And you wanna be the sucker who just got "up" to the next arbitrary number in your scheme causing a potentially dramatic loss of net income, particularly for the lower end of your scale? I don't. I've done that already.

Stop perpetuating the fallacy that the US is a class (or caste) system. We are not locked into one income bracket, but the gov't shore does make it difficult sometimes.

Yeah, one of the old-school bennies of a 10K-spin Raptor is that I can hear when my bloody Winders partition needs a defrag.

Nice SS! I also have a few gkrellms (1 local box, 1 server). What's your E16 theme? I've tried them all, but keep coming back to Blue Steel.

Which brings up a disclaimer: E16 by default is butt ugly! But it was fairly easy to make all purdy and to my liking.

Hmmmm...that certainly would explain the odd characters I see in the "xinput -list" output. Point taken. Something for me to tuck away in a wiki for when I really need to use something Unicode in a term. TY!

If I wanted the crappy look and feel and overhead of MS Winders, I'd use KDE and/or GNOME. But since I don't, I use Enlightenment E16. Very clean and highly customizable. And no effing start bar or task bar or other acreage-nabbing gadgets if I don't want them. But instead of using Enlightenment's eterm (or the GNOME/KDE ones), I opted for aterm. It's much faster at scrolling than eterm, it's fairly flexible on configuration, and I don't need 400MB of libraries just to install it.

I may have to take another look at E17 someday, but for now E16 does everything that I need and want (e.g. compositing) without baggage. And I also run this on Gentoo, with all of its faults, because I still find it easier to maintain media-driven applications and their codecs without the hoops necessary on RPM/APT based distros.

My $.02.

Happy hunting!

UAE FTW!

My knee jerk was that he is a coward. Having a family member suffer through dementia, I then thought perhaps it's a selfless act, to spare the agony of one's friends and family. I can empathize, even if I don't necessarily agree with the premise.

But then I realized that it's a public announcement of the preplanned televised event of one's own death. That's a motivation of twisted proportion that I hope to never understand.

Not from my Chromium 12, although the workaround of using the "--user-data-dir " did allow me to use it as root. But that may not be the case for v13 Dev, if this is to be believed:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=7b31817f547918b2&hl=en

Google wants to protect me? Fine. Make it a default to not allow root, but don't disable it completely. Jerks.

Goober or not, it's surprisingly easy to maintain. I have somewhere near 200 email addresses. Almost all have a single contact; a few are "group" addresses. When some schnook of a vendor I've used gets a virus that spams their customer rep's address book, I disable that address and use a new one. Since the beginning of 2010, I've needed to use this procedure 9 whole times -- one every other month. Spam counts at zero. Bounced messages near zero. And I don't pay for the traffic that typical spam generates or the maintenance of spam software itself.

Like another poster inferred, the problem will very likely never go away if the OP's current email address is kept. My method certainly isn't for everyone, but it works very well for me. And maybe some other goober, too.

Which is why you're posting AC?

Man up and get your own domain, creating a unique address for each contact or group of contacts. Spam? Turn off email and notify the 1 friend or group.

That's what Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo thought. Poor guy.

I do, but for those wierdos who don't, the free-to-use Oracle Application Express ("APEX") works surprisingly very very well.

APEX requires install in an Oracle database. Happily, the free-to-use Oracle Express ("XE") edition is in beta for v11.2 (should be GA any day now), which moves the maximum user storage to 11GB, up from the 4GB restriction in the current 10.2 version.

Oracle XE: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/index.html
Oracle APEX: http://apex.oracle.com/

Be productive. Have fun. Drink beer.

The two sides for cut-sheet communication paper you describe are known as the "felt" side and the "wire" side. The felt side is the "top" of the paper and should usually be printed on first. Some paper manufacturers will specify this on a ream of paper with an arrow. The difference is in the way the paper fibers are oriented as they pass across the felt/wire in the paper machine, which translates to "better" printing on one side vs the other.

Try this: take a ream of new paper and hold it in the middle of the long axis between your thumbs and forefingers. Notice the amount of droop on the edges. Now flip the ream over -- you should see that the amount of droop is different.

Google can help with all the specifics. Enjoy!

How's about Oracle using DEC's precompilers (that they stole/bought) for database access to create linkable modules for SQL code? Brilliant! And yet unused. :(

I hope the 19yo student's engineering skills are better than his/her written ones, using "i.e." instead of "e.g.". I'm surprised I'm the first to catch that or at least the only one being a big enough of a PITA to post it. Then again, I'm sure it'll be pointed out that my written skills suck, too...

Has no one Googled "3d tv warning" before? Samsung's had this warning out for awhile now.

Also, I doubt that 3D will cause "lazy eye", which is amblyopia. I do know that children with strabismus, such as my daughter, should not watch 3D movies because of the problems with depth perception that is induced by the artificial 3D effect.