BBLean and Litestep (shell replacement software for Windows) both have themes available which emulate multiple desktops.

Sorry to reply to myself, but I just realized I totally skipped over the part where I tell you about the awesomeness that is Xinerama.

Don't think there is a GUI for it yet, though.

sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Or, if you need a GUI, try xorgconf-gui: http://fosswire.com/post/2007/8/ubuntu-getting-xorgconf-gui/ (could be deprecated).

Drupal, drupal, drupal drupal. Drupal.

You can't just ignore the problems away. If you'd start reading various specs (esp. Javascript-related ones) you would realize that enforcing extra security is just common sense.

In addition to the add-ons listed above, may I recommend SafeCache and SafeHistory, you will most likely need Nightly Tester Tools (another add-on) to override compatibility (warning, etc).

Everywhere. Here's an example: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-2154-apt-get-or-aptitude

Googling for "aptitude vs. apt-get" yields many results, too.

You should use aptitude instead of apt-get (handles dependencies better). And I hope you do realize that aptitude isn't just usable for Ubuntu users, but any system supporting APT (ie. Debian-based).

Also also, ubuntuforums.org sucks. Really. It does.

1. Egyption, Greek, and Roman religions also had people believing in them for long periods of time. There have been many religions (and still are) that have lasted for long periods time. The length of time a religion has been around is not a real good metric.

2. Also not a good metric, especially since it's only been around for a relatively short period of. Religions don't appear with people already divided.

3. And that's different from other religions because...?

The simple fact is a religion is whatever you believe it to be. One person's pink unicorn worship is no sillier than a million people worshiping invisible sky fairies. Religion is in the eye of the beholder.

All religions are abusive and used like any tool for power, wealth, etc. . The only real difference is that Scientology is basically coming right out and screaming it's scam unlike most other main stream religions who do it far more subtly.

~X~

I agree with this in principle, but, in practice, it doesn't seem to come up as often as one might think. I frequently use NCSA's Lincoln cluster with 384 Teslas. Early on, I discovered some "hard" memory errors (repeatable bad bits or rows). These were very early boards, which apparently hadn't been fully tested. This prompted the admins at NCSA to write the GPU equivalent of memtest86, which they ran for about a month if I recall. After removing the boards with bad memory (about 3-4, if I recall), they didn't encounter any "soft" errors (i.e. random bit flips). NVIDIA's Fermi will have ECC, which is reassuring, but I have found the present generation, without ECC, to be quite reliable. I should also note that the hard errors I found always resulted in NANs/INFs, etc., which are very obvious. I'd be more concerned with "silent" errors that subtly change the results.

TG Daily is a horrible, horrible news website with even more horrible, horrible "journalists". Please Slashdot, for the love of news, don't ever link to TG Daily again.

http://xkcd.com/137/

Fuck. That. Shit.

For interested readers; these were the same people who killed astalavista. (Logs of that attack can be found all over the internet if you google).