I bet getting a CR-48 made for one nice Christmas present (or other holiday depending on what you celebrate).

The latest news report I could find is that Mint will not be changing to Unity but instead will be keeping some form of GNOME: [goo.gl]

Being a Mac and Linux user, I've slowly been adding sites to my /etc/hosts file. Doing so essentially does the same ting as playing with the mvps hosts files on Windows (according to my understanding). I was wondering if you or anyone else knows of a good sample /etc/hosts file with a list of common sites to block…

So my understanding is that Ubuntu will be moving away from GNOME in version 11. As such, I'm testing Mint out right now and I have to say that its interface is very slick.

There was another famous case (I don't have the name because I don't have my antitrust book with me) where a railroad built a bridge over the only passable point on a river and then charged other railroads tremendously high prices for using it (to drive them out of that market). The courts found that practice illegal…

Actually, I think Apple's move might be illegal. App subscriptions might actually count as "aftermarket products" for iDevices. In the 1993 Supreme Court Case Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc, the suppliers of maintenance parts and service for Kodak industrial photocopiers won after Kodak tried to…

Google may be king of general search, but wolfram is one of the most helpful tools I've ever encountered. I use it all the time for checking my math and statistics homework. While it's not helpful for doing proofs and the like, the fact that it can compute things triple integrals, curl and divergence, or even change…

Google may be king of general search, but wolfram is one of the most helpful tools I've ever encountered. I use it all the time for checking my math and statistics homework. While it's not helpful for doing proofs and the like, the fact that it can compute things triple integrals, curl and divergence, or even change…

Google may be king of general search, but wolfram is one of the most helpful tools I've ever encountered. I use it all the time for checking my math and statistics homework. While it's not helpful for doing proofs and the like, the fact that it can compute things triple integrals, curl and divergence, or even change…

Google may be king of general search, but wolfram is one of the most helpful tools I've ever encountered. I use it all the time for checking my math and statistics homework. While it's not helpful for doing proofs and the like, the fact that it can compute things triple integrals, curl and divergence, or even change…

Very cool. I need to replace my aging Ubuntu box and this should be very helpful.

@PrairieMoon: I wondered the same thing.

@lamintak: Aside from Quicksilver, a lot of must-have applications for me are cross-platform. Here's a quick list:

@CamJN: I find that Quicksilver brings up my desired entries much more quickly than Spotlight. It also appears in the middle of the screen which, for me, is more natural for selecting a program than looking to the corner like Spotlight requires.

"On the other hand, people washed their clothes by hand back then, costing almost nothing."

@rebeldevil: I think the Postal Service has really tried hard to clean up its image lately; that said, I've still had problems with them losing important packages and the like. It might depend on where you live too.

This sort of thing has been happening for a long time. In economics classes they explain that companies "sell" attention spans as a way to combat market inefficiencies arsing from the "problem of information."

What's the general feeling here on Linux Mint vs. Ubuntu as far as system resources go? I use Ubuntu 10.10 on an older system (2GB RAM, 3GHz Pentium 4 processor), but I wonder if Mint might be easier on the system. I notice that Ubuntu frequently takes up almost all of my processor power even when I'm running only…

@joshmchau: I love your dark icon pack. Is there any chance you'd be willing to share it with the rest of us via a download?

@John: That's some very nice work you have there. My only question is did you make icons like that for every application you use? Otherwise, when you open something that's not on your dock wouldn't the traditional icon clash with your other icons?