@Dima Oliynyk: Wow, I'm amazed I had to scroll down so far to find mention of this.

@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.