VOTE: Conboy for the N8x0 or N900.

This advice works well for Charter in LA. I buy my cable modem and have been very happy w/ the arrangement. Usually the cable modem you buy is the same as the one they rent to you. But when they are not the same, the one you pay for is almost always better.

rsnapshot: free, runs on everthing.

This looks like a way for refrigerator makers to add a new 'feature' to their product - a vegetable drawer w/ a grow light in it! Really, people should just eat their vegetables. Forget whether they have been under grocery store lights or not.

The current dead-tree book model can probably translate well to e-books. For example, when Anathem came out, I thought nothing of spending $15 for the hardback because I wanted it now. I am willing to pay a premium to get it before everyone else. But I also regularly borrow books from the library and friends; I always…

No lappie currently. But I do heavily use my Nokia N810 as my mobile computer.

I use 64-bit RHEL5 (at work) and 64-bit Kubuntu 9.10 (at home). But only because I can, not because I need to.

I have been a subscriber to LWN since they started subscription. I also subscribe to the electronic version of VeloVision. I think the take-away from this is that I have no problem paying for highly specific content. But for so-called general news, forget it. They have ads to generate revenue. And those ads are…

MythTV w/ commercial detection means that I almost never see a commercial #tv

Drop my paranoia? Are you farking kidding me!?!?!?!?! Intuit has committed several bad gaffs in trying to squeeze more money out of their customers of Turbo Tax and Quicken. As Mint chugged on, I was becoming less paranoid about it. Now, I am going to become even more wedded to apps like gnucash and KMoney. No,…

I would absolutely pay more for better cell reception. The problem is that there is no way to do that today in the US.

PDF is gawdauful for small screens. A slick hack would be to epub/plucker/mobi instead.

microb on the Nokia N810, FTW!

Computex is going on right now. This pick will likely be obsolete by tonight. And I don't see the reason to get any netbook when they come w/ hampered graphics. Once ION gets into these things. Then they might be purchasable. Right now, forget about it.

Vote: Bicycle

I actually have a VoIP line through my DSL and a cellphone. Not a POTS line. There is a distinction there.

Commercial flagging on MythTV anyone?

VOTE: Gimp

The wait is fine, but in the meantime they would be well served by dropping another beta.

@slaughter33: Amen to that. Fry's is notorious for bad motherboards. I personally am 1 for 4 at Fry's. Fortunately for me, newegg is within 30 miles of me. So returns are not a problem. But even if it weren't, I might not choose Fry's for my retail computer parts needs over an on-line retailer.