Canada is a single nation.
The EU really is not.

You have hit on a truth that is old as Byte Magazine.
OS/s for the desktop never really mattered it is all about applications. You buy a computer to run applications you do not buy a computer to run an OS.
I would love a desktop with VMS running and OS/X UI and possibly some OS/2 Workplace shell as well but without the apps it would be useless.
It is kind of like what happened to the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. They both had a better OS the MS-DOS and they both had better hardware at a cheaper price than you could buy to run MS-DOS.
The lack of app combined with the lack of coverage in the computer magazines is what killed them. You can not blame the magazines too much since Atari and Commodore could only buy so many ads compared to the all the adds that the clone makers could buy.
Right now I run Windows 7 at work but have VMs for Windows 8 and Linux for projects I work on.
ChomeOS has a chance now that so many people use their computers for the internet and not a lot else. I do not know the last time I bought a piece of software that was not a game for a PC.

Really? Of course they will send you a reset password in email. The other option is that or a link.
Ideally it is only good for a single use and you then enter a new password.
How else would you do password recovery?

Because they edit it and select it.

Really Slashdot editors....
Try 1979 at a Ford plant in Detroit.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-sear...

Really it is a new low when the editors on slashdot can not be bothered to use Google
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"Honestly, things which 10 years ago would have been the domain of crackpots is now 100% fact."
No. I keep hearing this but you guys must have lived on another planet. The fact that all governments sucked up just about all international communications dates back to the invention of the telegraph and maybe back to the mail.
Any idea that they were not monitoring all clear text transmissions over the internet frankly I find just dumb. As far as meta data that was always up for grabs.
False flag operations? That is in the realm of tin foil hats and crackpots. Frankly the rest of it is just common knowledge to anyone with a brain.

Why don't we have a -1 crackpot mod.

In other words he has no idea what he is talking about and should be ignored.
Frankly as should this story.
Come on an anthropologist says nuclear power unsafe....
This is click bait of the level of the National Enquire. For SHAME SLASHDOT!

Seems like one could make a cape for BeagleBoard or an add on for Rpi with the IO and an emulator for the BBCMicro.

Actually I am impressed that it did see how similar Apes and people are. Honestly people getting upset over it are just a bit silly. The problem is people think that someone put person_of_african_descent == ape in the code and that is not true. The algorithm just confused one great ape with an expressive face with another. It is no more racist or intentional than the same system confusing a Camaro with a Firebird.
 

Network security yes.
the OMG Cisco is buying them and the Gov will spy on me now is what I could live without.

Thanks Googleing is all fine and good but a recommendation from someone that used it makes all the difference IMHO.

This is for a cluster that is being used not an exhibit in a glass box.
I think modifying the existing power supplies is probably the best way to go today. Replace the caps and possibly the voltage regulators with newer parts might be a really good way to go today.
I would suggest starting a project to create a modern PS that could be a drop in replacement for the old one. It could use a lot less power and be more reliable in the long run.

Links?

actually I am not very worried about DNS privacy.
I just wish we could go back to the old days of Slashdot when it was all about cool dads building battlemech tree houses instead of the tin foil hat crowd.