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Random Hesitations: The new threat to windummy productivity in the office
Micoshaft Appil asstroturfing fraudster with a big girlie butt pounding the sock RayLopez99 wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Appil Traffic Light Department of Marketing: Those Linux guys have the biggest open goal in the world, why can't they kick the ball in? Well said. And here is ... 4 Apr 2010 08:15

Random Hesitations: The new threat to windummy productivity in the office
Random Hesitations: The new threat to windummy productivity in the office ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Windummy OSen loaded PCs are known to the word as a two bit OS that hesitates for just about every operation. These windopws random hesitations loose 500% of the wo... 12 Apr 2010 19:16

wifi help
Using FC11 on studio 1555 laptop. I recently did a software update and now all wifi behaviour has stopped. The network manager does not display any local networks. How do I turn this on? The dmesg shows that 802.11 has been configured. I don't want to connect to any local networks (they aren't mine) just to get... 4 Apr 2010 14:51

Ubuntu 10.04 - Change for change's sake?
I just updated Ubuntu on my old laptop to see what differences there are because it is the distro my mother uses and I don't want her worrying about different ways things are done. She's in her 70s and likes to use what she is used to. They moved the Metacity buttons to the left and swapped the order. Why? Th... 2 Apr 2010 17:05

SCO gets screwed (again)!
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/192955/ jury_sides_with_novell_in_longrunning_sco_battle.html> Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works... 2 Apr 2010 19:19

Leave message utility in Fedora screensaver broken..?
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:57:31 +0100, Ivor Jones wrote: Anyone else noticed that the above is not working..? Don't need to use it often as it's rare that other people use my system, but it is definitely not working at the moment. No idea how long it's been broken for though..! Ivor I have never tr... 29 Mar 2010 09:08

KDE Infiltrated
It has happened before. A new operating system to rival Windows was being developed, along with FreeBasic. Microsoft reported that certain old, possibly buggy, and useless source files had been "stolen" from a core-dump, and published on the Internet. The team surrounding FreeBasic were infiltrated, the original ... 31 Mar 2010 14:22

Way in Fedora to organize desktop into quadrants (i.e., dockicons like Window$ Fences)?
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:48:12 -0500, RodMcKay wrote: Just an organizational thing. Was wondering if there was something either native to Linux Fedora or if there was a program in the repository at least, that would allow us to organize desktop icons into (preferably as easy as dragging and dropping "deskt... 6 Apr 2010 14:11

Way in Fedora to organize desktop into quadrants (i.e., dock icons like Window$ Fences)?
Just an organizational thing. Was wondering if there was something either native to Linux Fedora or if there was a program in the repository at least, that would allow us to organize desktop icons into (preferably as easy as dragging and dropping "desktop" icons into folders, or whatever, then icons appear in thes... 5 Apr 2010 17:15

Self-hosted Gmail clone
[third time lucky. news.aioe.org has accepted the previous 2 attempts to post this, but they don't appear] Load average out of peak time is about 1. 'vmstat 30' shows about 30% user, 5% sys, 60% idle and 5% wait. It does seem to be a bit of a beast, but the experience for the end user is determined by the J... 2 Apr 2010 03:53