codfrantic

Beautiful read! Reminds me of last years Toyota with a similar 'issue' ;-)

Indeed XFCE is a new option. It used to be only MaTe or Cinnamon desktop environments.

Nothing wrong specifically with Mint Cinnamon the only thing I can remember bugging me was the mintMenu being slow to show up after clicking it. I do enjoy messing with a different OS every now and then, XUbuntu actually stuck for quite a while, might be going back to it too, but I installed Mint XFCE yesterday (after trying ElementaryOS for a little bit) and it seems to run quite nicely on my AMD-E450 APU 11,6 inch net(ish)book

Now that you mention it I remember that the mirroring was done to hide a gap in the racks on the right!

Most of these pictures have been online for a while, I specifically remember that this[⊗] one was photoshopped because the machines in the racks left and right are mirror images of one another...

[⊗]https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/23

I swapped Ubuntu for Mint Cinnamon,

Mint Cinnamon for Xubuntu.

Maybe Mint with XFCE is what I really want :P Will try it for sure :)

Netherlands here, no such thing in public schools, friends of mine who went to Catholic schools do mention morning prayers, I'm still thankful my parents sent me to a public school!

page 2 and 3 is 98% screenshots ;-)

Try again, I'm using my HP Minilaptop with AMD components on (X)ubuntu or Linux Mint, 32 inch samsung is detected better in Linux then it is in Windows. (automatically runs it Full HD compared to Windows' 1366x768 )

Do VW and Audi cars have the name of being unreliable in the US? Can't imagine that really..

Indeed, updated my comment to be more accurate :)

Most of europe, especially VAG[π] cars are turbocharged, either TDI for basically all Diesels and more and more (T)FSI gasoline powered cars.

Also look at the Audi R10 TDI [φ]

[π] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group

[φ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_R10_TDI

NSFW tag maybe

;-)

There was a story on Ars[potato] about a small team a couple of weeks ago, they bring their servers with them (for this team only a couple in a half size rack) So I'm guessing they're doing the calculations they need during the race locally...

[potato] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/galler...

Judging by your name,

http://www.bitonic.nl/

iDeal...

I was a passenger sitting in the co-pilot's seat on a small plane in Africa, the pilot was texting during the flight even at 10,000 feet ^_^.

Is that Steve Ballmer?!

I was hoping it was at least javascript...

Here in the Netherlands XS4ALL provides me with a AVM Fritzbox 7390 on my fiber connection (100/100 $75), quite a nice piece of kit ($311,- retail if I look it up today)

Didn't come across as arrogant to me, excellent choice of music in the screenshot too... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOSxM0rNPM)

I lol'ed at 'sync'. My girlfriend also introduced it for the amazing health benefits, she decided to taste it before mixing it in the salad... it tastes of nothing and has the texture of (what I imagine) kitty litter. I must say when mixed in the salad it was not bad, but CousCous would have been an excellent alternative...

An admin in a research lab where I was an intern had used negative emotions as a naming scheme. Anger Despair Fear etc. until someone on his day off created a machine called 'lol'. I think I noticed all the previous hostnames in his face when he found out about that one...

My old department at the UvA did the same in the past, new sysadmin changed it to European capitol cities. (I'll never lose muscle memory for typing sandshrew and farfetch.) Come to think of it, the DNS server should've been called PokeDex...

(btw, the mail infra consisted only of carebears... I'm looking at YOU J.P.!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00-c-bk4U0 Who wouldn't love to do this?! Louis C.K. ^_^

I remember walking past the US Embassy in Geneva, there is one location, clearly marked in front of the building from where you are allowed to take a picture. I didn't bother...

"One of Google’s goals in Africa is to make the internet more locally relevant and bring more people online. One of the challenges of the internet in Africa is that there is a lack of local content online. At Google, we find that users search for information about local businesses, entertainment, health, etc but often don’t find it because the information is not yet available online. In order to help bring more local content online, Google engineers have created Baraza to allow people in countries across Africa to ask questions and post answers to questions from others."

http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=3084c339e2379cf8