Or perhaps covalent?

There is no bond actor I dislike. They are all pretty good, I think. I voted Connery, though.

Yes, I remember looking at the N9 a few years ago, and don't remember much other than that I was impressed by how the UI functioned.

I guess you are right. I was thinking of OS releases, not (individual) packages.

I run a rolling release distro, you insensitive clod!

On the m0n0wall homepage there is a link to a new project (OPNsense) which seems interesting.

Edit: Oh, someone posted about it already.

I received the announcement by email a couple of days ago. Too bad, it was a great distribution and I am still running it on one of my old PCs.

+1.

I have always enjoyed the combination of FPS and RPG.

My phone is an HTC One V.

On my phone I switch ROMs quite often but for the moment i am on Android 4.2.2. I expect my Nexus 7 will get Android 5.0 soon.

aria2 comes to mind, but yes, wget is used almost everywhere.

I think it depends on the size. I have the first gen Nexus 7 and I almost exclusively use it in portrait mode. With a larger tablet maybe I would find landscape mode more comfortable.

Yes, +1 for Hotmail.

Put "set editing-mode vi" in /etc/inputrc (a lot of CLI programs use readline and will read that) or "set -o vi" for your current bash shell or bashrc

Thanks! This is great!

Let me also make it clear that with "PC", in the above comment, I meant desktop computer. :-)

It's nice to have a computer by a desk, with a proper monitor and proper input devices, and to be able to quickly add and switch hardware such as disks.

Tablets and PCs aren't even comparable in many cases since they often have very different uses. That said, I really like my Nexus 7, but it can never replace a PC. The only thing that can replace a PC in most areas is a laptop.

I run Arch Linux (with ZFS on my home directory), but I am actually thinking of trying out BSD because I really like FreeBSD. Perhaps PC-BSD is what I should be using on my desktop.

The Lumina desktop will also provide BSD-specific features through its file manager, like full ZFS snapshot restore capability.

That's a good feature. I am running OpenZFS under Linux, but manage my snapshots through the terminal.

The distro articles are always enjoyable.

I noticed the soy feed instantly killed discussion at Pipedot.

Yes, that was my first thought too when I first came to the site and noticed all the new articles and comments.

I think Pipedot is great, and even though I think feeding articles and comments from other sites is cool in principle, I believe this was the wrong way of doing it. As you mentioned, Pipedot became a reader to SN and not much else. Considering that the comment systems aren't integrated (and that might be tough to fix with SN since it doesn't even run Pipecode), and that every article from SN was duplicated on Pipedot, instead of a select few, it really made no sense.

Same here. I have found Awesome to be both extremely configurable as well as fast. I have used it for a couple of years now, and it should definitively have been in the poll. The main feature, I think, is the Lua API which makes it possible to configure it to work in pretty much any way you want.

This. I have a very nice 24" HP IPS 1920x1200 monitor right now, but my next purchase will be a 4k IPS monitor. Next year, maybe.

Keep it up.

I agree with everything in the above post. Some political stories fit in, but politics isn't why I come here.

I watched it again, and you are right. It looks like the tether keeps it on the treadmill.

Is Cyberdino Systems behind this?

It's very impressive seeing it get over those obstacles at that speed with no hassle.

I assume these cars will have several safety mechanisms in place to make sure something like that happens only once in a while...

These kind of cars can be used by people who lack a driver's license, or are intoxicated. Since it is not possible to take control of the car, there is no reason to put any requirements on any of the passengers. Perhaps self driving cars with manual controls will have a locked mode, or something, to also allow this.

Images are fine if they contribute to the story, but to use an image which is only vaguely related to the story seems unnessecary. Maybe images should be used when it makes sense to, and just have nothing otherwise.

I voted none, but i am not against having images or icons. The great thing about having icons is that you are able to quickly notice the category of the story, which is great when you're scrolling through the page.

Obligatory xkcd.

http://xkcd.com/1372/

This is a very useful feature.

In addition to the above those involved seem fixated on viewing their work as hyper-deterministic "machines" instead of beings .

Yes, since any advanced AI must be a self-learning system, only a limited control can be had over its evolution.

No, you're wrong, Nginx definitely does not spawn a thread/process for each connection.

It says on the site that further documentation may be required at a later time, after the claim has been filed.

#1 should be able to answer that.

Show more idiocy on results pages. Because there is no pagination, there is no easy way to quickly move forward among the results, so you have to repeatedly scroll down and click Show more . If you leave the page you often lose your position and have to start all over again. Stupid UI trend which has no place in anything other than simple interfaces. There should at least be a simple way of setting the offset.

Pipedot must have grown so sofisticated even the trolls downmod their own posts!

It seems that my general idea of how /dev/{u,}random works was wrong. Very interesting article.

So MS does all usability testing after they release the OS?