I understand how ridiculously slow this would be, but I would LOVE to get any OS on a USB stick that ran as a virtual machine. So like, if I could go to a friend's place, slap my USB drive in, and then work off my own programs, web browser, email, files, etc., and then take it out when I'm done, all without restarting…

I love del.icio.us but I've never done anything social with it.

Can someone please work on syncing the iPhone with MS Exchange? Like, a way that doesn't involve some wacky dance with Yahoo servers?

This is bad news for us, since our Web VPN client doens't work with IE7.

I know this isn't what the article is necessarily about, but I used to use pseudonumerology to memorize long numbers. It takes a bit of effort, though, and after awhile I realized writing it down was actually just easier (especially if you have a pda).

Watch out with this - the timestamping gets a bit dicey, as Annie noted.

@daddydave:

I stopped using Ubuntu because I couldn't get it to recognize my nvidia card as an nvidia card. I couldn't use any programs that did 3D, like Google Earth.

Sleep earlier.

@sebf: Pressing cancel cancels the entire operation. If you have more files left that you need to copy when you hit the file that prompts you and hit cancel, you won't get to copy the rest of those files.

I love gsheet, but they really need a helpful pop-up window to remind you how to fill out a formula, like in excel.

@Southern: Ha, I think it's just you. It's working fine for me.

For a similarly sized audience, "How to make a Laptop sleeve using $100 bills you have lying around the house along using transparent duct tape and Action Comics Issue 1."

I can heartily recommend VMWare; it works great on my Ubuntu setup.

@holymogwai: Totally agree.

I have done a variation of this procedure for a long time as a shortcut for certain html files, and it never occured to me to use it for batch files. This is awesome!

After I started using [meebo.com] I stopped using chat client software. It doesn't have all the bells, but it does what I need it to do and goes across different networks.

The best cord management solution I have ever used was actually featured in lifehacker a couple years ago:

I didn't even know about CTRL + L; I've been using ALT + D. Curiously, I think they do the same thing...

As if to punish me for my insolence, [jot.com] and [jotspot.com] are giving me Network Solutions splash pages.