Lifehacker just doesn't seem to cater to the Linux crowd as much anymore.

Interesting thought, but I don't think that was the intent, based on the context. As stated in the body itself: "As many as 78 airports across the US will no longer display an image of travelers in the nude."

I open the box and a RAM sink and a MOSFET fall out. Needless to say, I didn't bother plugging it in.

"Traveler" is perfectly correct in the USA, but "Traveller" is correct I think basically everywhere else. Something like that.

Pedant alert: title should be "Fewer Nude Scanners"

You don't get to that point without making mistakes along the way as you learn, though.

Replying to approve here. (Why is this still necessary, Gawker?)

Nice to know, thanks. BFG was the only one I knew of, though that could be because I've (almost) never needed the warranty on my cards. I've had pretty good luck with them.

It's kind of shady, honestly; they almost always mean far, far less than what a "lifetime" warranty implies to the consumer. With some, "lifetime warranty" means as long as it's expected to function or be used, while others use it as "length of time it's being sold", so if they stop shipping new ones its lifetime is…

'at the least' lifetime warranty for something that's going to be deprecated in a decade, and most likely replaced in about 3 years by many-a-gamer seems a bit... overkill.

Gui:Config is an add-on for Firefox that gives all of the About:config options proper check-boxes and drop-down menus

Just an FYI: the html used for that list is really screwed up. It's a bunch of nested <ul> tags, with a new list inside the previous list's <li> tag. The page seems to hide the problem, but it's very noticeable in the RSS feeds. The summary one only shows the first question, and the full-article feed shows the…

Ew, I hate the in-browser access. I'd rather user Kopete (or, in windows, Pidgin) and have a native client for it. Especially awesome because I can manage multiple accounts that way.

Encryption won't help unless you never decrypt the data, which would be pointless. If you mark the files read-only it might prevent infecting the binaries but that's not foolproof, the files could be marked writable again.

Exactly. I love Gmail for Labs and because all my friends are on Gtalk

Perhaps WINE will work for some of them too - That seems to be were all the WINE development effort goes, towards games, not office productivity apps.

Deus Ex missed the '90s by six months, but it's one you should play if you haven't. One of the best video games made, in my opinion. It's a hybrid FPS/RPG with a good story, excellent research by the writers, every conspiracy theory you can imagine in a single game, skill system to make your playthrough unique, and…

Yes, yes, yes, YES! Adding more people just invites interruptions, conversations, questions, and annoyances. Some people are easy to work around, but most aren't. Somebody always wants to talk about something, and it completely breaks my concentration.

If you take the personal wiki route TheFu suggested, another one to use is Zim. It's basically a wiki-fied notepad.

If you haven't already, try hitting enter or some other keys on the keyboard at the black screen. Depending on power management settings, your system may be blanking and then locking the display before going into standby. It's a security feature so somebody can't play around on your account if you walk off. If…