I mentioned this late one night in the IRC.  Lets see what kind of response I get from the forums crowd.

When do you turn off your computer, everyday, only when an update requires a reboot (I guess that's turning off and then on your computer)?

Are then any good reasons for leaving your system on?

Other than using energy are there any good reasons for turning you system off?

Sorry, I'm talking a home computer, not associated with work or being a server.

Why am I asking, ...

All though LCD's don't have a burn-in problem they can get was is called image persistence.  I discovered this when my LCD TV, which I use as a second or cloned monitor had what looked like burn-in.  Needless to say it about brought me to tears. 

I went on the web and found that it's normal and can be corrected.  Was I ever happy.  The link is just one of many that I found.  Don't remember ever seeing a post before on this so I thought it would be nice just...

How about a 360 degree desktop, resolution and font dpi consideration might come into play, maybe not. You're stuck with a single 19in WS monitor and thinking about getting a second or third one. Well, maybe you won't have to. The software looks interesting, except it's in beta and you need to sign up for it. No talk about price, but they make you think there is a library of panoramic scenes available.

Check it out and let me know what you think. It does look nice and useful, and works on bot...

Well this will probably get a alot of vegetables thrown at me, maybe salad for dinner or could make a good base for a soup!      

I just couldn't resist posting this. Vista been out a full year now, people don't want to give up their XP, even seen some signs out there that Microsoft doesn't want to let go of XP. Apple wants you to cross over and then there is Linux which just can't figure out what it will look like from day to day. They need to pick a platform and start moving on, don't yo...

So we all know that we need to do PC maintenace to catch all the nasty things we pick up surfing the web. I've been doing it once a week on Sundays for along time. Not really having a problem except lately I'm wondering if it needs to be done once a week.

The reason behind this is that I think I just might have gone overboard with the amount of programs that I use to assure myself of being bug free, as it were. Only one anti-virus program, because we all know that more than one on your machin...

Well I thought this was interesting, atleast there would appear to be a consumer base out there and an after market need, especially since MS seems to have generated this market.
It would seem that this would allow alot more computers to be used, if only in a reduced capacity because of hardware, after people upgrade to bigger and better systems.

Of cource this will have an adverse effect on the number of PC's in use and which OS is loaded on it XP or Vista. I wonder if MS took that into co...

Hey, an Apple OS story, how about that. It only seemed fair that If I post Vista and Linux articles/stories than Apple should have one.

Once again this was found on eWeek Micrsoft Watch, wait, what's up with that!

What's Wrong With Leopard's Spots?

Last week I asked if Apple rushed Leopard to make the holiday that Vista missed. Whoa! The answer is looking more and more like a definitive yes.

The complaints by users sound a lot like those made about Windows Vista, particularly thos...

Now this should get the kettle boiling! At the one year point of the initial release of Vista you knew this was going to happen. Before anyones starts in on me, no I don't use Vista, still on XP Home. I haven't even seen Vista on a computer. I find these articles/stories and feel that they would be of interest here in the forums. Actually I get entertainment out of watching folks come unglued when ever the subject of OS's finds its way to the forums. I lead such a lonely life.       

Th...

Okay, so the non-Linux user has come across some more articles about this upstart OS that wants you to consider it as an alternative to Windows and Apple. But it's not about Ubuntu, but one of their other versions Red Hat Fedora and it's soon to be released vesion 8. What, no cute name. What are they thinking?

The articles/stories were found on c/net News.com.

Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation

Over the years, Red Hat's Fedora has made a name for itself as a ver...

Not sure how anyone missed this from Monday, or maybe just nobody really cares. Well I'm not really sure about that either, seems to me there are alot of posts here in the forums about which OS is better.  

Since I found an article on Linux this morning why not open up this can of worms for discussion. Maybe this will pull in the XP vs Vista folks.  

No matter what your opinion you do have to admit that Apply's OS is a valid alternative to Windows's Vista, or maybe not.  

These articl...

Is it me or are there more articles lately about Linux and the availability of it loaded on computers?

Okay, you are only going to be able to get it selected at Wal-Mart for now and yes no monitor. For $200 you are lucky they have a keyboard and a mouse. Oh look it has speakers!

Alright, I'm not really making fun of this article. Remember I'm the one that at times seems to go out of his way to find Linux articles.

Most if not all of us will probably consider this no more than a toy. ...

Okay so it's Wednesday and I'm bored.   

I've always wonder about this so I did a little searching and came up with the link. All the ads seem to offer the same, get satellite tv on your pc for the one time cost of the software.

Now lets get this question out of the way, "Do I need it?", no. I allready have Dish Network TV top of the line service with HD.

It's getting close to the Holidays so I'm looking around to see what I might want. I've got to spend my spare time on something!
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Wired Magazine ran this story/article on last Friday, Your Outboard Brain Knows All

We're running out of memory. I don't mean computer memory. That stuff's half-price at Costco these days. No, I'm talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our heads. According to recent research, we're remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days.

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I'm an old fart but had to agree, can't even remember my own cell phone. I usually say, "Well, I don't call myself" Duh. ...

This is for those of you that work in the IT field. I'm sure that you all have taken approprite actions by now. Right?  


The Storm worm first appeared at the beginning of the year, hiding in e-mail attachments with the subject line: "230 dead as storm batters Europe." Those who opened the attachment became infected, their computers joining an ever-growing botnet.

Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's...

Well imagine that, I guess Apple wasn't all the happy with news of hacks to it's iPhone. Unfortunately they seem to be causing problems for unhacked phones also. Are you thinkng the same thing I am, do they share programmers with Microsoft!   


An Apple software update is disabling iPhones that have been unlocked by owners who wanted to choose which mobile network to use. Earlier this week Apple said a planned update would leave the device "permanently inoperable". There are also report...