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Your fear of "super complicated" tells me you should stay with Windows. You won't be any happier with the end result, but you won't be frustrated with the effort that learning a new OS requires in addition.

A $50 Brother all-in-one should do this with 10-20 at a time, but I have not tried it in that way. I do routinely scan multi-page docs. I've never bought replacement ink for it and everything except printing still works.

It is pretty easy under Linux with APT and rsync.

Which VMware do you speak? There are at least 6 of them (player, server, workstation, ESX, ESXi, Fusion).

For desktop virtualization on Windows, VirtualBox is pretty good and reasonably stable. The paid VMware Workstation is pretty good too, if you need more advanced capabilities or just want to more easily manage test VMs for a wide range of VMs.

How do you feel about private messages on LH?

My Dell laptop has both a VGA and HDMI video out. Plug them into different monitors - whamo - dual screens. I did have to "fiddle" (technical term) with the laptop Fn + monitor button just like we all do before giving presentations.

VOTE: S5 [meyerweb.com]

After your "new customer" period ends at Verizon, you'll be back, unless you are too bundled and cannot.

Or you can run an ARM-based Linux inside a chroot environment on your Android phone and have a full GNU/Linux desktop. [hackomania.com] is one example, but Debian and Ubuntu versions have been produced as well. This photo is from my personal tablet running BT5 on Android in this way.

Renters insurance.

I'm partial to complete blocking.

VNC works fine on the same LAN over a wifi connection. You can run a modified Linux desktop on your tablet today. Here's 1 how-to guide:

This image (if it works) is from my personal tablet running a chroot backtrack5 ARM image.

Is this about the weekly follow us on social networks post on LH?

The local water system in a nearby town is known for really bad billing [www.cnn.com] - like $4000 when a normal bill is $20. Some were having trouble getting the bill corrected for over 6 months. There are many homeowners who have had their bank accounts completely drained over crap like that. The problem started a…

I automated savings and investments for many, many years. Pay yourself first really does work. This is the most powerful thing that I ever automated in my life WITHOUT A DOUBT.

Thanks.

How will/do you deal with 1080i or 1080p video?