Ddclient will update every so often anyway, and I'd imagine most others do the same.

WAMP? I guess it's still better than WinCE...

RAID 5 is good at losing a second disk soon after the first, even with a hot spare (which means you lose the array). I think the GP meant something like "RAID 6 should be the bare minimum", or perhaps "any level of RAID is not as good as having an independent backup system".

But I'd like to know what they actually meant, too.

More likely they don't think they'll find a job they actually like.

It also modulates the brakes much better than most people can do, and allows your panic reflex to work for you.

Steering around an obstacle while braking hard to have time to fully get around it is often the best response.

You made your point about the keyboard being difficult to use quite eloquently.

The difference being that you're taking the car from them instead of making a copy.

How exactly would you propose splitting it? Advertising is their only real money-maker, and splitting that would be shooting themselves in the foot.

DRM and keys prevent you from using your version of the software on that device. It does you no good to be able to change it if you can't use the changes. The developers have decided they don't like that idea, and GPL 3 ensures that anyone who wants to lock their device down like that will have to use some other software, instead of taking something open source and locking it down too.

There's nothing to stop Apple or anyone else from implementing something compatible; it just can't be the same code.

I'm sure arranging for a cake to be sent could take the entire day for the entire Microsoft dev team.

I bet not, though. Especially the Windows devs, which, by and large, aren't the IE devs.

The link I posted looks broken from here. If it is, the full text of it is: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_36#head-738bffb3415051b478ecdfd2eabb0294e35146a9

The 2.6.36 kernel supposedly has a fix for this issue. I haven't been able to test it yet myself, but it sounds like they finally tracked it down. See here for more information.

Except FOSS won't prevent you from re{selling,distributing} the software, else it wouldn't be FOSS...

At IIT (the Illinois one, not the one in India), the tech department didn't collect this sort of data. But if they had, they would've thought I ran one Windows machine instead of two Linux boxes, because they didn't know Linux and would not help me get the network going unless I told them I was running a single Windows or Mac computer. I ended up getting all the network settings for Windows and putting them in the right place myself, and hiding both systems behind a router. Several of my friends had similar experiences.

I will note that many of my professors, especially in the CS department, used Linux almost exclusively, and some actually would not accept Microsoft Office documents (they allowed pdfs and sometimes OpenOffice documents). There was just a huge disconnect between the people in charge of the student portion of the network and the rest of the campus.

You might even say he single-handedly changed things around.

(sorry!)