I wonder if anyone considers using Microtik? Even the most basic models have decent antenna, and all have great amount of network related tools incuded (most of which I don't use anyway), but at the same time they are easy to set up. Pretty reliable, too.

I hope they won't break pentadactyl compatibility. Seriously, why my desktop browser experience should be influenced by that metro thing and tablets? It's so unfair.

Why would one need an excuse to download anything?

I know very well where to download them (and some of them, like 'Practical Postgres' are available for free anyway), but I still buy them, because I love O'Reilly Media. I also keep telling everyone how awesome they are and that one shouldn't be afraid of the prices: they are twice lower than they show.

It takes one person to upload, but everyone decides if he should buy a book himself.

I've bought a dozen of ebooks from O'Reilly and didn't upload any of them anywhere. They don't treat me as a potential thief and don't fuck up my reading experience and the prices are reasonable (especially when you compare them to apress or pragmatic). They are my friends. I want them to prosper and publish more DRM free books.

For the record, Pandora didn't fail completely. At the moment they are manufacturing the boards in Germany and assemble the devices in Germany and Great Britain and finally started shipping them. Yes, they did piss off plenty of people along the way with poor communications, but they still managed to start building and shipping them, and new ones are of quite a good quality. Besides they finally have newer kernel, 2.4.27 made tinkering with the OS quite painful. I've got myself one on ebay, and even though I had to fix a couple of things myself (first batch, meh) I really am happy with the device and I'm thinking of buying a new one, with more ROM. I mostly use it for surfing, email, minor admin tasks over ssh, reading books and of course playing games, at the moment my fav is Shadowrun for Sega Genesis. The good thing about this whole thing is that they learned to deal with hardware makers and now know a couple of things about the process, so their next project should run smoother. Maybe it's not particularly smart of me, but I'm very enthusiastic about crowdfunding, I'm backing several project on KS and that Debian Administrator Handbook liberation and several games at Desura. But I think I'll be able to tell if it does worth it only in a year.

I tried to retract the post somehow, but failed to find it yesterday (the 'newest' was full of proposals to buy real estate in India)