Or the next GFC/Global Warning/Asteroid strike will have reduced us to scrabbling in the ruins for AA batteries to drive our Nintendos

Bad analogy. A public company made *other* peoples private data freely available, by negligence and/or incompetence. Completely different to a private individual making their own data public.

No he probably means the highly abrasive regolith dust that is kicked up and tracked in by every person using the airlocks.

Yup, I use a reshipper to buy physical goods in the usa and ship them to Brisbane. Typicaly even with air freight its still 30% - 60% cheaper. I got a 50 kilo gym shipped, total cost half what it cost in Oz.

Control, Monitoring and provisioning.

Because its very hard to reproduce, non of the reporters could come up with a reliable way of doing other than "On my system". I myself used to see that bug until kde 4.8. Have never seen it since.

Wheres the "Fucking Idiotic" mod when you need it.

You motivated me to give nouveau a go after a long absence from it. I'm impressed, performance seems excellent and I have all desktop effects working, plus two monitors. Using an GT220.

Thanks.

WTF?

Back to your basement kid.

Did exactly that with my wife, Thunderbird, Firefox and LibreOffice. She is very happy with the result, two years running now. Never crashed, every now and then I run updates. No problems.

Its quite snappy for me.

Devs are working on these issues. Broken functionality and bugs get the highest priority, but speed issues are most definitly being looked at.

Covers all the request features. However since the move to akonadi it does have a terrible reputation for bugginess, unrelalibility and resource hogging, unfortunately a not undeserved one.

However it has been improving steadly, even drastically since kde 4.7. I've been using it as my primary even despite the problems because when its working :) it is just so good. Fantastic integration with KDE, really good handling of multiple accounts and identities. PGP & SMIME, integration with Google calendar and contact, as well as other 3rd parties. An open plugin system for extending it. And it looks *really* good, the perfect blend of functionality and sexiness - when its working :)

I just upgraded to KDE 4.10 Beta 1 (via Kubuntu raring). There seems to be another qualitive improvement in reliabilty. Akonadi hogging the CPU seems to be fixed. Message searches are working - full text content and attributes.

There's still progress to be made, but its made huge steps and I finally feel confident in saying Kontact is back and will make it. The developers have the feature sets done and are just focusing on bug fixing now.

If they'd ever actually said that you *might* have had a point.

Classic case of USA media lies and a credulous ignorant public.

You've obviously never run into the problem, its never that simple.

Google

A *small* sample of the results. All of which have various different answers, all a variation on each other, none of which consistently work. Bonus - many cryptic meanigless error messafes.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9050978/your-branch-is-ahead-of-origin-master-by-1-commit-on-explicit-push

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277077/why-is-git-telling-me-your-branch-is-ahead-of-origin-master-by-11-commits-a

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2432579/git-your-branch-is-ahead-by-x-commits

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2342618/git-your-branch-is-ahead-of-origin-master-by-3-commits

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10820118/your-branch-is-ahead-of-origin-master-by-1-commit-after-merge

http://www.freewayprojects.com/2011/11/solving-the-your-branch-is-ahead-of-originmaster-by-x-commits-issue-after-pulling-using-git/

# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by commits.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

Every single fucking one. And its probably the most search phrase relating to kit with the most questions and the most complete lack of fucking helpful answers. If the precious fucking git maintainers could come up with a more informative error message and a simple default action for the most common case - syncing local/remote branches then they'd probably reduce google traffic by at least 10%