Here's a few I would expect:

6. I'm sorry, I fell asleep again, could you pick up dinner for the family on your way home?
7. I can't find my phone.
8. I can't find my iPad.
9. I'm at yoga, can I call you back later?
10. I'm out buying more $useless_shit, can you take care of it instead?
11. I'm on Facebook, I'll get right back to you.
12. I'm on Facebook, uploading pictures is eating all the bandwidth.
13. I'm on Facebook, did you see what she posted?
14. I'm on Facebook, I'll check that later.
15. Go ahead, but I forgot to check the bank balance today before going to the $useless_shit store.
16. No, I thought you were supposed to pick up the kid. I fell asleep on the couch.

1. Tape the vibrator to the hollow adjoining dorm wall.
2. Set it to the desired frequency that cancels out the intermittent noise.
3. Put on headphones with your favorite music.
4. WIN!

We already have a text ban while driving where I live. But if I could, I'd ban texting in theaters. People who do it often don't silence their phones. Nothing like hearing BING! randomly in a film, and then having a bright screen light up. Often, texters also laugh, snicker, and talk to themselves without being aware of it. I don't mind it many other places, but a theater isn't the right place for that kind of behavior.

I've been supporting non-profits in my area for over a decade now. One of the things I've learned is that non-profits also want to get their jobs done as well as anyone else. Most of them don't have the capacity for downtime due to dodgy hardware. They want to spend their time and effort either raising funds or fulfilling their mission, kind of how a regular business wants to spend their time making money or selling their stuff. The same goes for poor communities in developing nations.

If I were to take a bunch of much older boxes, the only reason I would give them to a place would be as part of a learning lab on how to build and maintain computers. Just part the boxes out, and have students put them together and install an OS. If something fails, no big deal- plenty of parts.

If I wanted to help a charity directly, I would build all of these hosts up, and then sell them at a flea market for $50-$100 bucks each, no warranty. Have a wifi hotspot handy so people can test drive them right there. Take the money and donate it, or use connections to buy exactly what the favored non-profit needs.

I use Vienna on my Mac. I pull the feeds directly, instead of depending upon some intermediary site, and I can still organize things the way I like.

Here is how I dealt with it:

1. Cut back on my work hours. That includes oncall response times. I found I can still get my work done in 40 that I used to do in 60 by working smarter instead of harder.
2. Ride a bicycle to work. If it is ten miles or less away from home, you can do it. If it is winter, consider zip ties on the tires for traction, or using cross country skis. Remember to use lights and have a loud horn.
          a. Use a skate board if you are able to, and if you are close enough. Better work out.
          b. Use public transit and walk to work if neither of the above work well.
3. Go walk a little every hour. Standing is fine, but walking will help a lot. Don't go longer than 2 hours without moving around.
4. Water, unsweetened coffee, or unsweetened tea. No more mountain dew, ever.
5. Cut carbs. That is how type 1 diabetics keep their blood sugar under control. Excess blood sugar gets converted to fat. The recommended daily minimum is about 200 carbs.
          a. The easiest way is to completely fill up on green salad at every meal aside from breakfast. Eat anything you like after the salad.
          b. Fats and everything else have to go through extra stages until they are broken down to sugars which get turned into fat.
          c. Cut back on the salt. Cut it out entirely unless it is part of a recipe or already part of the meal.
6. Get uninterrupted sleep. If someone or something is making it harder to sleep, fix it.
7. Stretch a lot. People think exercise helps, but actually I found that a lot of stretching went a long way toward slimming me down and reducing my blood pressure. Stretching is also exercise.
8. Buy and wear really good shoes if standing and walking a lot. Extra weight can really mess up your lower joints until the benefits of exercise kick in.

I like being able to easily create my own interfaces and tools, and OS X is just way too rigid in its expectations of a user. I think it is nice for someone non-technical who is going to be demanding, but that is as far as it goes.

I will be migrating back to Linux on my next hardware refresh, and I will be using something lightweight with either E17 or FVWM. Glad to know that Bodhi exists, so it is that or possibly Kali. I'm tired of feeling constrained in my workflow by my desktop environment- it should conform to my needs, not the other way around.

In a similar situation myself, except I've decided to migrate all of my services to private/paid resources that I control.

I'm using Vienna reader on OS X, but I'm feeling constrained by the OS X environment. I will probably be switching back to Linux with my next hardware refresh, which means using the new and updated Thunderbird.

My main migration issue in moving off of FB and G+ish are actually my addressbooks and contact data. It is very difficult to find a compatible address book application that makes it easy to store contacts in a format *I* prefer, along with all of their historical contact data as reference. I was able to get away with some of this between FB and Google Contacts, but there isn't anything I'd consider reliable and up to date that integrates with the gui related stuff that is out there. I may actually end up running Mutt along with Rolo to get what I need. Strange how all of the text based apps still end up being more powerful than tools with much larger dev teams and budgets, even years later.

