No, a REAL real geek would get a Tyan Thunder K8QW with the M881 expansion board for a total of 8 sockets, populated with 8 dual core procs for a happy grand total of 16 processor cores! [droooool].
This of course assumes that the real-real geek is also independantly wealthy.
Uh.. 20 years ago, you probably had it. My VIC-20 took less than a second from powerup to the READY prompt. My Amiga 500 was slower, but still a lot faster than anything modern. My Amiga 3000 was even slower, because I had it do more. My 5-year-old Linux boxes are even slower to boot than that.
Computers just keep getting slower. I'm afraid to see how slow a new dual-Opteron machine is.
I've noticed that over the years, especially with servers. I've always said that: " The faster the server, the longer it takes to boot. Eventually we'll have a server thats so fast it will never finish booting.". Of course if Intel succeeds with this and gets it into production, perhaps I'll have to stop saying that.:)
So am I the only person who caught the phrase "virtually scratch resistant" in the article? Which sounds to me like it can ALMOST resist scratches, but not quite, so be careful!
Maybe they could have said 'virtually scratch-proof'. That would be something to be proud of.
As for the iPod nano, it sounds like it's screen is already 'virtually scratch resistant'.
Am I the only one who thought the headline meant that the government had used eminent domain to take some poor slob's IP address? I thought, how the heck could they use an IP address 'for the public good'??:)
[...]the point is simply that terrorism is not an easy situation to deal with, and all of the "you can't give up freedom to gain security" idealists are just completely missing the whole point: terrorism is real, and it has people concerned, and they're just doing their best. criticize constructively [...] so why some of you think it is more important to question the motivations of western authorities and not criticize terrorist's motivations instead is beyond me. do i trust the autorities with my freedoms? no. but i know they aren't the threat to me right now. i simply don't understand people who see more menace in western authorities than in terrorist's actions. and judging by who bears the brunt of the criticism after a terrorist action, you know exactly what i am talking about. how about criticizing the terrorists? i know, strange concept.
No, terrorism is not an easy situation to deal with certainly. The biggest problem I have is that our government [USA] is doing EXACTLY what the terrorists want!!! The terrorists primary goal is not to kill people. That's simply the method they employ to meet their real goal which is to sow fear, reduce our freedoms and get us to stop manipulating their governments. Now obviously they have failed miserably on the third part of that goal. We are sticking our noses in their business more than ever. I won't get into the discussion of whether or not we should be doing that since it's a complicated issue.
The first two parts of that goal however, sowing fear and reducing our freedoms, are going exactly as they planned. People are afraid of terrorists; in spite of the fact that your more likely to die in a car accident or get hit by lightening. And to some degree it's fine to be afraid. I certainly don't want to die because of a terrorist. However, more important than that fear is our freedoms. We as a country are allowing that fear to rule us. I haven't given up driving because I'm afraid to die in a car accident. I don't avoid elevators or hide in my home because I'm afraid of falling to my death or getting hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk. Why should we then hide behind the "Patriot Act" or other senseless erosions of our freedom?
The terrorist have succeeded. We are now less free than we were before September 11, 2001. This is what they wanted and we have handed them a victory on a silver platter. Osama bin Laden once said that oil should be $100/barrel. One of his goals was to affect our economy and raise oil prices. Well I think he's succeeded. Even without the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, oil was up to $60/barrel. Well on its way to $100. Because of his instigation, we have gone into to two wars, which thanks to Bush's incompetence have driven us to record defecits, which in the long run is never good for the economy.
Now I'm not saying we shouldn't be going after terrorists, but we don't need to erode our freedoms to do so.
I say again: The terrorists have already won! Even if we hunt them down and destoy them [and we know they don't mind dying for their cause], they have succeeded in their mission. We are less free.
Signed, Ashamed of our new America
PS. I think one of the most important things we can do against terrorism, and against foreign dictators is to keep our freedoms. Stop trying to bully other countries into acting how we want them to act. We need to be strong in our freedom so that we can server as a shining example of the strength of democracy and freedom. Yes we will lose some people to terrorism. But eventually the people of the world will see that their attacks do not make us afraid and do not make us less free. The time will come when they realize that if they want to be happy and free, then will need to follow our example. If we continually try to bully them it just makes them more and more angry at us.
