I picked up the thread of these thoughts again today, while was watching at a progress of Durian Open Movie project.
Yesterday, 31 jan their team released a preview of one of a fight scenes should probably be in the final movie.

"LOL that is how it's going to be?" was my thought when I saw it. FEW other people on the comments page noticed the same thing I did there: excessive violence of a picture, which was meant to be much milder. I was disappointed by that. I know...

This is just a quick note to myself. I spend a lot of time in the perl debugger (perl -d -e 1) and CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) in Ubuntu and hate the way that when I get to the perl shell my keyboard cursor keys stop doing useful things like scrolling through my history and start producing garbage like "^[[A", "^[[B" "^[[C" and "^[[D" (up arrow, down arrow, right arrow and left arrow respectively).

I have fixed this several times on other boxes,...

No, I've changed my mind. I don't want to concentrate on learning C to the exclusion of everything else. There are too many other aspects of Linux I want to explore and learn about. All the CLI stuff: coreutils, grep, sed, less and more and most (more or less), and the rest of the GNU odds'n'sods. Shell scripting. And on and on.
So, what I really want as far as C is concerned (not to mention any other language) is enough insight into it to read and understand source code. Maybe write simple...

Hello Friends,

Last week, I purchased an AMD machine (Athlon II X3, getforce6100 chip set). I installed Mandriva 2009 on it. Now I am trying with some other disros like Fedora, Ubuntu, Centos, Debian, Open Suse etc. Except Mandriva 2010 no other distro detect partition on my SATA HDD (WDC). A pop come during installation and give two option 1) Ignore Drive 2) Re-Initialize Hard Drive. I can not afford to select any of these two options. I tried on some blogs, but I got NO SOLUTION....

Hi LinuxQuestions members. I just wanted to know, "What is your favorite distro?"