I should point out that four are planned for Wales, and only two for England. Wales != England, although both are parts of the UK, along with Scotland and Northern Ireland. Thus also England != UK.

Still, as you point out, the coastline numbers are quite large. See How long is the UK coastline? for details. The figure for the UK is given as about 19,491 miles (31,368 km). That said, this figure also include all the islands, so isn't just the mainland.

Indeed, I've never understood why there are numerous versions of Ubuntu. (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc). Why not just get plain old Ubuntu and do "apt-get install de-of-choice" (where de-of-choice is KDE, XFCE or LXDE, etc.)?

The answer of course is that, perhaps, possibly, maybe, things are just a wee bit more complicated than that!

Running both LMDE XFCE and Xubuntu 14.04 LTE I'll look forward to when this hits the repos. Unfortunately I'll probably have to change Distros to use it as LMDE is changing to using Debian Stable (Jessie) and it probably won't be backported. Similarly for Xubuntu and it probably won't be in Xubuntu LTE until 16.04.

I really ought to change to Arch or something!

That said,I'm pleased it's still being developed. I was worried that it was going to fade away and I'd have to start using Mate, Cinnamon or even Unity.

The BBC also show the actual dress:

Optical illusion: Dress colour debate goes global

I see white and gold, although the actual dress is blue and black.

To be fair, the asterisk substitutions were put there by the editor, not the original submitter.

According to the second link, the buffer overflow occurs when using a strcpy;

resbuf->h_name = strcpy (hostname, name);

In my (admittedly limited) recent c coding I've used strlcpy rather than strcpy. Is there a good reason not to use this (or strncpy) in place of strcpy?

resbuf->h_name = strlcpy (hostname, name, sizeof(hostname));

(OK, you may get an error due to a truncated copy, but isn't that is easier to spot and deal with than a potential buffer overflow?)

I'm a European, British, English citizen of the UK and European Union (if that makes sense). I'm rare in that I'm one of the few people in the UK who also feels European. As to age, let's say I remember the last European referendum we had in 1975 (although too young to vote).

I did think about saying 'British' rather than 'European'. (I only use "English" internally to the UK, to distinguish myself from, say, being Scottish or Welsh. It makes me cringe when people use "England" when they mean "Britain" or "The United Kingdom"). It says both "European Union" and "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" on my passport.

I don't think I got any of this from my parents!

I had to look up MLK Blvd on Google (I'm European). My inner visual image I got when first reading the scenario in your original post had both crack dealer and hooker being white! I hope that's not being racist.

I don't know. I think it still gets used on an ad hoc basis.

Then again, this is matched by the disturbingly large number of non-Muslims who make unfounded generalised comments about Muslims!

I get the sense that the systemd developers haven't had much experience of using Linux (or anything) in a production environment. That's fair enough, it's not their speciality. However, it should be incumbent upon them to accept feedback from those who do have that experience, and adjust systemd accordingly. I get the impression that is not happening.

In other words they've guessed the Use Cases, not captured them.

I think one of the biggest missed opportunities for Linux was not coming up with a suitable replacement for XP.

Those on XP (and still on XP) just want (and had) something that 'worked'. A suitable Linux distro, that 'looked' and 'felt' like XP, and was as stable as XP (SP3), but could run the latest 'application' software like XP (browser, email client, office package) could've gained traction. Something rock-solid, stable and safe. Unfortunately not to be.

(And I don't know why you were labelled 'flamebait' either.)

Just curious, but what if you want to look at the log in Windows? (you may have a dual-boot system with Windows, for instance). How do you do this? What Windows application do you use?

For text logs, no problems. (I would use Notepad++).