Sitting down in front of a Linux-desktop or VM with a cheat sheet by your side and trying to do as much as possible from a command-line. Start with basic file navigation and management, keeping in mind Linux treats everything, even physical devices, as files that (provided the permissions are there) can be read from…

Heh, awesome, I still learned Borland Turbo Pascal in high school. Fun little language.

I concur. Not my favourite for creating tools overall, but it's a great starting point for learning the basics of programming and object oriented design.

A backpack full of cables and consumer electronics can be a dangerous place for a bare SSD :) The shell only serves as a suit of armor. Plus it makes connecting the USM adapters something that can be done without looking.

I prefer a little protection around my SSD. It's expensive enough as-is :)

I use that one. Expensive as hell, but damn that performance is nice when I use it with an SSD.

Yep. In fact, it's the very reason I nominated it and really the only major argument I gave for the FreeAgent/Goflex/Backup Plus series. I'm rocking an SSD in a Backup Plus 2.5" enclosure and a thunderbolt adapter for my notebook. Probably the fastest external drive on the planet.

VOTE: Seagate GoFlex / FreeAgent / Backup Plus series

By any chance a comics fan? They're awesome for reading comics or mangas, or even news articles. That aside, I use mine whenever using my notebook would be unwieldy. That includes during comfort breaks.

I love my K90. It's noisy as hell, but it's damn comfortable and I love the 18 G-keys

I came across the same problem when I recently bought a macbook. I ended up installing iSnap. In part because I missed Aero Snap from Windows, but also to properly maximize windows like the way you described.

Except version numbering does not work like real numbers, they only work like integers. Version 10 point 10 is the ninth version since version 10 point one.

Not just Heathrow, Brussels as well. It was a bloody pain in the arse while I worked at said airport, as I always carried my notebook and my tablet in my briefcase.

As someone who worked at an international airport, I'd just like to say most of the people working in the public areas of an airport know that pain better than anyone else.

I use Chrome primarily because of the excellent cross-device sync. If I bookmark something on my Linux-based work desktop, I can find it on my Android-devices or Windows and OSX-based personal machines too. Same goes for extensions, apart from on the Android-devices.

Heh, naw, I just once (out of boredom) read their conditions on what they ship and what they don't. Apparently explosives and some other stuff is a big no-no.

They won't ship those.

Toiletries: or just buy things like shampoo, shower gel etc locally. If you're going somewhere for two weeks, you'll probably have an opportunity to walk into a local supermarket or convenient store.

Documents: if you only need few documents, you might be able to store them between your laptop (naturally DO NOT do this…

I have a Nikon D5100, one of the listed DSLRs. Truth be told, it's such a precision device I really wouldn't want to DIY fix this thing. I don't feel fixability (is that even a legitimate word?) of SLR bodies should be compared to that of laptops and portable media players.

I actually do this with my openwrt router: the DNS server (DNSMasq) points all domains known to host ads to an IP address (really just a virtual interface on the router) that runs Pixelserv, a tiny server that returns a 1x1 GIF. The result is pageloads are fast (as ads don't time out) and none of the devices in my…