Makes me think "What's the most famous w(h)ine from Australia"...

"It's too f**king hot mate".

America! It's new, and contains nothing of use. Wipe it out. Then we'll send all the religious nuts from Europe (again) to populate it (again).

I just tried it. Inkscape imported the PDF I made in it. It contained text, vectors and bitmaps and it loaded them fine. Perhaps you should file a bug for your particular case. Or are you just a freeloader - using open source software without contributing any effort, even as far as bug reporting.

Can you add to your signature that you're dumb to save me having to remember it.

This is all very well but it comes from research involving Big Pharma products - bought and paid for!!! To test these new placebos we need some kind of control. Like, some kind of substance that has no effect on the patients so that we can use it to gauge the placebos agains......

Arse.

If it's physical theft I would think they would bin the HDD or sell it "as is" without even looking at what's on it. Bricking it doesn't do a lot, you'd probably just replace the HDD anyway.

Identity theft is more worrying. Why not encrypt the HDD with something like Fedora / Ubuntu offers - ie an encrypted /home or MyDocuments. That way the laptop won't log on for the thief.

So they've included a widget to set the nice level, and it runs java (or similar) apps. News at 11....

Would it not be easier to approve individuals than spend time unapproving anyone not from your little community. Do you threaten the intruders with pitchforks whilst crying "Are you local????".
Facebook is open to the world, but still manages to sustain small communities / groups. It's not impossible.

You could restrict your website to 127.0.0.1 - that's very local. Or you could wire all the houses together on a private subnet.

my researcher friends routinely use Octave, perl, I know of R being used... Not sure about data recording programs though, perhaps that is more specialised (or I just never needed them in my field). LaTeX, as auxiliary software, is pretty standard for writing up papers.

Of course, since it's Turing-complete you could just use emacs for everything... or vi... :-)

... as long as it begins with 5?

Sad to see JFS being overlooked so. While it may not have the postmodern features to compete in the wake of JFS, it's still in many cases the best current filesystem for linux. It's remarkably crashproof, has the lowest CPU loading of any of {ext3 jfs xfs reiser3}, good all-round performance (generally either first or second in benchmarks) and is fast at deleting big files. I haven't used anything else in a couple of years - I used to put reiser3 on /var, but got fed up with its crash intolerance. It's sad to see jfs so overlooked, because at least until btrfs or tux3 come out it's arguably the best option available.

In the UK (and Europe I believe), it's normal to be finishing your thesis at the end of the 3rd year/first half of 4th year, I took 4 days more than 3 years. But even as a chemistry student, I did partial diff equations in the 1st year of my undergraduate (ie aged 18). So what kind of university are you at?

No. Try again. -1^2 != -1 (same for -inf).

Did you go to school?