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The more I use Arch, the more I do things on the command line. That means a lot less software to maintain. I think if you run tons of different software, you are asking for things to break.

I happily run dwm, and a handful of CLI tools. This minimalistic setup is enough for me - and seems to cut down on things breaking.

If I never broke anything...I would not know much about Linux! I think part of maintaining a distro like Arch is dealing with things breaking. The good news is that you learn about how something works and usually can figure out a solution. The Arch community is awesome and is very responsive when things don't work.

Arch is what I have been running (since around 2006). I love the simplicity. When things do break, there is an amazing community waiting to provide support. The Arch community rules! I think Arch is quickly becoming what Gentoo was...(hopefully I dont start a war!).

Indeed law enforcement does not have free hands to decide what laws to enforce. They are being puppeted by big business and government pressure. This issue is less about the law, and more about big business pressuring everyone and their momma to protect their business interests.

I have always thought about The Pirate Bay like a gun shop in the US. Gun shops sell guns and ammo...they help facilitate killing human beings...but we never hold the gun shop responsibile (so long as they comply with licensing laws etc). Why dont we look at The Pirate Bay in the same way? They supply a tool that can be used for wrong doing. It can also be used legitimately (as in the case of guns).

How is this arguement so different?

While it is slightly different - it is not dramatically different than Pogo Plug.

All of these similar solution always beg the question, "why does dropbox need to be changed"? It is simple, and just works. This makes it attractive to the masses.

While I don't necessarily subscribe to "if it 'aint broke, don't fix it" I wonder how any company can dethrone dropbox by offering such a similiar service. It will likely appeal to the tech crowd...but the masses? They will have to convince the masses that they are missing something using dropbox. Is this not one of the reasons that sites like Identica will never be as popular as facebook (maybe Identica has never had such lofty goals).

I imagine they will not open source their Linux drivers. While I wish they would, I am not certain that would make business sense for them.

The only difference is that instead of people thinking that it is a harmless prank they will send in homeland security/swat team/etc with loaded weapons.

This post illustrates the reason I cant seem to shake my Google addiction.

The article never mentioned the creation of Unix. How could any tech loving journalist miss this point?!!

Colloquy is one of the better irc apps for the iphone.

Thanks for the info. I guess I missed that.

It is not about money!

Yes. I was hoping for a class action lawsuit. Perhaps this is on the horizon?

I complain about cable television in any conversation about TV!

I have given up on most TV - especially cable TV. Almost 3 years ago my wife and I moved and decided to not startup cable TV. I setup an antenna and run MythTV, Boxee and anything else that will run on a browser + flash. I run a virtual machine for Netflix. When we started this experiment, I thought we might go running back to cable. What we discovered is that there is a ton of content available. The Mythbox nicely removes commercials.

When people hear that I don't have cable, many are confused that I can receive HD programming over the air. The cable companies have done a brilliant job confusing the public into believing that you must have cable to watch TV and/or access HD content.

We couldn't be happier. I challenge anyone to give up paying for cable tv. Good luck!

Does this article point to a failure in capitalism?

Wow. I remember waiting for flash to come to 64 bit Linux systems...

Perhaps Adobe has to continue supporting Chrome to support Googles Chromebooks.

In a perfect world, we would have open standards and would never need to rely on a company. Hopefully flash will die quickly (I wish I had a dollar for everytime I have heard this).

Sad news. RIP scroogle...

Wow! Linus is using a Macbook Air!

+1 for vim + mutt!

So the message is...do your own backups and hire an attorney to do the rest!

Love VLC. Plays anything you throw at it. Enough said...

+1

Yes. I used to use the Gentoo wiki...these days, it seems like all the action is on the Arch wiki.

Arch is a great distro!

How is this start up going to pay the bills?

It is ironic that Apple is supposed to be protecting us by having very rigid policies for what and what does not enter the app store but they let an app access contact data without permission from the user!

I have done some side by side comparisons between Google and DuckDuckGo. Google seems to produce more relevant results than DuckDuckGo.

I really want to like and use Duck Duck Go...I will keep trying!

All of them support the Macbook.

A better question might be which community has the best documentation. I believe Ubuntu probably has the best documentation for the Macbook and is the most noob friendly.

Perhaps...however, our influence in that arena has to be the most powerful.

Fair enough.

My employer uses Exchange (for some reason still running Exchange 2003!!!) and I have always struggled getting mail clients to play properly with exchange. I have finally given up and am running Outlook virtually.