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Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference

ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. In a huge victory for BitTorrent users, the FCC has now announced that it will order Comcast to stop interfering with BitTorrent traffic.
Almost a year ago we first reported that Comcast was actively disconnecting BitTorrent [...]

Google Code Jam Comp! Whos doing it?!

The prelim round is now, finishes in like 7hrs.oh look, thousands of lines of more horrible code encouraged by the google code monkeys.
Honestly, google needs to stop encouraging quick horrible code and have a contest for who can write GOOD code. Google needs to completely re-do everything.I got 50 points. I can’t believe [...]

Recommend a new laptop for me. v. help

Got around $1500 to spend towards a new laptop. Can you all recommend something for me? I’m thinking about an xps What do you want to use it for? Desktop replacement/gaming, sager laptops from a vendor like pctorque will be your best bet.
I think the XPS line is overpriced for what you get. [...]

Is it posibble to use iPod as a hard drive?

So I have this Dell in my home, thats been collecting dust the past few years, because the hard drive fryed up or something during a power surge. The support guy said to put in a new hard drive.

I’m wondering, instead of going out and buying a hard drive, could I use my blank iPod [...]

Apple Student Developer connection

So I here about this developer connection through apple where a student pays $99.99 and he/she gets a hardware discount. I was going to purchase this happy shit if it were worth it…Does anyone know what the cost of a MacBook Pro would be?!?
You get a $100 discount just for being a student, and [...]

A DVD full of MP3’s (not what you’d expect)

Okay everyone,
Here is my problem:
I have a Cadillac that has a 6-disc CD changer that will not play mp3’s (only burned audio CD’s…so like 15-20 songs at max). It also has a functional DVD player that will play burned DVD’s but not burned DVD’s with MP3’s on it.
I was hoping that somebody might have [...]

What’s the best MP3 software?

Currently I use iTunes because I have an iPod, unfortunately it’s a slow, bulky piece of shit for Windows. Does anyone have any other recommendations?Winamp Pro plays and encodes mp3’s, aac, ogg, and so on. It also has free radio stations and a playlist builder that analyses your music to figure out which songs will [...]

Stupid MobileMe shit from Apple

God, it pisses me off that Apple installed this shitty MobileMe software with their iTunes 7.7 update. If you have installed that, but haven’t noticed, it is sneakily installed with the latest version of iTunes. To uninstall it, go to Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features in Vista, then remove the Apple Mobile [...]

Building a PC next week

I’m about to pull the trigger and order this stuff.
Is it all compatible? Did I forget anything? How does it look?
ignore the iPod, buying my GF a toy too since I’m getting one The E8500 is $100 less at newegg, and a fair amount on the ram too. I’m sure you can save [...]

Top 8 Laptops Under $1,000 — (Except The Mac)

Does anyone else think that the EEE PC is overrated? Sure it may be small but the performance just isn’t there, so much more could have been done.I don’t think it is overrated, alot of people don’t need the performance and it does what it is intended for pretty well.

I like the idea of the [...]