I actually used her laptop because her windows partition crapped out and I didn't have a copy of japanese windows-xp laying around....Oh, and she didn't care as long as she can check her mail and play flash games.

I upgraded my wife's system - which is on a Japanese laptop and everything seems to have gone fairly smoothly. I was concerned when it asked me for the keyboard settings, but it seems to have respected my original settings nonetheless. Boot times seem a bit nicer and she hasn't complained of any stability issues. It's definitely gone a lot smoother than past upgrades which were extremely unstable on her system, X often crashing, windows becoming unresponsive, or the arty completely bombing out for no reason.

Freedom of speech is something that the government has to allow, not privately owned websites. Their terms are set by the owners/administrators.

Don't forget that high turnover could make administrating the PC's a mess.

I've seen a variety of things done. Personally, I named computers by division and assigned the computers from there. This worked fine for a group of about 25 people, but could be problematic when running into larger groups. I'm not sure how a larger group would do it, but I'm sure it would be done somewhat differently.

Have you seen Intel's pricing? Can't get a decent solution from them including a motherboard for under 500 whereas I just recently built a full Phenom II computer for about 400 (including hard drive). I'm not convinced that Intel is really interested in mid-ranged computing.

Not commenting on whether he was 'right' or not, just disputing the 'not-for-profit' post.

According to the article there were 'dozens' of hacked consoles found. It seems very likely that he was running a modding service.

This seems extremely shady legally. You bought and paid for something. Electronic or not, how do they have the right to take it away from you? I could MAYBE understand if it was a subscription-based service in which you had access to a collection, but for them to take this away from someone who specifically bought the book seems legally dubious at best.

The Russians already have plans to detach part of the ISS and use it for part of their next station, so it's not a total loss when decommissioned.

I believe NASA was given control of its decommissioning when the countries established the ISS charter.

Nope, never played with any 'vixens' and the vixens I did know had no knowledge about my gaming habits. ;)

This isn't an app, it's just sharing (posting) a link which any user can do without installing apps. You can add your own comment to it, a thumbnail, etc. It's a 'mini-digg'