@zelannii: Well, aside from the fact that WHS backup is a completely separate system than the Windows backup you mention that bug in... and doesn't suffer from the same issues (really, it is boot - click - select a backup date - restore, it formats the drive and re-images it from that night)...

@penguiniator: At least all programs utilizing Ctrl+Z have the keyboard shortcut visible somewhere else, like when someone is browsing menus (it says "Undo.....Ctrl+Z") or browsing context menus...

@penguiniator: Everything in Vim is unintuitive.

Actually, turning off System Restore speeds up basic file operations like deleting. When a file is deleted with Volume Shadow Copy (the core of System Restore and various backup apps) keeping track of your hard drive, the process actually takes significantly longer since Windows is re-mapping those areas to "shadow"…

Ugh... I was with a small local credit union when I first started banking. I couldn't stand it. "Customer support" was tied to ridiculous business hours, electronic forms of banking (debit card, online banking) were next to non-existent. Couldn't select my own PIN, ended up getting screwed several times when they…

@CaptainSpankOMax: Hey, for a title of "more information about birds than you ever thought you'd need", I was expecting at least a little bit of "information" (as opposed to "statistics")... hey, I think birds are too smart to want to be lumped into a big statistics pool ;)

Actually, that was a surprisingly small amount of information... numbers. Just numbers. No photos, no in-depth Discovery Channel style explanations... just numbers. Talk about degrading...

@Anomaly1: Finally a post I can agree with. FF is already a memory hog as it is, and a big reason I don't use Chrome is (aside from the lack of live bookmarks) the multi-process crap, and the whole "Ooh, plugins crash! Look! Avoid that never-occurring annoyance with another annoyance!" thing.

Hey, whenever I become rich enough to afford any A/V components that utilize HDMI, I'll know to avoid the cables I could never even afford anyway!

Yeah, I still like the Yahoo version of the article better, mentioning that fighter pilots are generally people considered to have "supertasking" abilities. I mean, specifically mentioning fighter pilots. /grin

"either wait until [my] prompted"

@Firesphere: Because every respectable tech knows that McAfee products:

@Unionhawk: Like Netscape, it's an old piece of software that lingers around in stale websites that newbies find. It's completely dead but the company somehow keeps the name alive to nab people that go looking for that old relic. In the wake of Napster's demise, Bearshare used to be another P2P-music-downloading…

@pete: Well fine, format it if you're paranoid, but no need to get violent!

Sigh, and to think I find solutions to malware like this every day, and removal like that is a routine thing here. Guys, just search for FalconFour's Boot CD on google or TPB, that's the base set of tools I use to remove this stuff every day.

@soggy_cheerio: *sigh* I'm no electronics newbie. I just don't have a hell of a lot of experience making SMPS's come back to life. I've worked on many CRTs and I know the dangers (not first hand, thank god).

@TheFu: CRT = Cathode ray tube. Rear projection = three CRTs projecting an image on one screen. They go together pretty well. So, even though the power wasn't turned on (and the fuse blows *immediately* when plugging it in), a blown convergence board (which is something only found in... um... rear projection CRT's ;))…

Anyone with any serious electronics experience here? I picked up a CRT-based high-definition rear projection TV a few days ago. The guy said it made a "Pop" one day and shut off. The only thing I'd found so far was a blown fuse. I replace the fuse and the fuse vaporizes immediately when I plug it into the wall.…

Hmm, another mention of a flimsy online mp3 cutter (as previously mentioned, the second one in what, 2 weeks?), and no mention of mp3DirectCut. This needs to be fixed.

Did the taxes in January. Then I got another form in the mail the next day, from the school which I didn't even realize was going to send something tax related. Little form ended up being worth a $1,000 tax credit. Now I need to figure out how to amend that return. So, yeah, I filed, but still need to... well...…