Interesting enough I knew Emacs (in the form of Micro Emacs) way back in 1987 on my Amiga, but after I understood what vi(vim) was about I've used that instead and never looked back.

So much faster to run and edit, and installed everywhere.

It does however suck at integrating a full development environment. Something Visual Studio and eclipse shines at (and even Emacs is know to handle better). Still when I have a lot of typing/editing to do and less debugging I'll use vim.

As far as I was aware the democrats/Obama administration were more against visa holders than the republican opposition.

Is what the article should have been called.

Anyone worth their salt in numerical analysis and scientific computation would not make this error.

Microsoft Graph or Equation Editor works well once you get over the fact that's it's MS.

Or what about Apple's Grapher?

They all make typing in equations easy.

News for Nerds, Stuff that matters?
*cough*

Your assumed power consumption of the mini sounds a bit like a maximum to me... it's more around 30W.

As for the price... I'm willing to sell my old single core for around $300 one day when I get the server model. :)

7) The free iPhone public/private key dongle app is cool too.

I run my D2, WoW and SC games off Battle.net. Works well... the authentication server has also less downtime than the vanilla WoW one...touch wood.

I remember the addition of the inter-mud libs that players could to inter-mud tells and inter-mud mail to one another. Never really got used much tho as far as I recall.

Seems more like their ... space...

Erm, bad jokes aside, who still uses the "MySpace of the web" (meaning MySpace) anyway?

Once a Windows PC User also has a Mac, he is either considered a Mac user (think: one drop blood rule), or he just becomes a Mac user (with a Windows PC) because Macs are just too cool.

Hmm.. either way I still think the Slashdot article title is flawed.

Same here. Was quite a process... had to drive around a lot and meet weird people. After that it was denied by the same government that had an official policy to accept it. And my bank preferred even a plain e-mail over it.

No one had a clue what to do with it.

The only thing I used it for was for secure e-mail... pah... could just as well stooped to PGP then.

Me.

I disagree. Google cannot do this unless they change the way gmail works. I will not let them touch my private key lest I end up not trusting my own private key. You can say they can then kinda leave it on your PC and access it with client side JS, but then you sit again with the problem that it becomes hard to manage and understand by the masses.

Do what I do when shopping around... only read the negative reviews... there are ALWAYS some. I did this while shopping for a good KVM switch and learnt such a lot.
Most negative reviews were from people who did not understand some aspects of KVM switches, such as why they may only support certain resolutions (they need to emulate aspects of the display) active keyboard and mouse emulation (since when the switch is not active on one computer, that computer must still think the keyboard/mouse/screen is plugged in).

So what I did was learn from the negative reviews and choose the product with the least amount of negative reviews that related to me.

I ended up getting "IOGEAR GCS932U MiniView Micro DVI-D 2 Port KVM with Audio and Cables" and it worked perfectly for my setup, which is a good thing since my setup was what gave a lot of other KVMs problems.

My setup:
Logitech Mouse
Mac Aluminium Keyboard
DELL 24" Ultrasharp 1920x1200 display

Shared between a PC and a Macbook Pro (Both with DVI)

And I'm very happy with my product, thanks to reading countless horror stories with other products.

Sure, adding anything to IE will only give it more possible attack points. Adding any other in-tab browser to IE will give IE the additional security vulnerabilities of that browser. This will increase the total number of possible security holes in the application.

But... on most sites you only use one type of browser at a time. And since it is well known that IE is 1) insecure, 2) a bullseye painted on a target ... it can only increase your overall safety to use a different browser. In particular chrome/webkit.

So both true and false, depending how you look at it.

Oh?

Interesting thing is that I loved English (my second language) and a classroom environment is the best way to learn a language not spoken anywhere else. Not only that; I can honestly say I got great benefit from classes such as technical drawing and math as well.

Yes, I did feel some of the other subjects were a waste of time, but overall I think school was beneficial.