You mean like burning houses with babies in them ?

Yes, this. If I wanted to communicate using little drawings I'd learn to read and write chinese.I find it much simpler to read the word 'peanut' than to try to remember and identify a potato-looking 8-pixel high symbol. As for remembering the keyboard combination to actually draw it, good luck. Oh, BTW, I hate icons too.

It's possible to remap the menu key to a different hardware key (such as Ins, Pause, or even the weird 'Calc' key I have on my Dell 17"), but it's harder to remap than most other keys, which you can do easily in Linux (In KDE it's in the advanced options in the keyboard settings).

Our senior sysadmin here types with only one finger while looking at the keyboard. 40 years experience too...

In a KDE Konsole terminal, it's the same as Ctrl-S / Ctrl-Q, so in other words a real scroll lock.

I also use it to switch out of a virtual machine in VirtualBox.

But back to the original question, in Linux, replace Caps-Lock with a Compose key by setting it in [Settings][Input Devices][Keyboard][Advanced][Position of Compose Key][Caps Lock] and then enjoy being able to type any accents or weird letter very simply.

And also for the idiots who never use right-click or the Menu key: you are an idiot and should never be allowed to hit two stones together to try and make fire. (Dell, I'm looking at you for removing the Menu key even from 17" laptops!)

Except if it's the wrong person...

You don't say... A friggin' gamma ray laser and scientists aren't jumping on it like maggots on peanut butter ?!?

Been using Linux for 15 years now. I run an instance of XP in a VM because there are exactly 3 pieces of licensed software I need that run only on Windows. And I recently learned that one of them is EOL on XP, so for the next update I'll need Win10. What I already would like to know is how to XP-ify Win10 ? How to remove all the gimmicks and leave only a no-nonsense static user interface ? Some utility that can do that in one install ? Note: I've never used any Windows after XP.

I wonder if we are still going to war. We do a few 'surgical' drone strike that take out one or 2 guys and leave the rest of the family alive (and angry). But it used to be that you'd burn to the ground entire cities, where the few survivors would be only too relieved to see you coming and not shoot them afterwards. I wonder if we are going towards a state of perpetual low level warfare. At least when you wipe out an entire country you have a generation or two of peace afterwards. I think we are improving but I'm not so certain. Remember, a massive amount of violence solved the nazi problem.

Mainly because biological weapons are uncontrollable and likely to hit your own people as much as the enemy. Even combat gas wasn't used much because a change of wind would wipe out your infantry.

I have no idea what a baseball cap is used for except looking like a redneck, but what are you supposed to wear besides a T-shirt ? Going bare chested ?

It's been so long since I last saw an add on the web that I didn't even think of that ! I guess the warning now comes up before AddBlock even gets to them.

I normally have a "no flash start" plugin, meaning I have to click on videos to get them started. That's fine.

But with the recent security zero-days Ubuntu implemented an ask first policy. And I now see the message on virtually every friggin' website, even text-only sites. Why do so many websites use flash for things that the user doesn't need ? I can understand for videos or games, but for a forum...

Yeah. Isn't there a link between Australians and Japanese Ainus ? It's pretty sure that Ainus weren't isolated and had similar populations in Asia, which would migrate towards America just like the other asian populations, albeit in smaller numbers.