About 50 trees, 10 were well over 2' in diameter. This is in red clay, so digging is tough. These stumps will eventually make small sinkholes, right? Burning them out makes that happen quicker.

KeePassX/KeePass is cross platform and has a portable app version.

I wonder if this works to burn old dead stumps?

Freemind [freemind.sourceforge.net] is a cross-platform F/LOSS alternative with installers for Windows, OSX and Linux. Any OS with JRE will run it. It is GPLv2+ licensed.

Convert to KeePassX here. I probably have hundreds of logins and other sensitive pieces of data stored in the encrypted DB. Things like passport photos, insurance account numbers, emergency contacts. A different DB has sensitive work information - routers, switches, hosting providers, DNS, admin passwords, DBMS…

It isn't today's technology that you should fear, it is tomorrows. GPUs are doubling performance every 18 months. What does that do to your password plan?

Yes!

On Ubuntu, don't screw with a working video driver. Latest is often not the best. Also, since video drivers are usually deployed as kernel modules, be certain that the dependencies are properly updated and that the kernel gets relinked for your driver.

Exactly, I say this all the time: there is no substitute for length.

I used to be really nervous about speaking. Then I stopped caring what other people thought and got on with it. Someone in the audience will almost certainly know more about a topic than you. Get of it. 90% of the others don't.

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Or you can use LibreOffice and have basically the same menus that you've used the last 15 yrs - no extra work required and no $300 license.

I was right there with you until the last paragraph. The fact that Microsoft gets paid for most of their software and services means those probably won't be used to gather your habits or personal data. That is a good thing.

Google makes pretty great products. Even I, someone who tries to avoid them as much as possible, makes some use. If you use Android, you use google.

It depends on the Windows license currently installed. Some will not install on different hardware (even virtual).

I had a similar OEM stereo. Had to replace the head unit and the speakers and amp to get an AUX port. Well worth it. It was a BOSS OEM radio/6-CD/cassette head unit.

I hear that RipIt4Me will control DVD-Decrypter and DVD-Shrink to handle complex ripping tasks. OTOH, vobcopy on Linux does wonders too.

OCR isn't good enough to trust. Putting those docs into another program is probably more work than it is worth. OTOH, having a good folder setup for your scanned papers with enough corrected OCR data is probably good enough. gscan2pdf will let you put text "under" the PDF image and automates the OCR parts too. That…

It depends on the Windows license currently installed. Some will not install on different hardware (even virtual). OTOH, I don't think it hurts to try and reinstall that OS into your VM.