Damn. Fresh out of mod-points, and somebody says something insightful instead of -1 troll or -1 flamebait.

FWIW: I have 5 different models of nokia-charger. Some are 'backward' compatible (ie: it takes a day to charge your phone), others wont even fit the wrong phone. I have 4 different models of motorola-charger (all are mutually incompatible. the plug fits, but it doesn't charge).

I have two models of Apple charger. Both use an USB-connector and a cable. One is slow, the other is fast, but only when charging my iPad. iPod and iPhone charge at the same pace. Better still: iPad, iPod and Iphone charge from any USB-port. iPad charges slow, iPod and iPhone charge at usual speed.

From where I'm standing Apple has been doing what the EU wants since 2003.

Your IMEI is 00-000000-000000. Remember that the checksum calculation is optional.

Can't mod you +1 troll, sadly.

> milk exists within a somewhat healthy market

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18898830

In short: big supermarkets reduce the price they pay for milk, causing farmers and milk processing plants to operate at a loss. Big supermarkets claim the price cuts are for the good of everybody because of the state of the economy and bla and bla.

The simpel fact that you need to lie about all the presumed horrors that mountain lion brings tells more about your motivation than about mountain lion.

(To bypass the signature check, control-click the app, select open, and you'll hear no more from mountain lion about signatures.. The 'warnings' and 'lies' you describe have yet to be seen by me.. )

Intel HD 3000 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics is Apple hardware? That would be real news...

The 'plastic' in your shopping bag is essentially the same material used to make bullet proof vests. (low density polyethylene versus Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene).

Then again, most 3D printers use ABS wire because it hardly degrades in multiple melting cycles.

Could you be so kind to post the other reasons?

I have been using UNIX/linux/BSD and odd stuff like BeOS, System 7/8/9, OS X, Solaris/CDE, IRIX etc for 15 years.

Never found a solid reason to use windows, and now you tell me there's more than one reason _not_ to run windows?

That is one alternative reality I must grab..

I think I was hired because my current employer googled my real name. Being what you are can be as much as an asset as it can be a liability.

Right. You ylliterate basdart!

Barely. At 375W it's not enough to heat my spare bedroom, which is tiny (7x10'). I'd suggest you try a couple of 12K's loaded with STM-64 linecards so you can regulate heat output by enabling or disabling cards. Keep in mind that for maximum power output you need a loopback fiber to keep the lasers on at maximum power.

TAI doesn't know about leapseconds, and it's the coping mechanism of choice for astronomy.

You would have been fine if you stopped ntpd before restarting the offending processes.

It's a race-condition, either crashing your ancient kernel or causing software using certain kernel-calls to effectively lock up. In both cases load seems to be a factor.

Over here the race-condition coincided with the actual leap-second and the start of the first batch of cronjobs at 02:00 local time.

Bad idea. It would have prevented kernels affected by the race-condition from crashing, but would have meant most of your running software would have been either hit by this bug or would have been on the mercy of a 17 year old pimple-faced coder.

I think I prefer a crash over the mayhem caused by banking-software not handling a leap-second correctly. That could bankrupt whole countries.

Wow. You're still pissed over Azure failing, your Xbox disabling itself, your Zune crashing for a full day and your Outlook manhandling your appointments (on more than one occasion)?

Talk about carrying a grudge..