There's no I in "team", but there's two in "Winning." You think that means we both win? Wrong. I win twice. Now give me that Silver medal.

-1 Redundant.

(Bonus points for +5 insightful, -2 off-topic.)

I have bought a bag of mixed nuts in a pub where the allergy information on the back stated "May contain nuts. Product manufactured in an environment which handles nuts."

You don't say!

Herein lies the problem; You've come from an OS which does all of the things you want it to do in a way which agrees with you, and tried to turn a different OS into that one.

Linux is not Windows. You cannot turn Linux into Windows. Don't even try.

I use both; Windows for gaming, Linux (Mint 11, incidentally) for everything else. I like the update system for Linux ("Run updates... Oh ok, that was painless" vs "Oh ffs, this is the third restart, and I still haven't updated Java or Adobe Flash yet!"), and the Desktop Cube (Browser, Office apps, and RDP administration sessions all sit on their own desktop, with a fourth for other tasks as necessary). I find it a much more productive setup than Windows with multi-monitors.

Mostly, though, I like that if an app misbehaves to the point of the UI becoming unresponsive, it's Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Backspace and X restarts. It takes about 5 seconds to go from a state which on Windows would require a hard reset to fully operational. That alone has saved me potentially hours in productive time.

TL,DR: Why did you try and swap to Linux in the first place? You like Windows, you bought Windows. Just use it, and forget what anyone else's preferences are.

Because Heinz et al can't afford the loss in customers when just one of their competitors releases a "No-Waste Bottle!". Seriously, getting the last bit out of the ketchup bottle has been a 1st World Problem since the stuff was invented. All manner of "techniques" and devices have been invented; Slapping the bottle, standing it on its cap (hence the Top Down bottles not available), inserting a knife to scoop it out...

Besides, as long as you're using ketchup correctly (an additional flavour, not the only one) they're all much of a likeness. If one company makes a bottle which has no leftover bits (which also makes recycling much easier), it'll fly off the shelves like ketchup from a hydrophobic bottle.

Another vote for Zimbra. Email, global and personal address lists, calendar including invite system and sharing, resource booking, AD integration should you run a Windows domain...

It's what we use, and for "free" it's great.

Yeah, I thought of that after I hit "submit". "Heat of the moment" and all that. As each ISP will separate their network rough geographic areas, blocking NY from accessing your services would presumably be as simple as finding out the appropriate supernet for the NY area and black-holing it.

Apologies for the confusion.

I would say that those people with CDNs in NY should very quickly end their contracts, migrate their services to other areas, and block the NY /20 at the borders.

He meant kB/s. WoW on dialup is playable, but latency is huge. Playing over 3G is difficult enough.

Raiding is totally out.

like breaking the Fourth...

Proofreading fail.