Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 8. I love it because it plays my Sirius XM satellite radio whereas the other web browsers do not work. It is secure too with good security and privacy features. It is easy to use with little fuss. Sure, it has its detractors and its quirky problems. But, I...

Microsoft rules. Linux sucks. End of story.   Quoted for truth.

Almost all of the media that I own is in digital format. My textbook for Principles of Operating Systems entitled Operating Systems: Internals and Design Systems by William Stallings is the digital version on the MyScribe textbook system. I own an Amazon Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi and all of my books are...

FreeBSD 8.1 RELEASE is far superior to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. It is just so much simpler to use and installing software applications is much easier and coherent than with the different GNU/Linux distributions. FreeBSD actually encourages you to learn more about the fundamentals about...

I am going to buy the Beats Pro. Does that make me less sophisticated? I doubt it. I want good sound regardless of brand. Please take a look at my Head-Fi profile.   Head-Fi members are young and foolish. This has been proven time and time again with scams and repeated purchasing of the...

APC sells a UPS solution that is designed for home theater and audio applications because they output sine waves. You will see advertisements for these APC products in the high fidelity and home theater magazines from time to time. It is an ideal, but it is an expensive solution. You can safely...

This is not for gaming. I understand that I will be buying more computer than I need to use for such a small form factor, but I already decided on the specifications. I may look into Lenovo to see what they offer.

I bought an Amazon Kindle book entitled Learning C++ by Joseph Kalash and I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional with MSDN 2010 as my Integrated Development Environment. There is a lot of reading involved and the author does a good job of explaining things slowly so that new programmers...

Never mind. I figured it out by myself.

Whatever you decide to do, do not buy an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and connect your audio components to it. UPS output square waves which will distort the music which requires sine waves to perform at their best.   Please check my detailed Head-Fi user profile to understand where I am...

Please take a look at my detailed Head-Fi user profile to see my list of high fidelity components. I published a review comparing my Cardas Golden Reference interconnects versus Blue Jeans Cables Stereo RCA interconnects years ago; please do a search.   I would fail a double blind test...

I own VMWare Workstation 7.1.3 for Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I created a 20.00 GB virtual machine and I installed FreeBSD 8.1 RELEASE AMD64. After following the instructions found within the FreeBSD Handbook, I installed X.Org server and Gnome 2. When I start my FreeBSD VM, it loads...

I am also looking at the new Acer Iconia dual touchscreen notebook PC. It should be priced at around $1,000.00 USD and it offers users the ability to use two separate touch screens to display information. There is custom Acer software that allows you to pull up a touch keyboard when resting both...

I realize there are horror stories surrounding Acer computers, but I am willing to take a risk on the Acer Aspire TimelineX AS1830T–68U118 because of its low price tag for the included components along with its size, weight, and form factor. I just do not want to spend more than $1,000.00 USD...

The Acer Aspire TimelineX AS1830T–68U118 is not more powerful than my ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC because I purchased and installed an Intel 160 GB SSD and Crucial 8 GB of DDR3 PC-8500 SODIMM SDRAM. I also purchased Futuremark PC Mark Vantage, 3D Mark Vantage, and 3D Mark 06. My benchmark test...

How are Acer computers in terms of reliability and durability? I expect to receive a significant amount of money in the form of a refund check to be mailed to my home from New Jersey Institute of Technology this spring 2011 semester and I want to buy a secondary computer for myself. I am...

Now, I am surfing Head-Fi through Incognito mode within Google Chrome. I am logged in and it keeps me logged on while browsing. I think this problem is resolved. Thank you.

No, I do not browse in incognito mode when I use Google Chrome.   The logout problem seems to have been temporarily resolved. I am able to stay logged on for long periods of time.

Yes, I do use Google Chrome 8.x to browse the Internet. Why?

If you purchase Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, then you can install an additional 30 foreign language packs and switch seamlessly among different languages on the same computer for different users. I find this to be a key advantage because I graduated with a degree in Linguistics and I studied...

Stay away from Ubuntu Unity for netbooks. It is not ready for production environments.

I do not own Skullcandy headphones. Please check my profile to see my equipment list.

Years after I bought each component for my head-fi system, I am very happy with it and I would probably not change out anything for the time being. It has everything that I wanted in a high end high fidelity audio system: resolution, clarity, balance, dynamics, speed, versatility, and it plays a...

Fortunately, my ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC is almost fully compatible with Ubuntu 64 bit and FreeBSD 64 bit. The nVIDIA GeForce GT 325 M and nVIDIA Optimus technologies are not supported yet and it does not look like nVIDIA will support GNU/Linux or BSD anytime soon either. Otherwise, I have had...

This is why I avoid Dell and Hewlett Packard like the plague. I know how bad their products really are and their support is worse.   I am happy that I started my thread in search for my current ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC because it has given me zero problems whatsoever. Now, I just wish that...