Sure is! I had one of these! I loved the media buttons in the front. None of my newer laptops have had those conveniences since.

Try LXDE or XFCE4, both look great (personally think xfce looks better) and both are VERY light on resources. KDE is heavy and hence your issues. Even Cinnamon (my preference) is running very well on a lower spec'ed laptop.

Simply put, there is no clear winner. It depends on so many factors. Personal preference, what you will be using the computer for are major ones.

I'll address each an my opinions.

Apple, hardware is pretty, yet overpriced, and usually a gen behind. The OS is very well written, because it's easy to write for a specific…

I keep all my data on a NAS in my office, so my htpc really only needs processing capabilities.

This is all true, and as someone who works out 5x week and does cook healthy meals. It does take time away from lower priority items I'd love to do.

Hey! That's me who recommended this. I was surprised to see this up here! For those of you not familiar with Tycho, his first album, Past is Prologue is equally good! You can check out more of his music @ [www.tychomusic.com.] Yes that is some shameless plugging, but as he is one of my favorite artists, I feel like I…

I *REALLY* want to drop my DirecTV, nothing wrong with them, but I only use it for sports, namely their sports packages since I want to watch my Boston teams even though I now live in LA. Still looking for an option here, other than putting a SlingBox in my parents house and abusing their cablemodem to catch games. It…

Did anyone see How I met your Mother on Monday and Marshall and his charts/graphs. This post totally made me LOL cuz of that.

More meat, less carbs is far better, granted the meat is of good quality and lean.

Not an advertisement, but I wished someone had let me know of these prior. I have a pair of Gunnar Optik glasses, which have made an AMAZING difference in my eyes not wanting me to stab them out at the end of a workday.

You are probably of the endomorph genotype, and while vegetarian may seem healthy, most of your intake is carbohydrates, and while most are slow digesting because they are vegetables, still end up as sugar in the end. So as an endomorph, your body loves to just bundle that up as fat. This is why you typically either…

@apexified: looks like they are at mediatemple. Not my fav company, but digg effect is hard to handle on (most) anyone.

I never remember to update these type of things, guess I'm set in my ways. I just rock the gym daily, and use my brain and a mirror to track my progress. 11yrs going strong now (Damn, I'm getting old). But I can see how some people need to see the #'s and etc to keep motivated. I'll give it a try and probably forget…

@penguiniator: Good points!

What are the advantages of private browsing other than for pr0n? I really can't see much a use for it otherwise. Unless you share a computer with someone you don't trust much, and then.. why are you sharing your computer?

Home built!

@polobunny: I pretty much agree with you here.

Sort of offtopic but, The Album Leaf is an AMAZINGLY good band. Their albums range from some really chill ambient stuff, to very interesting rock. Highly suggested to my fellow LH'ers.

@Ghede: Elementary school! hah for some reason I was chosen to be one of the students who raised the flag before school.

So. Cal and I'm there. It's summer year round here ;)