It is simple - they always exaggerate the truth. Take Gizmodo for example…

The Biggest Diamond in the Universe Is Actually a Planet

I mean, come on… scientists have barely discovered the first signs of what could be a pure diamond based planet, how on earth can anyone abuse hyperbole to this extent of pure lies? How does this journalist know that there are not other larger diamonds in the form of asteroids or dead stars in the universe, as it is an immense area and impossible to fully explore? That title is misleading, and all it needed was one little word:

I have recently watched the MythBuster episode whereby the "fans" felt Jamie was wrong, when he mentioned that "That's equivalent to a single impact going in to a solid wall at a hundred miles an hour" for the compact-compact episode, whereby he was referring to the equivalence of two trucks slamming into a compact car at 50 mph each at the same time from opposite directions.

In the followup episode they tested slamming a car at 100mph into a solid wall, and then subsequently two cars going at 50mph each, into one another. From their results they deduced that Jamie was wrong, and that two cars crashing into each other at 50mph is equivalent to one car crashing into a solid wall at 50mph based on the amount of crumpling that occurred, as well as the forces at play as measured by a force meter in the back of the car(s) - and not 100mph into a solid wall as Jamie mentioned.

This is not a trivial issue, as it does not depend on standard rigid body physics taught in high school or even entry level university courses. That is where I believe most people (and even the producers) went wrong with this whole thing.

I had a weird issue where I could connect just fine to any VM on any of my many HyperV enabled servers… Except one. I just installed a new Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in a HyperV VM and the RDP connection was horrible slow. No network traffic, no CPU… Eventually I found this article and in specific, NicMic's comment worked for me.

You have to disable IPv4 Checksum Offload in the Virtual Machine's NIC adapter.

I get why Apple introduced the new automatic save feature - it will certainly assist people new to computers to not lose work. However it is not thought through very well.

The problem? OmniGraffle has been updated recently to support this new feature. However as anyone using OmniGraffle knows, saving a large document can take some time. My document takes 10 seconds to save. That means whenever I move focus off the document or in to the document, this thing goes into autosave mode and I get a nice spinning beachball.

I had a complaint from my one client that their Android phones do not sync anymore to Exchange server via Activesync. I tried to connect to OWA by going to http://server/exchange, and I got the login prompt. Typed in the username / password and it took me to a directory listing. Not what I expected.

To troubleshoot this I compared the settings in IIS for Exchange, ExchWeb and Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync to a known working 2003 server. The settings all seemed perfect, yet it failed to work properly. So eventually I found this article.

The steps I copied from his explanation worked perfectly.