VOTE: Linux Mint

I could never seem to drill it through my former roommate's head that leaving his xbox on all the time was eating up electricity. Finally one day when he was gone I changed the settings to turn it off after an hour of inactivity. When he noticed what was going on I told him it was an update and there was no way to…

Might as well complete it.

I saw something a while back (maybe even on Giz) that talked about a patent Microsoft had filed for a slide out phone with an interchangeable board where the keyboard was. By the looks of the drawings for the patent there was a keyboard that could be removed and when you flipped it over there were game…

Unless, of course, we're talking about Intel's x64 which is IA64. But nobody cares about that save for the folks running high end servers that use the Itanium architecture.

From what I've seen about the recent Beta, no. I wish you could though. I hate Metro.

I agree with you on the Metro bit of 8. I've been reading about all the new awesome features of 8, but I just can't get used to Metro. I agree that if MS gave me the option of disabling Metro and giving me back my old start menu I'd be happier than a pig in sh*t to run with 8.

I'll buy 1000 right now.

I don't have a hand blender. I've got some leftover attachments from a small hand beater that I had years ago. Funny thing is that they fit so perfectly in the chuck of my DeWalt drill. It's the best hand mixer/blender I've ever come across. And it didn't cost me any extra cash.

I think you might be either looking at it wrong, or not quite getting the idea. The basic premise is to create a loop on the ladder to drop your hammer in. Then you can pull it out and drop it in when needed. The clamp only comes off when you're done with your work (or never if you decide to keep it on the ladder).

VOTE: Logitech G930

Thirded. I love my G930. Still works as perfectly as the day I bought it.

You can try Recuva, which is made by Piriform (the same company that makes CCleaner). If that doesn't work, you can try Test Disk. It's more advanced and more complex, so stick with Recuva if you can.

Haha, nvm. Turns out I just needed to refresh the page.

After changing to the text buttons, when I go into the spam folder and select any spam emails to delete forever, the button to delete goes away. Anybody else experiencing this?

You should be able to use any VM. I know parallels works pretty well for Mac stuff. You can also use VMWare of Virtual Box. Personally I prefer Virtual Box. I use it for all of my VM needs.

You can use a tool like gparted to manage your partitions. All you do is download the cd and boot off of it.

Yeah, the southern part of the state is pretty sandy. Maybe if we break Mexico away from the southern border there and do a little excavating we can have our own beach.

Yeah, there is, but it's a bit watered down from what we're used to. I've been playing around with the dev preview for a bit now. Although there's always the possibility they've filled out some of the features in the desktop mode. In any case the consumer preview should be fairly close to the final release and will…

I don't know how I feel about Win 8 yet. I've been playing around with the Dev Preview on an HP Slate 500. For tablets it seems like it will work nicely, but being forced to use the Metro UI on my desktop doesn't make me too happy. Ideally there will be some way to use the full desktop like we do now in Win 7. …