Right, KDE being open source means you can just dive into the code and de-bloat the thing. Piece of cake. Seriously?

Ah, so that's what it's actually for...

Um, ever heard of the AwesomeBar?

Wait, exactly how easy to use would it have to be for your grandmother to use it, then?

No, it just reads zero all the time. It's hideously impractical.

Russian is hard. : |

Furthermore, because standby mode is less annoying, people are more likely to use it. You can even set up a computer to stand by automatically when idle for a period of time. In other words, pragmatically it is more likely to save power than telling people to turn off their computers when they aren't using them.

I'm tired of this gag. It doesn't even make sen

In the city where I live, people leave their cars running unattended with keys in the ignition all the time.

On the other hand I see police cars patrolling the streets all the time as well.

Why not a third-party AdBlock? AdBlock for Firefox is third-party, after all. Google couldn't be held responsible for a third-party extension.

In fact, since apparently the new version of Chrome has GreaseMonkey support, it should be quite easy to implement (or possibly even port) AdBlock.

You sure it wasn't the lousy wi-fi connection? ;-)

With greasemonkey support, AdBlock should be fairly easy to implement.

It isn't reliable, though. I tried using it once, the filesystem got very corrupted.

XFCE would be very nice except for the horrible memory leak in xfdesktop and xfce4-menu-plugin. It basically defeats the main purpose of xfce, which is to be a low-memory desktop. This REALLY needs to be fixed.

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3812

This is more like user permissions.