This is a recommended mod' for those with an SSD anyway - prevents repeated read/write cycles to the SSD if you do a lot of browsing.

@freedomweasel: Thanks, very useful information. I guess then I

A question about micro-four-thirds and other camera formats...

Quick question - I have a non-Intel SSD (an mTron Mobi, from

CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSE AND EFFECT!

@flinx1: The original British Telecom phone cards used to write the used units to a specific place on the card, but the imprint head would leave a little dent on the card. Several people figured out that you could take a used phone card, glue a piece of blank audio tape over that area, and get a whole brand new phone…

@A.Nonymous: Whether you can boot from a USB drive is pretty much dependent on your Bios. If your Bios is up to the task, there are various tools out there on the web that will let you install Win7 on a USB external drive. Most of them involve a utility from HP to put the right files on the USB drive so that the…

@Gotlactose: Good job you didn't post this 2 weeks ago - laboratory animal liberation week. PETA and other people get all kinds of funny ideas when they read about (what you might consider to be) perfectly OK experiments. Better hope nothing else in your profile gives away personal information - there are a lot of…

Funny that the original author is a post-doc' - that was my dream job... none of the pressures of graduate school, no thesis to write, no exams, no teaching, no grants to write, just lots of lovely research to go in any direction you think is cool. Post-doc'ing is the golden years - it all ends when you make the leap…

As someone who was almost expelled from high school in the '80s for doing exactly this (bugging a staff meeting that was in the school library), all I can say is be careful with the information you acquire! There's nothing worse than gleaning a great bit of info' and then letting it slip in casual conversation and…

Once this is doable in a single .iso and easy install (A La Ubuntu Netbook Remix) then I might give it a try. For now, it just sounds a bit too complicated, especially for a laptop.

@Terry: Or a box of kleenex in the other hand.

Seems like a very expensive use for a bike wheel IMHO. Sure, if you have taco'd rim in the garage, go for it, but then if you're doing the kind of riding that results in taco'd rims, you probably don't need mudguards.

Given the predicted 70F weather tomorrow in NY state, I'm glad we didn't carve our pumpkins this past weekend! Might give the bleach a try when we carve them this coming weekend.

@Tsylord: DPreview is a great site that can probably give you more information than you need about this. IIRC they recently had a "shoot-out" on digital P&S machines.

"I have 2 leather recliners... which allow me to confer with my wife or clients in a totally relaxed manner"

We have an old HP PSC1315 that does this. I could never figure out why it was burning through ink, then realized it was firing up every morning (it was on the same timed-powerstrip as our wireless router) and cleaning the cartridges. At $50 for a pair of cartridges, it gets expensive real fast (considering the…

@Coaster-COG: Actually the canon selphy photo printers do a pretty good job, and they use a roller-film type cartridge that doesn't dry out. The supplies are moderately expensive (about 30c per print for paper plus ink), but useful to have around when grandma comes over and wants a print photo of the kids. For us,…

I find it hard to understand how anyone can regard time spent watching television as "invested". Wasted maybe, but not invested unless you're watching overnight educational shows like the UK's Open University.

Something that is always "fun", when some online store screws with you, is to pull the domain from WhoIs, do a bit more googling (to find real name, address, aliases etc.), and then send the proprietor a satellite image of their home (or, more often than not, their parent's home from which a business is being run in…