Recent content by yhikum

1) Definitely yes. 2) You can get newer laptop for $300, or more.

SSD is worth it, no matter what speed of CPU you have, nor even if you have SATA 1. With SATA 2 and 3 you'll see faster transfer speeds. SATA 1 will at not give you fast transfer speeds, but will still provide with very fast access times. And that of itself worth upgrade. Later you can take...

You confuse monetary gain, with use of software. They are different. You can pick up a branch on road and call it 'gain', but yet no damage has been done since neither nobody got hurt, nor claimed branch for themselves prior to action. Hence, use of 'gain' is not valid in context. You would have...

And is it sub-licensing? There was no monetary gain involved, was there? If there was no monetary gain, what is damage? And most importantly to whom? Microsoft? Friend? Or perhaps, license got morally injured :)

Why would you worry about safety of such program? Did you encounter Microsoft software being not safe? Or you are questioning source of your download being safe? As for legal part, as long as you have downloaded Microsoft copy from their sources, it is completely fine. Your friend is doing you...

Make sure your video card has sound chip to output sound through HDMI. Some cards have this ability and some do not. Also, some motherboards support optical 5.1 Toslink out, which can also be used with any receiver. HDMI solution is easier, but more tricky to get working as you would need to...

There are two pieces of setup I had to do to get my receiver set working. First one was receiver itself. Why not go for Onkyo? It is cheaper and you can get networked version around $300, which is a bargain. Consider if you plan on using 4k television soon or in near future. There are different...

New Canon cameras are small and have very large zoom for their size, like 20x or 24x. Very small size too. Picture quality is not very good though. I own one of these. Handy, but would prefer DSLR for quality.