I really appreciate how much easier on the eyes (and the brain attached thereto) pipedot is than so many other sites.

If the letters/numbers/symbols/this-stuff-I'm-typing-right-here that make up the summaries and comments were just a little larger (without me having to do anything other than load the page), I think I'd like that a little better. The size used in titles and sidebars and such is okay as-is.

But deleting *all* insults means making an editorial judgement on what is and what isn't an insult, so the supposed neutrality of it could be questioned.

...that he was trying to be tongue in cheek about there being nothing to complain about, which isn't always the case with GUIs (especially if they're from MS).

That it uses PCMan has me interested in trying it.

...but AOL was pretty smart to get itself acquired by Time-Warner, thus turning temporarily hot stock into something with a lot more long term value.

Of course Time-Warner were idiots for going through with their side of that deal.

I thought they were accustomed to having females on there already.

...Corporate Advertising Consortium Association?

...was that super-duper Mossad hand to hand unarmed combat technique?

Why isn't she under arrest for having vivesected that clerk?

....and did I mention the need to be able to edit comments to put in that closing quotation mark we really were intending to include before we got distracted doublechecking the spelling of something?

...that we can enlarge to something worth looking at is okay and maybe in its own way even better than a generic icon, but big stock photos not much more closely related to the story than a generic icon would be, which is to say "the approach taken by many web sites these days, at least some of whom should know better, would be, by myself at least, unwelcome.

Overall I find the visual appearance of this site quite well crafted. My compliments to the chef.

...but either way, the lion's share of that is what the "content providers" are charging the cable companies, who pass that cost on to the subscribers.

So despite whatever other perfectly valid reasons you might have for loathing, say Time-Warner Cable, for this you can mostly blame the company that no longer owns them, Time-Warner, along with Disney, NBC Universal (owned by Comcast), FOX, CBS, etc.

...why did I load this thread?

"After being continuously inhabited for more than 13 years, it is finally possible to log into Ustream and watch the Earth spinning on its axis in glorious HD."

I heard a rumor that Earth has been inhabited a lot longer than 13 years.

Then there's that other rumor about someone needing an exorcism.

Doesn't appear to be.

...but otherwise it's quite good.

'Cause there are this things under each comment that I think sort of work, but not exactly the way they do elsewhere, so I can't be sure.

But that one point karma bonus only happens if the person who would get it allows it to happen.

Comments by registered users at /. start out at +1, ACs start at 0.

Right now it looks like a whole lot of green has been added to what they had the other day.

At least on my monitor.

...is the blue here a lot greener than it was a few days ago?

And can I have the old blue if you're not using it anymore?

No love for TiVo?

As does the main page.

If soylent looked like pipedot, I, for one, would welcome our new blue-green overlords.

"Okay then, for when you want a straight binary copy of a whole drive what would you use instead of dd?"

That's a somewhat different goal from the average "backup", but

dd_rescue

or

ddrescue

do what

dd

does, but with greater flexibility.

I've used both in attempts to rescue TiVo drives (well, to rescue the contents before the drive finished dying, actually), with probably as much success as was going to be possible under the circumstances.

...to those at soylent.

But both sites deserve a lot of applause for getting up and running so quickly.

I thought, for about a microsecond,that that "rattle the Dice" line looked familiar, then remembered it should have my name in front of it, and now I'm wondering why it doesn't.

Your choices are Monday, 2014-02-17, or Tuesday, 2014-02-18.