Yes.

The unisonous response is "no". The author is trying to balance the needle on its tip.

User error, really, though I'm puzzled as to how this is doable with an OS X installation, since the OS doesn't suffer many of the architectural flaws that puts Windows in these situations. I've been running (and maintaining for others) OS X for 10 years and Windows for 15 years, and with OS X installations I've never seen this occur. For what the anecdot is worth my own Windows installations have always stayed healthy (and just noticably sluggish) even after years of use.

There's no way around the sludge that is the Windows registry, or f.e. Windows' tendency to regularly enter a heart-stopping "drive frenzy" for no apparent good reason, but it doesn't all have to end up with the familiar ugly crawl we all know friends' and family's Windows boxes come to just months after freshly installed. Next to me is a Win 7/64 machine whose current installation is close to 5 years old, and has seen thorough use (as with all my Windows machines during the 15 years I've used it on personal level) but it's still quite snappy and acceptably fluent even if slightly more sluggish than when the installation was new. The only difference is that I take care of my personal computing, and avoid the pitfalls that "computer illiterates" so often fall for.

As a Perl programmer of 10 years and a PHP programmer of 15 years: this equally swings both ways.

Go on, we know you want to.

I don't buy that you do either. I spent 6 years of my life programming 6502 assembly when writing games and "demos" on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, and I spent another 4 years programming ARM assembly when doing games and "demos" for the GameBoy Advance. Thumb/ARM is not complicated, not hard to learn, but it is nowhere near so defining of simplicity and straight-forwardness as the 6502 is.

If you insist that 4 USB ports and an array of GPIO pins are the main selling features, then let me present to you the Odroid C1: http://www.hardkernel.com/main...

It's everything the Pi and Pi 2 is, and everything the Pi and Pi 2 never will be, for the same $35.

The Android sticks run Linux, too. I have an RK3188-based stick that cost me $45 (shipping included), and I run a modified version of Ubuntu on it. Compared to the Pi the experience is wonderful, across the board.

Uff, how can you talk about ".crapNET" bloatware when your name indicates you are a Ruby fanboy? :D

The problem with the Pi isn't whether you want to run X on it or not.

He has a point, but if encryption is made breakable, everyone will break it, not just the "watchers".

Good one, Google.

It's my gateway and router, and as it's not just a pfsense install it also serves as a web development platform, file storage, etc. etc. There's just nothing as flexible, powerful and intuitive as OpenBSD's PF for facilitating the router portion.

Really, what is any other country going to do about it? At some point they will stop lending them money, but at that point China has already had half its nation reconstructed for free.

At the very least, it should start recording when the taser is released from its holster - and ideally, the camera should be recording before the weapon is even out of its holster.