Good old times, if you ask me.

In the archive, there is a post from 1981 in net.general mentionning a new hard drive with a capacity of 560MB, by DEC and selling for $38K-$48K.

Seems huge for thirty years ago.

Excellent idea you had, and a beautiful UI by the standards of 1981 ;)

Thank you for your work.

The Gnome 3 shell is not very different from Unity in this approach. Stupidest UI design ever.

Do they expect eveyone to replace their desktop PC with fancy tablets or touch-based phones, or what ?

"It shouldn't be hard to get some shared calendar services running on an extra box somewhere..."

This is hilarious and naive.

Believe me, setting up any kind of shared calendar in an large enterprise environment (read: hospital) today IS hard. You can't just put extra boxes "somewhere" as you need them. That's not how you build an IT infrastructure. You have to think globally. Think about maintenance, system administration, network access, monitoring, security, data backup, software upgrades, etc. And you can bet most "heads-of-something" will want to access those calendars with any device or software they prefer : "Hey I can't sync my cal with Outlook / Evolution / my iPhone / my Windows 7 phone / my Android one / etc. and I don't care why. Just get it working."

Basically, if there's anything you can do at home when toying with your computer, network or iPad, you probably can't and SHOULDN'T do it in a corporate network. And there are *many* very good reasons to that.

"No one would deny that 3D is more immersive, that's why people like it, particularly for gaming." So much assumptions in one sentence.

Hell, we need more words.

I for one have been having the same problem with a 2009 MBP, the one with a Core 2 and dual Nvidia cards (9400 ang 9600GT). Using any CPU/GPU intensive app while not in "Power saving" for more than 2 hours would lead to the whole left side of the case overheating seriously, and the screen eventually freezing. Remote login via SSH still works, btw, so I guess some GPU is to blame. Not sure if this really is a "2011" issue.

I use it everyday, and most of my co-workers do. And of course it's mostly useful at work, where you don't use Facebook to communicate. Hopefully. This sometimes leads to funny situations where the BCC'd recipient answers some mail he wasn't "supposed" to read, by the way.

Well you have to admit that scrolling any page with 1000+ ajaxized comments is a benchmark per se.

If they happen to own a gun, maybe.

Well, you can surely guess what could happen to some people when their bank account details are stolen by scammers like those FakeAV publishers, and the bank puts the account on hold or closes it because of the debt. Not everyone has a good enough insurance to cover this and all the nasty "collateral damage".

Mmm is this just me, or is the blog article dated "Monday, February 8, 2010" ?

I work in a french college, and a two co-workers (who had ordered more than a hundred of those faulty PCs) had a hard time convincing their bosses that it was Dell's fault when the desktops suddenly started to go down one after the other. The common reaction was along the lines of "well if ALL of these computers were at fault, obviously there would be some media coverage about it". Also, there's no such thing as "class action lawsuit" here in France so the college would have had to build its own legal case, which was not an option against such a company. There was immediate need to replace the broken desktops, but Dell also delivered broken motherboards as a replacement. Kudos to the Dell commercials / techs, which were, then, VERY effective defending the "uncertainty" line depicted by TFA.