If you want "the best of both worlds", you have the new x32 ABI which gives you 32bit pointers and the extended 64bit CPU register set:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
Gentoo is already publishing release candidate stage tarballs for x32, official support should be coming pretty soon..

PS: Parent is also me, I forgot to login.. sorry about that.

Bought one Antec Earthwatts long time ago. The PSU was not much more expensive than the others (good brands) so the savings are obvious. Still, the PSU is very quiet which is the main reason why I bought it.

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Please mod parent up.

LOL. My comment was modded down thought, a bit harsh..

I come to /. to read about Linux, opensource and related news. I actually enjoy these pseudo-news about Microsoft because they gather funny comments which I also enjoy reading (and participating), sometimes there are very relevant comments in between.

I don't go to a Microsoft-centric website (name one, don't know any) expecting to read good news about Linux or opensource; much less leaving a comment there complaining about that. If you don't like some of the news, I suggest you don't read them - simple as that.

Precisely! Since we are telling stories I would also like to share mine..

My current Gentoo installation was performed around 2004. At the time, I lost around a week with trial-error learning my way how to install the damn thing. Well..it has been 8 years, I changed laptop meanwhile and with successive updates, the same installation persists.. When I first installed it, Gentoo was one of the few Linux distributions supporting the new amd64 architecture. My laptop was an Athlon64 beast that would take all the space of my backpack. Around half the way, I bought a Turion64 X2 laptop; because the system was binary compatible between these two CPUs, I copied the whole system into the new laptop. I changed the compilation flags to use a few extensions that new CPU supported and let the system update (the newly compiled stuff will benefit from the flags) over time.. I did however, perform a fresh Gentoo installation very recently because I decided to turn into x86 (the binaries are smaller, takes less RAM).

Currently, the laptop is certainly old by today's standards but my system has been fast and stable as it has always been, I don't see any reason to upgrade.

Not sure how I can be doing it wrong. I only boot Windows to play a few games, but when I do I instantaneously stop feeling like playing games due to the endless waiting due to the updates. Didn't know I could interrupt the updates, the updating screen seemed pretty clear to NOT shutdown/reboot the computer. Though I would I want to reboot? Wouldn't that postpone the update process into the upcoming boot?

No idea, I don't use Debian. But if you are updating from the terminal, you can always ctrl+Z and pause the process...
In Gentoo though, things are installed into a alternate disk image which is merged in one shot into the real system if the installation succeeded.

Are you kidding? Tell that to my windows 7 installation that spends more than 20 minutes in endless updates and reboots, every single time I turn it on.

meanwhile somewhere in redmoon, a chair flies through the air.

If this is indeed true, then in my opinion it only reflects the desperate situation Microsoft is in..

I repeat what I said before in another post:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2896153&cid=40218485

I wonder why people only now started wondering about it..

Totally agree! By the way, the maps application for Android also supports offline maps, I installed it as a plugin but I believe now it has been made the default?

Well.. does it really matter? If the energy comes from a renewable energy source, IMHO the whole point here is that you can use fuel produced from air (including CO2) instead of fuel from sources which take millions of years to produce it. Granted that, as other slashdotters pointed out, if you burn the fuel you will release the CO2 again. But then again, if you actually wanted to pump the CO2 out from the atmosphere, you would use a device which absorbs and stores the CO2 underground. Such devices already exist and are called .. trees.

Riding bicycles and electric cars is only a solution for short distance travelling. We cannot have yet batteries with energy densities nearly as much as the energy provided by fossil fuels. This is very important if you consider that air transportation is a very important form of transportation and cannot be converted to all-electric in the near future because of current energy storage limitations.

Also, recycling CO2 into fuel and turning it again into CO2 is a cyclic process that takes place relatively in real time; compared to the time that it takes to cycle between fossil fuel and CO2 (hint: fossil fuels take millions of years to produce naturally).