Very good write up, I like reading articles about this sort of thing and it is very nice to see a lot of important points made one place.

Lifehacker just keeps getting better and better. While it is nice to see these topics covered over on the main page, it will be awesome to see more in depth stuff covered. Personal finance is a topic everyone should learn as much as possible about.

You really want to torture test a car in winter? come to Wisconsin, where our roads are literally crumbling apart, where pot holes rip wheels off of Prius' (Prii?), where gravel and chunks of asphalt have replaced what used to be paved roads. If the suspension can handle that in -10 degree weather, I'd say it's a win.

This will never happen. Based on this figure I should spend $6,000 on a car. If you factor in the cost of gas, insurance, maintenance, etc into the 1/t0th, that means roughly it will leave me with $2,400 for a car. I drive 40 miles round trip to work every day. My job also requires me to drive all over the state to…

They also recommend dishwashing liquid. I know that is a big no since it strips the wax off your finish. Good if you plan on using a claybar, then re-applying wax right away, otherwise stay away and use a good quality car wash soap designed for modern paint jobs.

Kerosene doesn't strip the wax off the car? Interesting. I would think that could harm the paint, which is why you shouldn't leave spilled gasoline on your paint. I just use a special drying cloth designed to dry and not leave streaks, a natural leather chamois is the way to go.

Awesome desktop! Hope your watercooling is still going good, I know you said it sprung a leak a while ago! I haven't had the time or the budget to rebuild my desktop, I'm still running an original Intel Quad Core (Socket LGA 750 I want to say?) after buying a house I just haven't had to need to upgrade my gaming PC…

I love these! And thanks for sharing! I'm still trying to find the best note taking app and currently I'm using a combination of writing stuff down on paper and typing things out in notepad, but that gets messy due to lack of organization. I'm going to have to try to switch over to OneNote, it really hasn't caught…

Anything Macgyver or survival related. Too many posts to narrow it down to just one. I've been coming here for several years now, I forget what originally drew me in. I think I may have seen a link back to an article here from another site, and then I started poking around on other posts, then I sort of just got…

BASIC FIRST AID

Oh I'm sure it will only take me 10 seconds to set it up now, this was way back in my noob days (2003?). These days I can configure a Watchguard firewall from scratch in less than 30 minutes, so forwarding ports on my pfsense firewall at home is no big deal! I just wasn't sure if they changed the protocol over the…

I seem to have had a lot of weird licensing issues with Teamviewer lately. Occasionally it kicks me out after 5 minutes, and I always get nag screens asking me to pay for the premium version. Maybe they caught onto me connecting to too many machine ID's? With that said it is still a great product, and it has its…

Oh good I'm glad we are going over this topic again, I need to find a replacement to Logmein. With that said I used to use VNC way back in the day when you had to forward ports through firewalls and mess around with configurations, and a web interface was only a dream at the time. I don't know of any other better…

I have used Logmein for years, and this makes me sad! I've ran into some limitations with Teamviewer, in particular i've been having problems with my sessions timing out after a few minutes and a nagging window asking me to pay for the stuff. I never had this problem with Logmein, you could use it all you want without…

I got about 3 different certifications last year, I'm going to try to work on a few more this year hopefully, and maybe broaden my appeal a bit.

I have all Seagate drives and I haven't had any fail yet (knocks on wood). Most of my Seagate drives are 3-6 years old already. Haven't really had any "new" drives lately because I've just been buying all SSD's lately. I remember back in the day we used to call the Hitachi Deskstar the Hitachi "Deathstar" because we…

This sounds like a pretty good starting point for financial and career planning. The big takeaway I got from this is to be assertive in advancing your career and never stop trying to further yourself. Sadly, in the field of IT, I have observed a lot of companies cutting back IT funding lately, and this is reflected in…

This sounds like a pretty good starting place for investment and financial goals for many years out. The big takeaway I got from this is to be assertive in advancing your career and never stop working your way to the top, and never get too comfortable at your own job. Sadly, in my field, I think companies are starting…

This is all I ever use anymore. I don't know of anything that it doesn't work with.

My Paradigm speakers didn't make this list I guess, oh well, those Definitive's are still a great quality speaker set! I actually had to vote for the Logitech's since I have first hand experience listening to those and I know that those older Logitech's are amazing. I actually used to have the older Logitech 2.1 set…