Is it me, or is all of this unnecessary? My employer (IBM) provides me with a laptop. They require that we have a power-on password and a hard drive password. I know the power-on password can not be retrieved or reset if forgotten. Even when we made the laptops ourselves, if we returned a laptop with a power-on…

I paid off a lot of debt. A LOT of debut. The problem I have with withholdings and the interest free loan thing is that I get bonuses during the year. They take half of the bonus money in taxes, and then tax the income at the normal rate. Plus, I travel to various places for work, and end up paying state taxes in…

@taber: Only problem with this suggestion is that the first step to dying eggs is to hard boil them.

Two words for you. Deviled Eggs. They are a must for Easter and post Easter snacking!

I wasn't a big coaster person until my wife pointed out the errors of my ways. Now I have to point out the errors of these coasters. The liquid that drips down the side of your glass that these coasters are supposed to stop from getting to the table will go down the side of the glass, under the bottom of it, and…

I just setup a filter for my kids this weekend. While I am active in their surfing, I don't want to sit over their sholders every second they are on line, and filtering gives me peace of mind.

Believe it or not, there is a correct answer to the over or under debate. In the hotel industry, the standard is OVER. The proper way to put tp on the wall is OVER.

My wife wanted to make one wall of our kitchen a giant magnetic board, so I looked up sheet metal in the phone book. I bought a huge (6 foot by 4 foot) piece of sheet metal, which they cut to my dimentions within an 1/8 of an inch. I then cleaned it (I don't remember what I used, but some Home Depot person told me),…

Ripping a CD to MP3 provides an opportunity to listen to the music in two places by two people at one time. That's probably the rational that the RIAA gives for it being "illegal". I'm sure the real reason is that they want you to buy a second copy.

Tops to Pepsi/Coke bottles. They slide a little on a smooth surface, but if you drink as much soda/pop as I do, they are all over the place.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought that FreeBSD was NOT Linux. Linux was based on Minix, and FreeBSD was based on BSD.

@lancefisher: It comes up as

@Katana:

@haba: I posted a link to that video on the instructable site! Great minds think alike! :)

What do you say, Adam?

Some airports (the smaller ones) are kind and will try to unwrap your gifts in a way that a little tape will repair. I saw this in Bloomington, IL last year. Others (the big ones) just unwrap it by ripping and tossing the paper. ALL GIFTS GET UNWRAPPED no matter what airport you go to. Definately don't wrap your…

My mom would use the comics when she didn't have anything else. It was cop out paper, but it brings back memories.

I use five or six Yahoo! widgets depending on the season:

@Mr. Purple: Unlimited soda? You fly first/business class, right? I travel just about every week for work, and I have a hard time getting a full can of soda from some flight attendents, let alone a refill. Usually I get the full can without a problem, but sometimes I have to ask twice.

I would put DEBT FREE on my cell phone, but I don't show it to often to my debtors, so I don't think it will help.