I only enable wifi when friends are over with their laptops and then I use WPA. If I didn't fileshare I might be more willing to leave it open, but for now, I don't even trust encryption given that I live in an apartment complex and know that with enough time anything is possible.

Plastic grocery bags and ziplock bags (provided they weren't used for meat, I don't have a dishwasher, and am too lazy to give the bloody ones as thorough a wash as needed to make me feel safe)

FWIW All of the buttons on my Logitech MX510 worked the first time as soon as I installed Hardy Heron.

I've got Ubuntu 8.04 on my deksktop now and just finished loading XFCE based Xubuntu on my parent's jukebox computer (PIII 533mhz) it's great!

Any tips on getting contacts sidebar to play well with Lightning? I end up with a very out of proportion Thunderbird.

@Confuzius:

My computer is now officially Windows free as of the Release Candidate last week.

All this means is that Facebook is about to get banned by the rest of the workplaces that haven't banned it yet.

New version launches tomorrow, give it a try, you never know...

I end up nursing a cold stale coffee throughout the entire day... Works for me!

The thing about open source with a strong community is that last year may as well be 20 years ago.

I live close enough to work that I can drive home, prepare a fresh lunch and then read, watch TV or get distracted by the internet for about half an hour before I've got to go back to work.

I'm running FF3b4 on Ubuntu 7.10

FF3b4 was a godsend in linux.

Bacon Vodka.

I saw an example of Google reader running in prism on compiz-fusion's widget layer. Brilliant.

UAC in vista is pretty much just horribly implemented SUDO, I'm assuming that this sudo will work like *nix sudo where you stay as admin for 15 minutes you you dont have to keep choosing "run as administrator" if you're doing something that needs admin rights.

Digsby does not like wine.

I generally use "sudo alien -i name-of-rpm-file.rpm" It just installs rather than converts the package (well, actually it converts, installs, then deletes the temporarily converted file)

Good to know.