Came here to say this, "We are not sure who struck first, but it was us who blackened the skies"

The Textron facility in Wilmington, MA is closing down due to not as many cluster bombs being used worldwide. Firefighting could be an attempt to reopen...

Just my 2 cents, I love my '93 corolla wagon, best car I've ever had. 250k and still going!

I am in charge of.a lab of 20 older Dells at a senior center with similar specs. I ended up uninstalling the antivirus since they had steadystate on them. This means whatever the virus does gets undone when the machine restarts, and of course they use user accounts . The seniors haven't complained much, only that the machines take awhile to boot up, and to get around that I have many machines start up automatically at 8am. Yes it's not secure, but it works.

Bah, forgot to log in

Would it be possible to use APRS if you are using ham equipment? The GPS tracking is the most popular feature with it, but I've heard it's also possible to do text message type stuff.

This is silly, and why I will probably never stop driving my '93 Corolla, there's no passenger's side airbag, no side curtain airbag, no OBD2 sensor, no stability control, none of that crap. You know where Toyota put that money into? A kick-ass engine that is still going after 206k miles. I also had a 2008 Chevy Aveo for a little while with all the modern mandated safety 'features' and the cheap brakes crapped out and the rotors needed to be replaced 3 times, but the passenger airbag was still there! Along with that stupid light on the dash to make sure it doesn't go off if there's a little kid in the seat! Went back to the '93 Corolla immediately after that and haven't looked back.

I'm right now using the Hp/Compaq TC4400 that I bought off of ebay which is the upgrade to the TC1000. It's a great machine and I've heard of people using OSX among other things on it. The tablet piece is great every once an awhile when reading something, or drawing, or having a group looking at the same thing on it. The only downside I see is you need to use the pen, not your finger, for the touchscreen.

Same thing with me, only my college had copies of Win7 for $8 and they have Office 2007 for free. Win7 is also on the MS student store for $30. No more screwing with silly formatting errors in Openoffice when someone sends me a Word file, or the PDF doesn't come out exactly right. I'll pay $30 to be lazy :-)

Gordon Noseworthy was the superintendent of Silver Lake School District in Kingston, MA 10 years ago. I think they kicked him out of there for crap like this. All I remember is he didn't cancel school during a blizzard, since he's from Canada he felt 3 feet 'wasn't that much'.