oop, sorry, i mean MIPS based, i had jornada on the brain....

go dig up a old sharp mobilon, they're run off a pair of AA batteries from here till doomsday and are ARM based. (you can dump linux on a memory card and install it) AND they have a cardbus slot for expansions. (they're the size of a jornada). I picked one up for $5 at a ham radio swapmeet, makes an awesome mobile web browser/terminal/orinoco based wardriving machine.

My friend owns an ARM9 based netbook (Sorry but I don't remember the model, it's probably around 3-4 years old now, I think it was just called "netbook" actually) and I own a MIPS based netbook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skytone_Alpha-400). The newer skytone netbooks are already ARM based, and have been out for quite a while. My only two beefs with them are the default OS absolutely blows (it's easy to use, hard to modify or install ANYTHING, luckily you pretty much just need copy a tarball of the OS image you want to load onto it on a SD card to get a normal distro.) and the keyboard sucks. (though I've yet to see a netbook with a keyboard that didn't suck). I've seen a couple ARM based netbooks hanging around frys electronics the past few years as well, they're around just not pushed and advertised as hard as the x86 ones, and tend to only appear for a few months out of the year.

I recommend buying one as they become more common, the difference in battery life alone is worth it.

however...nobody here would even notice a 3.4

I'll second this, at home I keep an install of chromium just for slashdot because the new interface doesn't work with the security settings I have in firefox, and even with exceptions in place it's maddeningly slow. C'mon slashdot...you didn't have this problem a year or two ago..

As a Californian who's been to most east coast cities, I'd say new york pizza is actually pretty good, but personally I prefer Chicago style pizza (I hate thin crust, the deeper the better). I could see how a New Yorker could think new york's pizza is the best though...there's nothing else remotely close until you get closer to the midwest.

Hurricane winds? We had a few gusts today but nothing unusual...I'd say it's more likely it was just not strong enough for normal Mojave wind. (Posted from Edwards AFB, about a 3 minute drive from Mojave airport)

Easy, just find a manager that previously worked over programmers.

Adding on to further throw this thread off topic, if you're working with audio you really should be using the real-time preemption model, most distros don't have it turned on by default so you either need to compile your own kernel or find one that does. (i think the pro-audio build for ubuntu has it by default)

Most of the doujin games based off touhou are NOT free, they're sold. Check out himeya shop online, they have a pretty good listing of them and are one of the few companies that buy them up and resell them to US customers.

MythTV back end, MythTV front end for me, the front end is made a world better by disabling the internal player and using custom player scripts set up through the admin interface.

The "Items bought with real money will not provide a combat advantage" is the same thing they said when they first allowed buying items in Ultima Online, and they started selling collectibles and items to lock down in your home. That lasted about 6 months before they started selling ($10-$15 a piece) armor and weapons that are pretty much top tier, equal to items people spent 7+ years getting. Result will probably be the same too, everyone who actually enjoys the game for what it is, and likes competitive gameplay will leave for a different game. Thankfully the game was already completely ruined by EA already at that time thanks to the "new expansion pack is pretty much required to stay competitive" game they'd already played a few times, so no huge loss.