Sure. No problem.

It's 10.7.7.34

You're a little confused. This was a Red Hat invention. It was the other distros that jumped on the bandwagon. Or the shark, as may be.

Pretty good job finding these for sale, considering they won't be available until February at any price. Amazon doesn't have them listed yet. Nor does anyone else they have linked.

Yes, there are other Fit-branded systems by the same people, but no Fitlets. And no idea about prices other than the bare-bone base model.

It sounds really interesting, and I'm sorry I have those cartons full of mini-itx stuff sitting on my kitchen table. This would probably have made a better firewall.

Is this a "they couldn't help themselves, it was just too tempting" kind of defense? :)

I think the constant UI changes are worse, but both are annoying.

I'm sticking with the XP VMs for anything I personally have to use.

I have a Win 7 VM with Office 2010 on it (nothing else) and it ballooned up to over 30G of storage and slams into a resource wall if you only allocate 3G to it. My XP VM with Office 2007 took less than 7G and was happy with less than 2G RAM. We had to upgrade hard drives and RAM on the lab that uses that VM, just to manage the the Windows image that's used for that one class.

...that Firefox is still my favorite browser. I really don't care for any of the rest, but my gods, what kinds of drugs are they doing over at the Mozilla compound?

I'm kind of hoping that my 2012 updates fairly soon. It's still on KitKat, and it's painfully slow, even after clearing the cache.

It's not that I'm looking forward to Lollipop particularly. It looks pretty ugly (well, maybe not as ugly as KitKat) but I'd like to test it out on a non-critical device before I allow it on my phone. It seems that each new version of Android has regressions, adding things I don't care about and remving things I find useful.

I liked Jelly Bean. Don't care much for KitKat. I'm skeptical of Lollipop.

They didn't refuse. If you go to their github page for the app, it says that it runs under either Android or IOS.

They chose not to push it through the Apple App Store, because of those terms and conditions. The code is there, though, if you want to figure out how to get it onto your iDevice.

Did you look on the EFF page about this app?

Here ya go.

Let me fix that for you.

1. Tell the telecom companies to leave the Internet alone, it's been working just fine for years. Use regulation if necessary to enforce it.

2. Let the telecom companies change the structure of the Net "to pursue 'innovative' partnerships" and create "tiers" of service depending on the source of the packets and whether that source competes with their own business model. This is what you are calling Net Neutrality.

On the other hand, they're also pushing free in-flight entertainment on those same newer 737s. It's over WiFi, but you don't get outside access, just what they have canned on the plane.

Most expensive music player? Not even close....

Astell-Kern-AK240-Mastering-Quality

Apparently this is what iRiver has morphed into. I had an iRiver H340 back in the day, but they've apparently abandoned the mass market in a big way.

Note that you don't have to buy the card to match the Sony -- the player you pointed to already had 128G internally. The card would add an *extra* 128G.

I used to think of Sony as a premium electronics company. But that was in the 70s and 80s. I kind of stopped paying attention for a while (all my electronics were already bought, and in those days they lasted) and then the 90s came along.

I bought a CD changer that lasted almost a year. Not learning anything, I bought another, which lasted less than that. And so on.

Sure, you could find something he could read. But for the vast majority of books, it would be more than new technology, it would be new concepts, new knowlege, new *memes*.

A police procedural thriller, a medical drama, a spy novel, etc. would have new vocabulary, but more importantly, new concepts behind the vocabulary. And none of it explained, because a modern reader would already understand them.

I heard somewhere (yeah, yeah, I don't have a citation handy) that English has something like 5 times as many words as it did when Shakespeare was around. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of those were added in the last hundred years.