There's the answer to rising sea levels... Divert the water into what will eventually become an ocean basin anyway.
I am inclined to side with you, and The Wiki, and the Dictionary, and the Coiner of the word.
I really prefer "meem", as the other pronunciations all sound weird. Well, more weird than "meem".
I was hoping this was not a case like Giga, where it is really supposed to be pronounced like "Gigantic" (Or if you're Doc Brown, "Jigga"), but culturally so many people say "gig-ah" that the real pronunciation has been all but lost.
The real question remains unanswered: Just how do you pronounce "meme"?
The dictionary says "meem", but I hear "may-may" and "me-me" often.
I still use UltraEdit for one main reason: Column Mode / Block Select
I have yet to see another editor match its functionality and ease of use.
Kate does have block selection, but it's nowhere near as powerful as UltraEdit's column mode.
I'm sure there are editors like Emacs (and probably vi) that can do similar things with certain keyboard commands, but it just isn't as easy to work with.
Very commonly this happens when a hard drive reverts to PIO mode after Windows decides it has seen a few errors from the drive. You can verify this by looking at the properties of the IDE Controller to which the drive is connected in device manager. (IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers/Primary IDE Channel/Advanced Settings tab, for example)
There is a VBScript that resets the drive back to DMA mode, and is effective if that is indeed the case.
This could also be an early sign of hard drive failure. I've seen plenty of drives that passed diagnostics but were very, very slow. Try checking the SMART data with something like HDTune.
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