I've loved my WRT54GL. It will always hold a special place in my heart. That said, it could not keep up with a recent upgrade my provider rolled out, taking me from 30Bit to 60Mbit. It never moved data faster than 42Mbit. I replaced it with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite and a PicoStation M2HO which is their high power AP that will handle N and MIMO. I've never been happier. The router is a beast, rated as the 1st 1,000,000 packet-per-second router under $100, and it runs Linux, just like all their products. I was designed to complete with Cisco and Juniper routers in the $4,000-6,000 price range with three fully configurable gigabits ports. Best of all the current firmware includes easy to use wizards that will have you set up and surfing in minutes, if all you need is a basic SOHO configuration!

Probably not, but I'd advise against astronomers observing it too closely, lest it decide to smash into the Earth, at which point we'll have to destroy it by launching a lethal nuclear counterattack.

We find out that we excel at the use of spreading bullshit even earlier than we thought... The joys of being human!

RP's stance on the IRS is that it should be disbanded and everyone should be flat taxed. Offtopic, yes, but relevant to your uninformed comment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5SHXkRUVGM

Yes it is. No, I don't have issues. I support freedom and equality for ALL people. I despise special interest groups. They promote a "Me, but not you" sort of attitude toward whatever agenda they're promoting. I look at what groups actually DO, not so much what they say. In the cases of feminist affirmative action, as people point out referencing lately the Queen of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, there is a push to see women in power in major corporate management. I however feel that Ms. Sandberg earned her way to her position, based on her referenced credentials and accomplishments. It's all in the spin of media and propaganda how it is perceived by the public, and thus the "RAH-RAH FEMINISM" lemmings.

I believe EVERYONE is entitled to what they EARN. In the US, people feel they have the right to happiness. What they seem to forget is that our founding documents guaranteed us the inalienable right to "the PURSUIT of happiness."

Feminism and all affirmative action processes are well meaning, but essentially worthless, assuming the environment exists where one is judged by their actions and accomplishments, as opposed to some other factor.

Basically, this feminist can't take a joke... Her tweet

She gets the guy fired, and gets fired herself for her troubles.

Nobody wins, because feminism is in of itself, sexism at it's finest. Poor pitiful females that can't defend themselves. Bullshit. They have carved themselves a niche in popular culture that they are untouchable, and because of that they have adopted and invincible attitude, until they feel they have been somehow wronged, and then they turn on the tear-jerking water works about how defenseless they are. Comedian Bill Burr has it right...

People need to learn how to take a joke. HR departments need to be wiped out, because in this age, they have long since outlived their usefulness. They had their time, but it has since passed.

If women want equal rights, then there should be no feminists.

I liked Ender's Game and it's sequels. He addressed infidelity and all kinds of political angles. As for voting with my wallet, It's not really my business what he thinks. I'll vote with my actual vote in national elections. As long as his books are good, I'll keep reading them. As narrow minded as I feel his thoughts may be, I support the U.S. Constitution, and thus his right to speak his mind. that said, I also feel he's wrong, as per the Constitution, all should be equal, regardless of sexual orientation. The day his books turn into his own personal propaganda machine is the day I cease to read his material.

+1 for UniFi! I'm using unifi for a public internet project in my town. Instead of the usual stock UniFi APs I'm using their Picostation M2HP with the available alternative firmware what ports it to UniFi operation. They're cheap and weather proof and offer a bit more range than the basic APs. They continue to operate if the controller goes offline with the only downside occurring that captive portal functions don't work. If you can deal with that you'll have a robust system that can notify you of offline hardware and usage metrics on a per machine basis, giving you plenty of flexibility as an administrator. VLAN support is nice and it can help a lot with ensuring privacy against unauthorized users.

Just a reference video from M.D.s... I know it's 2009, but nothing new has really come forth in a negative light about e-cigs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ7q36Q8ItQ

So the question is, If they test for positive Nicotine presence, does that equal "smoker?"
I say no.
As a user of an electronic nicotine inhaler device (also known as a e-cigarette), I would fail this test, yet I no longer use tobacco products.

I ceased tobacco use for personal health reasons, as well as being considerate to those around me. Though not an officially FDA approved device, I had no difficulty in changing over to a vapor inhaler, which produces nothing but nicotine-laced water vapor. These devices pose no threat to those around me, via secondhand inhalation or clinging to person or fabric. Being a very tobacco-sensitive person, my mother thought I quit outright. Yet I would either not be hired, or lose my job because I would fail this test.

I submit that the test (if it should be allowed at all), should test for more than just testing nicotine-positive. By itself, nicotine is no more harmful than caffeine, as it is the other substances in tobacco products that are responsible for 99% of health issues rising from tobacco use. Would you want to be discriminated against because you had a cup of coffee this morning?

P.S. A Nook Color + Cyanogen + Aldiko beats this, hands down.

I was considering the purchase of a Fire. No longer. Instead of me paying $15 to opt out, how about Amazon pays ME a $15 credit in the store to PERMIT them to display ads on MY device? DAMN! Sorry. My common sense keeps getting in the way of progress.

Nope. Never buying one now.

The problem with Apple's model is that THEY want to set the standard and force other's compliance for licensing fees. The problem for them is that existing standards are already in place, causing Apple to look like a spoiled child when something doesn't go their way.

The EU introduced their standard for charging via micro-USB and forced Apple to release an adapter to comply.

Why not create some goodwill amongst the users here, Fruit-boys? My Infuse4G does HDMI just fine out of this port (yes, it uses a dongle, but just build the tech into the dock!).

Sometimes the "I'll take my ball and go home!" attitude is a bit much.

It's being emulated by a Commodore 64 in southern Wales. Torchwood set it up just to keep us guessing.

I have a dSLR with a 32GB SD card. I have an old Asus Eee 1000HA netbook with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Win7Pro. I upgraded the hard drive to a 750GB because of all the media I like to keep portable. When I go on holiday, I snap all the pics I like with my dSLR, and when I get back to the car/hotel I just run a simple batch file script that mirrors them all locally to the netbook to a datestamped folder with robocopy. That way I have a day-by-day structure to the archive (not that file datestamps arent enough, really). Following this, the script checks to see if my external USB drive is connected, and mirrors to that from the netbook's local drive. If the drive is not connected, it skips this step. After the copy completes, and all the files are verified, it wipes the SD card. Back into the camera it goes. Simple.

If I have internet access available, I run a second script that connects to my VPN box at home and launches a second robocopy to my desktop's fileshare. This way I can dump and wipe my SD card even if I don't have internet. The automatic syncing method is too unsure for me. This way, I'm responsible for my own data. If I wanted, I could chain them into one script very easily, but I prefer to have the dump as a quick option independent of the upload.

Sometimes people just make this too hard. I wrote the scripts in about 5 minutes, and didn't have to add any software (since my netbook runs Win7Pro). I already had VPN set up for secure remote operations, so no additional steps were needed. If you didn't have VPN, I'm sure you could manage with sFTP too, for the long haul home. Filezilla is free, so in all you can have a total investment of $0 and just a bit of time.