I'm lucky to be a sophomore who's parents highly value education. My family is helping me to get through college without debt and I'm putting in as much effort as possible to maintain my GPA in the 3.9+ range. I know I'm lucky to go to college and doubly so to be able to have financial help and I'm not going to screw…

Neat, I'll have to check that out.

I've been thinking about setting up a ramdisk for a while since I currently have 12gb to play with (and can always upgrade to 24gb). Do you have any particular software implementation you'd recommend?

Got it. :) Thanks, those sound really tasty. I wouldn't have considered combining cider with cranberry juice but it does sound like it would be good. I've been buying local cider and I'm really looking to trying these ideas with it.

I'm not sure that I see the appeal. ;) However, this does bring to mid a question I've had for a while. I've enjoyed some mulled cider recently and I've been wondering if there's a particular blend anyone would recommend buying or making.

Not at my university. I guess it won't work for you then. Where I am, the dorm ethernet and wireless across campus require credentials and the public machines require you to log in. However if you use the ethernet connection of a public machine by booting into a live usb or cd on the public machine (or by connecting…

My simple work around: Boot into a linux usb key or live cd in the library or anywhere there is a wired connection that isn't traceable to you (not your room) then torrent to an external hdd. Or do the same thing with an old or spare linux laptop you have (connect it to the wired ethernet somewhere). This may not work…

I have the HAF 922 and the dust accumulation is a bit of a problem. I try to regularly (once a month) vacuum the outside of the case and go to town on the inside with compressed air. I love the case but for my next upgrade I'm going to need to add in some extra filters, switch over to liquid cooling, or migrate to…

Why not just use a better and larger treadmill-like system like in this video?

SSD 240gb = 179gb free

Here's my current dorm setup. Desktop built in '09 with a few upgrades. i7 920 w/ Noctua D-14, 12gb G.Skill ram 1600, Sapphire 5850 HD, 240gb Corsair Force GT SSD, 500gb and 1.5tb HDD's. Laptop is a 15in from HP with an i5 and 4gb ram. I'm thinking of bumping it up to 8 gb and swapping in an ssd (and putting the hdd…

I've traveled to Europe many times with it and have never even been asked questions about it but maybe I was simply lucky.

I just got my alpha access email yesterday, I'm going to have to try Hawken out this weekend. I've never played a mech game like this before so I'm really excited.

Pretty close. He's saying:

It's originally European and after following a link that's in the original article, I found out that there are major differences between the Nutella available in the States and in Europe. (In short, the version for Americans isn't as good.)

The first desktop I built is contained in a HAF 922 as well. And I just upgraded it this summer to keep it up to snuff. PC's really are amazing, building them is fun and gaming on them is amazing. :)

At the very least with LastPass (which is what I have used for several years) you have a local copy of your passwords that can be accessed and decrypted (and transferred if the company were to fold). If your data gets corrupted

I mostly use my left thumb because I'm used to it from gaming.

True. In my case, it is a hobby of mine, so I end up spending money on that instead of other things. I have watched very carefully for good deals on hardware before making any purchases. I also tend to allocate more money to items I use on a daily basis and my computer certainly fits in that category. I didn't have…

The only thing that bothers me are others peoples computers. I just keep upgrading my desktop and then I don't run into any speed or other issues because everything is up to date. When I started to worry about using too much memory or running my cpu at max continuously at too high a temperature I doubled my ram to…