Recent content by stevech

Years and years now... what would IE be had there never been Mozilla or Firefox?

Kill-A-Watt - may not accurately calculate the RMS of the current consumption for fast-changing loads.

AMD = value. Good enough. Without AMD, what would Intel charge for PC CPUs?

Old PC usually too noisy/big. I'm happy with mini-ITX chassis + Gigabyte E350 motherboard. Does HD1080 well with integral graphics.

wee bit Intel-centric?

try the on-line demos for Synology and QNAP. I suggest the DS212j

I was wondering about the discussions above re putting a mini-ITX into an mATX case. I/O shield question. I guess you're saying that mini-ITX and mATX and ATX all have the same format of I/O shield?

Universal time reference per today's scientists, is the instant of the Big Bang, is is not? (until that theory is superseded).

and the I/O connector inset for mini-ITX?

No Windows. Does run a generic Linux in same vein as Ubuntu. Challenge is theater mode web browser.

Geesh, most everyone images to a spare drive or an external USB or eSATA drive. Not a good idea to use DVDs. Acronis is what I've used for years. Better yet, get a cheap drive and CLONE your disk. That way, all you do is boot the spare disk. Conversely, Imaging is a PITA to recover.

My employer buys PC/laptops - depreciates them to $0 in 3 years. Then they refuse to allow employees to install a newer OS, or replace a disk drive, etc. They incorrectly reason that the IT tech support costs are too high - the flaw being the disruption to my customer-facing work is far, far...

bought 4 or so HP printers over the years. Steady decline. Last straw on the last one was crappy software plus falls-apart-if-you-look-at-it plastic. Epson 630 - been really good. Very happy. Good software. Everything HP was in the early days - pre-Bangalore.

A friend just bought a Toshiba laptop at (barf) Best Buy. Came with Win 8. First time I've had a chance to play with Win 8 on a PC for a few private hours. I says hours, plural, to allow time to get past the initial "it's different" reaction. Sadly, Win 8 on a laptop (PC too?) is just totally...

HP - Printers, PCs Just say No.