I would recommend Clubhouse Games and Crosswords DS. Picross and Meteos are very puzzle-like but a lot of fun. Zelda - Phantom Hourglass is great if you're into that sort of thing.

Another DS lite recommendation, don't bother with the original.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 1:26 PM on July 5, 2008

Seconding The New Kings of Nonfiction. It's excellent.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 9:48 PM on June 24, 2008

I've gone to a few family ones out of sheer obligation, but I will never attend one of these again. They're just pure money-grabbers and I always feel embarrassed for the people who are throwing them.

Awful way to feel about family, but it's true. The stag and doe term is definitely southern Ontario, but they're common in a lot of places (I've heard of similar events in the UK, northeastern US, and other areas of Canada).

Ick.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 11:11 AM on June 10, 2008

I used to work for the Bruce Trail (years ago) and I did a number of hikes along it and, to be honest, they're all good (they have 40 recommended ones on their site). The association works very hard to ensure that the trail is maintained and to allow it to return to it's natural state (as best it can).

They publish a reference guide that can usually be found at local bookstores or MEC. The guide lists B&B's along the trail as well as maps and more. It's only $24.95.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 8:19 PM on June 5, 2008

Highly recommend Shake a Tail (main site is currently down for maintenance -- here's a blog post about it).

60's, 70's rock/disco. Excellent vibe, very laid back and the right age group. A little scenester-ish, but they're good people. It's not right downtown, but it's at Clinton's Tavern which is right on the Bloor/Danforth subway line (at Christie station).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 4:02 PM on June 4, 2008 marked best answer

I second yellowbinder's suggestion as well. The Boat is a lot fun as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 4:03 PM on June 4, 2008

Have you tried Lick's? There's a few locations on the subway line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 8:23 PM on May 5, 2008

Freshwood Grill is pretty decent as well. Never tried their milkshakes (as I don't drink milk) but their burgers are pretty good. The one on Ronces just underwent a renovation so it's patio is pretty nice. Perfect for a weekend walkabout on a nice summer day. Sangria's not bad either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 9:45 AM on May 6, 2008

Family Guy in a way. DVD sales prompted them to bring it back on the air.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 7:40 PM on May 5, 2008

I like Uncrate for gift ideas. Lots of good stuff on there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 5:11 AM on April 10, 2008

Really, there's no comparison. BB all the way. If price isn't an issue, go with the gold standard.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 11:59 PM on April 5, 2008 marked best answer

Start a MeFi meetup?
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 9:09 AM on March 30, 2008

So, you eat vegetables, dairy, eggs and seafood? And you're having difficulties staying away from other types of meat? Seriously?

Why not branch out into some other dietary staples. Indian/Thai comes to mind since a large percentage of their diets subsist entirely on your dietary choices. My personal favourite cookbooks for quick/easy and quite inspiring are the following (they're vegan, but quite good nonetheless):

Go Vegan - How It All Vegan,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 5:02 AM on March 26, 2008

Craigslist
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 10:07 AM on March 21, 2008

orange swan: Hey, Craigslist must be used by more Torontonians than it has been in the past when I've looked there for this or that.

It's very popular. I use it for everything now. Not sure when it happened, but it looks like people in the city use it for everything now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 10:50 AM on March 21, 2008

You can take an older ntwdblib.dll from a SQL 2000. if you're using IIS, you simply setup the site to run as a user with the necessary access to the database (you can do this with Apache as well, run the service as the user) and set mssql.secure_connection to "on" (1).

Run all my sites this way and it works fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 6:43 PM on March 20, 2008

In order to change the permissions recursively on the volume you have to ensure that you are the owner on all the files and folders. If you're not, you can force ownership doing the following:

1. Right click volume and select properties
2. Select the Security tab
3. Click Advanced
4. Select the Owner tab
5. Click Edit (probably have to accept a UAC dialog at this point)
6. Either select an owner in the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 2:43 PM on March 15, 2008 marked best answer

You might want to check out Educause. it is primarily for IT issues affecting higher education but a lot of the content could easily be translated into non-profit areas. There are a variety of listservs and forums covering everything from identity management to web development which are largely geared towards IT management.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 10:20 PM on March 14, 2008

I'd recommend the Maldives as well. I've never been there myself but everyone that I know that has goes on endlessly about it. If I had 20k kicking around I'd be there in a heartbeat (especially in winter!).
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 11:18 AM on March 11, 2008

I've used Danware's NetOp in the past and it was quite good. Haven't used any of the later versions though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 2:19 PM on March 3, 2008

Yeah, pick up a programming language (something easy like PHP or .Net) and make a career of development. Lots of database design/query skills required for that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 9:31 AM on March 2, 2008

You can use group policy to restrict their access to the services MMC and the task manager, I believe there is an option in the client install to not display in the system tray as well.

