@swalve:

before you replace your re-chargeable batteries, are you using a decent charger? I was using the chargers that you buy in stores and my battteries were all getting worn out. When I started buying my eneloop earlier this year I started researching chargers and found that most don't do an accurate charge termination. I…

One caution, not all 6v batterieas are made up of AA's inside, some are made up of sub C, some are just a single cell, same with the little 12v batteries that give the watch batteries or the 9v that give AAAA's, not all of them are made that way. So once you do find a brand that does be sure to stick with it.

I gave up on yahoo years ago when they started intrusive advertising, spamming, etc. We all need to join together and let them know were not going to put up with their crap and stop using or recommending their services. I've cleaned so much spyware and adward off of people's computers that got it from paying yahoo…

I was going to say the same thing, why is unlocking your car with a tennisball getting listed again when its known false?

I see so many people using external drives for storage when the one in their laptop gets too full giving multiple points of failure. Then you never know whats inside some of those externals, I always buy enlocusers and stick my own drives in them so I know for sure what I have. Do it right and have multiple backups…

Anyone used something like the cornell note taking method. I found I did something similar by the end of college, would date stamp the notebook pages in the margin as will as add some notes such as page numbers in the book that corresponded to a section of notes but I used a different color pen to make separate my…

What do you do when your someplace without a network connection? I'm starting to mess with gcaldaemon to keep my laptop and google calender synch'ed for example.