I got more vertical space in firefox with Hide menubar, Hide caption (makes firefox chromeless) and tree-style tabs.

As if losing the repository history is so more dangerous than losing the current version...
If that is a concern, you should encrypt your repository, or subdivide it in sensitive and insensitive parts.

I saved a document as ODF from Word 2007, and it had lost some labels on a graph when I reopened it a second later.

I saved a file as ODF in Word 2007, and reopened it one second later and it had lost some labels on my graph. When there's problems within the same program, it's not strange that there's problems across different programs.

So you're saying that there's actually people that believe that you can get a day ahead by traveling around the earth?

I got this game as a Steam gift on Christmas, but the Steam version doesn't give you access to the Linux version. So I just had to buy it again to support the Linux port, and play the game on Linux!

Oh, didn't you hear. Google wave is not single-source. You can deploy it yourself, and you can collaborate with others on doing that.

As said many times previously, don't you think it's a good idea to unfriend the person who's harassing you if it upsets you?

There's an auto-poke greasemonkey script... Just say it went bananas.

100% uncertainty! Guaranteed!

TFA:

When you signed the contract, both parties agreed to deliver something in return for something. If one of the parties doesn't hold up their part, they can invalidate the contract. But you can't invalidate the contract just because someone accuse you of breaking your part.

Make a copy to the hard drive whenever you're not compiling.

Have you tried creating a ramdisk? Wouldn't it give most of the same benefits, if the ramdisk is big enough to contain the files you use to compile?