+1 for Prgmr. Stable, fast, reliable. I am 4yr with them.

I was actually planing to leave Ukraine. For freelancer only important things are: Internet, postal service, low crime, low local taxes, friendly locals, easy long term visa. Warm climate would be nice too.

Does any one knows such place?

I forgot to mention one impotent detail. Address in form which was in ad was in city of San Mateo. I lived at that time in San Mateo also.

Money magazine published ad for CitiBank with my name in it. Ad was just filled in mortgage application form with my name in it. My name is Leonid Volnitsky. There might exist other Leonid Volnitsy, probably somewhere in Russia or Ukraine. But I will not bet on it. But I can bet that nobody uses such particular full name spelling in latin alphabet.

I pretty much ignored it. One day friends and co-workers started to congratulate me that I am buying a house and I had to explain them that I am pure sob who don't have money to buy a house in Silicon Valley and that I never even applied. And that ad agency probably just saw my name somewhere and used it.

But I am still curious if my name use was legal.

It is not just flushing the buffers but also swaping out now-inactive (interactive) processes. When I run some streaming app, I just disable swap. Also ionice and "sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1" might help too.

I is very usable from command line too. In GUI you can see some extra info without doing anything, but in my command line I can see it too (screenshots: http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt), without typing git status all the time.