In the recent past, I have made a conscious effort not to ask people about their jobs. If they bring it up fine. But when first meeting someone, instead of going with the so very standard now 'what do you do for a living?' I instead ask 'so what are your hobbies?' or 'tell me about some of your interests?'.

I think…

Being 22 right now, that is one thing I really want to see happen before I die. I want giant sophisticated robots, that's all.

So are these people setting their own cars on fire in some kind of new years celebration, or is this a mob going around and burning other peoples cars to the ground?

Either way I am amazed they aren't arrested based on some sort of environmental law, which they really should be. There is 0 reason to purposefully burn a…

Yeah the tell tale sign of an Asetek cooler are those little mounting prongs around the circle base that seem to be in 10-15° spacing. Anything that has a cpublock that looks like that is just a rebrand, and its going to be pretty much the same. A ton of people use Asetek as their supplier:

NZXT:

They are going to perform nearly identically. NZXT, Corsair, Cooler Master, and a bunch of others are just rebrands of Asetek coolers for the most part. Every once in a while they will swap out a pump for their own, or for a slightly different rad, but in the end the stuff at the same price point ends up falling…

And it should be mentioned that in the past, even when Intel or AMD do radically change the size or form of their sockets that most waterblock manufacturers promptly release new mounting hardware that you can pick up cheap to be compatible. Mounting a CPU waterblock is often no different really than mounting an…

I thought the exact same thing and then thought "Heck, the Boy Scout troop I volunteer for, primarily made up of 11-15 years old kids, salute better than that."

It seems weird because you have been taught and conditioned to expect left justified text your entire life.

I keep everything's original packaging for the length of the warranty. About once a year I will go through my amassed boxes and throw out anything out of warranty. This makes returns and even warranty work so much easier as the store can't say anything and its also easier for you pack things back up since the…

Nah, they would have the whole towns police department their with an APC loaded up with a SWAT team and then just open fire on the thing.

Also just as a heads up, if this ever happens from another vendor that isn't quite so cool about it, most credit cards have a 30 day price protection policy where your credit card company will refund the price difference.

I actually got 2 free legal copies of Server 2012R2 Datacenter (normally around $6k a piece) from when I was in college. I was a computer science major and our department had a deal with microsoft that we got a bunch of free licenses through the agreement. Heck I got those, plus 5 or 6 copies of Windows 8, Visual…

Oh no, I don't use Windows Home Server. Windows 8 probably is better than that. I use full blown Windows Server 2012R2, it's really meant for enterprise environments, but it is amazing and with a little know how it has been a welcome addition to my network.

Why would I need active directory and group policy at home for a diy NAS? Because I have a room-mate and we both have files that we don't really want the other to have access to. I also need my server to handle a lot more than most NAS OS's can do such as running different game servers, VOIP servers, and a host of…

I got two copies of 2012R2 Datacenter (normally about $6k) for free when I was in college as a computer science major. I am using one of those.

Personally I have been using Windows Server 2012R2. It allows me to do a lot more a lot easier than the dedicated NAS OS's listed here since I can run nearly any windows program. Since all the computers in my home are primarily windows machines I also get to take advantage of Windows domain feature and set up a home…

Well it looks like I can deduct depreciation of my computer equipment, however that is on a schedule A. Correct me if I am wrong, but if I do a schedule A deduction I can't use the standard deduction correct? It's one or the other? In which case the standard deduction would be far higher for me.

Exactly, I am young (22) so I have plenty of time to grow my money in the market. And I would rather not pay taxes on the growth because it will be far more than my contributions at this stage in my life.

Hi Erin! I am a programmer, I work for a very small marketing company and typically use my own laptop for work. I also recently built a home server that stores backups of my laptop (that gets used for work) and my desktop (that is mostly home use).

I maxed out my Roth IRA for the year, so good for saving, but no tax breaks. Sadly my employer doesn't have a 401k set up for us... kinda sucks in that regard.