Second only to Futurama in my list of best TV shows ever. WANT.

Case + Murrina-Cleaneyes (edited a little) + Ultimate Gnome icons = perfect. light, easy on the eyes.

VOTE: tar

Thank you boy scouts. Most useful thing I learned.

VOTE: ffmpeg

Using a Logitech VX Revolution, and love it. A MX Revolution would probably be a nice improvement now that I have a desktop, though.

This wasn't the best Lifehacker article I've seen. A few handy apps, but it's mostly just eye-candy and running Windows on linux.

Cool, I didn't know rainlendar had a Linux version. A cronjob to download my gcal, and I have GCal on the desktop! Awesomeness!

VOTE: Google Calendar

I first used Linux just out of curiosity on an old desktop. After I got my new laptop, I ran XP for a while. However, there were several reasons I couldn't stand it:

OneNote is the only program I really miss from running windows. Even Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are adequately replaced by openoffice, but there is no onenote replacement.

I like some parts. The big recent stories at the top looks bad. The smaller header looks great though.

@ElianaAmphithea: No need to build manually. They provide a PPA so you can always have the most recent version.

@MrSkinny: I prefer bazaar personally. It was really easy to set up, and I use Launchpad, so...

@raveheart: The PDF download extension beta does that. They work perfectly. The only thing I've really found that is useful to it. Although it takes forever (web page > PDF i mean).

VOTE: rsync

Water. Cheap, good, plentiful, portable.

TrueCrypt for the win. Nothing like a cross-platform app that happens to be the best in it's class. I have a 30gb truecrypt drive.

@Toptiger5: I don't think *anything* works with Hotmail.. Aren't they using a closed system? No POP3 or IMAP?

I only ever have this dilemma in school, so no big deal. I lock the screen and leave it. When everyone has a laptop, no worries.