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How would it be a worse design decision to have the default behaviour as it is today, but a way to toggle it in the system settings?

Already answered here.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3501713&cid=43043993

TL;DR version: Putting options to delegate decisions to users often sound fine in isolation. But if you include them all, you end up with a horrible mess of an options UI, that most people don't understand or get lost in. For an extreme, have you ever looked as Azureus options?

http://turbo.paulstamatiou.com/uploads/2005/10/azureus_pt3_3large.jpg

And it's not 70%. It's 99%. In 99 cases out of 100, closing the laptop lid means "I've done with it for now. You can conserve power."

In most of the remaining 1% of cases too. As a developer wanting your laptop to compile in your backpack as you go, you're not even a rounding error. Even amongst developers.

Obligatory: http://turbo.paulstamatiou.com/uploads/2007/03/outpost_firewall_review1.jpg

Instructions for putting the date in the menu bar here, here, or here.

http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/03/02/intel-mac-mini -is-upgradable/

I don't actually keep track, but I think the only things that aren't socketed are the laptops.

Google really is a useful thing. The tool you want is called "update-alternatives". See the comment about Azureus here: http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/10/24/how-to-ubu ntu-linux-for-novices/

Google really is a useful thing. The tool you want is called "update-alternatives". See the comment about Azureus here: http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/10/24/how-to-ubu ntu-linux-for-novices/

XP has been working on Core Duo Apples for a while. Slashdot just didn't accept the story.

http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2006/01/29/mactel-xp- dual-boot-solution/