That's a pretty strong stance to take... especially for someone who can't compose a single paragraph of text without numerous errors. The fact is, we're human. It's often far more effecient to clean up after our mistakes than to spend significant extra time to hone our effort to perfection and hope there are no mistakes.

Microsoft's Consolas with properly tweaked ClearType has been my personal favorite since its release. Another huge improvement to my code screen is changing the background color to a light grey - still not a dark color scheme, but much less glaring than pure white.

Is it just me? Apple seems to have figured out how to screw up all direct downloads so instead you just get an HTML file of the Apple Trailers homepage.

Wow, thanks! I had no idea! Indeed, this worked in both cases for me.

Whatever DRM Win7 may have has been transparent to me.

I should qualify that statement with a bit of info - I am fairly tech-savvy (love to tinker, programmer by trade), refused to upgrade to XP SP3, had numerous experiences with Vista on other people's systems that made me avoid it like the plague it is on my own system and I have been running Win7 since the public beta became available. I love it. There's no question that Win7 is the future for me - I will only continue to use XP on older systems. I've read about the DRM nightmares supposedly built-in to Vista, and presumably continued in Win7, but I have yet to encounter troubles.

You may have read about Win7 removing the Stereo Mix (WAV) channel from the source channels for recording. I have also read that this is up to the drivers, rather than the OS, but I have been a bit disappointed to discover that the 64-bit drivers for both my HT Omega Striker sound card and my on-board audio are lacking this channel.

I haven't used Windows Media Player in probably over a decade (not regularly, anyways). I run MPC Home Cinema x64 and it works great.

I haven't been on the giving end of the filter, so I don't really know how effective it is, but being on the receiving end I can say it's a poor idea. I would hope it's an oversight rather than something done on purpose.

I long shied away from an OSS project because I wasn't interested in diving in to VS and MySQL completely on my own. Eventually, I decided to get into it, had to learn on my own, and realized that VS is very easy to get started with, C# is easy to pick up, and VS is a fantastic IDE for helping you understand a huge pre-existing codebase. I have been employed as a programmer for 10 years and have become a valuable contributor to the project. It could have happened sooner if there was a good starter guide to getting involved. It could have not happened at all if not for other factors that pulled me into it.

Having said that... it's just a case of laziness on my part that I haven't made a starter guide myself! While I tend to ignore questions in the forum from people who display no appreciable intellect, I do try and respond helpfully to those that appear to have potential.