My first new year with my new wife. So, as much as I wanted to take the last option, I had to go with the second.

"Gracefully" would be informing the user of the issue and allowing them to say "Screw it. This needs to get done NOW, insecure or not. Not X months from now when they get around to fixing it."

The original(for me) Long tail article. You can also check out longtail.com.

Or, you know...just search with Google for "The Long Tail".

I think you mean *******

Well, that's not going to happen.

Even if they did own all the bits and pieces that are in it.(Psst. They don't.)

ATI linux drivers have been improving a bunch.(Still not open, though.) My radeon 4850 works just fine for me, under Kubuntu 8.10.

Almost got me, there, Roland.

Astronomy.com Linky.

Yeah. I did it to piss on everyone elses parade.