I did this for my wedding photos in 2002. I shopped around for photographers who would do this and the only one who agreed was actually cheaper than the others and took very good photos. The first few that I approached laughed in my face and smugly told me no-one in their industry would do it. I have since advised all my friends as they got engaged to shop around for a photographer who will let you have all the photos (and raw files) and release copyright to you.

A few years ago my brother, who is not a computer nerd but reasonably self motivated as a user, downloaded a linux distro and asked me to help install it.

I visited him for the weekend (he lives in a different city) and sat in his living room watching TV with my nephews while he tried to see how far he could get. I told him to give me a yell if he got stuck.

When he finally called me over to the computer (one TV episode later, so probably about half an hour) he was finished.

Not every non-nerd needs a nerd to install Linux and configure it to make it work for them.

I do something similar, but not to the same extent. My date of birth on Facebook is the 1st of January 1970. I was born in the 70s so I've given them the right decade for their demographic stats out of courtesy. I have my first name and my last initial as my FB name. I don't allow access to 3rd party apps.

I don't friend anyone connected with my workplace and I don't post anything that could get me fired if someone from HR stumbled across it and linked it to me. I also don't friend people who are not connected to me offline.

Good lecture though. I will link to your post when advising others.

Then stop. Unless you're getting something out of it, why be free support for friends and roommates? I'll help people once for twice as a favour, but after that I play dumb and make like I've exhausted my knowledge on the matter and refer them to a professional.

I tend to think of the two world wars as one war with a twenty year cease-fire in the middle of it. If the Allies hadn't been so harsh with their terms of surrender at the end of WW1 then Germany might not have gone through the hardship that breed such extreme fascism. If we give our defeated enemies a little dignity they hopefully won't rise up twenty years later and clobber us. But we never learn.

Actually it was a Serb nationalist who started it. But that event was just a spark in an already volatile situation. The real reason that the European countries were itching to have a go at each other was imperialism on all sides. They were all expanding their empires/colonies throughout Asia and Africa and were fierce rivals.

The assassination of the Austrian duke just gave them an excuse to start open hostilities.

When new types of media are introduced they overlap the use of old media types. What I'm trying to say is that media formats do not become obsolete until their replacement has been available for a while. The bits themselves will remain identical each time the files are transferred to new media. Digital information can be exactly replicated indefinitely while analogue formats will eventually degrade.

Don't know how it works in other countries, but here in NZ the accused are usually given name suppression (the media can report the story but not the names of those involved) until more facts start emerging - often name suppression is not lifted until the verdict at the end of the trial.

Yes. If every passenger rushes to one side of the plane to watch the aurora the plane might tilt to one side.

We're getting into the active phase of an 11 year cycle. It just means pretty aurora if you live close enough to one of earth's poles. Here in the south island of New Zealand we'll see aurora australis on our southern horizon tonite.

What country are you in? Civilised countries do provide employees with statutory paid annual leave.

I know someone else has just answered, but here goes:

The Internet is a global network of computers, or more precisely a global collection of interconnected networks that happen to use the Internet Protocol (the "IP" in "X over IP") to talk to each other.

The Web is a global collection of documents and various media files stored on web servers around the world.

The Web can also refer to the global collection of web servers which store these documents and media files.

In other words, the Web is part of the Internet, but not all of it.

Schmuck. Putz. Schlemiel. I don't know any real yiddish, just a few perjoratives. How about a steaming pile of drek?

Greek deities? Straight? Ha!

I would have it turned off most of the time.