Somebody creates some MS-Access app that the company comes to rely on, then that person leaves.

Nobody knows the code, or even the password. When you have to upgrade that desktop, you may find yourself in a difficult situation.

You are going to have issues with setting up access rights, and many other problems.

IMO: put databases on the server, where they belong.

That said: it's true, MS-Access is a much better desktop database than anything offered in Linux.

I would think it would be easier to move to Slackware. At least Slackware is still Linux.

Maybe somebody should make a commercial version of Slackware?

> The main issue we get reported is the loooooong boot process compared to Windows

Not my experience at all. Far *far* from it in fact.

In my experience, CentOS 6.5 is up and running long before Windows 7. And that is even before Windows 7 begins to bog down, which usually only takes a few days.

Which version of Windows are you using?

IMO: Linux desktop blows away everything since XP.

Except for one, possible, important thing: Windows runs more apps.

Gnome used to great. Now Gnome is, by far, the crappiest DE out there.

Why do people think Debian needs Gnome? Use XFCE, it blows Gnome out of the water.

I a am sure there are some obese vegetarians, but it seems to me that most long-time vegetarians tend to be average, to thin.

I had forgotten about the gridded fins...you're right, that should provide substantial cross-range capability.

A big challenge for water landing will be wind during the descent of the rocket. If the wind is blowing 100 miles an hour for a minute as the rocket is falling, then it's going to be dragged a mile from the ballistic landing point. (When things move quickly through the air, the lift generated by wind is extremely high; bullets move with the wind.) I don't believe that the booster will have the capacity to fly horizontally too far, and it won't be firing at all for the bulk of the descent.

If the wind could be predicted accurately, it would be easy enough to steer the rocket to the right place -- or move the landing platform to the right place.

If you're landing back at the launch pad; there will have been a rocket that could have sampled the wind speed just a few minutes previously, so you could have very precise wind speed vs. altitude data.

Of course the Koran does not mention bandwidth. But if blasphemy is a capital offense, then certainly anything that enables blasphemy is not halal.

I think the key word is "history" as in centuries ago. Back then, there was stuff like forced conversion in Christianity.

The difference is: that stuff is common in Islam today.

In general, there are 4 stages to Islamic conquest.

1) When they are a tiny minority they only want to live, and worship, in peace.

2) Once they are a bigger minority, they start demanding special laws to respect their religion and culture. This is happening in many European nations right now. These special laws may directly oppose fundamental rights in western countries.

3) Once they are a sizable minority: they drop the mask, and the gloves come off. Time to violently overthrow the existing religion and culture. This has been going on throughout Islamic history. This is going on in Thailand right now.

4) Once Muslims are in charge, it is no different than any other mid-east nation.

Even getting to stage 2 is too much for many Americans. Lots of Americans do not want to give up stuff like freedom of speech, or freedom of press, freedom of religion.

They were brought over from Europe.

So the passenger pigeons were replaced by European pigeons.

That's my understanding.

It's harder than you think, unfortunately. Nuclear weapons have a few kilograms of radioactive material, reactors have more than a few tons. The Yucca Mountain repository, the best that nuclear engineers could come up with, had to be certified to be safe for 10,000 years...but literally after 10,000 years things could have gotten out of control. It's a tough problem.

That said, it means that we have to try harder. The problem is not going to go away; we have to pursue better approaches.

Ridiculously inexpensive to run and maintain. Does everything I need. Don't have to worry about scratches and dings.