Another geek level 3-4 question

Okay, anyone reading this who knows about these kind of things, advice is appreciated!

I would like to start saving more money on my electricity bill by unplugging my computer, TV, VCR, modem, and wireless router every night while I am asleep and during the day while I am at work. I have heard that although these machines are "off", they're still plugged in and using electricity. I need to save e…

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Laptop woes....

So I've been playing tech support this weekend...

I got two laptops, one I'm setting up for the living room TV (my old one from law school), a IBM thinkpad R51. It needed to be recovered before I gave it up to the kids, so I launched rescue and recovery, and it prompts me for a password. Sure enough it isn't any password I know. So I format the C: drive using an XP recover disk and launch ubuntu…

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Dollverse on the wireless

Folks,

Me and my partner in magnificently terrible are doing a radio show on 92.3fm (to be broadcast online) about Dollhouse.

We've got an hour or so to fill with interviews with the cast and Joss Whedon, and I think we're also going to air/show the first few minutes of the opening episode (which, basically - exclusive). Plus maybe a little more, I'm still trying to firm out the details.
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tags: dollhouse, fox

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