Perhaps if you'd taken the time to RTFA before rushing to get first post, you'd have realized they're cremated first.

Can't really speak for whole countries or continents but I've never received one, nor heard from anyone who did, in either Sweden, Denmark or Spain despite living in all of the above. Happy for that too, sounds like blatant phone terrorism.

On the positive side, a LAN would be a fairly 'round the clock thing, wouldn't it? Much less so than a sporting event, or even a music festival. Mind you I'd imagine you still have queues - and more than the odd stinker. But then I guess some would say that's part of the atmosphere.

I don't strictly know, but to be honest it has got that much easier (and faster!) to get your fill of "all things digital" since the 90s, that if I went I'd probably not give it a second thought but rather enjoy actually being there for the occasion.

True enough. On a related note, the word "epic" in the headline really does nothing for me. Maybe I'm anal but I don't think it's appropriate language to use in news reporting. "Large" or whatever would be sufficient. Or simply omitting the adjective entirely.

Cheers for that, some well juicy stuff on there that's tempting enough for my eventual upgrade. Would it be safe to assume that companies like these, selling dedicated Linux laptops, will have picked hardware that is thoroughly well supported by open source drivers? Obviously I would expect it to work with the pre-installed system, but over the years on my Thinkpad I've gotten used to having to work out occasional kinks every so often. No biggie, but if I could believe that will happen significantly less frequently, or dare I say not at all, that would make it worth it on a whole new dimension.

I'm not a fan of Apple, but there's no denying Jobs was one of the greatest legends of the IT era. RIP Steve, far too young.

You didn't even read the summary, let alone TFA, did you?

The final page of TFA notes somewhat off hand that on OS X "[Safari] is still king". But yes, I would also be more interested in reading a similar benchmark, or be given an option of several ones, taking into account different platforms. Linux, and on the mobile front Android, would be most relevant for me personally. That said it's still a fairly interesting article, even if I contented myself with the summaries of the final two pages.

While I can rue not discovering Slashdot until a long time after it was born and became great, I've immensely enjoyed the site and continue to do so since that day when I finally got around to checking it out. So nothing fancy, just, thanks a lot for making this possible.

Thought that. It's not even ambiguous, it's actually flat out wrong. "Steve Jobs To Be Questioned..." would have sufficed.

They've hardly been around for years and years. The Sun is much more dynamic than that, and these things form and disappear basically all the time. That doesn't mean they're any reason to be alarmed though. It's simply part of the Sun's normal behaviour.

Yes, went to post exactly the same thing. Not to bash the submission as such since it's nice to see people take an interest in my field of work, but surely it's not that much to ask to find the referenced article. Mind you, the space.com piece although better also doesn't go very much in depth of the subject. Then again one of the reasons for that is likely that it simply isn't a very big deal. The Sun is a very dynamic object, always has been and always will be. And that it spills stuff into space is hardly news, or cause for concern. They're still nice pictures though, from a great mission.

Hard to argue with that, surely. I'm very far from a Microsoft fan, but credit where it is due.

Noticing this as well. While the install page happily states "1.0.10 for Linux", clicking on to the actual files listing the downloads all seem to be version 0.6.7 - for Ubuntu and Fedora binaries as well as for the source package. Suppose it will come up soon enough, still, they could've finished uploading before they announced it too.