I'm interested in the folks who frequent LH and are also academic researchers. That's a sub-community who I think could really learn alot from each other. So, folks, what are your best research tips?

@Bubarubu: Quite a few. A nesting group/tag architecture that is easily worked with and manipulated (manual re-ordering, etc). A nicer UI in general. Making bibliographies from selected refs. It's in serious need of a scripting interface, though doubt that's available in zotero either. But in general, it is just…

@Bubarubu: Endnote is a real POS. I still use it though, cause I don't want to be tied to FF all the time, and Endnote is a standalone app. But other than that, Zotero kicks endnote's ass.

uh, hmm: "without starving themselves after exercise or losing weight". Wait, what?? WITHOUT losing weight?? LH, please either quote correctly, or read the article, or post important caveats before posting!

@Jason: I once saw a 530 dismember a lintball before devouring it.

woot-offs: used to get excited, now i think they're just lame. Who needs more disney cameras and roombas?

@allinthefamily: *can* be a viable option - for those who don't need it. It's only viable for me sometimes. I'm still waiting for the internet-discipline killer app. LH has posted a number of little kludges, but none of them are really there yet imho.

@Z Naught: gmail has a javascript-based (i think) offline client that I hear is pretty good.

@websyndicate: TB has that ability too, though it's less than ideal. I use Google Desktop to do full-text searches of my email. It indexes TB just fine.

A few years ago, I gave my brother a green laser pointer for christmas. I gave it to him, and then I said, "hey, and check this out - I'll tweak it so you can burn through plastic!" I opened it up, cranked the pot, and lo and behold: i fried my brother's xmas gift in no time at all. dooh. :-(

@Mike-RaWare: uh, no, it doesn't. lordy. E=hv. Regardless, that's not what makes green lasers more powerful than red ones.

@wjglenn: does WS2008r2 have that control panel as well?

@Bill Clark: noone's shooting anyone down here - happy to get any and all suggestions! thanks for your input.

@TheFu: thanks for the thoughts. I've been running a redhat 7.2 server for years now (obviously, it being 7.2 ;-). So, learning linux isn't a problem. Just a matter of finding small, convenient hardware that a friend wouldn't mind piggybacking on his DSL.

@everyone: good tips, thanks. i like the idea of an atom-based nettop with esata. i'll search around.

@Buster Friendly: yeah, perhaps overkill, but i have it via msdnaa free.

What are you using for your homeserver? I'm looking for something small, quiet, low-power and at least minimally expandable. Doesn't have to rock the house in terms of speed or power. Will just be serving web, ftp, etc. I'm looking to use Linux or Windows Server 2008 (probably the former).

@Whitson Gordon: Thanks Whitson, that's probably how i'll have to go. Either that, or claim that I'm a non-profit, use *their* IMAP migration tools, and then hopefully get kicked down to standard edition once they figure out I'm not 501(c)(3).

you can wax it with car wax to keep it from rusting in humid environments.

Does migrating gmail via POP3 bring the tags along with the messages? I want to migrate from gmail to google apps standard edition. They don't make it easy.