@variaas: Bingo, but I had serious problems connecting to that site, so I nixed posting about it ... or so I had thought. Read more

@thewillum: You caught me—I'm a total genealogy n00b, and I thought storing her maiden name in the "Birth Name" column made sense. Read more

@CyberCowboy: You can do anything/add on anything to Remote that you could a standard Ubuntu installation, because it's got most of the guts of a Linux distro and can be added onto (via Synaptic). I'm not a FreeNAS/NAS aficianado, but if you can get it working in Linux, generally, you could probably get it working… Read more

@jtimberman: I read at the Remote site that Remote specifically cannot back up to tape drives or live-copy to CDs (unfortunately). However, if you can wrangle Xubuntu to do your bidding, you'd be good to go. Read more

@kwedin: That I did. Thanks for the catch! Read more

@Mark: I know the feeling, Mark! But if you've got an Ubuntu-based server running on that file/print server, incorporating Remote shouldn't be too hard. Read more

I should note here that if I had actually intended on bookmarking Google Reader's Wii-friendly interface, I would've pointed to google.com/reader/wii. Read more

@metalhaze: Well, uh, totally didn't notice that, due to the washed-out-ness of the walls and paintings ... good catch, though. ;) Read more

@Ronan: You are correct about Oo.org, but the Global Menu tweak still doesn't like it. I suppose I short-handed the reasons why Oo and others wouldn't work—technically they're "Java Swing" apps, if I remember correctly, and that's why they don't play nice with this method. Read more

@Deprong Mori: Really valid point, Deprong, and I wish I'd mentioned something along those lines. Glad you got in first! Read more

@El_Greco: How do you mean, exactly? The buttons/status bar icons for your extensions aren't present? Read more

Thanks, all, for catching my really unfortunate typo. Fixed. Read more

Sorry about that. Fixed! Read more

@shk: A valid point, and I am using Vista ;) But it's also true (and I should have noted it in the post) that once you pare down your system using the process-explainer tools, you can uninstall them and never look back. As for the process-stopping utilities, one of them uses only 1 MB of system memory, so it's not too… Read more

@gsones: @Gina Trapani: Yes, my kitchen moves so fast, I barely have time to edit out orphaned phrases between edits ;) Thanks for the early catch! Read more

@sloth: Indeed ;) But we're all about the Responsible Self-Improvement here at LH. I should know—this site may as well have been my home page at my last rat race job. Read more

@genghis_schmengis: I haven't spent all that muuch time with AxCrypt, but I based the "beta" description on previous posts and other reviews. I'm glad it works for you! Read more

@reeflections: NoScript only escaped mention because far too many web sites these days are just unuseable with that extension. It's not a bad idea overall, but not exactly "no-hassle" Read more

Yeah ... yeah. My wife's post-reading response was, "Wow, that is disturbing." I'm hoping she meant how close it cut to my type, not, you know, the stuff about "The Cave" and such ;) Read more

@AbramCove: Good point. I tend to err on the side of sudo, as it were, but you can probably make due without it here. Read more