How is getting more closed source software developed for Linux a step backwards? Does it prevent open source software from being developed? Does it remove OSS from repos? Does it prevent you from developing OSS?

Have you got any links or books on this? There's a lot in this post that I wasn't aware of and I'd like to read more about it.

I'm just trying to work out where the IT / news for nerds connection is here?

VMWare Player and VirtualBox are probably equally good for what you want.

The only real advantage of one over the other that I've found is that the free VMWare Player seems to pause traffic on the network connection every IIRC 2 minutes for about 5s. Not a huge problem but was something I noticed when trying to stress test some code. BTW, I was running Linux Mint as the client and Windows 7 as the host if that might have been the reason. When I tried on VirtualBox everything just worked without any trouble.

Have you got any sources to back this up? It doesn't have to be particularly authoritive as NK is so restrictive this would be hard to get.

Human Rights Watch reported in 2007 it was getting harsher: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,HRW,,PRK,45fff1b92,0.html

It may well have improved; I'd just like to read about it.

WTF, did you read his reply?

I'm sure he's aware that a cell tower near the DMZ could reach into North Korea. However, the only village near the DMZ is a propoganda village: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kij%C5%8Fng-dong where nobody lives.

Also, anything that transmits can be detected and located. You do know what transmit means don't you?

Yes you can create mesh networks in Africa because in Africa you can transmit without being hunted down and placed in a forced labour camp along with your parents, grand parents and any children you may have. If you want to learn more, read this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aquariums-Pyongyang-Years-North-Korean/dp/1843544997

Mandrake -> Suse -> Mandrake -> Ubuntu -> Mint

I'm paying £10 a month ($15.62) for unlimited data, 250 minutes and unlimited texts: http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/10pound-facebook-goodybag

That's without a contract.

Is there any reason why this passwords weren't salted?

Or install Linux Mint Debian edition with XFCE: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

This gives you the benefit of Debian rolling releases and I found that my wifi worked out of the box just as it does on Ubuntu based distros. XFCE uses GTK 2, and should eventually move to GTK 3 when that API stabilises. This seems to be the best option for me for now, although I'm keeping an eye on Cinnamon.

Does anyone have a link to this report? It would be interesting to see the rankings for the UK and also their methodology.

I'd like to know how they define broadband. Is it >2Mbit/s or >10Mbit/s? What data limits are they comparing? When they compare pricing does that include phone lines if they are a mandatory pre-requisite to broadband access?

Max Power closed down a year ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Power_(magazine)

It doesn't detect that telivision is an incorrect spelling because there are so many authoritative examples of that spelling: http://www.wordnik.com/words/telivision

Google seems to do a good job of detecting spelling errors and automatically updating it's dictionary and of course it also shows you websites where that word is used. I don't really see what Wordnik provides.

theregister.co.uk seems to be down but the same group has cracked ups.com and the source shows that they used a Microsoft product.

There you are, Microsoft aid crackers.

/sarcasm

I like this.

This could be modelled in a similar way to the BBC where every 10 years it's charter has to go for review by politicians so that its plan for the next 10 years can be accepted. This could then include the funding that would be required for NASA to operate and then the politicians would have to keep their hands off it.