No. Failing to name the exact or +/- 10% fraction of Earth that is covered in water most emphatically does NOT demonstrate a disregard for scientific knowledge.

Not to mention being the second architecture by count in the Top500 and being in the 4th and 5th fastest supercomputers in the world...

NTFS-3G sucks really, really hard. I tried to use it to copy a bunch of files between partitions and it left the second partition in an unusable state (basically the files were insanely fragmented and both Linux and Windows would choke just trying to read the filesystem).

So maybe it's usable for editing small amounts of files, or files that already exist, but it is in no way a replacement for native or networked filesystems.

Fuck you, kdawson. You and other editors like you are the reason Slashdot's editorial quality is worse than it has ever been, and insightful discussion is vanishing.

You should read "The structure of scientific revolutions". There is a large body of work associated with the phenomena you describe, and most scientific communities take a lot of care to prevent the negative effects.

I use Linux daily and very heavily. I administer and use it on a 300-core compute cluster, I develop applications on it, I maintain packages for a Linux distribution. I guess I have a lot of use for the environment.

I also need my OS/DE/the whole stack to support my hardware well without spending days tweaking it and to provide me with a GUI that doesn't suck. It does so perfectly on the cluster/server, but is pathetic at it on my laptop (it's a Thinkpad, so the specs are pretty open and the drivers are almost all there; it's the userland support that's absent). KDE 4.1 fails at it. Gnome fails at it less miserably. KDE 4.2 still fails at it. I don't know how long it will take KDE to recover, but I'm not waiting.

I don't like not having the true Linux environment at my fingertips but Cygwin does most of it passably and most of the time I'm connected to a server anyway. Yes, Putty is an ssh client, but Puttycyg is a terminal emulator, and the best one there is for Windows. And it still sucks.

Konsole running Cygwin on Windows will be a nice improvement and as close as one can get to a good platform on Windows so far.

Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, but I miss having a terminal emulator that doesn't suck (aka Konsole). Putty is pretty awful in comparison.

... on hoverboards.

It's really disgusting that you got modded to +5, given that Vista and XP64 (and probably Win 7's) 32-bit emulation facilities have almost the same capabilities as the ones on Linux.

You're why Slashdot is disgusting to read every time Microsoft products come up. Meaningless trolls that won't discuss real merits and problems of different technologies but instead regurgitate some ridiculous bullshit.

Why? I'm not sure why you're so sure about this. Is it some sort of naivete, or blind trust in the omnipotence and omniscience of the free software world?

Anyway, ext2/3 don't have a functional defragmentation tool (at least one dead one exists) because the developers didn't perceive a need. There is in fact little need if the filesystem isn't used in a random delete-write pattern while close to full for extended periods of time. And apparently the developers always had something better to do than help out people who run their filesystems like that.

For ext4, this shortcoming is rectified, and it has an online defragmentation tool.

Bullshit. You're the one who didn't research what you're talking about, and started an ad hominem because of it.

The poster is right, all filesystems fragment over time. It's not possible to not fragment files on a filesystem that is close to being full. No mainstream filesystem driver rearranges files in the background yet. So a simple thought exercise on what happens when you operate a near-full filesystem for an extended period of time will tell you that no filesystem is exempt from fragmentation.

What they did was an illegal change of terms to a contract. What you should have done was buy your appliance, then when they charged you, do a chargeback. Since you never signed up with that company or signed a contract at the retailer, they had no right to charge you.

The horse shit is all yours. You have no idea what you're talking about.

There is a big tradeoff. Making an external battery bay, a battery casing, and an interface between the two takes quite a bit more plastic, metal, wiring, form factor constraint, and other crap than just bolting the wrapped cells (in this case li-poly bricks) to the case from the inside. Not to mention testing.

But then again, you don't sound like you've ever been exposed to lawsuits because your batteries were setting the users' laptops on fire. You've never had to design a laptop case or put it through testing, have you?

It has. You've been living under a rock.