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Let's play a rousing game of "Who's the eunuch!"

I just executed my crowning achievement: I finally got off my butt and set up the Sempron as a FreeNAS box. It's sitting next to Dad's desktop and is currently staying on 24/7. I did this all without consulting the instructions first (I like to fry things, apparently) and it actually turned out...

My grandmother has the 925 and says she's ditching it on Friday for an Android phone like Grandpa and Mom have now. There's a crack in its screen, but there's a skin on it that makes it look as though it isn't there if you are looking at it from the right angle. The skin also prevents it from...

They know. I didn't. I'm not official, because I can't donate and no one will sponsor me, but I can at least say I'm participating, I guess.

Don't really know, actually! Looking it up, it's supposed to raise cancer awareness.

Normally I'm that way too. First, I just don't look good with facial hair. It may be all those years of going without one, but all the time while I was growing up I wanted one, and now I can grow one and don't particularly want to. Second, it feels weird. But it's the first time I can actually...

This is the first time November's rolled around that I can actually grow a beard, and as such I am participating in the event called "No Shave November." I shaved on Halloween night so I started this month with a clean state. At a little over a week into it I can say that I already have a decent...

Makes sense, a logical step. But couldn't they just call this an extension of the DDR3L standard? I mean, DDR3L is already a low-voltage part, so it seems pretty logical to me... And what about DDR3 vs DDR2, other than speed increments?

A 4770-4790K would actually be overkill for what I do. I don't do the high-end graphics and video processing, and I don't have time for playing games anymore. Honestly I would be extremely happy if I could scrape together enough for an A8 or so, and I could probably get away with going with the...

I got ahold of my mom's old Nokia Lumia 900. It's old, but it works and does far more than my old phone. I'd prefer a newer Android handset but I'll take what I can get. I have to give credit where it's due. For the tiny amount of apps that run on the outdated Windows Phone 7.8 platform, they...

I just came across it by Googleing something, can't remember what. AFAIK I'm not related to anyone here.

Personally I don't see myself becoming a graphics snob. I worry more about running the game to begin with. I do however want to be able to use my computer and have it be relevant for more than four years after I purchase it. Sadly it seems that the only way to accomplish that is to go with...

$1200 doesn't look too bad, actually. Might just have to start saving my pennies.

I have more than 60GB to store, that's for sure. Whether I need to be storing it all on the main hard drive is up for debate, but at this point I have the space so I might as well use it. I probably won't have the money to do such a upgrade for several years yet. Long after this is painfully...

I thought Hitachi was still in the hard drive business. Who all is still doing that? I know Seagate and WD still make hard drives, is that it?

Remember that my Inspiron came with a 7 COA, and it has the... err, 'special' variant of the C2D. It wasn't terrible, but you really didn't want to leave any antivirus running in the background. Santilli - Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure that 7 and 8 will take up that much RAM on...

My one and only drive to die was the Caviar Blue that died back in April. Everything else I've got has been working fine for years on end, except for the 500GB that's in my laptop of course. I realize that you're all talking about server arrays that probably get the crap kicked out of them...

The price tag made my eyes bleed, but that's what you pay when you live on the bleeding edge. Not that that's a bad thing, mind. If you've got the money, by all means use it. Those two guys don't look like they'd take any crap from anything. Crysis? Pfft, child's play. We get Office 2013...

Congrats on reaching 4k posts, Howell. I'm a bit late to the party, as usual. No one's commented on my glasses yet, but I'm pretty sure that's because people at my school just don't care what you look like. As long as you're taking care of yourself, they don't care, and that's how it should be...

No, I never said that's what I did - just that I see these sites all the time and that I'm surprised that Google hasn't shut them down. Internet herpes could refer more to the viruses/malware/everyone calls the whole shebang a virus so I might as well too that are mere annoyances, while some...

What I find really funny is just how easy it is to get cracked apps for Android online. Even getting cracked programs for PC isn't as easy as this. Just Google "x apk" where x is the app you want, and you find an appropriate package, download it, and install it. You do have to enable installing...

Why is it that more and more keyboards are omitting the useful word processing keys (that somehow find a use within the GUI, as well)? Do they just think that not enough people use them to justify it? I'll admit, I only started using the special keys a couple years ago, but it made typing a much...

Ohoho, this may just be what the NT platform needed. What are the chances that they'll make a graphical front-end for it, so it's usable for the average bear? Just the package manager in general sounds like a really good idea, one that, honestly, they should have implemented years ago. The fact...

I will say, however, that if we by some miracle get some streaming service I will probably look into a dual boot with Raspbmc.

Raspian, probably. Apparently I'm getting a small TV for my room this Christmas. I've told them over and over that I don't watch TV, but they seem adamant. I figure that I could use it as a secondary monitor, and hopefully one capable of doing 1080p natively. Built in speakers = bonus. But the...

