Ubuttu Ladyboy Remix works fine for me on 2 laptops with no probs. Oh wait, I had to reset the machines after install finished cause I was running the beta installer...

I've got 2 laptops running it just fine. Got winXP and Win7 running in a virtual box. I've yet to find a problem... I run my Openoffice Impress slideshows on our projector and advance the slides with my mobile phone. I dunno, it "just works". Blows people at work away when I'm 500x as productive as they are. Sometimes I show them some 3D games like Nexuiz or OpenArena and they can't seem to believe I can run all that on a crappy Intel GMA 965 with shared memory and only 1GHz dual processors.

I currently use TexMacs with Maxima. It's like Mathematica with macro support. Just read all the docs and make your own macros. You'll be typing integrals with one key-stroke.

Remember NASA Tech Briefs? That was the bomb before /.

No they didn't. Linux blows MS out of the water in terms of users, groups, and network resources.

ICal, IMAP, WebDAV... Blows exchange out of the water, IMHO. Feckin Tards in IT these days.

Umm, LDAP is Active Directory.

The point is that we don't need fossil fuels. The algae gas can be used to power a "hybrid" engine and the electricity and gas can come from renewable sources while removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Thus eliminating the problem of global warming once and for all!

It's more Unix-like than Ubuntu. I presume this means the directories follow a unix naming convention, shell commands are like the old unix ones, etc. It's great if you're trying to learn Unix, solaris, BSD, etc. If you want to add something to your startup files it would be in in a run control script and you'd need to know all the run levels to find the right one plus you'd need to know shell scripting to add it. One thing you'll notice is lagging support for proprietary hardware(think wifi, bluetooth, SD Card Reader), less packages than Ubuntu, less things work out-of-the-box.

Service Level Agreements... Works for all sectors.

I agree. The language is quite easy to pick up from a text or class. What takes a long time is learning libraries and tool-chains. You should only take Python, Java, or C++ and then learn the others on your own as needed. Instead, focus your time on learning an IDE and some libraries like OpenGL or whatever is the main library for what you want to do when you grow up. hehe

Product of India

Actually wind comes from heat energy, so it would effectively cancel or reverse the global warming effect of increased wind/storms...

Sounds like pretty crappy code. You'd think a "major US Tech Company" would be able to sync a database efficiently. Are you sure you're not just buying your own PR FUD? Every day I get recruiters telling me "Opening at a Major US Tech Company" and it turns out to be some no-name start-up trying to sell ring-tones or other such useless vapor-ware. I think IBM would be major, Sun, MS, etc. I doubt if Robert Half Consulting or Volt Technical or Manpower Staffing qualifies.

BTW, 1200 lines of code and 10 classes in a single source file is pretty common industry practice for large projects. Obviously, 10 lines can be one small function due to to all the linebreaks instead of single-line statements so it might actually just be 120 lines of code...