try Linux Mint XFCE...you like commandline, rolling-release Linux distros are great. cool that Linux Mint steps away from Ubuntu Canonical and bases some distros on Debian instead. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1725 cheers!

hiya Albanach, no kidding! liekwise I had a really old hot waterpot that had a break-away magnetic powercord. it is like Apple is trying to patent a paperclip for use on things other than paper...or someone sayin."No way dude, you can't unbend a paperclip to use for unjamming a disc drive, that was my idea!" Apple already dominates a big piece of the pie, yet it is using schoolyard bully tactics...next they will claim the letter "i" and sue the poor muppets on Sesame Street! Apple thinks it invented the touchscreen, when it is actually really old technology...I'm never ever going to pay a premium to use a product of such a childish company. I will choose somethin such as Asus Transformer over Ipad2 any day. Apple, fuggem. cheers!

legalize it, tax it fools. some people bet the farm on all manner of Wallstreet investments, get into highly leveraged trading, foreign exchange, etc. likewise online poker should be legal, horse racing is, so why not sportsbetting? people do office pools regardless. anyway, if people wanted to use online casinos, who cares? joints like this honor state lottery numbers drawings. http://betslips.com/gameinfo_pick3.aspx http://5dimes.com/lr_payouts.html so someone wants to play pocket change online, big deal! people lose heaps more on bad Wallstreet gambles. cheers!

IBM was the Borg of the personal computer revolution, setting the stage for the PC clone wars as computer manufacturing skyrocketed. without IBM, no internet would have exploded information through our minds...and most people would not be able to afford a computer outside of Apple. cheers!

The whole point of Firefox is customization. Do not force whimsical changes. View, Toolbars, Customize, knock yourselves out. All I have is the Menu line with controls & URL Bar, and below the Tab line...illustrated by my funky example: http://crazynuts.hollosite.com/grfx/Firefox_Custom_Toolbars.png cheers!

One of the biggest mistakes of the computer industry was to BORG monitors to conform with movie industry 16:9 instead of the pleasing 4:3 screen ratio. I wish there was a widescreen with resolution which worked out to ???? X 1280, so I could simply rotate the video for a nice full page display. cheers!

A great big capital F-U to the a-holes "representing" us in the flusterclucked US government. Land of the free, home of the brave...meanwhile people I know in Asia, Europe, Canada have been laughing at Americans since 2006, partly because we were denied the right to gamble online. I am sick of the US government and their silly schoolyard babysitting rules...oh it is ok to bet the farm on Wallstreet, heavily leveraged trades on things such as foreign exchange currencies, and Unkle Skam pushed bad mortgages...but I can not bet a few bucks online in a friendly cardgame, pick3 lottery, etc. buncha a-holes are at the puppet-master strings. cheers!

Oracle should have immediately addressed the opensource community after taking over Sun/Java/Openoffice and all. Instead Oracle alienated, so a great big capital F-U Oracle! I use Gnumeric anyway, but it is fkn fantastic that LibreOffice rose from the ashes for those who need an office suite.

Linux on mobile phones is fake, Android is the Google Monster, not open especially with the god damn mobile providers in the mix. I had hopes for Intel+Nokia with MeeGo, damn shame Nokia kneeled to Microsoft. Microsoft & computer manufacturers dominate...worthless trialware nagscreens are almost as bad as salespeople in places such as BestBuy, where they try to up-sell you crap every 15feet, and their special extended warranty bullsheet.

online retailers actively push ebooks, offering special sales to entice, so they do not have to muck around with shipping. also, I heard many ebook devices can be purchased pre-loaded with a default bundle of ebooks...whether the buyer really wants them all or not...and that bumps up the "ebooks sold" tally. ebooks are the future? man Hitler would have loved ebooks...Third Reich would have had it easy, Nazis would not have had to get off their butts to burn ebooks...an electro-magnetic pulse would have burned all ebooks, effortlessly. these days if there is ever an EMP, the masses will be left with hordes of religious books to flip through yay. all the good how-to stuff would be gone...better hope people actually know their skills enough to write all the knowledge down again...dunno if people in power would let knowledge trickle back down. ifya truly care about somethin, I say have a hardcopy. cheers!

IXquick/StartPage don't use tracking nonsense. http://ixquick.com/ http://startpage.com/ cheers!

hiya Armon,

yup rubbing alcohol works great, although usually vodka is more readily available :)

I wipe down workstations regularly...I hate it when keyboards build up oils from everyone's grubby paws!