AT&T had a related problem in 1999: http://www.askmaclean.com/scn-may-jump-in-a-distributed-transaction-with-dblink.html

The Higgs Boson is holding a press conference at midnight on Dec 24th. He's giving Christmas mass.

Made me think of this xkcd http://www.xkcd.com/978/

Install Undercover http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/. Assuming you buy another Mac :) Awesome bit of software.

I'm very surprised The Guardian published this article as-is. A non-geek won't have a clue what most of the article means! Maybe it shows how far removed from reality RMS really is. A layman's not going to know what a binary blob or a firmware is, and they aren't explained. Very strange for mainstream news in my opinion.

Heh, I fondly remember the Natalie Portman/Hot Grits spam. Often made for an interesting read. Whatever Happened to Oog The Caveman? (Or did I just make that up?)

This was one of the arguments mentioned in the show.

I've yet to see a link to it, so here it is for those in the UK that want to catch it on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0120dxp/Terry_Pratchett_Choosing_to_Die/

I don't advocate piracy, but there's also a torrent out there if UK viewers somehow are unable to watch on iPlayer: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6470486/Terry_Pratchett_-_Choosing_to_Die

I found it quite upsetting. Haven't been quite right at work today after watching it on the commute to work :s

I don't think it's any of this. I imagine Steve Jobs hates the way the DRM and key revocation/update stuff works.

Here's a Wired article about the rumoured Higgs sighting: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/higgs-rumor/

Having read the linked thread, it looks like it's an ATI graphics card driver problem. You can still ssh into a machine that has "crashed under load".