So.... you don't plan on getting your stolen stuff back? And no... bypassing passwords I learned when I was like, 13 or so. FFR's (Full Format & Restores)? A little more difficult sometimes, depending on the machine.

You realize that that type of thinking is where communism starts, right? Who determines what a 'messed-up head' -ed person is? The dictator does. According to Hitler, it was Jews. Take it one step further, they're not human beings... etc.

It will be disable-able. MS is smarter than it used to be.

Fair enough! I was just trying to encourage fellow commentators to try something new. I still use W7 myself primarily.

While I agree with monitor support, (having dual myself) your problem with the rest isn't the OS, only the programs. Try Wine for Dreamweaver. Wine runs nearly everything I've thrown at it: [appdb.winehq.org] - this says it works with Dreamweaver.

Have you tried Wine to run CS5? in my experience, it runs quite nearly everything. IE. Halo, Starcraft 2...

Suggests an early warning system? LOL. What is the CIA for? FBI? Cybersecurity in the Airforce? *sigh*.

Regarding Independence Day - they supposedly had awhile to figure out how to interface with the downed alien craft.

Actually, IBM's Watson didn't even do that - all the questions were sent in text format to it.

Sadly, no manual setup that I've found is seamless. [sourceforge.net] is as close as you can get.

Theoretically, you save batterylife.

I *facepalmed*.

Depends on what you mean by 'safe'. Nothing is truly safe, and any kind of wireless syncing is going to be accessible or 'sniffable' at some point. Honestly, if your father isn't being specifically targeted by someone, Live Mesh is fine. I prefer Dropbox though.

[sourceforge.net] might do it. From the screenshots, I dare say it's pretty close to what they used in the article, but it's open source and free ^_^

That's genius. Just Apple, though. Google asked.

By your own definition (and it is one I agree with), "A hack is messing with something to get it to do what it wasn't originally intended to do."

He probably meant something other than an eMachine, Gateway, or an Acer. In other words, something not ridiculously low-end.

Yep, they both use Webkit. Not too surprising, as Google made both products (not webkit though).

Looks like adw with a custom dock.

Well, the stock browser actually is Chrome-based. Same rendering-engine and all that.