I'll only download it if one of the 7 habits of highly effective people is listening to this book. Otherwise I'm wasting my time right?

My rule of thumb is: Your car should cost you $2000 per year, no more. Whether it's new or used.

@BBanzai: Let's do the math, you paid $30,000 for a car that you drove 6 years. It's worth a down payment, maybe more. I take that to mean a few thousand dollars.

@ustice: Been doing this for years, always works for me. I actually use a filing cabinet, but I use the drawers like a big box. At the end of the year, it goes into a cardboard box in the closet, the one ion the closet from last year, that one goes to the attic.

@van_line: I agree 100%. I was told by one of my former bosses that THE top criteria for hiring someone was recommendations, everything else, like schooling, was secondary.

According to that site next year we can party like it's 1999.

I'm all for DIY but I bought my speaker mounts at Walmart. They were about $4 each, hardly worth spending time building.

@AdineElatus: Correct. Technically IDE and "PATA" and ATA are all the same thing. SATA extends the ATAPI (AHCI) but it's a super set and can operate using a traditional IDE driver.

Here's is the pinout for the docking connector with a description of what to do to make the ipod charge:

I personally don't believe this would work as well as say a sheet of paper, because your using transmitted light not reflected light.

I'm pretty confident in my backups. I wrote a script based on an article I read on LH. It was an article on how to emulate the Time Machine functionality under Linux. Since then I've backed-up every peice of data I own every four hours. I've gone back and recovered thing on multiple occasions without a problem.

The fact that Rick is going right back to his old ways now indicates to me that although it may have been a placid life, it wasn't any fun.

@jamesf3i: The amount of incessant babble in your post painfully illustrates your need for human interaction.

@wickedcupofjoe: Perhaps the lesson here is DON'T open the box before you toss it! :)

I use Vista daily (as well as XP, Debian and Ubuntu) and I have no problems with it.

I spend 4 hours re-installing windows for the in-laws on my vacation.

@arungupta: Bearshare? Try putty.

@bbinder: There's no way for a sys-admin to block access to gmail and websites short of shutting off all web access.

I'm confused, why is using the same password for every site less secure than using KeePass to store all your passwords?

One of my favorites: