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Comment Re:Oh, look! (Score 1) 888

$5000 is on the low end for a PPL.

But there is a big difference between getting a certificate, and being a safe pilot.

As you move forward, you'll realize how unsafe you were, and how little you knew.

Also - make sure to get your instrument rating.

Fuel: approx $4.50-$5.50/gal.
Fuel Burn: 7-9GPH @ 110 KIAS

An airplane gets roughly 16 miles/gallon, but you can go most places in a straight line, so its even better than following roads.

Comment Not impressed with Netgear 802.11N (Score 1) 300

I have a WNDR3300 running dd-wrt and an Asus WL-520GU as a print server. I am not impressed with the range of the 5GHz WNDR3300 in N mode. In a room where I receive decent G coverage, I get almost no N coverage. My old router used to reach up to the third floor, but the Netgear fails to do so (hence the Asus as a print server and G repeater).

DD-WRT, however, is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. I remember manually editing IPTABLES back in the day to make my computer be a router, and I never thought I'd see it on something so embedded and cheap.

Comment Re:EMP Testing (Score 1) 884

Using turn signals is a sign of weakness !

I actually think we in the Boston area are better drivers than the rest of the country, mostly because of the idiots we have to deal with on a daily basis here. Sort of like training Olympians, and then going to play the local high school team.

Comment Re:Firefox (Score 0, Troll) 835

No joke, I did this last week, and started using Chrome. Strangely, it works ok.

Firefox - sucks. Their stupid sqllite way they keep bookmarks eats my disk, and their dns lookups keep reverting to ipv6 even though it is disabled.

IE - sucks. The flash plugin just eats memory until it crashes at about 600MB of usage.

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