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There was no meaningful body text, just a one-liner about "discovering great content." For a while, I thought it was some sort of spam!
It's a Samsung, doesn't do anything fancy, but it calls and texts without a problem, the battery lasts for weeks, and the signal is rock-solid. It's an ideal spare phone. I keep it in the car for emergencies, and take it out to charge it once a week or so. It's so simple that I actually prefer using it to a smartphone!
Stick to fishing... it's not 1973 anymore!
I wouldn't go on there and click Ubuntu or FreeBSD, because I know what they are and have no real need to view their Distrowatch pages. But my curiosity might lead me to click on Zorin or SolusOS because, like you, I've never heard of them.
I regularly get offers from the supermarket for money off yet more unhealthy food - they are blissfully unaware that I eat quite well in reality!
I do that, and I live in Britain, which I believe is a lot better-off than Hungary. I don't know anyone who doesn't!
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/general-news...
I recently moved, and the landlord (who was broke) was trying to keep money for all sorts of non-existent faults, most of which were due to his shoddy DIY work before I moved in. I raised a dispute and eventually got the vast majority of the money back. Just make sure you keep pictures of the state of the house before you move your stuff in.
Formerly known as Sylpheed-Claws, it [Claws] started in April 2001 as the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged, but evolved enough to now be a completely separate program. It forked completely from Sylpheed in August 2005.
Cities are largely the same wherever you go - London, Chicago, Sydney - they are all big towers, shops, bars, metro, money flowing around, and so on. It's when you get out into the country that you get a real flavour of a place.
As for least favorite, well, I was served goat in Somaliland
in a situation where it was difficult to decline.
If he visits Somaliland and counts that, did he also visit Transnistria? And if so, how low down the list do you go - do you then have to visit every self-declared nation-state all the way down to Sealand?
The list that fascinates me is the amateur radio DXCC list of "entities" which count separately. Many of them are dependencies of other countries, a lot are uninhabited (I might book my next holiday on Peter I Island or Scarborough Reef) but there are currently 340 of them: http://www.arrl.org/country-lists-prefixes
It's all really interesting stuff!
Next time the playlist was issued by our Head of Music, it had disappeared. Usually, we kept a current song on the playlist for 3-4 weeks at least. It was highly unusual for a track to disappear after a week! The only other songs I can remember with such a short shelf life were novelty / charity / Christmas type records which lasted a fortnight or so before dropping off as public attention drifted elsewhere.
It doesn't make any sense to have in one corner, an out-of-date desktop environment in MATE, and in the other corner, Cinnamon fragmenting things yet further.
I want a "traditional" DE in the GNOME 2 style, I don't feel the need to have a tablet UI on my desktop PC with keyboard and mouse. But I'd rather not have to go back to ye olde software to do this. I'd like GNOME to take into account those of us who want to use the new technologies without pretending our 17-inch monitor is a 7-inch tablet.
Nowadays, for better or for worse, any child with a mobile phone can - and does - spout off online, on Twitter, on messageboards, etc.
I like to discuss radio online, and I remember the good old days of alt.radio.uk and similar Usenet groups, full of interesting discussions with people actually involved in the industry.
Nowadays, the web-based messageboard equivalents are filled with kids plugging their bedroom internet streams, and obsessive ranting about radio stations that is frankly bordering on the insane. One of the popular UK radio-related boards is pretty unusable these days, because any real discussion is drowned out in noisy ranting and one-liner posts.
I just think it's an effect of everyone and his dog being able to send off comments without any thought needed.
How do I do this? I live in rural Yorkshire, near Barnsley, in a very cheap area. I would say that in real terms, I'm 'richer' than someone earning twice as much as me, but living in a similar village 30 miles outside London. There are jobs in the capital with salaries far higher than mine, that I could likely have a shot at getting if I applied, but I don't apply because I don't want to live in crowded, expensive London.
I much prefer it this way, even if my bank account doesn't have as big a number next to it as someone else's. I'm happy!
I'm on a computer all day at work, and work hard - when I go home, I have little inclination to then use a computer again, even if it's for leisure or games.
Canonical.
And I've never heard of Svbtle.
I don't know Odessa, Texas - but if you gave me a choice between working in Central London or (say) Taunton, Somerset, I know which one I'd go for.
A place having a huge selection of bars, restaurants and clubs doesn't have a great deal of weight for me. I'd rather live in a safe place with a stronger sense of community and a less hurried pace of life. That's just me, though!