Agreed. Period, as in rm -rf ., works great, though, because it'll delete the current directory, including '..'. the parent directory. It repeats recursively just like you asked.
A friend of mine tried to wipe out all the dot files and dot directories in his home directory as root by typing rm -rf .* He got a little more deleted than he bargained for in the process, thankfully for him he was at the console saying, "Hmm, this is taking an awfully long time...".

Personally, I prefer rm -R ., even though it is a FreeBSD-ism.

Remotely, no never. That's asking for trouble. But locally? Yeah! I log in about once a quarter. You never know when you'll need fallback or disaster recovery mode because something's not right with the hardware or software.

I hear what you're thinking: "Why run a server on a single machine? Put it in a cluster of redundant VMs on two or more hypervisors and you don't have to worry about disaster recovery." True. But not every company has the resources plop from a few tens of thousands to a couple of hundred thousand on hardware.

Agreed. To be fair, though, the Galaxy S3 that you had (I'll assume from a carrier with 4G LTE, an S3 i747 or i535) a slightly faster dual-core processor and a weak GPU instead of what the international S3 (i9300) had: a slower quad core processor with a strong GPU, but only 1GB of RAM and 3G cellular data. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the international version appears snappier, despite having a slower overall processor and 1/2 the RAM.

I suspect that the TouchWiz layer is heavily GPU dependant, and doesn't perform well on the Adreno 225 GPU of the Carrier version Galaxy S3.

Oh, I just noticed that the i9305 version of the S3 also has 2GB of RAM, and 4G LTE, sounds like the best of both worlds. If anyone is curious about all this, here's the link.

FWIW, I put CyanogenMod 11 on my phone, and I felt like I bought a brand new device. It doesn't feel laggy anymore. I may not say the same when CM12 comes out, but for now it's working great. The privacy feature is also very nice. Not that CM is bug free - the camera crashes, had trouble focusing in earlier versions, and the GPS is kinda hosed. To be fair, the GPS was hosed by Samsung when they took the stock ROM to KitKat, so it's no wonder the CM developers are having trouble.

Yes, but only without 3D acceleration. Xen and CubesOS don't support it. Sure, you can browse the web, but anything that requires 3D, like videos and games are not really feasible. Even newer versions of Excel need 3D rendering. Don't even think of running it in a VM (Hypervisors within Hypervisors).

You'll have more luck 3D-wise with a Hyper-V server combined with Windows new RemoteFX technology. I know that this is unpopular option, and if anyone can set me straight on hypervisors and 3D for Windows guests not running on Windows hypervisors, please do. I've researched KVM, LXD, Jailhouse, or ESX, and of those, only ESX has experimental Windows 3D guest support.

This is infuriating. You can change the registry value above - doesn't work, and the program resets it for you. Digging around on the filesystem, I found this gem:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties
It has the same entries as in the registry. However, changing those also has no effect on the checkbox, either. In fact, when you reload that registry key and file, those settings will automatically change back to false. I'm baffled.

The only way that seems to be available is the Config Java advanced checkbox. Nothing else appears to work. MS must cache something somewhere with the LocalLow directory or AppDataLow registry entries. This was attempted on Windows 7 & 8 64 bit.

Ah, I found it. It is in the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\JavaSoft\DeploymentProperties]
"install.disable.sponsor.offers"="true"

Other workarounds:
Use ninite, and you will get the latest 32 bit and 64 bit JREs. Run the installer again and it updates again. No spyware pushed by updates. Also does more than Java.

If you prefer, you can install the JRE the normal way, and then in the Java Control Panel (start / type 'java' / click on 'Configure Java', or click the java icon in the control panel), go to advanced, scroll to the bottom, and check the last checkbox Suppress sponsor offers when installing or updating Java. All fixed, and you can use the standard java update method. Wish I could make a .reg for this, and push it out with GP or as a login script.

Chiclet Keyboard refers to the style where there's wide spacing or a border between the keys, all keys are level with each other, and there's a soft mushy membrane behind the keys. In my experience, I type slower on that type of keyboard, but still make more errors.

It looks a bit more stylish than the old keyboards, and doesn't seem as hard to keep clean, but the membranes seem to wear out much much faster than those old IBM buckling spring keyboards or those Cherry MX keyboards, but about equivalent to those laptop keyboards with darn scissor switches that lose a key about once every other year.

Actually, I bet it is a standard PCI Express SD Card. What's the form factor called again, it has a strange name... NGFF or M.2 SSD. Oh wait, that doesn't appear to be it. I stand corrected. Looks like they are completely custom in a mac. Still, it's nice to be able to fixed a trashed SSD - even if it has to come from Apple or an Apple reseller, much better than those models that had the SSD directly integrated into the motherboard, like some of the MacBook Air models.

IIRC, you can even have the voices and music that was developed by Toys For Bob (the company behind SC2) for the 3DO. Also, some of the original MOD files have been resampled and updated by modern mixers. I prefer the original MOD files, but it's cool that it has had updates, even 20+ years on. Many thanks to Toys for Bob for releasing the source *and* content.

No, not with encrypted-locked bootloaders becoming common. For Verizon starting with the Samsung Galaxy S3 and phones after that era, and AT&T with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and other phones, you will have tough time putting anything other than what the carrier supports. You may get lucky and be able to break it, but it takes a lot longer. If there are unlocked bootloaders available, you may be able take matters into your own hands, but it is quite risky.

Also, when you buy a phone locked to a carrier, you may not be getting what's advertised elsewhere. iPhones are universal, Android, not so much. The AT&T Galaxy S3 (i747) was completely different than the international S3 (i9300). Some things were better - more RAM (2GB vs 1GB), slightly faster processor (1.5 GHz vs 1.4GHz), and faster cellular data (4G LTE vs 3G). Others things weren't so good - dual core instead of quad core (Snapdragon S4+ 'Krait' vs ARM Cortex-A9), weaker graphics processor (Adreno 225 vs ARM Mali 400), less storage (16GB vs 32GB), and a lot less battery time. And a broken GPS, if you upgrade to KitKat - even on stock. I wouldn't recommend buying a locked carrier phone (other than an iPhone) for anyone.

Thank you for your insightful commentary about my mental status. Yes, I may not have 160 IQ like you. I'm actually thankful for that, because I understand how to relate and empathize with other humans. You clearly do not. Since the problem must have been me, please go install Hardy Heron or Intrepid Ibex and set up a static address. If you can, please go here and tell these users they are all idiots also. We need people like you to keep losers like me and these other Ubuntu fellows on Windows where they belong. After all, if you cannot set up a DHCP server to hand out static addresses, what are you doing running Linux, right?

Thanks!

The real WTF is that he's not kidding. Ubuntu says that systemd needs nm-online to function, and if it's not ready to go, they will replace it [NetworkManager] with something that will.

I totally agree. Some years back, mid 2008 or 2009, NM could not handle a static IP address. Sure, static addresses aren't always common, but the GUI bits were there. However, the backend had not been wired up yet - at least, that's what I observed with Ubuntu and Fedora from that time-frame. Is it possible the testing wasn't done? Amazing that this happened to two distros simultaneously.
The solution, in this case, was to disable NM and manually enter your IP address via ifconfig, and then your default gateway via route. Once completed, you saved your command lines into /etc/rc.local. Wasn't hard for me, but it made some of the new Ubuntu converts question why Linux had to be so difficult. Especially when it took one or two Ubuntu versions to fix. That's a year to a year-and-a-half for a fairly common networking setup. I cannot imagine what the fellow with the complicated VPN arrangement went through. Also looks like having both a static and a dynamic address on the same NIC requires editing config files.

If editing config files are how non standard things are done, why are the other projects in such a hurry to move their config directions into a binary registry of programs? Will Linux get a flood of stuff like StopSign 'AntiVirus' or MyClea...PC or Hos-t-s file fixers. Okay, never mind. I don't want to know, and I really don't want to summon those trolls.

I'm hoping that the authors of SharpDevelop can be persuaded to port their software to Linux. I suspect the major sticking point at the moment is WinForms - I think that's part of WPF. If WPF is not part of the open sourcing, then there's no way a port could be made without a UI rewrite. Research says (paraphasing a bit) MS flatly denies that WPF will leave Windows as that is part of the presentation of the OS.

Other projects written by the ic#code guys are SharpZipLib, SharpUsbLib, and ILSpy. I know I've seen SharpZipLib used in a very expensive bit of Oracle reporting middleware and a few other projects.