Check out your local refurbished PC shop. Typically these places have PCs that were corporate installations that were replaced.

Hopefully the jerk will do the right thing and fix it. If not, contact said jerk's friends and explain why the jerk is a jerk and apply peer pressure for the jerk to pay for the fixes. Perhaps your friend should treat this like a unexpected DIY event and learn how to repair it themselves.

Go with the classic solution to this

WTH... Comandant Graza, Naranti, and Sikozu wern't part of the Farscape verse untill the last season.

Even with the iPad HW, you still have options of the Nook App and the Kindle App that are probably more thought out and under less restrictions than the iBookxStore

Apple brought a new concept to the phone market with the iPhone that really changed the concept of what a "phone" does. With the different "Book" apps Apple really shouldn't need to get into the book publishing industry.

So rather deal with the problem with minor adjustments to the clock every few years, they'd rather let the clocks get significantly out of sync for potentially thousands of years and a adjustment then.

Meh... Apple tries to muscle its way into markets that are already supersaturated (See Borders & Kobo, Amazon & Kindle, Barnes n Nobles & Nook) If I'm going to "buy" a textbook, it's going to be one that I have a physical copy of that can't be digitally "revoked". Even after 3 years Kindle still hasn't got the…

I use nuclear option because this is one of the most disruptive (to end users/Wikipedia's credibility/reliability) ways to express the displeasure with the proposed laws.

For 90% of users Wikipedia's Blackout page is equivilant to "Down". It got covered in below the fold on the front page of the 3 newspapers I got this morning. It's gotten at least one article on most sites that I read daily. If anything it's WP's progressive move from Neutral to "Let's support cause XYZZY because…

I'd like to thank lifehacker for not taking it's toys and throwing a hissy fit. I was one of the editors who lobbied against the nuclear options that were on the table for WP. The current implementation of a WP that has the stupid blocking intercept layer is annoying as hell.

Just a reminder, if the US does pass this they'll strong arm (Withholding treaty negotiations/enforcement, financial aid, etc.) to get the country to pass a similar law. Get on record with your local council, government, legislature as being completely opposed to it and willing to take any consequences the US…

But half the fun of Wikipedia is arguing with random strangers about things you normally wouldn't care about.

You want to make sure that if you get a significant card that your power supply has a PCI-E connector on it to deliver direct power to the video card (rather than depending on the interface for power. As I recall (it's been a few years since I set up my rig) You want 150 watts base for CPU + 1 HD, each additional HD…

Where's the Mr Plinkett review style?

Shameful Plug: I'm going to be on a Photography podcast recording Sunday at around 5 PM Central time to do a review of CES from the photographer's point of view.

2 Part solution: DVD Extractor to create a Unencrypted bit copy of the disc. Handbreak to convert the file to the format you want. DVDRip is somewhat old at this point

I converted to Wet Shave last year and enjoy every moment of it. When I let my face grow long I do a first pass with a disposable razor to clear the heavy growth. There's @mantic59 on twitter that has all sorts of interesting info about wet shaves.

I do almost the exact same thing. I have a cross the body backpack that allows me to have iPod, iPhone, iPad, Flip Cam, A few nice pens, small composition book, iOS charging cord, and a external charging battery with USB Output. The bag gets eyes from time to time, but I know that if I pick the bag up, I can solve…

Hrm... With the department's shredder just outside my cube I hear the grinding and chugging all day. I might just use this to try and make the noise softer and less annoying