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    Going wireless

    I'm pleased with d-link. It really doesn't matter much though.
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    New plane, and boy is it ugly!

    AFAICT, absolutely nothing. Don't forget, OP... people won't steal "ugly" planes! (yay resurrected thread)
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    A real deal on E-bay

    very, very interesting. Any links to pro/con of this setup?
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    So what is the "Purple" board?

    I see your consternation about personal privacy. However, you may consider changing your handle instead of the medium. Choose privacy. "Someone using their actual name can't be serious?!" Google smoore and the first hit is some 'net geek who likes video games and writes about them in...
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    A real deal on E-bay

    geared as in a PSRU like a Rotax or Subaru engine on a homebuilt? Can't be... what does "geared" mean?
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    ya get what ya pay for!

    I'm not sure whether I'm more surprised that you thought you'd get copyrighted quality at $12/season or that "Wings" was one of your favorite shows. Both are equally mind boggling. [FLEE]
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    What good is my AOPA membership?

    Forgive the multiple posts, for I know not of the multi-quote. It's function eludes me. Dispel the myth that misunderstood things are not hated. They very frequently are. I think in this case hated and misunderstood are synonyms.
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    What good is my AOPA membership?

    I will promise a monthly newsletter. Send ME your $40!
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    What good is my AOPA membership?

    Bang. You nailed it except for one small point: Unions are for workers. AOPA serves the general pilot population, employment not required. It's sort of an opt-in "union" of like minded people striving for a "greater good" in their particular field of interest. So, you have to be at least a...
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    Two weeks later. How are we doing? (Forum performance poll)

    Much snappier overall with the occasional, "Aw screwit, Imma go surf somewhere else" delay. Less of the latter than with the former provider.
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    More About Ubuntu

    My background is MIT/MIS on BSDi/Oracle/Cisco, migrating the (old, crappy, basically unsupported) BSDi to FreeBSD and OpenBSD in two mid-sized dotcom-boom ISP's. I'm out now and wouldn't go back unless a .edu offered me a position. 'Not going to work on Maggie's farm no more. I loved Linux as...
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    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    Re: A Banned Commercial.... Thanks! Tears... tears man! I'm going to go watch it again. Oh, and whoever posted "The madam's parrot" joke with the punchline of "Hi, Keith"... thanks for that gem too. I get howls with it.
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    Interesting Notes in Hospital Charts N/A

    Obviously renewing his medical.
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    A disaster in the making!

    History will not look favorably on us as we start to burn our food. "Burn food!" would be a horrible slogan. I'm also an uneducated nobody but it seems to me that we should simply plant switchgrass on every highway green space and save the farmland for food. If you're going to water the...
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    More About Ubuntu

    FOSS is to be loved because it's "free as in freedom, not as in beer". Viral licensing is just as bad as proprietary methods, pick your poison. This argument can never be won, people very rarely change their thinking on the subject. I'm not a software evangelist because of this simple fact...
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    4 place homebuilts...

    No one has mentioned the Barrows Bearhawk (yeah, THAT Bob Barrows). The following is very fanatic but still fairly sane. Be warned, there is lots of OT stuff in the active Yahoo! group, you'll think you joined a right wing gun group Good STOL, float capable, tube+rag and alum. Barrows only...
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    More About Ubuntu

    I'm also an Ubuntu convert. It does make me feel lazy and slightly dirty though... I'm supposed to have to WORK to make Linux do what I want, right? upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10 was almost flawless but something seems to have broken with either Java or the bittorrent client Azereus. Az just...
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    It's Strange How the Strangest Things Are Offensive! [NA]

    For those unaware, "Dink" is what you say to someone in mixed company when you'd really rather call them a "insert slang for male genitalia" when in the north east US. As in, "You're a friggin' dink, do ya know that?", sometimes followed up with, "Ya poojabbah!" (yes, they say that too)...
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    Wilderness Survival

    Hey, that's a nice little blade there! 3.75in might be a little long for a blade in your jurisdiction for daily carry, watch yer butt. If we're going to recommend some, definitely check out the Benchmade 550HG "Griptillian" by Mel Pardue. Great knife, cuts steak as well as it cuts rope. Very...
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    ARRRRGGGG!!! Apple again

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58042 Yup, I've seen that one too. Thus, now I have beige boxes again. OSX held so much promise for me, too.
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