At first people ignored that, then they laughed at it, and then they fou^H^H^Hfried it

Mod parent funny
...and the article he posted.

Nested comments maybe? If you hadn't noticed the outer comment markers, you'd get something that "didn't" work with the inner markers in place and "did" work without.

(In PHP, attempting to nest comments leads to the second '/*' being considered as enveloped by the first '/*' and the first '*/', leading to the second '*/' being flagged as erroneous, and the interpreter bailing out)

// writing my first bit of non-trivial PHP _today_

(Bind-)mount over ~/.gnupg? I do a similar thing on my EeePC for ~/.mozilla, although in my case it's to keep the browser cache off the internal drive when I've got the resources to do so. Whether it's possible to keep the command out of any history files made by $SHELL in an invisible/innocuous manner is another matter, of course (and not necessary in my scenario).

...at which point we could back up whether Commandos do actually "go Commando" with real statistics!

// Suddenly not at all curious about whether it's true...

You're confusing a name and an alias. According to Dicks and Hulke's "The Making of Doctor Who" (and references thereto), the Doctor has a true name which is not pronounceable by humans; since there are written and spoken examples of both "the Doctor" and "Doctor Who" in titles, scripts, and credits of the show and the books (whether or not you debate the canonicity of some), there isn't really a basis for arguing "Who" is a name nobody uses for him.

...and backed up by Snopes, I notice this morning (at http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/zicam.asp; status still "undetermined" despite being "collected via email, October 2006").

It is better with Windows

No, no: IT's better with Windows

...whereas CS is better with Linux

Interesting?? Assume the universe is infinite. If I look left, there is an infinite distance between me an the restaurant in that direction. If I look up, same thing, infinite distance. Right, down, forward, backward, same thing. The center of something is defined as the point where the distance between all opposing points is the same. Therefore, I am the center of the universe.

Hardly. See that "has to be the same"? That's where the problem in the reasoning lies: the distances you observe may all be infinite, i.e. immeasurably large, but just because they're "equally" immeasurable doesn't automatically mean they were ever equal as distinct quantities!

Bad example? As an Eee owner, I'm fairly confident Asus aren't pushing their luck in the same way. The distro self-advertises as Xandros in a number of places where program titlebars haven't been sanitised to match their labels in the launcher, and Xandros are well known for having a Novell-style "interoperability" Microsoft deal.

Someone else can speak up for Acer...

Since each Chrome tab runs in a separate process, will users not be able to open several Chrome tabs?

Likewise for each plugin Chrome runs.

This article mentions that IE7 starts new processes when following a link from one "security zone" to another, and IE8 starts new processes for each tab. So MicroSoft will break their own browsers as well if your concern that applications and their processes[/threads?] differ has any weight :)

The summary is a little misleading. While the article does indeed state they are currently "running a full install of Ubuntu Linux", it is the Fusion Garage blog links which suggest the final install will be considerably more slimline. There certainly won't be much space in the 4GB storage once a fully-featured Ubuntu is in there!