If you buy Standard and wish to run it under another hyper-visor, such as KVM or ESXi, are you entitled to run three instances, two, or one?

I had the privilege of working on a project there for a few months. I have to say that the CSIRO is one of the institutions that Australians should be most proud of, but unfortunately, most have little idea of what it is or what kind of work goes on there.

Whatever you're working on, keep up the good work!

Is there a way to "watch" a comment, that is not your own, on Slashdot, to see if it gets any replies?

Most of it will be returned to the ecosystem anyway. It's not like the water will be stored forever. It will likely be used very quickly and very close to the source of collection. It will be used to either grow plants, or hydrate humans or animals. Either way, it will end up being evaporated back into the atmosphere and there will be no net change in the long term.

Good use of the em-dash there. Don't see much of it on here, but you do see a lot of unnecessary and nested parentheses.

This is a fair sentiment with regards to donated computers, but what about for computers that are paid for with the intent of selling at a profit? I'm talking about tested, working units that are late generation Pentium 4 and greater.

You can't tell me that there is no utility in these items and I won't for a second believe that a Ghanain trader would pay good money to purchase and then ship these containers overseas just so they can be scrapped.

Your closed fork would have to be from a 14 year old revision though. Linus is frequently adding and modifying the kernel source tree and the 14 year limitation would apply to any new works from the moment they are created.

So in other words, no, it would not be okay to make your own closed fork of the Linux kernel unless you want that closed fork to be of Linux as it was 14 years ago.

Of the nuclear power kind...

I think you've homed in on an interesting point.

Compared to other varieties who are more than happy to tear away at flesh, that would explain why Obsidion pugs are so small. Cute little buggers though, and so helpful in surgery.

I hear there's a volcanic glass that also sharpens very well... maybe they should take a look at using those. Wouldn't make a mess in the operating theatre either.

The ThinkPad Tablets are tough as nails and include a digitizer screen and stylus. They sense when you are using the stylus and can filter out your palm touching the screen so they are very comfortable to write on.

If more engineers were making executive decisions the global economy may not be in the state it is.

Oh the fucking irony of it. I was trying to post the following using pre and code tags without success and just ended proving your point:

Sure. Because

def function(): if condition: while ok: do_something() end while end if end def Is much more readable than: def function(): if condition: while ok: do_something()

If it was worthwhile forking it then we would have seen manufacturers attempt that already. Clearly Google is by far leading development and dealing with them is not too painful yet.

Get a powerful 8-core workstation with plenty of RAM. You can pick up a used one with warranty quite cheaply. Ditch Windows and run CentOS 6 on the bare metal and use KVM for virtualisation. The RedHat docs are a great read to get you started and as a bonus you'll pick up some very useful Linux administration skills and you will learn to think outside the box when it comes to virtualisation strategy.