Pfff!
I am not suggesting dag is stashing away money!!!

He obviously has nothing to hide in the accounts. (so why not publish them so that the community can comment on ways to improve the situation? for example these amazing richly dynamic pages... do we really need them? are they worth thousands of dollars? are there techies in the community who can suggest improvements? would people really vote for a super new feature if they saw how much it costs to keep the CPUs running? are unregistered guests really paying their way?)

I am simply suggesting community auditing and collaborative problem solving in a very difficult financial situation, in order to encourage more donations, including mine.

Pardon me!

So Friggen TRUE. I constantly stop and say to my wife 'My god we have it good', I mean really, I'm sitting here, working from home (via a secure vpn), looking out the window at our large garden where our chickens are routing around for bugs, we have amazing kids, we have work, a house... LIFE IS GREAT. And yet we can find things to bitch about.

You really do have to just chill the frig out and stop having this sense of entitlement.

I am one of the most techy people I know, I understand how heaps of things work and yet I still am one of those who more than others stops and is amazed at the things I'm using (wireless internet, mobile phones, pcs with lifelike graphics etc.)... Get some perspective people and enjoy life for what it is. Amazing.

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That's true. I might go fully Linux and let the kids learn how to use it properly. It would probably be a good thing anyway. Alternatively, I'm thinking of building a Hackintosh.

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heh.. spose that's true. I haven't yet put a family member onto it, but keep threatening too. Beats having machines wiped out by viri/spyware.

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I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

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what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

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I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

heh.. spose that's true. I haven't yet put a family member onto it, but keep threatening too. Beats having machines wiped out by viri/spyware.

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I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

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what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

In reply to this comment by dag:
I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

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I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

In reply to this comment by dag:
I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

In reply to this comment by dag:
I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

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I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

To be fair, a failing ram stick is often tough to spot as a problem, unless, of course, you bring your own replacement ram, or have a copy of memtest86, which I don't think it in most techies repair kit.

Meh, all flash and techie-wow. Is doing cut and paste with your finger instead of a mouse, or zooming with several fingers instead of a mousewheel, really 'revolutionary'? Oh ya the screen is real big. So... what.

And at the typical workplace after a few days of people pushing their greasy fingers over the surface it'll be all grunged up and smell like tacos. Yuck.

I still haven't learned out to use the CSS Being a retro domesticated goddess sometimes has it's drawbacks... But hey I help balance the demographic around here w/ you techies.

Good luck w/ the launch. What time should we expect it? You guys need to make an announcment or something.

Installer bundlesthe ask.com toolbar. I declined to install it.

Seems to work... but doesn't always seem to kick in. Haven't restarted since installing; perhaps that's why.

Popup window comes up when it accelarates. Annoying. Edit prefs to Turn "Show Tray Messages" off.

No techie details, nothing quantifiable as to performance increase, number of connections it's using.

When using EVDO card, loads quickly, then quits loading partway through the video.

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your average mac user can't add a WEP key either,

Well, there is a wide breadth of Mac users. Sure there are the graphic design/video/sound people who might have problems with the more techie stuff -

Then there are the would be Linux users who want all the goodies that Linux offers with a much better UI than anything from KDE or Gnome. (ooh, I may have just opened a second OS war front)

Hmmm funny stuff cept the guy must not be to techy...
First off he actually paid for a OS...
Second ive installed Vista on a machine we used for the "XP" release and it works fine...

Totally agree about G4 comments... Leo is doing a Canadian version of Call for Help - someone is BitTorrenting it, tracker is here. BTW guys, Amber MacArthur is really cute. From the FAQ-

Is this the Canadian Call for Help?
Yes.

**Is it legal to download these?
Maybe, maybe not. I am not an attorney, nor do I play one on TV. You should look into the laws in your own country if in doubt. Although they are all aware of its existence, this site is in no way officially connected with G4techTV Canada, Rogers Communications, G4 US, Comcast Communications, Leo Laporte, or anyone else connected with the show.

What happened to Call for Help? Why is it in Canada now?
G4techTV Canada now produces the show at their station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They bought the rights to it after it was canceled in the aftermath of the G4 & TechTV "merger" in the US, and were able to get Leo back as host. Leo flies to Toronto once per month and spends a week taping a month's worth of shows with his new co-hosts, Andy Walker and Amber MacArthur.

What's the difference between G4techTV Canada and G4 in the US?
G4techTV Canada is operated independently from its US counterpart and have little to do with each other. They share a name only to avoid confusion when watching the US-sourced programming. The Canadian station persists in their desire for tech-related programming rather than game-related programming. If Call for Help proves successful for them, and indications are apparently good, they may begin to produce other new tech shows. For more information regarding the difference between the two stations, click here to read it from Leo himself.

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(191.6 MB - Backing up your USB key to an email account, A Photoshop plug-in to help scale up photos - episode 467)

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VideoSift, like a lot of community sites, is fairly techie heavy. We nerds tend to be an athiestic lot.

I have to admit though - that as I age, I am getting a softer stance. I don't think it's just because I'm aproaching my own mortality. It's more to do with a sense of history, and realizing that science is often blinded by hubris and has been proven time and again to be wrong about some pretty big issues.

I will always believe in evolution, and I'll never believe in a man in a white robe - but might there be some kind of universe creator out there? Some being that started the wheels in motion, and maybe even has some kind of "galactic thought" that encompasses wide swathes of space-time?

I could believe in that kind of God -the kind of God that appears as a spidery feeling that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

I have to admit that I enjoy SF books that have an element of religiosity in them. See "The Sparrow", "Children of a a Lessor God", "Darwin's Children", and even Dan Simmon's "Hyperion". (I'm an SF book nerd).