http://devnull-as-a-service.com/ - as long as we're outsou^h^h^h^h^h^hmoving everything to a managed service, why not /dev/null too?

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/21/microsoft-admits-image-net-consumer-negative/

Because they've realized the 'Microsoft' name has such negative connotations in the consumer market, that they don't want CxO's shooting it down based on its name, and one that wasn't directly tied to their Windows environment, since its where they want you to run your Linux VMs "In The Cloud":

  "...we knew that we needed to ensure that Windows is the best platform to run Linux workloads as well as open source components. ..."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/07/24/what-s-new-in-2012-r2-enabling-open-source-software.aspx

BSA has Trademarks that are 'infringed' by this organization's name - which you are required to actively defend against anything that could be infringing - otherwise you lose your Trademark. (This is not true with Copyrights, just Trademarks)

As a fellow Eagle Scout, I agree it isn't wonderful or ideal behavior - but if they want to keep their name (and with all the splinter-orgs as a result of their recent decision regarding Youth membership, there are plenty) and uniqueness in 'Brand Identity' they have to do this.

That, and in the US, most carriers don't offer a 'discounted' service for buying the device outright (or bringing your own); so if you're going to use the service anyway, may as well get the discounted phone.

The phrase '$1 Billion' gets people to sit up and notice.

But most of this work won't benefit the Linux community and software at large, at least directly. It will be ancillary improvements; where something gets re-written/improved/fixed due to issues on the POWER architecture that happen to benefit everyone else too. Hopefully these are many and useful.

Still, any investment shows that Linux is Serious Business.

So does that mean when the servers are down, I'm supposed to pull the secretary into the meeting where we try to fix it?

How about the janitors?

You let the folks you hired for that task, work on that task. You don't reassign everyone to focus on one thing, that is overkill and a waste.

For situations where the agents can't talk back to the Puppet Master, you can push out the manifests (config files) to each host and apply them directly, locally. (As if it were a single, standalone machine)

Not sure if there is a way to push the results back to a Puppet Master for aggregation, but there may be a way to tackle that. (Or just back to a central logging server for parsing)

Also this way there is a globally-accessible and searchable database of all the materials and their various properties - so for your exotic project with a weird requirement, you can find the materials most appropriate to your situation.

This is useful for more than coming up with a single solar cell, it helps pave the groundwork for hundreds of varieties - each the best-fit for a different situation.

Example: Organic compounds may make sense if you can 'grow' the system for a self-repairing/expanding system, say in a biodome on Mars; or on a floating station in the Arctic; both of which you won't have an easy opportunity for a 'service call'. Identifying which one(s) work best in those environments will shave years off development time, allowing a focus on other design issues.

http://www.packtpub.com/puppet-3-beginners-guide/book

(Currently) $23 USD for the eBook, and $45 USD for the Print + eBook access, and no Amazon-Kindle-DRM. (But you can still get it in a .mobi format for your Kindle, in addition to ePub and PDF)

Because if you can build one at 3% and one at 9% but all other costs being the same, you build the 9% one. They're figuring out which is the most efficient so they know what order to look at capabilities/options on. Start with the most efficient, and work your way down the list until you find one that meets the other criteria.

Here is your Radeon HD7850: http://www.gpureview.com/Radeon-HD-7850-card-678.html

It has 1024 Shader Processors ("Radeon Cores" in the summary), and (stock) is clocked at 860MHz. The 8670D included in this new APU has 384 Shader Processors, and is clocked at 844MHz. So about 2/5ths of the computing power; presuming all other factors are equal.

So while for high-end gaming, it won't quite cut it (Turning on most of the shiny and enabling it across 3 monitors with Eyefinity would make it beg) - it should be plenty powerful for light/medium gaming on a single monitor, or any light/moderate duties across multiple monitors with Eyefinity.

No, the worst possible use case would be remote X11 over a RFC 1149 compliant connection. (Although 2549 adds QoS, or RFC 6214, for those that use IPv6)

You can update and keep TabKit:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabkit-2nd-edition/

(If that is what was holding you back; the original dev disappeared so someone forked it and has kept it current)

Here's how Norton did it, back in the late 1990's: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH106806

I recall using this in college, in 2003, to reimage our 'learning' workstations. (After we'd break them, like discovering that Windows 98 SE would let you format the OS volume, and not crash.)