What's even funnier is that he has a t-shirt with an iPhone on it. There's no doubt that Wozniak was one of the genuinely brilliant engineers of his time. He singlehandedly helped to start the personal computing revolution with his awesome early designs for Apple. However, if Steve Jobs had never come back and made Apple the Goliath it is today, Woz would be a footnote in history. The way he's trading off the present day Apple -something which he had absolutely no involvement with whatsoever- is kinda pitiful.

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-although it's pretty much fallen out of use in modern English.

Mac OS X also has it with spotlight. Finds any app, file, web page or just about anything. I use it all the time to keep my dock icons down to a manageable number.

The question I'm interested in through, is not why Microsoft are late to the party, but whether this search facility works without grinding the disk constantly 24/7 to build its index like Vista does. I'm not familar with the KDE version, but I doubt it has this problem, and I know for a fact that Mac OS X doesn't do it either.

Why not surprise those you around you with a lawsuit this Christmas? The gift that just keeps on giving.

You mean you want an arrogant obnoxious know-it-all fictional character to play the part of Linux?

Sounds spot on to me

(except for the fictional part - but I can see how you could have confused the average Linux user with their girlfriend)

Glad you brought that one up. I was just about to make an identical comment. I seem to remember I was on a flightpath into Grizzly Hills for the first time (normally a chance to run off and grab a quick drink) and I heard the music start up and actually walked back from the kitchen and sat there listening to it. It's genuinely beautiful. I went onto a couple of forums later to see what I could find out about it, and I was surprised by the number of other people who made almost the same comment. Grizzly Hills seems a real favorite on the soundtrack.

That doesn't take anything away from the fact that the vast majority of people probably use them to play mp3s and frankly couldn't give a stuff about anything you've just mentioned.

Similar story - already been doing this for 6 years. My wife and I live in Japan, my sister's family are in the UK and my parents have retired to Spain. We find Skype and similar services invaluable. One of the interesting things from a tech point of view is just how much the video/audio sync and framerate have improved over that time in various applications.