This still confuses me. Perhaps because Windows is so behind when it comes to this, but wouldn't Virtual Desktops be more efficient in at least two ways:
1) In terms of electricity use
2) Keeping eyes focused on one screen

Most UNIX-y systems have had this type of system since the 80's. Windows has yet to implement it, but there are third-party add-ons to support it. OSX has had 'Spaces' since 10.5

I personally use XFCE on Gentoo Linux. I have 8 virtual desktops configured on my desktop at home and work, and 6 on my laptop. It supports up to 100. XFCE offers an option to switch virtual desktops by dragging your mouse to the edge of the screen. It even offers a threshold on how hard you try to push to the next screen. I keep mine lax because I'm used to it, and very rarely accidentally switch to the next virtual desktop. Alternative methods are using the Pager or the scroll wheel on the desktop.

As stated, outside of Multi-seat setups (that Windows does not support) I still fail to see any purpose to having more than one physical screen in an office or home environment.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... What the hell does anyone need multiple monitorsnfor? Outside of multi-seat, I think its just pretentious and you're looking for bragging rights (like people who brag about how many cores they have, or how much RAM they have).

Your eyes can only focus on one screen anyway, what the heck is the point? This is a serious question.

Opposite experience here. Been using Linux since 2004. Yes it was bumpy at first but I've always found what I needed to work the way I wanted/needed.

Windows is so unfriendly to scripting languages, and too focused on pretty widgets.

Linux is my preference. Windows 7 in a VM at work for development testing.

Each to their own, I say. :-)

I have a CS2 license and have run it without issue under WINE for a long, long time.

I tried CS4 trial under WINE and it ran great also, just didn't find a real reason to buy a upgrade license, though. CS2 still fits my needs.

I'll ross my hat in the ring as well.

I currently use android, and that's pretty much out of necessity. They have the apps I need, its rooted and unlocked.

I really like the idea of FirefoxOS. I hope that when i do get my hands on it, it is as stable as my experience with android has been.

I am concidering picking up the Nexus 4. I hope that I can get FirefoxOS loade up on it.

My first thought was that it was a phishing attempt, but after inspecting the email I decided to go directlt to name.com amd do a password reset through the "I forgot my password" thing. Used my trusty KeePassX and generated a new 32 character password.

I wonder if they could adapt the technology to filter out lobbyists whispering in the politicians ears.

My many web design/development clients would disagree with you. I don't even want to recall the times I've had to tell them No for blinking things.

Unfortunately they think blinking == attention getting, whereas we think blinking == f*cking irritating.

To be fair, rsync + ssh is equally secure as scp. I actually think rsync uses scp in that situation (please correct me if I am wrong).

The advantage I see rsync having is it is useful for automated (backups) of a large collection of files vs gzipping and copying via scp.

Although git also does a great job of that with concurrent revisioning built in.

It all boils back down to using the right tool for the job.

I was not aware of these issues. Thank you for pointing this out to me.

My experience with MongoDB hasn't been much outside it a fairly small personal multimedia indexing database. In reality I could probably have gotten away with a flatfile database but I like the OO nature of MongoDB.

... Gentoo? And Daniel Robbins' Funtoo project?

These two distros are very similar, with a few key differences but in both you can choose how stable or not stable you would like. If you want stable, you can have stable. If you need bleeding edge, you can have bleeding edge.

Granted its not "automatic updates" but I don't like the idea of my server doing updates like that without me initiating them.

Without any actual information on the project, this is my recommendation... MongoDB is designed for clustering and replication of various types of Data.

Node.JS scales fairly well and is pretty light weight.

With Geolocation DNS you can start small in your local area hern add servers in places you need to.

iPad(tm) Mini. Simple as that.

They already have a trademark on iPad, so it makes sense and would have saved them the filing fee, as miniscule as it probably was.

I use Thunderbird.

My mailboxes are all IMAP, so I found a use for the Local Inbox in Thunderbird that I always thought was a useless feature.

At the end of the year, I create a subfolder labeled by Year, and I download all copies from the the year before the last (eg, my last download was of 2011 emails), then I purge them from the IMAP server to save space This way I still have universal access to my last years emails but easily searchable archives available at home.

If you keep regular backups of your /home dir then you need not worry about losing them.

Also note mod_security is also available for Nginx and IIS.