I've been very happy with TomatoUSB on the E3000. Only $60 refurb, or $70 new from NewEgg ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124419 ). Simultaneous 2.4/5GHZ g/n, USB port for NAS/Printer, 64MB RAM, gigabit switch. Only has 8MB flash though, if you were planning on storing lots of programs on it (you would want to put those on a USB flash drive anyway, so I don't think internal flash really matters)

I had an old Athlon64 motherboard that wouldn't run with multiple sticks of RAM. It ended up that these motherboards only had 1 RAM slot linked up with the CPU speed (I believe Athlon64's memory controller was in the CPU?). Everything would be running fine until powernowd daemon started up and underclocked my processor. As soon as this happened, the computer would lock up. Apparently it was attempting to run the different sticks of memory at different clock speeds. The only two options I had were to not change my processor speed, or only use the 1st RAM slot. You don't happen to be attempting this on a really old motherboard?

My impression (without bothering to actually look anything up) was that the recognition was done on-device. I noticed in the original announcement that they said it would require the greater processing power of the new iPhone, and I can't imagine why it would need a faster processor if it was doing the recognition on the server-side.

I just tried unlinking my bank account from PayPal... My account is now unverified and has a spending limit unless I either re-link an account, or sign up for a PayPal credit card (my Confirmed MasterCard is not enough). I haven't spent the time to dig through their menus to see if there is a way around it, but it appears that for most purposes I need to link my account with PayPal, but you are correct, I can make limited use of PayPal without giving them full access to a bank account.

1. Several years ago I made a purchase from eBay for $120. The product never arrived, so I opened a dispute through PayPal. The seller never responded to the dispute, so it defaulted to being resolved in my favor. I got back $95, with a message that

"the balance of the claim is due to you directly from the seller. Please be assured that we will make our best effort to recover the balance from the seller on your behalf."

I only received this amount because

Our investigation will be made on a best-effort basis and PayPal cannot guarantee funds recovery. For transactions that do not qualify for PayPal Buyer Protection, eBay will provide Standard Purchase Protection for $200.00 USD coverage with a $25.00 USD processing fee.

As eBay owns PayPal, I consider this still getting screwed by PayPal. Since the seller simply was not responding to any inquiries, I never saw that $25. If I had been able to use a credit card, I could have disputed the charge and had no problems.

2. You have to keep a bank account linked with PayPal. There is no way to default paying by credit card, you always have to go through a manual process to select Credit Card (at least they did away with several of the warning messages during this process). This makes it a hassle to pay for things when you don't want a direct withdraw from your bank account (which is 100% of the time). Also, a side effect of being required to keep a link with a bank account: My parents' PayPal account got hacked, and since their checking account was linked with their PayPal account, their checking account got cleared out (which was terrible timing, because they had just transferred over $10,000 to checking to pay for a new roof, so they had a significant amount of money in checking that disappeared, AND their roofing check bounced). PayPal investigated and refunded the money after a week or two, but they were missing actual money (as opposed to a line item on a credit card bill that would have been resolved before actually having to pay it) and had a long period of uncertainty as to whether PayPal would deem them worthy of having their money returned. If PayPal didn't require this bank account link, they have simply called their credit card company and reversed the charge.

3. Try selling something on eBay (owner of PayPal). They strongly encourage the use of PayPal as a payment method, so you get stuck with listing fees, selling fees, AND PayPal fees. My mom tried to sell something on eBay all by herself (which, I admit, things rarely go well when she tries to do something computer related without help). This means I have to try to explain to her why she has to pay 3 separate fees for a single transaction (and I still can't explain to her why she now has a PayPal credit card... I have no idea how she managed that, and neither does she).

Even if it was $1500/kilo, that's only $12 for the 8 grams to fuel your car.

If you click "What is the computer thinking" it will tell you: It looks at the last few moves you made. It looks at the last few moves it made. It then scans its database of previous games and says "The last time a human made the moves you made, and the last time I made the moves that I made, what was the NEXT thing the human picked"

I bought a Rosewill case 3 years ago that gave me 6 stitches :)

Stop hiding behind your case sensitivity ;)

[~] locate -i .conf|wc -l
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Not that I'm sure what exactly your parent meant anyway, but that was bothering me

Language can and does evolve over time. Look up Hacker in the dictionary.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker

Just because something started out as a mistake, doesn't make it incorrect now. Try taking a look at the dictionary definition of "nauseous," as I would guess you would be one of those people who say that "I feel nauseous" is incorrect, while "I feel nauseated" is the only correct way to convey the feeling. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous

Note how 'the most frequently used' definition becomes the correct one? Language changes, and sometimes people just make honest word/grammar mistakes. Get used to it.

For people who don't know what you are referring to, the Broken Window Fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

They are building in in Manhattan, KS, by Kansas State University. I'd imagine they probably liked the choice because it's sparsely populated, but is also one of the academic centers in Kansas to be able to attract educated people to work there.

Is he running compiz? I could only get tearing to go away on mine if I turned off ALL transparency. See if it works with Compiz disabled. If so, then you need to disable all transparencies in Compiz.

Right, because after someone lies to you, they notify you of the fact so you can tally it up into a percentage...

I'll just assume you meant that 95% of the time you that accuse someone of lying, you are correct.

Sorry if this was some joke that just went right over my head ;)

I rent a house with 7 other roommates in a smallish college town (pop 44k), and our landlord has the option for online recurring payments for each individual roommate. So, we individually can choose to either pay in person or automatically pay online. As long as the sum total of checks+online payments they receive is equal to our rent, they are happy.