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Be careful with model or even revision numbers, always check hardware compatibility lists. very often times the difference between something like a "653" and a "653+" can be an ent…

You do not receive the Google Docs login prompt if your browser is not logged into Google at all. You do, however, receive the login prompt if your browser is logged in through ano…

Replay from Intermernet who is dead: Yes, but being inspired to write a similar book is now a grey area. As a some-time composer / musician, I like to play around with existing the…

I belive there is a real moral hazard to selling addicting/impulsive products, especially to children. After all this is part of the reason why zynga has such a bad reputation.

the issue is, if you have a cluster of games/etc managed by steam in your home directory that is already not under the control of package management, what do you gain by splitting …

theoreticly you could work around the library/datafile issues with LD_PRELOAD hacks to make it load stuff from your home directory instead, but thats pretty awful.

The problem with this is that with many steam games (such as TF2) the game data itself updates constantly aswell.

how is it irrelivant? if people are wanting games and stuff to be distributed through the package manager, all these issues very much apply. Even the steam client package itself is…

ah the power to unilaterally change terms, knowing your customers have essentially zero alternative.

path prefixes only generally apply to ./configure scripts when you are generating makefiles. As paths to libs and stuff are hardcoded as part of the ELF spec, it becomes difficult …

Steam has a package so dependancies can be satisfied easily without resorting to "install xyz beforehand", and it runs an installer into your home folder because the user has to be…

"we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In rec…

Its best to always remember this, Google was not on the side of "internet freedom" when they recommended to the FCC that wireless networks didn't need net neutrality.

this ends android as an open source project frankly, open source means freedom to fork, end of story.

for not feeling comfortable with perscriptive posts you certainly make a lot of them

My personal favourite comes from apple AVPlayer *player = ; CALayer *superlayer = ; AVPlayerLayer *playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:player]; [superlayer addSublay…

its not about putting ads on the homescreen? they have done exactly that with xbox already, 50% of the homescreen is composed of ads https://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/p…

namecoins fit the bill rather nicely, its essentially bitcoin, but applied to DNS. http://www.dot-bit.org/

you might want to take a look at MenuetOS, its written in x86 assembly, and expressly created for clarity and learning. http://www.menuetos.net/

unfortunately, these devices have no AD integration, or other Enterprise deployment stuff that typically makes windows appealing to businesses.

not certain how much of a market for chrome books there really is I had previously heard rumours of sales of only 50000 units worldwide (Cannot source atm) http://bits.blogs.nytime…

the problen with this viewpoint is that metro represents a fundamental shift in the window system. Stuff like appstore only, forced sandboxing and tons of restrictions that have ne…

At the kind of scales that OP is operating at, you are almost certainly going to need a system administration person with either option.