I checked it with Chrome 10-beta on Kubuntu 10.10. It crashed Chrome AND X, leaving me with a few seconds of black screen followed by a login prompt.

When I reloaded Chrome, it came up without the tabs I'd been looking at.

Impressive.

Sources, please.

Or if you are an astroturfer, the source of your "sponsorship" will do.

If you own a digital camera with video capability (how many don't?), the H.264 codec owners are not your friends. What's funny is that a lot of prosumer and low-end commercial cameras have this built in, meaning if you use the cameras for their announced purpose, you just might have a confrontation with the MPEG-LA people in your future. So transcode (Web-M, I suppose) before distributing. IMO, we as consumers are best off if H.264 dies and this time around, Google's efforts deserve our support.

a full-size multimedia keyboard (including numeric keypad) on the desktop?

I find it less stressful than either a standard keyboard or a virtual keyboard on a tablet. As for text messaging, my blackberry has a physical keyboard, but I'd rather send text messages via a real computer (my Kubuntu OS ASUS S101 netbook will do) via gateway.

is one of Facebook's current investors. That said, I have absolutely no trouble with the concept of trusting Facebook with Simson Garfinkel's personal information. Starting with his bank account ID info. Facebook's record with respect to user info and user privacy speaks for itself.

installing remote control software that hooks up to your desktop on anything mobile you need to access confidential information with.

This has been true with respect to anything you carry across an international border with you for years. This is why "best practices" for confidential information means do not keep it on your mobile device, don't keep anything more controversial than your books and multimedia content on one.

Estimates of his net worth range from $34-200M. His net worth wasn't remotely close even to the bottom number when he became President.

The real payoffs start for a President when he leaves office.

files from 1991. The main file tree living in /home/win is the one I started on my first DOS machine and has been transferred to Win3.1, W98, Fedora Core, Debian, Kubuntu. Somehow, it's grown in that time from 20 megs to 200G.

I've had 2 drive crashes in that time, the first bare-metal restore was a restore from tape which blew up the first time because the Sony Superstation Windows software would not read the whole file and they no longer supported it... customer service said go to the vendor they originally bought it from and d/l a trial version. The second crash was on Debian, I simply plugged in the backup hard drive and was getting an RMA from Maxtor tech support within 10 minutes.

As for reading 1990s files, all I had to do was figure out how to use the CLI LZH format archive program jhla-utils to decompress the files. Anything I've got from then that's still usable is text files or lotus 123 (clone) spreadsheets I can open from OpenOffice Calc.

It would be a very good thing for

• UPS manufacturers
• high-end surge protector vendors (the cheap shit won't cut it anymore)
• generator manufacturers
• solar cell manufacturers
• fuel cell manufacturers

Wikipedia says that their only successful nuclear test had a yield estimated 2.4 - 20 kT, with consensus pointing at the low end of the range. Their missile delivery systems are of questionable accuracy. How efficient is the industrial production they'd need to build significant numbers of their bombs and missiles?

Looks like they've got just enough power to kill a bunch of people in a city or two or to slow down an armored division IF the missiles land anywhere around the target.

capture. Some of them have exactly the same kind of trauma US troops have when captured, with the main difference being whose taxpayers paid for the ammo that blew holes in them. These skills will be used to save the lives of POWs, too.

And maybe even your life, lots of military medical personnel stay in medicine when they become civilians.

I use Panavise, a base plus the board holder, and other things can be attached to the base.

Get a good lighted magnifier on a swing arm, the kind where there's a circular light source (fluorescent or ring of LEDs) surrounding the magnifier.

Each will cost around $70, and they're well worth it.

When one is doing printed circuit board soldering, or examining surface mount PCBs, it really helps to be able to see what it is you are working on with a nice, shadowless light. And for the board to be up where you can easily work on it.

doesn't mean drill presses, The tabletop bent as soon as the press was put on it and it became evident that the anchoring bolts would come out in a hurry if anyone bumped into it. I had to add plywood reinforcement to make it safe.

ClamAV for Windows is a great alternative to AVG/Symantec, and it's also, of course, free of charge. I use the Linux version on my Linux boxes and the Windows versions on the Windows boxes I maintain.

the ergonomics of a flat panel virtual keyboard with no resilience sounds great if you either do very little typing or always wanted to experience RSI for yourself.

However, this might have interesting uses for non-typing intensive applications. Imagine this as a substitute for a conventional control panel with the controls where the keyboard used to be and the system schematic on the top display.