Despite the other comments in this thread I'm going to stick my neck out and say "Excellent". OpenBSD pf/carp was an excellent piece of work, it's great to see the obvious being implemented in a nice way that makes sense. Why all the hate?

/tmp is disk on most distros. If you want to destroy the traces of it then you might want to use something like shred. If you have a specialist SSD for your /tmp then you may find that shred isn't good enough due to the internal RAID of the block device (see FusioIO), if you're paranoid. /tmp on Solaris is in RAM.

I have a series of gpg'd text files, usually, for things like godaddy, storing username=password. More notes really. The only way I can think of to store my personal data.

Reverse chronological I'm guessing?

Didn't MS help with the funding for that in some way, or offer support?

Bytes, or even hits is a much better metric than "just up and serving a site". Just buying a bunch of domains, or even IP addresses is pathetic. IIS would not be my first choice for holding sites anyway, but that's my preference.

Oh those were the days. LORD is still playable at places like http://www.3dham.com/telnet/index.html

If on the other hand you want to take a look at a productive minimalist desktop, I suggest you try evilwm [6809.org.uk], which I think is the best [usenix.org.uk]. If you like GNU Screen you may also like Ratpoison.

Despite all the dodging of traffic jams, lack of pay+display parking, MOT, insurance and road tax, I've never felt more liberated by being a cyclist.

You can always solve this problem with technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8

It's not the fishermen who are greedy, it's the company that they work for which is. The fisherman just wants a comfortable life, they're quiet hard working people, taking risks on a daily basis. How often does your job threaten you with drowning when you screw up? However, I have no sympathy for the company which they work for, since that would be the accountants realm. Business is the one area of the world where altruism doesn't apply. So lets not try to confuse the fishermen with capitalism.

I don't mind waiting for a DVD to turn up, that's fine, I just don't like shonky online streaming due to poor bitrates

Does it need a camera to know what you watch from an EPG/streaming service... Viewers who watched your recent choices may also enjoy ...

The service that I'm paying for is by post, and it wins IMO as there's no buffering.

Each of the above methods far exceeds getting a film via internet.