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What the most popular browser is doesn't matter on its own. But I would still expand your <=IE8 to include all of IE because, while IE8 and lower are hopelessly outdated, IE9 is still a poor HTML5 browser and new and shiny IE10 is already behind both Chrome and Firefox.

I've been doing 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' and getting rid of Gnome/Unity since 8.04 - no pain involved. Maybe it does not apply to XFCE/LXE/others (I don't know) but it's one command to stick KDE on top of Ubuntu.

It's 2012 and my laptop has 8GB of RAM, which means that my booted-up idle machine with a modern graphical DE uses less than 5% of available RAM. I wouldn't call it sad.

Preventing Akonadi/Nepomuk/Strigi nonsense from running helps with resources quite a bit (unless, of course, one actually uses them). My Ubuntu with KDE uses less than 400MB RAM idle and without the above.

Against your anecdotal evidence I'll present a somewhat less anecdotal evidence in the fact that KDE was voted best desktop environment in the last annual LinuxQuestions members choice awards. Clearly people voting for it are the ones using it, don't you think?

There is a reason for that trend - Ubuntu LTS on the server takes less time to set up and manage than Red Hat/CentOS. Red Hat of course now does 10-year support for its releases as well as excellent security out of the box (10-year support is especially appealing to me as a system admin) but the ease of Ubuntu LTS upgrades and more frequent releases (i.e. up-to-date software) combined with the admin friendliness make for a more compelling business case.

The long-term effects of zero or low gravity on human health are very serious - muscle, bone and eyesight loss and a host of other problems. Current mechanisms of dealing with the problem (exercise and special suits) do not cater adequately to long-term space journeys.

A minor point that nevertheless caught my eye right away:

Your undertitle is "...VersionEye Follow your libraries..."

but right below you have "What is VersionEye? More than just following your libraries."

Considering that these are the only 2 messages I see above the fold on load, they feel somewhat at odds with each other.

Rarely do I get to read articles that are that low on substance, facts or concrete examples. What is a "Go's particular way" and how does it differ from the author's way? What are these 'particular' structures and behaviour? What is this "particular way", and again "particular way", of solving design issues? Is it like Fight Club?

Thank you so much! To enable I needed to change 'Sorting' to 'Manually' in Task Manager Settings.

It is incredibly customisable however the article lists a specific customisation (ability to re-arrange applications in the taskbar) that was in KDE3, missing in KDE4 and is actually useful to have. The ability to tilt desktop widgets at odd angles, mentioned by Linus, is utterly pointless. So the article has it right - they ought to start listening to user input.

Do 'normal' consumers even read technology blogs? And most certainly somebody posting on HN does not qualify as a 'normal consumer' when it comes to technology purchases.

I hope your comment was tongue-in-cheek and you are not seriously accusing him now, based on what he wrote, of hating both sexes.

"Anti-woman" - that's quite an accusation but that accusation is based on Tso's discussing a hypothetical situation where specifically no gender distinction is made and a male can end up being a victim (or a "victim", dependent on one's views).

The aggressive tone is off-putting, the formatting is distracting and the target of criticism seems to be Wikipedia, as well as Node. Talk about concurrency.

Inbound.org is the correct place to dump links to low-quality SEO-related articles.

Videos certainly deserve to be more tightly woven into the fabric of the Web but my first interaction with the Popcorn-produced video did not end well.

The article gave a link to a TED video remixed with Popcorn so I decided to see it in action. Shortly into the article a Wikipedia article popped out and having hesitated for a few seconds I decided to click on it ... just as it disappeared off the screen. Nevermind, right afterwards a link came up to some frog. Intrigued, I clicked on it and a new tab opened with an amusing Youtube video of a frog attacking an iPhone. The related video was about a bird playing dead, then a Chinese soldier failing to throw a grenade, an amazing goal being scored, a fight... What the original video that I'd set out to watch was about I've still no idea.

Audio recording of their final minutes is available on YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjzMwAFrmc ) and is in line with the official version (for instance, pilots start swearing and screaming a couple of seconds before the end, right after the controller says something about height and a second approach)

"To be productive at Rails, you have to know what gems are out there. You need to keep up with the gems, because they really are central to the productivity boost you can get from Rails. There is a gem for almost any bit of functionality you need, you only have to know which gems are good. If you find yourself writing large amounts of custom code in Rails, then either you are truly tackling a novel problem that no one has ever dealt with before, or you are simply unaware of the gem that you should be using."

This made me smile:

:%s/Rails/Drupal/g

:%s/gem/module/g

"To be productive at Drupal, you have to know what modules are out there. You need to keep up with the modules, because they really are central to the productivity boost you can get from Drupal. There is a module for almost any bit of functionality you need, you only have to know which modules are good. If you find yourself writing large amounts of custom code in Drupal, then either you are truly tackling a novel problem that no one has ever dealt with before, or you are simply unaware of the module that you should be using."

"Most secular liberals think that all religions are the same, and they consider any suggestion to the contrary a sign of bigotry"

I can't speak for others but personally I don't make distinction between religions because I view "religion" overall as an atavistic and harmful phenomenon that seeks to deprive human beings of critical thinking capacities and is often used as a control tool towards nefarious ends.

Individual religions/cults certainly differ between themselves in their potential to cause harm but it is the overall concept of "religion" that must be rejected by humanity as wrong in principle - otherwise those extreme and violent manifestations of religion will keep reappearing and with the speed of technological progress as it is today will soon pose mortal danger to the whole human civilisation.

sudo sshuttle 0/0 --dns -H -r user@server:port

It's a matter of convenience for me, substituting both (partially) OpenVPN and 'ssh -D'. I use 7 browsers (incl. 4 Firefox profiles) and a number of terminal tools that I often want to be seen coming from a specific server IP address from my /24 block - saves time configuring all of them individually to use SOCKS proxy or setting up OpenVPN on individual servers.

+1 to this, it's like 'ssh -D' on steroids, very easy to set up and just an 'apt-get install sshuttle' away. Also allows easy DNS request forwarding.

Of course, OpenSSH itself provides VPN capability too without the need for sshuttle but it's harder to set up.

Some reliable VPN providers also accept cash in snail mail.

I think it means 3 hours from the initial torrent availability on trackers.

Tactic suggests an objective. So to what ends might BBC use such (according to you, very typical) tactics?

Here is my system of not wasting too much time on e-mail: I only have one client application set up to access my various accounts - Zimbra Desktop, which I don't have any entries for in the OS menu, and I don't know any passwords myself as they are randomly generated and stored in KeyPassX.

Every day a cronjob starts up the client at 4pm, which starts minimized (thank you, KDE), proceeds to fetch new mail, apply various filters (e.g. CCs marked read and archived), and maximizes the window 2 minutes later.

Half an hour later another cronjob does a 'killall' on it - that way if I wasn't at my desk at 4, I wouldn't have to come back to be greeted by unanswered e-mails.

And, as the article says, there is always a mobile phone for anything truly urgent.

Since you are in Scotland and the invoice is overdue, you can legally add £40/£70/£100 penalty to your invoice (which one depends on the invoice amount) + charge 8.5% annual interest. These do not have to have been specified in your contract with the client as they come under provisions of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act.

Do you not find it ironic that people with those qualities would not leave such an ignorant comment in the first place?

While this is the first with respect to releasing on Github, in April 2010 White House also released 2 open source Drupal modules (for Akamai integration and another one).