I replaced a 25yo dying forced air electric system with a heat pump about six years ago. I believe heat pump cost was about.. 30% more than a standard furnace, but electric co. rebates/govt efficiency programs/etc reduced the cost by a decent bit. Either way, my overall electric costs went down by 1/3 the next year. Compared to what it would have cost to keep the old unit functional, I'm pretty sure the heat pump has paid for itself in savings. It's also been perfectly reliable, this isn't exactly new technology. But yeah, I don't think the cost benefit is necessarily there to replace perfectly functional A/C/furnace units with heat pumps.. but if it's to replace an old one, there is zero reason not to do it.

I'd love to get picked for this jury. Live in Cole county and everything, but there's no way in a million years I'd actually get selected.

I'm so happy to hear there's at least three of us left.

- Yes (via editing a .css file)
- Doesn't look like it
- Yes

- No (looks like there are other image zoomer extensions)
- No (I don't see any FTP extensions.. interesting, those are very handy)
- Yes

I primarily use a MS split keyboard at work and use my left hand. On conventionally-laid-out keyboards, I use my right hand since that's how I was taught in school.

but they have no sense of taste, so they use way too much salt.

The Model M I use at work is 25 years old and shows almost no wear. And I could bludgeon anyone who tried to steal it.

except for that one year, when the worst job was "crack whore trainee."

At my workplace, Red Hat server licensing is pricier than Windows Server licensing. I'd love to move servers off Windows, but it'll be hard to justify if it costs more.

My workplace used to have an Engenius cordless.. it was awesome. It worked all around our campus (three different warehouse-sized buildings) without a hiccup for years. Finally died after being dropped too many times.

You'd really want to build in a chroot'd environment on another PC.. or at least use distcc. If you did that you'd probably want to nfs mount the portage build & source directories so you don't run out of space quite so fast. It'd sure take forever, though..