@zipeater: Yes I can recover in mere minutes if I really needed too. Granted were talking about my music collection and backups of my /home folder here, not government level sensitive data.

@benfreefly: Your last words sum it up exactly. It sounds as though you have found your perfect solution for you. Some people, however, would rather save that 50 bucks (or however cheap a cheap harmony is) for food/gas/bills/other fun stuff. They do fine with their system of iphone remote and see no reason to change.

@benfreefly: It warrants a story because some people do not wish to spend the extra money on purchasing a harmony remote. Also, most people have their phone with them, so why bother getting yet another remote?

@vogonpoet: Which you can do from youtube or pandora or last.fm or any other site that streams audio.

@nicepants: Or paying an extra 20 bucks a month for the privilege of tethering your iPad.

@drezha: I was wondering the same myself. Aren't many of these boxes pretty much pressure fitted? Won't bending them to get them to fit back together ruin that strength?

Does anyone know how to check and make sure this hasn't already happened? My gf looked at a pdf the other day (I think it's legit, but she's worried...).

@Wabbited: It's still cloud. However, if you read carefully, that's not what I do. I physically move the hard drive over to another location and switch it out to keep things up to date.

@Jerkface: I have a sneaky sneaking suspicion you may be on to something.

@Wabbited: I think zipeater is suggesting all those things could kill your data, not that you won't be able to access them during those times.

@Nate Hudson: I've found it horrible to use. It's slow, buggy, the music is disorganized mess, and it seemed geared to crappy pop music when I tried it.

@TadGhostal: Overdramatic much? This article will not bring down Usenet. Also, it's SNEAKING suspicion.

@lmaonade: Gotta love Smash Mouth...

@kidou343: Id definitely say go with Ubuntu Netbook Remix, it makes life easier than trying a distro made for a bigger screen. I had Linux Mint on an eeepc for a while, but it wasn't the smoothest experience. I eventually went with Crunchbang, but that may be scary since it's not the most user friendly.

@Archnemesis_Goldenhair: Oh well thats good then.

@Archnemesis_Goldenhair: That could be a code, I don't know it depends on the mobo.

@Xerol: When I started out I was dying to get into the command line, but I didn't know where to start. I ended up learning the basic commands to get around in the terminal (cd, ls, rm, mv, cp, etc...). That gave me a good start and then after that anytime I wanted to do something I'd check and see if you could do it…

@Archnemesis_Goldenhair: The beeps are telling you something. Look up your motherboard and see if you can find beep codes for it. Then boot up while listening intently to the beeps. They correspond to something, especially if not booting. They will be corresponding to an error code.

@Prairie Moon: I know you are right on track with this thought, however, three computers being constantly on in front of me makes it difficult. And if I turn them off there are too many other clues (people going and coming from lunch, meetings, etc...).

@wickedcupofjoe: I may be wrong on this, but I believe you need to plug everything into the surround sound system and then plug that into the tv. By plugging everything into the tv I would think that it hits the tv so the sound goes out of that. I don't think it can bypass the tv like you are looking for in your…