address bar -> about:config

find the: browser.newtabpage.enabled setting and set it to false

It will grant you the nice clean, fast white page for new tabs.

Why there's not a checkbox somewhere for it ... I have no idea.

As others have mentioned, I would as your local power company, our local provider (Duke Energy) offers something called StrikeStop (http://www.duke-energy.com/strikestop/) which offers whole-house protection (and they install it on the power meter, which is a nice bonus) at ~160$ installed it was a no-brainer decision for me considering it offers insurance along with it.

Speculating here ... since the only people that can have unlimited are the ones that have been grandfathered into it, and that was over two years ago (I think) my guess is that everyone in that group is now legally in the clear to pack up their stuff and walk to the exit whenever they want to.

I hope that this service is backwards compatible with their existing Kindle devices, making it Amazon Tablet (aPad?) only is going to anger their existing customer base...

Yeah, I missed the low UID boat by a mile because I didn't want another password to remember back then :)

These are not the only batteries that have firmware as well, Google "Pandora Battery PSP" it was one of the original ways to un-brick a Sony PSP back in the day :)

Invite sent

What I ended up doing is this:

First quit firefox

Next (depending on platform) find your Mozilla preferences folder, next find the {3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c} folder (google toolbar)

Inside there should be a install.rdf file, open with your text editor of choice.

Change
<em:minVersion>2.0</em:minVersion>
                <em:maxVersion>4.0.*</em:maxVersion>

to:
<em:minVersion>2.0</em:minVersion>
                <em:maxVersion>9.0.*</em:maxVersion>

Restart firefox, and re-enable your google toolbar.

Note: this only works if you upgraded to 5.0 with the toolbar already installed, if its not already installed (and disabled) this wont work. I think 9.0 should keep me safe for at least 2 more months of firefox updates! :)

There are several different options (all enforceable from the BES server, some are end user selectable depending on applied device policy)

These range from (in level of paranoia)

Simple password (device backups are in plain text)
Wipe after n-number of failed passwords (default 10 tries)
Encrypt device (requires the above two options, and requires password on powerup and USB connection / file access mode)
Wipe on power loss. (the "I hate my helpdesk staff" option!) you pull the battery, or let the charge go to zero ... the device will wipe on power up
Wipe on n-number of hours with no communication with BES server (another option with limited appeal, but useful in some cases I guess)

And of course the ever popular remote Nuke option from the BES :)

Exactly why I'm one of the (apparently few) who picked "tape" I'm still running LTO3 but get about 750gb on a tape, I have 14tb of media that's backed up every 6 months, and ~1tb that's "active" and gets a weekly backup (vmdk file exports from the servers, etc) the weekly backups are on a rotation, and the "full" 14tb backups have 3 sets of tapes, one of which sits in a safe deposit box at the bank across town.

I used to use removable hard drives for backups but then two things happened, I found out the hard way that older drives sometimes don't spin back up after 2 years of sitting on the shelf, and my data set just got two big for even 1.5tb drives.

Without PS3 or AppleTV support I doubt I'll be making much use of this service (speaking as both an existing Prime member and a Netflix member)

It looks like some of the formatting problems with the CSS and replying to threads have been squashed, however it seems to be utterly broken on my Blackberry's built in browser, doesn't seem to scale down width-wise very well.

At least with Blackberry devices, I can configure my users devices to wipe when:

Contact with the server has been lost for n hours
Battery level drops to 5%
Battery has been removed
Unlock password has be tried n times

along with several other options, there is a reason that these devices have been issued to Government agencies for years :) they can be locked down, and fully encrypted.

So simply removing the device from the network is not good enough.

As for my users, the devices have minatory passwords and locking options, and the device will happily self-wipe after 10 incorrect password guesses.

Its always a little sad to me that in this day and age, a neat idea can't happen not because of a technical reason, but because of a licensing / legal problem.

Not sure which distro's this is turned on by default on, but you'll have to echo a 1 to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq before you can try this out :)

alt + sysrq + o is 'Off' for most laptops
+h should give you help options as well.