I use kde in VirtualBox looks great.

If i was starting new today i'd be learning with meteor (http://meteor.com)

RMS has spent his life fighting for your rights. And when he gets sick all you can do is pile dirt on him? Sure he has some strange views on some things, but in all cases he pushes for greater personal freedom and less corporate ownership of 'ideas' and less government interference in personal lives.

What problems are you having? I telecomute a lot on linux. i use NXserver/NXclient to connect to remote desktops. VNC and RDP to connect to client machines. Skype to do video chat etc. I have no problems... what is the problem you are having?

Tape storage capacity is great, and the streaming speed is also great. but the seek times are ridiculous. This is why tape is dead to me. If I want to restore a single 1gb file from a 800gb tape.. it could take a very long time. If i want to restore a single 1gb file from a hard disk it is pretty much instantaneous.

Webm is just as good as h.264 imho. That said, I see no reason why the browsers shouldn't use the decoding abilities of the OS they reside on. This just makes common sense? If I already have a license/ability to decode for h.264, why shouldn't I be able to use it in my browser?

If the objective is to learn Linux and how it works, there is no better option. Plus the Gentoo documentation in the best in class!

Well, that's all fine and dandy... but shouldn't they make it standards compliant first? What a waste of time!

The dea and war on drugs has only been around for about 90 years and has caused nothing but problems. by your own reasoning we should go back to a state where the governents don't try to dictate what we should and should not consume. Seems reasonable to me, I would like ot have juridstiction over my own body! I mean seriously, next they'll be telling us we can't consume milk if it doesn't come from a farm that homogenizes the milk.

These patent fights are making me dislike Apple and MS more and more. I have never been huge fans, but for them to make it impossible to get the products I desire so I have no choice but to accept their crap alternatives simply won't work. They can't put the cat back in the bag, and by making it harder to get these devices will only make them more aluring. In short, you will have to pry my android phone from my cold dead hands!

If you are good at what you do, there is no reason to be stuck in a job you do not like. Vacate the job for some guy who has no clue the hell he will have to live with.

If you are good at video games and enjoy them you could make some money playing video games professionally, making walktrhoughs etc! http://tgn.tv/ is where i started, they have a lot of tips and tricks on how to get started and get more views quickly. good luck!!!

For running not running windows? or tax surcharge for running windows?

Software patents shouldn't be patentable in the first place anyhow. It's just math.