Had to login to pge.com... find out my account expired... reactivate, mail/change password. Look at the new smart meter graphs for awhile and see that my daily average is about 13kWh a day for electric. 13*365=4745, 3rd option.

I have to agree and glad someone else commented on this. This has been the only time in my PC experience that I have ever been awed by PC sound - similar to being awed by graphics from Doom and then Glquake. Star Control 1 had midi music, but after I bought SC2, my college roommate and I were astonished by what we heard. Digitized music (Amiga mod style) coming from a game that came on a few 1.44MB floppy disks, not to mention that the music was good and I still load them up sometimes.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to teach these classes and too many people seem to lack it.

a) The man for emailing the spyware?

b) The woman for opening it and infecting the computer?

c) Yahoo for not blocking it?

d) The hospital for not only allowing internet access from a computer with personally identifiable information, but for also allowing the spyware to get installed.

e) Some combination of the above?

Yes, back in the days when a bad web page would crash your browser this was bad, but I have not seen those crashes recently. If the browser is stable, what benefit do multi-processes have? Multiple Firefox processes seems like unnecessary overhead. Also, and maybe I should read the details, but if I am authenticated to a website in one tab, does that authentication carry over to other tabs using other processes?

If you enjoy management, then I would try for that. You will benefit from your experience and age much more than trying to keep up as a tech. Personally I like dealing with computers over people as they do what you tell them to (most of the time!) and don't have special needs or quirks. I also don't want to go to a ton of meetings.

It depends on your work environment. Where I work, the average age of the coders and sysadmins is over 40, so older techs fit in and it's generally a good place to retire. If you work for lets say, Google, like my fiance does, you will struggle to keep up as a tech as all the people are generally very young and don't give much respect to the older crowd.

How about compare boot times. It would be hard to beat a C64 1 or 2 second boot up.

I have a Summer Best View baby monitor http://www.summerinfant.com/categories_products_view.php?id=322 that I found at Target and as much as I love this little device, it brought my wireless G network to a crawl. I could no more longer stream movies across my wireless. The camera end does let you choose between two frequencies and I found that if I change the channel on my router to 1 from the default 6 and changed the channel on my baby monitor, I have the speeds almost back to normal. I did have a problem with my wireless devices reconnecting and had to reconfigure most of them. I was really surprised that these devices were permitted to use the 2.4GHz frequencies, but at least I found a way to cope with it.

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