Take a backtrack Live CD or install the aircrack suite and you'll have free wi-fi access all over the UK. For some reason our ISP's insist on sending routers out with WEP encryption by default, and most people don't change them. You'll be breaking the law of course, but don't let that get in the way :)

You're going to shit a brick when they bring in the OO ribbon comes in. I don't understand why developers feel changing a UI makes things more intuitive. You're essentially asking the user to find where things are all over again.

But it literally, just this minute, came back for me in the UK.

All I wanted a month ago was a 12" notebook with a dual core chip for under £350. Everything else I could have survived without. The only thing that seemed to be available was 12" netbooks and ridiculously expensive 12" laptops. I eventually found a refurbed machine that fit my needs, but it was originally released almost 18 months ago. Am I missing something with the 12" screen market? People who've used 10" screens must know the pain of constantly scrolling down because web pages don't fit as much height wise the screen. Now the 12" netbooks are going, I doubt anything is going to come in and fill the gap, and its a real shame, because 12" screens, as far as I'm concerned, are the sweet spot for portability and usability in laptops.

This didn't work for Napster, and it won't work for Kazaa.

I predict a flood of MJ puns in /.'s near future.

As much as I'm sure Google would value your opinion, I'm sure the people there have considered everything. They wouldn't have implemented this design unless it was the most energy and cost efficient design they could possibly think of.

Thats why Ben Jai gets paid a huge sum of money, and you're posting on Slashdot..

We use Sophos at the school I admin with the enterprise console. It is by no means the greatest antivirus out there, but it does the job. It doesn't intrude on the user, updates itself quietly and efficiently and you can manage clients well using the enterprise console. I believe its fairly reasonably priced, but we get a discount being educational (they sell heavily to schools)

Just make sure you only get the endpoint AV and not the bundled firewall - that really sucks

From what I can tell from the screenshots, it looks like it utilizes SkyPlayer, which is available in the UK for £10 per month, and you get Sky One, Sky Sports and a few other flagshiip sky channels (32 in total) If you already have a Sky subscription, it is free to use.

You articulated what I was trying to say a whole lot better than I originally did!

I'm going to get modded down as flamebait here, but lets face it, unless it pretties up the OS, Apple will ignore it. Security hasn't exactly been their strong point

As much as I am thankful for discovering Linux for my laptop, adding a drop down box won't make the difference people are hoping for. Linux is so alien to the average person who would buy from Dell that people would immediately overlook it regardless of price drop. To most of the average Joe users, Windows is a PC, the only other alternative is a Mac. What Linux really, really needs is to hit the average user where they are most susceptible; in front of the television. A few adverts on US TV would have a domino effect on other countries' markets. I know that most Linux distros don't have the money to put an advert on TV, but it's where the average Joe gets the majority of his/her information about new products. I'd love Shuttleworth to get his hand in his pocket and put some Ubuntu adverts on US TV. Driving user adoption via advertising = Uptake in users = Support from other big companies who want to jump on the bandwagon