@jcabraham: No, this is not a carbon arc lamp. The clue is in the name: arc means that there is a gap between the electrodes, and thus it is the spark between the two (which requires a high voltage) that causes the light. This, on the other hand, is just getting something really hot so it glows.

It slightly gets to me that gmail now has the lowest, but it's not going to make me switch. Anything >1GB is all the same to me. When I switched to gmail in the first place, it was because of three things:

It seems there's quite a few of this type of app! My favourite is filelight ([www.methylblue.com]), which is kde based, even tho i'm on gnome. it looks prettier (which is obviously very important :-), and dynamically points out files that are significant, depending where your mouse cursor is.

I agree with gopanthers & squawks: waste of web space. Most of my top 30 were from genealogical websites, and are people that are listed with a death date. People aren't gonna confuse me with them, and given that my personal website is the top hit anyway, I don't think I'll be worrying about it.

One of the things I use most at the command prompt actually goes in the .inputrc file rather than .bashrc: