Not surprised. This is what happens when you let monopolies grow unregulated. Comcast is the new Ma-Bell. We need to demand congress break up the cable giant.

The radeon_hd work is mostly to provide reliable mode-setting and to enable the full range of resolutions on Radeon HD cards. There is talk of hardware rendering, howevever we need a pipeline to connect Mesa / Gallium to the card. DRM is very Linux centric. In a lot of ways our driver is cleaner than the Linux one, i've been careful to refacter quite a bit of messy code as I went. We're actually working with the Linux radeon developers to point out issues in the Linux kernel driver. Everyone wins.

Heh. I can relate here. Back when I was young and poor I donated a *lot* (back then for me at least) to Gnome.

Today I am *MUCH* better off financially than I was then... however since Gnome 3 came out I've cut all donations.

I want to try to like Gnome 3... but they make *WAY* too many odd design choices anymore for me to care. The issue isn't them wanting to be different and new, the issue is making design choices that don't make any sense.

Every person I see running gnome is running some kind of dock to get get their open application list back. (go ahead, search for Gnome 3 screenshots on Google+, all of them include some dock). People don't have trouble focusing on a single application to the degree that they need everything else hidden from sight... it's a silly concept.

Don't even get me started on needing to hold ctrl to use the delete key in the file manager, the removal of middle mouse button copy/paste, the stupid huge title bars, sticking buttons in title bars, and Gnome's odd obsession with not being able to minimize anything.

I personally hope the current Gnome dies as an organization and more sane heads prevale and fork.

Lovely. This is like car manufacturers charging people to repair recalls. Forcing your customers to pay to fix your shitty product is pretty underhanded. Screw Oracle, screw IBM, screw Cisco, and screw HP.

I love OpenBSD, a *lot* of good has come out of it. (hello, ssh?) I used to run OpenBSD religiously for firewalls. However the 20,000 USD for electricity bit sounds fishy. If it really does cost that much, drop the old platforms that may have 1-3 vocal users. Drop hppa, drop vax, drop old pizza box sparc's, drop alpha. Those platforms were neat back in the day, but now there is no useful point. (they really can't even keep up with modern 100MB/s, 1GBps traffice, I tried vintage hardware plus OpenBSD a few years ago) This sounds less like Theo wanting to keep the project alive and more about him wanting to keep a huge inventory of crappy systems to play Admin with (holding OpenBSD hostage) Let it die, and from the ashes maybe a newer, leaner OpenBSD will fork.

I've seen quite a few Ben Heck videos, never been too impressed. It seems like a lot of what he does is using 3d printers and CNC machines, then throwing electronics into the resulting cases (not something most people can do yet due to the cost of 3d printers and CNC machines). For example, when he joined a bunch of game consoles, it seemed like more of a hack than a electronics project.

Stop forking. No, seriously... stop.

I've installed OpenStack 4-5 times now without any success. I installed this new RedHat pre-built OpenStack in a few hours with no trouble! Used CentOS 6.3, worked like a champ.

I know.. it's just nice to see one of the many grammar nazi's out there get a taste of their own medicine :P

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *WOW* You should avoid making technical comments when you're not very technical. bisecting means git is able to track down bugs by taking known working and non-working points in a source code tree and narrow down the broken revision by working from two directions to the common fault.

Oprah not Opera. Fail troll is fail.

Obviously Opera's bees have taken residence in the walls of the house and are absorbing gamma radiation from the wifi antennas.