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Hey cool, now I can mark individual messages with a white flag

So the conclusion is that some people perservere with longer than others while others get bored and don't always fini

Picasa needs a decent Raw processing engine and non-destructive Raw editing to enable it to really take on some of the 'pro' packages such as Adobe Lightroom. Wasn't really good enough in this regard last time I played with it - though that was some time ago and it may have improved.

My Hero used to lag every now and then as though the processor was struggling, now entirely fixed after upgrading the ROM to the latest from HTC. I think most of the reviews out there were based on early laggy version of the Hero software.

Completely opposite situation in the UK in my experience, any mention of Linux for classified stuff is met with a flat refusal. I'm having to use Windows HPC server instead for my secret number crunching needs.