Still, there is one. I didn't say it worked perfectly. And he said there wasn't. There is. Might be useless, but there is.

Anyway, even the native Skype client for Linux is crap. Crashes frequently, sometimes it hangs on 100% cpu usage and has to be killed and looks like a surgery made with a jackhammer.

You must have checked a long time ago. There is, indeed, a Skype plugin for libpurple-based messengers which includes Pidgin.

Perhaps it's a bit expensive, perhaps it's not, depends on your bugedt, but he most likely would enjoy it as a nice addition and compliment to his projects.

wrong. Portuguese is spoken in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Guinae Bissau, Cape Vert, Brazil, Macau and probably more places. And no, spanish does not have the advantages of Portuguese. Both the vocabulary and the sound diversity of spanish are quite reduced when compared to Portuguese.

and I specifically suggest European Portuguese because the brazilian Portuguese is, sound-wise, quite different. They have a very reduced set of sounds compared to the european version, basing themselves mostly on open consonants.

My recommendation would be European Portuguese. Portuguese is one of the languages with most sounds (if you master it, you will be able to learn other languages much more easily), it's a very "mathematic" language (there are few exceptions in the language, the rules are very intuitive and predictable and once you get the hang of it, you can guess words you've never heard or read) and is considered by a lot of experts as one (if not the) of the most advanced languages. The fact that it is a very mathematic language makes it easy to learn especially for someone in the fields of exact sciences. There is also a lot of portuguese-written complimentary documentation (a lot of it from brazilian people).

Why hasn't anybody mentioned JFS?

Since the demise of ReiserFS, that's what I've been using everywhere. It's fast, really stable and has the lowest CPU usage of all. So, why not JFS?

nipples should be allowed on the grounds that their images are teaching materials in interface design learning.
"The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned"

Only ten friends? How sad :(

Wait, you have friends?!? Good for you!

Portugal talking to Sweden:

- "So, you're producing electricity by incinerating trash? How cute."

I find it very interesting that Sweden is now doing this... Meanwhile in Portugal, this has been done for at least 20 years in thermoelectric powerplants and concrete factories (the so called co-incineration/co-generation).

Unfortunately, your suspicion is wrong. No virus, clean install, 2011, original and legitimate MSDN subscription DVDs, really limited choice of software on that machine, no other problems with no other software. It was really a bug in Word.

... the chicken ate the egg, after all...

And?! I need closure on this anecdote^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hevent

call 1-800-OBVIOUS for a course about reading between the lines or 1-800-MCKAY for a course to improve sarcasm/irony skills.