Because Windows is only there to support legacy programs, and they're most reliably supported by the OS they were originally written for. If I wanted to use some recent program that required Windows 7, that might be a different matter. But I don't know of any such program.

And that's the best site you can find for a datacentre ? Doesn't give me much confidence in your financial organisation's acumen.

And another .. there are plenty more of her gaffes, giyf. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9345345/Theresa-May-accused-of-unacceptable-and-regrettable-behaviour-by-judge.html

So next week, holidays mean they're really scraping the barrel .. down to the 7th most senior UK politician

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9473078/Theresa-May-to-run-the-UK-as-Westminster-empties.html

And May is a US patsy - she'll roll over for the RIAA, let alone the state department

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/13/theresa-may-extradition-richard-odwyer

So what happens when she's in charge ? I guess she sends in the police, pushes Assange to wherever her masters tell her, and then gets blamed / sacked as an apology for the resulting diplomatic outcry. Which is handy, as she's a liability the government would love to lose.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/14/olympics-theresa-may

Either a bot, or an intelligent user who won't read the adverts. Same result for the advertiser.

Oh, wait, passphrase. duh.

You're assuming the loss is via a compromised computer. For me, the most likely loss of the key is laptop theft. So I want to ensure that isn't going to give an automatic login to the home machine. i'd prefer to have both key pair and password, but failing that I think password is preferable to key pair.

Why would you invest in a company that has lost confidence in it's own future ?

I run windows for supporting legacy apps that aren't sufficiently important to replace or make to work under Wine. So there's really no point in running Vista (nothing was written for it) or 7 (can't always run older software). It would just mean higher license and hardware costs for extended grief.

But the incarnation in current Debian (icedove 3, whatever that corresponds to) sucks. It was once fairly well-behaved, but now changes the screen format when you search, adds all sorts of stupid indentation and grouping to the accounts menu and generally behaves like a kid's been let loose with the feature list. Maybe it's time to go back to MH.

Is it as annoying as that google misfeature that displays a page of search results then hides them just as you're about to click on one ?

Well, I'd never heard of him before. Perhaps, outside of some small group of fans, this represents his true worth. And I won't be looking to find out what other opinions he might have - I can do without that sort of sloppy thinking, thanks.

Yup. If Atwood thinks typing speed is the limiting factor (ie he's I/O bound) then there are a number of possible solutions, only one of which is increasing the I/O speed. A better engineering solution (remember - the best engineer is a lazy engineer) is to modify the environment so that less typing is needed for the same result. When I look at code for modern graphical environments I'm horrified by the code density (in terms of source code) - there's simply way too much typing to achieve very little. This is what needs fixing, not typing speed.

Coming soon to a location near you ..