By the time you wear out the DVD writer, they will be really cheap or you will have already replaced it or the entire system, unless you play DVDs almost constantly.
My 12x10x32 Plextor is considerably quieter than my parents' 40x12x40 liteon. Granted it's also got a 20% slower top speed, but my plextor is also significantly quieter than my 40x16 Pioneer DVD drive. Plextor isn't the quietest, but it's not terribly loud either.
Both of my compaq laptops have had extra drives, which had the files necessary to reinstall, but since they also gave me emrgency restore disks, I blew it away and installed linux in its place. Internally, big companies just use a network connection to reinstall.
If you know you don't need much of a paging file, just set it really small (128-256 megs). Make the upper and lower limits equal to further help performance so Windows doesn't have to resize it. The likelihood of a program actually crashing due to low memory is pretty low, since Windows is...
Hopefully you have a real use for it?
Assuming you bought it to play games more smoothly or do video encoding faster, I'd go do a bunch of either of those. That's always what makes me feel "fulfilled" about a system upgrade. If you just bought the fancy processor to have it, then you should...
As long as you're the only person on your system, you can also use `killall mozilla-bin` or `killall -9 mozilla-bin` if it won't go away. Of course, this assumes you're using linux.
If you're using Windows, task manager can do the same thing by using the end task thing.
Having it go into powersave mode is sufficient for "powering off", yes? I have my screen set to go into screensaver mode after 10 minutes for 5 minutes and then DPMS off.
If you're going to need a lot of space and want good speed, I'd also recommend SCSI drives. If you use RAID 5, you can pretty painlessly increase your disk space as you need it; if you get a good SCSI controller, you can put a decent amount of memory onboard which will further improve...
Side question:
Is Prime95 better than other distributed apps for burning in/testing stability of a newly overclocked box? Does it work more of the CPU than say, setiathome does? I know they both max out the processor's raw speed, but that doesn't mean they're both taxing the CPU in exactly the...
A while back (a year ago?) this was a big issue.
I had one of the original MS Intillimouse Explorers, which had a very high liklihood of the cord breaking right at the entrance to the mouse enclosure. The loose connection made the mouse "freeze" a lot. I think M$ has improved the design since...
A friend of mine and I were speculating that this is also a tactic by Microsoft to attempt to (slightly) slow down the spread of Linux. The kernel and therefore just about every distro boasts some level of data interoperability between M$'s file formats, by making it cost money to have this...
I use the back of a notebook for a mousepad, nice and smooth, but the optical mouse picks it up great since the cardboard has a nice visual texture. The back of a small tablet might work. My 5-star notebook's back is very thick cardboard, so I could consider it a "hard" mousepad.
Didn't the virus always reboot a minute after finishing booting? Not sure, but I don't think it caused the reboot right away...
I had a similar problem when a heatsink fan came loose. The system would sometimes die right before the login screen came up, or sometimes let me just barely start...
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