Granted, you could still kill the service through the command line, so use group policy to disable that. Also, if you're simply preventing browsing to certain sites then they can easily workaround the proxy by removing it in IE so use group policy to restrict the ability to manage IE... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 2:22 PM on February 29, 2008

This is one thing I noticed when I travelled through Texas last year. Almost every restaurant asked us if we wanted separate checks (there were three of us) prior to taking our order. It was a small detail, but it was incredibly thoughtful and it is something I wish more restaurants would do.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 6:46 PM on February 25, 2008

Same situation here in Toronto. Bloody hell. Our landlord wants us to barge into our neighbours place upstairs the next time it leaks to find the source. I'm sure that would go over well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 2:48 PM on February 19, 2008

Fressen is good for all out vegan/vegetarian food. If you want a nice little restaurant that has a good mixture for both non-vegan/vegetarian and vegan/vegetarian alike then I highly recommend Utopia on college. It's a fairly small place, but the food and service is quite good. After, there are a tonne of places that you can get drinks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 3:09 PM on February 16, 2008

Cafe 668 is great for vegan/vegetarian as well. 2nd that suggestion.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 3:09 PM on February 16, 2008

Here's a linux and AD integration guide. At the bottom it recommends a few options for home directory mounting that might be useful, but I haven't tried them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 3:06 PM on February 16, 2008

You would have to setup multiple sites and use a different identifier across each one. It's the only way I can think of.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 12:21 PM on February 11, 2008

A wiki would do the trick. Particularly, Confluence. Each space has an export option that will automatically write out to PDF.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 8:04 PM on February 10, 2008

Only way to do it is in the BIOS. It needs to either support an automated power on setting or, failing that, Wake-On-Lan which would require a specific packet sent to the machine to wake it up.

I'd be surprised if the BIOS didn't support scheduled power on. Set it for 6am.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 7:00 PM on February 8, 2008

You definitely need some assistance. Have you tried contacting any credit counsellors in your area? Most major cities have not-for-profit credit services that will help you consolidate loans (which will reduce the amount of interest you're accumulating each month) and help you create a budget. You could try to setup an appointment and coax your husband into going along. Explain that if you get your financial situation in order, he'll have more cash to spend on extra-curricular activities (as... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 6:17 PM on February 4, 2008

I doubt it. As ian1977 said, it's the routing numbers on the checking account that makes this possible. Most online banking sites have automated transfer schedules. Time a transfer to coincide with your automated payment (or say, a few hours after) to have it pushed over to your credit card. That way, you never actually see the cash.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 4:58 AM on February 4, 2008

How 'bout Unbreakable?
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 7:53 PM on February 3, 2008

Sounds to me like your VirtualHost information has not been setup properly after the server admin setup the self-signed.

Check out the VirtualHost setup in httpd.conf. Here's a sample for Apache 1.3.

Also, I'm not sure what the latest supported version of the 1.3.x branch on the RedHat network, but 1.3.41 is the latest version. Might want to check on that as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 8:03 AM on February 2, 2008

Yes, you can find a nice 1 bdrm in all the areas you listed for less than $1100. It just requires some patience and persistence. Keep in mind that craigslist is being scoured by like-minded individuals regularly (myself included) so the key is to jump on promising listings immediately.

A couple of sites that I regularly check are myhood.ca and viewit.ca (caveat, I have never actually rented any listings from these sites -- YMMV). Best of luck.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 8:44 PM on January 31, 2008

Best of luck if you are using this as an educational experience. Most of the industry seems to overwhelming love CSS Edit (not free) for a lot of the reasons you stated above (plus a whole lot more).

