Call me old-fashioned, but I kind of want a blu-ray drive. I only put one optical drive in my new computer, and now that I've got blu-ray discs, I would like to back them up the same as I do my DVDs. Kinda hard without the drive.

Just finished my first build, and I have a similar problem. My keyboard/mouse will wake the computer, but not the monitor. I'm using a workaround by having the BIOS handle the sleep/wake process, but the problem is that when it wakes back up, the computer isn't locked, so my 5-year-old can get on whenever he wants.…

"Keep in mind that any compost generated this way should only be used on ornamental plants and not on vegetables you intend to eat because pathogens in pet wastes could possibly make their way into your tomato plants but pet waste compost works great for ornamentals or flowers."

Obviously, as the article points out, scale is one of the things they want to address. The whole point of all this alternative energy research is to reduce our reliance on Fossile fuels, which we use a lot of. Any viable solution is going, eventually, to have to scale, even if it's only one of several or even many…

I've got to agree with other commenters on this one. The title is completely misleading. The fact that the word "basejumper" doesn't appear in the title is just plain unforgivable. And "free fall"? He didn't free fall 4,000 feet. He jumped off a 4,000-foot (BTW, notice the hyphen?) cliff while wearing a parachute,…

Just did my first system build. I was able to reuse a power supply (the original PSU from my HP desktop died, so I re-used the replacement PSU), but I had to include the cost of Windows 7 (OEM) and a new keyboard and mouse. Here's my specs:

I totally agree. If you make it fun, you'll want to do it every day. I recently started running with "Zombies, Run!" and loved it. Then I started school and a second job at the same time, and haven't had the time for it. The second job is going away now, and I can't wait to start running again.

The thing is, the more of these cars that are on the road, the safer they will be. Rarely are accidents caused by something other than human error. Those that are caused by something else (catastrophic mechanical failure, for example) could more often be avoided if we didn't have to rely on human reaction times. And…

Domino makes $300 on a good day, at $90 - $120 per hour? How does she have three houses? Even if she made that every day (assuming a five-day work week), that's $72,000 a year. A seven-day work week would net a little under $110,000. No small chunk of change, for sure, but enough for three homes, one of them lakeside?…

Worked like a charm.

And then you take an editing test for a job and can't remember how to spell "connisseur." Great advice.

Joke. Missed. Was funny though.

The entire department that never shuts up the entire day and then gets mad if I forget to mute my cell phone and they have to listen to my messaging tone (the 2-second old-spice jingle at the moment, and that's the longest one I've ever had; and I don't get a lot of messages).

I had a manager who was so busy with meetings that our weekly 1-on-1 had to be on Friday at 4 pm. I would have understood if she was actually busy, but she had a way of turning what should be a 15-minute meeting into 2-3 hours. And nobody—NOBODY—knew how to shorten a meeting with her. We even had the CEO in on a…

"John, I'd love to chat, but I've got to get this done today, and my wife will kill me if I miss dinner tonight."

I can't decide between "I see what you did there" and "that's what she said."

I know it's got a lot of haters, but the magic eraser works great.

Better solution: Buy a gallon of bottled water (or an empty gallon jug). Once it's empty, fill it from your tap and stick it in the fridge. Then when your filter pitcher gets low/empty, fill it from the gallon jug. If I fill both the jug and the pitcher before I go to bed, it'll usually last my family of four for 2-3…

I don't think most of us lack the know-how to keep our places clean. It's just that, being imperfect, we don't always follow through. I could suggest an article on maintaining a regular cleaning regimen, but then that's been done too. Or, maybe, I could just appreciate this post for what it is: Helpful advice for when…

I'd like to work for a company that actually gave managers some power to give raises. Outside of annual reviews, my boss can't do anything for my salaray—HR has pretty much taken that away. I've asked for raises and promotions, and every time the answer is "HR says no."