Wow, that sucks. I wonder if they did it to screw Oracle (Oracle vm server uses xen and Oracle enterprise linux, which is more or less rebranded RHEL). This will be interesting.

That would not be "propeller-driven" but rather "internal combustion-driven". There are many turboprops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop, you know. Anyway, I would also think that general aviation is more or less safe to fly. The speeds are not very high, neither the altitudes. Any dust would probably make far less damage at 200km/h than 900km/h. And GA airplanes are generally easy to maneuver in case of engine failure (assuming there is enough altitude).

So, the year of the linux dekstop is just a querter or two away? Yaayy!

Mode this guy up. I'm only buying next laptop when they have dual disk bays, one for SSD and one for HDD. Or, HDD with integrated SSD would also be nice.

Oh common. As a father of a 1 year old girl, I surely hope she, one day, is gonna enjoy a full and healthy sexual life.
My only business with her sex life is, to educate her how to do it safely.

Any fathers, who have issues with they girls having sex one day, have - I just can't put it otherwise - serious mental issues.

Flamebait? Really? Get off my lawn!

Chinese corporations that want to do business in the USA, have to respect USA's law, right? It's just a clash of two value systems. And as Ford would say: "yes, mine is better."

An Italian court has linked cell radiation to cancer, for the first time in history. I don't have the link in English, but it will probably be discussed online soon. So, no, I wouldn't buy the apartment, unless I wanted to sue for damages later in life.

I used Ubuntu for almost a year and I think linux cachnig / virtual memory is implemented better than win7. It seems win7 cache is too aggressive and it dumps active programs from RAM to page files when it should not. Maybe it works OK for most desktop users, but it doesn't work very well for a development machine. I have nothing but my subjective feeling to backup my observations.

Yeah, that's why I'm always a bit nervous when flying with airbus.

How is this offtopic?

I know, it's not a FPS (it's a WW2 flight sim), but really, very accurate.

Visual studio and .Net use XML extensively. Think web services (wcf). Think database (xml support). Shit, this is BIG!

We are just about to launch Project Management / Professional services automation solution for German speaking market (if we get enough request, we might prepare English version very soon).

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Well, Microsoft can't just ignore the risk "if x86 goes down, we go down". For this reason some kind of even the lastest versions of windows portability is plausible, IMO.