ahhh, ye olde Tandon drives where double density floppies could be used as high (1.2M) density.

BASIC does probably teach some bad programming habits but at the same time it's accessible to an 8-year-old, and you're learning concepts that are applicable for life: file management, how to store and retrieve data, syntax, etc etc.

Also access to source code; before BBS about the only tutorial/learning docs available.

[ 3.598160] systemd-udevd[134]: renamed audio interface netcat to pcspkr

Oh please. The Netherlands have a moderate climate, moderate lighting conditions.
Move anywhere north, east or south and conditions are worse.
Furthermore, in the west there's light emitting from greenhouses, harbors, highways (sodium-vapor) and residences.
The Christmas trees, they are hurting my eyes.

I need *WUFF* *WUFF* !

I work with a SQL database every day. I optimize weekly. I haven't done a project since mid 1990's that didn't have some sort of SQL DB attached to it. I just wanted to see if there was something better. Apparently not.

In what role do you work?
Your questions do not show any experience, it's just a soup of popular IT terms
sendmail fits the bill

3. You can actually replace Unity with something else within minutes. (Or you can even install the Ubuntu edition without it.)

Stop using phrases ".. replace with something else". XXX is alright, because you can replace it by YYY. Something default is not optional, it is the DEFAULT. Here, have this ton of spam; no problem, you can opt out right?

I'm not very clear on just where the acceleration is missing, but it sounds like it's missing in a foundational piece.

Yup. Beat around the bush. Yadda Yadda about compatibility layer upon compatibility layer to keep features before acceleration. Just start anew & solid and the rest will follow.

Jezus, I've been on this site since Malda was still using it as a tab on his website. It took them this long to actually accept a submission of mine.

No kidding! They stole my UID merely to promote a Gnome 3 announcement!

If a woman is treating you differently, because you are a woman, then it is sexism.

Transgender am I, woman be sexist.

reminder for the list; signed code, tivoization, like sigma et. al. firmware support pretty much equals caveat emptor nowadays, I like to re^H^Huse the cpu/mobo for something useful oh well raspberry pi + sim anyone?

Hello 6KR61, time to recharge.
Seriously, who modded this post funny after reading the other contributions.
Talk to your family and get out, now. Burnouts can have serious longterm effect.

Your own government doing this is much more dangerous than any other government ..

It's not a pissin contest.
Let me deal with my own govt, you deal with yours.
Europeans are much too reliant on products storing data on US servers which can easily be seized.
We just "hand" our privates over, which is why the proposal actually makes sense.

I think the closest thing I have seen to an actual science fiction movie in the last 30 yeas is "Deep Impact".

Try The Big Lebowski, it's like, you know, friendly too.

This is an intentional political change.

Same movement visible here in NL, though something like Hartz not (yet?) implemented. Sucks if you're handicapped or layed off when 10+years before retirement.