@icecreamman: I've broiled my meatloaf burgers for a long time, and don't have TOO much cleanup if I line the pan AND the top grill. Just cut holes in the top sheet to let the grease drip down into the lower pan.

@UnMicD: Sure you don't. I call sour grapes!

@allyzay: I've met a few entrepreneurs, and they ALL acted like that. Robert Heinlein put it,"If you're hunting tigers, you need to know how they eat, sleep, poop, act... EVERYTHING. Else you're just taking a walk in the woods."

@thinkerer: Not really. The high level processes of the OS shouldn't be interacting with the hard drive at that low a level, I would think. And even if it does, all it would take is a driver install, and then XP will handle the new sector size just fine.

@caseyatherton: There was a project in Mother Earth News, several years ago, for building a "Japanese plunge tub". It was a deep plywood box, designed to sit in your tub, screwed together with a hole cut in the bottom for a rubber stopper, and painted with latex pool paint to water-proof it. You adjusted the…

@winshape: "Information Harvesting", or "Knowledge Distillation"?

@rewind: I thought she stated "healthy"? Ramen = fail. I don't know how my teenagers eat that stuff every day.

@Xagest: It is a very weak point of failure, also. I no longer use windows at home, but the registry never really seemed like a "good" database, with permissions and error checking. It was more like a db written by someone not familiar with good db design practices.

@hewhoroams: I've been using WorkRave (freeware) as a break timer to get up and stretch during the day. It helps me keep from feeling cramped up and dead by the end of the day. The countdown timer will reset after a couple of minutes of inactivity, so to get a break you have to stay busy! My boss likes the increased…

I've done a few projects (AAS in electronics, and training in manual and CNC machining, and woodworking). I'm currently building another PC for my sister, working on a foam-cutting CNC mill for casting aluminum, and working on plans for our next house (net-zero).

Hmm, this "sounds" doable, but few people (in the USofA) seem to have this kind of self-discipline. I chopped up my cards years ago and went to using a debit card after a looong layoff and losing everything, and doing the career-change shuffle. It's almost a decade later, and I've almost recovered credit-wise, but…

@Sand Man: Email replacement IS one of the design goals. There really isn't anything revolutionary about Wave, as you pointed out.

@Tony Bullard: It's true. It's based on the Openfire XMMP jabber server. The OSS IM protocol is perfect for their needs. It also takes care of the "Federation" (server-server) communication requirements.

@BlueToast: Ever been put on a losing team at the last minute just to be the sacrificial goat? It tends to make you bitter and cynical.

@jupiterthunder: That's nice in the abtract, but when you've been shackled to Rodney D. Moron against your will, and nothing you can do will salvage the project, you're just going to stand there and get labelled a loser? You've been set up so you can't win, and you just take it like a punk?

Mark both ends with the same color tape or combination of colors. Electronics techs use this method for running cables throughout installations. Good for cat 5, audio, Video, power, HDMI, etc...

I use a Dvorak keyboard layout, and made my own from a $10 cheapy by rearranging the keys. To mark my home key locations I used a drop of superglue to locate the placement for my index fingers. I've also used this method to make a braille keyboard for using in a dark room.

@djnrempel: I think it's because of the rapid development of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and all the other desktop oriented distros. We're just one more step along to "winning", I guess.

@Bill Clark: Mr. Clark, you make an excellent troll. I congratulate you, sir!

@Kymeira: We still get BSOD on our Gateway laptops @ work (came with Vista pre-loaded). The "Expert Trainer" had just made a statement about the stability of Vista, when not 30 seconds later 2 of us crashed just running Notepad! Priceless!