#5: Yup, its there.

#8: My neighborhood is drift prone... WHEN I'M DRIVING!

I drive a '99 Fozzie. Slap some studded snow tires on it and I'm good to go.

I created a virtual network on my router, gave it a seperate SSID and password, gave it a seperate IP, assigned it a seperate DHCPD, turned off bridging, did a couple of other setting tweaks, and then configured the firewall to pass any traffic on this virtual network without access to the rest of my WAN. I locked…

Thats a Budwieser!

ROFL! I'm with juansmith on this one. Heck, even after Melanie rewrote the section to make it clearer, because it is all too easy to skim past the simple word "how":

@TheKlic

It isn't that hard. "Is this the line for such-and-such?" Someone will tell you!

Awesome story, bro!

#cotd

I might have a slightly different (higher) opinion of smartphones if I had different hardware. I'm a cheapskate. My phone is a 1gen Droid that is off-contract on a local carrier. This allows me to go month to month with no contract, and I dropped the data plan when I did the cost-benefit on it. I can still browse,…

#cotd

Nuvola Player... is the icon a Nuvola Ring?

Lack of a real keyboard is a sacrifice with the Kindle Fire that I am usually able and willing to do without, but sometimes this is a real problem. I unfortunately sometimes need to deal with Excel spreadsheets which contain extensive macro programming that will not run on anything short of genuine MS Excel. My "beef"…

My kid takes her Mini-9 running Debian to school for debate club. Epic Geek Cred.

I would get my mom a Kindle Touch, but not a basic Kindle.

No video out on the Fire, unless there is some gadget doohickey that plugs into the Fire's little microUSB port.

I understand what you're saying: you have the always-with-you utility device that is functional for a lot of tasks (smartphone), and you have the solid capable can-do workhorse (laptop). What purpose is there in having/using anything else?

Thanks! I was thiiiis close to jumping on the Touchpad ebay firesale on my birthday when my wife, who had figured out what I was up to, jumped the gun and presented me with a Fire. Well, you know what they say about the bird in the hand and the one in the bush. Anyways, if I had a Touchpad it would only have been to…

I installed File Expert, sideloaded MoboPlayer, and my AVI movies play just fine.