So basically what I got out of that article is that the performance of all three boards using default settings were almost exactly the same, and that unless I'm using Microsoft Movie Maker, a 2.4Ghz Athlon64 kicks the crap out of the 3.6Ghz P4 Systems with this new chipset.
Yup, I for one am glad that I went with an Athlon 64 over a P4.
About the only thing I really miss from another distribution is the rc-update tool from Gentoo. No other distribution seems to use this, and it is, IMO, leaps and bounds ahead of any other linux init script setup.
Hmm... I'm not terribly familiar with the way Gentoo does things, but taking a quick look at rc-update on the Wiki, it seems like what you're looking for in Ubuntu/Debian is update-rc.d. Perhaps the syntax is slightly more annoying but it isn't really difficult. ie. update-rc.d -f scriptname remove or update-rc.d defaults scriptname
Interesting. AVG is the only AV software I've found that doesn't slow my machines to a crawl. I briefly had AVG-Free on our receptionists computer because it was too old and slow [P2-400] to run our company's official client [McAfee]. We finally got her a new computer so it got McAfee. It sucked. It was originally set to scan zip and encoded files. It made Thunderbird take like 2 minutes to open any emails [even without attachments]. AVG was set to scan open archives as well, but it never had a problem...
So for me, when I'm forced to used Windows, I'll stick with AVG. It was the only AV software I was willing to pay for to use on my wife's business computer.
But in the long run nobody really cares where there big mac patty comes from. It could be from range cattle or a factory in Detroit just so long as it tastes good.
I'd like to state that this argument falls flat because Big Mac patties have never tasted good.:) So obviously people don't even care if it tastes good.
Maybe some people think the 'Big Mac' itself tastes good with all the other crap they put on it, but as someone who just gets a hamburger plain [I put a bit of Ketchup on it only], when you can taste the 'meat' itself, McD's burgers taste like crap. I prefer a fresh, home-made burger any day. If I must eat a fastfood burger, at least Wendy's [and to a lesser extent Burger King] burgers taste like they were actually made from a reasonable cut of beef. [Even if they are a bit salty some days. Mmmm....sodium...]
I mean, geez who's still buying 40 GB drives and those were only a couple years ago, right? People upgrade their systems on average every 18 months, no? (and I include businesses in on that figure)
5 years? That's an eternity and probably a very, very safe bet.
Expecting anyone to actually keep records of their computer part purchases over on year (let alone 5 minutes after the drive was pulled from it's carton) is another study I'd like to see.
Actually, I've used this in the past as a free upgrade. I've had a drive die after several years and when I RMA'd it, they no longer had inventory of that model. As a result I was sent a higher-capacity HD as a replacement. Very nice.
And you don't need to keep your receipt. The drive manufacturers all have records of the SN of your HD and when it was made [and often when it was sold]. You have only to enter the SN into their website or RMA phone service and they will tell you if the drive is still in warranty. At least I assume they all do. I know from experience that Seagate, IBM and Hitatchi all do this. I can't imagine that WD and Maxtor don't as well.
The only hard drive that's ever failed me in 17 years of building PCs was an IBM Desktar 70Gb. It started getting write failures when it reached about 50% capacity.
There's a reason those drives were called "Deathstars". I worked for a hosting company. We had 3000+ servers most of which had those IBM drives [40-80GB mostly]. The failure rate on those drives was just obscene. The other brands didn't fail nearly as much [taking into account the proportion of how many were used].
With that said, every drive manufacturer has their good models and bad models. My earliest HD's were a pair of 5.25" 40MB Seagate MFM HD's I got with a 286. They lasted for-freekin-ever. I was still using them with a P200MMX. Then for awhile WD's were the good quality drive while Seagate's were crap for awhile. Then WD's quality dropped and Seagate was ok [though not great]. Maxtor has had it's ups and downs, etc. So I don't bother to carry a long-time grudge with a HD manufacturer because I know that there's a good chance that future models from them will be great products while future models from a currently great manuf. will be crap.
i think i will enjoy my extra hour of daylight for another 4 weeks a year. I don't give a shit about daylight in the morning, only the daylight remaining after I'm done with work. It's not about energy, its about maximizing useful daylight time for most of the population.
Then how about you go to bed an hour earlier, then get up an hour earlier, then go to work an hour earlier, then go home an hour earlier. Same daylight savings without the hassle of screwing with the way all our technology deals with time.
