I run Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and gnome-schedule was in the repository. That's going to be great for lots of stuff besides wallpapers!

Re water and minerals: nacimroc is right. Not only that, but water is one of the best solvents around. Distilled / RO water will pull minerals (calcium, iron, zinc, etc) out of your system and carry some of them off when excreted. This is a bigger problem for the elderly (kidneys less efficient at recapturing…

I've designed quite a few web sites. I think they're gorgeous, of course. If users just want the content, no eye candy, why should that bother me? More power to 'em. It's what I do myself whenever somebody's concept of design doesn't agree with me.

Why is it so hard to get people to just use email? Why? Why, why, why?

(my last comment didn't seem to post. Sorry if this is a duplicate.)

fslint is wonderful! I use ubuntu, and all the de-dupers I'd tried before were a lot of work. It doesn't help that I have the biggest hodgepodge of .jpgs in the world. In about one hour, fslint found, let me select, and got rid of nearly 1500 duplicates spread across about 20 directories and six years! Most of…

Running your old version of Firefox and the new one, both together, means having 2 profiles, as @pierre says earlier.

I don't have the engineering skills, but I've wanted something like this for years. *Years*. When are going to farm out the manufacture so I can buy one?!

I have the reflecting and staring at the horizon part down pat. :D

Yeah, I'm pretty much with cclofton. Not that I've ever danced. Of course not. But I have giggled quietly to myself. Really: linux is a lot fun, especially ubuntu with its great user community. (But don't tell anyone, or it'll get too crowded.)

To anyone with a nice new computer with lots of disk space who's unhappy with their OS (Vista or whatever):

This post gave me a real flashback. I used to live in New Orleans. I'd use the back outdoor stairs to get to my office, and one day in spring I saw somebody had dropped a disgusting mess of fast food bean and beef burrito with sour cream, salad, and everything all mashed in. I sure as hell wasn't picking that up. …

By the way, I probably don't need to tell LH readers, but just in case:

Ubuntu. No contest.

Scientists have to get bubble-free solutions all the time. All the boiling does is de-gas the water, like the first commenter said. Boiling it twice degasses it more than once. In the lab, we actually use a vacuum pump instead of heat, but the principle is the same.

That is a great tool! How come I'd never heard of it before? !

I was about 25 mph over the limit on a freeway once (I was in a hurry. What can I say?) and got pulled over. Pleasant cop, I wasn't arguing (I mean, what would be the point?), when he tapped his squawk box and went back to his car. A few minutes later, he came back and said he'd have to let me go. There was a…

Appetite stimulants: unfortunately the best and safest one is illegal: marijuana. I'm not being at all facetious here. One of the medical exemptions for legal use is for cancer patients who need an appetite stimulant to save their lives. Cannabis is the best there is. It won't make you eat healthy. That's still…

I lurve the Fox. Yes, it could load a bit faster, but don't ever ever remove a single function to achieve that effect! Or limit my extensions. You're not taking any of them unless you pry them out of my cold dead hands.

Piffle. I'll have to rethink my assumption that I'm a genius.