I'm a night owl, but I work a day job. I use two alarm clocks and my phone to wake me up, and I can sleep right through them if I wanted to. My ideal schedule would be going to sleep as the sun came up, but most humans work in the day, so I fall into that as well.

@ethanthekiwi: Some OSs have update systems built in so that all programs can be updated through a single system. Most Linux distributions do and it's fantastic. When I want the latest version of Firefox, OpenOffice, or VLC I simply load up "Update Manager" in Ubuntu and check/install new updates. The system isn't…

@Kevinpalooza: Yes, it does. And I have to specially tune our spam filters because of it. AOL also does this. Our office spam filter catches all mail from MSN and AOL thinking they are spam because they contain ads in them. So I have to turn off the Ad catching filter, which means a lot of spam now gets through.…

@zmnatz: I haven't touched VirtualPC in about 4 years, but last time I did, it was horribly slow on anything but Windows guests and it had very few hardware options. And of course, there's the whole Windows only host OS problem with VirtualPC(may not be an issue if you are only ever on a Windows PC).

In Linux(or anywhere Compiz runs) there is a plugin for Compiz that allows you to tab together multiple windows into one. I can't remember the name of the plugin, or all of it's features, but I was pretty impressed with it for the 10 minutes I played with it(found no practical use).

@hombrelobo: As long as you aren't trying to watch videos, it's actually a good thing, because most annoying advertisements use flash. But yes, it took about 10 minutes before I was back in Firefox, but the same can be said for me and Chrome on Windows.

@jcphil: I have an AMD chip and it doesn't crash for me(same for my brother), perhaps it's model specific?

The Chromium build has gone a very long ways since when you guys first featured it. And I mean a LONG ways. It was hardly usable, and certainly not pretty at all before. Now it's reasonably stable, it functions fine enough as a web browser(except the no plugins thing), and the interface looks good(not quite Windows…

@GasGiant: Maybe, **gasp** credit card companies might need to start only giving credit cards out to people who can handle them. Oh, what a horrible government we have here in America!

@Deprong Mori: I've got fantastic credit, and I've never had a credit card in my life. Maintaining a solid bank account, having a car loan, and always paying all my bills on time has left me with a fantastic credit rating, and I didn't have to go and risk my credit by getting something like a credit card. If I go to…

This could be really cool, but it needs to be handled in a completely open sourced way. The client and the protocol need to be completely open, and it needs to be easy to use the "Ubuntu One" client on other servers. If a Linux distro got down the integrated cloud file system, it would be a huge boost to the whole…

Most printers and faxes keep up with toner/ink by counting pages. So this would effectively decrease your toner output of a single cartridge, even if it never touches any toner. Some printers go so far as to prevent you from printing when it thinks the resources are low.

Hasn't hit my domain yet. Hopefully it will soon.

Don't forget, your backup media can be used as a vector of re-infection. One machine at our office received Conficker from a client's backup drive. It was Conficker.B because it jumped from an old install of Windows on their machine, and that machine didn't have the Internet to update to Conficker.C. Lucky us, it made…

Pfft! Pizza sitting out for 6 hours is no longer safe? I distrust this site suddenly. Sitting out over night is still safe to grab 'till at least lunch time the next day. Luke warm pizza, yum.

@DBeta: Sorry for practically talking to myself. I just did a quick test: [dbeta.com] On the left is Grayscale+Multiply, on the right is Color. #ffa5a3 is the color used on both. As you can see, multiply gets far closer to a real color.

@SamburgerHandwich: Although the results of "color" are a bit different, it is far easier. The color option seems to ignore the darkness of the color you are adding, making it impossible to have a light blue house painted dark green. Grayscale+Multiply allows this. There are places color would work, but…

@SamburgerHandwich: It's possible Paint Shop Pro didn't have that option, but everything I tried failed to work as well as Grayscale+Multiply. I'll give color a try in GIMP tonight. That would be a good shortcut, if it is supported in other editors.

@lindsayk: True, but my method is pretty much universal across all editors. I discovered this trick using Paint Shop Pro nearly 10 years ago, but it will work in GIMP, Photoshop, and pretty much every other layered photo editor.

An old but simple trick I learned for recoloring things is to convert the original to grayscale then multiply a color layer over it. This keeps all shading and detail while giving new colors a complete change. For something like a house, you would need to convert just the house to grayscale, or just the areas you want…