Which would be great if they actually provided a decent user experience. I use MacPorts to install small things like MacFUSE and wget but to install full applications is a chore if it even works. I tried using it to install the GIMP a couple years ago which failed after a few hours of compilation.

I switched to Mac for the user experience. I am a seasoned developer who is plenty comfortable using a terminal to get around but I don't want to do it to install day to day apps. MacPorts certainly isn't on the list of things I use to brag about my Mac.

Ubuntu provides a fantastic user experience with the Add/Remove Software (or whatever they call it now). You don't even need to do anything special to install DEB packages. Download, double-click to install. gdebi talks to APT, installs any dependencies if required and done.

Apple also provides a fantastic way to install apps. Download, drag to Applications folder, done. Having the Mac App store to do this in a central way would be great in theory but it isn't open enough for me.

If someone created an Ubuntu-like "App Store" for the Mac based on MacPorts or Fink but with pre-compiled packages it would be incredible. I've heard rumours of Cydia coming to the Mac, this might be just the thing I'm talking about.

The difference is that package managers like apt, yum, etc let you specify your own sources. Apple's App Stores do not allow this. Without jailbreaking, the iOS devices can only get apps from Apple.

If I install Ubuntu and want to get the latest and greatest from vendor X they can just give me an installer which adds themselves to my apt sources. I think Adobe does this, but it's been a few years since I've used Linux and my primary desktop.

I've been primarily an Apple user, but if Mac ever goes closed like iOS does I'll be back on Linux in a split second.

Great suggestion! Have you ever tried it? A colleague and I were looking at Smokescreen and some other similar projects when we wanted to an old page with some Flash for a client working on the iPad.

Smokescreen looks fantastic in their demos, but they don't make it available for download anywhere and the last update to their site was nearly a year ago. This was a post "weeks" before they get the source code out. Hopefully eventually it is out eventually because it seems like a great project.

By grabbing the JS source we did try to demo it with a few pages and it croaked. It might be that our SWF files were poorly coded, we didn't create them. I suspect this might be a case similar to IE rendering bad code correctly while other browsers croak.

The other major problem is that this kind of solution needs to be implemented by the web author. I can't "install" this on my iPad and hope all Flash content magically works.

Another script we tried was called Gordon (src: https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/wiki/). Unfortunately this only works with Flash v1/v2 SWF files.

Both Gordon and Smokescreen render SWF files in the browser which is great if this is all you have. I certainly imagine this Adobe one that compiles some HTML5 code from the Flash source file works better.

Except that Tomato has a very limited range of devices it will run on :( Sadly my WRT320N is not among the supported devices.
DD-WRT's compatibility list is huge. Lucky for me, because I love it. Despite all the love I hear for Tomato I have never actually used it and don't know what I'm missing. Ignorance is bliss.

Not to mention the ISPs would very quickly exhaust their supply if IP addresses if customers weren't allowed to use NAT. It's the only reason we've lasted this long.

You're kidding, right?

I'm pretty sure the reason it's called C-sharp is in reference to the sharp symbol used in music.

The custom server (last I checked) only works in Firefox, and I lose the convenience of being able to access my bookmarks online. I use Xmarks to sync across browsers primarily.

If there are any cross-browser solutions for this I'd be happy to hear about it, even without the online access. Since Xmarks suggested on their blog other non-cross browser solutions, I'd wager a viable solution doesn't exist at this point.

I've never heard of Legend of Neil, but Star Wreck, The Guild, and Dr. Horrible are all available on DVD.

iTunes runs fine on my Core 2 Duo with 2gb ram. One with Windows XP at work and another at home with Windows 7.

Google already has the technology to suggest ads during chats ;)

http://www.theonion.com/video/new-google-phone-service-whispers-targeted-ads-dir,17470/

The current and previous gen Prius, Honda Insight, and probably most other hybrids use a Nickel-Metal Hydride battery - no lithium.

The PHV Prius will have a Li-Ion battery, but I'm not sure if this is only for the EV mode with a NiMH battery for "regular" hybrid mode, or if it'll be all Li-ion batteries.

Gmail works perfectly fine without JS too, it's just not as "rich"