I live in North Leeds, 15 mins from the city centre. I work 30 mins away. My commute is over Yorkshire hills on the edge of moors.

I work in a consultancy that does a lot of work in digital television. With have global customers. I have code in about half of the satellite HD PVRs in the US. Within walking distance are two other tech companies working in similar areas (one designs some of those HD PVRs). Within a few miles is another company that designs PVRs for the rival to the US company we work with.

My former house mate left the company I work for to work for the company that designs PowerVR chips. They're in the centre of Leeds. As are many other tech companies. Then over the Pennines is Manchester and all its tech companies.

You don't have to be in London. Especially when your client base is global. And if I *really* have to go to London is a 2.15 hour trip on the train. You can go down there, do the shops, see a show and come back the same day. Some people who work in London have a similar commute.

My Apple is for consumery things. I run Linux on it for development. My work development laptop is a nice Lenovo X220 running Linux. Its horses for course. If all I want is a way of display a bunch of shells and an IDE Linux is fine. If I want to do that *and* play World of Warcraft I use OSX.

Why is everyone using future tense in this discussion. Here in Europe we have many cars that do 54mp(US)g [About 65mp(UK)g]. Firstly move from petrol to diesel. Even my mid 2000s SUV gets 45mp(UK)g with its 2.0l BMW diesel. Modern cars such as VWs Blue Motion Polo are getting around 85mp(UK)g.

When there's just one of you in the vehicle why pay fuel costs and emissions to lug large amounts of steel around. Especially in cities.

Something like this is an awesome commuter vehicle. And when I have spare funds I will be getting one!

http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/

Or better tax the fuck out of the fuel. Make it such that drivers will want to use less and so buy more efficient vehicles.

Silly american!

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-856mpg-vw-polo-bluemotion-available.html

I started when I went to Uni in the 80s (Physics and Astrophysics) and started using the UNIX system there. I had learnt programming at home before I went and while I was there picked up Pascal, Fortran and C. From there it was ...

- Learning ARM assembler on my Acorn A3000 and then Acorn RiscPC.
- Building a PC in the early 90s and putting a very early Slackware on it.
- Working in academia where I developed on Solaris and IRIX.
- Putting together a Linux distribution for ARM on Acorn machines (1998).
- Writing Linux kernel drivers.
- Getting a job developing software for set top boxes.
- Developing linux STBs all around the world [I have code that helps zombify about 100 million homes world wide :-) If you use a satellite system in the US there's about a 50% possibility you use my code)
- Developing various embedded Linux products.
- Developing client server systems based around Linux.
- Developing PHP extensions.

I would say learn linux by doing. Also learn other systems. Learn about the differences between BSD, Linux, and so on. Learn about portability. Experience, experience, experience.

It seems copying even went as far as picking a flag...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States#History

The white male privilege check-list is not some femi-nazi bullshit. Its actually very well known in gender studies and theory. You're just showing your ignorance, immaturity and outright misogyny.

(Sorry if some of those words were too hard for you!)

And you are an ass!

You really really don't get it do you. It doesn't matter what a women wears. It is *not* an invitation. I should, in theory, be able to walk stark naked somewhere without comment.

Let me re-write that

"designed to bait desperate sexless *immature and inappropriate men* into acts to further her feminist bullshit"

So there's a pretty/hot girl. You can talk to them without being a complete wanker. It is possible you know. Just because someone is desperate and sexless it doesn't mean they have the right to hassle anyone who they like the look of.

As for "nutty feminist nonsense". What's the matter. Feeling emasculated because you might actually be wrong. I have some awesome male geek friends and most of the conferences I go to a pretty good. Unfortunately there's always a bozo like you to spoil the show.

You keep saying all the males. Don't dirty they guys who know how to behave with your brush.

Let me re-write it.

"but assuming that all the males *who can't keep their hands to themselves and do not know how to behave in mixed company* stop attending Defcon"

Sounds like an improvement to me...

So your basic argument is don't punish the community since there will be assholes there anyway who will harass and assault women. Unbelievable. I know lets not punish the community for being racist since there will be some there who are bigots anyway. What else can we ignore?

Fuck that. If you can't behave around women you shouldn't be allowed near them. And that means being banned from the event.

I'm very aware what the Pi is and why it exists. I was merely pointing out that there's no reason why you couldn't run Debian on a phone if you happen to have one. Personally for me the HDMI out and keyboard is not really that important to me. I tend to develop on my Pi either by cross-compilation or ssh-ing from my Mac.

I love Adafruit. I love my Pi. But how is this news. Its just a slightly modified distro with a couple of extra kernel drivers compiled up. If they'd built them as DEBs then they could have just been dpkged in to wheezy anyway.