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Nearly forever. You don't have JavaScript, most malware isn't designed for platforms that old etc...

I have been taking it. So far I've found it pretty good (I took linear algebra many years ago in college and didn't remember most of it), even though I don't really like the amount…

In Windows 3.1, CTRL-ALT-DEL will allow you to kill a hung application. If no application is hung, it will tell you to press CTRL-ALT-DEL again to reboot. Check this by Raymond Che…

Sounds like an useful board for uses other than a laptop (e.g. robotics, DSP).

While I wish Matlab just disappeared, Python is still far from replacing it in some fields (e.g. electrical engineering), in no part due to the massive amount of toolbox available …

Maybe, but quite a few stuff (enough to implement DRM) is different.

Ubuntu 13.04 with MATE, but most of my work is done on virtual machines (all sorts of Windows and Linux) and on servers I ssh to (mostly Linux).

I don't think this is a big deal at all. It's not like you can build a Mac from scratch just by following those schematics. At most they might be useful for someone looking to do r…

Not quite servers, but I used to work in a lab where we used mostly RHEL/CentOS for our scientific computing work. I found myself gravitating towards RPM-based distros during that …

Used to run Arch until recently, but moved to Ubuntu when 13.04 came out. Currently using Ubuntu with MATE (haven't bothered with Unity in quite a while, considering my experience …

I have lost some Pentium 4 motherboards (and video cards from the same era) to this. Don't remember the specific models, sadly.

This begs for a teardown for possible reuse after the 15-day trial.

Quite an uncommon situation as far as I have seen. Can you actually provide an example of a book (or anything else) that nobody bought, but that was heavily pirated?

I do. I save files in the right place as soon as they are downloaded: that way you never have a messy Downloads folder or a crowded desktop.

It is not exactly Linux on an 8-bit micro; it's Linux on an ARM emulator on an 8-bit micro. Still good to see an use for ancient memory modules :)

I stopped using Google Reader recently; this has had the side effect of making me read much less news and, thus, being less buzzed to write a scathing or snarky comment/reply. I br…

Only in India? I'd be inclined to think that elites everywhere have the same sense of entitlement.

Whoa, it was still alive? I thought all the cool kids had migrated to Ask.fm.

Most Brazilian banks still use Java applets - which sometimes don't work in newer browser versions and have odd bugs with 32-/64-bit compatibility.

No crash on either Chrome or Firefox on Arch Linux.

Working nicely (from cursory testing of non-graphics-demanding games, anyway) on Arch + Intel graphics.

Unfortunately, not all of the Humble Bundle games are available on Steam for Linux, even if they have Linux versions.

From what I see, anything in SO that doesn't have code in it and that attracts attention will eventually get locked. I sometimes notice this pattern on other Stack Exchange sites: …

Personally, I like that Mathematica uses capitals for functions: it means that the entire namespace of lower-case variables is free - unlike in Sage, MATLAB etc... In fact, this is…

Licensing costs (and the student version is full of limitations - compare to the student version of Mathematica, which has almost no limitations), missing features (e.g. weak OO), …