Maybe it's just me, but legislating a technical change to bring about a non-solution to a problem which is really based in peoples laziness just seems like a waste of tax-payer and consumer money. I wouldn't surprised if this was all just a way to get us to be more active in the hottest part of the day in order to maximize our power usage [AC's] to fill the coffers of the Republican's buddy-buddy oil/power companies. I'm fairly sure the increased use of AC during the day will far outweigh the decrease in power used for lighting. [Cold climate areas excepted of course]
And as for actual energy savings: I go to other peoples houses and constantly see lights left on all DAY, and people falling asleep with the TV on. You want to help save electricity? Buy florescent bulbs, turn out the light when you leave the room, and don't fall asleep with the TV on [they come with timers now you know]. How difficult is all that really?
Lobbyists are hired by people who give a shit enough about something to pay to have their opinions heard. Anyone is free to donate to an organization which will do it for them. Those who care enough about something to do something about it, _deserve_ to be heard more loudly than someone who just wants to bitch about something and not do anything about it.
Unfortunately the end result of this is that the rich are much better represented than the poor, when it's really the poor that need the representation.
Not that there's an easy way to fix it of course, but it certainly sucks for those who can't afford to pay to have their voice heard.
I myself recently wrote my Senator regarding the FCC Broadcast flag. I'm not poor, but neither can I afford to spend money on the political issues I believe in. The response I got was basically "Yeah, I got your letter but I'm voting this way because it's better for the media companies." Naturally the media companies have billions of dollars to spend on lobbyists, but those of us who could be hurt by this legislation do not.
Do I think lobbying is bad? No not really, but they way it currently functions certainly is.
In this case the man parked outside a residence to use thier open wireless and acted furtively when approached.
And dammit, acting furtively is illegal in this country!!! He's lucky they don't throw him in the clink for LIFE for acting furtively. Only terrorists act furtively! [/sarcasm]
It seems to be getting that bad lately.
Anyway, in my opinion the owner of the AP should be responsible for securing it. As several people have mentioned, the guys laptop sent a packet asking if it was ok to connect and asking for a temporary network address. The AP responded that it was ok and gave him and address. That sounds like giving permission to me. WEP may be chock full 'o holes, but it at least responds that you don't have permission and requires a deliberate attempt to circumvent.
No WEP = permission to access WEP = no permission to access
I don't see why people have so much trouble with that concept. No pointless and inaccurate analogies required.
Ok I'm sold! I already thought it was a good idea, but the best part is, if you are worried about the stability of an OpenID server [and want your personal URL] it is convenient even if you don't have the ability to run your own OpenID server! You can just DELEGATE! Enter your personal URL, but it will do the actual identification from whatever OpenID server you point it to [say livejournal]. That way, if LJ [or your chosen OpenID server] goes away, you simply change your delegation to point to another OpenID server [where you will need an account of course], but you will still have your own URL as your identity. You don't have to change it just because your OpenID server doesn't exist anymore. Very nice!
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Also, unlike Windows, there is no problem with crappy closed formats and crappy design paradigms..
Actually, there *is* a problem with crappy closed formats. The problem is that so many other people USE those crappy closed formats that either don't work at all in Linux [some video formats, many commercial software packages], or that almost work but often come out slightly incompatible [I've had problems with fairly simple Word documents such as resume's not being saved properly in Word so it comes out looking odd when opened in Word]. And lets not forget the fact that many closed formats that actually work in Linux only do so in a way that is illegal [in the US and often other countries].
For me these problems aren't that big a deal for my home machine. But for work [where I'd LOVE to use Linux] it just isn't feasible.
Well that sucks. I have one of those cards. I've had it for years though I don't really use it much. I think everyone who had one should get a say in how that money is spent.
As for sustainability, if everyone on slashdot got one of these cards and started using it, it would probably be sustainable. I think the card just wasn't well advertised enough so not enough people signed up for it.
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No, a REAL real geek would get a Tyan Thunder K8QW with the M881 expansion board for a total of 8 sockets, populated with 8 dual core procs for a happy grand total of 16 processor cores! [droooool].
This of course assumes that the real-real geek is also independantly wealthy.
Uh.. 20 years ago, you probably had it. My VIC-20 took less than a second from powerup to the READY prompt. My Amiga 500 was slower, but still a lot faster than anything modern. My Amiga 3000 was even slower, because I had it do more. My 5-year-old Linux boxes are even slower to boot than that.
