I used an original Philips Dreamstation and had nothing bad to say about it. When I heard that it might give off foam that might cause cancer I stopped using it immediately while waiting for my recall replacement. About a year and a half later I received my Dreamstation 2 and it was a downgrade in every way. It just felt cheaper; the hose mechanism didn't swivel on the unit; mine whistled; the display was obnoxiously bright at night to the point where I had to cover it... and we just don't trust it after the first recall... so I basically didn't use it. I now have this machine that I don't trust and don't like. My apnea isn't too bad fortunately, but unfortunately I don't think I can affo it a replacement at the moment. There was a class action where affected users will receive around $100, but it's a drop on the bucket compared to the cost of these things.

Not unless the router has this Intel chip in it. Let's use an example: A Linux box with this Intel I219-LM in it and a Mac mini, both hardwired to a router rated for 1,000 Mbps speeds (gigabit). Both devices are rated for 1,000 Mbps operation. The Mac mini would be able to push data to the router at 1,000 Mbps no problem. The Linux box with the faulty driver would only see speeds in the range of 600 Mbps because of this bug. Of course if this is your house and your ISP only offers you 100 Mbps operation you wouldn't notice.

I don't think it would affect the ao486 core, though someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

The Linux part of MiSTer runs on an Arm chip on the DE-10 Nano. ao486 is hardware built in its FPGA to be a 486-compatible CPU to run x86-compatible software. I don't think ao486 relies on any software support within the Arm chip, but that's more of a question for the MiSTer forums. I think they're separate enough that it wouldn't be any sort of issue.

There's a *much* easier way to determine if this guy is Satoshi (and I personally don't think he is).

Get him to post from the original Satoshi account on the p2pfoundation forum. Satoshi posted in December 2021 to offer a (sigh) NFT of the original post: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/...

That means that whomever Satoshi is still has access to the posting account. This was after an absence of 7 years. (Or I guess an Admin could have changed the credentials...)

Compel Wright to post there, and wait for him to come up with some new lie about how he can't access that account.

Then take it a step further: Subpoena an admin of the forum to get more details about that account's postings -- e-mail address, IPs used to post (if they're logged).

If Wright can't log in to that account or make a post saying "I am Craig Wright" then it's as clear as day to me that he is not Satoshi.

Though hardware is scarce, there are some great alternatives. MiSTer is an open source project that uses an FPGA board from Intel to replicate hardware for old consoles and computers. There's been some really incredible work done on the ao486 core lately, allowing it to run DOS, Windows 3.11, and Windows 95. May games run very well under it; performance is on par with a 486 SX. It's been a tremendous amount of fun for me lately.

Perhaps I'm just a bad geek, but I've found Lord of the Rings a little challenging to finish, though it's been a while since I've tried. I find that people who read it when they were younger (or had it read to them young) have a reverence for it I just don't quite share, but I feel a little like I'm missing out.

A few years back my girlfriend had C. Diff, pretty badly. At the time, fecal transplants were still new / in testing (or, at least, the doctors hadn't even mentioned it, but we had read about them online). She happened to be browsing journals and found an article that mentioned Saccharomyces boulardii as a possible treatment. A few weeks after starting a pretty healthy regimen, her symptoms cleared up and have been gone ever since. In that respect, a probiotic was effective as a cure.

It truly is the sort of thing that one should seek medical attention for, I agree. However, at the time she had no insurance and the oral vancomycin that had been prescribed to her was going to be $1,500 per prescription fill, and as you said, it probably wouldn't have helped too much -- C. diff creates spores that tend to outlive most treatments, lending to its 'difficile' name. It was a scary time, but she got very, very lucky.

We've been off-handedly following news articles about treatments like this one, and this pill is an excellent advancement of treatments. Here's hoping no-one else had to go through what she did.

If you ask me, the Netgear WNR3500Lv2 is the "true" successor to the WRT54GL:
Pros:
- Cheap! -- around $40
- Is supported by Shibby's Tomato port -- no problems with uptime; frequent updates in the face of Heartbleed, etc.
- 4 Gigabit Ports in addition to the WAN port
- N support
- USB support for a NAS, but I've never used that functionality

Cons:
- Only 300 mBit N support
- Only 2.4 GHz
- Internal antenna only
- Flimsy base, heh. Mine broke, but the router still stands up.

Netgear seemed to be pretty open to the idea of supporting open source firmwares through their My Open Router website and forums. ...But Netgear was also caught with a backdoor in their firmware, like a lot of other vendors, but I would hope that replacing the stock firmware with Tomato would help with that. (Although since I'm using someone else's build instead of doing it myself who knows!)

I've really loved this router, though.

I wish it were newer (AC support I guess?), had a 5 GHz radio and/or supported faster N speeds... but 300 Mbit is enough for anything I'm doing.

Totally agreed. My friends and I still play UT2k4 on a weekly basis. With the Heaven of Relics mutator and some of the great Community Bonus Pack maps, it's still fun, ten years on. As it came out March 16, 2004, happy Tenth Anniversary UT2k4!

As I said above, this is someone I trust at his word. If he had dropped it, he would have owned up to it. He buys enough phones from HTC that he is happy to give them the business. You don't have to believe the story, but I do.

You guys don't have to believe it, but he's someone I trust and who wouldn't make up the story to me. I've known him long enough that I believe what he says.

I had a user whose laptop was replaced by Dell under warranty, except that they sent him back a 17" monstrosity rather than the 13" machine he had at the time. They wouldn't budget on giving him something smaller. After filing a small claims court case, they reimbursed him for the price of his original laptop and I think told him to keep the new one, too. He was happy after that.

Another friend had a HTC One phone whose screen popped and shattered while he was browsing twitter. HTC refused the replacement despite being a month old, claiming he dropped it. After filing a Better Business Bureau complaint, they replaced it under warranty.

Either way, something like that will get someone's eye and hopefully the original poster will be happy. The bigger problem is that this is a thing Dell will break a warranty over, which is ridiculous.