The crib sheet on page 6 was smoewhat useful but the rest of the 5 pages were worthless.

Even then you could still purchase a car or house without credit like they used to a couple generations ago. I've had enough in the back to buy even a new car if I wanted to throw my money away on a Kia/Hyndui. I have a relative who saved up around 30K then bought a forclosed house for that because the owners who…

Ok, they are screwing me with the "Date of Last Activity". I was late in the 90's a couple times and they upped my interest so I paid off the card and closed it. But the date of last activity shows as recent as 2005 even though I closed the account in the 90's and its marked closed. I noticed a couple of the ones I…

Can you disupte for any reason or is their a certain list? My example of the old bad marks, I don't dispute that I was late I just think that since they are from the 90's they should drop off. Plus discover was picky about it, late twice because the USmail couldn't deliver my bill and they give you a bad mark and…

@Iron: I don't disagree with the late mark, I know I was late back then but I thought after 7 years they would fall off. Those accounts have been paid off and closed for a while. So since the information was correct, can I still dispute it?

I always thought it possible to get too many cards and then have too much available credit but I'm not sure if that could happen in reality because as to get close to getting too much available then you should get denied, but it seems some banks will give credit to anyone and just charge a higher rate to make up for…

Qptkdude. The SI standard correctly counts 1024 for data

I take sort of a money day once a quarter. On that day we run a credit report from one of the 4 credit reporting agencys. Then I download all my back statements and archive them, pull account histories and avaerage some of my bills and update my budget spreadhseet. I've found that works well so I don't need to use…

Windows has always used 1024 properly, its nothing new to Vista. Sales has always used 1000 to make their drives or memory look larger than they really are, that isn't limited to just Dell.

Ok, everyone always picks on the TV. A TV (CRT not LCD) needs to use some power to keep the tube slightly warm otherwise it wears out faster. Thats why back in the 70's you had to buy a new TV every couple years. So if you start unplugging it or swithing its power off and on externally then you wear it out faster. …

Yahoo and Windows Live still attempt intrusive advertising with attempted popups and crap that wants plug ins so they don't get any love from me. I stil with Google since they are not trying to screw with my browser.

I agree with what others have said, it looks more like a Windows software list than a geek/nerd software list.

The little red line is called a Marcus Bains line, Korganizer has had it for years. My issue with the google calendar is it doesn't fully implememnt categories.

I've been using rsync to make a copy of my laptop drive for a couple years now. I have a strange issue I'm running into. I have about 30-40G of data after I filter out vmware and .iso's and my old 60G laptop drive in an USB case. I can either plug that old drive into my laptop and mount it and rsync to it or plug…

@Mr. Feller and @Kaessa, the three laptops I have access to right now the Fn-mute works before booting up, its in the bios. Thats my Dell Latitude running Linux, my wife's laptop and my work supplied (which I'm not allowed to fun Firefox on and that last post was due to IE locking up on somehting from an ad on LH). …

@Mr. Feller and

Every laptop I have owned/used or serviced has had a volume control with mute button either on the laptop or as a blue Fn-something key combination that will completely mute the sound. Is that another common feature Apple is lacking, its been a while since I had to fight with an Apple but I assumed they would be up…

Gsones, It is nice to reduce your usage though, my cost per kWh has went up from 4 to 6.5 cents in three years but my yearly usage has went from 7530 to 6622 to 6150 kWh in those three years so the amount I pay per month has stayed close to the same even though the cost has went up.

@zolielo: people were honking and flashing but it didn't do any good.

If were talking to the car then wouldn't the car be a listening car and not a talking car, unless it talks back. if thats the case then I remember the last time that talking cars were tried "your door is ajar" became a comedy skit in the 80's when the commedian said "no my door isn't a jar, it's a door"