They also tend to use better quality fasteners and metal components in general, whereas everything on your typical American car corrodes to pieces in 10 years or less.

My TDI is one of the easiest cars I've ever had to work on, they aren't bad at all if you have the right tools and decent research skills.

daeWOOOO MOTHERFUCKER!

You don't want to muck with WPA Enterprise unless you know how to set up a directory server 802.1x or RADIUS server for it to use for authentication. In other words, you don't need it at home.

A while back I talked to Ram's former top truck guy and he pointed out how the industry wants to target more women drivers and family households for pickups, and it makes sense: They've got big backseats for kids, can haul all your soccer shit without looking like a soccer mom, and they're more fuel-efficient than…

The Wrangler gets an overhaul for 2017. We were told in the past a refresh would be coming in 2015. (Maybe a slight refresh before a full redesign?) No word on if a diesel Wrangler is part of the lineup, but we know Manley wants one. For more, read here.

I concur, one of the few practical aspects of driving a Raptor is eating speed bumps up for fun.

This can happen if your registered weapon is stolen and used to commit a crime.

What about all the sediment you'd have to filter out and disperse? I'd imagine that 23,000 gallons of seawater has a lot of shit floating around in it.

I would imagine that you'd have to filter out and dispose or at least disperse of a FUCK TON of undesirable particulates (plankton) at a 23,000 gallons/1 gallon yield rate. I don't see this being super practical anywhere very close to mainland.

...and who the hell wouldn't want another wireless contract and monthly fee in addition to the one they already have on their smartphone that already has hotspot functionality built in!?

The new Grand Cherokee looks like a jelly bean, or a Kia and now they put the Renegade name on a mall crawler like this? Fiat is ruining the Jeep brand.

This is terrible and I'm not downplaying it, but it doesn't surprise me at all. I guarantee you that every auto manufacturer does risk analysis against fatality payout, just like this. You know who else does these types of risk analyses? Probably every single publicly traded company that handles or transports…

Nowhere in the article do I see the single most prominent barrier to upgrading Windows to 7 or 8. Windows upgrades are NOT free by any stretch of the imagination, unless you want to run a pirated copy of windows with sketchy un-trusted binaries rolled into it. Depending on the Windows version, you're looking at…

Bonus extra-crispy points if you have a convection oven.

I bet if you brushed em with some flavorful oil (one with a medium smoke point like an infused EVOO) and baked 'em, it would be a whole new tasty twist on the recipe.

Create a folder somewhere like: C:\rename put a text file in there with a .bat extension containing the command: ren "C:\rename\*.dat" *.txt

Oh, gotchya. Just save your commands into a text file named with a .bat or .cmd extension. This will allow you to simply re-run the command whenever you want by double-clicking on the script in Windows Explorer to process all the renames.

Proactive S.M.A.R.T notifications are the next most useless things, again I can count on one hand the number of times a machine's BIOS or OS has proactively told me that a hard drive was accumulating bad sectors at an alarming rate. I've always had to just figure it out myself by probing the SMART stats manually with…

Yeah, SFC used to be around since at least Win98 IIRC, it was horrible back then because MS did a poor job of updating the list for any patches they released, as in like not at all I think. You could literally un-install patches and security updates by letting SFC do a "repair". Now it's a decent indicator of system…