Do hot water pipes freeze faster than cold water pipes? The only time I've had a problem with pipes freeing, it was a hot water pipe. The plumber who fixed it and the guy at the hardware store who sold me the heat tape both said that hot water pipes will freeze before cold water pipes.

It's a lot easier than dual booting.

Get the best of both worlds, download VMware's Player and build a little Linux VM to use as a second Desktop. You can flip back and forth between the two Desktops very easily. It also has something called Unity that lets you display your Linux terminals on your Windows Desktop.

Here's a web page that says that the picture shown above is the Electra landing in Miami. It also has a picture of the plane getting ready for takeoff and the patch has been replaced by a window.

I have to agree with you. I also guess that you and I are among the proud and the brave who admit we enjoyed "1941".

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down

A compass works too.

MA's got lobstah, clam chowdah and fried clams to die for.

Let's not forget the 20 somethings and under who don't use email, that's really annoying.

An Oppo Blue Ray Player. You won't believe what you been missing.

That Bullion fella has a bad scratch across his record, and yes, I am turning into my father.

That Bullion fella has a bad scratch across his record, and yes, I am turning into my father.

It seems to me that it would be perfectly legal to shoot a drone out of the sky if it was hovering over your property, assuming of course that it's legal to shoot off a gun where you live and you aren't going to hurt someone with the pellets.

No, you've got it backwards. Your ISP can only see encrypted data when you use a VPN.

Not at all. Google is just passing on the information to the police, they haven't decided what is criminal and what isn't.

I've been using email for almost thirty years and I don't consider it even vaguely private.

I bet they were stunned to find out he was playing "Super Monsters Ate My Condo" 12 hours a day.

I've found just the opposite to be true. If I don't look at the time, I don't know that I've been sleeping and I get worked up over the fact that I'm not sleeping. If I check the time, I'm almost always pleasantly surprised to see that it is two or three hours later than I thought, so I must have been sleeping. I…

I like the Excel II better. It does a better job under my nose.

Why couldn't a woman use it? Because it's not pink?