The immovable Unity dock is particularly annoying if your laptop is a Synergy client sitting to the right of your main monitor. The options for using the mouse to bring the dock out of hiding are: set a switch delay on Synergy, which is more annoying than the problem, of carefully move the cursor over to the edge of…

Yeah, but the sweaty ear-print left behind after making a call is kinda gross.

I don't currently have a need for tethering, but my rooted Eris can do it if need. I used it exactly once to make sure my VPN to the home worked prior to going on vacation and it was actually quite fast. At that moment I realized just how slow my actual phone is at rendering the pages, etc.

Don't leave your laptop sitting on your desk at night so the cleaning crew can swipe it like happened at a company I used to work for. Bonus: the victim called our remote backup software "in intrusion" about 2 weeks earlier.

I did something similar a few years ago with one of those butcher block style dining tables from Ikea. Instead of night stands, it became an entry table. After disassembly, I sliced the top lengthwise, modified the boards the leg hardware attaches to, sanded, stained, and added decorative trim.

Would this work for making the Rice Krispy squares? Rather than letting the marshmallow set up in a pan, mix some with the Rice Krispies where you would normally use the melted marshmallow mixture. May have to try this.

How timely, I just bought a new HP color cartridge yesterday for my 5-year old printer. I have also tried various refill services and remanufactured cartridges. We already print all photos through Costco, so I can't comment on the color accuracy other than to say it's good enough for day to day document printing and…

There is no easy way that I know of, which is why I went with the combo setup that I have now. Changing the desk is really the easy part, it's moving all of your stuff off and on the desk that takes so much time.

I 'built' a combo sit/stand desk using this Fredrik desk from Ikea: [www.ikea.com]

Gah.. Now I have "Gone Hollywood" stuck in my head.

Synergy can be a little quirky at times, but I stick with it because I require multi-os support. I have been using the beta (1.4.4) on Windows 7 64bit (as the server) and it is actually pretty solid, provided you run it as administrator (something I am finding is necessary to get an increasing number of apps to…

Is the laptop at your physical location, or are you connecting to in from home via VPN and just can't RDP in anymore? I would assume that if it is with you on your local network then it should work, unless your VPN client is locked down so that *all* traffic is directed through the company network, then you're…

Ultramon can do that, though it's not free. Well worth the $40 though.

I have long been an Ubuntu guy but have been auditioning other distros in Virtualbox before reloading my laptop. Between Ubuntu, CentOS, Arch, Debian and Fedora, I have to say I am really starting to like Fedora / Gnome 3.

Lol... people are not happy, that is for sure. The pop-up window is an annoyance at worst, but what really has people ticked off is that there is no longer a way to disable it. Good way to turn a minor annoyance into an outrage if you ask me :)

'Poop Splash' would be an awesome band name.

4.5TB dedicated to storage and backup. If I add OS drives, maybe another 2TB, most of which is unused because even the cheap drives are 500GB now (though I got my first SSD this weekend). All of my media resides on a 1.5TB drive in the sever, I have a 2TB NAS dedicated to backup, and a 1TB USB drive on my desktop for…

Has anyone here figured out a work-around to disable the new Skype Home window from opening up every time the client is launched? There are some suggestions in the following hate-filled thread at the Skype forums, but I'm looking for something more along the lines of a registry or config file hack: [community.skype.com…

It can be different for each person as well. I generally make coffee every day at home and have one cup in the morning and make sure my wife also has hers before heading out. I can go several days without and not feel any different, my wife is another story entirely. She gets sleepy, forgetful, irritable and will…

...and this is what I wind up doing if there is no cold beer :)