Further, LyX has keep improving from release to release. Nowadays, LyX 1.6.x is a Killer App:
Handles subdocuments so smartly: you can enable the outline and navigate through the outline no matter where the section actually is.
Automatically transforms any kind of figures to whatever (pdf)LaTex needs. You can use alpha-chanel png directly and you get blended figures at Beamer presentations.
New "MDI" is just what you want: be able to split the window and see different documents at the same time and popup newer windows if you wish.
The only caveat is that spellchecking must be done for each subdocument independently... I'm sure they are working on this...

LyX's approach is IMHO great -WYSIWYM.

Also, the fact of being able to include LaTeX commands directly is a good thing.

Also,
2.3 Text antialiasing and other GUI operations are software rendered by GUI libraries (GTK->Cairo/QT->Xft).
Which use hardware acceleration through X-render extension as far as drivers implement it.
2.5 No double buffering.
This one is funny. Often, people claim GTK is slow (see 2.2). GTK seems slow because is fully double-buffered. GTK never ever flickers, it may lag though. If your machine is fast enough, you will feel GTK fast and again, will never flicker. QT 3.x does some double-buffering/single-buffering so it feels typically faster but sometimes flickers. QT 4.x perhaps is doing full double-buffering, I'm not sure.

The article is a mess. There are many reasons why Linux does not become mainstream, certanly. But a similar list could be made out of Windows or OS-X, by mixing old-time already solved problems, incorrect assertions and some painful truths.

Seems like the particular extreme (cold) is ideal for [...]

raising the thermodynamical efficiency of a thermal machine, which at the end a nuclear plant is.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Lisa, we obey that one) tells us that in the best of cases, the efficiency is limited to:
1-Theat/Tcold
where Theat is the average temperature achieved at the thermal machine, and
Tcold is the ambient temperature.
There exist three ways to raise thermal efficiency:
1) Increase the machine functional temperature (this is why thermal engines are so hot). This is limited to materials technology, cooling systems, ...
2) Lower the ambient temp. This is why nuclear plants are placed close to a river, but also one of the reasons why airplanes fly so high. You are typically limited here, but in this case seems that it is what they are trying to use.
3) Increase your efficiency as a deviation from the ideal one (1-Theat/Tcold): improve your thermodynamic cycle, improve your thermodynamic components efficiency (turbines), improve your cooling processes (so you can higher Theat without deviate too much from the ideal efficiency).

From fortune:

Tim Schmielau wrote:
> the appended patch enables 32 bit linux boxes to display more than
> 497.1 days of uptime. No user land application changes are needed.

Thank you for doing this labor of love -

I will let you know how it goes sometime
after March 23, 2003 -

- J Sloan on linux-kernel

Even Microsoft is embracing it now.

These guys at MS, may be fired soon: not only they have used Linux for the device: they have used LaTeX to write the paper!:
producer: MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 8.60
creator: dvips(k) 5.96dev Copyright 2007 Radical Eye Software
At least (for them) MiKTeX is a windows LaTeX install

MiKTeX (pronounced mick-tech) is an up-to-date implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows (all current variants).

I own a huawey E272 modem, and with Intrepid it started working out of the box without any vodafone software, thanks to network-manager. Also, vpnc got perfectly integrated at network-manager, so I can control the vpn from there as well.
I don't know how much of it is due to that man, but just in case, God bless Dan Williams!.

Since when does MS listen to OSS queries?

It's no matter of output. It's matter of efficiency.
In fluids, there is a thing called "Reynolds number" which compares the convective forces (from where you can extract power in this case) and the viscous forces (the bad guys which lower efficiency). This number is roughly:
rho*V*L/mu,
where:
rho is the fluid density (the air density in this case)
V is the characteristic speed of the motion (the wind speed in this case)
L is the characteristic length of the motion (the windmill radius in this case)
mu is the fluid viscosity (depends on the temperature)

As a result, a windmill twice as bigger, is more efficient than two smaller counterparts.
In aerodynamics/fluid mechanics: size matters! (that is why we tend to construct larger airplanes whenever is possible -they will fly full of people-, larger boats, larger windmills, ...).

Pun intended:
"US Letter" aspect ratio (1.28) is more distant from golden ratio (1.61) than "A4"'s (1.41).

x48 is what I use (an emulator of my loved hp-48sx)

Further, I'm not sure that magnetic fields do cause trouble. If I recall correctly, varying magnetic fields do create voltage on conductors, and in this case, the magnetic field is fixed.
Sure, it would still affect rotating parts (solid state HD should be out of the effect).
However, I guess that when you fix this thing to the fridge, the magnetic field does create a conduction phenomena at the fridge door while the computer is getting closer. During those moments, the magnetic field would produce an inductive effect after all because of the small currents promoted in the fridge door.
nah!

So what, you tell your children to go walking anywhere, with any one, at any time during the night?

After a lengthy, one-sided dialogue with the nearest rock, I conclude that your theory is false.

Please, try again, but now taking some LSD.

If you own the code, probably is a better choice to use Linux and forget about this madness.

and it was actually pretty darned stable
not really. My experience was, at that time, that Linux (Slackware) was rock solid. Nowadays, there is debate about stability comparing Linux and Windows OSes. At that time, there was no debate possible.