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A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions)

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-for-flying-HDD-magnets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman shares his top tech annoyances. Hyneman runs down the little things that bug him about everything from tools (exotic chargers) to cars (useless features). He also notes that there's a lot of room for improvement on PC desktops: 'In addition to being buggy ... extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat ... There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.'"

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  1. Bloat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.

    But Mandriva have never let a little thing like that stand in their way.

  2. Adam by cruff · · Score: 5, Funny

    I though for sure his top tech annoyance would have been Adam Savage. :-)

  3. So if Jamie represents Linux... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and Adam seems to like Apple, who gets Microsoft?

    My guess is Buster.

    1. Re:So if Jamie represents Linux... by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't think Buster's had a chair thrown at him just yet.

      --
      Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
  4. This should annoy him by serginho · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/15/funny-pictures-welkum-to-mythbusters/ :D

  5. Re:Obligatory... by chubs730 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't even count on my two hands the girls I know personally who are as good if not better looking than she is.
    This is to be expected, it can be difficult to stretch a value of zero across ten fingers.
  6. Re:No offence, by SQLGuru · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want devices to be single function, always look for the ones endorsed by the AARP.

    Layne