Also of note is that the newest Linux drivers will compile with kernels above 3.13...

It was originally planned for 5 seasons but WB didn't want to renew for a 5th season, so they planned to tie up most of the loose ends after season 4. Then it was picked up and aired on TNT, to tie up the rest of the stories so Season 5 was sort of a combination of the planned last year but with many of the story arcs already finished.

For me it went Mandrake > Gentoo > Ubuntu > Fedora. I started by throwing myself into the fire and trying to install Gentoo. After successfully compiling the kernel then realizing I had to compile this crazy thing called X11, I got fed up and decided to switch to Mandrake. Got kinda sick of it freezing so I tried out Gentoo again (and this time got it to work way better); I used Gentoo back when 64-bit support was pretty terrible in Linux but ran quite well in Gentoo. Used it for a few years until I accidentally deleted /usr instead of my 32-bit usr and didn't have time to install the entire system again and switched to Ubuntu. A few years back I gave Fedora a spin and that's all I've used since then. Of course I've also used Knoppix/SystemRescueCD for times when they're needed. I've tried quite a few others like arch, freeBSD, SUSE and some flavor/niche distros like meego, moblin, puppy, mythdora/mythbuntu but never really left them installed. I don't think I've ever installed debian.

The non-burning abilities of rubbing alcohol are also related to the fact that it's mixed with water. This is why if you dip a dollar bill into rubbing alcohol and light it, the alcohol on the outside burns and the dollar doesn't. The water permeates the dollar bill a lot more than the isopropyl alcohol, so there's a sort of phase separation. Of course, this is highly dependent on the purity of the rubbing alcohol (you can get anywhere from 80-99.9% pure from your local market, with the balance being water)

I'd recommend Fedora for this. They have a really good KDE spin that you can download as a livecd or install. I haven't had any problems since I switched from Kubuntu. My friend swears by Mandriva with KDE, and I think they have an awesome livecd, but I have no personal experience with it. I'm sure either one is better than Kubuntu, which gave me no end of problems while I still had it installed.

But "Comcast has you covered" in the digital to analog switchover! So of course you won't need to give them lots of money for new converter boxes.

but of course you'll listen to "experts" that don't honor FOI requests for data, and "scientists" that make their living on funding that shows global warming is a problem.

Oh, it's really easy to remove fairplay. Here is the official fix from Apple: All you have to do is burn the songs to a CD using iTunes and then re-encode them onto the hard drive.

Doesn't matter that you'd have to do this for every CD (talk about a lot of wasted CDs) or that re-encoding them lowers the quality further, which is important for people that don't like music that sounds like it's been sent through a food processor.

I looked through the watts link, and found the text of the actual email there. As I mentioned, it's completely possible that this was taken out of context. There are some other parts that might be more difficult to explain, such as saying that the death of John Daly was a good thing, and the email from July 8 saying:

"The other paper by MM is just garbage – as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well – frequently as I see it. I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. [redacted] and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !"

Redefine what the peer-review literature is? I don't think science is supposed to work that way...

There IS at least some evidence of the falsifying of data. From TFA: "I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."

Adding temperature data from two different sources that seem to have different accuracies/systematic errors "to hide the decline" is evidence of falsifying data. In context, it is possible that this does not mean what it seems to mean. At the same time, this is evidence that there might be some systematic suppression of data that doesn't support human-caused global warming. Just because there's no worldwide conspiracy doesn't mean that these things aren't being downplayed because they're not part of the "consensus".

The big problem is that they're not just extracting money from whoever has big pockets, they're extracting money from whoever, regardless of pocket size.

I very much doubt that this grocery store stocker has big pockets.

Er, peace not piece. Score one for proofreading.

How are any of those three deeds sufficient to even be nominated or seriously considered? This is not an award for politicians from the United States, it is one for the world. And if nuclear non-proliferation is a big reason, shouldn't Lugar also be mentioned in the peace prize? As far as words on the campaign trail, they ARE just words. The countries that Obama thinks we need improved relations with the most - Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea - have not yet changed their tune on anything. If anything, our relations with Iran have gotten worse recently, due to the disputed elections and nuclear concerns. Venezuela has continued with Chavez being Chavez. North Korea is also the same as always.

For you to even suggest that changing the death penalty in one state, some _bi-partisan_ (not just Obama) legislation, and words and rhetoric (Hope and Change!) are enough to even get you nominated for the piece prize is ridiculous, much less winning it. Actions speak louder than words, and his actions as of yet have not warranted this treatment.

I think the problem that most people have is that he was nominated because he became President, and not because of what he has actually done to improve peace around the world.

Moblin and UNR are quite different. I've tried both of them on my eee. Moblin is specifically written for intel architecture, and takes advantage of atom/core2 (sse3) so it has a lot of eye candy that runs well on low performance hardware. There aren't very many applications in the repositories for it yet, but there are some neat built-in twitter/last.fm/gchat programs. UNR's main advantages are that it runs on any hardware and it has ubuntu's repositories, so you can install many more programs on it with the package manager.

Moblin seems to run really snappy, even with all the eye candy. The interface (I think they call it clutter) is kinda weird, and it's got a different feel than most other linux distros, but for a netbook it works well.

I look forward to them adding more programs to Moblin, and stop it from crashing as often as it does...

Of course he does. Why not? The man earned it...