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Comment vi (Score 1) 545

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.

Comment Re:The phone must be emitting N-RAYS (Score 1) 220

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan

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Comment Re:Time (Score 2) 193

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,

Comment Time (Score 5, Informative) 193

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.

Comment Re:I generate my power with solar (Score 1) 507

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.

Comment Re:Not just Microsoft (Score 1) 650

A thousand dollars here, a thousand dollars there, sooner or later it adds up to real money. I don't see why it's unfair for Microsoft to say that it will cost them more money to recruit talent. Because it will either cost the talent money, or the company money, but it's costing somebody money. Let's not forget that filling out income tax forms is a drag too, no matter how simple or low.

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