I started wearing a watch when I was 14 and working at a water park, it's way too late...

Only took me about 20 minutes to do the install last night (from disc), might just be how busy the servers are now. The game is a blast, it does take a while to get used to the controls and I still have quite a few cases where I end up yelling at my screen because the wrong bar/target was...

It's hard to be young and angry when you're middle age and filthy rich. That said I think the black album was their best ever, and one of the over all best albums of all time.

Sadly I don't see much point in Media Center in 10, since it's been essentially left out to die since Vista. 7 made some minor improvements, 8 made it a paid, but still buggy as hell option. I used to love Media Center so much with my cable card tuners, but like a lot of other things its just...