I use plain osCommerce. Has good features to track what needs buying in an inventory. Also, it's good, though not necessary, to reference which drawer gets what. If not using drawer references, just keeping stuff categorized on the drawers works too. As noted by other commenters, the problem is keeping it up-to-date. Don't even bother tracking resistor/capacitor usage. Just buy a lot of them to have stock... you'll notice when one of them runs too low. The best reason to keep such inventory is for those parts that are not that common, which you may have few but want to keep control.

Looks like another case of edu-vaporware. Now it's eDukeNukem time!

The name of the technology should be blueray of death.

Buying a Linux-based laptop doesn't get us free from driver troubles. Once I bought an Acer laptop with a Linux-that-nobody-uses, and even from factory the webcam wouldn't work because it didn't have proper drivers. Luckily enough, I just had to wait a few months before smart people made an experimental gspca driver for it.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from black magic."

If you're looking for geometry learning, try to make an asteroids-like game.

It's not too challenging as to turn someone down, but lots of fun and you'll learn how to apply geometry. Specially sine and cossine, which my teachers did a terrible job in teaching what that was all about (only teached transformation formulae, never applying them). I only learnt what it was meant to do when I tried to do a subspace-like game.

to having our own bacta tanks!

Nice... Keep thinking that you're safe, and I won't tell you how I would have gotten a virus just today when I downloaded a basic app for my HP calculator, were it not for my AV software, which detected it just when I downloaded the installer from HP's official site.

I hope you never download anything from anywhere, including sites which should be safe and trustful, but just aren't.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. (Benjamin Franklin)

Until someone eventually find a use for that so-called "junk" DNA.

You forgot the most important fact in you advantages list: with Python, lists are a built-in type. Which pretty much means you have built-in powerful sort, without the need for importing nothing, and some other useful methods. Also, it has built-in strings, with many built-in methods. That pretty much covers many of the problems writing competition software, and definitely will give an edge, since properly programming those algorithms take a lot of time.

FAIL!

Next time they will create a public online registry of slashdotters.

She clearly stated that she aborted her late pregnancy because it was dangerous to her, and that she already has a boy. This means she won't have any more.

So, the only thing that could happen is him asking her if he could have had a younger brother.

Anyway, he probably won't be as bitchy about abortion as some other people around these days.

Probably, "anonymized" to them really means that only the person's name was erased. Yet, as most slashdotters know, there are other ways to track a person from other information. For example, the name may be gone, but if the hospital and birth date are yet in the database, it narrows down considerably the number of people being searched. And, as we all know, the db probably will be abused at some time.