When I ask aptitude to install apache2, I get apache2. I don't get apache2, a download manager, and a toolbar in my firefox browser.

Heck, some packages even 'suggest' or 'reccomend' additional packages. But it's strictly OPT-IN.

It is a sad state of affairs that Windows users have to suffer through this crap. Microsoft should of stepped up to the bar and provided Operating System features that actually belong in the Operating system, namely, package + update management.

• No screen on the device (besides a small status screen)
• You could use *any* paper, but you had to have the tablet under it
• You had to use the supplied special pen (which was a nice pen, not a cheap plastic thing)

I did a internship @ A.T. Cross (high-end pens/gifts), when they were dabbling with 'modernizing' the company and introducing digital products. (that are all now discontinued)

They made a device that would let you write on a paper pad, but @ the same time capture (in Vector format no less) your pen strokes, and then download them to a PC.

http://www.amazon.com/Cross-CrossPad-CP41001-01-Portable-Digital/dp/B00000K1R3

As a result, I got to play with a few of those, and used one in college. The software had OCR capability, but was coded by IBM, and was clunky. By College though, I had switched to linux by my 1st year, and coulden't find a viable way of running it :(

One System I've seen (Small high school system) kept track of the last borrower on an item, so that if it was damaged, they could find out who did it.

It wasn't an item in the primary menu, and you had to know the 'secret keystroke' to get to that screen.

My quick 'how it works assessment w/o tracing the code' is that it detects when you create a range of highlighted text, the inserts an invisible image with alt text @ the very end of the selection. It's not touching the clipboard, it's simply "altering" what you selected to copy @ the last second before the user copies it to the clipboard.

This has been true as far back as Windows 95. I used to use this trick in W95 to make it easier to get to certain resources in the windows system.

I read about this feature a few weeks ago.

MS Is touting "this is not a VPN" (even in their marketing for this feature) -- but the parent is right, it's just an ipsec VPN that's initialized early in the boot up process.

I guess it's handy, most vpn clients I've seen are klunky things that have to run after login.

on the feature comparison site it's labeled as "Over-the-Air software updates"

I don't really count that as a feature given Amazon's recent abuse of it.

I hate f-lock. A F-key is an f-key dammit. when i want to press f6, i want the address bar, not to close the window!!!

I'm from a small org, fully embracing the leading edge.

But I can See the following scenario:

1) Org has large internal App written for IE6 only. Can't upgrade so users are forced to have IE6 on their workstations
2) Org's IT admins are well aware of the security problems IE6 forces them to work around.
3) Roll out the Chrome plugin, and set things up so everything *but* the internal site uses Chrome.

Installing IE upgrades makes it difficult to leave an ie6 & ie_latest deployment side-by-side in a 'supported' fashion (Unless ms has a 'supported' way of doing this?)

Using the Chrome plugin lets the Org upgrade the browser to something maintained & more secure on their deployment, while allowing the archaic app to work as expected.

I hope they don't do any hollywood accounting.

We made no profits last year. 57% of 0 == 0!.

What if we had enemies dropping pamphlets on us?

What if our government told us they were infected by Ebola, or anthrax, or some other bioterrist agent and shouldn't be touched? (Whether or not they are)

Having your hands rot off doesn't seem to far fetched now ...

Smart folks might be able to figure out & confirm the government is full of crap. But lots of the folks out there, who can't even explain the scientific method? They might be inclined to believe them. Why would the government lie to them?

Cox does it too, iirc. I've seen it @ places where I've help setup computers. I had been running my own dnscacher that directly hit the root servers, but when I learned about Cox doing it, I discovered they have a pair of DNS servers that *don't* exhibit this behavior and changed my resolver to hit those (to be net friendly). I'd switch it back to the roots in a heartbeat if they started being stupid about it again.

It also fails if you happen to have more than 65k kids on your lawn....

Nginx has been getting a lot of press lately, much of which is well deserved.

This article is simply that -- use a front-end reverse proxy (like nginx) to your backend server, and let nginx handle the ssl transaction and pass the body of the HTTP request to your backend server where it handles the important stuff.

This is not an uncommon strategy, and lets you have a lot of flexability.