When he says 'switch to gmail' he really means switch to google apps for business. This allows you to use the gmail interface @yourbusiness.com
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Yes. The ipod touch can be purchased (refurbished 2nd gen) from apple.com for $149. You can get free graphing calculator apps. And it has 65k colors. Casio is probably doing this as a result of ipod touch pressure more than anything else.

"Judge Lucie Fournier ordered Guerbuez to pay $100 US in damages and $100 US in punitive damages for each of the 4,366,386 spam messages he sent..."
4,366,386 * 200 USD = $873 million USD, not quite 1 billion

Thats neat that they use SMS confirmation for call display for only $14 CDN. Is that a one time fee or an annual fee? In the US skype-in allows you to use your skype-in number for call display. Its too bad about skype-in not being available in canada. I plan to move back there some day and would love it if my skype hardware (standalone skype phone and my ipod touch+microphone+skype) would just work with a CDN phone number. Its funny that its currently owned by the 'Canada Pension Plan Investment Board' which is a government board, and its the government laws that explicitly outlaw skype-in for something related to 911 laws.

Ctrl C and Ctrl V work in most gnome apps (see: gedit), but the ones that don't you can customize the app that way: example gnome-terminal (the console). However there is a good reason:

Ctrl-C the C is for cancel, so CTRL-C in gnome-terminal kills the current process. But the same things happens in XP's console (cmd.exe), CTRL-C won't copy and CTRL-V won't paste (for the same reasoning).

Ctrl Shift C
Ctrl Shift V

correction on above: https://mdl.mlssoccer.com/ points to https://mdl.mlssoccer.com/mlsmdl/secure/registerform

What sports are you trying to watch? heard of http://mlb.tv?
https://mdl.mlssoccer.com/mlsmdl/secure
/registerform
http://nfl.com/live
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/hockeynight
http://justin.tv/
http://atdhe.net/

Here is a photo of Lance Davis (not the baseball player).

Keeping the computer in the living room doesn't prevent them from stumbling on bad stuff.

The purpose of a good filter is 2 fold:
1. prevent kids from stumbling onto bad stuff.
2. prevent kids them from using the internet to be curious (the parent is paying for the connection and has a right to block or allow whatever they want).

A customizable filter is best: k9 (win/mac). Customizable = if blocked it allows the user to invite the parent to override the block, (and add the site to a whitelist). This way, the kids can still access blocked items.

So who determines what gets blocked? With a customizable filter, it is the parent, and because they are paying for the internet connection, they have a right to control what comes in on the internet connection. When the kids move out and go to college, they are old enough they can make their own decisions.

However, I haven't found a customizable filter and free for linux yet. If you have an extra computer with 2 network cards you can try untangle os a firewall os with content filtering. I will try the opendns suggestions listed below, because it sounds like you can choose what categories are blocked and which aren't.

This looks like research from the University in Alberta (Edmonton) that the U of C Dinos are guilty of a traveling violation.

I wonder if they will spend the money to make windows updates work with 'other than IE'.

Mod parent up. I had a problem like this once.

I later found out it was a dustclogged cpufan. My CPU was overheating... but my Pentium 4, instead of shutting off, was just running at a lower clockspeed to produce less heat.