I'm not sure I understand. Can you rephrase that using cars?

This is somewhat nvidia's fault. Now that I can't boot Lucid on my laptop due to nouveau causing some sort of freeze could probably be levelled at Ubuntu, but I'm no better off with Fedora or any other distro shipping nouveau.

I'm not quite sure what this is implying. It seems that you think they should only be assembling pieces, whereas they have been criticised for often doing just that.

I run a few headless Ubuntu boxes, a kubuntu box, and my regular Ubuntu workstation. Only one of those has Gnome.

I haven't seen any problems with upstart. It seems to be generally welcomed by the community, adopted by Fedora and Debian. It even also preserves sysv compatibility so you can keep your non-upstart init scripts.

I can't comment on Debian's tendancy to change stuff "for the hell of it" (they usually have a reason), but Ubuntu still uses fstab. The only change I can think of is the addition of UUID support (which may or may not have gone upstream. I didn't follow that). fstab still works the same way as it always has.

Press 'e' at grub and remove "quiet splash". Or change your grub preferences to never include it. So what if a perfectly reasonable default doesn't suit your particular desires. I don't really want to see boot messages every time I boot, but it is trivially easy to get them back if there is trouble.

So, yes. It does seem like you're trolling.

I was laid off for a bit last year. I'd be downstairs playing when the lights start flickering. I'd yell up "Time for bed?" My wife says "No, I'm going to work"

"beep beep beep beep" brings a tear to my eye, every time.

Cheating doesn't happen on consoles. Except when it does.

Have you compared this with Mediatomb? I'm currently using that, and I didn't find any real comparisons between the two from a quick google search.

This may not have come up in testing as Google never actually deletes anything.

I know the feeling, but in reverse. I acquired a copy of Windows 7 recently, and decided to try it out. I couldn't find a mail client I like, and am far to used to having a CLI there. I tried a somewhat buggy evolution port, cygwin, and a coLinux system before giving up for the same reasons you are, I'm just used to what I'm used to, and changing platforms is difficult.

It worked out the same with hardware too. Everything works in Ubuntu (and I'm looking forward to it working better when nouveau starts shipping and I can get xrandr). Windows wouldn't even shut down, let alone suspend or hibernate. It seemed to shut down, but would stay on, while suspend would resume the machine immediately. Turns out I had to manually play with some setting on a firewire card or something (kind of weird since it was a microsoft-provided IEE-1394 driver, afaict).

There are some things I wish were easier on Linux systems, too. Having to rip HD-DVD and BluRays before watching them takes time and a lot of disk space. Being a second-class citizen when it comes to graphics and wireless drivers is somewhat of a pain. I also wish I could play some games (especially ones that I paid for expecting a Linux client "soon". I'm looking at you, UT3/Epic), but I've been getting around this by buying older ones from GOG.com and the steam sale which do work in dosbox and wine.

I'm hoping that projects such as Boxee bring a legitimacy to linux-based home media centres that Mythtv never managed to convey beyond the userbase, so at least one person, somewhere in the chain of decision-making might say "Hey, maybe silverlight isn't such a good idea". Ah, but I dream, I suppose.

I can't comment on Netflix. Unsupported Linux user is an upgrade from unsupported Canadian.

I thought it was Perl!

CDMA is a standard. Bell and Telus are both CDMA providers in Canada. Unfortunately they also refuse to activate each others phones onto their networks. Since the ID is part of the phone and not a removable chip your Bell phone will always be a Bell phone.

If you want to go GSM here, you can go with any of our long list of GSM providers: Rogers.

As a Canadian, I would welcome this coating. Driving in the summer is bad, and if this can help make the inside of my car more manageable, then yes, put it in. The sun doesn't give you any real heat in a freezing car in the winter, so I don't really see a loss there.

And both can not be done? Gas taxes may get people to stop driving unnecessarily, sure. I ride my bike to work when weather permits. But why stop there? If there is a way to ease emissions from cars that are still being used, by all means do it. Make it mandatory.

I don't see what the big deal is.

What platform is this? I've been using DPI adjustments on various laptops for a quite a while now to avoid squinting and eye strain.

I concur. I've got an Apple Airport Express on the living-room stereo. I routinely redirect my music to it from the Pulse Audio volume control. Much nicer than the tinny sound from the laptop speakers, and nicer than running a cord across the room.

Arguably true if Time Machine only does on-disk backups, which only solves the "oops, I deleted/changed a file" scenario. By default, TM wants an external disk locally (USB or Firewire) or through the network (time capsule), solving the more important "oops, I ran over my laptop with a truck" scenario.

To support ZFS snapshots on-disk and keep current functionality off-disk would mean maintaining two backends.

Also, I have not used ZFS, but are ZFS snapshots similar to LVM snapshots in that unassigned space is required for the delta? I'd like to see the genius bar describe that to the average Mac user.

I'll agree with you. I never really understood why the iPod became the gold-standard for music devices.

My iRiver ihp-120 is still going strong. It has FM radio support as well, and this is going back to late 2003. The screen is really the only complaint one could have compared to a "modern" device.

I've since installed rockbox and upgraded the hard disk. I don't see very many devices these days that are competitive with this one.