I can't believe you could write this sentence without mentioning the quite exquisitely baroque profanity of The Thick Of It.

US viewers can get a glimpse of the new Doctor Who espousing Tucker's Law here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I'll stop "whining" as you call it once your mum starts giving better head.

This has become incredibly meta. Your histrionics at the perceived personal slight from a 15-year old troll post has become more trollish than the original post itself, only without any perceivable sense of humour or irony. You are Nathan Poe and I claim my five pounds.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you may be confusing file permissions with ACLs; the two are not the same thing. ACLs only started appearing in common filesystems in the 90's and to use them in the early days of linux you'd frequently have to force the enabling of xattr (if your filesystem supported it); the first reference I can find to POSIX 1E ACLs in either FreeBSD or Linux is round about 2000 and I started using them myself in 2002, they're still far from common.

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. They see dbIII sitting inside with a pint of bitter and a baleful look in his eyes and immediately decide to leave and have fun elsewhere.

Different people respond better to different ways of working. Frankly, looking something up and then closing it drivers me utterly crazy - since I'm the kind of person that forgets about something once they can't see it. Doorway amnesia, out of sight, out of mind and all that. Please don't assume that because you find the "having lots of tabs" approach not your cup of tea that everyone is like that.

I suspect that much like the GP I've got a highly spatial memory, so I'll know pretty instinctively that the web GUI for the SAN was opened about 15 tabs to the left of where I am now. I'll know that cluster of about ten tabs over yonder is where I'm keeping some pages open for the IRPStackSize issue I'm looking at - stuff I might have had a fix applied but will want to keep my reference docs on hand after the users get back to me with testing reports in 48hrs time - because not all problems are things where I can go "there, I've fixed it, don't need to think about it again now". Going to the lengths of categorising it as a bookmark for something that you might only need once is a lot of overhead, and relying on page content search in the address bar doesn't give me context of whether it was a page I had open that had useful information on it, or whether it was useless fluff that happened to have a particular term in it. So keeping some windows/tabs open for comparatively long periods of time is what works best for me.

I don't like to use tree-style tabs or tab grouping as I find them visually cluttered.

Unlike the GP however, personally I haven't had any significant problems with FF27 and ninety hojillion tabs. I used to be one of those FF users who would continually bitch and moan about resource usage (because my FF would hit the 1.8GB ceiling every 24-48hrs and either slow to a crawl or crash) but since about version 20 or 24 or something, memory utilisation has dropped - both in the amount of memory used for particular dataset and the amount at which the memory bloats/leaks/fragments over time. Commit rarely goes over 1GB now (although when it does it usually means FF will soon need to be restarted). my biggest problems with FF now are its inherently single-threaded nature; load a set of tabs for certain websites and you'll often see a core pegged at 100% for 30s or more. Annoying.

All the above is YMMV, my 2 pence, etc.

Users should have the ability to roll back any upgrade

When the curators of your device/app store/whatever take an X% cut of whatever moolah you spend on the application or attached subscription services, surely there's a vested interest from both parties for you not to have the ability to keep reinstalling the appallingly stone aged one that still works just fine but doesn't make them any money...? Rent seeking then becomes more profitable for both the creator and the curator, so as long as you ignore the whims of your consumers it's a win/win.

Your UID suggests you should have seen this style of troll back when it first came around - a quick google returns dozens of hits for slashdot alone. It's intended as a joke, and is mocking the mindset (less present now than it was then) about UNIX/linux being seen by people who never got fired for buying IBM/Microsoft/Oracle as both too basic for business but yet still somehow intractably complicated.

So... whoosh. You might not find it funny but it's certainly not deadly serious and certainly isn't going "ha ha, they use LUNIX!".

Next bombshell: Linyos Torovoltos not actually a real person.

It's easy to explain.

When you're talking about bitcoin, what you're really talking about is math numbers. There's a public ledger, and computers, and then you get a coin, but not a coin coin. It's numbers and letters which mean coin, and it's basically equal to one "money".

Oblig.

GP is probably a speaker of commonwealth english rather than US/north american english. In the UK at least, it's typically a strong expletive but not usually regarded as gender-specific unless context makes it so.

Oblig. Penny Aracde brought to you, appropriately enough, by Space Devil.

Not only is it equally applicable to both sexes in british english (although it's generally far more common to see terms "acting like a cunt" applied predominantly to males), but in certain contexts it's used as an honorific or even as a term of affection as well, much like the endlessly versatile "fuck". I thought this was common parlance in all commonwealth streams of english (although I've only really been exposed to UK, kiwi and ozzie flavours myself), do the canadians not do the same thing or is "cunt" just as verboten there as it is in the US?

To decry someone solely because of their idiomatic use of a word is a wonderful exercise in self-fulfilling hypocrisy.

As an aside, and speaking as a luddite who still uses a Nokia E6 because it's got an amazing QWERTY keyboard, does windows phone mandate signing up for account, or is it optional?

It seems that both the iphone and android are both nearly useless without signing up for an account (although you can have an android ROM without the gapps loaded, it will apparently severely restrict what you can run on your phone) and I'm of the opinion that any device that requires an account in order to function essentially has unfettered almost-always-on access to your phone as well as trying to lock you in to some service or other (having all your personal data held ransom by a third party is a great bargaining chip).

Looking for information on whether devices require accounts or not seems moot too, since most people don't consider it to be a problem. I couldn't even find out if a Jolla has a compulsory account or not...

At this rate I'll need to build my own phone out of toothpicks and silk-wrapped wire.