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Yes. Amps = current. That means it can sustain 8A of current for an hour. This can be trivially divided into 4A for 2 hours, 2A for 4 hours, 1A for 8 hours etc. Also: 1. It's easy …

Excuse the rant, but I'd buy this tomorrow, if only one thing was fixed: There was a proper RT version of Office rather than a hacked up desktop version. The desktop version is sim…

Comparing to Windows, I find battery life on Linux is much shittier. Ubuntu 12.04 for example on my Lenovo T400 lasts about 2 hours. On Windows 7 x64, I got about 4.5 hours. On Win…

Err, Windows Store apps can run on the Surface RT and do, regularly. Windows desktop apps could if: 1. RT didn't require signed binaries. 2. You cross compile them to ARM. Don't fo…

A 100Mhz Pentium is a pretty fast machine believe it or not. I survived for a couple of years in the early 00's on a 133Mhz machine I found in a skip and chucked FreeBSD on it. I r…

Yes entirely. This frequently happened. For me, I managed to stuff up a debian disk resulting in a reinstall on my PC failing. I didn't have enough disk space to dual boot. I had t…

How quaint. I still use floppy disks. I have a synthesizer (korg triton studio) which uses them for backups from its internal hard disk. I never managed to get sysex to work proper…

This times a million. As a home worker, I spend over 2000 hours a year on an RDP connection. Wonderful tool.

Excellent. Thanks for pointing this out!

Thanks didn't know that (can't say I looked). Will have a play.

Sorry this is a new account but I'm not a new HN reader. Shill argument here we come. To be honest I'm not enamoured with windows 8.1. It's just marginally better for me than windo…

I did a fresh install from MSDN iso onto a disk cleaned with diskpart from a USB stick (see [1]). I didn't do an upgrade. I wouldn't ever upgrade Windows manually after a screw up …

No - winkey+X (the actual X key) throws up a new menu. See below: http://i.imgur.com/Tmq3iWp.png

Been using this for a few days already since it was released to MSDN. Definitely better than Windows 8.0 and even Windows 7. If you don't like Metro, it's pretty easy to get rid of…

Good point. I do however feel that the government departments that have failed miserably on projects will start looking at more successful projects for inspiration. We'll be a few …

I beg to differ. The UK government (finally) has got its act together in this department. We're seeing the NHS's core "Spine" system being rewritten using open source software (ria…

That whitepaper is for management and purchasing. The security patches are for the poor sysops who have to look after the mess left behind by the former. Every large commercial sof…