@waffles: Skype is VOIP, but not necessarily intended to be a stationary, land-line replacement. I was referring to services like Vonage, or T-Mobile @Home (which is what I have). They are actually bound legally to provide an E911 location solution for their customers. T-Mobile requires me to associate a street…

@JuniorAndTorrie: Here's an example of where it doesn't depend on anything, and bandwidth caps are clearly worse: VOIP.

It may boost my will power, but at what cost? Gingivitis? I. Don't. Think. So.

For Fedora users, add this to the bottom of /root/.bashrc

@shashank_hi: Do you have ssh-access for your account? If so, do you realize you're effectively giving root ssh-access, at least for anything authorized in /etc/sudoers.

Thanks. Just installed it, and I love it. Window-resizability, and PuTTY-like copy/paste. Sweet.

@send9: Well, ok. Here's the truth — the good and bad.

Fedora's my fave. 11 was supposed to go beta two days ago...

@mmsk8erboi: Not when your drinking is medicinal in purpose.

As long at it's Cheap-Ass food, and not Cheap Ass-food.

I use Thunderbird->imap4 for gmail, and for me it's anything but reliable. Their imap server goes down all the time. PITA.

Nandesuka! Hyundai beat Toyota?!

1. If your computer has composite or S-Video out (most radeon cards have this) use a cheap RF modulator and some coax.

Just to be redundantly repetitive of prior posts: The whole reason I have the phone I have (Moto SLVR) is so that it fits in my pocket comfortably. And, having to recharge every three days is just fine by me.

I have a friend with a Dell notebook, and this is blocked in the audio driver itself. You can only record from Mic or Line-in (same jack/impedance checked.) There isn't an option to record from the internal loopback.

@phoenix: I haven't used Sumatra. I like Foxit. It loads faster than Adobe, so now I don't cringe each time I click a PDF link on a web page. Also, Foxit has has the handy "typewrite mode" that lets you place the cursor anywhere and type on-top-of the PDF — great for filling out non-editable forms.

WTH? Video no longer available?

You know, I'm going to have to duck after saying this, but...

@ironghost: LOL and ditto. Maybe I'm bitterly anti-Microsoft, but I hope Silverlight stays as irrelevant as it is today. The less plugins I have to install, the better. Flash (in combination with flashblock) is just fine with me.

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): Heh, yeah. CoolEdit (Now Adobe Audition) is the best sound editor I've ever used — It was, ten years ago, what Audacity wishes it could be today. Not to knock Audacity (thanks to the developers who devote their time to it), but one man wrote CoolEdit (at least in the…