:)
Computers just keep getting slower. I'm afraid to see how slow a new dual-Opteron machine is.
I've noticed that over the years, especially with servers. I've always said that: "
The faster the server, the longer it takes to boot. Eventually we'll have a server thats so fast it will never finish booting.". Of course if Intel succeeds with this and gets it into production, perhaps I'll have to stop saying that.
Ender-
So am I the only person who caught the phrase "virtually scratch resistant" in the article? Which sounds to me like it can ALMOST resist scratches, but not quite, so be careful!
Maybe they could have said 'virtually scratch-proof'. That would be something to be proud of.
As for the iPod nano, it sounds like it's screen is already 'virtually scratch resistant'.
No more rhymes now, I mean it. ...
Anybody want a peanut?
Am I the only one who thought the headline meant that the government had used eminent domain to take some poor slob's IP address? I thought, how the heck could they use an IP address 'for the public good'?? :)
[...]the point is simply that terrorism is not an easy situation to deal with, and all of the "you can't give up freedom to gain security" idealists are just completely missing the whole point: terrorism is real, and it has people concerned, and they're just doing their best. criticize constructively [...] so why some of you think it is more important to question the motivations of western authorities and not criticize terrorist's motivations instead is beyond me. do i trust the autorities with my freedoms? no. but i know they aren't the threat to me right now. i simply don't understand people who see more menace in western authorities than in terrorist's actions. and judging by who bears the brunt of the criticism after a terrorist action, you know exactly what i am talking about. how about criticizing the terrorists? i know, strange concept.
No, terrorism is not an easy situation to deal with certainly. The biggest problem I have is that our government [USA] is doing EXACTLY what the terrorists want!!! The terrorists primary goal is not to kill people. That's simply the method they employ to meet their real goal which is to sow fear, reduce our freedoms and get us to stop manipulating their governments. Now obviously they have failed miserably on the third part of that goal. We are sticking our noses in their business more than ever. I won't get into the discussion of whether or not we should be doing that since it's a complicated issue.
The first two parts of that goal however, sowing fear and reducing our freedoms, are going exactly as they planned. People are afraid of terrorists; in spite of the fact that your more likely to die in a car accident or get hit by lightening. And to some degree it's fine to be afraid. I certainly don't want to die because of a terrorist. However, more important than that fear is our freedoms. We as a country are allowing that fear to rule us. I haven't given up driving because I'm afraid to die in a car accident. I don't avoid elevators or hide in my home because I'm afraid of falling to my death or getting hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk. Why should we then hide behind the "Patriot Act" or other senseless erosions of our freedom?
The terrorist have succeeded. We are now less free than we were before September 11, 2001. This is what they wanted and we have handed them a victory on a silver platter. Osama bin Laden once said that oil should be $100/barrel. One of his goals was to affect our economy and raise oil prices. Well I think he's succeeded. Even without the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, oil was up to $60/barrel. Well on its way to $100. Because of his instigation, we have gone into to two wars, which thanks to Bush's incompetence have driven us to record defecits, which in the long run is never good for the economy.
Now I'm not saying we shouldn't be going after terrorists, but we don't need to erode our freedoms to do so.
I say again: The terrorists have already won! Even if we hunt them down and destoy them [and we know they don't mind dying for their cause], they have succeeded in their mission. We are less free.
Signed,
Ashamed of our new America
PS. I think one of the most important things we can do against terrorism, and against foreign dictators is to keep our freedoms. Stop trying to bully other countries into acting how we want them to act. We need to be strong in our freedom so that we can server as a shining example of the strength of democracy and freedom. Yes we will lose some people to terrorism. But eventually the people of the world will see that their attacks do not make us afraid and do not make us less free. The time will come when they realize that if they want to be happy and free, then will need to follow our example. If we continually try to bully them it just makes them more and more angry at us.
So basically what I got out of that article is that the performance of all three boards using default settings were almost exactly the same, and that unless I'm using Microsoft Movie Maker, a 2.4Ghz Athlon64 kicks the crap out of the 3.6Ghz P4 Systems with this new chipset.
Yup, I for one am glad that I went with an Athlon 64 over a P4.
If $100 Million dollars won't make you want to switch to Vista, what will?"
A frontal lobotomy?
From about 1942 there was a small but very couragious Danish resistance that was able to get most yews out of the country, mainly to Sweden.
