It's also here on my installation of Ubuntu Natty, but it still doesn't actually _fix_ any errors, although it's happy to tell you about them. :-P

But it is good to see that it exists in some form by now. :-)

I've actually been running the system I'm typing from with Btrfs on the root partition for some time now. Since I always have an ext2 /boot partition, I didn't have to worry about this.

I still wouldn't recommend using Btrfs for / unless you have a separate /home partition, though: there is not yet any fsck.btrfs! In addition to a separate /home partition, I'd recommend having another Linux install with ext4 alongside it, so if something does go wrong with your Btrfs partition, you can boot a fully functional OS without having to reach for a LiveCD. That said, the Btrfs filesystem has handled several hard shutdowns without issue (there's some problem with my Nvidia graphics card that's been causing intermittent/unpredictable hard freezes, impervious even to the Magic Sysrq key).

The cool thing about using Btrfs for the root partition on an ordinary system (this is why I'm trying it) is for fast, transparent filesystem compression. I have an OLPC XO-1, and a bootable FSF membership card, neither of which has much free space. The traditional solution to such space issues is to have a SquashFS (read-only) root partition to save space, and use a persistence file to store changes. But if the changes become too great, the persistence file will reach the size of the partition that holds it, and you have to recreate the SquashFS image to start using the system again. While the compression factor isn't quite as good for Btrfs compression (it can do gzip and lzo), it's still very handy when trying to get a full system into 2GB, and it lets you have read-write access with good performance, too.

Fair enough with regards to WebM vs H.264, but its worth noting that due to numerous patent restrictions, there are significant legal obstacles for WebM to overcome before it can acquire feature parity with H.264. It's not as simple as a failure on Googe's part to devise a technically equivalent format, but to develop one that matches H.264's capabilities while circumnavigating patent landmines from proprietary video technologies including H.264 and others. It may not be feasible to create something that remains free-as-in-freedom, unambiguously non-infringing on the patents of others, and technically superior to H.264 without some major innovation in video compression algorithms that is either originated in F/OSS, or explicitly placed in the public domain, or something similar.

Incidentally, KDE 4.5 introduced tiling support for kwin. So KDE's WM *is* a (basic) tiling window manager.

With the release of KDE 4.6, KDE has also finally incorporated oxygen-molecule, which is a very complete Oxygen theme for GTK+.

Did you read the post GP was responding to? The point was not that Linux users will be forever generous. The example was provided as evidence against the idea that GNU/Linux users are unwilling to pay for what they want. In fact (making the same observation that you did), their desire to have more games has inspired them to pay _more_ than they might otherwise do. GP's point was that GNU/Linux users do want games, and that they've showed us so. That point stands.

I think ConnectBot will do what you want (via port forwarding).

Hmm... is that what I said?

Nope. All of this advice is essentially public knowledge, for one thing. But mostly, as geeks, we enjoy looking at problems for their own sake. What we enjoy even more is showing people we have the answer. I think the thought process more or less ends there.

Not to mention that it's trivial to harvest MAC addresses from clients of ANY access point, without having to set one up of your own. Or that you could spoof your MAC address to some arbitrary, meaningless value and do more or less the same thing but without associating that MAC with anyone in your general location. And of course there's the fact that framing your neighbor makes you a huge asshole.

Actually, if you do this on your own computer (ie. your laptop at the coffee shop), or another computer that happens to have a Linux installation on it, most LiveCDs including Ubuntu will mount the swap partition on the disk and use it. You'll have to disable that if you really want to make sure nothing gets saved to the PC. The command you want is "swapoff".

http://www.sidedark-warez.pl/images/LOIC_instrukcja.png

It kinda looks like it was made by a 14-year-old, at least in that screenshot.

Jus' sayin'.

I'm surprised no one mentioned this earlier. I remember reading the story about a year ago and thinking "We must still be pretty far away from that..."

Damn.

We could call it fraud or impersonation, since that's what it really is.