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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...

Saving in docx has so far fixed my formatting issues. Thanks for the help! Switched to Cinnamon from Unity. Unity is bad, and Canonical should feel bad. Cinnamon is not just more stable than Unity, it is also more customizable and lighter on RAM. It still does GPU compositing, and it's still...

No, I have not. Yet. Will be doing that ASAP. Merc, I don't use Google Docs (oh, sorry, Google Drive) because, at least in my experience, the connection drops far too often. It may just be that I have particularly crappy internet service (I mean, it is satellite after all), but on the whole I...

As a matter of fact, I do have the MS core fonts. I have Times New Roman set as the default font so I don't have to go through and manually select it (all of our papers for everything must be in 12pt Times New Roman, double-spaced). I probably could use ODF, everyone at the school has Office...

I have checked the margins and such -- they all look just fine, even in a side-by-side comparison. I don't know if I get the same result by saving in docx or RTF, which is why I'm trying those now. And ODT is not an option to me, as these documents are for sending to my instructors. Apparently...

When I save a .doc document and then open it in MS Word on a different machine to print, the last couple lines or so are cut from the document.

Virtual desktops are an interesting concept, I'll admit. I just have no use for them, as of yet. I'd much prefer having a larger amount of workable space on a single display at a single time, but that's just a personal thing. I figured out how to make the script run at startup, and I don't even...

Holy crap guys, it worked! Well, okay, there was a minor hiccup... the script was designed with the fact in mind that the integrated display would be connected to a bus called LVDS1. It's not. It's actually connected to a bus called eDP1. A quick search-and-replace had me up and running. The...

I agree, but this is a stop-gap solution. I'd much rather get a fully 1080p-capable display, but Dad won't give his up (though he rarely if ever uses it, and he always runs it at a lower resolution than it's capable of) and I don't have the money. I figure this will do the job until such time as...

Again, I'm not too concerned about having my stuff look good. I just want the larger workspace afforded by such a resolution. I can get a similar effect in things that support zooming by, well, zooming, but then the titlebars and taskbar seem far too large. So what I'm going to do (and the...

I don't care if they're watching me. What they see on my screen is their fault, not mine. :-D I will not be held responsible for their burned retinas. Transformers slashfic? I'd like to see someone pull that off. I know I'm certainly not a good enough writer to do so.

Apparently it is possible to scale a higher res down to a lower res display -- but only on Linux, using some kind of XRandr script. I don't think I can adequately tell you just how much bullcrap I think this is - Windows is a much more... populated platform than Linux, so these sorts of little...

Okay, that's kind of scary. But they pretty much have to remove that from the retail release, don't they? Otherwise isn't it considered a violation of privacy? Oh, I get it. They put it as an obscure clause in their EULA and then count on nobody reading it. I get having the feature in the name...

Well, that's not certain. My current display (as stated, a Dell SE198WFP from '07), which is an LCD and whose max res is 1440x900, is currently displaying at 1920x1080 with no issues. But you're probably right, Toshiba probably used the cheapest panels they could get their hands on. Still...

Yes.

I've tried to go this route, but the "CustomModeApp.exe" hiding in my system32 folder (part of my Intel HD driver suite, unaccessable by its control panel but still there if you want to use it) refuses to run. Like, I don't even get a sort of notification that it crashed or anything. It just...

Well, not exactly. If it's not listed in the list of supported resolutions (ie. the ones you can select normally anyway) it won't show up. Wonder if I can trick my laptop into pushing 1600x900 through its built in screen... probably not.

(Insert evil laughter) Interesting.... Good tip. Thanks!

I think I have figured out how to put the connector in just right for it to see it as a "Generic Non-Plug and Play Monitor." Sorry, the first time I saw it I misread it - it actually says Non-Plug and Play. I stick it in with the left side subtly forward, and then when I see the higher res I...

