Firstly, I'm having to use Firebug to get at the submit buttons, somehow the </textarea> tag's being treated as part of the quote box.  ETA: it all seems fine now, so no idea what caused that. :blink:

And secondly, you've had your year, about 1/85th of your life, and you're not even half way through your list.  Not good enough at all.

This is somewhat deja vu-ish, but have you read the Dark Tower series?  If not go forth and do so, preferably within a year.  :hehe:

Happy birthday.    

No reply as yet...  :unsure:  

Hmm.  Natural History Museum for one... London Aquarium for another.

The Science Museum's interesting too, but huge.  The famous market's aren't at all what they're cracked up to be, so you'll probably not want to go there...  Spitalfields market is very good though, and has a small but very good 'hand-powered complex machine' (for want of a better description) museum in the middle of it.  Not sure what else really.  Have a look at Buckingham Palace I suppose, but watch out for the tourists.  It all depends on what sort of stuff you like.

Oo-er.  I wouldn't want to live in London (far too costly in the half-decent areas), but the remote one sounds interesting... care to furnish me with more info?  You've got my e-mail address, yes?  Many thanks.

Lyrics here.

...And we're sorted again.

A rather tiny room, all the same, but it's good enough & rather cheap, considering.  Now I'm on a money-making drive - so if anyone knows anyone who wants a website, please chuck them my way.

It's due to being homeless.  

Not that I was overly active in the first place (but then neither are the forums), but just thought you might want to know.   Not much more to say really.

Not bad at all... I'd guessed correctly about Snape, and a few other things.  The last chapter was quite poor though, and completely out of tone with the rest of the book.

In that case, try IRC - if general Linux help channels aren't any use, pester Slackware or Gentoo users, they generally know more about the system internals than is healthy.  :miffed:

Regarding the tame penguin: if both Google and the above fail, then I doubt he'd mind being disturbed.  (E-mail address sent in PM.)

I do agree that there are too many distros... hence why Ubuntu has managed to become the best in such a short time - there's no serious competition to one that's managed to snag enough developers to rise to the top of the heap.  That's why I've used SuSE for so long, it's got Novell planning it, rather than a vague aim and fragmented developers.  To explain why I like the other three: Ubuntu's just very stable and generally well developed, with a huge amount of compatible software; Mint's an 'elegant' form of Ubuntu, to borrow their description, and Sabayon's essentially a rapid-installation, bleeding-edge Gentoo distro.

Regarding the topics you mentioned: you ought to read Wikipedia for a basic grounding on them, and the 'external links' section for the in-depth info.  It's a fantastic resource.   If that still doesn't help, I can furnish you with the e-mail address of a genuine lunatic who wouldn't mind lending you a flipper.

Try spending a bit more time with it and you'll soon see the benefits.    Don't forget, you've spent years learning to use Windows.  If you're used to using non-mainstream software then you shouldn't go too far wrong with Linux, really...  There's Linux software to do everything that can be found on Windows, and usually a lot more to choose from. I'm surprised at you.

Whilst a lot of Linux users don't fully understand it, that's actually a good thing, an indicator that you no longer need to be a penguin-smoking lunatic before you can even install the stuff.  Most problems can be fixed with a Google, and if not IRC's always stuffed with people who can help.

Distrowatch is somewhat useful... apparently Sabayon isn't the most stable of distros, but then that review was for an older version.  Hmm.  I'll probably just get LiveCDs of both and see what happens; not the best test, but bandwidth is at a premium at the moment, so I can't really give both a proper spin.  (Another point against Sab - good though it may be - is that it has a fairly small developer base.)  Someone else has also suggested Mint, to add more confusion to the issue.

Anyone use it?

I've been using SuSE on and off for quite some time, but I'm pondering migrating to Ubuntu...  but then again Sabayon looks good too, and has excellent hardware support, which no doubt my laptop will appreciate.  I don't suppose anyone uses either of those, and can drop a review or two?  (I seem to recall Smi playing with Ubuntu a while ago, did anything come of that, or...?)

"Posted: 21st June 2007, 00:39:35"

Although there's only an hour in it, probably a timezone setting difference.

I have a very odd sleeping cycle, so days don't often have clear boundaries.  And considering that my life's being upended all over again (three different ways, too) I don't really think it's that important.  :miffed:

I've got quite a few... Louise thinks I ought to post them, so I probably will in a while.  In the meantime, here's a weird one for you to puzzle over.  No idea what the occasion was... it was on the 18th or 19th, over Ipswich.  Incredibly noisy they were too.