Anybody else thinking 'The Ultimate Pogo Stick: the iPogo'?

@silkworm: Heh. Cut sections out and place them anywhere you don't want your pets to go, or use them for intruder detection. "Guaranteed to stump ninjas, or your hearing back!"

@MisterSlimm: You might have a poor quality in-house telephone line. I ran shielded microphone cable straight from the telephone box to my modem, then on to my telephone, and instantly stopped having problems.

@m4tth3wg: That is actually not that unreas0nable; the morning and evening are usually peak bandwidth times, and, to ensure that everyone has a decent connection, those that use a lot of bandwidth usually get their's reduced. If you are torrenting, I would suggest using uTorrent, as it has a scheduler that allows…

@Mellifluous Murmurs: That's too bad. I'm on the West Coast, on a 3Mbps connection with Telus, and can always saturate my bandwidth. The only problem is the 60GB cap, which is far too easy to go over with 4 people in the house who spend a lot of time online.

Firefox + security addons (NoScript + Certificate Patrol + Perspectives + PhishTank SiteChecker) makes for foolproof browsing security. (Unfortunately, we all know how 'foolproof' is often an oxymoron...)

@shilo101: Heh Sounds like the name of a B movie villain: "Goozon the Conqueror"

@Howard Blair: They have some good reasons for doing so ( [trac.handbrake.fr] ), but, if you have to have it, you can always use v0.93.

While there are cheap ring lights available, here is the lighting solution that I've ordered parts for.

@MisterStegs: Supercook.com will tell you what you can make with what you have on hand.

How about this for a storyline:

I had a buddy that built a cheap computer desk out of a hollow-core door and two short filing cabinets. His secret to keeping his cables tidy was to hammer loose the wooden spacer strips on the knob side, slide them inside about a foot, then glue them into place. Cables were slide down through the doorknob hole,…

@Homerjay has ABSA Fever: Exactly. Anything that can be done to make parenting more easier and effective is a good thing in my book.

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but you don't need any add-ons to right-click on Firefox's menus, select 'Customise...', and move all of the navigation icons and text boxes up to the right of the menus, then right-click again and uncheck the menu bar. In less than sixty seconds, you can have nothing but…

@bigmil87: That's true. I read a report last year that talked about the intense preparations that the Japanese had made, expecting to be invaded. Even though the eventual death toll for the bombings exceeded a quarter of a million people, the total casualties from invasion were estimated to be two or even three…

I saw a version of this in a van, where the 4 racks (for 3 shallow and 1 deep tubs, set at right angles to the racks) were on sliders that fully extended out the rear doors, thus allowing easy access to everything the owner had. He also had a fold-down workbench at the side doors.

@dexter_greycells: No lameness involved. I agree that the package manager pretty much defines the word 'lean'. A 'sexy' online catalog with pictures, reviews, etc., that generated the script I spoke of for the actual installation would certainly make it less confusing for many people.

@nerdwa: Actually, it is a mixtures of sodium percarbonate and sodium carbonate. When dissolved in hot water (cold/warm won't work), it breaks down and releases oxygen.

@Elixer022: Also, a preposition really isn't such a terrible thing to end a sentence with. :P

@DeadlyDad: d