:)
Well that's comforting. I'd hate to think of the damage to the Yew population had they not been evacuated to Sweden.
Sorry I just had to.
A credit union I worked for used HP/UX...
About the only thing I really miss from another distribution is the rc-update tool from Gentoo. No other distribution seems to use this, and it is, IMO, leaps and bounds ahead of any other linux init script setup.
Hmm... I'm not terribly familiar with the way Gentoo does things, but taking a quick look at rc-update on the Wiki, it seems like what you're looking for in Ubuntu/Debian is update-rc.d. Perhaps the syntax is slightly more annoying but it isn't really difficult.
ie.
update-rc.d -f scriptname remove
or
update-rc.d defaults scriptname
Hope that helps.
Interesting. AVG is the only AV software I've found that doesn't slow my machines to a crawl.
I briefly had AVG-Free on our receptionists computer because it was too old and slow [P2-400] to run our company's official client [McAfee]. We finally got her a new computer so it got McAfee. It sucked. It was originally set to scan zip and encoded files. It made Thunderbird take like 2 minutes to open any emails [even without attachments]. AVG was set to scan open archives as well, but it never had a problem...
So for me, when I'm forced to used Windows, I'll stick with AVG. It was the only AV software I was willing to pay for to use on my wife's business computer.
And for $10,000 total I'll buy a sport-bike that will smoke all of them.
What's your point?
But in the long run nobody really cares where there big mac patty comes from. It could be from range cattle or a factory in Detroit just so long as it tastes good.
:) So obviously people don't even care if it tastes good.
I'd like to state that this argument falls flat because Big Mac patties have never tasted good.
Maybe some people think the 'Big Mac' itself tastes good with all the other crap they put on it, but as someone who just gets a hamburger plain [I put a bit of Ketchup on it only], when you can taste the 'meat' itself, McD's burgers taste like crap.
I prefer a fresh, home-made burger any day. If I must eat a fastfood burger, at least Wendy's [and to a lesser extent Burger King] burgers taste like they were actually made from a reasonable cut of beef. [Even if they are a bit salty some days. Mmmm....sodium...]
I mean, geez who's still buying 40 GB drives and those were only a couple years ago, right? People upgrade their systems on average every 18 months, no? (and I include businesses in on that figure)
5 years? That's an eternity and probably a very, very safe bet.
Expecting anyone to actually keep records of their computer part purchases over on year (let alone 5 minutes after the drive was pulled from it's carton) is another study I'd like to see.
Actually, I've used this in the past as a free upgrade. I've had a drive die after several years and when I RMA'd it, they no longer had inventory of that model. As a result I was sent a higher-capacity HD as a replacement. Very nice.
And you don't need to keep your receipt. The drive manufacturers all have records of the SN of your HD and when it was made [and often when it was sold]. You have only to enter the SN into their website or RMA phone service and they will tell you if the drive is still in warranty. At least I assume they all do. I know from experience that Seagate, IBM and Hitatchi all do this. I can't imagine that WD and Maxtor don't as well.
The only hard drive that's ever failed me in 17 years of building PCs was an IBM Desktar 70Gb. It started getting write failures when it reached about 50% capacity.
There's a reason those drives were called "Deathstars". I worked for a hosting company. We had 3000+ servers most of which had those IBM drives [40-80GB mostly]. The failure rate on those drives was just obscene. The other brands didn't fail nearly as much [taking into account the proportion of how many were used].
With that said, every drive manufacturer has their good models and bad models. My earliest HD's were a pair of 5.25" 40MB Seagate MFM HD's I got with a 286. They lasted for-freekin-ever. I was still using them with a P200MMX.
Then for awhile WD's were the good quality drive while Seagate's were crap for awhile. Then WD's quality dropped and Seagate was ok [though not great]. Maxtor has had it's ups and downs, etc. So I don't bother to carry a long-time grudge with a HD manufacturer because I know that there's a good chance that future models from them will be great products while future models from a currently great manuf. will be crap.
i think i will enjoy my extra hour of daylight for another 4 weeks a year. I don't give a shit about daylight in the morning, only the daylight remaining after I'm done with work. It's not about energy, its about maximizing useful daylight time for most of the population.
Then how about you go to bed an hour earlier, then get up an hour earlier, then go to work an hour earlier, then go home an hour earlier. Same daylight savings without the hassle of screwing with the way all our technology deals with time.
