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AT&T banning P2P on their 3G network makes sense to me. It's still meant to be a telephone network, and while I'm sure there are some road warriors who use their laptops out there, most folks want to check the scores, stocks, and send text messages. P2P would seriously hose that up. In terms of how the set-top boxes get their signal, it can be either coax or ethernet. My setup was 100% coax, since there was a clean wire right into the apartment (we had the good fortune of the TW guy coming to cut the cable at the same time AT&T guy was putting the balun outside. TW guy was like "You want the wire? Here ya go!"). I can't remember ever hearing my SD-PVR having a fan, and the non-PVR box didn't even have one, I think.

mrr?? I never had a problem. 'course I'm pulling anime, not pr0n

I gave AT&T U-Verse a trial, and for what I had (standard res tube tv), it was great. Never had a single quality problem, the DVR worked well, and the internet on top of it was top notch as well. U200 channel package plus 6M/1M was about $92/mo after tax. Only reason I dropped it was that with Galactica having jumped the shark so many times the shark's eaten it, and getting my anime fix via torrents, it just wasn't worth keeping.

06 hybrid, 53mpg across two years and 35k miles, currently working a 60mpg tank

+1 Feed pandora a couple of artists as seeds (Junkie XL, Pendulum, Anders Manga...) and it'll (usually) start with a song by your first seed, then start wandering off to different artists all on its own. The more you thumbs-up or thumbs-down different songs, the better that "station" gets.

I learn from the best.... "Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1." -- Warren Buffet "I made a fortune getting out too soon." -- JP Morgan (who was something of a Machiavelli) "You’re going to hear a giant sucking sound of jobs being pulled out of this country." -- Ross Perot "As usual, if I'm wrong, I'll have lost opportunity, not capital." -- Bennet Sedacca

Absolutely nothing. I'm 30, have about $30k saved in the 401k, zero debt apart from a CC I pay off monthly, and feel exactly the same as you. This country (our parents) have dug such an insane hole for us to bail them out of that we ought to just say "You know what? Medicare, it's gone. Medicaid, it's gone. Social security, it's gone. Quit whining, you already spent your retirement." Year after year of deficit spending, pork barrel giveaways, and massive trade imbalances have basically turned us from a country of possibility to a country of hopelessness. You see all that money in 401k plans? You better believe the government's going to take as much of it as they can. Same goes for Roths, traditional IRAs, and just about any other investment mechanism. Our parents, our grandparents, and the politicians they've been electing have bankrupted us and mortgaged the country to the world. Welcome to reality. Discuss.

Windows environments have the briefcase tool. For Unix variants, look into rsync.

It already is. If you go by the 1980 definition of CPI, inflation is running between 12-14% What happens when Freddie and Fannie get bailed out? Well, the only way to absorb those kinds of losses is to run the printing press, and conservative estimates put that at $1 trillion.

But that right there is a problem. Why should a program that is working at the kernel level have differences between environments? If I'm using Linux, my binaries, libraries, scripts, and data should live in exactly the same place, regardless of whether or not I'm using SuSE, Fedora, Ubunto, Gentoo, or $FOO. At the very least, generate system-wide environment variables like Windows' %WINDIR so you can easily move between distros. Wrong. I was compiling a.out on GCC for SunOS back in '97, and for i386 in '03. Some older archs still rely on GCC plus a.out.

Really depends on the car in question... across 35k miles, my Civic's display is actually about 0.7mpg worse than what I figure using the "how much gas have you pumped in" method.

Yep, saw that. It's been the source of great amusement on the openbsd-misc mailing list lately Don't make me laugh. Crap... too late. Linux continues to be an absolute mess when it comes to documentation, every distro does packages differently (emerge/apt get/yast/rpm/...), distros do config differently (rc/scriptfile/...), and I wouldn't be all that surprised if I was shown that some are still using a.out rather than ELF for executables. Not to mention that Linux has in the past, and probably will in the future, tear out and replace entire subsystems within the same minor branch (CFS for SD in 2.6.23). Sure, I could easily find a sort of current HOWTO on iptables for SuSE 10.1, but what if I'm running Mandrake 6.0, and have just been keeping my kernel+userland up to date?

Price dropping/splitting the 160's... $30 each, or $100 for the set.

True, but I'd rather have correct, complete, and up-to-date docs over the thousands of HOWTO and "Well, this worked for me, but if your config is different all bets are off" method of Linux. Trying to set up a PPPoE-based bridging firewall with linux+iptables was a royal PITA. I had it finished in less than half an hour after reading just two oBSD man pages.

I'm using OpenBSD for mine. Might not have all the bells and whistles, and some facets are limited (2T max partition sizes), but unlike Linux, every single frackin' thing is documented, and those docs and man pages are kept religiously up-to-date.

Because even though it drives me bat-shit crazy, I make enough to buy shiny toys from time to time, and *save* (strange concept, I know) for future shiny toys as well. Never buy shiny toys on credit. By the time you're done paying off the interest, all the shine is gone

bump... 300's sold, all 160's still available

Modlock please

Vespa FTMFW

Yep, it's sitting on my dryer looking kind of sad that nobody asked until now. Sending PM with addie/phone, pick up any evening.

If you have a PCMCIA slot (uncommon in desktops) or a PCMCIA-to-PCI adapter, I've got an old notebook wireless card for free.

Upgrading my home server, and have the following... 4x 300GB Samsung, $200 for the set 4x 160GB Samsung, $140 for the set

Bump... still available, and can throw in an old-school VCR if needed for another $5

What fantasy world are you living in?

Sure you don't just need a new washer?