1) Websites (mainly BBC)

Pretty much voip only. $6 per month fixed costs (Callcentric.com) plus 2 cents per minute. At my rate of calling, that comes to same $12-$20 per month. Of course, if I didn't already have broadband so that I could read LH ;-) the total cost of voip would have to include $57 for my blankety-blank, curse, mutter,…

testdisk has saved me after I blew up an 8GB SD card by hitting "ok" when I should've hit "NOT OK". It's saved me after a hard disk crash destroyed my filesystem, diagnosing a Windows machine which turned out to have lost its MBR, and the list goes on.

Great post and excellent comments. Thanks, all! I've learned about some really useful things even though I've been using Ubuntu for years.

Sheesh, people. Get a grip. It's just a font. It's not even ugly. It's been overused by doofuses as a faux joke on topics that aren't funny, like insurance or job information.

@fly-by-night: (Erm, native Russian speaker here. You need an imperative for your second verb as well as the first. ;-} (It's amazing how much fun these grammar wars are. Why is that? I resisted Mr Than Then earlier, but couldn't hold out all the way.)

Vote: Gimp 2.6 with UFRaw!

@xCoolJackx: Yeah. Turned out they weren't so good on land, which it turned out was where the bureaucrats were hiding.

Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go, $20 every three months, 20cents per minute, so that's 100 minutes included in the bill, and 20 cents more for each minute after that. Since I use it maybe ten minutes in three months, that works out to about $2 per minute for me. But I have that stupid phone for road emergencies, so I…

@jasonp: Thanks for the commands and link! I had no idea you could do this non-destructively. I'm off to try it on my vbox Jaunty Jackalope guest machine.

@mconnolly09: if it's backed up in an email, I can access them from anywhere. ... Is this foolproof?

@NovaCabbichoke: Interesting idea!

The dealbreaker on Google Voice for me is the same as for Grandcentral: It won't handle voicemail left at my extension at work.

@kukkurovaca: I just started using qtpfsqui. (I don't know where they find these impossible open source names either!) It seems pretty impressive, although less polished than the Photoshop capabilities. If you use Ubuntu, you can install it via synaptic.

Make it DST all year long, or Standard Time all year long, or compromise on Standard + 1/2 hr. but whatever it is KEEP IT THE SAME ALL YEAR. This switching is so bloody stupid, energy wasteful, and annoying.

@Pastabagel: Second that, about the plugins.

@alejo0121: Thanks for that! *Very* useful to know.

Lighten up, people. The names are good. We have enough too-kool-for-skool, Zrwyzzyx! names as it is. And consider yourselves lucky. I would have called it Jaunty Jellyfish.

how about regulating the damn airlines to provide a 36" seat pitch? The problem isn't reclining vs not-reclining. The problem is the goddamn airlines charging money for seats unfit for a monkey.

@dzb: Steady State is really a find. Thanks!