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Well it's been a good run, and I wish we could keep it up, but with the blog no longer receiving official SE support I think it's time to finally set it to rest. Migrating to a new platform not offi …

I believe that a lot of people were confused and scared (understandably) by my use of the term "partnership". After discussing this in length I've come up with a more understandable proposal/solution …

From last week via @Sathya: How much information can websites get about your browser/PC? Does anyone know of any other sites that will be able to get more information from the user passively like …

I've thought about doing a Review/How-To-Use of Hyper-V in Windows 8. I asked & answered this question: How do I install and use Windows Virtual PC in Windows 8? And found/answered this one as well: …

I say we bring back our steady friend... The Question of the Week It was a great way to include the community and see some new and interesting questions. We can alternate the assignment of the QOTW t …

note: I'm an editor and therefore my answers are somewhat biased First my vision of the mission statement: We, the authors of The Super User Blog created and maintain this blog to the purpose of: Fir …

I have added this question to get us started: What is Port Forwarding and what is it used for? There are a lot of questions on 'port forwarding' but there doesn't seem to be one that cleary states wh …

This is a great question, as we're still in the early stages of the development of the blog. Here's what I see: Should reposting from the SUB be discouraged? No. In my opinion and understanding, …

Speed comparison between USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and SATA and Firewire… Which is fast, faster, fastest? I would appreciate a slowest to fastest list including USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 …

I have put together a simple outline of what I believe the blog should look like in different situations. Here is a direct link to the "preview" of the post for current blog editors. For those of yo …

This is mainly because we only just recently moved to being officially hosted by Stack Exchange. I'm assuming, but not for sure, that we just used the default blogging style used by ServerFault. I'm …

I want to thank @ThomasMcDonald for getting the site together and doing all the background stuff. Also thanks to all of you for your input and suggestions for posts! And finally, thanks Jeff for you …

How do I explain how Anti-Virus protection works to a non-Super User? I just had a client ask me this, and I really couldn't give him a good, simple, easy to understand answer. Best thing I could com …

With us starting to test the SSD tech this may be a good start. Are SSD's really reliable enough for power users? About 9 months ago I bought an SSD, an OCZ Vertex Turbo (60GB). Up until about 2 …

Depending on whether we get more than one drive, we do want to perform a test of a single SSD vs. a RAID0 setup of SSD's. We want to focus on read/write speed, and also management of the drives (i.e. …