Amen to that. I too have had several programming solutions come to me in the shower. Ever just wake up in the middle of the night with insight to a problem you were working with during the day? I need to find a way to prefect TCMP since so many solutions seem to come to me subconsciously.

http://xkcd.com/306/

Sorry, typo on 3rd line of iPod, starting with ./HandBrakeCLI should be on new line.

A shell script I use for iPod videos:

echo -n "Please enter DVD name: "
read name
mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile $name.vob ./HandBrakeCLI -i $name.vob -r 24 -B 128 -X 320 -Y 240 -I -o $name.mp4
rm $name.vob
echo "Completed"


And if you want a regular DVD...

echo -n "Please enter DVD name: "
read name
mencoder dvd:// -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -o /dev/null
mencoder dvd:// -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=800 -o $name.avi

Some more on this issue plus a video here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/openmoko-freerunner-canceled-staff-slashed/

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...is a series of tubes? And those tubes can be filled.

Careful, they just might take you up on that offer.

Actually, I wonder what happens when you are sitting in a chair, driving your lawnmower, and it drives out of bluetooth range? Does it stop or do you get to chase it down on foot?

Actually, I think that NOT thinking is the cause of this discontentment. Right after 9/11 when Bush had a record high approval rating and everyone was ready to surrender their rights to be safe from terrorists, no one was thinking about what might happen down the road. No one said "In 8 years, maybe we won't want invasion of our privacy. Let's NOT sign the PATRIOT act." Once you have given power to the government, it is very difficult to take it away.

Fixing, didn't mean to post as AC. Thanks for the feedback. I had assumed it was mainly propaganda when I first saw it, but I didn't know if the 'scientific' arguments were valid. The main point of the video seemed to be that the sun is the primary driver of global warming and CO2's impact is negligible, but it looks like that argument is already taking place elsewhere.

I know this is somewhat off topic, but did anybody else ever watch The great global warming swindle? Have we actually determined that the warming models are correct, and that we actually can reverse the course of climate change? I have the feeling that global warming continues to be more of a politically driven argument than a scientific one.

For what you are trying to do, I would suggest just spending $1-2k on a nice new middle of the line workstation. Get an LCD monitor, Laser printer, and just modernize all of the hardware. Migrate your customer database to something newer, such as QuickBooks,and buy a few flash drives for regular backups. That way your data is protected, and you won't need to spend a bundle on fancy hardware. If something breaks, you can bring it to a PC repair shop, and your data is not stuck in an out of date format.

Yea, but BOB was just a GUI replacement, not an OS. (I know TFA included X windows, but still...)