Honest question, how specifically does Ubuntu hinder your ability to "open and work with hundreds of files"?

I don't know. It'd be cool to find out, though.

But this site looks best in Netscape Navigator Gold!

/Was/ a heat wave? Still is.

Everyone is interesting to somebody, even if it's just their local bartender/coworker/pizza delivery guy/romantic rival... Now it used to be the case that it didn't matter as none of these everyday "mundane" acquaintances had the time, access or expertise to pull together a dossier but today it's pretty trivial.

The little-known GNU Stow project has been available to do this for over a decade. Although it uses the convention /usr/local/package-name instead.

Perhaps the GP meant "bits" as rasterized image data versus "data" being the character-based document.

And you still need (more than ever) regular builds and test executions while you refactor it into something more modular.

That's a good move. Clouds are everywhere, the coverage area will be huge!

If any nation that should lose its AAA rating it should be Japan. America has at least 6 other countries with worse debt to asset ratios that will default sooner. Greece failed because it was a poorer country and creditors became nervous it may not be able to pay it off.

Japan doesn't have a AAA rating. They're AA-. Fewer than 20 countries have a AAA rating.

Standard & Poor Sovereigns Ratings List
Wikipedia's list of countries by credit rating
Sovereign Ratings Infographic from Reuters