I just installed Arch on my laptop as I was upgrading to Win 8. I dual boot with it using the Win 8 bootloader (instead of GRUB). Took a bit more reading and a few trials, but got it up and running now and loving it!

With all these photos everyone has... I was wondering what kind of folder hierarchy you have to help organize the photos best. What works best for you?

Over on Arch Linux's forums, they have a thread for conky configs and screenshots. I've seen some extremely pretty and cool desktops. There are always the ones over the top, but for the most part people include the config files for them.

I would say that this looks a bit like SIW http://www.gtopala.com/ or a GUI'd version of rainmeter (or any other system information type application) with quick and easy links to update/perform maintenance like CC cleaner. It does look fairly pretty though...

For more information on SSDs (that's not just a quick dictionary lookup).. Ars did a good piece on how they work

Bluetooth could be included and maybe how it differs from wireless (802.11).

I second DuckDuckGo!

I know that the preview had been available for awhile, but is there going to be a way for people to try Windows 8 now before actually paying for the new version?

1. I had never thought of naming my devices like this. They are always a nickname followed by the machine name/device type... not very clever.

I realize this is a day late to the article, but was wondering what kind of protection enabling SYSKEY on a windows machine provides? Can you still recover items in a similar way? I tried using ophcrack on my system but was unable to crack the passwords, even when I changed my password to 'password' (although that…

An article I read from ArsTechnica a few months ago is pretty relevant to this as well. http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/automated-robbery-how-card-skimmers-still-steal-millions-from-banks/

Hi Roger, I try and stick to a good diet and fairly reasonable proportions, but sometimes during the work day (where I sit at a desk all day), I get pretty hungry and sometime munch on whatever I can find (which tends to usually be candy or something someone left as a treat in the breakroom, which is usually cookies…

I use a Pogoplug as well and haven't been disappointed. I don't use FreeNAS but ArchLinuxARM instead http://archlinuxarm.org/ and have since used Samba services to share all folders and FTP server as well. It's quite handy and is very low power and quiet.

Now that's what I'm talking about.. something I could use. Awesome wallpaper

This is a really cool app, I'm enjoying it already. I was experimenting with it and noticed a bug already with inputting due dates. It has to be a specific format (unlike what the explain screen tells you). I'm sure they'll get it fixed, but that's the only issue I see currently... other than that, pretty simple and…

I always figured rocks and a bat would do nicely. I've never really given it much thought, though.

I realize this is article is a few days old, but I just wanted to second this. I gave this a shot this past weekend following this tutorial http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray and it worked perfectly.

#corrections The title should read...

I think this is one of the most useful comments as most other commenters are making statements of "starting a fire when it's so dry out" or "why not just drive away."

I got stuck reading a ton of Wired articles similar to this one and that led me on a trail of endless reading eventually leading me to that exact article (I think there's a phrase for that)... very interesting.