As Time magazine's 2006 'Person of the Year', I find the nomination lame.

@jeepngeek: I believe that is a Belkin Concealed Surge Protector. [www.belkin.com]

@kureshii: Thanks for that explanation, I was going to make the same comment as IrishJim68

@Roobs: Name the apparent flaws. Be specific. Explain please, how XP is inherently unsuitable for 99% of today's computers.

Obsolete? For 99% of users, XP can do everything Win 7 can do. I can't think of a good reason for most users to waste money on a new OS.

I imagine most XP machines aren't getting new drives, probably a small fraction of the number sold for newer systems.

The heads up is very nice courtesy, LifeHacker. Thanks!

And 'No chemicals' rules out the use of water

@andy_hedin: Dropbox memory for me seems high, 80MB on Vista 64-bit. But with 4GB I don't care about 80MB

@mp.techpaper+forum: Maybe there were a lot of files, and/or large files, the first-time Dropbox sync would be the most demanding?

@mp.techpaper+forum: I had the opposite experience. I never notice Dropbox, it just works. Live Mesh was constantly churning the hard drive and eating CPU cycles, even when no files had changed. I gave up on it after a couple of weeks.

@wunch: Well, that's easy!

@AmishJohn: I haven't found internal antennas to be a disadvantage on my Netgear WPN824. It has better range than any other G router I've tried.

If you go with the Airport Extreme or Time Capsule, you get dual-band plus gigabit ethernet, plus printer/hard drive sharing, plus the flexibility to extend your wireless network using WDS and your Airport Express.

@wygit: If your IT department wants to allow access to the Cisco VPN, they give you the VPN client.

@Gonz: I think extensions like Keefox basically do that.

If you happen to live in San Francisco, commenter JeffK suggests seeing if your employer might reimburse you for your bicycle commute.

@ModeratelyMotivated: Xmarks uses Firefox's password storage. Which is a plain readable file.

@zaghy2zy:

Vote: Windows' built-in VPN server