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This is pretty funny as usual. Ironically, Randall uses a Windows XP tablet PC. He said he couldn't switch to Linux cause he needs Photoshop (I told him about Wine).

By the way, did they every figure out which dev was responsible for commenting out the relevant lines? smanek asks innocently without waving around around a big beating stick or anything

| (I told him about Wine)

What about Gimp?

Ya know, as much as I love Gimp; Photoshop it ain't.

It isn't much of a secret in free softwar :) According to the LWN write-up (http://lwn.net/Articles/281434/) the culprit was a Debian developer Kurt Roeckx, though obviously this patch never swam upstream and he didn't seem to get much help from the OpenSSL developers in assessing the patch in the first place.

Try virtualbox, 100% free in every way for all the features you'll need. Install and setup are extremely streamlined (way better than vmware). Just a few clicks. Fast also.

Well, not exactly 100% free. VirtualBox itself is free -- but you need a copy of Windows to install on it (which is most certainly not free!)

I use VirtualBox, and highly recommend it.

xkcd is consistently awesome... and consistently lost on most people.

That's cool, though-- because it isn't aimed at "most people." Part of what makes xkcd so consistently awesome is how (unconsciously) tuned in it is to its target audience.

What's always surprised (and scared) me, on the other hand, is that the readership of "Dilbert" scaled so well....

"What's always surprised (and scared) me, on the other hand, is that the readership of "Dilbert" scaled so well...."

With what I've seen, it would have surprised me if it didn't.

I'm one of those who never really laughed at Dilbert. I just said, "Yea, I've seen that before." Sad, but true.

I have to admit, thought, I've never really seen a feline human resource director. I've seen many that were dumber, but never feline.

I've found that when I start laughing at Dilbert cartoons it means I need to quit my job.

That rule of thumb has worked well twice for me. Hopefully I won't have to apply it too many more times.

Oh, it is most certainly cool. It's one of the reasons I love the comic so much.

Lame.

Webcomics belong on the comics subreddit.

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