Either this works for high-level stuff only or there is a _lot_ of magic added for the benefit of shoddy programmers getting away scot-free.

> Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman movie

Nooooooooo!

That guy makes good movies and while I don't care much for superheroes, his interpretation of Batman is simply a damn good story.

> my biggest complaint is that they took away the desktop icons.

Which is why you can switch to folder view.

> it's graphics accelerated but not snappy.

It's vector graphics. Until you have built a cache of the sizes custom-rendered for your system, it takes a bit. For how long did you try KDE?

> it's really annoying to have to open eight different configuration windows

Specific examples?

I have my own problems with KDE and I am definitely not one who migrated to 4.x lightly, but your issues seem to stem from being used to Gnome and simply accepting that you can't change any settings, anyway (no, their "registry" abomination does not count).

I like your analogy, but you need to work on the part where water vapor floats down through liquid water ;)

Storing your previous locations is not needed for the function set desired by the average user.

Storing passwords, on the other hand, is.

It would be nice if there was an option to unlock the encrypted passwords at boot time, but unless you are willing to give up background synching, you are required to have a plain text copy _somewhere_. I fully expect the business-geared phones to offer something like this within a year or two.

I am not saying that storing passwords in plain text does not suck. Yet, you seem to be mixing two totally unrelated issues to further your side of the agenda. But on Anti-Android, it's +4 Insightful when you do that ;)

...there is an actual issue with naming conflicts here. Of course, Phoronix can not write that in the title as that would create less page impressions and resemble actual news reporting.

Thanks to the "anonymous readers" who keep submitting Phoronix advertisements^Wstories and the mods letting them through with all their bullshit we can have yet another thread with misinformed people trolling the hell out of the submission box.

If you need offsite storage on the cheap, let the person who is lowest in the system but still 100% trustworthy take the tapes home. Keep several data sets. Verify, weekly, that said person has the tapes at home.

Obviously, the RAID set is only a part of the puzzle. Still, downtime sucks and restoring from backups takes time.

And yes, you always need several copies on distinct machines in separate locations, potentially enhanced by one or more offline copies.

I have had two disks in a RAID 10 fail me directly after each other, once. Guess which two? Yay!

Especially for backups where write speed is not much of an issue, you want RAID 6 or above. Never RAID 10.

You can fly by and steal a bit of the dwarf energy.

And you need to know where they are as you will _not_ end up anywhere near Sirius if you do not...

Yes, it looks scary. But it's there for the long haul, it's lightweight, it generates (mostly) static HTML.

You can use any VCS as back-end with git being the default. You can use half a dozen markup languages to generate the HTML from or just write plain HTML.

tl;dr: Try ikiwiki. If you make it out alive, you will love it.

> I'd consider one for myself but one 50â plan per month in this family is enough.
> If the task of the salesperson is to meet the users needs, then I'd bet money on it that the iPhone fits the needs of normal (non-geek) people best.

nuf said.

Anyway, what HTC phone? I have seen the same story, but with Debian and HTC Desire (HD). And yes, things Just Work for them.

> and you see a once mighty company that was great for business, developers, and consumers

Seriously? Or are you referring to DOS 5.0?

Yes, a common platform is what helped PCs gain in the early days. But since then?

Lock-in and anti-competitive measures are _never_ good for anyone other than the one doing it.

I am not questioning your choices or anything, but I have one honest question:

> the message from Microsoft was that Silverlight will be everywhere "in the future"

Did you actually believe this?

Kudos to the kid etc, but those systems have been for sale from commercial suppliers for years. First via GSM, these days, you can do video, as well.