So I haven't been around here for a while. Not because I don't like Slashdot, but because it's largely become a ghost town in terms of new stories thanks to the cesspool known as Digg. Having been involved in on-line communities since the late 80s (Cleveland Freenet is dead. LONG LIVE the Cleveland Freenet!) I can say that this was predictable. What I didn't predict is that mindless and uncreative trolls such as yourself would still be involved in the Gnome vs. KDE or KDE vs. Gnome wars. It's like those stories you hear about people finding Japanese soldiers a decade or two later on some uncharted island who are still fighting WW II. Give it a rest. Go home.

Both environments have their uses from the end-user perspective. Gnome definitely won on claiming the minds of developers. Which of the two has more USEFUL software these days? I'll give you a hint, it doesn't try to ape Windows. That said, which development platform caters to more fringe users (not pejorative in the least because I'm one of them) with much more specific uses than grandma? I'll give you another hint, its developers can't seem to come up with creative names so they preface everything with a K or a Q.

In a way I feel pity for you. You would have engaged a lot of people back in the day. But today, you're kind of like the crazy old uncle who gets drunk at family parties and starts feeling up his nieces: sad and very very wrong. Pack it in soldier. The world has moved on.

TT

That's kind of the sad thing. I'm not 100% sure who is who on Multiply other than the ones who kept the same name, or have big enough presence to shine through any UID. ;) It's becoming harder and harder to find people to talk scripting with who also don't mind just talking about other stuff. Oh well, eventually there will be another "rapture" and communities will shift again. I think this is my fifth or sixth time since 1989.

Doing alright. My last journal entry here was August 2008. I'm still over on Multiply for the most part now. But there's less discussion about computer related stuff there. I cross-posted this anyway. So how are things here at the "dot"?

If it's aliens, it might be interesting, but given that all aliens are hostile, it's also likely to be the last thing you'll ever read. I suspect that the Niburu are starting to play their games since 2012 is just around the corner and Planet X is nearly here. Expect increasing storms, floods, blizzards, earth quakes, volcanic eruptions, heavier menstruation, and zits over the next couple of years... Then it will be "The End" (tm) (C) Apple Inc. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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