You know, for me it's the other way around, I can hardly keep up with my friends posting on G+, while almost everybody (including myself) has largely abandoned Facebook.

And you know something else? The plural of anecdote isn't data. Our experiences differ a lot, still the truth will be somewhere in between.

I don't know about you, but the last time I remember using the home button was in Netscape 3. Nowadays I just resume to whatever state I left the browser in.

The concept of a "home page" is obsolete since at least ten years.

I did as you said, and googled for it (including the quotes), and it just returns one image - the Austrian Pastafarian driver's license.

Way to go. How you found out he not only has the thing on his head but also what his scrotum looks like AND feed it all to Google is beyond my imagination. You sure are one of those brilliant LULZSEC hax0rs. ^^

By now some AC has posted what looks like inside knowledge, some of which covers my questions - there will be a way of creating a bootable USB stick or DVD from which one can install. I'm on 10.6, so buying online will not be a problem for me.

I was rather fearing that 10.7 would be the double-installation joke you propose - first set up an old OSX and install the new one from there. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I mean, hey, all they have to do is have a first step in the installer that says "now please insert a blank DVD so we can burn your installation medium". :-)

No, it's complete bullshit. How do you download from a borked machine? How do you boot and restore from your Time Machine backup? How do you reformat and install from scratch? (Please don't tell me they're starting this "service partition" crap.)

I sure hope they offer real media, even if they do at additional cost. At 30 USD for the OS I'll happily pay ten bucks more for packaging and media...

Aw, c'mon. I was being helpful 15 years ago, too. Nowadays there's just too many idiots to cope for, which is why the OP asked his question in the first place.

While I see your point, I'm pretty sure all of those would disappear by marking a handful of those as spam in your MUA and have ye olde Mr Bayes deal with the rest.

Really, why not just ignore it and throw it all away? If people sign up with the wrong addresses, they might as well notice it themselves...

I mean, really? It's entertaining to read, but the guy obviously is just a dumb nut who, judging from his English, probably didn't even understand what you wrote to him. So why bother?

You mean those G4's that came out in 1999 and those G5's from 2003, making them 12 and 8 years old? Which happen to run just fine with OSX 10.5?

I'd really love to see your 12 and 8 years old PC hardware in use, and performing as well as my G4 with OSX 10.5. I gave it to my niece two years ago who to this day is really satisfied with it, using it for her everyday computing needs. It doesn't feel slower than her brother's Vista notebook, to fuel the flamewars. ;-)

There are lots of reasons to fret about what Apple does with the iDevices, but still talking about PPCs really is ridiculous.

You know, you're getting modded "Funny", but actually this is +5, Insightful. But only because +5, Sad But True doesn't exist.

People don't understand how much better it is to control your own information. I sure hope something like Diaspora or Appleseed will give people the best of both worlds one day.

Nah. pkg_add -r [packetname] installs binary packages just as with apt-get install [packetname].

But I agree BSD is a bit lacking in documentation of everyday tasks such as upgrading software (both in ports and packages). For example, there's a multitude of ports dealing with port upgrading, but I find none of them intuitive. For some I never understood of which parts they consist and how to use them. In the end I just asked a BSD-savvy friend to set it up for me.

For the record, that was on 6.0 and it might have become better, but said 6.0 installation still rocks like gibraltar (it's a web and mail server), runs the current versions of everything (except FreeBSD itself, obviousy *g*) so there's no need to upgrade. I plan on playing with 8.2 when I have the time, but that's what's great with BSD - it runs and runs and runs and runs...

Oh and BTW, my old employer is still running the FreeBSD 4.8 box with exim as a mailserver. If my coworker didn't lie to me, it now has uptime of around five years of pretty heavy use.

This is most interesting, can you tell me the source to those numbers? I want to use them next time somebody is trying to talk me into buying any stock-based financial product. Or wants to tell me why the stock markets should NOT be made illegal.

What a great idea. It's a pity though that businesses will never use it because of its name. Can you imagine "monkeysphere compliant" on a product website? There you go.

A great example on how to have great stupid names: "Bacula" is a pretty clever stupid name that businesses never ever will understand. It's the plural of baculum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum). Always makes me grin when I see it in a corporate environment.

That's actually a pretty great name. Really, people, look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

What's keeping us from creating something like this, and what would seperate it from other approaches such as darknet et al.? I'm sure there are several infrastructures like that as we speak, we just don't know about them. (Hint: There must be something hidden in all that spam.)