Posts by urchin

I'm having some major issues when I try and download stuff off the internet. No matter if I use Firefox or IE, I'll try to download something and it will either start downloading the file with an unknown file size and eventually just...

I'm fairly sure that all the laptop charges have auto-cutoffs so you don't overcharge the battery. Then again, the battery for my 6 month old Dell 700m died last week and I've used it mostly on AC power with the battery in. To make...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeffrey you cant get a virus over the net if your computer is off. its just not going to happen, and nothing you can do will fix that. I dare ya to turn a computer off, and try and hack into...

Xmeld.com coupons are offered to students and military personnel. It's only 5% though. If you're a student just send them a photocopy of your student ID, dunno what military people have to do.

Any of you guys see that article (I saw it in a Popular Science magazine) of this guy that stuck an EVDO, junction box and battery into a backpack with solar panels? He says he can get a powerful wifi connection anywhere for his laptop...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeffrey how? so they would use the connection thats OFF to hack in to turn it on? Sorry not going to work. Thats like hacking into a PC over a cat5 cable with the cable unhooked. You could...

Quote: Originally Posted by Labmouse Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on bluetooth, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. I would think that deactivating your BT unit until you use it, then turning it off...

My roommate's Dell had 2000 loaded on it and it got trashed withing a hour of connecting onto my university's network with the new virus that's out. I don't think he had all the latest updates though. Worst part is he doesn't have a...

At my high school we used to have contests to see how could find the computer with the most viruses. The smart people all snuck Adaware onto the system and we'd screenshot the high scores. I don't think any hit more than 1k though,...

Update: The rewritables I used were 2.4x or 4x - some of both. Yeah, I can live with a slow rewritable speed but the nonrewritable speed is pitiful. I have a desktop with a really fast Western Digital drive for when I need to copy...