In terms of a CIO he just wants to eat, he doesn't care if it's fish, burgers or bread. The FSF completely miss the point here, sending what amounts to basically a hate letter to fortune 500 companies is really damaging to free software, it makes FSF look like lunatics which as a knock on effect makes things more difficult for the sales teams of people like Novell and RedHat. If you they are going to send deranged letters at least send a positive message with a clear and honest comparison of the benefits of both open and proprietary software. I wish we could make this windows7sins website go away.

Mod parent up, this is exactly right. The aim was to provide kids with laptops that could be locally maintained/supported, both the software and hardware. The same for the school servers.

Looks good, will you support OpenSolaris??

surely using water motion to generate electricity would just create additional drag, so you'd end up with no net power gain?

Interesting apart from blindsearch doesn't give me the localised (broken) search results Bing gives me.

I was trying to think of some sensible tests to compare the search.

When I search for "times" Google returns timesonline.co.uk first and Bing returns:
1. www.queertimes.ch
2. www.hemptimes.ch
3. www.greaterzuricharea.ch

The results are obviously tailored to my location (Switzerland) but I would expect to have to enter a more specific search for a more obscure / niche website.

A search for "beeb" returns the BBC first in Google whereas Bing returns a Swedish furniture store as number 1.

I'll try Bing for a week but it seems to me Google still has the better search.

No fancy drivers in Linux vs. fancy drivers in Windows just isn't good enough though. As a hardware company Dell can simply ask their suppliers to provide Linux drivers, I doubt lack of hardware support is a reason for Dell deciding against a Linux option throughout their range.

This is a greater problem than you think. Our policy is that we have to turn off out laptops every evening, it takes 10-15 minutes for my laptop to boot and have Outlook up and running in the morning, this is due to the various crapware it must run in our environment. The newest laptops where I work still take over 5 minutes to boot. Even with the newer laptops that means that in any year employees are loosing half a working week every year waiting for computers to become usable, I seriously doubt any of the IT guys where I work earn less in half a week than the additional electricity costs required to keep their PC running 24x7.

Not so: http://www.indiandrivingschools.com/driving-license-in-india.html
I suspect 2) and 3) are inaccurate too.

and 'their' was me thinking you'd made an amusingly ironic typo, thanks for clearing it up.

Their what?

Swiss banks have very strict polices on who they do business with and war criminals, murderous dictators, terrorists and drug dealers are all black listed. Read any of the > 75,000 Google results from "swiss banks freeze accounts". "Global bankers to crime" is completely inaccurate.

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