> When she complain...

Who? My mother?

How? Olympus Mons is 22km high. Volcano in question is barely 4km tall.

I measure it in HURD releases

I recently found this to be good source of main world information, especially if you read it 2-3 days delayed. Clean short description of what is happening in the world. Without ads.

> I am surprised by this part: last time I tried with a Win7 Pro laptop, I was able to use my own license number (the one on the sticker on the laptop case) with another Windows setup disc, without having to purchase a new license!

Does typing in your licence number wipe out all the OEM crapware? I don't think so...

> Can any math pro explain what practical uses solving nonlinear least squares equations have?

For illiterates like you, there is video in the first link mentioned in the summary

> A slashdotter getting married? Please.

You misspelled "traitor"

> If you post a comment that general user base of slashdot likes, it will be modded up. If you post a comment, even a really insightful and interesting one that the general user base doesn't like, it will be modded down.

So you are proposing change in moderating system, that will cause more comments that I don't like to appear on slashdot? Wtf is wrong with you? I go here because I like comments here.

It was clean boot, no suspend. By ENTER I meant enter in grub menu.

About year ago, I tuned my linux box (cheap single-core Intel Atom board, 5400rpm HDD, 1GB RAM) to boot into X in 8s (measured between hitting ENTER key and displaying search results for "asdf" on google in Opera browser). Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE_QRZwNGOs

I recently created this piece of css myself:

section#a2footer.grid_24 {
    display: none;
}

And I love it! Bye bye slashdot tweet/fb/+1 buttons

It's roughly:

RadToDeg (ArcTan (0.384 / 6*1.609))) = 5.87 degree

If you are sitting behind similar monitor and font settings as mine, it would be like staring at

O------------o

> Why didnt they just dump it all on youtube in the first place?

Because youtube don't have "Download this video" button.

$ grep facebook /etc/hosts
0.0.0.3 www.static.ak.facebook.com www.static.ak.fbcdn.net www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com www.api.ak.facebook.com
0.0.0.3 www.facebook.com
0.0.0.3 facebook.com
0.0.0.3 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
0.0.0.3 connect.facebook.net
0.0.0.3 graph.facebook.com

I don't know, you tell me.