The onion video button just kinda spins. Does not play for me. Disabling flashblock does not help. Firefox 3.06. Works fine on IE.

OK, upgraded by flash player. I had ten, but apparently needed 10.something

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

hilarious and oh so true!

Is anyone having problems with Gmail? Several times a day over the last month I've been getting an "unresponsive script" error, and I have to log out and back in, and sometimes even restart.

I have a PC running Windows XP, and use the latest update of Firefox.

I'm pretty sure the "unresponsive script" message results from Firefox deciding that some Javascript has been running for a long time. i.e. the script may still be running; it's just taking a long time. Do you have the option of allowing it to continue? If so, that's what it is. It might just be that you have a slow computer, or it might be that Javascript is taking a long time (for whatever reason) to finish downloading all your mail or something.

Well, the computer is getting long in the tooth. And low on disk space. I think I found something in the Gmail discussion groups, too.

Thanks, tommy!

Does anyone have any experience with/fondness for/hatred of Ubuntu? I'll be inheriting my dad's laptop, and he currently has Vista on it. This seems like a golden opportunity to dip my toes into Linux. But I'm a little confused by the various distributions.

Nobody't mentioned the new kindle, right?

Very thin. A little prettier, though I kind of liked the ugly-clunky actually. I wonder how it works ergonomically.

Read-to feature could be useful very occasionally, and I have to laugh at all the people mourning the loss of the replaceable battery, just like at Apple a while ago. I don't really care about the removable media either - 1500 is a LOT of books, especially since anything I buy from Amazon is backed up online (and redownloadable directly from the device).

Otherwise, basically looks like the same thing. Which is one of my favorite things, so that's good. If I hadn't lost mine, I doubt I'd be itching to buy one, but I'm having to physically restrain myself.

I've used Ubuntu (various flavors) on a lot of machines, as well as some other Linux distros, and the standard Ubuntu is as stable and friendly a thing as you'll ever want to find in the Linux world. Unless you have some particular project in mind (in which case, do tell!) I'd suggest starting with the default flavor; it comes with a broad range of stuff installed, and of course one of the joys of it is that you can always just try a different flavor if you decide it doesn't feel right for you.

Thanks, amych. Stable and friendly sound good. I'll give it a shot.