It's what micros~1 has repeatedly called themselves. In fact, one day after another crash and subsequent disk trashing by "scandisk" they called themselves micros~1, micros~2, micros~3, micros~4, micros~5 and micros~6! They all sat in a folder called progra~1.

I'm not using HDDs anymore, you insensitive clod! Both my laptop and PC have an SSD.

I don't know why no one has mentioned this but printing from most devices is pretty easy, all you need is a printer with either built-in bluetooth or a host USB port (usually used for mass storage devices). Just plug in a Bluetooth dongle and it'll become visible, send it a file and it'll print. I had an HP which did this 5 years ago and I sent it files from a Symbian phone. Thanks to intents, any application which wants to send a file can queue a print job.

I'm sure he'd manage to make an iTunes visualisation of the missile trajectories and allow the UAVs to reload using in-app purchases.

Because it's SO HARD to install joe, nano, ne or just edit files over a mounted sftp. Oh wait, you can't mount sftp in Windows.

Something to run slashdots unoptimised JavaScript at an acceptable frame rate!

GitHub provides a friendly interface to view the source without having to use the repo tool and downloading the whole thing, so I'm eagerly waiting for this to get pushed there as well. Shouldn't take long.

https://github.com/android/

Simply using the list of installed files to search against is not a hack, is well documented and works exactly as expected. Also, if a file wasn't installed through the package manager, dpkg will tell you as well:

$ dpkg -S weeblefrob
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern *weeblefrob*.
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/weeblefrob
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/weeblefrob.

Only one version of any given package may be installed at any time and to see which version is installed you can use either dpkg -l $package or apt-cache policy $package (this tells you which version would get installed, too). If you want to search for files in all packages (even those not installed), you can use apt-file.

Why would anyone drive around in their laptops? Anyone who has one of those know how quickly they die. Sure, electric cars don't produce CO2 but those batteries aren't exactly environmentally friendly on the inside, they need replacements after a certain amount of cycles and the power for the charger still needs to come from somewhere. Could be coal plants for all we know. Investments in these type of cars are useless, no one will be driving around in these kind of cars for long.

You see, petrol has been used quite successfully for the past 100 years and we need something which will last for at least another 100 years. Perhaps something like, you know, hydrogen.

I don't see how dpkg -S can't do this, why would a filename search against all packages be inadequate? Perhaps an example would be useful:

$ dpkg -S `which git`
git: /usr/bin/git

Here, `which git` returns /usr/bin/git and since packages must not overlap in the filesystem dpkg will always return one package name when given a full path. Even for example with ls, when there's also lsmod, lsof, lsusb, etc.

Zfs, no. But you can use clang and llvm just fine. For jails, there's a plethora of solutions like LXC, VZ and the more elaborate virtualisation solutions like Xen and KVM.

Definately no reason to switch to GNU, though.

apt has never fubar'ed any of my systems without my explicit consent. You get a warning and have to type in 'Yes, do as I say!' before shit happens.

apt is analogous to yum and dpkg is analogous to rpm. With that out of the way:

• dpkg -L package
  Lists files in package package and
• dpkg -S file
  searches for file in all packages (may list multiple packages).