Great stuff! It found my location as a 10m radius in Mountain View, California.

Unfortunately, I live in Melbourne, Australia.

I suggest an experiment involving two hammers and a very tall person.

The computer I am running right now has an NVidia graphics card, and I installed Ubuntu 9.04 only two weeks ago. The default driver used was nv and the compositing was disabled by default.

That's definitive enough for me, although of course I can't prove this to you.

There was a lot of talk about enabling proprietry nvidia drivers by default, I am fairly certain in the end for gutsy they backed down and decided to stick with the free driver by default at the last minute (I don't remember exactly, however, I could be wrong on this point. But it's definitely not included now)

incorrect. The proprietry nvidia drivers are not even installed by default, and never have been. There was talk about providing them out of the box but it never eventuated. They are, however, easily installable via the "hardware drivers" app.

I can tell things have happened to me with my eyes, and that happens at light speed!

your experiment does not take into account other time factors such as the processing time for the signal. To be a proper scientific experiment you'd need a short and tall person.

I doubt this 10 feet per second velocity, though. I've stubbed my foot before and it hasn't taken half a second for the pain to register.

no need for MS to host the content, they could just create a service for patch management and let Adobe, etc host the servers. Similar to how it's done in Linux already (if it ain't broke...)

Well we seem to have no issues with our kids seeing James Bond...

The constant bugging to register, lack of fullscreen, and forced bundling with iTunes turned me off.

Although now I run Linux so I haven't even been able to touch quicktime for a few years now. And what a happy few years it's been =)

This is the scary bit here. Not so much that you might think the risk of moving from virtual to bare metal might not be worth it, but that often the decision is made that the risk (or effort) of moving it out of the test environment isn't worth it.

Then imagine what happens when you shut down a server in a test lab (or worse, a machine that's sitting in the corner of an office somewhere) to try to contain a virus infection and you get a phone call from someone 5 minutes later saying they can't do any work because their system went down.

And if you're thinking "happens all the time in small business" I'm talking over 30,000 employees worldwide.

that's true, nothing sucks more than Quicktime. Apart from perhaps Realplayer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactos

this what you're after?

sorry I believe I may have been misunderstood. We only support ie6 internally. So our website for the outside world supports most modern browsers (albeit poorly), but if you work for us the only browser you can (officially) use for your day to day work is ie6.

But yes, our Intranet does not work with firefox or chrome.

I also recommend that you keep watch on the LHC webcam for any signs of trouble

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Who cares what the original intent of the function was, if there's a function with a bug it should be fixed. There could be any number of valid uses for this particular function and there's no reason to ignore a patch when it's been nicely provided for you.