Critics about why this got posted aside, I use NetworkLog (formerly IPTablesLog) to check what's the traffic generated by my installed applications from time to time (and send the one I don't trust to 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/hosts or block it via a firewall). There's also another application for network troubleshooting on SourceForge, but I haven't tested it.

Turns out that I'm an amateur gardener myself, and found useful information in that site :)

And the Vikings used to make great ships, you know.

Also known as Mordac, the preventer of information services.

If they are about to buy Nokia at a fire sale price.

For all of those bitching about Mint based on Ubuntu, just use the Debian-based version: It is rock solid and works like a charm.

You're missing the point. The stock market is a huge casino. You don't invest because you think the investment is safe, but because you could potentially get as much money as possible in a short period of time. Making a long/mid term investment in a dot-com is kind of crazy talk.

What kind of "real man" stays at home playing Diablo instead of going to work AND has a wife?

In Soviet Russia the servers hack you!

I know this is not your point, but why would you have 6 terminals open, if you can have only one gnome-terminal window and 6 tabs in it? Sorry for nitpicking :P

That will change the orientation of ALL pages. If you only need one, you'll have to go to Format -->Paragraph -->Text Flow-->Breaks, check "Insert" and "With Page Style"and then select "Landscape", so yeah, it's not precisely intuitive.

I use PHP (and the great Symfony framework) for small or mid-size projects, but for enterprise class stuff I use Java. One of the main reasons (yet not the only one) is performance, but I acknowledge it's more of a personal prejudice. How is it going now? any reliable benchmark out there to support my preferences?

I think he/she meant that it's actually "MS Visual Studio Express" :P

Leader in Southamerica? Well, at least not on this regard. Check this (in Spanish)

Kick managers in the nuts

He he. OK, I will *sighs*