NoScript allows per site javascript blocking. And flash blocking. And XSS protection. In combination with adblock+ my web surfing is much safer and faster. http://noscript.net/ Personally I usually set it to allow javascript from the site itself (top-level), but block external javascript. That makes most pages work. Also disable the annoying pop-up telling you it blocked something.

It applies against 2.6.30 (Just look at the patch file headers). Or you could grab zen-sources which includes a choice between the latest CFS or BFS.

All you have to do to not break something, generally speaking, is to not touch it. By a similar standard, I haven't shocked myself on the flyback transformer on a CRT in almost two decades. The fact that I haven't cracked open a CRT in nearly that long might have something to do with that.

Had he done that, he would have been fired the instant the passwords hit the paper. The only reason he remained employed for so long is because no one else knew the passwords. He was, in essence, blackmailing the city. They tolerated him because he did actually keep the network running. I don't know what the last straw was that has brought us to today's farce.

It's actually porous, like a fine mesh or fine screen door. It works ok, but eventually it wears down from gardening and other maintenance requiring your to cut a hole in it. Some weeds can still get through it (we have tough spiked weeds in the desert). I would now go with a natural alternative considering you end up having to replace it anyways. A thick weed resistant lawn helps more than anything.

Aero offloads the GUI onto your graphics card if it is capable of DirectX 9. It provides a faster, tear free interface, and if you notice DWM.exe (Desktop Window Manager) uses only 0-1% of CPU during use.
If you disable Aero and fall back to GDI, DWM.exe will disappear, and explorer.exe instead takes the load, usually using 1-5% of my CPU (at least on this machine).
In general, you should get better performance if you have a decent video card. If you are using the desktop anyways, why not utilize the GPU?
A couple of considerations:
1. Vista uses more GPU ram with each window. If you have a shared memory GPU, it's conceivable that it would be too slow when you start opening many windows. Or if your GPU just doesn't have a lot of RAM.
2. Maybe your GPU isn't as power efficient as using the CPU for rendering the windows. Battery life could be affected.
3. Windows 7 with driver model 1.1 uses a constant amount of GPU ram for any amount of windows (steaming in textures instead of keeping them loaded). It also re-enables GDI 2D HW acceleration which was disabled in Vista, but available in XP. Windows 7 also accelerates Cleartype text.

From the pictures, this device appears to be a made up of a ARM board with lots of usb ports. Internally there are two usb ports, and if I'm right that's a wireless usb dongle, and a SD card in a usb dongle for storage. The demo device also has a Dell keyboard, the same as the one on my 4 year old Inspiron 700m. What this guy did is put together a compelling package using various parts as a demo, AFAIK. I wonder if laptop manufactures share a lot of parts? (besides the intel centrino chipset)

I meant 1500GB.