Actually they got 20 seats and a tipping point position, where they in theory could get power to deseat the sitting conservative/liberal government.
But I agree with the point... the interesting (and scary) part about the election is that I can expect that one in every twenty people I meet down town actually voted for a nazi party.
It's easy to change even within the current distribution. Steps to fix:
* Start gconf-editor
* expand in this order: apps, metacity, general
* Find entry "button_layout"
* change it to "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
The colon separates left side and right side.
Yeah... I wrote my first commodore 64 basic program when I was 10, and now I'm about to finish a phd in computer science.
Either C64 basic wasn't all that dangerous to one's mental health, or maybe it isn't a problem to be "mentally mutilated beyond hope" when working within academia.
Hrm. Actually, when thinking that last part of the statement through, it does seem like a rather fitting description of both me and my colleagues. I just never knew it was because we had programmed basic.
Hackers of the world, unite!