I'll be honest, I use linux and windows, but I still think VLC is a valuable counterpart to ANY proprietary tool. Sure, your mac may play everything you have thrown at it, but VLC is willing to support file types that Apple won't purely on grounds of copyright. Mac needs VLC, because, frankly, VLC isn't worried about getting sued. This would be a terrible loss for the mac community.

Next time I get P.O.'ed at some company, I'm gonna get a link to their web page in a slashdot story.

I am truly sorry for your loss, and I'm glad that you found such a creative way to honor him. I am sure he would be truly pleased.

As to the assholes who posted below me, SHAME ON YOU! You should be respectful to people in such an important time. Seriously, do you feel that a few good laughs is worth this embarrassment? Grow up.

I know! for chrissakes, I have to play tiberium wars in WINE because 64 bit won't do it!

....explorer?....Pentium?....1GB?....

CAPS LOCK ENGAGED! Prepare the fury!

lol!

the statement is that vista is the most "secure, stable" operating system.

I split partition with ubuntu and vista with the latest update. Neighther has crashed, but my last installation of vista was plagued with bugs and viruses.

My process manager lost its close button (something that still blows my mind), and I recieved 25 viruses while using proprietary symantec (I now use Avira, its exceptional).

Sure, I've had to google a few problems in ubuntu, but as an EXPERIENCED user, I can do everything I need to, generally without help. It also never crashes, unless I get crazy with compizFusion (hehehe :) )

So while most people SHOULD use Vista, as it is friendly for the average user, the claim that Vista is more stable is silly.

And as far as security, Vista still has gaping problems with administration. It will never be secure until regEdit and Debug require a password. RegEdit holds passwords and I once saw a demonstration where a guy formatted a hard drive in 3 lines of text under Debug.

regEdit: edits the registry, runs in commandline as regedit

debug: Assembly Language injections into the processor. Should have been dumped on the 64 bit system. (WHY?!?!) runs in command line as debug in older systems, runs in run program as debug in vista.

Okay, so PRS is pissed that google and youtube would rather take down copyrighted content than pay for it? really? You see, I'd rather not have to pay for music either when there is so much free content from people trying to get noticed. You can tell the companies to pay for what they take, but you can't tell them they should continue taking it!!!

I mean, technically he is, but if he wants to change the world, I think that fusion would be a worthy target. I'm not gonna troll about his OTHER places he pisses away money, but imagine the impact fusion would have on the world!

Set it up as rentable server space. Lord knows its expensive enough. In a year or two, provided you have enough customers, you might pay of the cost. Hell, your boss would be pleased if it works. Just make sure you do it legally. I don't know where you live.

Practice this line: "While Windows would tell you that we are more vulnerable, I have to point out that it is susceptible to over 60,000 viruses, while there are only 40 known Linux virii. Further, a windows user has to update critical system patches as often as twice a month, whereas my linux system might need an update once. Ever. Instead they create a better version biannually.