As someone who gets paid once monthly -- it's not that bad, once you get your budget set up. I get paid on the last day of the month, unless that is a weekend, in which case I get paid the Friday before. I have *most* of my bills set to be due on the 5'th, so I get them all out of the way right up front. I have a few that are due around the 20'th, but since they are stable (IE: they don't change), it's easy to budget around them.

No.. No... It was chickens and cows.

In this scenario, there'd be no shared calendering, no contact management, and no remote web access (and those are just the items in Exchange that *I* use). Who knows what other functionality would be missing if people listened to this advice...

For me, voting Democrat came down to social issues and *where* the Democrats wish to 'spend spend spend' compared to the Republicans...

I have a 4u rack mount case at home (got it from a NewEgg daily deal with a mainboard and a HDD -- sold the mainboard on eBay and paid for the entire bundle). It has 8 5.25" bays. I have WHS2011 with StableBit's DrivePool installed running in that case. It'd be awesome if 4+TB drives were made in a 5.25" form factor so I could stuff a bunch in there and quit messing with these silly 3.5"5.25" adapters. :)

Thanks for your thoughts, Darl. Now, get on home -- adults are talking here...

*CITIZENS* already have the right to engage in political speech, *even if they work for a corporation*. CORPORATE ENTITIES do not need the powers that were granted to them, which is why Citizens United was *wrong*.

Asheron's Call is still up -- 14 years now, if I'm not mistaken...

There are two local telephone providers in my general area (that I know about), though neither serves my town with DSL. The one that also offers fixed wireless (which I *can* get) is twice as expensive for lower bandwidth, AND they have absolutely no issues in passing your information over to media companies wanting to sue you...

Apple needs to realize it's not dealing with just any company here. Google may not have as much cash on hand as Apple currently does, but it is certainly wealthy enough to drag Apple through the courts just as long as Apple wants. The courts will hopefully realize this isn't the first time Apple has been caught using a competitors patented technology, offered a laughably small amount for their unlawful/unlicensed use of said competitors technology (they pulled pretty well the same crap with Samsung in Australia, if I recall correctly) while demanding HUGE sums from those they're suing for use of their technology, and smack their asses into next week for it.

I think Natalie Portman and the Hot Grits had something to do with it...

I don't think the article was meant to mean the approach to audio/video capture they took was "better" than using professional body-pack mics and professional recording gear. I think the point was how such could be accomplished when funds aren't available for the professional gear...

After having watched a bit of the video they linked, I'd say it did rather well.

$425 a month rent for 300sq/ft?! My mortgage is $454 (I pay an extra $40 on top directly toward the principle, so the total payment I make is $494 per month) for a 1080sq/ft house with roughly 1/3 acre of land... Plus, I wouldn't call 1800sq/ft an 'oversized superdwelling' considering the far larger homes available in my area (a town of 17.5k people), though I could see where adding 1500sq/ft to what you're living in now could make that seem absolutely huge... :)

Six or seven years ago, I worked for a small computer repair company that was providing support for a K-12 in a rural area that was using SIS, and they were looking for ways to save a buck. I found OpenSIS, which they liked (much of the interface was apparently very similar to what they were using), but the folks I was working with at the school level couldn't get support from the district level to change over.

There are different versions, depending on what you need. If you don't need some of the advanced features of it, the software shouldn't cost you anything (they charge for support/advanced features).

http://opensis.com/index.php

I'm glad to see, judging by all the "Anonymous Coward" comments, that I'm not the only one who believes that parents that aren't specifically trained to replace the teachers their children would normally encounter in a public/private school *shouldn't* be allowed to home school. You are doing nothing but a HUGE disservice to your child(ren) by keeping them from their peers, sheltered from the world, and away from opinions that are different from yours. We all *NEED* these kinds of interactions in order to better cope with the world when we become adults and move out on our own.

If the parents that do this to their kids use the "schools aren't safe", "schools aren't teaching what I think they should be", or "schools are failing our children" excuses should *get involved* in their local school, and encourage all other parents to do the same. If their schools really are falling behind in some way, it's *THE PARENTS FAULT* for not being involved.

I specifically left out any of the varied religious excuses, as I don't believe they're valid -- religion has zero place in a publicly funded school, and should be reserved exclusively for church and home. If parents want their child to have some schooling with religious content, they need to pay to send them to such a school.

I also don't want to hear any of this "I don't have the time to get involved in (insert public school function) here" excuses. If you don't have the time to raise your kid(s) properly, DON'T HAVE THEM.