Well, I wanted to get a DVI-to-HDMI converter anyway. I figure, if it works at 1920x1200 over DVI/HDMI, great. If not, I'll be happy with 1680x1050. I figure 1920x1200 would be almost ridiculously small on here anyway, I'd probably have to turn the DPI up to see anything. 1680x1050 seems to be...

Hmm. Good point. So I re-plugged the monitor in, and for some reason it's not seeing it as the SE198WFP that it is, rather as a regular plug and play monitor. Not only can it display at 1280x1024, it can also sync to a (stretched) 1920x1080. I tried to put it at 1920x1200 to even out the...

So for the past couple days I've plugged my SE198WFP monitor into the VGA port on my laptop, and because my wireless keyboard is "Unifying" (I can't believe it actually works...) I have it synced to the receiver that's plugged into my laptop as well. Then I close my laptop and shove it behind...

This is most definitely not my area of expertise, but I'd venture to say that SFP+ is backwards compatible. Seems to me like it'll just run at the slower speed, like using a 10BASE1000 card and cable to talk to a 10BASE100 card. What is the policy on returns for HP? I'd say try it, and if it...

All of it. Getting hosed, then bought out by new guys... the eventual deterioration into purely "What drive do I buy?" threads, as Chewy said....

Huh. A fate worse than death, so it seems.

So I got my first taste of a 1080p display today. Dad let me borrow his monitor (for the computer that he NEVER uses) for a little while today. I am so jealous, but then, my poor little Intel HD can't push anything much more intense than Quake 3 (and probably not even that) at 1080p. I did...

I was reading some old threads, and I saw Santilli mention that he "love[s] most of the people in storage review." This was in the thread "Is this forum going to last?" from 1-30-2002. What exactly is (or was) this Storage Review? Is it still around? Can anyone scrounge together some Wayback...

You can re-enable the start screen - not that you'd want to, but it's there - by going to Taskbar properties, and under the Start Menu tab unchecking the option "Use the Start menu instead of the Start screen". Presumably on touch devices the Start screen stays put. Yeah, funny thing about AVs...

That's true: I was, after all, around for the Xbox 360 and the rise of the iPhone/iPod touch, but I was a lot later to the party. I've always preferred PCs, they can do so much more. An Xbox can play games, and now they can run the "Universal Modern Apps." But a PC can do all of that and then...

I know it isn't meant to be a daily driver, and I said I wouldn't, but to test the upgrade capability I installed it over my copy of 8.1. It only occured after I installed it that I wouldn't be able to revert, but at this point I'm not all that worried. I'm having no issues to speak of, except...

I know it isn't meant to be a daily driver, and I said I wouldn't, but to test the upgrade capability I installed it over my copy of 8.1. It only occured after I installed it that I wouldn't be able to revert, but at this point I'm not all that worried. I'm having no issues to speak of, except...

Not terrible, I'll admit, and lag isn't too much of an issue. But when lag does strike, without fail I lag out of the game. Mom keeps telling me that my playing games online is whats driving our limit up. I went the entirety of last month without gaming online at all, just to prove a point. We...

Yargh, mateys! Finished this test, forgot about the day, so here I am now! I am Dirty Jack Rackham. Yeah. Okay. You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name...

If you want to use GZDoom or jDoom instead, by all means. Just let me know. Much obliged for the hosting offer - if it turns out to need it, I'll take you up on it. I don't think that HughesNet would appreciate me having more than one connection open at once. Just let me know when you have time...

I don't know what I was expecting, but I do know that it wasn't what I got.

I'm going to be downloading the preview ISO tomorrow while I'm at school, and hope to god that it runs on my Sempron, because I don't really trust it on my laptop and I want to see how well it handles on real hardware. If I can't get it running on the Sempron, I guess I'll have to make do with...

I didn't finish. I was going to add this as an edit, but my five-minute limit is up, so... They shouldn't have to deal with this, especially at their ages, so I definitely agree with your decision to keep the details (very) vague. My advice is to do as the others have said - make the most of...

Oh my god. You have young children. I am literally crying right now.