My E6500 is awful. The thing is, I use solely laptops and always the touchpad. I don't like external keyboard or mouse a bit. Now E6500 has this "little" problem that its touchpad freezes every now and then. But sometimes it gets overly sensitive and seems to have a life of its own. IIRC I read from Dell forums that this is a common problem, something to do with the touchpad itself and not a driver problem since some people have experienced this even on Linux while I use Windows 7. The laptop works quite fine when I'm doing something which doesn't need my involvement, like building a project, but that is a very rare situation.

So I'm rather dissapointed since every other product form Dell has worked 100% for me. For example I loved Inspiron 9400. I'd gladly change E6500 to any other Dell laptop but it's not actully my laptop but my employer's so I have to stick with it at least two and half year.

I've been saying the same thing for almost 10 years now. Every time I've been blamed as a "troll". I'd like to have web which just displays information without hundreds of lines of CSS masturbation. For any more complex things I prefer rich apps which uses Web Services (or whatever) when communicating with server(s).

But if five billion other internet users wants to have HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, etc. etc. who am I argue with them.

Bacteria is living thing! with feelings! We mustn't program them against their will!

Funny thing. Finland's press exercise censorship of their own but I guess that doesn't drop positions on that list. There's some cases where Finnish press doesn't tell exactly the truth or at least the whole truth about things and in some cases they tell outright lies. You just have to know how to read our news. Usually combining facts from different media sources you get the whole picture.

So if this kind of censorship is taken in account Finland wouldn't be number one.

You mean the government can't keep you safe and give information to the people (to the electorate) at the same time? If that's the case then there wouldn't be crimes in Finland at all!

I think everyone should read Frank Herbert's Chapterhouse: Dune and the discussions between Spider Queen and Lucilla about politics and democracy. There's a lot of truth in there if you compare it to a real world democratic state.

I'm not sure if Google can be thought to have monopoly on search markets, and I'm too lazy to read about the case, but if EU thinks so the rules will change. Just like Microsoft was forced to provide browser choice dialog with Windows although one would presume that Windows comes with Internet Explorer.

Shag? Girlfriend!? I still don't get it...

Six? Hell, I was writing my first app with Vic20 when I was six! Poking this and peeking that...

We are pretty much pissed off in Finland too. But it's not because of other countries like Iceland or Ireland. It's because our braindead politicians think that Finland has endless amounts of money which can be shared to the rest of the world. I'm not really sure what's our Minister of Finance's idea to throw money away but I'm sure he is benefiting somehow from all of this.

Sometimes I really hate this socialist country. Luckily we have elections coming.

Microsoft being able to claim any kind of Unix ownership would be a guaranteed disaster

I thought they owned Xenix and still has some of their copyrighted stuff in Unix? Are we in disaster now?

If you don't understand what's wrong with reading an entire table with a million records, and discarding all but 5 of them client-side

I think more common case is to read entire table with million records and discard all but 5 of them on the server-side, just because the one who designed the db didn't know a squat about indexing. I've seen databases without a single clustered key. This force a full table scan even if you return just a single record to client-side.

Oh fuck! I just figured out how to get free of child support payments to my ex-wife. I just tell the police that she raped me 8 years ago! Unfortunately I don't think that this works in Finland :(

This is funny. I thought the AV industry has been touting that AV software is an essential part of operating system for at least a decade now. But for some reason, if the OS vendor itself brings that essential part to the system it's not OK anymore.

I thought Open Source projects are supported by "the community"?

Ah. So it's more like a distributed minute book and not agenda. Interesting idea.