isteve

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  1. I don't think it matters FWD RWD or 4WD when the brakes are applied they all slide the same.

    But my front engine RWD miata with Bridgestone blizzaks at all four conners is a absolute blast to drive in a few inchs of snow. Of course anything over 8" the miata becomes a snowplow so it sleeps most of the winter.

  2. The Cherokee has some good heat also. I bought it as a $3200 winter vehicle and like it a lot better then I thought I would. And the straight 6 makes some great torque.

    I posting this pic of the jeep mainly because I wanted to see if my Microsoft live account will work as a easy picture server.

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  3. I feel you pain. I got rid of my Ranger and picked up a 2001 Cherokee sport. It had a valve cover leak. So yesterday I decided to change the gasket and throw in some new plugs. When I started working on it the temp was about 45 within a hour it was in the 30's and shortly after it started to snow.

  4. I don't think internet tv is ready for the normal tv viewer right now. I have a apple tv that does a great job if you don't mind paying per show or finding or converting video. It also great for Video Podcast most now are HD.

    I hacked my Apple TV and installed Boxee. It is unbelievable thousands of tv shows new and old and movies all free (so far still a alpha) I'm watching Dilbert right now and watched Barney Miller earlier.

    This week Joost came to the iphone/ipod touch. Put it on my ipod and am blown away on how it works. Not sure how practical but still blown away.

  5. There is only one attack affecting the Mac at this time. It is a trojan that changes your DNS settings, I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on a system that is up to date. If it is on a system it is very easy to get rid of with the free DNS removal tool from http://www.securemac.com/

    There was a few other proof of concept hacks in the wild but the attacker would need physical access to the computer and a password.

  6. Have had Flock for almost a year now. I don't use it much. It is really cool if your into the whole social network thing. Keeps track of all your social sites logs you in let you easily post and crosspost and great if you have blog or many blogs.

    Works good on my iMac with the 20" screen but on my laptop it's way to cluttered.

  7. Thanks for the info. I remember a while ago there was talk of AMD and NVIDA merging. Then reading about them merging with a graphics processor maker. I'm sure I knew it was ATI, maybe just got a little confused by the corporate alphabet soup.

  8. There are people who believe that NVIDIA's long-term prospects aren't great because the market is heading back toward highly-integrated and general-purpose hardware and that could give Intel and AMD an insurmountable advantage.

    I may be wrong but didn't AMD and NVIDIA merge earlier this year and doesn't Intel now own ATI?

  9. The Macbook is now Apples best selling computer of all time. Also they now come with NVIDA cards apple actually worked with NVIDA on the new mobile cards, they even held the announcement of the new cards until apple announced the new Macbooks.

    The Macbook Air has good sales they just announced a refresh.

  10. I would start with the obvious like plugging into a different outlet and if you have another power cord try that. Also make sure the cord is well connected to the mac some really need to be pushed in very firmly. The next would be the power supply they run about $100us for that model you could find one cheeper on ebay. But changing out parts until you find the problem could get expensive.

    You may even want to take it to a Apple store and get a estimate for repair.