Interestingly, I went from a maximum of having 15.4" 1280x800 laptop as primary screen, 15" 1024x768 secondary on the side, and a separate PIII desktop with another 15"1024x768 on the other side (linked through synergy then Input director),

Agree. I found this article to be low in content.

Here in New York we rent them out as apartments.

While I like some of the new features (and strangely ribbon) in newer versions of office, I wouldn't call it faster than older versions. In my experience Office 2003 is faster than Office 2007/2010.

Further, classic shell http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ offers it for free.

I assume he has a multimeter, but this is for a dedicated voltmeter on this solar system.

This looks cool just as something to do, not necessarily to save money on a volt meter.

I power mine with an arduino

My favorite car hack is Whitson's "Use the toggle on your mirror to dim it at night"

Indeede, this doesn't help those of us that live in the real world.

This is nonsense. This doesn't send a "deactivate" signal to Microsoft. There's no way I'm aware of to do this. All this does is clear out product keys from the licencing system for the purpose of troubleshooting.

This doesn't actually sends an "deactivate" signal back to Microsoft servers. All it does is clear all keys out of the PC, useful for troubleshooting activation problems.

I'll probably take a similar approach. I'll get a $40 licence and try it on a machine so I'm familiar with it and can offer guidance to others. But for the past 3 years I've been satisfied with Windows 7.

Some cleaning supplies / broom / vacuum. Once you're moved out of your old place you'd want to clean it up (vacuum tracked in dirt, etc), and same on the other end if the place isn't as clean as you like, it's easier to clean it empty, and then you'll want to clean up tracked in dirt, etc.

Definitely comment / site system. When they changed the site layout ~ Feb 2011 when the site layout was changed, comments on the open thread were half of the previous weeks.

It depends what you buy. Yeah, computers or TV's they might have the serial numbers, but probably not for $30 products.

I had a drive fail recently. What I did to recover it was:

At work I was talking to the engineering team of an embedded PC company. For my network configuration (we're talking proprietary process control, not ethernet) they recommended a certain card model (which is about $1500), and said the card may be too long to fit in the PC (it is over-standard PCI size, but not…

Did you tap it with broken spark plug ceramic? That will get you every time.

It looks good as a workstation, but as far as the audio part, and I'm far from being an expert, the room doesn't look to have great acoustics. Wood floor, hard walls, shouldn't there be some sound deadening material?