You're blaming Acer's modification to the OS on the OS itself? That's pretty funny.

Why accept the cookies in the first place? Most sites work just fine with a reject by default policy, and at the very least you can reject cookies from doubleclick and so on.

Yep, it's awesome. I had my old Adaptec 2940uw (best goddamn scsi card ever made) running an even older 340MB SCSI drive for a while. It also worked with the modern 9GB SCSI drive that was hanging off the other channel. And my Plextor cdrom (with a caddy). Those were the days :(

How can you have a 5 digit UID and not know about Theo de Raadt?

That is exactly what Paradox does. No drm at all. No cd checks, nothing. You don't even need the cdkey to install the software. If you want to do multiplayer however, you need a cdkey. In addition, if you want support on the forums, you need a valid cd key for that game (it puts a little icon next to your name, so it's immediately obvious if you have a registered cd key for the game you're trying to get support on).

Wait, are you stating that ubuntu has modified the default web browsers to explicitly make some files downloaded executable? Seriously, wtf? You should *always* be forced to manually flip the permissions on a downloaded file to make it executable. That you are getting excited that some things downloaded *aren't* executable worries me.

Why would I ever want to run a pre-installed OS? Aside from the security implications, it's incredibly unlikely to be installed the way *I* want.

As much I like seeing companies out there trying to make money off of promoting and selling Linux, I think a good portion of the lunix users wouldn't ever run/trust a pre-installed OS.

I don't think you understand how the +1 Karma bonus works.

You've been able to get it off of msdn for years actually.

File Name: en_winfs_beta1_refresh.exe Date Posted (UTC): 8/29/2005 9:56:55 AM
SHA1: B955F8645766BFDD43D2C8CBCE03A143D0F921A6 ISO/CRC: CE3B9B0E

That's an early beta obviously, but the basics have been available for just over 4 years now.

links scales to whatever size your xterm window is set to. Xterm (and compatible terminal emulators) have a handy little property they can pass which states the rows + columns of the current window. Applications such as links can read that property, and scale their size appropriately.

I'm late reading this article, but there *are* products out there that do exactly what you state. I can't recall any company names off-hand (and it'd sound too much like an advertisement anyway), but I think one of them was mentioned earlier by someone. The ones I've seen will take 6 sticks of ECC-R DDR2, and have a small external connector for power to maintain the contents of RAM while the computer is off. You're still limited by how many PCI-E slots you have in your servers (most 1U servers have 1-2 for instance), but it's a cheaper alternative to SSD.

I'm pretty sure you were able to force them to take out a loan, and then transfer the money to you. Do that until they can't take out any loans, then sell the stock. They'll then take out a bunch of loans, you buy them up again, take out some more, sell the stock, etc. As you said, eventually they'd go under, but it gave you piles of money.

It's been just over 10 years since I drove there, but there were stretches of road in Arizona/New Mexico/West Texas that were 50+ miles of perfect straight, where you could easily hit 130-140. You generally wouldn't even see another car for 20 mintures at a time, and I saw 1 cop in almost 800 miles. My car was electronically limited to 142, and I only had 150mph tires on, so 130-140 was just fine. Good roads because it never (or rarely) froze, and little traffic.

Certs are managed via our internal PKI implementation, and our internal CAs are trusted by all internal clients.

PKI is a big nasty can of worms, but it can be useful if you actually have a need for it. We finally put ours in after many years of debating, because it got to the point where the administrative overhead was outweighed by the benefit. If you don't want to go down the PKI route, you can just use GPOs to push out the proxy certs to all Windows clients, and then Linux/OSX ones can manually import them.