That one was tested by Mythbusters. IIRC, they concluded that it was almost impossible to launch the bumper accidentally.
And here's a link to mythbustersresults.com so you can check it yourself. Assuming they don't just make up the results on that site, of course.
why cant they just have their current linux developers switch to mac? surely there are more people running that?
Yep, anybody can switch to any platform in an instant. It's not like you have to build up years of familiarity with the intrinsic ways of a particular environment, or learn any platform-specific APIs or anything like that.
I've never been too happy with Firefox's middle-click behavior, though. It seems to be mapped to a bunch of one-click operations that have apparently nothing to do with each other...
Middle click in window: paste clipboard buffer to URL bar and go.
So if you mistakenly middle-click while you're not over a link you get sent to some random place - quite possibly the badly-behaved DNS server's ad page... It all seems very arbitrary, like they just randomly mapped out a bunch of functions to the middle button.
Go to Firefox Preferences > Advanced > General, and turn on "Use autoscrolling".
"Autoscrolling" is a little "autopilot" mode for scrolling, triggered when you middle-mouse on the window. Even if you don't care for that functionality, it intercepts the middle mouse button, and in effect stops the annoying "paste-n-go" behaviour you are experiencing.
Drives me nuts, too.
Google is releasing a lightweight Linux distro that can only run a web browser, and it's being treated like something amazing.
There, fixed that for you.
I for one hate waiting for the system to boot, when all I want to do is check my e-mail. Granted, Ubuntu 9.10 boots pretty fast, and 10.04 looks like it'll boot even faster, but you can only get so far without actually removing stuff.
Although if Haiku supported WiFi, it'd already be perfect. Boots in <5 seconds on my Eee PC.
What proportion of Fedora installations have the user and the admin as different people?
Hardly any.
In which case, making the user also able to install such packages is a useless feature.
If I had a "right" to electricity, nobody could legally shut it off.
I don't know about the situation in your country, but here in the Netherlands your water supply is not free, but you also cannot be cut off, because every citizen has the right to running water in their house. The same thing goes with gas during winter, because you cannot deny people the ability to warm their homes, even if they don't pay for it.
Education is another example. It's not only a right, it's even mandatory for children under 16, even though there is a fee to have your kid in a school.
Having the right to something doesn't mean you get it for free.
It's a right to get at least a 1mbps internet connection at reasonable price. It is still a right.
My assumption was that they meant to imply "not contracting or consulting". I'm not sure if that includes part-time work or not, if it does I'm on four, if it doesn't I'm on one. Two of those were before I was 18 mind you. Most of the work I did between 18 and 30 was contracting.
... slow as Vista, we will starve to death.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
