Yes, and I passed the General written at 14 without studying. There're two local kids I can think of with their license, one 9, one 12, and the 12 year old used an aluminum canoe as an antenna. Call me when a group of fifth graders do this, THEN I'll be impressed.

I sincerely hope you're griping about the fact that Fedora forced its users to switch to KDE 4.0, which KDE strongly discouraged distros from switching to in the first place. If you think of it as an open-source tech demo, you're close to the purpose. A complete rewrite takes time, and KDE is all about openness. So, while they were busy working on a newer, more flexible version, they allowed people to try it themselves. The upcoming 4.2 release is extremely usable. I'm thrilled that I can boot up my desktop, and wow my non-Linux-using friends with it.

So my point is this. Fedora screwed up here, not KDE. KDE followed its principles, and has maintained the entire time that what they were working on was not "ready for production use."

I believe that's what the "Steady Beeps" refers to. For those of us interested in shortwave, that's the sound produced by radio stations WWV or WWVH. You can set your clock by it. It's also the signal that any of your fancy self-setting clocks tunes to.

I'm sorry, that wasn't close enough to a real car analogy to satisfy me. Could you explain this again, in terms of engines and brakes?

Bjork bjork bjork?

Technically, I'm giving my money for a cause I believe in, a greater cause. I am not taking that money from anyone, I'm earning it, which makes it mine to do with as I please. Nobody is "subsidizing" this in any way, shape, or form.

Begging your pardon, but I pay my taxes, and I don't get subsidized by your money or that of any other. So just what are you talking about?

So give us the binaries and let us package them ourselves. Next?

Funny, I rarely hear about problems with Nvidia cards or sound in Slackware anymore, and I'm in the irc channel all the time. Maybe Ubuntu needs to hurry up and join the modern distros like Slackware?

A small number of us are pitching in to help him with that, as well. Remember, part of the reason Slamd64 "lags" is due to Fred's attempting to remain as close to a pure port of Slackware as possible... so he has to wait on Pat to update before he can, most of the time.

You'll be interested to know that slackpkg is now in /ap, and that unlike apt or yum, it doesn't try to remove half the system when you decide you want to finally be rid of BitchX.

Hey, I just got that email! It's wonderful how you can use exponential growth to get a message out!

I stopped listening when they canned XM31 The Torch. Dad listens to XM34 Enlighten, and while they're not canceling that, they're trying to can what is probably the most popular show on the channel.

Hey CEO's! Listen to us for once, and maybe you'll stop losing subscribers!

I received one as well. I pulled a game for backup (the original cd is sitting next to me as I type this), and assumed that anyone else connecting to me would be doing the same thing. The notice came after I had already closed that torrent out. Haven't heard from them again since, so I agree with and corroborate your story.

That would make it an emo train, wouldn't it?