Meh, I tried even the big baby food jars and I could never fit anything in them, too small.

I've been running a dual boot laptop for a while and have merged ideas from both Unix and Windows. I first created a partition to hold all my files which will be shared between the two OS's then made home folders Unix style. This partition gets mounted as a drive letter under windows and under /home in linux. So I…

I was going to mention the coment field too. MP3's have ID3 tags which are the equivalent to photos exif tags. So you put the tags/categories in the commenbt field of the mp3 then view that field in your file mangler

My internet hasn't been out in the few years since I dropped Time Warner (though in their defense it never went out until they merged with AOL either). I have used the power companies web site to report my power being out while I ran from battery power more than once.

I found that getting up early helps for a while, then your body adjust to that new schedule and it becomes the same as your old schedule. So the only way to keep up with the increased productivity created by getting up earlier is to once again get up ever earlier.

I put mine in folders yyyymmddevent description. I have learned to not try to rename the photos as you can never get a descriptive enough name in the filenames and then you end up either trying to combine different types of data or shortening them to fit. Leave the date and descriptions in the exif fields and leave…

The containers are not very well thought out thouse, seems there is a lot of redundancy. For example the "put away" is unnecessary, if it needs put away and you put in a container designated put away then chances are it will stay there. If it needs put away then just put it away, no need for that container.

The reason I say don't rename is because your trying to put data in either the wrong place or trying to put multiple types of data in the one place. Basically its like a database, there are feilds defined for the date, description, name, etc and its best to not go mixing date types around. What tends to happen is…

@BruceMagnus

I've used a tool called KPFDTool which runs under the KDE Window Manager. It lets you extract pages from a PDF no matter if its protected or not, just extract all pages from the protected and output them to a new file.

They are very easy to replace. Also since there are only a few manufacturers of the LCD panels such as sharp, sony, etc you can find a panel that will work from a different model or even brand of laptop if you remove the outer plastic cover from the laptop and search for the actual LCD model.

@CascadeHush

After fighting with XP for a year on my new laptop I switched to Linux. Poor mrmory management, poor wireless management, poor hardware management, etc all snuck into XP along with a bunch of worthless wizards, etc. Windows 2000 worked well but XP was a big disapointment.

I'm starting my own, but doing it a little different. I'm slowly standardizing on all 12v in power supplies and chargers. Then I'm going to buy a 12v SLA battery (the kind you find in UPS's) and a small charge controller and a solar panel to put on the roof and charge things from there. I have my cell phone…

With vmware you can have your cake and eat it too so to speak. I set up a dual boot, one 10G partition for Windows, another 10G for Linux and the rest for my data. I installed vmware workstation on each os then setup a guest with a raw drive so whichever OS I'm running at the time I can open the other and run it…

There was a similar article a couple days ago from another blog who used a cardboard box to make a charging center.

"The 1-6% is what the merchant pays the CC companies per transaction so they can take credit cards. Do you think they just eat that? No, they pass it on to the consumer."

"The article above referenced by Willis does NOT state that these "wall wart" external transformers use electricity when not actually charging a device. They seem to use power only when charging as "with current flowing through them" they are warm. When unplugged from the device but still in the AC outlet they are…

If your using a credit card just to track purchases then just use a debit card and download the account statement every so often. A lot of banks will even let you enter a description or category right in the online banking making programs like quicken unnecessary.

"If you are getting snail mail that is not addressed to you (or someone in your home) you can: Cross out the name...and write "Not at this address, return to sender" on it"