Everybody was all up in arms with Ubuntu went with Unity. It was a head scratcher for a lot of folks unless you think about it from their point of view. The desktop is arguably the most important part - if users don't like it, that's it baby game over. Now imagine putting your whole product's future in the hands of Gnome or KDE. Those teams are like herds of ADHD children running amok with knives. KDE and Gnome had a decade to get their act together, they missed the boat on a Windows CE epic scale.

Education costs money, and you're fighting a culture of profit.

So long as it's profitable for vendors to increase profits they'll keep selling larger and larger portions, no matter how unhealthy it is. This is how the American public has been taught how to eat - by corporations with a profit motive.

This is not an assault on your rights. Well ok, it is. It's really intended to fight unscrupulous sugarwater vendors. At least it's something. They started with cigarettes many years ago and decades later it's had some effect.

The idiots! What's next, a rose without a scent? Sex without babies? Hey, wait a second....

Awesome, at 10% of full speed you'll get nearly an hour before hitting the cap. That's a tenfold improvement, fire up the marketing machine!

I personal use I like Ubuntu / Debian. But for work I would use Fedora, because for production work you'll almost certainly be using Redhat.

They can have my drone when they pry it out of my cold, dead.... Oh, wait.

Slashdot itself is guilty of promoting unfounded blog posts/rumors as news, practically every day. For profit. Journalism is on life support.

T-Mobile is very profitable. Deutsche only wants out because it's no longer in growth mode. It certainly won't grow any without spectrum and LTE, and it can't afford either one. So yeah it will be sold or merged one way or another, but it's not a bad business. They can ride their faux-G network for a while but not forever.

Recently Sony gave up with their cameras and switched to SD cards like everybody else.

Gaming, especially portables, is another market. Namely, young gamers who are too blinded by the latest gadgetry to worry about the little ways in which they're being gouged.

Crack my code bitches!

Because its professionally written from a Stuxnet base, uses a signed driver, a new 0-day in MS Word, takes screen shots and key logs and also completely removes itself in 30-some days... It's probably a government spy program. My guess.

If you leave everybody benefits. You gain a better commute, better pay and more opportunity. The old company's two junior programmers will benefit from new responsibility. The company will survive just fine without you believe it or not. If they really need you perhaps they can pay you a small retainer to consult for a few months.

Bottom line, don't ever hold yourself back.

Agree with the Crashplan advice. I spent a lot of time using manual scripts and ssh, but the time I've saved with Crashplan has been well worth it.

- It supports local backups as well as remote network backup, in one interface
- Runs unobtrusively
- Linux, mac and windows
- The UI is easy to understand and schedule.
- If you really need to, encrypt your important stuff to a truecrypt volume and back it up like you would any normal file.
- Inexpensive

It actually works very well. Almost every break-in attempt is from a script. Almost every script only tries the default port. You can easily eliminate a very large number of script attacks just by changing the port.

That's a fine idea for private systems. For private servers I use only ssh with certificates. Poof, hack attempts are gone.

For a public facing FTP server the idea is to keep it easy. It should work with any FTP client out of the box with no configuration. In this case your only defense is to pick real username and long, quality passwords.