The tabs at the top is one of the things I just couldn't get used to in Firefox. There were some other issues with tab behaviour but I can't remember what it was now.

Opera has only been ad free since 2005. Back when it had ads it was definately worth the $30 or whatever for the full version. Just look at the competition (or lack thereof) it had during those years. I started using it back in the v5 days and refuse to give it up.

There is one thing that bugs me about this article though. They say Firefox is more customizable. The main reason I couldn't get used to Firefox (this was back in v1&2, dunno about 3) was because I couldn't customize the UI to look like what I was accustomed to without using poor quality addons. As far as I can tell Opera has always been more customizable "out of the box" than Firefox.

The things you mention (customers, schematics, etc) are a lot different than a password. If the company has any clue what the're doing then that small, trivial password becomes completely useless immediately after he is fired. I can't remember if it was the root passwords he refused to give up or his own account's password. If it was his own there is no reason for the company to need them. If it was the root passwords why was he the only one with them? One person should not hold all the root passwords for the company's equipment and I'm pretty sure he had a boss that should have made arrangements in case Terry suddenly died.

I recently got the wife a 900HA which has the Atheros wireless card. I tried eeeBuntu and Easy Peasy and was able to connect to the wireless. I know there were some scripts that came on one of them (Easy Peasy?) to fix hardware issues and I may have ran these before trying the wireless.

Get your head out of your ass. The Volt and Prius do just as well if not better than a standard car in a situation like you described. Either you have the gas or you don't just like in a non-hybrid. If you only put enough gas in your tank to make it through a couple days or wait untill it's empty to fill it back up you're in just as bad of a situation as a Volt owner who only has a 1/4 tank or less.

Besides, do you really think that Volt and Prius drivers only have one car?