It's already available at wikia.com (somewhat affiliated with Wikipedia). It's crap. I end up using the regular wiki markup which is much more controllable and looks nicer. It really isn't that hard to learn. And in terms of messy markup, that's because people didn't take the time to clean up their markup. It's easily fixed.

How does one go about becoming a /. editor?

impress.js. It isn't SVG/canvas, but it uses CSS3 and javascript to make prezi-like presentations using simple html. It's actually quite easy to use. I've been having a bit of fun with it lately.

I tried playing for a while also. The game is very deficient in many many areas.

For starters, the learning curve is quite steep. When you begin the game, there is little indication of how to navigate your way around. Once you've figured out the controls, you'll probably get yourself killed quickly as the enemies in the game are more than your match as soon as you go to a slightly hostile world. Killing things is a pain, and combat frankly is quite unexciting.

Also, once you've been to about 5 planets, you've been to them all. Scenery is decent in space, but still becomes boring after a few hours. If you like doing things over and over and seeing the same things over and over, this is your game.

Playing on Linux, I also got a few segfaults which ended my playing. The game is definitely buggy.

On the plus side, the game has pretty realistic physics which I tend to like. I think the devs have created a good framework for a potentially good game, but what it really needs is more developers to start creating content and fluidity throughout the game. Bug fixes are important too. Art designers would also make the game way better. And since the game is fully FOSS, any developer who wants to help out shouldn't have a problem.

But don't you dare write it in Java (but please make it cross-platform). Don't judge me, I can be as demanding as I like.

So you failed sociology?

I agree. I'm in school right now as a CS student and I'm finding the upper level math courses to be more an exercise in useless theorems better suited for a grad course..especially since you would need to be planning to go into a scientific programming field for any of it to be of any use.

Microsoft integrates the virus protection. It hires out all the employees in the AV companies that have actually been finding the viruses (and not bogging the system down). Hire more people to make the operating system more secure so that the AV doesn't have to be so omnipotent. Problem solved.

Better yet try a distro that's actually been updated in the last year. Like Puppy Linux or Slitaz.

Unfortunately, being a musician, I've found Linux professional audio software to be numerous, buggy, and a lot of work to just "get working". In Windows, I can fire up Reason, FL Studio, a numerous amount of VSTs, and plenty of other DAWs (digital audio workstations) and make my ideas come to life within minutes. Macs, the same. With Linux however, there are only a few reliable and stable programs for professional audio, and almost none of them function smoothly and seamlessly like the proprietary DAWs. Their is spread between different programs and while that works for many other aspects of Linux, for a musician, it stifles creativity leaving less time to actually create the music, sounds, effects, etc. The few good programs for Linux that I've used: ardour, renoise (proprietary), audacity.

Do you have any reasons why "it does not belong any where near a real Linux installation"? Gentoo is, perhaps, even worse than an Ubuntu distribution in many circumstances. Unless you really know what you are doing, you're very likely to break things on a Gentoo distro.

Also I'm betting you've never installed LFS. If you know what you are doing, you have almost ultimate control over your system with LFS. I'm betting the reason most people don't run it as a server is because it would be way too much effort to learn how to build an entire operating system just to run a server. Oh and let me know if you can think of a reason why it's "sissified".

power user? sorry to bust your bubble but neither KDE or GNOME were ever meant much for power users. Try a customized tiling WM (awesome, i3, dwm; I personally use musca). Or if you must, use Openbox. Once you get the hang of it and customize it how you like, your productivity will shoot up (get used to those shortcut keys).

I tried compressing most of my old files in my home directory into mp3 with LAME but nothing worked after!!

I am a current Computer Science student and even with my major, I must agree that most classes tended to waste time when we would use computers in high school. Most of the softer science teachers have kids use computers to make "Powerpoints" and "Videos" and waste a great deal of time doing fun, but generally useless stuff when we could have been learning actual history or English in a class discussion or lecture. I found the teachers that mostly avoided computers (besides the computer science teachers) were the teachers I tended to learn the most from.

However, I still think computers are needed in schools especially in a society where nearly every white collar job requires the ability to use a computer. Also, computer classes, and similar computer-centric classes obviously are going to require a computer lab (at least). I also cannot even imagine how horrific it would be to have to use a typewriter to write all my papers...it's a shuddering thought. Perhaps an emphasis on learning the necessary skills for using a computer in a real life job, rather than an emphasis on integrating computers with existing teaching techniques would create a much more efficient system, while still preparing students for the job world.

Ever heard of the placebo effect? I'll admit though I think it's an excellent ambient track, but considering there's an enormous library of ambient music out there, I suspect this "Most Relaxing Crap" is not the best out there.