How can it not make sense? Digikam's not good if you use Gnome. It's usable, but some functions don't work.

Some things don't work. I've recently upgraded Fedora and i haven't tried Digikam with the new version, so i don't know if the problems are the same. But previously, image "tool tips" (i.e., showing metadata etc when you hover the mouse pointer over a thumbnail) were blank, and the preview image was blank - which was rather annoying. No, i haven't filed bug reports as i haven't checked if they are bugs (by testing it with KDE) or just incompatibilities with Gnome. Digikam is a KDE application and it never claims to work with Gnome.

Why don't you mount your data partition on /home? That's what i'd do if my o/s was on an SSD - regardless of whether i used digikam or not.

Yes, Digikam's good - so long as you use kde. I don't, but i put up with its annoying gnome incompatibilities because it's the best there is - and i've tried all the rest.

Yeah, Digikam's the best i've found so far - but it doesn't work very well under gnome unfortunately, and i don't like kde. I've tried pretty much all the Linux photo organisation software and Digikam's best so far - even with its gnome incompatibility. All in all, the issue of managing photos seems to be constantly problematic.

Maybe. But if a beer's undrinkable at room temperature (VB's an Australian example of that), you shouldn't drink it at all.

Come off it. This is /. - everyone has to click that link once!

Shoulda been first post!

That depends on your definition of intelligence. But, whatever it is, all the intelligence in the world is worthless without the ability to communicate its products clearly in a way that lesser mortals can understand. Theoretical physicists, as a whole, do a very poor job of that.

So does that mean dark matter is effectively a cloud of gas and its particles are constantly in rapid motion, but constrained in a spheroid by gravity? Or am i completely failing to grasp how it works?

The problem is that we've seen that shit before - it's called religion. Only a small clique of superior beings can actually know god's mind - and everyone else must just shut up and listen. If you can't explain this stuff in ways that non scientists can understand, then (a) you're not worth your wages, and (b) nobody's going to believe you.

Yeah, too right. If it wasn't for the meddling of a lowly patent clerk, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place!

That sounds unlikely. How did it happen?

The ones that give you a nasty hangover, you mean?

The basement fridge probably vibrates more than the kitchen one. And maybe isn't as cold.

It's probably got more to do with the fact that cask ale is brewed, while the other revolting piss is manufactured.