Guys, as an ADHD master, I suggest you look into the "Cornell Method" of note-taking. It's easy to get started on and has a built-in reinforcement method that makes recalling the information later easier.

Do Not Call list has protected me from most such calls but, as a New Hampshire resident who just suffered through the agonies of a robo-dialing-fueled campaign season, I am reminded that non-profits and charities and such need not follow the DoNotCall rules, damn their eyes.

I love people who say 4gb is a deal killer. Flash RAM is cheap cheap cheap and online storage is even cheaper. If you're looking to a device like this to host your DVD and CD collection, you're a chump. If you're looking for something to do light mobile computing, 4gb is more than plenty.

JoeBob, problem with flash drives is that no macs have slots for them, natively, and I'm not sure you could boot a mac from one even if you HAD an adapter.

Me, I got tired of looking at XP, even in classic mode, so I ditched the entire interface and now I'm running blackbox and slickrun and look at nothing but (mostly) bare monitor. It's lovely.

I'm not sure ANY linuxii run on the B&W's PPc chipset, Jack. Researching that would be your first order of business.

But USB, even USB2.0, will be much slower RAM than anything installed internally. Best (and nearly cheapest) bet is to just max out internal RAM.

@Kola: Hey, Kola, how bad was the "not booting" problem your mac experienced? It might be too late after the fact, but in the future, Applejack ([sourceforge.net]) is an interesting tool for getting into the guts of your mac even if the GUI won't load.

I wish there was a nice easy way to have iTunes delete duplicate files.. and then notice when I'm trying to import an already-existant file to keep dupes from recurring. MAN is that annoying.

To some extent, such a program exists, Thibault. It's called TomBoy and its a linux-only app.

@Whiskey — try Puppy linux, Feather linux, xubuntu. Not sure if Mint counts as one of the smaller distros... Feather, especially, is close in size to DSL (ok, slightly over 100mb, but still ballpark..) but with a far easier to use frontend.

More props for eeefresh, here. I confess, I read articles in large part for the additional info I glean from the comments, but snotties just get in the way. Go forth and snot no more!

I like this b/c linux users have been hosed by ABC — their program-player is Mac/PC only, despite the fact that firefox is firefox is firefox. It annoyed the BuhJEESUS out of my wife that I brought home a linuxbox for her to watch "her programs" on, only to be rejected without prejudice by ABC. Complaints only brought…

I want to know why the gOS is a toy? It's ubuntu with the Enlightenment front-end. What's "toy" about ubuntu?

While I agree with the above — if this is all you do, you're not likely to get fit — if you're merely trying to augment an existing (perhaps less than stellar) routine, it offers helpful hints.

You go, LifeHacker! This may've been a crappy POST, but lookit the LEARNING it evoked! WHOO! It's a pleasure to lurk amongst such bright peeps! Thanks for sharing, Dave et al.

My firefox opens something like 25 tabs on startup, so I'm not sure what my homepage looks like. I use My.yahoo as an rss aggregator, but their damned Beta (which they are pushing WAAY hard) doesn't load new RSS feeds; get odd errors, so I reverted to the old. If they take away my option to remain with the "classic"…

Something to speed the effect of the A/C on window-defrosting is to flip down both sunvisors: traps the rising A/C air back against the glass for a slight but significant speedup.

Ok. Got b53 and I now have even FEWER options..

I have had a great deal of difficulty getting the Quicksilver plugins to .. well.. plugin. Got a lot of error messages and now Quicksilver shows NOTHING in the plugins flyout menu and, when I select PREFERENCES ....