For mail: I prefer pine (alpine now) to mutt. Setting up IMAP is unintuitive but once it's done, pine/alpine is a nice client, in my opinion.

@Jimbo Collins: Many command line apps check your TERM environment variable. If it's set to 'xterm' (it should be if running any terminal emulator such as xterm, Konsole, the GNOME terminal, etc.) you can sometimes use the mouse in addition to the keyboard.

@netcrusher88: Hah, yeah, I missed that when I skimmed the article before. I didn't look too closely at the code lines because I found the low-contrast light grey on white annoying to read.

@MrBrownSound: What would be creepy is if you do that and somebody really is behind you.

@AgentSmithAndWeston: Garbage in, garbage out. The same is true of nearly anything.

@Wade McGillis: I recall either Windows 95 or 98 not making it quite that easy to remove the desktop shortcut. It wasn't a normal .lnk in the same way that the recycle bin is a special icon even now (as of 7).

@lostarchitect: They had both just gone out of warranty by a couple months, so I didn't even think to try. Too accustomed to companies being assholes about that sort of thing and I was too busy deal with it, first with work then later with a move. I don't hold it against them, though, and I wouldn't be surprised if…

@Self_Destructo_2000: I said this elsewhere, but Grado sounds good and I love the designs.

@MagnoliaX12: No problem. You probably won't need to worry about replacements, though; the problems I had were with the headband design, which isn't an issue for earbuds.

@lostarchitect: I had somebody try to convince me to toss my headphones in favour of Skullcandy, once. I can only assume she was unfamiliar with Sennheiser. :P

@lostarchitect: Grado is pretty good but both headphones I got from them ended up failing after about a year. :/ Same problem with both, the sound in the right ear died completely. I was very careful with them, and I haven't had the same problem with headsets from other companies at a similar price range, so I'm…

@TheFuzz53: At the time, browsers were not all free. Furthermore, at some point (Windows 95 or 95) Microsoft started deliberately tying IE to everything possible in the OS to make it harder to remove.

At home I use real headphones (Sennheiser), but I'll admit to using some cheap $20 earbuds when I'm out of the house or working away from the computer.

@MagnoliaX12: The Bose headphones I had before sounded pretty good, but the build quality was kind of crap for the price. They weren't in-ear style, though, so your experience may differ. I lived near a Bose store and they were excellent about replacements, even swapping them out freely after the warranty expired,…

@Mr.Gawn: 7 is pretty good, I wasn't knocking that. I meant that the KDE team deserves credit for the UI polish more than the Kubuntu team.

@meow-mixer: You don't want to run XP with a 1ghz processor and 256mb of RAM. Trust me.

Other: WebOS or something like the Nokia N900 has

@showbiz2: One last time, and then I'm done.

@napolean: Drag an app from the K menu to the panel or desktop and you get a launcher widget that stays around. It pre-dates pinning, so it's not identical, but close enough for many purposes.

@Mr.Gawn: The last few Kubuntu versions* I've tried don't seem to do much modification of KDE, if any. Maybe a wallpaper change, but everything else is identical to a stock KDE install from Debian.