1. In a small hut in the jungle of Malaysia, programming an Electronic Health Records System for a government mobile clinic. The electricity was provided by a petrol generator set that ran out of fuel around midnight. I had to tap power by joining to the wires of the lights. My laptop was also literally full of bugs, since the insects were attracted by the only source of light in the jungle.
2. Fixing software bugs in server using SSH on a Nokia E71 handphone, inside a moving taxi in rural Sri Lanka.

Since when has Debian been positioned as the distro for the general public? It is up to Debian derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. to make things simpler for the average user. It is the distros like these that will be judged by the public whether Linux is ready for the mainstream, not Debian.

Does anyone know why Dell would want to set the 1GB RAM limit? 4GB I can understand, but 1GB?

And it really happened to me. My buddy had to blurt it out before I had a chance to catch the movie.

Google suggests that you create a few empty documents when you are online. It may seem clumsy, but it's not impossible.