I guess its an option, but not right now. Our insurance barely covers glasses.

EA has just been terrible all around. Simcity (the new one) sucks and from what I've heard is still difficult to get into at times. There are areas where "always online" can be almost tolerable, but a city simulator of all things is not one of them. I wouldn't know personally, if I had the money...

Thanks for the tip.

Smaller as in it's no longer scaling the resolution to the entire TV? Is there a black border?

I got new glasses a couple days back. Went with some with more vertical space, so I look even more like your stereotypical "nerd" than ever. Mom says they make me look like Hank Hill, and keeps trying to get me to say "I sell propane and propane accessories." It's a lot to get used to, but being...

All considered, I think you did as well as one could with the restrictions. Budgets just suck all around, but restrictive ones suck even more. I can't say I'd do any better. In fact, I'd likely do a bit worse.

I'd hook him up with a mid-end AMD APU based machine, and if he doesn't do very much in the world of 3D, keep him on the more-than-adequate integrated graphics. Either 4 or 8 GB RAM, but if you're going with 4, make sure it's only one DIMM so it isn't wasted if/when the leap to 8GB is made...

T-Clock is a replacement for the standard taskbar clock in Windows. Don't quote me on it but I think it works with XP/Vista, and it is confirmed to be working on 7/8/8.1/10. It allows for much more customization than the standard clock does, much in line with most panel clocks offered by the...

I'm wanting to look into a RPi as a recipient streaming device, for streaming 360p MP4 video from some kind of network share. Being able to experiment with it would also be very cool and it's cheap enough (and powerful enough for being so cheap) that it piques my interest.

Recent XKCD strip that I thought referenced this:

Can you use an RPi for a streaming device, or is it too slow?

Okay, that's bullcrap. But, it's Microsoft-manufactured, so of course they want to make sure that you can run absolutely nothing other than Microsoft Windows on it.

These flagship tablets look absurdly nice in comparison to my lineup. Well, flagship anything is going to look absurdly nice next to my stuff, but that's beside the point and we've already been over that. It's sad that you can buy a PC (even a laptop) and have it stay somewhat relevant for...

I prefer Android for its customization capabilities and the openness of the platform. Sure, Google markets their own version of it, but the core of it is open and you are free to change it and/or distribute it. To my knowledge, at least. That would be why we have successful Android "distros"...

I don't do streaming in general, too hard on our data limit. We hit it almost a week ago and its unbelievably slow. It's significantly faster than 56k, but that hardly matters when it's still slow enough for connections to time out. It's a cool concept though, one I intend to get into when I'm...

Why should it be? Why can't the world shift to *nix and be somewhat uniform? All of the major OSes (except Windows, and even Windows lifts some features off of it) are some form of *nix. Well, okay, I say major, but really, Windows holds almost ~90% of the Desktop OS market share. WINE and Cider...

Puberty all over again? How about no. No. Just -- no. So much nope. Not doing it again. FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, I'M NOT EVEN FINISHED WITH THE FIRST ROUND YET! (sound of a blowdart being, well, blown) No -- I.. will not...

Didn't edit fast enough. 'cat scaling_available_frequencies', even when in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq, returns a "No such file or directory" from cat. 'cat cpuinfo_cur_freq' returns, under no load, "600031". 'cat cpuinfo_max_freq' returns "2900000". Whatever, as long as nothing...

It must be, because under Ubuntu it says my minimum frequency is 498 MHz, and it reports that under Debian as 600 MHz. And "cat /proc/cpuinfo" returns a bunch of stuff, but I found the line 'cpu MHz' and under heavy load it goes up to 2900 MHz, so either the system itself is lying or Intel is...

What's pretty cool is that it's the FAHClient that's maxing out my cores. I only have one slot assigned, and it's using both cores to their maximum (which is apparently 2900 MHz). FAHClient seems a lot smarter about using my CPU when set to full under Debian than under Ubuntu. I can use most...

Conky on my Debian install reports my turbo-boosted clockspeed, Ubuntu doesn't. Also, my turboboosted clock speed on Debian is 2900 MHz. Normally it maxes out at 2400. How is this possible? Is it even possible? Is Conky lying to me? Under Ubuntu, Conky would always report my clockspeed when...

A couple of YouTubers have made music by passing MIDI along to floppy drives. Take a listen. MrSolidSnake745 Sammy1Am

And running Metro apps in a window! Don't forget about that - *cough*ModernMix*cough*. Whoever did it first, this time, I think MS did it better. For once. That start menu is more to be excited about than you think, Merc - this marks the first time (that I know of, at least) MS has gone back on...

Its WM doesn't do GPU compositing, which I kind of need if I'm going to run the res as high as I am.

Something similar has stricken me - my touchpad doesn't work at all. I haven't disabled it in software, though I probably would have if it was working. Maybe see if you can find an older version of the driver, uninstall the newer one and install the older one in its place. That's all I can...