I'm sure he has. I don't know about your post's parent, but Gnome suffers from random imperfections and features moving or disappearing at inapt moments. I used to be 100% Gnome / Linux, but by day's end the only place where I'll have it installed is in a small VM I keep for "picture" web browsing.

I've been using cygwin for almost its entire lifetime. It has pluses and minuses. For the most part using the rxvt shell lets me feel like I'm on a proper computer, except when I do some file operation that hangs cygwin for 30 seconds, or windows is under load and it takes 30 seconds to get a command prompt. Maybe mintty will solve some of the cygwin problems I have - I'll try it when I go to work tomorrow. But as a person who spends all day at work every day logged into multiple random customer servers via SSH, putty just works for me. It's stable. It's light weight. The selection behavior is almost always right. It's self contained and small, so I don't have to worry about some piece in the chain of cygwin breaking and stranding me at an inconvenient moment.

It's in Chicago. There's so much haze and light pollution here that you can't even see real stars.

Magnet links, how do they work?

That's not really the point. The reason you buy the Solaris/SPARC combo in the enterprise is to get a fully supported platform for running specific applications. Alternate OSes break the center out of that. The OS isn't supported by one vendor on the hardware, the application isn't supported on the OS. It turns an enterprise platform into a toy for geeks. Nothing against toys for geeks - I've done a lot of tinkering on random hardware at the edges of the organizations that have employed me. But there aren't many Libraries (my customers) who would be willing, let alone able, to move their operations onto FreeBSD.

vi is the one true editor. vi is the forever changing and unchanged. vi is the eternal virgin. vi is the foulest whore.

Seriously, the farther you get from twiddling text files in a text editor over SSH, the more vulnerable you are going to be to having your vendor yank the rug from under you, or just wander off and abandon you.

Hey you kids! Get! Off! My! Lawn!!!

1920 x 1080 = 1080 x 1920 . It's a bit narrow, but it works surprisingly well.

Or, to use another media contemporary with the CD, around 6666 Double Sided, Double Density 8" floppy disks.

In a different direction... over and over and over again. He's not the only hard line Linux geek to throw up his hands and go to Windows.

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Wikipedia: N-rays (or N rays) are a hypothesized form of radiation, described by French physicist Prosper-René Blondlot, and initially confirmed by others, but subsequently found to be illusory.

That was not my experience - you have to know if you want to auto-nooter, nookie froyo, CM7 or gingerbread, and you have to find genuinely authoritative documentation for performing the work. Once you're rooted and have done if a few times, it's really easy. But my first try (only a few weeks ago) ended up using somebody's not quite right autonooter kit for 1.10, the second or third try instructed me to wipe my /boot fs (requiring a reflash to stock). And it was a few times around before I figured out that a lot of my boot problems were due to having leftover boot sectors on my SD cards. So - it's extremely quick and easy once you understand it, and find authoritative instructions,

I'd put the process at closer to an hour. The big time sink is figuring out WTF is going on and what you want to do about it - there are no less than four major options, with a dozen smaller decisions to make, all wrapped up in a slightly hermetic nomenclature. It still ain't for the weak kneed and non-technical. HOWEVER, the nightly CyanogenMod 7 build is getting really close to maximum awesomeness - video playback doesn't work quite right, bluetooth doesn't work quite right, but both of them work. By late april it should be a clear winner, and that will make the decision much easier.

Being full-electric is one issue. The full electric apartment down stairs from me is probably cranking at least 500kwh / month. Up here, where I'm heated with gas it's around half that with a fair amount of AC use. It may or may not be cheaper. Of course I'm all CFL and light weight computing now, but it's mostly your heating and cooking that's killing you.