Finally, a use for the <blink> tag.

I've never heard anyone call it the Daily Racist, though I've often heard it called the Daily Heil, the Hate Mail and the Daily Fail.

No, Unity is nothing like OS X. I've been using Unix (and then Linux) since the late 80's and OS X is the without question the best desktop *nix. Unity, on the other hand, makes desktop Linux pretty much unusable. The best Linux distro that I've tried so far is Mint 11. It's still not as good as OS X, but is getting there. I'm looking forward to trying out Mint 12, to see if they've closed the gap even more.

Every smartphone manufacturer seems to be suing every other manufacturer. So if we take this to it's ultimate conclusion, then nobody will be able to release any smartphones, as all other manufacturers will be blocking them. Mabe if that happens, then we'll might see some sanity return.

Yes it is. Or at least it will be soon, whether you like it or not. Microsoft, Apple, Ubuntu and Gnome all say so.

You'll just have to hope that KDE don't give in to this trend of phone/tablet interfaces on PCs.

And also the FAQ says, "What Linux distros will be supported at launch? Ubuntu, Debian and hopefully Fedora and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. "

Which is why I don't buy Sony products.

I was just going to say the same thing. PC running too slow? Just hit the Turbo button and marvel at the instant power.

Dell is only worth $25 billion? Apple should buy Dell and close them down.

I'm seeing...

lashdot Launches Re-Design

oday we are pleased to announce the launch of the third major re-design
our 13.5 year history, and I don't think it looks half bad.The new theme
presents a serious gutting of the underlying HTML and CSS, as well as
ll-new graphics. There will be many design wiggles, bug squashes, and
ompatibility glitches that survived testing, so bear with us for a bit.

Except that this case is being brought in Europe, so Hustler vs Falwell is completely irrelevant.

I am also in the UK, so I am going to stuff myself with curry and beer later. Not because it's Thanksgiving in the former colonies, but because it's a Friday night.

Jaguars are very reliable these days. In last years JD Power owners satisfaction survey, they came joint 6th (out of 29 manufacturers), above Porsche, BMW, Volvo, Audi and Volkswagen.

http://www.whatcar.com/NonCar/AC/19699419442.jpg

Sky were compelled by court orders to hand over these details to ACS Law. Sky also encrypted the data before sending it. ACS Law then posted the unencrypted data on their web site.

Sky are now going to challenge and fight these court orders.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/sep/28/bskyb-acslaw-filesharing

A virtual machine for old games would only require a tiny fraction of a modern hard drive.

If you just want to run old games, then a VM is the way to go. If you want a pet programming project then do something like this.