Spring looks really good. I haven't played any RTS (nor any games really) since Dune II or C&C II: Red Alert, as they became far too fiddly for a normal person to play.

Seems that Spring has lots of "sub games" - I've looked over the website and there's no pointer to a basic, fun game. Should I download Complete Annihilation?

Thanks for that summary. It's been many years now since I kept up with the kernel changelogs and articles... the kernel now Just Works.

I was wondering what happened to all those coffee grounds.

I put mine into a worm-farm, which makes great compost, although in small (household) quantities.

I hear many Starbucks happily give away their grounds to gardeners. Otherwise, where does it go? Landfill.

Cue more questions on "Is putting compostable ingredients into landfill good? Will it compost?"...

We're about seven miles from the exchange.

Fastest we can get (reliably) is about 1.5mbps.

Didn't stop us being forcibly upgraded from our "1.5 mbps" service to the bright and sparkling "8 mbps" service...
Now it seems the router/exchange tries really hard to get us value for money and the connection is more unreliable than before. Lost packets... high latency.. (Someone will point out that BT blocks unreliable slow connections down to something like 140kbps- yes, happens frequently).

I'd rather pay for the old, "slower" service.

(I'd also point out that the average person on Facebook wouldn't know the difference between 1mbps or 8mbps)