As long as Hulu continues to work with a Linux-based browser, I'm happy. This is unlike ABC, whose system doesn't support Linux at all.

Their loss (or perhaps I should say "They're Lost").

I for one would applaud ABC moving their shows to Hulu, as their current system (haven't bothered to check what they're using) doesn't work in Linux. Hulu does.

As a matter of fact, I've sent feedback on their video site telling them that, since they won't support my computer, I'm going to watch shows from someone who does.

I've been a KDE user for many years, but with the advent of version 4.0, I was forced to switch to Gnome. Why?

1. The default KDE looks like Vista. I find Vista's GUI to be an ugly, unpleasant monstrosity. What's with all this black, anyway?

2. KDE 4.0 was buggy and incomplete. If I wanted to use beta-quality software as Release Quality, I'd still be using Windows.

Hopefully, by the time the developers get around to screwing up Gnome with some new "artsy-fartsy" new look and feel, KDE will have gone through enough iterations to be feature complete and stable (not to mention have plenty of new non-black themes I can live with).

Quite a lot, actually, if the "rock" is actually a man-made Read-Only Crystal Knowledge wafer, which permanently stores the data in its crystal lattice.

Pretty soon, we'll be archiving so much information that it'll be easier just to create a multidimensional backup of the entire universe.

Course, that'll take a spitload of DVD's and a lot of RAM. Hmmm. Wonder what God uses for backups?

Imagine what the screen will look like with all that orange Cheetos stuff smeared all over it.

Lame!

And I won't get into what peanut butter and jelly will look like.

You may have seen in the news recently how in the last decade or so Wall Street ignored some of the hard-won regulations and guidelines developed in the wake of the Great Depression.

We all know what happened as a result.

The same is true when dealing with data. You don't ignore the rules completely, or follow them only when you feel like it, or when you have time. As the old joke goes, Quality is *not* Job 1.1.

If the data isn't important enough to store correctly, then it's not important enough to be stored at all.

... Too bad Ron Moore didn't. And it shows!

I have always had a terrible, unreliable memory, going back to when I was a kid. The only way I could get by in school was to compensate for the bad memory with reason and logic -- remembering the *pattern* rather than the data itself. A side effect of this technique is that I'm quite good at puzzles. I've spent the last 30 years or so working with computer software, so, while my poor memory hasn't gotten worse, the constant exercise of what I *do* have means I'm just as sharp as I was in college.

Now if I could only remember where I put my car keys!

Use a real geek number: 49152! (C64 FTW)

No, he turned the tables so he could get a better grip on them for throwing.

My first computer, a Commodore 64, had the entire Operating System on ROM and was quick to boot up. My second computer, a Commodore Amiga, had its Kernel stored in ROM, and was also quick to boot up.

Why isn't this sort of thing being done today? Not only would it be a quick boot, but malware would have a harder time corrupting the OS, as the important bits would be locked down in unchangable ROM.

Of course, doing this *would* require a change to today's "We'll fix it later when someone complains" software development model. It would have to be right the first time.

Their cat clicked on the "I agree" button during installation.

Windows 7 will finally be out of Beta when it has the letters "SP1" at the end of the name, not before.

I do pretty much the same by running Windows in a virtual machine in Linux. I keep it cut off from the internet, and use the host for all that dangerous stuff like web browsing and email. Windows remains safely sandboxed.

Oh, and wherever possible, I still use Windows 2000, because I *still* think that XP is unnecessarily bloated. Given *that* opinion, I don't suppose I'll be running Vista or Windows 7 anytime soon. But if I do, it'll be in another sandbox.