I wish there was a CUPS layer for Windows, so we could install it as a driver and just use the tinly little PPD like other Operating systems do rather than the 600-900Mb monstrosities that manufacturers provide as drivers.

Like http://wikimapia.org/ ?

Having worked for a non-profit, all I can say is... that's nice but who donates hardware that Win8.1 can run on?

As of 2009, the fastest computer at the org I was volunteering at was 1.2GHz with 512Mb of memory.

My Droid RAZR Maxx has all of this... but I would love to have a slide out keyboard. Even more, I would love all of this in a waterproof, more rugged case. (I really don't want to need an otterbox since it increases the size of the phone) If my hiking GPS can do this, why can't my more expensive phone?

If you don't sneak it, and just act like you know what you are doing, you could probably have even gotten them to help you carry it out.

The next step is SAAS....

They die quickly when you buy them from OCZ... then when you RMA them, they say they'll replace it, never do, and hope you just forget about it or something.

http://goo.gl/H34U6

It was the mid-80s, most of the computer labs were loaded with Apple IIe and TRS (Trash) -80 computers. The school was just starting to explore computing and most of what we had was Oregon Trail and Math Blaster. There was also the occasional "What will you be when you grow up" or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator but that was the meat of it for most students. I was lucky enough to have extremely bad handwriting, so they put me in a special computer class where I learned typing and mouse use on one of the few Macintosh computers the school had at the time. It was enough to get me hooked, but the TI/99 was in storage, and we didn't get a home computer until 1991. It was a Tandy 1000 and was fun to do what was included at first, then I messed it up and watched one of my parents' friends who was an expert recover it. After that, I really started experimenting and learning QBasic, Batch Files, 4DOS, and anything else I could get my hands on.

In High school, all we ever used computers for was typing, graphing, and some CAD in shop class. I did everything else on my own. The coolest thing I got from school was one of my math textbooks had BASIC programs for working through the problems, and I was able to relate it to actual use.

Try the IdolPad Plus - http://www.idolian.com/OnlineCatalog/IdolPad_Plus-details.aspx

I got one, it has ICS, Google Play, and works pretty good.

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, and my hate for Apple as a company.

Alternatively ... http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/

rsync + ssh + cron + unlimited web hosting (that allows ssh access)

or

rsync + ssh + cron + a tunnel between the computers you want to sync

You might also want a manual update script to update between cron syncs.... or better yet.... write your manual update script and have cron call it for easy maintenance.

You are under estimating modern intelligence. Sophisticated these days doesn't mean what it did back in the golden days of computing.

Now days, you can be considered sophisticated if you are simply observant. I see it day in and day out being a web developer and the company's "IT guy"

I wonder if Citibank pays it's web developers more than what I make a year. I consider my user systems simplistic, but they authenticate the session on every page and will only give you your own data.

Of all of the web editing products I have used throughout the years, Dreamweaver has had staying power.

I learned HTML way back when by fiddling with it in Netscape composer in WYSIWYG Mode and seeing what it produced, then reading docs and writing my own code.... then I wanted to do some more advanced stuff, so I switched to doing everything in Notepad, and eventually FrontPage 2003 because it was included with MS Office. (not anymore...imagine that)

When my company wanted to start making it so everyone could do web editing, we had to find a Window/Mac compatible program, there was GoLive and Dreamweaver. Adobe had already bought Macromedia so we could see GoLive being killed soon, and as much as I love Open Source, NVU/Kompozer/BlueGriffon/Seamonkey just aren't a choice because they screw up my hand-coded stuff, and Aptana often gets in the way of how I work. (I could probably get used to it if I used it for a few years) Quanta looked promising until it stopped being developed (Kate is OK), Bluefish is OK too, but it still feels more like a text editor than an HTML editor.

Even if you never touch Design mode, Dreamweaver does it right. Tag hinting, Auto-closing when you type / (though it would be nice if it highlighted matching braces and tags like PSPad does) TopStyle's CSS hinting, the ability to expand the tag library, DOM Hinting in JavaScript, an expandable/organized code snippet library, flexible templates, the ability to make a website editable with Contribute (which is handy for when non-technical types have to be able to update the site without screwing up the design) and everything a great Web development IDE should have, as well as the WYSIWYG editor.

At work, we have CS3, and are trying to get the board to move up to CS5 (more for our design staff), but here at home, I use Macromedia Studio 8. It installs and works perfectly under WINE, and with how I work (mostly in code, with some visits to design view), it works fine for coding HTML5. The only things I really miss from newer versions of Dreamweaver are things like built in CVS Support and improved testing/production server support.

I second the vote for old PCW and Byte. I miss the codes you could type into debug on DOS, and things like Byte's CD full of compilers.... the stuff that inspired you to try some new programming language because you want to do something neat. Some of these old mags also developed some cool tools like notepad alternatives, disk format utilities, and things you might not always care about, but are useful.