You are right...you are a dick.

Seriously -- Nobody actually believed Microsoft was going to do anything but screw over the user base, did they? Already have my Ekiga account...works well and runs on an open standard.

It was the end of the world as we knew it. The devs messed up our beloved KDE!! Game over, switch to Gnome. But then came several subsequent point releases and a year later KDE rocks and most everyone is very happy. Lesson? Sometimes you have to go backwards a little to go forwards. Hang in there, it'll get better...

Create a partition on your hard drive and encrypt it with Truecypt. Mount the volume to do your work. When the volume is unmount there is NO WAY to tell if the partition holds data or random data.