ita, I've seen deals on refurbished Roomba batteries on Amazon.

I'm debating whether the cost of a new battery is worth it, given that this will be our third battery and we could have a whole new vacuum for the cost. (Really, the only reason for us to even think about it is that Dylan thinks the Roomba is a pet, and would be sad if it went away.)

You can revive NiCad Batteries by Zapping them with an Arc Welder.

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OK, those of you with Roombas...

I have a hardwood floor. I have one 4'X6' rug in the whole apartment. I want something that will eat the dust bunnies and massive amounts of hair I shed (I swear, I'm secretly my own pet). Something that will make my floors less icky.

But it seems if I want the one that mops the floor (the Scooba?) I would first have to have a DIFFERENT one that swept/vacuumed.

So...what is the best Roomba for me? I don't want to spend more than I need to...(and there seem to be about 80billion models on the website, from $129 to $500!)

Me? I'm waiting for a "Flexible Frank" model.

I've decided that app server architectures are something I need to learn as much as possible about. Given that I'm stumped by the Alfresco install, does anyone have any suggestions about a good place to start learning about app servers in general?

I've heard good things about Glassfish for hosting Ruby on Rails applications running under JRuby. Otherwise, I got nothing.

You can revive NiCad Batteries by Zapping them with an Arc Welder.

Please don't try that with your Li-Ion batteries, though.

Indeed.

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I don't have a Roomba, meara, but I've researched them, and yeah, you do need separate ones for vacuuming and mopping, if you want both tasks.