Yet simple Amazon MP3 purchasing has changed for Linux clients, now having to mess with Cloud player.

Not happy, Amazon.

Low Level Virtual Machine. However, has little to do with what it is now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM

Rename needed, certainly, it is.

Carry on.

Linux on laptop is really a laptop issue, the hardware is shortcut to use Windows junk to run. Vendors are skipping hardware solutions for items that use Windows Drivers and the CPU to do instead. This would be why I refused to get a laptop sold with Windows, shooting for a Linux-based or no-OS model. Surprise, big price difference for roughly the same CPU/Memory/Disk.

Blaming Linux for crappy hardware is no good.

Same applies to the original Wii. The controllers were novel, something different and drove initial sales, but they aren't all that great for many "gamer" games (FPS specifically).

Wii U will be the same deal.

Gee, where's all the usual complaining about how "people will have to relearn, don't do it!!", "Dummies won't be able to pick up how to use the new interface, no matter how much it makes sense!"?

Yes, all the arguments used against switching folks to say Ubuntu or another useful Linux OS suddenly get ignored. Not surprised but very annoyed.

..like, maybe this should be done for alcohol. That stuff is nasty, will kill the liver over time and is considered a poison. Surely that would be a good thing to do.

Oooooh, wait, the United States tried that already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

For those not reading well, THIS IS SARCASM.

To: RIAA/MPAA assholes

I've been less and less likely to go to movies, thanks dudes.

Being specific: the idea that y'all think movies are a good way to strip cash from consumers to your pockets is annoying. The idea that you deserve to do so no matter what is plain offensive.

I'm a current Dish customer and on the fence regarding this Hopper/Autohop upgrade.

Primary issues:

Dish has said for the upgrade to Hopper, all my existing equipment (some of which is owned by ME) must be thrown off my account. I can't add a Hopper and keep some of my older 311 units to say, play some Sirius music in the basement. Strike One.

In addition, the Hopper has three tuners. However, Autohop sucks up one tuner all the time. This makes the Hopper/Joey combo less useful, given the issues I have with one DVR with two tuners serving only the main TV. Strike Two.

Time to stand up and hit Dish, you listening?

Manually tagging of ads is actually required due to the advertisers acting strongly to break DVR use in the first place.

Such as:

* Shows start and stop at times other than the top of the hour, in terms of several minutes.

* Ads displayed DURING the show (really hate that).

* Poor communication of schedule time, especially changes.

Agree, the annoying ads on DURING the show is what is making me consider getting rid of Dishnetwork period.

Dish, you get that? Get rid of that crap, I might consider staying.

Selling to my eyeballs that don't want your crap in the first place: dumb. It simply pisses me off MORE towards your company and products.

I'm not a fan of having the home page constantly refresh. I prefer to do that when I'm ready. You know, the way it worked for years. ;)

Unfortunately, with the way it is currently working, I actually end up reading slashdot less, as I lose my place.

And no, I don't RSS or other feed junk, have always hated that.

ISCABBS was where I spent a lot of time, pre-ISP, pre-browser.

And it still exists and yes, I still visit on a regular basis.

bbs.iscabbs.com (that's telnet to get there, kids!).

The good old days of 600+ simultaneous online users. Ah!

Today's forums are a lot harder to read.

Tracking who is not tracked while not tracking them.

Hmm.

Oh, right, it's that stupid day when I should stay away from Slashdot, whoops.

As others have noted, if you can't afford AT LEAST another drive, serious problem right off the bat. One wonders what the data is worth given this.

I'll move on, assume the data is worth AT LEAST another drive or two (we're talking a couple hundred bucks at most, come on):

1. drbd: raid to a low cost, remote machine with similar sized drive. Dead drive is now recoverable.

2. amanda or similar backup to drive on remote machine. No, not tape, just virtual on disk. Now have a backup history as well in case one needs that file that one deleted 6 months ago.

Yes, cost is a couple hundred and some older machines, but really, what is your data worth in the first place?

Thanks for this!

Make sure to NOT see this movie, check!
Skip any movie associated with Michael Bay, check!
Keep my money away from Hollywood idiots, check!