Heck. Money-hills of any sort are appreciated.

Thanks, matzahboy!

Oh, wait...

Additionally, I don't see "graphing calculators" on that list. :)

Care to give us a comprehensive list of the devices that you feel would be "fundamentally hurt by customization"?

You *can* create keys which require a passphrase to be used.

Damn. /.'s linkifier really fucked that one up!

Holy fuckging shit. Tribes 2? Actually functional?!

+5 does not begin to describe how informative this post is.

*blink*

If you're copying over internal networks or a VPN, why not use Kerberized rsh and avoid the additional processing required for SSH?

*shrug*

If the first programs that you ever thoroughly learned how to use were Blender and GIMP, you'd probably be complaining about all the other programs who won't conform to those particular examples of "completely intuitive" interfaces.

urxvt, FTW, IMO. :D

*shrug* My experience with iwl3945 disagrees with your statement.

*shrug* I got hit by the "Malformed packet triggers BSOD in Win2k/XP/Server 2k3" fault before I had time to patch.
1) BSODs still happen. :D
2) Most everything that I install (even AAAA video games) requests that I reboot the machine after the installation. You and I know that when you *really* have to reboot the machine. Joe Blow doesn't.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/thread.html

*shrug* There's not a *standard* GUI, but there are a few high-quality ones:
http://qt.nokia.com/
http://www.wxwidgets.org/
http://www.fltk.org/

Aside from any possible security or compatibility concerns, nothing is *wrong* with using *any* particular OS. Just as there's nothing *complicated* about using Wine to run a WIN32 app. :)

To rephrase the AC in question's suggestion; it would be if he suggested that support for ELF executables should not be in the Linux kernel, as the supporting code is much more complicated than that which supports the a.out format.

(srsly. binfmt_misc must blow that AC's mind. :D )

*stares*
I suppose that you're writing this from your Windows 3.11 (or perhaps OS/2) machine?

Instead of, say, installing a non-shitty un-crippled Linux distro? Your love doesn't seem to stretch very far.