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I never surf the internet from the base OS anymore (Score:5, Informative)
I use a Linux VM for all surfing in VirtualBox. Surfing directly from your base OS seems incredibly risky to me, particularly if the base OS is Windows. Kind of wish the VMWare server kernel could be modded to run guest OSs directly on the same platform. I'd put it on my portable in a heartbeat, however, running VirtualBox hosted VMs on Linux is just as good for most purposes.
Re:Missing Option (Score:5, Informative)
Poll ideas are always welcome!
Just use the same submission page (linked at the top of the page) and throw us some wacky ones.
No thin veiling; this question sprung fully formed from my forehead, like Minerva from Zeus. Dice has a marketing department, but we human editors come up with the poll ideas; some of them suck, I grant, but no conspiracy is necessary for that.
Looking at slashdot.org/topics.pl is a good place for inspiration if you want to come up with some poll suggestions ...
Cheers,
timothy
Minerva didn't come from Zeus (Score:3, Informative)
She came from Jupiter.
Re:Missing Option (Score:5, Informative)
this question sprung fully formed from my forehead, like Minerva from Zeus.
ObPedantry: you've conflated Greek [wikipedia.org] and Roman [wikipedia.org] mythos. In English vocabular, it's accepted. [etymonline.com] In mythology, not so much. Well, as much as mythology matters to anyone.
And, more on-topic, you can certainly understand the perception in Slashdotterland that much of the content nowadays feels like marketing probes from Dice or other corporate overlords.
Re:iTunes (Score:2, Informative)