I suppose cheese brine uses consumergrade salt while a mixture of rock salt and brine has been known as de-icing method for quite a while now.

This is really about old news. Who cares about the state of Linux embedded of 2012 or 1999? Show me current state for 2014 that would be interesting.

That is a part of the problem according to this article on Slashdot: physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today. Only projects that promises short term gains are well funded.

VNC is terrible on both LAN and WAN but SPICE is a lot better and on par with RDP in my experience. And imo there are plenty opportunities to improve both but it is hard work and not many interested.

Apparently not! The masses are moving to casual gaming on tablets (p.e. Angry birds as best known casual game) and indeed consoles. But consoles have to do it for a longer period of time with the same hardware and are not reaily well suited for the next AAA game to be released in 3 or 4 years from now.

Welcome to reality. USA: the land of the great bastards also called U.S. government.

Iraq having weapons of mass destruction, which were never there.

Wrong point of view imo: what if 50,000 innocent civilians or small offenders are trialed and jailed based on incomplete or by DEA made up evidence? And generally speaking if there is no justice to a criminal there will be no justice for the innocent.

arandr is a standard package in Debian and can be used with Xfce too. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/arandr

You should realize that the USA nowadays is just acting like any other terrorist group and who is gonna believe a terrorist group?

Of course it is nice to see it is possible to run wine on Android but does it have usefull IRL applications?

I question that. When a book is print ready you have still the costs of printing but you can make infinite digital copies. So the publisher chooses to sell less books with a better margin then lower the price of ebooks and sell a lot more.

So far I have not encountered any difficulties installing Ubuntu on MSI motherboards and they are not very expensive either. Of course YMMV.