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I should have been more clear, but this is what I meant.

> Awesome. Now they just need to get Optimus and Switchable Graphics working. Would that they could. There is some work going on in bumblebee and its branches, but some of the desi…

It's for this reason that I use Vagrant ( http://vagrantup.com/ ) - don't have to care what my development workstation is; I just spin up a virtual machine to hack and test in. :)

Yes, and that's the recommended way of setting it up. :)

You are correct in that local storage is wiped when instances terminate. Micro instances don't have local instance storage, only EBS. :)

Wise and benevolent? I wouldn't encourage this behaviour from any company. It's risky and has a high chance of completely alienating your users if you don't get it exactly right, a…

My first experiences with MP3s on Linux was with RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 4 - Fedora 9. Yes, it was always possible to install the restricted codecs, but only recently were those i…

RedHat isn't interested in making a desktop OS, though. Their focus is on the enterprise market, with the Fedora team doing their best to make a desktop OS. It would be very diffic…

AFAIK, Canonical tries to bundle Ubuntu with only free (read: open-source) software, to promote the idea that a totally open-source system can be a viable alternative to Windows / …

The unfortunate thing with this design is that it's quite often possible to break things by updating silently, too. My Cr-48 became almost unusably slow after the most recent updat…

A lot of it comes from hardware manufacturers and other providers. MP3 support on Linux was terrible for a long time because of all the patent mess. Talk to companies like Broadcom…

I generally use HTTP Digest Authentication for personal projects - since I don't really require fancy login boxes, and it's really trivial to implement.

Actually, I have seen that - one of our websites got infected with a particular hack that did this to our Google cache and search results. They redirect search engines to the fake …

Python - Flask PHP - Drupal I infinitely prefer Flask, but I can only really do that for personal projects. Everything at work is PHP / Drupal.

It'll be a tough and long road, but if you're really set on it, you'll be happier than ever. Good luck, man.

Hi, I'm the author of ScienceURLs. Actually, the whole thing was custom-written in about 2 days. I didn't even know that hackurls.com existed before I read your comment here.