Recent content by MagnusDredd

There were actually lawsuits to try to stop people from pointing the satellite dishes in their own yards at various satellites to get unencrypted TV signals. When I was young I had family in PA with a large dish, and we used to watch TV from all over the world. Luckily in the case of the...

Since when is someone's power outlet/water outlet on my property! If you want to share your access it's easy. Don't use WEP. I generally don't! If you don't want anyone using your bandwidth, then lock your damned WAP, and quit crying about your own ignorance. Here's the problem with...

So according to you the fact that I have a Wireless Access Point in my house, and it has no password, that I'm some kind of asshole, because I don't care if my neighbors use it to check their email? I paid for the damned connection, if I want to share it with my neighbors I'll fscking do it...

Taking someone's TV is stealing. Taking money that does not belong to you is stealing. In both of these cases, you are denying someone of their property. In either case the money or the TV is no longer accessible to the owner. In the case of using an unlocked Wireless Access Point (WAP)...

The point was simply that there's more to being a computer enthusiast than Windows. This was in response to: http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1030868673&postcount=203 "everything else runs on Windows?"

Cool, thanks for the tip... I just wish more responses were as useful as yours.

And of course noone at all is going to use the built in disc burning feature, and then show up at my desk asking why the disc they burned at home does not work in the machines at work... Bullcrap. This is going to cost me hours of my life, just like many of their other mistakes have. It's...

No... And it's ignorant to suggest that being an "Enthusiast" makes you a Windows fan. While there is much that runs on Windows, and the standard (L)user may think that MS is the only game in town, it's simply untrue. There are hundreds of thousands of pieces of hardware from embedded...

I use MS Word for my own purposes generally. Since we have many poor students in the district I work for, I've run quite a few of the Open Source alternatives through the paces. From what I've observed, Abiword is simply a lot more polished than Open Office Writer. It's also much faster on...

If anything HardOCP is in the Pro-MS camp, especially the forums. I'd rate /. forums more Pro-Linux than HardOCP is Pro-MS, but not by much. Basically my take on Vista was that UAC (accurately described as having an overactive boy scout with an endless supply of chocolate covered expresso...

I'm wondering if the spontaneous reboots that the author experienced were actually crashes. Windows XP also has the option to automatically reboot instead of displaying a BSOD (This is the default AFAIK). I generally uncheck this option. I've had multiple clients and co-workers who have...

'tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln

It's a computer, not a freaking console.... A general purpose computing device. It should be able to run anything that has the drivers for it. This is like saying that a car was "designed for" Goodyear Eagles. Sure, that may mean that the engineers and factory all test with Goodyear Tires...

I don't own an iPod or any portable MP3 player. I'm actually considering one, of course I need to know how much the service fees will be first. There's a good chance that depending on a few things I may decide to buy a Nokia and wait until Rev. 2 to re-evaluate. There are a couple of...

It would not surprise me if this was true. The music industry used to track sales this way too. If the 2 million units that got shipped to retailers didn't sell and ended up in a bargain bin or dumpster, the artist would still get credit for 2 million sales... Actually the only person that...