"Historians are at a loss to explain the demise of the first pan-human civilisation, as although they agree that the populous dwindled and went almost extinct at around AD 3500, there seems to be no surviving written historical records that can be dated any later than circa AD 2000."

"It can only be assumed that around this time, that there was a sudden uptake of illiteracy, maybe caused by a new religion or global-governmental policy. There are surviving references to an organisation or group known as the Inter Nets. We can only guess at what this actually was, but the commonly accepted theory is that it was actually some type of wearable mesh harness that prevented humans of this era from actually writing anything down."

Read More: http://www.mattowen.net/2012/03/the-importance-of-information-preservation

It's TOWER BRIDGE. ffs. You can tell by the, um, towers.

How about we start referring to your landmarks as the Statue of Eiffel, or The Silver Gate Bridge, or the Quite Big Canyon?

-Jar

For accuracy, I think it's worth pointing out that Channel 4 get a teeny-weeny slice of the licence fee also.

I found this interesting so went off to investigate. Found this Gizmodo article with a direct link to a LEGAL Windows 7 ISO download at Digital River:

http://gizmodo.com/5391268/microsoft-fixes-windows-7-student-edition-upgrade-problems

Useless without a key/crack of course, but then we've all got legal keys haven't we? ;) [1]

-Jar

[1] I'm a Technet subscriber so this link is worthless to me as I can download ALL MS OSs with multiple activation keys - if you can afford Technet, it's truly worth it.

No, his comment WAS redundant as installing Linux was inferred by the parent.

Christ. Arrogant much? last time I looked the Internet existed beyond the terrorist state known as the USA.

There are two Heinleins;

Early Heinlein (his thinner) novels are good examples of early Sci-Fi - I thoroughly recommend 'The Door into Summer' as a good starting point.

Later Heinlein (fatter more rambling books) were all written during and after his mental breakdown - from that set I recommend working through the Lazarus Long stuff initially:

1. Time Enough for Love
2. The Number of the Beast
3. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
4. To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Additionally the novel 'Friday' is a good stand-alone easy to read Heinlein.

Enjoy.

Oh yeah... They are in a hotel room at 1am trying to complete some urgent work and their laptop throws a panic, resulting in an emergency OS re-install and you are wanting them to go out and find DVD-Rs? Optical drives are becoming increasingly uncommon on lighter laptops so a recovery partition that rebuilds the boot OS back to day 1 is the least inconvenient option.

-Jar

Off you lot go then, knock up a Linux distro that does exactly that, and let the masses have it, otherwise your solution is too archaic for 90% of users.

-Jar

People need to realise that a solely Linux solution is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

I for one would love a nice GUI that in a few clicks, would image/compress the installed OS, put that image on a small recovery partition and alter the bootmgr to allow a 'recovery' option at boot time (accepting at this point, that the recovery utility _may_ be a tiny Linux distro).

I don't want to spend hours on every machine that needed this, which is where all your shiny Linux command line tools fall down.

-Jar.