[gentoo-user] Firefox and noscript... (maybe off-topic)

Hi, I'm using firefox together with noscript which has worked fine for quite a while now and I don't have a real problem with it... Although in the latest update, I've discovered that it always connects to 188.121.36.239 (which belongs to "Go ...

Message posted on the August 26th, 2010 - 12:40 PM ET

Motorola sell off: Huawei looking to pick up pieces

Now that Motorola has confirmed their intension of to split their Mobile and decoder divisions into an independent entity, the question is who would be a suitable buyer. Among the options, the Chinese company Huawei is exploring the possibility of ...

News published on the April 7th, 2010 - 9:25 AM ET

Embedded Graphics Processors Killing Off IGPs; No Threat to Discrete GPUs Says Jon Peddie Research

Today, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced its new report on mobile devices, and their processors. In 2011, with the full scale ...

Press published on the October 19th, 2011 - 4:00 AM ET

Features Shot on Kodak Film Dominate Awards

Argo’s best picture win topped off a successful night at the Academy Awards® for movies originating on Kodak film. In the 85-year history of the awards, no Oscar®-winning best picture has ever been made without ...

Press published on the February 25th, 2013 - 2:14 PM ET

Plaza Resorts Launches Ultimate World Series Sweepstakes with the Tampa Bay Rays

Hot off of Wednesday night’s comeback win in which the Tampa Bay Rays clinched the American League wild-card spot over the New York Yankees and the same day that tickets go on sale for the American League Division Series ...

Press published on the September 30th, 2011 - 7:12 AM ET

World of Goo

Maybe he name 2D Boy doenst mean anything to you, but this is the small independent studio based in San Francisco who has developed and produces the game that we are presenting. World of Goo comes from an overflowing imagination ad love of gaming by ...

Review published on the February 23rd, 2009 - 3:10 AM ET

Asus Eee PC 701

With their Eee PC you could say that Asus knows how to seduce the general public, with this new offering to the community being designed around the web! This ultra-portable computer sells for 400 dollars, meeting all the needs of users that want to ...

Review published on the March 14th, 2008 - 3:25 AM ET

Fractals Explain Chinese Desert Mystery

Space-based images of the China’s Gobi desert have produced a series of eye opening gigantic puzzles that have captured the curiosity of millions. Looking like strangely tiled windows or cracks in mud, the Chinese ...

Press published on the December 9th, 2011 - 3:08 PM ET

Maybe off topic - strange problem with external DVD RW drive

I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here might be able to help. I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive. I am trying to install XP on the Netbook. The ...

Message posted on the October 18th, 2011 - 1:24 PM ET

MY OUTBURST# 2 and I am off for a long time, sorry (vacation)!

By the way, "major trading partner" is an oxymoron, since there's no partner. There's a flow of money Eastwards, and flow of goods Westwards. Precisely as was at the onset of World War I. As Germany slowly has lost its role as the ...

Message posted on the December 13th, 2009 - 11:58 PM ET

Possibly slightly OFF TOPIC: Flying a F/A-18 Hornet convertible

Received this in an e-mail this morningmakes an interesting read. start-- F-18 vs. KC-10 - or Flying a Hornet Convertible Subject: Who says a six hour mission has to be boring? Thought y'all might get a kick out of a recent experience of mine. ...

Message posted on the August 11th, 2009 - 5:01 PM ET

How do I turn off the screen magnifier?

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP3 with a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0. Every so often, I inadvertently click the small thumb button on the mouse. This turns on the screen magnifier. When this happens, I haven't been able to turn the screen ...

Message posted on the December 30th, 2009 - 7:18 PM ET

turning hard drives on / off

I have 2x 1TB hard drives and would like one to be a backup of the other. I could set up a RAID0 array, or something, but what I was thinking I'd like to do, instead, would be to use robocopy to keep the two hard drives synchronized. Maybe run it ...

Message posted on the September 9th, 2009 - 4:06 PM ET

How/why did off-line files get invoked?

I have a db with the data on the server and several stations doing data entry. We had mysterious instances of missing data. I finally discovered one station that had off-line files enabled. It was apparently syncing it's local copy with that on the ...

Message posted on the February 23rd, 2009 - 11:13 AM ET