IE and Winamp on OSX? Get real.

I buy Seagate exclusively. I have approx. 13TB across half a dozen drives, a couple of them more than 2 years old, have never had any problems with them (other than the odd firmware glitch in external drives which disappeared when I made them internal, or the one time I dropped something on one of my externals and…

I had the same sort of thing with a couple of 1.5TB Seagates, under Linux. I had to fiddle with hdparm to toggle the right firmware bits to keep it on. Later, I just made them internal, and haven't had a problem since.

Attention Valve: Please license Thorskan and bring us Half-Life 3.

That doesn't work if you're trying to buy groceries, fill your gas tank, or pay your power bill. But it's not a bad suggestion outside of urgent needs.

Most supermarket dairy sections have at least a couple of varieties of lactose-free milk. Also, from what I understand, any aged cheese has most if not all of its lactose processed by the bacteria in the cheese. If you're eating American "cheese", it's not aged and some varieties claim to put a lot of milk into each…

As well as support for VeriSign VIP Access apps on Android/iOS. PayPal supports multiple tokens or apps registered, and allows you to select the one you have on-hand at login. eBay only supports a single token/app, so choose wisely.

PayPal and eBay support the use of VeriSign security tokens and the VeriSign VIP Access app (android/ios). PayPal even supports multiple tokens or app instances (i.e. my phone, my tablet, wife's tablet). I will admit, though, that PayPal's and eBay's mobile apps don't yet support 2FA; they make you enter your username…

The real scam is the Visa gift cards, the ones that are supposed to work just like credit cards. The problem is that you can never use the full balance; if you have a purchase that exceeds the balance of the card, the purchase will fail even though the POS system would otherwise allow the use of multiple payment…

My credit union activated 2-factor logins earlier this year. It sends a text message to one of the mobile phones I have configured on my account. Though I wish it would also integrate with Google Auth or VeriSign VIP Access. BTW, PayPal and eBay both can use VeriSign security tokens or their VIP Access app in addition…

Don't even bother with holding the front power button for 4-6 seconds, or the hardware PSU switch (if yours even has one; mine doesn't). Just go straight for the power cord and yank it fast. That will also allow remaining power to drain as it continues to power memory and regulators for a few instants before the…

Having just upgraded to Mavericks (10.9), I can attest to the fact that the VD-T issue is still a problem. My Hackbook apparently didn't have VD-T at all, so I never ran into the problem until I added a recent desktop to my stable, and at first was puzzled as to why my working 10.8.0 system failed when I updated to…

Oh, yeah, and most of the cars you buy today with shiftable automatics (like the one pictured in the article)? They're automatics, not automated manuals. Which means torque converters and lower mileage.

But since the vast majority of automatics are truly automatics (and not automated manuals, double-clutch or otherwise), this doesn't mean much. Automatics still use torque converters, which always reduce mileage. And automatics are heavier than manuals, too, which reduces mileage further. Lock-up converters improve…

It's not just VWs that use that tool. My '95 Taurus also needs that. It's not uncommon on cars with 4-wheel disc brakes; it helps with auto-adjusting the rear calipers for the parking/emergency brake.

I'd modify this slightly:

I lived in a house where the landlord was similarly "gifted". Whenever he would remove a 2-prong outlet to replace with a 3-prong, he would tie ground to neutral. I didn't realize the problem until one day when I happened to touch the bare shroud of a USB extension cord plugged into one of my computers. The machine…

Pardon my French, but what the hell kind of beer are you drinking that has MSG, antifreeze, formaldehyde, and HFCS? (BTW, carageenan is a form of MSG derived from seaweed) I generally read labels on almost everything I eat and drink (MSG in its many forms triggers my wife's migraines), and on the rare occasions that I…

There is also a 500MB file available there, if you want to get a better long-term-average picture. My connection peaked at 12.1MBps, averaged at 11.9MBps, meaning I got pretty much my full 100Mbps bandwidth (which is 12.5MBps), minus a bit of TCP & HTTP overhead. I'd love a way to do the reverse, though: upload a file…

Both my VW's filler and the one on my wife's '95 Taurus are on the right.