Yes, all you need is tcpdump, punchcards and butterflies.

What do you use then to limit the bandwidth to/from certain sources, and monitor the bandwidth of certain types of traffic, e.g. on Linux? A port of this would be useful. In my usage scenario, a few hundred users share a upstream network, and the traffic from a few (youtube, streams) can dominate the others, making web pages slow for the others. A fair distribution would be nice, but when fewer users are online, the full bandwidth should be available.

I only know iptables, which is too low-level and static, and you can't give it into users/administrators hand (so many things can go wrong). For analysis I use ntop so far (which does hang sometimes, requiring restarts). A really interactive tool for traffic shaping would be needed.

pflow/nsfen seems to be the right thing for BSD. Is there something good for Linux?

I think it's whether the scheduler can make guarantees about the time granted to a process. In a Desktop OS, the scheduler can arbitrarily decide not to give a process no new time slots.
Or whatever Wikipedia says.

A car salesman is paid less than a real estate agent, because selling and buying houses is a bigger investment, happens less often and more things can go wrong.
A real estate agent is paid less than a banker, because selling and buying companies is a bigger investment, happens less often and more things can go wrong.

If you see their income it as a percentage of the successful sale, the analogy works and explains the figures.

I wrote a small script that takes research papers and splits them up if they have two columns. It tries to figure out when you have figures, and to strip away the header/footer etc. It produces epubs (which you can convert with Calibre)

      https://github.com/JohannesBuc...

The pages are first converted to images, the white spaces figured out, and the page sliced and diced. The linearized content is a sequence of page number, and rectangle definitions. You could make those into a pdf again, but I just stick to images and html (epub).

Regarding Wayland: You clearly have no idea how X works today. Todays X is not like Unix should be at all.
Regarding Dbus: How is a dbus protocol different from semaphores and shm in the kernel?
Regarding systemd, I agree and see it critically, because it is tries to solve everything at the same time. Perhaps the direction of OpenRC is more appropriate. But to criticise systemd you have to understand the issues: A number of links are on http://freedesktop.org/wiki/So... including http://0pointer.de/blog/projec...
Regarding Gnome3: Gnome3 is conceptionally little different than Gnome2, KDE or XFCE: Windows and pointers. I actually really like it. If you don't exchange it for something else. Very Unixy.

We have to keep in mind that the system we have today are not mainframes that are booted once and have their daemons running for months.
We have plug-and-play of devices and screens, hibernation, multiple input devices, while at the same time the screen output must not flicker or have delays beyond 50ms. It's a different arena today.

This talk is insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I want to see WebPayment lift off. This could be a huge enabler for small internet businesses. Any news on that?

(1) Reading comprehension
(2) Household economics
then Coding.
Everyone thinks that their profession is the most important in the world. But making everyone a programmer is not the most important task.

Why not put a radiation field around the whole thing? Is it that difficult?

Yes, lets compute the human deaths in the production, while ignoring non-lethal health issues, other species (which we are not independent of) and the 10000 year contamination of the end products and any issues that will occur during this time.

Both nuclear and coal are crappy options.

Last I tried (~3 years ago), OpenBSDs sound card support was really poor.

I doubt this is really a Microsoft business decision. It's written by one person, and he is perhaps enthusiastic about open source (PhD student at PSU). His supervisor probably okayed it. Just because some division of MS does that, doesn't mean the top of the hierarchy decided/steered this decision.

Research the number of witches burnt and stop repeating this urban myth.

These are not Googles products. Googles product is advertisement. And that is not beta. All the "products" you think about (Search, Gmail, Google+, Wave, Newspaper/feed reader, etc.) are just helpers for Googles main product, ads. If they seize their purpose -- reaching many people -- they are dropped.

There are no black holes until we find one. All we have so far is that we ran out of alternative ideas, so we assume the supermassive compact object in the centers of galaxies are black holes. That is actually not quite true, there is an alternative to general relativity in the vicinity of black holes:
http://www.worldscientific.com...

Wait for the results of the Event Horizon Telescope this/next year. Then we will know which one is right: http://www.eventhorizontelesco...