Why are we still using passwords?

Pass phrases are far more secure, and easier to remember.

http://xkcd.com/936/

If Git did all that SVN does, I'd be glad to switch.

But there are capabilities in SVN that Git not only doesn't have, it has decided it will never have. And that's a problem.

Biggest issue for me? In SVN, I can create an extern to a subdirectory of a project. Git's subprojects always point to the root of a project. And for us, that's a big deal.

Unity has one fundamental flaw - it depends upon high-end graphics capabilities that are unlikely to be present on old machines, virtualized machines, or over remoted connections.

I thihnk the idea of trying to build the same UI for touch-screen tablets and hand-held devices as for desktop computers may be flawed - the needs may be two disparate for any single paradigm to bridge them - but I don't oppose the effort to find one.

But I will not, under any circumstances, install on a computer as its a primary UI a system that I can't run in a virtual or over a remote connection. I refuse to waste my time learning how to manipulate two different UIs for the same computer, depending upon how I run it or how I am accessing it.

X11 doesn't work all that well, across slow networks. And Gnome apps don't always run that well on a remote X server.

Because sometimes you need to do more on a machine than just run one app on it.

It's not that conservatives have lost faith in science, they've lost faith in scientists. Not quite the same thing.

Baen has been doing this, for quite a while now.

David Weber's latest in hardcover is $15.39 from Amazon.or BN.

It's available DRM free on Baen's website for $6.00.

And the early books in his series - as in most of the series that Baen publishes, are available free at the Baen Free Library.

Currently, I'm reading Dumas' Musketeer Romances* on my Nook.

There are a lot of great books out there in the public domain, and available in electronic form on the Net. Reading them on a desktop or laptop computer is a chore, but these little Ereaders are great for them. Classics of literature, classics that aren't really literature (There are something like 30 of Percy Keese Fitzhugh's Boy Scout novels - Tom Slade, Pee Wee Harris, Roy Blakely - in the public domain and available online.)

I've had mine for nearly a year, and I don't think I've bought more than a handful of books. And most of them from Baen's web subscriptions, rather than from B&N.

*"The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", "The Vicomte de Bragellone", "Ten Years Later", "Louise de la Valliere", and "The Man in the Iron Mask" - as epubs from Project Gutenberg.

From the blog post:

"I read Walt Mossberg’s review of four portable Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad 2 at All Things D and was intrigued–especially by the ZaggFolio, which cleverly builds a truly notebook-like keyboard into an attractive case. So I bought one. The ZaggFolio changed the way I use my iPad, and that changed my life."

I don't know about the rest of you, but I find notebooks relatively unproductive, largely because of the lousy keyboards. (Well, that and the limited display, and the lousy mouse-equivalents, but largely because of the lousy keyboards).

The only way I can do real work, without significant degradation in performance, is to plug it into a docking station with real monitors (at least two), and a real keyboard and mouse. I'm sure it'd be the same with a tablet. Equip it with a full keyboard, mouse, and a couple of large monitors, and it'd be fine.

I wondered that, myself. I doubt I would have recognized it.

But just on a lark, I put the bytes into a file, and hadded it to the Unix "file" command.

It reports that it is a "DOS executable (COM)".

They won't be, for much longer.

Yep. There are plenty of options. And whatever I use for remoting, I'll use for my primary desktop. And it won't be Gnome 3 or Unity.

So, when can I expect to see multiple monitors on my tablet?

I need a desktop that I can remote.

That is, something that renders in a responsive way, without GPU extensions. Something I can run in a Virtual, on a box that has other Virtuals running, or access remotely over DSL.

Glitz has it's place, but that place isn't in core OS functionality.

One thing at the Museum of Science and Industry, that any self-respecting geek would not miss: the U-505.

She's a German Type IX-C submarine, captured off of Cape Verde, in 1944. Two M4 Enigma machines and over 900 pounds of codebooks and crypto publications were recovered from her.

http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/u-505/activities/capture/