Acer Aspire 8940G Review

Acer Aspire 8940G

Acer Aspire AS8940G-6865
• Intel® Core(TM) i7 Processor 720QM (1.60GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
• 18.4″ Full HD Widescreen CineCrystal(TM) LED-backlit Display
(1920×1080 Resolution, 16:9 Aspect Ratio)
• 4GB DDR3 Dual-Channel 1066MHz Memory
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 250M with 1GB dedicated DDR3 VRAM
• 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive (1)
• 4X Blu-ray Disc(TM)/DVD SuperMulti Double-Layer Drive
• Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
• Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 802.11a//bg/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED®
• Acer Crystal Eye(TM) Integrated Webcam
• Touch-Capacitive Media Control Interface
• 5 USB 2.0 Ports, 1 HDMI Port, 1 eSATA Port
• 8-cell Li-Ion Battery (4800mAh)
• Dolby Home Theater® Audio Enhancement
• Acer CineSurround Sound System (5 built-in speakers)
• Windows® 7 Home

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The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill due in NZ is a nice bogeyman to spook hapless (and unsophisticated) downloaders.

Lets see what the law states (in plain english)
1) ISPs will keep a log of your activites – ie they will maintain a log of
   a) what ips you used and on which days
   b) possibly a log of sites/ips you connected to
2) copyright holders will rock up to the ISP with a pirate IP and the ISP then looks up the log and sends you a notice :’(

How do you protect yourself from this?
1) Copyright holders (CRH’s for short) usually (9/10) times lurk around popular (more than a 100 seeds) torrents. Simply switch to unpopular torrents from esoteric trackers (thepiratebay.org is like a CRH magnet )
2) use peerguardian, it keeps “bad” ips (used by CRH’s) from connecting to your comp. If they cant connect, they have no proof of sharing (ie you didnt accept any part of the file from them, nor did you supply any part of the file to them)
3) it is unlikely that isps will begin logging http sites accessed, so downloading files off rapidshare, megaupload etc is a safe bet. CRH’s cant see who downloaded the files, so they have no proof. Max they usually do is get the site to drop the file, but then again there are a gazillion mirrors
4) For ultimate security, use a http proxy with high anonymity and download “unpopular” files off http sites and use peerguardian just in case
5) If you are in the know, use ftp,fxp dumps where scene releases end up, no one has access to these logs (especially ftps in china ) + very few know of their existence
6) IRC filebots can be your friends, look for esoteric channels and not just popular ones (tmdmoviez is going to be watched for sure!)
7) private DC++ hubs, emule hubs are also useful. Just remember to avoid the most popular ones, and always have PeerGuardian turned on and updated!

this has to be the best hdd player out there, sata HDD support + dvdrom support (a mini pc )
EGREAT EG-M32B Network Media Tank

inner text not set into the label, in firefox browser. – ASP.NET Forums

Always use innerHTML instead of innerText. innerText does not work in firefox, it sets the value (can be read in a subsequent alert), but doesnt refresh the display.

Assume i have a dropdown called cmbCountry, with option values corresponding to 2 char country codes

I tried the much publicized soln of  $(“#cmbCountry”).val(sCountryCode);
nothing happened , turns out it was doing a weird sort of multiselect.

what do i do?

well after much trial and error, the solution is as follows

$(“#cmbCountry option”).attr(“selected”,”false”);
and then
$(“#cmbCountry”).val(sCountryCode);

and hey presto! it worked!!!

so the things to do are (1) clear the selected attribute of every option, (2) use the val() property to set the selected item

Ghosts for sale on trademe too stupid to read this, but the Q n A are hilarious!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=275074040

love this comment “Hi, I have 2 spirits in bottles at home. They give me multiple personalities when I open them & drink them. I discovered one day their names too… I think they are called Jim Beam & the other is Johnny Walker. …”

about:config -> New, Boolean -> config.trim_on_minimize -> true
done

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Ignoring useless products from seagate, wd and apple, the best bang for buck is :

Iomega ScreenPlay Director 1TB

supports all current codecs and has a HDD without looking like the mothership from District 9