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...