"My Note 3 has 3GB of RAM but due to all the shit Samsung and AT&T have stuck on the phone it only has about 1GB free." I Cant speak about AT+T firmware. But the Note 3 in UK (EE) a lot of the Samsung Apps aren't installed by default and only install if you select them from the app menu and others can be disabled ( which also un-installs any updates ). This is much better than the S3 which I rooted almost immediately to free space and remove apps. Also as the linux kernel is in use and it (rightly) tries to use all the RAM all the time. Apps you have closed may be cached etc. I think your complaint may be misguided to a degree. Though the bloatware and carrier restrictions seem much worse across the board in the US.

Proposing to my girlfriend!

expanding ... "Direct Memory Access access to the Random Access Memory." I know I'm a pedant but I enjoyed that!

though putting "debian 7" (including the quotes) gets much better answers ;-)

Fedora 20 is excellent out of the (metaphorical) box. I'm going to move my dad across to it from Mint next time I do an update. (It has become difficult to build a git version of wine since Ubuntu made some upstream changes to multilib)

You can on Linux. I have enjoyed playing Fez and Super Meat Boy that way. For some reason Trine2 doesn't like it but so far that is the only game I've found that has any issues.

I played it through over the last couple of days and haven't encountered any problems with it. Now for some L4D2 :-)

I did it using the "gamerlay" overlay. There are guides on doing it without using overlays for example http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam one bug that bit me was fixed like this http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846939071390931093/

I like the parent posters have both the native and (several) wine installations. As games get ported I remove them from the wine installs and add them to the native client. At the moment I'm actively playing (thanks to the recent sales) Native: TF2, World of Goo, SS3:BFE Emulated: Skyrim , Deux Ex:HE, CS:GO, XCOM When the rest of the Source games get released I'm sure I'll be playing through HL2 again and possibly killing some more zombies with friends ( LFD 1+2 ) Also I'm running on Gentoo and the native client wasn't difficult to install though I'll certainly appreciate it once there are a selection of distro specific packages or some logic to simplify installs inside the main steam installer. Other family members have Mint installed and steam was trivial to install there.

Kinda works for me. Get root on Gentoo box Then everything stopped working within a couple of seconds. any programs started were auto killed and all networking stopped dead. I saw an kernel oops in the kernel ring log. a reboot was required to do anything useful. Linux mysystem 3.2.12-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 26 12:55:47 BST 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 970 @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 295.59 Wed Jun 6 21:19:40 PDT 2012

I think you are not conflating weak and strong atheism. Weak atheism as far as i can see is perfectly reconcilable with science. Also in a very real sense we are all agnostics; Even true believers.

Anyone remember a robot war variation on the old Research Machines (RM) 480Z systems ? I would love to play with it again for nostalga's sake.

The series 24 has been consistantly bad with the whole computer thing, comments about just "opening a port" etc. I also saw the worst peice of Product Placement on the show. It was around the 5th Season CTU was under attack from a hacker and an exchange along the lines of this took place. Technician 1: They're released a virus, we better do something Technician 2: Don't worry the Cisco Self defending Network should hold them for about half an hour.