You might also want to check out the "Lost Fleet" series by Jack Campbell. I enjoyed it more than Harrington, but I'll admit that I'm only on the third book of the Harrington series.

The space combat seemed more "realistic" (hah, I know). Ships having shields aside, weapons were entirely computer controlled, as the window for contact was fractions of a second as ships passed, then possibly hours as they repositioned for another run. Fleets carried mobile refineries for ore processing for both repairs and to replenish weapon stocks, etc.

I don't even run X as root.

I sent out my wedding invitations on Monday night via Canada post (which means they were actually collected Tuesday). Most seem to have arrived Friday (I was visiting family and asked). Granted, these were all within Ontario. I'd expect another day or two for my family in BC to receive theirs.

Not bad for $0.61.

Fedora 17 will be the first distro resolving the two separate UI issue. It was annoying, and now it has been fixed.

Mints fancy new UI is based on gnome-shell itself.

The news you're referring to (Mints growing popularity) is reportedly at the expense of Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't use gnome-shell.

I fail to see what mistake he made. Perhaps they just have DNS point at new servers? Perhaps they route their existing public IP space to the new datacenter (assuming those IPs were ubisoft and not isp-provided)? Perhaps they have a cache or load balancer layer that they simply redirect at the new servers, but which is not moved at the same time?

I think "DNS or whatever" is fine.

Maybe DRM prevents them from installing in two places?

My wife's mac has used time machine since it came out. I actually bought an airport extreme w/ time capsule support (which sucks -- there is no web ui, so I had to borrow her mac to configure it). Every six months or so time capsule would stop working for some reason. Only solution I could find was to turn it off, blow away all backups on the airport extreme's attached disk, and reconnect.

I got fed up with the airport one day and installed netatalk on my server home. It's been working for well over a year now with no problems. So obviously since my experience is directly applicable to everybody, we can infer that this generic router plus external USB disk will actually be more reliable than apple's solution.

Which is why I use chromium + adblock...

No, but Texas does have Data Centers.

The core bits of chrome are open source (Look at the chromium project, of which i am a user). Chrome itself also has some proprietary bits (updater, crash reporter, flash & pdf support built-in, etc).

"Provided first-response technical services to the Office of the President" blah blah blah. It's all how you talk yourself up.

Bill Gates had fight through Tier 1 support like the rest of us? Maybe I've been too hard on the guy.

popcon is an optional part of Ubuntu installs (There is an option at the end, not sure of the default). Popcon gives a pretty good indication of what packages are installed, but (afaik) not how consistently the OS is used or any information regarding the hardware it is run on. The canonical-census package seems to tackle the latter two.

I'll bet it will be great, until about half-way through, when the sunburned space zombie appears.