Did you read the post GP was responding to? The point was not that Linux users will be forever generous. The example was provided as evidence against the idea that GNU/Linux users are unwilling to pay for what they want. In fact (making the same observation that you did), their desire to have more games has inspired them to pay _more_ than they might otherwise do. GP's point was that GNU/Linux users do want games, and that they've showed us so. That point stands.

I think ConnectBot will do what you want (via port forwarding).

Hmm... is that what I said?

Nope. All of this advice is essentially public knowledge, for one thing. But mostly, as geeks, we enjoy looking at problems for their own sake. What we enjoy even more is showing people we have the answer. I think the thought process more or less ends there.

Not to mention that it's trivial to harvest MAC addresses from clients of ANY access point, without having to set one up of your own. Or that you could spoof your MAC address to some arbitrary, meaningless value and do more or less the same thing but without associating that MAC with anyone in your general location. And of course there's the fact that framing your neighbor makes you a huge asshole.

Actually, if you do this on your own computer (ie. your laptop at the coffee shop), or another computer that happens to have a Linux installation on it, most LiveCDs including Ubuntu will mount the swap partition on the disk and use it. You'll have to disable that if you really want to make sure nothing gets saved to the PC. The command you want is "swapoff".

http://www.sidedark-warez.pl/images/LOIC_instrukcja.png

It kinda looks like it was made by a 14-year-old, at least in that screenshot.

Jus' sayin'.

I'm surprised no one mentioned this earlier. I remember reading the story about a year ago and thinking "We must still be pretty far away from that..."

Damn.

We could call it fraud or impersonation, since that's what it really is.

Nope, but a 4 year old is a hell of a lot less likely (or motivated) to see porn than a 13 year old if you put a filter on the computer. It's not putting your kid in a straight jacket. Guess what? Healthy 4 year olds don't want to see porn! Do you take your toddlers to see gore movies, too? It's not hard to accept that letting a little kid see a scary movie is a mean and careless thing to do, because it will give them nightmares and make them cry. Do you think porn is any different or easier for them to handle?

With Debian and its kin, not only can you house all of those on a single system, you can easily define which is the default firefox by way of a symlink or dpkg alternative.

KDE basically already does what you're asking it to.

KWin supports tiling, and various window-switching options, including clones of all those available on Windows and OSX.

Krunner is an excellent launcher. If you're a touch-typist and you know what app you want by name, path or function you can launch it without looking.

You can also set arbitrary keyboard shortcuts to launch programs, run scripts, or even make DBUS calls. You can also change/assign KWin's shortcuts, generally or according to different rules based off of the app in question, or any window property.

FWIW, I'm a KDE user who doesn't like menus or icons either. My desktop doesn't have either, and I have no problem launching and managing my applications. I haven't even taken advantage of most of the customizations I've talked about, either.

Exactly what are you missing?