How does Google/YouTube manage to allow a user to jump to any part of a video without having it preloaded first? Is it the player they use or maybe how the video file is hosted? [more inside]
posted by ssmith on Feb 11, 2008 - 8 answers

Every night at 12:10AM, the brand new primary hard drive in my computer begins grinding away for a duration of 10-60 seconds. Why? [more inside]
posted by Danelope on Jan 14, 2008 - 12 answers

Help me find God. [more inside]
posted by ZakDaddy on Aug 19, 2005 - 31 answers