@TheFu: That actually would have been my first choice, but I believe that discount is no longer available (I think you can get it for around $70 or so?) Maybe it didn't sound that way in my initial question, but I was looking for a way to do this without "stealing" anyway. I'm not going to play the rationalizing…

@chiruanna: I guess it would depend on how much more capacity and how much slower the one hard drive is compared to the other.

@scoobertron: But then I'd be stuck using the old machine??

@e-gadgetjunkie: But swearing is how I get things done. Well, damn.

@bobby.tables: Yeah, I'm still heavily considering that option, but I've already used up a fair portion of what I call my "computer karma" on...other things. I just figured if there were an easy way to switch the OSes, I might as well do that and avoid at least some of the moral ambiguities.

@JordanAT: I actually went through a similar process to upgrade my old computer to Win7 Pro (the old computer was 32-bit Vista, and I switched to 64-bit Win7, so there was this whole ordeal to go through). There's actually a way to do the process without having to call. There's this special program that will "back up"…

I'm getting a new laptop with OEM Windows 7 Home Premium. My old laptop has Win7 Professional. This OS is not OEM. I purchased it during that student discount upgrade that offered the same price for Professional as Home Premium (I think it was like $30).

@drongch: Didn't realize there were replies until now. Whoops.

@heytherefancypants: YES. I have a coworker who is so wasteful I'm tempted to force him to pay for my inevitable dental caps.

I know it's pretty late, but:

So, let's take for granted that the comments about this article being incorrect are valid (which I am inclined to do). This only applies for cold weather, though, right?

@srqueso: Thanks. So it seems like any other ISP/Telco: fine as long as you don't have to talk to anybody.

Anyone have any personal experience with U-Verse? AT&T has been progressively screwing me with its DSL service (I'm now down to 768 kbps downstream after an INFURIATING month of really abysmal customer service). I'd like to switch my ISP, but my only other option would be Time Warner, and I don't want to deal with…

This might be a silly question:

@TheFu: I would suggest MKVExtractGUI-2 [www.videohelp.com] because I like reading and saying "GUI", but a) you seem to want to use command line and b) MKVExtract only seems to work for Windows.

@MaxellDVD1: Hmm, I don't see any power savings settings (except for ad hoc network connections). I'll play around with these other settings, though. Thanks for the tip.

@iTofu 3GS has no reception problems: I wish I did. The thing is, I'd prefer not to use a wifi adapter as a long-term solution, and buying something just as a test pains my frugality too much. But that's a personal problem.

I tried explaining the premise of this movie to my sister ("He has to defeat the girl's seven exes. Y'know, it's set up like a video game, hence all the references and video game-y look to the movie/book"), and she kept on saying, "So, it's all in his imagination, right? Like, he's just pretending that he's in a video…

Happy Friday, everyone.

@korrupt9187: That would make sense, but I'm pretty sure I remember it doing that after I had freshly installed Win7. I'll take a look at my startup processes anyway, though. Thanks