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I am still running Debian Squeeze without problem. I had to manually update iceweasel but that was no big deal.

I found my answer to the gnome 3 / unity dilemma. Neither one met my needs. I also tried KDE and XFCE for a short bit. But as a long time gnome 2 user with Ubuntu / Mint none of those worked. I hit distrowatch several times looking for the answer. I tried Arch, Kubuntu, Mint 12, etc. But none of tho...

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Helios was on the show a while back and stated bad things were going down at Linspire. Wonder if this was what he was talking about.

In a recent episode the discussion came up about online backup. I think Dropbox was mentioned as well as some other options. I have been using http://www.jungledisk.com/ It uses the amazon s3 service and they have a linux client available. When I bought it they had a flat price, now it's either $2 o...

I was listening to show 343 and the question about tivo netflix streaming came up.

The tivo has had netflilx streaming for some time.

Available on:
TiVo HD, HD XL, Series3™, Premiere and Premiere XL boxes

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10116576-1.html

Allan mentioned he needed to check his credit score... the best place to go is annualcreditreport.com It's free once a year. AnnualCreditReport.com is a centralized service for consumers to request free annual credit reports. It was created by the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies...

we have been building HDTV antennas via GPLv3 plans over here: http://linuxoutlaws.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1234&st=0&sk=t&sd=a they only cost about $6 to make. good fun! Dude, that is BADASS. I haven't needed OTA for a few months because I got FIOS installed. But sometimes I watch sports OTA...

Just a comment. You can get hi-def OTA broadcast with just a plain ol' set of rabbit ears. $10 from wal-mart. I have seen hi-def displays at my local box retailer with paperclips in them getting a hi-def signal! Now, obviously this depends on how good the signal is in your area. But it is possible.

yeah Xandros, although I am thinking of putting some form of ubuntu on their

from listening to the show you had good luck with that. did you install ubuntu to an SD card?

$279
Intel atom
1GB ram
4GB ssd
Pearl white



My wife wanted it more than I did. That's the good thing about listening to the tech show in front of the wife. She gets to here all they guys talk about how great netbooks are!

Check your paypal account...

Here's to a new server

I work in a county hospital where people tend to lose the bathroom key.

Therefore, the key needs to be connected to something large to prevent it from being lost.

So someone hooked the key to a Windows NT Workstation 4.0 cd!!!

I guess that's all its worth now.

I think it comes out at about $1000 if you count the phone plus $20 more per month service (2 year contract).

So you aren't actually that far off hehe.

Well, I couldn't resist. Two guys at work got an iphone and I was really impressed.

I have had it for a couple of hours and I'm very pleased.

Maybe one of these days we will have an itunes client for linux.

hey thanks for the ogg file