Actually, pretty much every Linux distribution I've ever played with (that comes with an installer) gives you the option of not installing a boot loader if you don't want to. Some will even make an alternate boot media for you to get into your Linux installation, such as a boot floppy or a USB stick, while others will leave it up to you to figure it out. And if you do choose to install Grub, they will almost always add an entry for any Windows installations it finds.

Of course, there are the Linux distributions that come without installers, but if you're that hardcore you know what you're doing anyway.

To test how well it works with various hardware? With that said, it's on its own dedicated box which is an old system that got retired when XP went EOL. It runs okay, but much slower than Windows 8 on the same hardware.

Actually, since there is already a VLC browser plugin, it would be sweet if the browser would just load the plugin to handle Flash video. But thanks for the drag-n-drop hint for Youtube URLs.... I had no idea you could do that.

But does it run Windows?

publically funded projects to bring high speed broadband

In the US we gave our telcos massive tax cuts in the 90s in exchange for fiber rollout. The telcos took the money and ran.

Faraday cages are nice until you need to stick a wire through them to plug into the wall. Enjoy your battery life (and/or jiggawatt laser outside pointed through the mesh at a solar panel inside)

Now I'm curious what happend to Case1, Case2, and Copy of copy of case3 [8].doc.

This is why I deal with equipment where I can A) crossship (bonus points for letting me ship the drive faceplate instead of the whole thing) and B) swap the drive out myself.

It's more about how far Firefox has fallen opposed to how much IE has improved. Palemoon is a good browser, so the rendering engine is fundamentally sound. Firefox's problems are elsewhere.

The term "PC" is short for "IBM-Compatible Personal Computer" where the defining characteristic is the BIOS. The thing that Compaq reverse-engineered to build the first "IBM Compatible" back in the 80's. If you think that a Mac is a "PC" then try booting DOS on it. Doesn't work, huh? Even booting a PC Linux ntaively on Macs isn't always easy unless it also supports Apple's EFI implementation. Macs are not PCs. Chromebooks aren't PCs either.

This has been solved by everyone not following tutorials from the 80s asking them to use xhost + to allow everyone everywhere to connect to your display.

systemd-screenlockerd saves the day!

Of course, it requires systemd-moused, systemd-keyboardd, systemd-windowd, systemd-X11d, and finally systemd-logind. Right now there's some compatibility issues that have been in the bug tracker for a year or so, so for best results you should also ditch KDE or gnome and go with systemd-windowd-managerd and systemd-menud. There's a few incompatible apps as well, if you have problems try using systemd-webbrowserd (requires systemd-networkd) and systemd-xtermd (requires systemd-fontd and systemd-shelld). Thunar works fine though for browsing files, as long as they're in the systemd folder.

They shot first, they eroded the trust to a point where people, not criminals or terrorists or pedophiles but ordinary law abiding people have stood up and said "we don't trust the government any more, nor the systems in place to protect our privacy, and so we have to take it into our own hands."

If they're looking for a zone of lawlessness, they should check under their own feet first.

I have to say my experience is the opposite. I'm running the technical preview on much weaker hardware - first generation Core 2 duo machine with 3GB of ram, and Windows 10 is sluggish, occasionally unresponsive, and likes to grind the disk a lot for no apparent reason. I ran Windows 8 on the same hardware, and Windows 8 absolutely flew on it, even before I managed to scrounge up an extra GB of ram. Now, it's likely that the Windows 10 build is not very well optimized at this point, so it's hard to draw conclusions. But I wouldn't call the current Windows 10 release faster than Windows 7 by any means, and certainly not faster than Windows 8 which is noticeably more responsive than 7 is (shame about the UI though...).

My boss was complaining about how he couldn't get some kindle book for work to be billed to his company card. The only options that come up for kindle books look to be to give it as a gift to someone else, use a gift card to buy it, or to buy it with 1 click which charges it straight to the card you have on file. I pointed out he just needed to change the 1 click card to the company card, buy it, then change the card back, but that was "too much work" (a man after me own heart).