This one actually looks pretty nice. It's good to see Linux finally moving away from that "Designed by 3rd Graders with a Box of Crayons"-look.

@yokocar: No problem :) I didn't get it at first either when I saw Flavors.me a while back. Couldn't figure out for the life of me why Bookmarks weren't good enough!

@yokocar: I think you're missing the point of a personal landing page. Don't think of it as the site your browser goes to when you first open it (i.e., home page). Think of it as a Web Business Card. It will contain contact info and social network links for yourself, so you only have to give out one web address.

@ursa: I'm not sure about the spindown on the drives, that might be a function of the OS rather than the drive. However, I do know that most 2.5" drives don't generate as much as their 3.5" counterparts because the motors are smaller. A 2.5" drive's platters are usually made out of glass with a magnetic coating, where…

@ursa: I'm not referring to the physical drive itself, I'm referring to the external enclosure. If you look at every 2.5" external USB drive that WD has released, I can't think of a single one that didn't have a plastic case.

@eagles500: To be fair, those WD external 2.5" drives don't have any venting. The drive is contacting the plastic for the most part, save for the rubber pads on the top. That apparently dissipates enough heat. I'm sure contact with the wood will do the same.

@Nihar: Whoa! It's SO INTENSE!

@Richard Milne: What could you possibly need more than 400W for a mini-ITX computer? A 2.5" notebook drive uses FAR less power, and you're not going to find a high-end video card that will require a ton of power AND fit into that pantone tin

@Wes: There's no internal storage that's user accessible, and no option for external direct-attach storage (USB Flash, HDD, SD Card, etc.) so loading any software on it might be impossible. Of course, if it's iOS based, it could be that an enterprising individual creates a "jailbreak" for it, if you will.

@whitlowd: Ever seen a Kenyan marathon runner? Yeah, you know...the ones that win the Boston Marathon like every year? Many of them train barefoot.

@Prairie Moon: Drives me insane! Problem is, the return pipes rattle whenever the condensate pump kicks in (which is like 4x an hour).

@x3geek: So in essence, you're trading your savings on the phone bill for extra electricity costs, and a new hard drive?

@Hasteur: The steady drone of the A/C unit in my server room.

@lindsayk: Congrats! Good to hear you're on the path to getting well. Have a great time on your trip to NYC!

@wickedcupofjoe: No problem. Go from the Cable box, PS3, and any third HDMI device to the box. Then you hook the box's output to the Receiver input. Then, the receiver HDMI output goes to the TV HDMI input. This way, you'll control which device you're using from the HDMI switch, and it gets its audio and video routed…

@wickedcupofjoe: Hey, going back to this post, this item was featured on Lifehacker's "DealHacker" today:

@wickedcupofjoe: There are a couple of solutions that might work for you. Unfortunately, from what I can find about your receiver, it only has one HDMI input, so you're limited in the number of devices you can attach.

@miguelcervantes: For the motherboard, just make sure it's either SLI or CrossFire compatible, and that you can actually use 2 PCIe 2.0 x16 slots for it. If you go nVidia for your graphics card, SLI is what you need, if you go AMD/ATI, you want CrossFire.

@Terry: An app once known as Konfabulator is now owned by Yahoo. Check out [widgets.yahoo.com,] it works just like dashboard for the most part.

@Queequegaz: Send them a picture of your money...