not calibre's fault. and it converts textual pdf's just fine, just don't throw too many images etc. at it, which would be crap on a kindle anyway.

Last time I looked at the code it was just things like busybox.tar.gz and kernel.tar.gz, just to comply with the GPL. You can download all that lot from Sourceforge FFS.

Its not like you can actually compile you own Kindle OS from what they're distributing, there's no Makefile or documentation on how all the bits glue together.

Its certainly not like Android where you can compile your own phone OS (if you have the proprietary blobs for gfx/gps etc.)

I wonder how much development time has been wasted saving you 12 seconds per month?

Development time that could have been used fixing Gnome3, PulseAudio, Systemd......

Wow one guy is responsible for the three worst things to happen to Linux in the last few years and he's still doing interviews?

I bet he's working on Gnome3 too isn't he?!

You know where this came from? All those people who have Google as their homepage and don't even use the URL bar.

I know competent computer users who type website addresses into google and then click the top search result. At the other extreme I know non-savvy's who have no idea what the URL bar is for or that its even somewhere to type.

The same thing happened to the bookmarks toolbar - it was the coolest thing to happen to Firefox (2?) and in 4 they hide it by default!

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Does that make sense to anyone?

i think you kind of missed the point there - i know ibm made the deathstar, i meant that when/if wdc buy hitachi, they will take the deskstar design (that hitachi inherited from ibm) and make is shit again.

the op obviously hasn't tried the "latest" 2.1 beta of skype for linux - i expect he's been using skype 5 on windows/osx.

From someone whose Hitachi backup drive just saved his bacon when his 4th WDC drive this year failed, I'd say this is bad news.

Maybe its time to buy a shedload of these 3Tb drives before WDC gets their hands on them and they become Deathstars again.

I have Windows7/XP boxes that now only ever boot to Linux and a MacOSX box that has been replaced (and outperformed) by a cheaper Linux box

I only ever use Linux on my desktops, laptops, phones, routers, servers etc; anything else is like going back to 1992.

For Windows/Mac to ever be usable on the desktop, they at least need package management and less vendor-lock-in.

I noticed today that there's a shedload of bad links left in google's cache.

try searching for just about anything to do with solaris and you get links to sun pages that now just redirect you to oracle's completely useless "Oracle Documentation" page which seems to be almost entirely about the database.

virtualbox seems to be able the only software now owned by oracle that it doesn't seem intent on killing off.

So exactly which politician is taking the M$ bribes then? Come on, name and shame time.

Sticking with MSIE is just dependence on an archaic IT infrastructure, and no respect for security, but forcing the use of OOXML just makes no sense other than for vendor lock-in.

come on, get us some youtube.

urgh, i can see the "syfy" guys planning the movie already - what is it with them and shark films?

Did anyone else read that as "JBoss ASS Performance"?