I would imagine that it would be fairly difficult to pull something like this off. One of the more interesting open source projects that I've seen (if you're a Windows user) is Notepad++. There is a fairly extensive plugin system for the application and a lot of language... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 4:44 AM on January 31, 2008

Demand for IT is supposedly higher right now than at the peak of the dotcom bubble. It's not surprising that you're getting that much interest. The Highrise suggestion is an excellent one that I would never have thought of.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 3:18 PM on January 30, 2008

n'th recommendation for going to the president. They're (usually) very approachable and used to dealing with these types of situations (unfortunately). You might want to mention it to the body that represents students (student federation, or student counsel) as these organizations have some surprising amount of pull in a lot of institutions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 3:15 PM on January 30, 2008

This is one of those internal monologues that could get you in a lot of trouble. You've immediately moved from statistics to assumptions (with a healthy negative twist) which is simply a recipe for disaster.

Everyone is different. The commonality between women and sexual likes or norms is as varied as personalities and looks. If this is really something you're worried about, read She Comes First.

Also, having open and honest discussions with your... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 8:55 PM on January 29, 2008

"healthy negative twist" == sarcasm
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 8:56 PM on January 29, 2008

Highly recommend Scotland the Best. The reviews of restaurants and tourist destinations is pretty spot on and we used it a lot more than we thought we would.

I would recommend a little bit more time in Edinburgh. It is a lovely city. Highly recommend the The Literary Pub Crawl.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 5:52 PM on January 28, 2008

Looks are subjective. There is no way to receive "unbiased confirmation" as you will undoubtably be attractive to some and unattractive to others.

This applies equally as well in the so-called blind experiments online because it is assumed that the person posting their pictures is metering the results. Also, despite the anonymous "fucktard" theory (wherein internet + anonymity = fucktard) most people who participate will generally rate on the higher... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 11:16 AM on January 27, 2008 marked best answer

Hopefully it's just a fan but a "scream" is usually the hard drive. Sounds like one of the spinning platters is grating against the casing. Unfortunately, it is more common than you think and it means your drive is about to go.

To be on the safe side, backup everything important right now. A simple test would be to go into your power management options and lower the hard drive spin down time to a minute and let the computer idle. If the sound goes away after... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 10:29 AM on January 27, 2008

I alwas promote BlackBerry's on here. They're the tried and true for a reason, they just work. The PIM stuff is solid, push email is great, and despite what everyone says, there are a lot of third-party applications to choose from. The BlackBerry curve is best-of-breed IMO (now, if Sprint or Verizon would pick it up, that would even better).

I'm not trying to detract from the iPhone. It is a great accomplishment. As with all Apple products though, I would wait for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 10:12 AM on January 22, 2008

Religion is a personal choice. Forcing you to go to church against your wishes for the sake of the children is sending a stronger message that your personal beliefs are not to be valued. I'm not sure if the "both parents in" mentality is a good one. There will be a lot more areas that you will disagree on throughout yours (and their) lives. Tell your GF to get used to it or move on.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 3:01 PM on January 21, 2008

I agree with kcm. I've only been using one for almost a month, but it is a fairly impressive piece of hardware. The speeds could be a little bit better (and I'm sure they'll be working on it, their forums are filled with people complaining about it after the latest firmware update).

It has a SlimServer on it and a media server (wizd). It can also act as an iTunes server (haven't touched that yet). It's running debian, so once you enable the SSH support on the device it... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 5:02 PM on January 19, 2008

Just have a shower beforehand. You're really over thinking this. If you're this worried going into this I can't imagine how comfortable you'll be during.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 5:22 PM on January 9, 2008

The only thing I'll contribute is that "feeling pregnant" does not indicate anything that early in a potential pregnancy. Since you're trying to get pregnant, perception will play a lot of funny tricks that will make you both see signs everywhere. Take the 2 weeks and take a few pregnancy tests. If they turn out positive then either find a second opinion or go back to your doctor.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 5:13 PM on January 9, 2008

Let your boss know. Unless you fudged your application and/or interview they may already be aware of your inexperience. This does not necessarily make for a bad situation as there may be something else about you that they find more appealing.

If you make them aware of your inexperience it is nothing that a few books, courses, or simply some free time throughout the day couldn't solve. Companies are becoming much more receptive to this stuff since they realize that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 5:10 PM on January 8, 2008

Oh, mix all the dry ingredients and liquid ingredients separately and then combine them slowly while mixing until smooth. Throw down some margarine on a hot frying pan then ladle some of the mixture onto the pan in pancake size amount.
posted to Ask Metafilter by purephase at 4:40 PM on January 7, 2008