Call me an old fart. I have used Linux for over a decade. I have used dozens of distros and desktops. Blackbox, Fluxbox, Enlightenment, XFCE, KDE, Gnome and yes, Unity. Over the years of experimentation and practice, I figured something out about myself. I always come back to Debian or a derivative and I always come back to Gnome. This combination hits the sweet spot for me and if Ununtu chooses to move in a different direction, I choose to find an alternative.

I don't get why I would want to add layers of cpu eating complexity, just to simulate what I have right now. I see the direction Canonical is moving. Smartphones and tablets may be the wave of the future but this old fart knows what I like on my desktop.

Deb + Gnome = Perfection

...I don't think there's a lot of that kind of activity in that area. If you check the satellite maps you can verify that, wells stand out as bright square pads.

You mean like this? The location is from the USGS Earthquake Page showing the locations of the recent Oklahoma earthquakes. Is that a gas well right next to the quake location (that "bright square pad")? And could those be fault lines in the background?

I stream it on my droid when I'm away from home.

http://cvinetwork.com/

http://wwitv.com/

There are dozens of sites like these. Use with Windows at your own risk.

A 9.0 quake could have been predicted on that type of fault. And is certainly possible in northern California. The San Andreas Fault gets lots of press because it is a clearly visible scar that runs the length of the state. It slips constantly, producing small quakes and occasionally, big ones. The lesser known danger is the Cascadia Fault, the same subduction type fault which is responsible for the recent massive quakes elsewhere in the world.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone runs off the coast from Washington to northern California and was unknown until recently. It doesn't 'slip.' It locks for long periods and then releases with a massive quakes, producing tsunamis equivilent to what has just hit Japan. In fact, the date of the last quake on Cascadia is well known, 12/26/1700, due to the tsunami it produced being well documented in Japan. The videos we are seeing from there are a preview of what will happen in the Pacific Northwest and the clock is ticking.

Thank you. I have been using Linux for 10 years. I love Debian. I give them props every day. But nowadays I use Ubuntu because it makes things easy. Not dumbed down. I wish the Deb folks would stop being so defensive about this.

I always considered the friendly rivalry among distros to be like family. Competitive but still rooting for each other to succeed. We can poke and jab at each other, but let an outsider attack one of us and they attack us all.

Relax, Deb. We know where the Ubuntu goodness comes from. A parent shouldn't be so jealous of their child. Its not healthy.

+1 Insightful

My eeepc 900 with 2 gigs of ram runs regular Ubuntu with Compiz just fine. This is the perfect device. Light and portable yet powerful enough to run all my regular desktop applications. SSD so it is rugged enough to accompany me everywhere. Tethers with my Blackberry when no wifi available. What more could you want?

"22 new from $14.41 / 4 used from $15.39"

Ok..if only 1 survived, how come there are 4 used copies available on Amazon?

It has never been confirmed by the govt, but if I recall, it was the Blaster worm which caused the big power failure of '03.

I believe the computers which were supposed to prevent a cascading failure were down with Blaster that day, as were a number of other prominent world-wide networks.

I can't help but wonder how much of our critical infrastructure is still running Windows?

Yeah, like Office 2007?

It's an incredible time sink and absolutely crazy that you can't enable a 'classic' interface so you don't spend 45 minutes doing some simple task that you could do with 2 clicks before.

My eeepc which came loaded with Linux, calls it a 'Super' key and it has a Linux 'Home' icon on it.

BTW, how did MS get their logo on nearly every keyboard sold?

A friend at work purchased one of these. She paid more than I did for my eeepc. My little computer currently holds 80+ books (in pdf-no DRM), several audio books and even a few movies. I also have wifi for web browsing and an office suite for documents. I cannot understand the lure of these devices. They seem like an expensive, proprietary, single use item.

This is not a troll. Please help me understand why anyone would want one of these instead of a less costly yet more versatile netbook?

Large businesses and media companies have tried to do to the Internet what they did to Christmas...turn it into a cash machine. Unfortunately, the Internet was not designed as a profit vehicle, it was designed to share information and facilitate communication. As a user above mentioned, there are plenty of people who contribute content for free, as I am doing now, or who host their own websites, as I also do.

Personally, I look forward to the day when the net returns to a library and public square instead of a shopping mall, where I am charged for looking in the windows.