@gpzbc: In the northeast, maple is about as good as it gets for firewood. The stuff grows so fast and everyone has nuisance maple trees in their yard, so the price is usually cheap. Not as good as other hardwoods, but better than pine. Well aged, it burns great. #heathacks
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@BenjaminLange: My vote would be to forego the expensive laptop (which might not exactly be suited for advanced networking tasks), and get a desktop and a netbook. You can hack the hell out of a desktop in ways you can't imagine on a laptop. Add more drives, set up dedicated servers etc. Then just keep the netbook…
@D0rk: I would say just keep doing what you're doing, but more of it. i.e., put it away and forget about it. People who worry too much about their investments not performing well enough are the ones who end up moving all their 401k into a Ponzi scheme and then losing it all. If you must expose yourself to higher…
@ericesque: no need. AVG scan on an SSD is v. fast. #antivirus
Some folks here found that it deleted a bunch of non-virus stuff. The GUI in general is a bit sparse, and so very difficult to know what its actually doing, buzzing away in the background. I got rid of it after I migrated to Win7 and the betas didn't work. Went back to AVG free. #antivirus
Another way around cable clutter, especially for laptops and other portable electronics, is to just shorten the cord length. You almost never need the entire cable length they provide. I always keep a stock of black heat-shrink tubing handy for such things (you can buy it at radiocack). #repair
Is anyone else like me, not really looking forward to the "holiday season"? One of the things I used to like about the US (as opposed to the UK where I grew up) is that everyone doesn't go crazy about Christmas, gift buying etc., until after the Thanksgiving break. However, reading the threads here, it's clear a lot…
Should have built-in (automatic) lighting, and google sync, rather than having to download both as separate add-ons.
@orbitbreak: I can't stand liquid soap - it never seems to lather enough, and always washes away before you can get a good coating. Gimme good old fashioned Ivory bar soap any day (and it doesn't smell).
@ShakespeareGeek: How in the name of buggery does anyone get away with charging $8500 for a new furnace? The most expensive models with 15 year warranties are only in the $3-4000 range, so even with installation you're looking at 5k tops. You need to shop around more for quotes if you're being offered 8.5k. #househ…
@ssherchan.g: You can get those chairs at any kind of specialist back-pain store. They were all the rage in the early '90s (before people traded them in for yoga balls). #workspaces
People have been doing this to the back of 3rd generation iPods for years. It looks fine for a while, but still gets smudgy. It also is VERY risky if the sponge slips and takes out the shiny plastic, so make sure to use very good masking tape (proper white masking tape, not the blue tape that comes off easily).
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Thanks! Downloading the file from MS was easy. Getting it to a bootable DVD was not. Even running the .exe and extracting the "boxes" then dragging everything to a DVD, did not work. #upgrade
Depending on how muuch you can handle the humidity, if you have an electric clothes dryer, vent it indoors in the winter. Lots of steamy warm goodness. DO NOT do this if your dryer is gas (doh!) #apartments
The other solution is to use freakin' massive pumpkins, so you can cut a big-ass hole with enough room for your hand/arm to get inside without getting burned #diy
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