@savvy999: I'm not sure those are mutually exclusive categories. It may be some combination of the three.

I had problems with this on my TX - crashing and rebooting. For me, the problem revolved around the IMB Java VM which I only installed because Opera Mini required it. But the VM didn't like to run with PiLoc (Russian Localization) enabled, and I didn't like Opera Mini that much anyway.

With our first child, we made regular trips to Sam's Club (yeah, I know. The shame of it). We found the cost-per-piece balance to tip their direction, even with coupons. Plus we got boxes with larger quantities than we could pick up at the local Target.

This kind of problem (mountain out of a mole hill, actually) is why my mailing list subscriptions all go to a separate email account. If I'm out of the office, then the office server will alert people. But no notification will be sent to any mailing list I'm on.

I'd like to go paperless. The problem is that in order to really pull it off, I need about 3 monitors. I've found that, at least because of what I'm doing, "Alt+Tab" is a poor replacement for seeing two documents at once.

I think, for most of us, by the time we need this type of intervention, the warranty's already expired.

A mistake many parents make is to assume that children grasp contextual meanings to statements. Adults "get" meta messages that children just don't recognize.

I was a Homesite user before it was bought by Macromedia. So I readily adapted to TopStyle Lite, eventually buying the full version, which I'd use for coding HTML as well.

By the way, the above comment isn't meant to criticize the current software or to suggest that I'm better for having done it myself. I would have used someone else's software if it did then what it does now.

@geosteve: While Access is proprietary, so is Endnote. So that's not really a complaint.

I gave up on reference managers. They're great for what they do, but their limited compared to what I want them to do.

There's also the StealthSwitch which sits under your desk and hides the "questionable" software at the tap of your toe. This has the advantage of not being obvious, like a keystroke.

Disposable and single-use credit card numbers can pretty effectively limit the power of "card number distribution fear." Since these numbers are designed not to work after a single use, people probably won't care if it gets distributed.

A chiropractor once told me that it's better for the back to work in small areas. Rake up only what you can without changing position, then bag it. Move to a new area.

My university has an SMTP server that is restricted to only those on the campus network. But they also have an authenticated SMTP server, which I can use from any IP address.

I must be hungry. I read "#MSG#, and I think "monosodium glutamate? Dang, it's just everywhere."

I can confirm that Plumpy's right. Ubuntu 6.10 does work in both my docked and undocked configurations. Still haven't got my wireless card to work correctly, though.

I'm with BostonMark - thanks for the info on removing the Go button.

@plumpy: Thanks for the confirmation. I was expecting UUID in Edgy Eft, but hadn't verified it myself. Good to know. I guess I'll have to play with it some more.

I played around with 6.06, but it didn't like the combination of my Thinkpad and dock. Changing between docked and undocked setups would throw off the enumeration of the partitions, and it wouldn't boot. 6.10 is supposed to have fixed this, but I haven't tried yet.