7 min startup time? There was something else wrong (software/hardware) with that machine.

Oh, the irony.

Microsoft: Quite Decent®

I agree - at first I was pleased with the cleaner look, but I was fooled - it sucks trying to find something.

MS needs to adopt webkit into IE.

Holy shit, that's written like a Redmond Press Release.

Oh, shit - I didn't even think of that!

+1.

I was *this* close to doing this with a tower I was getting ready to decommission. Just two days before I was going to start I noticed a vendor marked down prices on their stock of Synology NAS devices. Best purchase I've made in a long time. I haven't messed with the torrent portion (I use newsgroups instead) -…

The Sony stores I've walked past in the mall did have a scent. The scent of desperation.

I'm fucking terrible at remembering dates - even with stacks of laptops, iPads, iPhones and desktops PCs around the house - each with calendar apps on them.

Two and a half months is government time.

Holy shit, the dumb meter is really pegged this morning.

The PS3 *was* a better streamer than the Xbox until they started with that Cinavia horseshit - now both sit in boxes in the storage room.

That's interesting - I found 8GB (2x4GB) for $160 - so that's $100 cheaper than OWC, but it doesn't mention ECC - and they look like they lack the major heatsinks hanging off of every DDR2 I've ever seen. Thanks for the tip - though - I'll investigate further!

That's interesting - I found 8GB (2x4GB) for $160 - so that's $100 cheaper than OWC, but it doesn't mention ECC - and they look like they lack the major heatsinks hanging off of every DDR2 I've ever seen. Thanks for the tip - though - I'll investigate further!

I was looking at OWC, but I wouldn't consider $275 for 8GB of RAM cheap. That's over 3x what the DDR3 ECC 1066MHz versions go for.

I've got a Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) with a 2x2.8 GHz Quad Core Xeon and a 5770 that I've been thinking about upgrading.

No it's not. They didn't invent new RAM.

They've got browsers, and other map applications - why not Google Maps? Just modify the Google Earth app and you're halfway there.