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My preference is to use only the bootloader for the OS I'm booting, as opposed to a "boot manager" that presents a menu of OS's. I avoid using chaining techniques the way something…

Maybe he works for a company that sells software priced at over $100? I have no doubt such companies have employees, or contractors, who not only monitor message boards on behalf o…

If you are really serious about taking a stand on this bill, then the most impact will achieved by going to the source of it, not Congress... unless you have more to offer Congress…

Understood. But here has Google has really made anything more human-friendly? They've simply removed a standard boolean operator in database search syntaxes because they noticed pe…

I write small, simple shell functions using a single busybox-like binary that do the same things as Perl modules. I store the shell functions in a local repository and load/unload …

Machines becoming more human-savvy is a slow and difficult process. And people are generally impatient. They want things to work. Sooner rather than later. They want immediate resu…

It's actually a very small job. The hard part I guess is learning to do things with the shell and UNIX utilities instead of Perl. And simplifying what you do and how you do it. If …

If what you're using works for you there's little reason to switch. I have had certain consraints in how I use computers that motivated me to explore different alternatives that "d…

Sean Parker is ridiculously overfunded.

I don't want the Apple OS. Remove it completely from the hardware, make the firmware more friendly to non-Apple OS, then I'll buy more Apple hardware. Other than NetBSD, I was not …

You seem to be suggesting that Google's new demographic will never become more tech savvy or at least not "any time soon". That's an interesting view. I'm just a bit more optimisti…

Today's 0.5% is tomorrows 95.5%. It just takes time. It is the so-called power users who lead the way for everyone else. Doing away with a traditional boolean operator for the sake…

So if I compile a busybox-like crunched binary with a variety of "do one thing well" UNIX utilities, including sh itself, and then I write a shell function that only calls this sin…

A comment like Joe's really surprises me. Time and again I see brilliant coders who for whatever reason cannot see the path to making their own live USB/SD sticks. But there's a be…