I've got a Vostro 1500 right here, you've gotta take the whole lid off the bottom before you can get to the fan. But yeah, that's better than most laptops. On the other hand, there's a Fujitsu T900 in the house and it has a little plastic panel you remove, then you can blow air through the system as well as out of the intake. That's better than any of this other jazz by far.

Unless they are Sony, and invent a new protocol to control Blu-Ray players even though they don't need any buttons you don't get on a typical modern DVD remote.

Yeah, don't let dumbasses near them.

Scones. They get cooked at around 230C, as do a number of other baked goods.

We renovated last year, and as part of it, we replaced all the light fittings in the house and changed all the globes to LEDs.

The globes may have cost more, but they have a significantly lower energy consumption.

T-mobile refunds the last 2 years of cellphone service to all customers past and present.

That would be fair and just.

Spoiler: "DRINK MORE OVALTINE!"

SQL server is down and the boss is in the elevator coming to fire you is a pretty critical bit of information.

I get all kinds of stats from work and home, the Pebble has a full open API that allows me to do whatever I want. the Samsung crap is closed up tight with not even any promises of opening it up yet.

Most neurosurgeon bots are run on old PacMan arcade motherboards. I though that was common knowledge!

here in the USA I can point you at several buildings that have been "for rent" for well over 30 years and have never EVER been occupied. They were built and then sat there.

All over the USA there is crap like that.

The Free Software world has tried [and failed] time, and time again to produce a decent mobile interface. For its day, GPE was not too horrible, but it was nothing but a copy of other GUIs.

Android has the first new GUI in ages worth a crap. And it's got plenty of faults.

Everybody wants to be as cool as android. Keep trying, I guess.

I did the same, except I returned to ti Best Buy and got a Pebble instead.

Works a LOT better for what a smart watch is good for, critical Information display.

"GNU/Linux systems just can't seem to get a foothold in the consumer market."

Actually almost 100% of homes in the USA have GNU/Linux systems. Their TV, Their Bluray Players all run Linux. Tons of consumer devices run linux in homes.

Cheaper for Them to increase profit margins.