Nearly forever. You don't have JavaScript, most malware isn't designed for platforms that old etc...

Right, no scripts running means virtually no attack vectors. Perhaps overloading the buffer by downloading a large webpage? But that's about all I can muster.

I have been taking it. So far I've found it pretty good (I took linear algebra many years ago in college and didn't remember most of it), even though I don't really like the amount of reinventing-the-wheel (e.g. writing your own vector class) involved.

In Windows 3.1, CTRL-ALT-DEL will allow you to kill a hung application. If no application is hung, it will tell you to press CTRL-ALT-DEL again to reboot.

Check this by Raymond Chen where he explains better than me: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/02/08/1039...

Sounds like an useful board for uses other than a laptop (e.g. robotics, DSP).

While I wish Matlab just disappeared, Python is still far from replacing it in some fields (e.g. electrical engineering), in no part due to the massive amount of toolbox available for it.

Maybe, but quite a few stuff (enough to implement DRM) is different.

Ubuntu 13.04 with MATE, but most of my work is done on virtual machines (all sorts of Windows and Linux) and on servers I ssh to (mostly Linux).

I don't think this is a big deal at all. It's not like you can build a Mac from scratch just by following those schematics.

At most they might be useful for someone looking to do reverse engineering.

China.

Not quite servers, but I used to work in a lab where we used mostly RHEL/CentOS for our scientific computing work.

I found myself gravitating towards RPM-based distros during that time.

Used to run Arch until recently, but moved to Ubuntu when 13.04 came out.

Currently using Ubuntu with MATE (haven't bothered with Unity in quite a while, considering my experience with it in previous Ubuntu versions was quite underwhelming - might try it again someday) and - surprisingly - not missing Arch that much.