If your laptop gets hot enough to burn you (or even make you uncomfortable) then there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with your laptop's design. Plain and simple.

@balls187: SUCCESSFUL TROLL IS SUCCESSFUL

@balls187: Funny, every time someone mentions the Apple Tax, that same, tired argument keeps popping up. You'd think everyone that writes the words "Apple tax" has heard, and disproved, that argument already.

@Prairie Moon: As a computer tech, I have to say: Yes, you are being raped. Hard. The only reason the prices are set so high (not by me, so please put your torches and pitchforks down) is because the market allows it. Demand lower repair prices, and the whole world might benefit. Seriously, it doesn't take $100 of…

HOLY CRAP. Windows CDs are possibly the most dangerous things a person could get their hands on. I work in a computer repair shop and a good percentage of the system problems we have are caused by morons that installed Windows OVER their recovery partition (I mean, yes, into an ~8gb partition, with their original…

@jaxun: I don't think it's "they" that needs to be worried about screwing up the computer. You've done just as good a job "disabling all" in msconfig. That'll hose a computer up worse than you could even imagine... *facepalm*

I'd been hanging out on the SVN snapshots for quite some time, and I think I even had a bit of say in finally getting them posted to the site (I started compiling the SVN myself and posting binaries, naughty me!), and finally having a new version released (yay!).

@Demonbird: I see it also affects letter spacing in posts as well! Astonishing...

HD Tune, people.

@Shadowman615: The powercfg command came halfway through XP's life with SP2, so if you run, say, "powercfg /hibernate off" on a pre-SP2 PC, you get a nice error that powercfg doesn't exist. But yeah, it's quite a welcome addition. #powermanagement

@NICU: ... Seriously? Hasn't the beta expired already? Any particular reason why you never moved on to the (much more stable) RC or RTM versions? Okay, RTM, sure, because you didn't want to buy it. But why not the free RC? #powermanagement

@david.ginsberg: Hey up there! Don't know if you can hear us peons down here, but I just thought you should know that I'll be down here saving up for the next lifetime for one of those deeply discounted "old" LCD TVs to replace my 1992 boob-tube TV in the living room... or maybe if you want to throw one of your "old"…

@Oranges w/ Cheese wants it to be winter already: That's not due to libraries. That's due to another silly botched MS implementation: the ability to "display" a different folder name than what the folder is actually named (using [desktop.ini] in each folder). So a folder named "Documents" is actually displayed as "My…

I watch so little TV that I find the commercials genuinely entertaining, most of the time. So when I do DVR (and I'm not just testing it to see if I finally have a working tuner setup, or for the novelty of DVR time-shifting), I usually watch the commercials too. #tv

@neely615: Still don't understand why I can't give this comment a star. But it certainly deserves one. Signed and signed. Up to 27 "signatures" now if memory serves me right. #windows7

Actually, I was left with first a set of corrupted files, and then another cryptic error (that at least left me with a usable set of files). Seems like the whole distribution method was totally botched. Hope it doesn't leave a sour taste in peoples' mouths, as they move on from Vista (or in my case, XP) to 7. Pretty…

When it starts to get colder, I turn more computers on and do more video encoding. I find things for my computers to do, basically. It warms the room right up. Being on the 3rd floor (in a 4-story apartment building) has its advantages, too. So far we've had the thermostat completely "off" for an entire month, relying…

.NET in Firefox has just been a total trainwreck from the start. First, it was installed without the user's permission (malware behavior, although the extension itself can hardly be considered malware - you were, after all, installing .NET). Then, it's locked into the browser with no obvious way to remove it - the…

On my own computer, I always - or at least, almost always - just use F6 Tab. If I want to go somewhere, I use F6; if I want to search, I push Tab after hitting F6. Works quite well. Never have been able to remember "alt+K" - plus, two independent keystrokes are better than holding one and pushing the other (srsly).

Very rarely. The browser on my phone itself is botched by Verizon to filter content through their proxy. It takes a little trickery to break it out but even then it's just better to grab a nearby computer.