Posts by dr/owned

Ditto on what qhn said. I tried and had to give up on taking my laptop apart numerous times. Half the time I was afraid I was going to break something off how tight some of the components were....and I was looking at the step by step...

I think its a dumb idea. It'd be far more efficient to just have an IE startup screen that says something to the effect of "Hey, did you know that IE is not the only way to browse the internet? Try Firefox here."

I found that loads of my hardware didn't work on a fresh install (ethernet for one). Fortunately I have a custom database on my external hdd with all the drivers I need for both XP and Vista...so I just plugged in the Vista drivers no...

Looks like a false positive. Cause it says "Joke..." it means it looks like a virus but really isn't.

I'd rather see you try to throw it in the freezer first then plug it back it. It'd make more sense that the copper would conduct slightly better at the freezing temperatures and would also contract a bit, potentially closing some...

In my personal experience the HP restore discs are garbage. Mine got stuck in the "infinite" loop where they never stop trying to restore...it's a well documented problem. Your fastest bet would just be to pirate whatever OS...

I'd love to hear the electrical engineering explanation for why baking a card would fix it.

In my personal experience, Firefox 3.5 is just about as fast as Chrome. But I also have a "infinite" bandwidth pipe so it's pure rendering speed that seems about equal. IE and Opera (alpha) both were noticeably slower. ...

Really when I see a false positive i'll resubmit the file to http://virusscan.jotti.org/. If the only thing it returns is stuff like Generic.trojan or whatever, it's probably a false positive. Ideally though you should be able to kinda...

9000 page thread? Yeah how could I *not* post in it.