$1.86 per month is cheap insurance for PC health.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned it yet: Get a laptop.

It depends heavily on the local humidity, but much of the US isn't suitable for indoor air drying - or at least not enough of the year to get people in that mindset.

Simply phenominal video quality.

I use mine quite regularly as an IT worker to supply a secure(ish) trusted connection for my laptop so I can initiate a secure VPN tunnel to remotely manage servers. For critical work, I've decided at this point I simply can't trust random open wifi connections before the VPN is initialized since there's that whole…

Learning to package your own big game will save you hundreds. For deer it isn't too hard and there are tons of videos on the web on proper dressing & packaging. I'm not wildly efficent but it takes me about 15 minutes to field dress, let it hang and cool after skinning depending on weather than then schedule 2 hours…

Regarding prices of meats: While not practical for everyone and while certainly against some people's ethos, in much of the US hunting or fishing remains a viable option.

Microsoft offers radically reduced prices for students and teachers. Anyone with a .edu address can purchase and download these version that are essentially identical to the business version.

Used it twice this morning already :)

We've dabbled in centralized profile management quite a bit, but several times a year we'll have some form of a network outtage at the university that I manage that inevitablly keeps us using local profiles. Sending a thousand people home because a stack of routers in a closet dropped out isn't acceptable for us. For…

Data grab is interesting, but for any Windows users, Microsoft provides the User State Migration Tool (USTM) for free and offers a similar ease of use (through command line however) but has far more customization options and a much wider featureset. USMT is heavily used in enterprise environments where we can backup…

For Linux: fsck

Longevity of backups depends primarily on condition and handling. I design a lot of disaster recovery systems and over the last few decades I've found that:

Longevity of backups depends primarily on condition and handling. I design a lot of disaster recovery systems and over the last few decades I've found that:

I guess I'm not seeing the point, or at least for securing legitament items.

Ratios of bird incidents is highly location dependant. Most people will only experience this rarely, however a friend of mine has a house with a wall of glass. She lives next to a park where people feed the birds. It's disturbing how many birds she has to sweep off her porch. She averages at least a couple per week.

I've been using a projector system for home theater for about six years and there are several additional considerations that I'd suggest one take into account when purchasing one:

@AnnS.: Tasker or Locale can both do it. Locale would need the program launcher addon though. Have them set your volume to the right level and then launch Pandora.

@Shakazula: Yes, it's pretty simple. Just make sure you've set your volume at an appropriate level first.

Windows: Task Scheduler to run a batch that opens Pandora. Is that too hard?