I've noticed this as well, and I think that what attracts people is the size rather than portability. A laptop's footprint on your desk/office/bedroom is minimal compared to a desktop and if you have limited space as students often do then it makes sense. When I brought home my new laptop for the first time my roommate asked me "where are you going to put it?" His own computer was a laptop that never moved from his desk. The idea of actually using a laptop as a portable computer didn't occur to him.

Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTkc7s8pA0 - 0:19 :)

Not really.

From the same page: "Left-libertarianism combines the libertarian premise that each person possesses a natural right of self-ownership with the egalitarian premise that natural resources should be shared equally."

I'd guess either "very suspicious" or "very confused" depending on level of technical ability...

SSL is designed to protect against active man-in-the-middle attacks.

If you use a self-signed certificate, they will get a big scary red warning page instead of the site (even on IE these days)...

If you have your own certificate (slightly more expensive and difficult to obtain) then you stand a better chance of fooling them, as it won't trigger the warning page, but won't stand up to close scrutiny.

The various coverage of the absurd longevity of IE6 recently has made me feel pretty good about my decision to move my career away from things Web-related. The pain of trying to make a modern website work with a 9 year old & buggy-as-shit browser is something I never wish to go through. IE6 is something I would maybe fire up for a bit of ironic nostalgia, typing in various URLs, giggling at how badly it renders and remembering that this is what the internet used to be like, before remembering that people are actually still using this software on a daily basis, and being very glad I'm not one of them.

Here's an idea for Mozilla and Google. Make your browsers configurable by Active Directory Group Policy Objects so that they can be locked down in "enterprise" environments like IE can be. This is surely the biggest barrier to corporate uptake of Firefox, Chrome, etc?

I know runs contrary to some of the other posts here but I found Firefox for the N900 to be frustratingly slow. The MicroB browser feels far more responsive. I ended up uninstalling Firefox in the end because I just didn't have any reason to use it over MicroB. But even MicroB isn't as fast as it should be - this is inherent in using Gecko, which everyone knows is slower than Webkit, and the difference is especially noticable on a mobile device. It seemed like a very odd choice for Nokia to make. Tear shows promise but is not quite there yet.

The guy is awesome. Having been sacked in a purely political manoeuvre by Jacqui Smith (spit) it sounds like he now leads an Alexander Shulgin-like life of synthesising new chemicals and trying them out faster than the government can ban or control them. Sadly the same reasons for him being sacked will probably mean that this project doesn't gain any traction. Politics trump science and reason...

Franco Manca in Brixton market. Authentic Italian style and stupidly cheap.. awesome!

This is indeed excellent although it needs to be backed up by support from the X driver. Currently I am running Ubuntu Karmic on a Radeon HD 3600 series card (RV635, which counts as an R600 series - quite confusing) and 3D support sucks. Both the "radeon" and "radeonhd" drivers only have basic support for these chips - desktop effects don't really work.

I was using the fglrx driver on Jaunty, which worked OK, but it seems to be getting worse with every release. In Karmic it was so broken I just gave up on it. It seems to play a lot better with Compiz/GNOME than with KDE for some reason.

The logical fallacy in this cliche has always irritated me.

- If all bad workmen blame their tools, does it follow that all workmen that blame their tools are bad ones?
- If all dogs are animals with four legs*, does it follow that all animals with four legs are dogs?

* Excluding accidents and birth defects

If you like pizza and would like one in authentic Italian style at an insanely cheap price, go to Franco Manca in Brixton market. It's made by real Italians and I've heard it described as the best pizza you can get outside Italy, the best pizza in London, the best pizza in the UK etc etc and can confirm first-hand that it is indeed "bloody good". It is a completely different beast to pizza you get in America (also damn good, but different). The awkward thing is that because it's inside a covered market it has to close when the market closes, so no evenings or Sundays. And you might have to queue for 20 minutes or so. And you don't get much elbow room. And you might have to share your table with a stranger. All worth it though :)

That is a hugely optimistic best case scenario, both on the fare and the journey time. Maybe if you booked it months in advance, traveled at "super off peak" times, and stuck rigidly to the service you have booked you could get from London to Leeds for £15. But probably not. I've just priced the journey up on National Rail Enquiries and the walk-up non-advance fare is £84. Travel in peak times and that will go up to £134.

Seconded, and yes it should be possible, at least on newer Linux kernels.. it's all in /proc!

$ cat /proc/`pidof someprocess`/io
$ cat /proc/`pidof someprocess`/net/netstat

While I'm here, some more suggestions for JohnFluxx (thanks!):
* An option to show recently-terminated processes - you know the annoying ones that appear, steal some resource, and terminate all before you can pin them down and find out what's going on.
* Functionality to visualise much more detail about process when right-clicking on them - would be very nice to have some of the data in /proc presented visually
* lsof-like functionality on a per-process basis would be awesome, especially if it shows network connections too.

Nice.

I'm a big fan of 192.88.99.1...