Tell that to the ~400 Macbook pros I have imaged over the last 9 months with our corporate image. Also, the installer for a Macbook Air is a USB drive.

Ha ha! On hand. I see what you did there.

My parents have had the same number since 1984. I have had the same number since 1998. It isn't hard to keep a number if you don't move around too much. My number is a cell number that has been ported a few times fwiw.

5. Enhance.

I learned Vi (then Vim) and stuck with it. Of course this is coming from a guy that used Mutt as an email client and slrn as a usenet client until recently. YMMV.

@Babylon78: Maybe see if you could get a bonus every year, quarter or month? Work with your manager to increase your pay. Meet a milestone in your work, get a bonus. I have seen a few companies that pay crap for wages, but the bonuses based on work done or projects completed make up for it. Maybe some benefits? I had…

@sammyc53: My garage opener 8 years ago came with a keypad. It is wireless, and has a range of ~50 feet through my house. I have it stashed on the property my house is on. If I need to get my garage door open, I can use that. If I want to allow workers into my garage (to get access to the house or my breaker box) I…

@Bizdady: And the response to the Android, ios, blackberry, wp7 and webos combining forces will ring out. Each of them shouting, "And I'll form the head!"

@vinylkemist: On a Mac Laptop, you have 1 delete key, with Fn to make it delete to the right.

@Yawar Amin: Personally and professionally, I stay the hell away from Filevault. If you turn off your laptop or you have a kernel panic, you may lose your home directory. This has happened a few times in the last 6 months of this job. The fact that we can barely get the users to do a TM backup, let alone have them do…

I was pulling between 750gb and 1.5tb of data a month on my 6mb DSL through AT&T until this month. I moved because of the cap alone. I am now on "Business Class" Time Warner cable internet. It is more expensive counting the 3 year contract and install fee, but the monthly is actually a bit cheaper. It will come out…

No, any idiot cannot pick up a map and read it. Your not very smart if you think they could. If you do not know the concept of a map (you would be surprised, you seem to think everyone is familiar with maps) you will have a hard time figuring one out.

I do not see the network being dropped when I use the ctrl+shift+eject. I just tried it with an SSH connection and a 30 count on a wifi connection.

@Dyte123: Apparently there is also an untethered jailbreak too: [www.redmondpie.com]

@crisss1205: I am going to hazard a guess and say you work in or around the Medical Industry.

@andrew11: 7th.

@djscruffy: This. I wish I could promote your post. Every problem I have had that results in premature failure of hardware has been accredited to power fluctuations. Put them on a UPS, even a cheap $30 one and the next set of hardware is no longer having a problem. The only time it has not been mains power related,…

@AmphetamineCrown: Installing it, yes, using it no. If you can get an admin to allow you access for one "login" or come over and login as himself to get it installed, you can run with Truecrypt portable after that. Now that is true with XP. On Win7, I apparently have to be an admin all the time. At least on this VM I…

Take #8 and #2. Put them together. Put the stuff that needs to remain secure (passwords, browser data etc) in the encrypted side, the stuff you don't care about (moving files from one place to another) on the non-encrypted side. Make a batch script to open truecrypt and pstart or the portable apps "start menu". Use a…

@TheKel: You could jailbreak, and use lockinfo. While not a popup, you get a screen with your new email on it for a lockscreen. You can tap on the emails and they come up in a window.