You must suck with reading comprehension. Honestly, some people...

Walking a parent through steps over the phone can be a frustrating experience. Even after moving my father to a Mac I still found myself having to deal with his issues for the first couple of months on a near-daily basis. Using TeamViewer helped this immeasurably. Free for personal use.

It's not the being commercially successful - pretty sure more people would grant Ubuntu leeway if they were - but their aspirations to commercial success are taking them down ultimately the wrong path.

OK, us retina MacBook Pro buyers have been struggling for a couple of months now with the fact that Apple used two suppliers, LG and Samsung, to provide the screens for the rMBP. Unfortunately, the LG screens develop image retention or ghosting fairly quickly after purchase, and Apple has been all over the map in either replacing or refusing to replace these defective screens.

Us being niche in comparison, I suspect we won't see anything like that letter ourselves.

Apple discussions thread (you will need an Apple ID to access this, I think):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4034848

MacRumors
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1424416

Apple Insider (post launch day)
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/25/retina_display_image_retention_reported_by_new_macbook_pro_owners.html

My first computer was a Mac LC 22 years ago. In the intervening time, I went to Windows as work required it, then I discovered Linux in 1997. Went to Red Hat 5.1, then Mandrake a couple of years later, then finally in 2000 I went to Debian and stayed there 'til last year, when I gave up and bought a 13" MBP.

When Gnome 3 came out, I relegated the old Debian server to just file/media serving, switched the window manager to XFCE, and promptly ignored it. Where it remains, switched off.

After a while I just realised that I was just more productive on OS X without thinking I needed to become a developer on Linux / [your favourite distro here] first.

It's great that all the technically savvy and ideologically committed people have a place to go to and an OS to use, but any hopes of expanding beyond that died with OS X's second release.

Never stopped from the sounds of it.

... might be the price. Good luck, I guess.

my thoughts exactly

I found Unity netbook from 10.10 to be acceptable after a bit of use, but the upgrade to Natty beta was enough for me to drop it in favour of just going back to Gnome 2. I'm also trying out Gnome 3, and both these 2 as well as KDE all feel like suboptimal blind stabs at some holy grail rather than fast and practical.

Might have to try out Enlightenment again, or xfce. i dunno.

Dear Mr Gaudrault,

Below is the text of my response to the CRTC.

I am cancelling my Bell dryloop DSL tonight, and moving to TekSavvy for the same, as a vote of confidence in your firm. I have had nothing but fantastic service from your staff, and I am looking forward to the change.

If you would like permission to reproduce this letter for your use, please consider this granted.

Kind regards
Massimo Savino

This is an unreasonable request on Bell's part, and I am saying this as a Bell Sympatico customer.

This request is an effective call for the CRTC to limit competition and the free flow of market capital, because reducing the terms of third-party providers to equal status of Bell itself will effectively mean no real difference in objective Internet service between Bell and other providers using Bell's lines -- which are at last count, paid for by those 3rd-party ISPs. Surely Bell should have no ability to dictate these unreasonable terms to those 3rd-party providers when they are paying for the service, no?

These pricing plans of Bell's were implemented on its own customers, previously on 'Unlimited' lines, about 18 months ago, with a correspondingly-high overage rates. In my case, they did this without informing me of the change, and billing my account.

This action is the last straw for me. I am going to move from Bell right now, actually.

I urge the CRTC not to accept this request.

Respectfully submitted,
Massimo Savino
[address redacted]

Hi everyone,
Ever since 2.6.27.x came out I have not been able to compile from source and have the internet connection work correctly at all.

Basically I try to take old source configs and run them in the new kernels, but I get the same result.

Even binary Ubuntu kernel builds fail to run internet connections correctly...

Apparently this item may be related to it:
http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fd6149d332973bafa50f03ddb0ea9513e67f4517

(regarding the reordering of TCP options... how do I fix it?)

Any advice very gratefully appreciated ...
M