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.