Let's not forgot standardized coding styles. I have a hard enough time with developers who use the wrong spacing for tabs in their editor window!

Selection to alternate clipboard (or whatever it's called) doesn't suffer from this nonsense :D

I think this does not mean what you think it means...

make allnoconfig will answer "no" to all questions that can be answered no...

when it becomes a possibility for me to become a "real" engineer without having to study mechanics, surveying, etc I will become one. Until then I will be proud of my fake engineer status with my degree from " ... school of engineering"

I've gotten a lot closer recently (it got less and less useful of course). Also, back in the day, you had a driver diskette to load after the kernel.

Let's not forget the shell without which you would be hard pressed to run any other command!

It also provides a very powerful programming language.

A couple other things (at least from a Christian viewpoint, but there still should be some crossover if you don't hold the same views I do)

1. Find out what each other's "love language" is. Yes, it's full of Christian viewpoints, but his psychology is at least sound. Basically you find the best way to make your spouse feel loved and concentrate your efforts there. Website: http://www.fivelovelanguages.com/
2. Make a consious effort to maintain intimacy. Physical and emotional intimacy are a huge part of marriage. Since you're doing research, I suggest The Marriage Bed. Once again, this is a Christian ministry, but they're not going to beat you over the head if you're not a Christian but want to have a good marriage.
3. Don't underestimate the spiritual aspect of marriage. The tying together of souls into one person, while it may seem old and outdated, is a very powerful concept. Find a pastor/priest/rabbi/etc to help you understand what it means to be united with your spouse.

so... any BIND server would be down for a bit... anyone with a caching name server would still be able to surf.

Those plugs are fun to play with! My company has a lab in Shanghai that uses the P+N+E model

that wouldn't really work. you still need (without kernel modesetting) access to the graphics hardware.

Most evangelicals see their beliefs as meriting a lifetime of study. Definitely those who get paid by the churches to study and teach should be able to at least pick this apart line by line. Having this resource available for free is amazing considering some of the doctrinal study tools out there cost a small fortune.

Umm, you can now turn in your geek badge Mr. Anonymous. A/I wasn't the best movie, but it was excellent Science Fiction.

The major problem is that a lot of GNU software is horribly a pain to cross-compile, especially if the project is less mature. The main goal of scratchbox is to hide the fact that your cross-compiling and to only expose the headers and libraries you need to compile in the "correct" place so the Make/autoconf/automake generated files don't have to be massaged too much. Part of this "hiding" is to also disguise the "arch" of the host machine as well, and it almost seems that jails would be equally suited to do this part.

Just as a curiosity... Have you guys ever used jails for cross-compiles similar to scratchbox?