I don't get why everyone is clamoring for "actual goals". I fear any "goal" is what's going to end up ruining it. Make your own goal. I run a server with a few people and our goal is building every awesome monument we can think of. That and redstone computers to control automated minecrart tracks.

There are plenty of reasons to use encryption but the Chinese government just isn't one of them for me. If I view something they don't like, what exactly are they going to do? I suppose they could block my access but it's not like I would get thrown in a Chinese prison.

I have a lot more to worry about from identity thieves, scams and heck, my own government.

Spoken like a true pointy-haired boss who's never coded a day in his life.

I see some MS-Bot came and marked you troll. But you're absolutely right. The commercials make no sense at all. Wouldn't a mobile device maker (and the carriers that carry it) want you to use the phone more?

Hey guys we have this great phone that you won't use like all the other phones out there!

I have files on floppies that are probably from 1990 (and possibly older) but since I don't even have a floppy drive anymore it's obvious those aren't used.

My .bashrc and .vimrc I created in '99 and I still make sure to copy those around whenever I install a new system.

Are we implying that there are a significant number of slashdotters that are female/getting enough action to require it? /joking

What I find funny is that on Slashdot that GWB is pretty much universally disdained for being blinded by principle but plenty of RMS fans applaud him for it.

I respect RMS for creating the GPL but I do not respect his belief that he's right and everyone else who had different ideas about open source or free software is wrong.

You may not respect Miguel for the work he's done with Mono but he's not the only one who has problems with RMS. Even Linus has indicated that he's not a fan of RMS's style. I'm sure we can all find plenty of respect for Linus.

Well as long as ChromeOS is vaporware we can speculate that Google is going to figure out a way to finally run those Win32 apps natively on their own OS. (Think Wine but with a massive ton of resources behind it, or maybe an embedded VM to run the apps ... though I'm sure that would have more licensing hurdles)

Honestly if they did I can't decide if it would be a good or a bad thing.

Please!

Absolutely loved those games and I would love to mix it up on XvT on my FiOS connection after playing it on dial-up back in the day

I agree. If you look at my posts above I had high hopes for evolution-mapi but it crashes on login :(

However I will say that using VirtualBox in seamless mode isn't too bad. Outlook sits on my desktop like any other app. I can take that pain more than I can take the pain of developing on Windows.

Actually using KVPNC I've had no issues with Cisco VPN connections.

I find it sad that Exchange support is still considered a "specialized need" :). Personally I wish Mozilla would add it to Thunderbird. T-bird is a much better mail client anyway. (IMHO)

That's weird. My Nvidia drivers upgraded with no problem.

I like the speed and the new interface. Both are very nice. I was really excited when I read there were improvements to handling multiple monitors and the evolution-mapi plugin that would finally let me use the office's exchange server. Sadly both have missed the mark.

I use the Nvidia driver which means the fancy new monitor settings are not available to me (it pops an alert that tells me I have to open the Nvidia utility). The good thing is I don't have to hunt for the utility, it opens it for me, the bad is the utility is mostly useless. X sees my two screens as one huge screen, which is fine when I have two screens but sucks when I undock the laptop. No way to switch to one screen without hand-editing xorg.conf

I've always had high-hopes for evolution and I don't know why because its always been buggy and slow. This time is no different: "We have REAL exchange support this time! I promise". Sadly while I was able to install the mapi plugin and it shows in my settings, evolution helpfully crashes when I try to login. There are bugs filed against it ...maybe it will get fixed ... someday

And no, I have no love for exchange but I'm forced to use it. I have used the evolution-exchange package that connects through OWA ... its slow and buggy. Often refusing to download my mail, losing the connection to "the backend process" requiring me to delete a certain file. All in all, not worth the hassle.

For now I'm stuck using Outlook in an XP virtual

I wonder how long until /. changes achievements to a lame word instead of the actual number :-D