Haha, go for it! :)

Your reasoning is sound. However, going from 8GB to 16GB isn't going to make any single app (or your whole system for that matter) any faster if your memory needs don't exceed those 8GB anyway. That, of course, excluding Firefox's memory hole that still hasn't been plugged, 3 full versions later. Every once in a…

That's due to a common misuse of the word "memory" by those less-technically-inclined in place of the term "storage". Memory always refers to the RAM in a computer, the workspace, if you will. Think of memory as the top of a desk... the bigger it is, the more books (programs) you can have open at once and the more…

Working in an environment with over 1000 machines and 5000 users, I can tell you first hand that no amount of "stern lectures" will stop a virus from infecting a machine, firewall or not.

Where has the quality of Lifehacker commenters gone?

I would love (LOVE!) to use Cygwin as my primary command line, but I refuse to type /cygdrive/c/ before every path. If someone could tell me how to get Cygwin to just let me type /c/path/to/file, I will be forever in your debt.

If you use Firefox, check out Gmail Notifier.

It's possible that the Apple SSD doesn't support TRIM natively.

If it says you have Trim support, you're good to go.

From the cyanogenmod wiki: [wiki.cyanogenmod.com]

Group Video Chat going premium had absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft. If you look at this article on Macworld, published on 1/27/2011, they state that GVC was going premium when 5.0 was out of beta: [www.macworld.com] They link a previous post, published in November 2010, with the following information:

I hate dental plague. Almost worse then regular old plague.

I don't understand why there are so many people that are now quick to dismiss Skype as a good video chat platform just because it was purchased by Microsoft. Who knows at this point? The deal was only announced within the last week. Microsoft may leave Skype up as is, and use the technology behind it to integrate into…

If your current internet plan is less than 20Mbps or so, DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems won't really help you much, except in the case of "Speed Boost" type services (I believe Comcast offers this), where the first 30 seconds or so of your download will "burst" up to 50Mbps so smaller files download faster, but larger…

This is not possible with Windows at this time, but word has it that feature is coming in Windows 8.

I like the idea of the daily Q&A posts. Perhaps the increased frequency will create more discussion. If the open thread suffers due to the daily Q&A (which just seems like a daily open thread to me), so be it... seems like it may be a good trade.

Ah, gotcha. I use SyncBackPro on my windows machines. Buying the pro version gives you licenses to install on up to 5 machines. It's very flexible, allowing you to sync to an FTP server, email backups (mainly for smaller jobs), to external drives, or other internal drives. Pretty user friendly, unless you jump into…

Is it just me, or have the Lifehacker open threads become very quiet since the site redesign?

for Ubuntu? Have you tried rsync? Search lifehacker for rsync, i'm pretty sure they did a guide a while back.

If you're only doing pushups, you might want to try adding to your workout to change things up a bit. If you like doing the pushups, but they're just getting a bit boring, try adding something like burpees (funny sounding, I know... YouTube it), or body-weight squats to help work your legs as well.