Seriously, an Operating System is just an instrument to get something done. A craftsman can get stuff done even if the tools aren't the best. You change tools when you have different work to do. No need to migrate unless you somehow put your home on your computer.

But I guess people do live in their OS nowadays. Sad times when people live more in their computers than in their communities. Does explain a lot of the tribalism on Slashdot though.

There is a missing option by the way, as you didn't mention Emacs. I can get work done with that no matter what the operating system.

The phenomenon is not just restricted to IT companies. It's the borken part of human nature. Te Greeks calledit 'hubris'.

And every window manager wishing it was a terminal. That damn mouse is one of the most inefficient things for input.

This new terminal thing looks great. I wonder if emacs -nw would display images in it.

Hope you aren't running BIND without patches, or that you have a good firewall keeping it off the net.

I don't think Stonehenge can claim that it is operating though. They still don't know what it was used for. The Pantheon on the other hand is still used as a church. It's a very impressive structure - a dome with a hole in the roof. I'm really curious how they pulled off that engineering trick without heavy machinery,

Stonehenge is just a bunch of rocks standing in a field. It's like comparing CPM with a Symbolics Lisp Machine, no comparison.

It works fine in FreeBSD, just don't use the proprietary drivers.

Here is the magic link: http://masterofpc.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/brother-mfc-7420-under-linux-without-the-proprietary-brother-drivers/

Well one good thing this shows is that gas economy is at least seen as an attractive quality. They wouldn't falsify it if they didn't think their customers valued such things. I remember not long ago when people didn't care anything about gas mileage. But now it is important, so in this sense there is some progress.

But human nature is what it is - so much easier to cheat than to work at making something good. Hopefully the government steps in and punishes the offenders.

"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

-- Benjamin Franklin

I believe it is from the fact that the first Pope was originally called 'Simon' and was renamed 'Peter' when he received his appointment ("on this rock (petrum) I will build my Church" Mt 16). So when the Pope is chosen his name is also changed, but strangely he gets to choose it.

Well it seems that they at least use it:

curl -I -L -A 'Mozilla' http://www.vatican.va/ | grep 'Server'

gives Server: Apache

The html source uses tons of functions from Lytebox, a CC 3.0 license. So it looks like they use it.

Seriously guys, don't rely on third parties. If something is important to you, make it yourself!

I thought all serious slashdotters used GNUS for RSS feeds. Works great and you can customize it.