Its called LVM. Not only will it magically make your 10 hard drives appear as one if you want, but will allow you to shrink or expand partitions spread across those 10 hard drives at will and create new "volumes" (not really partitions under this scheme) to take up whatever free space or percentage thereof you have scattered across those 10 drives and let you write a single file into that partition/volume transparently... and just to stay on topic, do find myself using a GUI to manage my volumes almost exclusively.

I didn't RTFA either, but my phone (I live in Japan) has a "Spa Menu", with a feature called "Healing Illumination" when turned on makes kind of peaceful sounds... sort of "ambient", as in the music genre, along with blinkenlights fading between "soothing" pale shades of colour. (Other settings on the menu are to display an hourglass or clock, presumably to keep yourself from being overcooked, the obvious music/radio/tv player and even a quiz section to brush up on your English or Maths while you soak)

To answer your question though, these sounds and light display can also be set up to be the result of an incoming call, so the answer is probably BOTH.

My phone is at least 2 years old though, so I'm guessing this "news" is a bit of an evolution of that. In case you are wondering what the obsession is with bathing, the phone is waterproof, so I guess when the phone was released taking it into the bath with you was a big selling point... Camera and all.

Just in case my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning, and seeing as its the second comment I've seen along these lines, here you go.

Maybe if you got your head out of the clouds and realised that 185 CHF (~180USD) is what the vast majority of people on this planet would regard as a pretty reasonable WEEKLY wage, you wouldn't think that advice like "well its only $1000 to replace, so just throw it away" adds anything to this conversation. For a significant percentage of the Slashdot demographic maybe we could call it daily, but doesn't really change the issue. I wonder if you have ever considered what happens to the thrown away item, which is likely to be 98% functional, even though its an antique 3 year old piece of hardware. You might consider that there are billions of people out there (not only in some third world dustbowl) for whom this would be a treasured item and who might be interested to find an easier (and more economical) way to regain that 2%. Believe it or not, some of us are even interested in salvaging that last 5% from really broken boxes, before we add them to the to the massive stinking junk-pile of this disposable culture.

"But hey, maybe i'm just to negative about this. Maybe you can enlighten me how you can sort out these issues."

For you I would suggest taking a year of your life to sort out these issues and go somewhere. Go wander the earth for a bit. Go see undeveloped, developing and developed countries. Meet normal people. Rich ones, poor ones and ones doing ok. Do some work that you aren't trained in. Escape your bubble. When you get back home I can pretty much guarantee that the only negativity you will feel is toward your old attitude and those that still share it. You will suddenly have a great appreciation for the immense privilege you live in and be in awe of the planet around you. And maybe even helping out a less knowledgeable friend won't be just an annoyance anymore.

Japan uses Yahoo. Massively. In fact it wasn't that long ago that I would get blank stares from people when mentioning google, and having to substitute yahoo instead... more recently people at least know what you are talking about, even if they aren't using it. Part of the reason for this is that they achieved huge brand recognition (if not much profit) when their subsidiary company Yahoo!Broadband did a pretty massive campaign to gain subscribers, giving away routers outside train stations, offering free three month connections and so on. (They are also tied into Softbank, one of the larger mobile phone companies here.)

E-bay is another pretty unheard of site, while Yahoo! auctions alone would probably keep the company afloat on its own over here. They are heavily used as a portal site and the usual first stop for people wanting to buy plane tickets or check the weather. For many people I think Yahoo is actually thought of as "the internet" and don't seem likely to go anywhere soon...

No, its not about them undercutting other productivity suites, its about them undercutting other retailers who are also selling MS Office... Maybe a car analogy. I am a car manufacturer and you are a dealer. I sell you cars for a fantastic $1000 a pop, if you agree to buy 100 units. After we've shaken hands and exchanged cash, I go to the guy next door to you and arrange it so that they can sell their 100 hundred units at a floor-price of $500. Guess you are going to have a little bit of trouble moving your 100 "super-cheap" specials, yes?

Not coming to one of your parties mate, I prefer the kind that needs cleaning after!

yeah, strangely just before this I was reading that the year-old HP mini 2133 is the only HP laptop in the UK which uses Linux ...at least you'll be able to get one that looks like a handbag though...