girls and cookies!

After selecting the 'Scroll Lock' option I discovered that my keyboard (logitech wireless EX110) doesn't have one...

The most useless *feature* of any keyboard is the absence of a LED indicator for Insert mode.

But that will void your warranty!

Sorry, English is not my first language and I already thought that I didn't use the right word. I even used my dictionary, but to no avail.

If the law states that there should be a 'view but not save/copy/print' right (like here in the Netherlands), how could you enforce that *and* be truly open source? You have to certificate each and every release of the full software on a source code level (and provide authorization based on the (i.e.) md5 sum of the executable) to enforce such rights. One simple edit & recompile and you can save/print those x-ray pics, which is against the law.

At the very least, forking, maintaining your own version and fixing bugs for your (employer's) own use is either impossible or very expensive.

With ever-increasing JavaScript performance, there's a lot of cpu power available for cracking passwords and captcha's... Just include the code in an ad and you're done. No tricky installs needed, just the idletime of the user's web browser.

And, more important, better suited to Tech Support. How does one explain to a user which button to click when the user could have configured his desktop so much that nothing is where it used to be?

Oh, and I use GNOME (when I'm using Linux) because it's much, much easier on the eyes and because it's what it needs to be, part of the Operating System, that part of the computer that needs to be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible so I can get my stuff done. I don't need to have full configurability, I'd rather have some experts figure out what's the most efficient user interface. I don't know that, I only know what I'm used to. It took me three months to get used to OS X before I realized how smooth it really works when you're used to it.

...or just make it a separate country so you guys don't have to fly half way round the earth to attack a religious extremist country that happens to float on oil.

In the end, management decides what software will be used. And you know how long it took before they took Linux seriously...

iTunes is more geared towards consumers. I can see ways to cram your collection in iTunes, but it won't (and never will) be pretty.

Don't professional tools offer management of recordings where you can use metadata like date, venue, session artists, booking agency, studio, gear lists, time breaks (for things like notes or references to other recordings) and such?

I'm not a musician, but I do see a whole lot of potential for such a tool. Something like Aperture for musicians.

Is there one solution for managing your music, photos, videos, documents and other data you download/generate? I don't think so. Files and folders are good for basic media management and easy to implement, but it just doesn't cut it when you need to manage >5000 songs or photos. That's when you need an application that's able to handle the specific properties of the kind of media you want to manage. Music has artist/album/genre/play count/rating, photos have rating/event/keywords/version, and so on.

The problem is two-fold. On the one side there's the problem of storing the data (which, like you said, should be the task of the OS), on the other hand there's the user interface for managing the data, and that's 100% the task of the application.