1. I think Firefox and a few other browsers now support "apt://" which interfaces with apt and does an apt-get install for packages. It's an idea.

2. ROX supports something like Apple's .app. Your package can be viewed as a single icon representing the program (I think it works with both directories and archives). There's also ZeroInstall.

Honestly, I don't like it either, but it works better than having a million versions of every app distributed over thousands of sites without any checksumming and other integrity checks. In the ideal world, project maintainers would have an "easy install" option, sort of like what ROX has, and let the distribution maintainers manage their repositories.

uOttawa has tunnels all under it, and all sorts of "secret rooms". So did my high school. But nothing this intense.

There's a place in Danemark, I think in Copenhagen actually. From overhead maps it looks like a bunker or water treatment something, but it seems there's cameras and sensors everywhere. Weird.

If you liked the interface in RISC, but like Linux, you could try ROX.

As a Canadian, oh god no.

Think of the consequences, of an oppressive state, that willingly attacks anyone (esp. cyber attacks), blackmails its neighbours (over North Korea), and completely ignores any laws on copyright (be they good or bad). I mean, right now things are not perfect, but at least in the US you can clean out the political chambers and really bring in fresh blood.

But who am I kidding. You're all a bunch of self-loathing teens threatening to slash your wrists.

Cowards.

The US used two nukes offensively to end a war in the least painful way possible. (an amphibious invasion of Japan is a death wish)

Little Kim, on the other hand, is insane enough to threaten his neighbours. The US at least was on good terms for the most part with the USSR when it came to stuff like accidents with subs or something.

North Korea or even Iran getting nukes is like a Cuban Missile Crisis without more missiles in Turkey. And don't forget, negotiations don't work with North Korea or Iran. Not one bit.

Speaking of the BeagleBoard, there's no way to pass audio through that HDMI connector, is there? Possibly splice HDMI and a 3.5mm connector together?

That's probably the single most dissapointing part about the beagleboard, the lack of audio over HDMI. I know it's licensing issues, but it would have made the beagleboard the best HTPC for sub-1080p setups.

I've always wondered why nobody ever stepped up and this, innexpensively.

Look at TI's DaVinci lineup. It's supposed to be small enough to be used in digital cameras (I've only seen it in the OSD 2.0 preview units) and sips power, while being fast enough to encode 720p60 h.264 at real-time. I think there's a beefier DaVinci that can do 1080p30 h.264. (and some devices like Leadtek's Cell card can do it faster than real time at 1080p.)

The major problem with them, other than availability, is cost. Seriously, I'm not going to spend 300$ on a Cell card that makes no mention of an OS other than "Windows XP/Vista". I'm not going to blow 1000$ on a DSP/CPU combo that is supposed to sell for sub-10$ in bulk. And it needs to be able to transcode video using FFMpeg, and occupy a PCIEx1 or PCI slot, or heck USB or FireWire.

Perhaps those heirs should work to make their living instead?

Hello LWATCDR. Meet Click 'n Run.

But Linspire is the devil so it never quite caught on.

When you buy an ebook God plants a stalk of corn.

Winter here is extremely cold and summer extremely hot.

What I've noticed is that summer just feels unbearable some years (temperature doesn't always matter) and it makes me so much more agitated, and tires me out a lot faster. Right now it's 14C in the afternoon outside and I'm having trouble keeping cool, and it just makes me angrier for some reason.

Wasn't that the year NASA placed their sensors/monitoring gear right next to an air conditionning exaust?

The ice levels of your childhood were extremely high.

1950-1970 is not an accurate depection of Earth's ideal climate, stop using it as an example.

Real 802.11g, but sadly only WEP. (at the time, there was no WPA2)

Reccomended course of action is to get a USB adapter to put into host mode and set it to transmit as 802.11b with WEP. Avoids any leechers.

Common mistake: They didn't give the money to the Taliban, they gave it to afghan "freedom-fighters". The Taliban later showed up and assumed control.