Looks like paying a pro to run Cat5 would be cheaper than these things all over the house.

Better yet try :200 it works from anywhere in the file.

Seriously coondoggie, that's not how it works. This is an IR detector. Speed of light limitations, not to mention power requirements for umping enough IR into the sky to see any reflections, I mean... wow.

What company sells full cartridges as replacements ?

Unison from UPenn http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Works on all the platforms you mentioned... It can synchronize 2 disparate directory trees (you made updates to files A, B, C on one system and D, E, F on another system and want to merge them) and when it can't figure out what to do it asks you.

Since psychoacoustic is explicitly mentioned in regard to audio compression tech (like MP3) I think he just invented a term for "I ripped it to MP3"

Well, it's a windows app and it's not open source... BUT!

It's free as in beer and damned easy to setup/use: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_TFTP_server.aspx

fat32 works well enough for storing tarballs should I need to go Linux->Linux with permissions and all that. Most of the time though the UID/GID clashing isn't worth going so far as a tarball unless I need permissions preserved. I rarely transfer mixed permissions files, it's usually some form of document or media so again... fat32.

I'd use a loopback ext3 if I really needed to not use tar for some weird reason.

So because investment banks have a craptacular business plan and fail miserably after they saturate the market with impossible financial instruments their use of Linux to get the job done isn't a recommendation?

Linux didn't screw up their business, their business plan (which probably never mentioned Linux) is what screwed them.

Bill Nye, my kids have the theme song memorized.

Sid the Science Kid. Not bad really, drives the whole "it's not magic, figure it out!" thing.

And just to throw in some non-TV things:

Lego for the fine motor skills and figuring out how to make something cool

Find a sport your kid is into. I can't stand baseball and I like soccer (playing at least), I don't know if it's genetic or what, but my son is much the same. Sports are cool because of things like gravity and all his friends.

No need to wait... considering it has already been months since 7.2 came out... like... 6 months ago.

What is .027% of 2**128

Here's a neat (and understandable) place to find out just how stupid it is to say that "only X%" if IPv6 is assigned: http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPv6AddressSizeandAddressSpace-2.htm

IPv6 is HUGE. I didn't even understand how huge until I found out I can get an address for every friggin cell in my body.

Weeeee!