Conroe is the county seat of Montgomery county which has nearly 500,000 people. So while there may only be 56,207 people in Conroe itself, apparently wikipedia hasn't been updated, its in a much larger county, a fair chunk of Conroe's ETJ was ceded so that The Woodlands can form a city in a few years. Oh and they also managed to get an Intel processor named after the town.

And I live there. :-)

Firefox and all the Netscape/Mozilla based browsers before it have always seemed to use all available memory on my system. I do not close my browser down often though so it may be that it is just really leaky like the previous poster said.

Yes, the 32-bit flash version running on 64-bit Ubuntu would crash very often. I switched to the 64-bit packages provided by kees in his ppa http://launchpad.net/~kees/ years ago but since Adobe has now dropped 64-bit Flash for Linux it will probably not be installable anymore. The 64-bit version was much more reliable at least as reliable as Flash ever is, of course it still ate CPU like crazy as it does on every platform.

And I assume you have never heard of server black lists, like the DNSBL I have even had emails I sent to myself not make it to the other end due to similar reasons, and yes when they are blackholed they don't even show up in the recipients spam folder.

Agreed, also when many of us started using Linux, for myself that was 15 years ago, there was no 'easier' distro, though I suppose Debian could be considered to always have been relatively easy at least compared to its contemporary distros. I have used Ubuntu for the last 5 of those 15 years.

This site does a good job describing the typical Gentoo user... ;-D

http://funroll-loops.info/

I was in Orvieto and Rome a few weeks ago and the Italian food in both barely resembled Italian food in the US, or for that matter even Prague, which itself was very similar to Italian in the US. I have a feeling most of what is served outside of Italy is from Southern Italy / Sicily. Pizza in the US of course is extremely different from Italian pizza.

And no I did not care much for the Italian food served in Orvieto/Rome.

I used to upgrade at least once a year back when technology was actually improving at pace where that was reasonably useful. Now I am down to only upgrading every 3 years. I bought a i7 quad core in Sept that I overclocked to ~ 3.6GHz and its still slow for the work I do which involves building a large program. However, it used to take 3-4 hours to do a build with my old Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz (bought in Dec 2006) and only takes 1 hour now with the i7.

No, its okay because Microsoft uses patents as weapons and not just defensively, and so they are now getting what they deserve. See the TomTom case for example.

Just use the Google method, of course there is the little problem of it being patented.

"Ubuntu needs all the good press they can get, I don't understand why they would risk it."

That's pretty funny considering Ubuntu is still in the lead on DistroWatch on all timespans except the last week. For the last week an Ubuntu derivative Linux Mint is number 1 with Ubuntu at number 2.

I would never buy a Mac especially not with all the reliability problems they have and mis-features like locking the SATA port to SATA 1 speed, disabling 802.11n on the older ones and requiring people pay to get the feature, etc. On top of that I would never run MacOS X, as I am a Linux developer, so why pay more (the Apple tax) for less hardware. I personally own a ThinkPad X200 which is much better and cheaper than anything I have seen from Apple.

As far as open phones go, there is really not much choice on that front. There is Openmoko which doesn't even have Edge/3G support or the T-Mobile G1 Android phone. It also looks like openmoko is dying off and they have canceled their phones planned to have Edge/3G support. Android looks promising but the phone still needs a lot more work and/or there needs to be more than one of them available. More Android phones should be available later this summer so perhaps it will gain more marketshare. So I am not surprised at all that currently people at open-source conferences are using iPhones. I recently bought one for myself after sitting on the fence about whether to continue to wait until a nicer Android phone became available. Hopefully in 2 years once my at&t contract finally runs out there will be much better Android phones available. With respect to at&t they are planning on releasing an Android phone as well but with crippled resolution only 320x240.

Yes... but 100km outside of Mumbai isn't Manhattan.

These apartments are extremely tiny at only 283 - 465 sq ft and for $7,800 - $13,400 that isn't really that cheap as it is around $28-29 per sq ft. The condo I own in Houston only cost me $43 per sq ft and they are now going for much cheaper than that after the economy meltdown.