Have you considered building a Lack Rack? You could do a small stack. Then, you don't need to build anything into your house and it's relocatable.

I have a few computers at home running a variety of operating systems, but the two I use most frequently both run Windows 7. One is my work PC. I need to run Windows on that one because there are a few applications I need for work that are Windows only. The other is my gaming machine. I play a couple of Source mods on it,and I use Windows because it's much easier than trying to run the games on Linux.

If Valve would release Steam on Linux, and make it easy and straightforward to install Source mods on Linux, I will happily switch to Linux on my gaming machine. I'd even put up with Ubuntu if that were the distro they targeted. It would save me having to use a Windows license just to do gaming.

Perhaps Steam/Source on Linux wouldn't appeal to hardcore gamers who buy the latest AAA title every couple of months, but, for me, it's excellent.

Mae'n dda nad oeddent yn defnyddio'r Gymraeg.

The Streets does a version of this in song on the album 'Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living'-- Can't Con An Honest Jon

A version of this also happens in series one or two of 'Only Fools and Horses'

My desktop is running 3 x 160 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200's in RAID 1 on an Adaptec 2610SA controller. The oldest one I bought new in the summer of 2006. The other two I got used at a swap meet a few years ago. I pretty much just use my desktop for web browsing and a few games (some Half-Life mods and X-Com). There's enough capacity for what I do, and the read speeds are pretty good. One of those drives (I'm not sure which), fails once a month or so (it goes click-whirrrr-chirp repeatedly til I shut down). Then, the array rebuilds itself. When it finally fails completely, I'll replace it.

[better_off_ted] What? Everyone knows that war is coming! [/better_off_ted]

It would be a couple GB of flash that is accessible to the OS as a block device. Then, let the OS use it for paging and for caching of frequently access files or blocks.

There should be a branding campaign so that consumers know that it is extra memory that will speed up their machine. Call it something like "turbo memory."

The fisheries off the coast of Somalia were destroyed by years of European countries dumping toxic waste and over fishing off the coast. What the fuck else are they supposed to do?

Support the Somali volunteer coast guard

I lived in Africa for about a year. We shared a 14.4k modem connection between about 10 people. It that stayed up about half the time. In another place I lived, we had about 30 people sharing a 1.5Mbps satellite link with 350MB/day quota.

In both cases, internet access was possible for basic things like sending emails (without attachments), text browsing, etc., but the latency was so high and bandwidth so low that it took all pleasure out of internet use.

The danger of disconnecting completely is that you'll find something for which you "need" internet and make a visit to the local coffee shop or library where they have high speed access. You can spend a lot of money on gas and coffee that way. Having internet that's just slow and painful to use helps to avoid that.

So, maybe you should invest in a 9600 baud modem and find a dial-up ISP?

Also, as a tip, make sure you have a phone book and some road maps for your area.

She should install ReactOS just to fuck with the professor.