I recently got my own Steam Deck as I'm all for AAA gaming on Linux, and I believe that Valve is the company to make it happen. I hope this move will cause other publishers to reconsider supporting an OS other than Windows. The Deck just proves that AAA gaming can be just as easy on open source software. Epic also is adding to the effort by enabling EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) support on Linux. I'd also like to acknowledge the fact that Valve has given up on a number of hardware devices and that is a concern of mine with regards to the future of the Deck. That being said, and owning previous Valve hardware devices such as the controller & streamer, the Deck overall feels more polished than previous hardware attempts.

I've been waiting for the "no-cost" option for my dad, I set him up with his own domain around 14 years ago, so as you can imagine he's amassed a bunch of e-mail, documents, YouTube subscriptions, etc. However the option only going live as of today (it's still not showing for me in the admin panel) is cutting it close to the cut-off date of June 1st. I migrated his e-mail elsewhere a couple months ago and as far as he's concerned, nothing changed for him and continues to use Thunderbird. With this rollout of the "no-cost" option I can ensure he'll still have access to his other data, or at least I hope.

This leak also contained e-mail addresses of people who have never done business with them, I know because I'm one of them. I stupidly downloaded the data because I was alerted by Firefox Monitor that my e-mail address was included in the breach. Upon inspection, it was WHOIS data from 2012 and 2014. So before people start going vigilante, know that there are personal details within the dump that have never done business with them. Until this point, I didn't know Epik existed.

I don't claim to know any programming languages, but I have dabbed in Perl, Python and Java. While I can write a program to do a specific task, I'm always Googling for examples and how-to's when I'm not sure of anything. So, no. I don't know any languages, I just know how to Google. :)

And when was Newegg going to inform their customers about this? Strange that we had to find out about this from a 3rd party news source. Does this only impact Newegg US, or other countries where Newegg does business affected too?

I have a domain which is _often_ used in error. I get plenty of email from various companies, people and spam. I've had mail come in from Sony and Boeing to name a couple (each company contacted and fixed pretty quickly).

I still run SSH on it's standard port with DenyHosts. However, I add a second layer such as two-factor authentication: http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/. Even if you do manage to somehow get my password, you still need my one-time pass code. It's not perfect, but I believe it reduces the risk of having a publicly accessible SSH server being compromised.

False: The boot loader can be unlocked using the Android SDK. Boot into Fastboot, then use the command 'fastboot oem unlock'. Rooting is pretty straight forward these days, plenty of how-to's out there on the Internet. Lastly, factory images can be downloaded from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images.

I don't have Google Voice since I live in the great white north. Caller ID shows the number as 1-760-705-8888.

OK, it's a little more expensive and doesn't have great range through walls plus most Wireless N equipment can utilize the 5GHz band. I can usually discover 20+ access points from inside my apartment all running on various channels in the 2.4GHz band, my wireless network is the only one running at 5GHz, and I've never had a dropout while using it. I no longer get interference from cordless phones, microwaves, etc.

Agreed, when I was trying to work out what new laptop I should get, I was going to go for the Mac Book, but then I looked around some more and found the Dell XPS M1330. It was better spec, with regards to RAM, Hard Disk, Expansion (express card slot), LED backlit display, NVisia graphics, etc. For £200 less I could get a much better spec'd laptop. I was dubious to start with (of Dell because of having a bad reputation), but a few people at work who own one of the said XPS range convinced me. Had my XPS M1330 for a while now and couldn't be happier.