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I'm not a fan of Unity, the standard in Ubuntu. I'm running Lubuntu it is great for older and lower end equipment. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with a KDE interface. All the features of Ubuntu without Unity.

If you have access to a personal landline or could tether off of your cell phone you could purchase your own internet access. Your activity is being monitored over the network access and traffic not...

Great job on the new look. Can't wait to see it on my machine (stuck on IE7 at work)

Have you run a boot time scandisk on the drive? There may be a flaky sector or 2. Does the computer make any extra noises while the drive is active?

I have to think about this but I think the problem is in the fact that you have built 2 separate lans with private IPs and private IPs by nature don't forward.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918
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I love books especially hard covers.

I own and use a Kindle for recreational reading, I'm not going to be making marginal notes in Sherlock Holmes, plus the classics are free. My 2600...

Steve,

My mom died from colon cancer and my Dad had prostrate cancer, removed. I'm a genetic mess for health problems. But I've been screened regularly, thanks for the suggestion.

Just in...

Six years ago arthritis locked up my right hip. At the age of 46, I was overweight, out of shape, my vitals were crazy, cholesterol etc. I spent 4 days in the hospital, I was in pain and I had to...

PBS did a video on this book and the author, Cliff Stoll was (and probably still is) a geek's geek.

An astronomer by trade, was working for computer services while between grants....

read the...

Gore,

Congrats on the detox! I went drug free about 30 years ago. I've battled and still battle with alcohol. I've been dry for about a year but I don't keep score as when I do relapse the...

That Senator or Congressman's computer might be up to no good but then again maybe there's some constituent who is waiting for his Social Security to be straightened out. And attacking Bank of...

Thinking of some elitist reply and drawing a blank......

After you send it back, if they persist talk to your local postmaster.

"disgruntled postal worker"
Dave

Wishing you all a safe and prosperous New Year.

Dave

wishing you all a happy 2011!

Spec,

Having raised the young lady, she's 22 now, I have some idea of her ethic and I could be wrong but i don't think she'd SELL OUT her fellow service members on a lark, for money or what ever...

Spec,

Calley was court martialled and imprisoned, he was then released from prison and held in his barracks on house arrest at Ft Benning. His total time served was 3 1/2 years. He was indeed...

Spec,

Meanwhile the men who killed those kids and two reuters reporters will get medals, right?


They should be tried as well. The killing of civilians is to be avoided, sometimes there is...

Assange is a journalist, as such he writes, releases information, hero or criminal neither, a freelance hack doing a job. He may be a rapist, let his trial decide that.

The criminals in this...

The noise may indeed be "natural." I recently built a new desktop and was horrified by noise level. The noise naturally increased when you added the second drive and started "mirroring", the drives...

My sympathies on your loss. Seems he's not quite the fool.

If you have gone to the authorities (you said you had the police reports) then why aren't you letting the authorities handle it? Is...

I had a router once (it died badly) that insisted it plug directly into the internet and it had a port specifically for the internet.

Looking at the netgear site, yours has a specific port for the...

There was a Monty Python skit where a bishop wrestled an athiest author to decide whether God existed. God exists 2 fall to 1.

Actually, there is a tooth fairy. My children would tell you that I was the tooth fairy.

When they went through their baby teeth, I worked the midnight shift. I took their teeth from their...

Actually, in the case of Wave, it was a lack of people adopting it.

For group projects and teamwork communications it was pretty good, probably ahead of its time.

The other issues you mention,...