If the movie sucks as badly as I think it will I'll just play with my cell phone for two hours.
Please don't.

The light from your cell phone is terribly distracting to everyone else who's trying to actually watch the movie. Go out to the lobby before starting your phone if you must use it while the show is on.

I installed Centos 7 on a Lenovo Ideapad laptop a few months back and to my surprise the touchscreen worked just fine. I discovered that by accident when I was polishing a speck of dirt off of the screen and the cursor was following my cleaning tissue.

This apparently only runs on Windows.

I really don't understand why people run sensitive and critical stuff on Microsoft Windows. (I'm not trying to be a troll.) It's the world's biggest target for malware, it's a monoculture, and it has a security model that tends toward convenience over security, and was actually bolted on after-the-fact.

Unix (Linux) is about as far from a monoculture as you can get while still remaining reasonably compatible between distributions, and it was built with security in mind.

They offer HTML versions of each article on their website too. Look a bit further down the page past the pdf link and you'll find them.

I haven't read this magazine yet; diidn't realize it existed until today.

However, the computer industry moves so quickly -- is the information stale or outdated nine months after initial publication? If so, what's the point, other than a public relations exercise? This may be vulnerable to the same malady that killed the paper computer magazines of the 80's and 90's.

Since when do you need Microsoft Visual Studio to write or teach C and C++ programming?

I've been writing C for years and I have never actually seen Microsoft Visual Studio anywhere in the wild. (I take the maid's approach to computers: I don't do Windows.)

I own a small "mom and pop" business.

I accept cash, cash or cash. No credit or debit cards of any kind.

I save a lot of money on fees that I would otherwise have to pay to banks for accepting their cards, and I don't have to hassle around with payment terminals and the like.

All of my customers know that they have to bring cash when they come here. Anyone who doesn't know that (new people in town) find out pretty quickly on their first visit, and there is a bank machine about a half-block away from here.

Don't place your outgoing e-mail server in a domestic internet access. Most of they are permanently blacklisted.
Beware of your ISP/data center's network.
Be specially beware of shared hosts.

Don't use your own Internet service, don't use your ISP's network, don't use a datacenter's network, and don't use a shared host.

What's left? I see nothing more other a carrier pigeon or a paper envelope with a stamp on it.

I really don't have any use for ReactOS, but thanks for the pointer. Perhaps others who read this might find it interesting.

Over the course of time I have discovered and reported bugs in programs like Libreoffice and Scribus, anaconda and even ncurses on one rather memorable occasion. But all of that software is of use, value and interest to me. ReactOS isn't.

Could someone tell me why we would want to do unpaid labour for Microsoft?

I'm quite prepared to test and help support Linux and open source projects. Microsoft? Not so much....

I used to mail cheques to the utility companies and credit card companies and whatnot, but then I discovered that I can pay all of those bills at the bank down the street. They don't charge me anything for taking those payments, either, so it's definitely cheaper than paying for a stamp, an envelope, and a cheque. And it's right down the street so I can walk in, pay cash and get a stamped receipt on the spot.

I'm sure someone is paying them for the service of taking my money and sending it on like that but that someone isn't me, so I'm pretty happy about that. It saves a lot of stamps, and cheques.

When I send a package from the post office here, they weigh and measure it, determine the price for the postage, and print a sticker with that amount on it. They slap the sticker on the package and that's all there is to it.

I don't remember the last time I sent or received a package that had real stamps plastered on it. Letter mail sometime does, and letter mail that I send out always does since I purchase a roll of stamps once in a while for that purpose. But not packages.

That's interesting. The link disappeared when I posted the message, even though it was present in the original.

Here it is again.

https://xato.net/passwords/mor...

Here is a list of the 10,000 most commonly used passwords. Perhaps a list like this should be incorporated into account setup programs to disallow words on this list:

10,000 Top Passwords

Audio applications? I use my phone to play music and listen to mp3's of old time radio plays regularly. It even automatically connects with the stereo system in my truck so I can play stuff off of my phone while I'm driving.