Maybe it's just me, but legislating a technical change to bring about a non-solution to a problem which is really based in peoples laziness just seems like a waste of tax-payer and consumer money. I wouldn't surprised if this was all just a way to get us to be more active in the hottest part of the day in order to maximize our power usage [AC's] to fill the coffers of the Republican's buddy-buddy oil/power companies. I'm fairly sure the increased use of AC during the day will far outweigh the decrease in power used for lighting. [Cold climate areas excepted of course]
And as for actual energy savings: I go to other peoples houses and constantly see lights left on all DAY, and people falling asleep with the TV on. You want to help save electricity? Buy florescent bulbs, turn out the light when you leave the room, and don't fall asleep with the TV on [they come with timers now you know]. How difficult is all that really?
Lobbyists are hired by people who give a shit enough about something to pay to have their opinions heard. Anyone is free to donate to an organization which will do it for them. Those who care enough about something to do something about it, _deserve_ to be heard more loudly than someone who just wants to bitch about something and not do anything about it.
//not the original AC poster.
Unfortunately the end result of this is that the rich are much better represented than the poor, when it's really the poor that need the representation.
Not that there's an easy way to fix it of course, but it certainly sucks for those who can't afford to pay to have their voice heard.
I myself recently wrote my Senator regarding the FCC Broadcast flag. I'm not poor, but neither can I afford to spend money on the political issues I believe in. The response I got was basically "Yeah, I got your letter but I'm voting this way because it's better for the media companies."
Naturally the media companies have billions of dollars to spend on lobbyists, but those of us who could be hurt by this legislation do not.
Do I think lobbying is bad? No not really, but they way it currently functions certainly is.
Ender-
What, nobody mentioned Summoner Geeks?.
:(
"Roll to see if I get laid!!!"
Sorry for the ifilm link. I used to have a slashdot-proof server to host videos on, but I no longer work there.
And in case YOU don't know anything about the subject, here's the tip:
There are precompiled Debian apps for more than just x86.
I look like a retard on the pictures.
:)
Don't worry. Everybody looks like a retard in rollercoaster pictures...
In this case the man parked outside a residence to use thier open wireless and acted furtively when approached.
And dammit, acting furtively is illegal in this country!!! He's lucky they don't throw him in the clink for LIFE for acting furtively. Only terrorists act furtively! [/sarcasm]
It seems to be getting that bad lately.
Anyway, in my opinion the owner of the AP should be responsible for securing it. As several people have mentioned, the guys laptop sent a packet asking if it was ok to connect and asking for a temporary network address. The AP responded that it was ok and gave him and address. That sounds like giving permission to me. WEP may be chock full 'o holes, but it at least responds that you don't have permission and requires a deliberate attempt to circumvent.
No WEP = permission to access
WEP = no permission to access
I don't see why people have so much trouble with that concept. No pointless and inaccurate analogies required.
Ok I'm sold! I already thought it was a good idea, but the best part is, if you are worried about the stability of an OpenID server [and want your personal URL] it is convenient even if you don't have the ability to run your own OpenID server! You can just DELEGATE! Enter your personal URL, but it will do the actual identification from whatever OpenID server you point it to [say livejournal]. That way, if LJ [or your chosen OpenID server] goes away, you simply change your delegation to point to another OpenID server [where you will need an account of course], but you will still have your own URL as your identity. You don't have to change it just because your OpenID server doesn't exist anymore. Very nice!
Also, unlike Windows, there is no problem with crappy closed formats and crappy design paradigms..
Actually, there *is* a problem with crappy closed formats. The problem is that so many other people USE those crappy closed formats that either don't work at all in Linux [some video formats, many commercial software packages], or that almost work but often come out slightly incompatible [I've had problems with fairly simple Word documents such as resume's not being saved properly in Word so it comes out looking odd when opened in Word].
And lets not forget the fact that many closed formats that actually work in Linux only do so in a way that is illegal [in the US and often other countries].
For me these problems aren't that big a deal for my home machine. But for work [where I'd LOVE to use Linux] it just isn't feasible.
Well that sucks. I have one of those cards. I've had it for years though I don't really use it much. I think everyone who had one should get a say in how that money is spent.
As for sustainability, if everyone on slashdot got one of these cards and started using it, it would probably be sustainable. I think the card just wasn't well advertised enough so not enough people signed up for it.