I think Francis is kind of a lame name for a pope. You would name a pet pig or a badger Francis.

I think Steve would be a good name. It sounds like a nice safe name. We should call him Pope Steve!

ALL HAIL THE GREAT AND POWERFUL STEVE!

Wait, where did that come from? Ok, Hypnopope Steve, then. Any better names?

Option- Filed, received parking cone in mail stenciled with "It is not yours, it is TheIRS." Included were politely worded instructions on parking cone application with or without use of personal lubricant.

Go to the comments in TFA about details. There is some really juicy repartee between Seigo (OSS developer) and Shuttleworth (guy who funds Ubuntu).

There is a dust up going on between people working on the replacement for X under Ubuntu, and on the merits or lack thereof in choosing the Mir project over Weyland. Seigo and others make some interesting points, especially about the selection criteria.

Definitely. I will feel more secure on my next flight with a squad of armored footmen carrying halberds.

To an extent, I like the distro, but I've had similar complaints about how they have changed user level features in the past without offering any kind of migration path. Now it looks like the same mentality behind Canonical's management and release style has finally reached developers as well.

Well, it isn't the end of the world. There are plenty of other distros. I wouldn't be surprised to see most of the devs just go back to Debian.

Lol, that one always works, and even though it is clear it doesn't need to be clicked, they click it anyways... I got to use that one when the Melissa virus was blocked based on the subject line "I have an attachment for your review", rather than on matching the payload of the email attachment. I made $5 on a bet with the Exchange admin, and got to watch hilarity ensue at the Exchange admin's desk when 40 hungry developers showed up, wondering why there was no free lunch and their Outlook clients were taking up all of their system resources.

Well, it depends.

All of the virtualization platforms out there are essentially based on QEMU. All of them read the QCOW file format. All of them have their own implementation and direction of that initial vision.

My experience with KVM is that it is focused on Linux and Windows support. There may be less you can configure under the hood with KVM than with Xen, but if you are a windows and linux shop, or just a linux shop, KVM is awesome. KVM is also the ONLY solution I would try to deploy under RHEL or derivatives, as they dropped Xen support in 6.x. Xen support will be back in 7.x, but that is because RHEL's dropping of support for Xen open source pissed off people on the kernel dev team, so they decided to add it to the kernel directly.

My experience with Xen is that it has a much broader focus, and is more component accessible. The virtual machine hardware and the management tool sets can be easily swapped out for custom ones. I have a number of virtual machine BIOS to pick from if I run into a BIOS bug. I can support BSD and other systems that KVM doesn't, or doesn't do as well. We use Xen as our go to platform, but deployment of KVM would have been faster in some aspects if we didn't need multi-platform support. Xen documentation I've found is also more mature. AFAIK, Xen is the basis for the Amazon EC2 cloud platform (I could be wrong about that). Ubuntu and debian have good support for Xen, but documentation of, say, building a multiple vlan 802.1q networked solution is a situation of YMMV.

My experience with VMWare is that it is a great pay virtualization environment, provided you are willing to shell out for their recommended hardware as well. Setting up things like live migration and cloning are easier with their GUI and step by step instructions. If your company is going to pay for all of that, then it is definitely something worth taking advantage of, as the learning curve is much more accessible (but, it also means you can shoot yourself in the foot faster as well). But the moving target of licensing and hardware requirements are an issue, and my workplace is migrating away from VMWare to Xen because of those issues. Again, if the will to spend is there, it is just fine. I would only use the free solution as something to learn on.

Jails and chroots are nice in a single platform environment, because why waste time on overhead? But the downside is that it is single platform. I'd go more into that, but it isn't really relevant to this discussion. What I would really love to see is something new under the BSD's that offered multi-platform guest support as a host.

All of the the three big players- KVM, XEN, and VMWare are part of OpenStack, so you can use the OpenStack API. If you are ever going to migrate, or have to have cross-compatibility with other virtualization platforms (business parternships can warrant this), then having OpenStack tools available can be really helpful if you want to write the code for it. All three are also supported by OpenNebula, which is an open source pointy clicky interface that can manage all three platforms- provided you can code in your customizations, which could include live migration, etc.

Certification and education are another factor. VMWare wins that one hands down, as they have web accessible training and an easy certification path. The only way you can easily certify on Xen is to get LPIC-3 certified, which will also certify for KVM. The other option is to take the RHEL series (woah, big dollars!), and get certified at the RH Architect level in KVM. The LPIC route actually costs less than the other two, but there are no classes available at that level. Most businesses are familiar only with the VMWare cert path. Also, most companies that have a strong need for someone to fix their problems don't really care which virt solution one has experience with- they care about having an understanding about how all of them work under the hood so that their structural issues are addressed.