Apple is nice n all but bang for buck = fail.
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LOL, I also owned an ex-corp thinkpad until it was stolen. It was OK, never actually broke, but was not at all exciting and had average battery life. I also had trouble nailing down drivers for XP; perhaps that's changed...

I would still go for a desktop unless you really had a burning need to move the system.

As an aside, I just received a new laptop with Wifi - as soon as I switched it on I got not one but two open business networks from the building around me - when will people learn?

When you leach from interesting websites?

Happened to Cassie, they had an unsecured wifi, only found out when they hit rate limiting, the router kept a log.
Asking the house members if any of them visited "giantgaydicks.com" was interesting ;-P

Current laptops aren't as fragile as the "old" (2005) ones, if you treat it with care (like its something you own, not something provided by the company) you should get at least 2 years out of it. By then windows 2010 will be out and that thing wont be able to edit a text file after booting the new OS anyway. ;-P
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Anyone foolish enough to be still using Internet Exploder on Windows should read this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/17/emergency_microsoft_patch/

BAD Juju - I know of several people who have been hit by it already.

Do youself a favour, Get a real browser NOW.
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I've given up trying to convince management to let me run Firefox on our servers instead of Exploder
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Yeah, that was on TV for about 2 days. The teachers at school insist that Firefox doesn't work properly and isn't filtered, but it works fine
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It seemed like a good idea on paper...

Same thing on Firefox http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10126106-83.html
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

Sounds like the NoScript plugin would help avoid most of that. I've already had the patched installed on my ubuntu systems thanks to APT.
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I already had it as well thanks for the warning though philip.
Unless there is a real reason you can not, you should run noscript with firefox. By far one of the best addons

Firefox 3.05 wouldn't install properly on my windows machine, it kept generating an error on install. The Ubuntu update went fine though.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/FMS-Simulator-USB-Futaba-Esky-Interface-Cable+270-model_W0QQitemZ290298053048QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090222?IMSfp=TL090222139001r118#ebayphotohosting

if i got this for my cheapy transmitter would it just connect up like a standard USB game controller? it comes with its own shoddy simulator so im guessing it does.

gunna hook it up to Robot arena 2 and get some awesome practice

I'm going to hack my old Logitech Attack3 Joystick up to have transmitter sticks instead, it has 3 axis and about 15 buttons. Will have to find my old copy of RA2 one of these days...
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=2487#more-2487

do want

That's legendary!

Weird how he has a milling machine, yet drills a bunch of holes and jigsaws through them to cut the billet up
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was thinking the same thing