Saw this on Sciam.com probably two weeks ago, and on fark.com a few days after that...

So, is the approval process just that slow here?

Okay, if they are monitoring transactions, go to your local store, get a gift card for 25, 50, or 100 USD, and donate that way. Not traceable by those fuckers...

Why can't terrorists do something nice for a change, and bomb the MPAA and RIAA HQ?

I live in Austin, TX, and listen to Internet Radio exclusively through my Droid (XiiaLive or Pandora). Add web browsing with the Internet radio, and the tethering I do when not near wireless and I can use 10GB/month easy...

I don't use KDE as a desktop, but on OpenBSD-current using scrotwm, it works great.

I quit using OO.org when I found Koffice. Koffice builds much faster for me in OpenBSD, and it can open the microsoft formats, and export to PDF, which is what I use it for anyway. I used LibreOffice on my windows box, as Koffice is not easily available (it requires a beta version and using a KDE installer that didn't work for me on windows 7).

That's why I didn't like the service. I didn't need their "Smart Search" or "website rating", or even their "site info"... I just needed my bookmarks backed up. When Google backup stopped working, I used foxmarks, then xmarks (which was doing 'data aggregation') of all the bookmarks. data aggregation= data mining

I pay for mine, and I don't hear ads... 3 bucks a month and I stream probably 100 hours of it on my droid...

Works well too. Even if I'm on the 1X network (EM interference at my office)

In 35 years, we will get back "whogot votedoff AmericanIdol lastweek?"

1. In the location bar type "about:config"
2. click through the "OMG, this is totally mess up your browser if you screw it up!"
3. type in the "filter" bar "richresults" or look for "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults"
4. double click on the value (default is 12)
5. Set new value of "0" (zero)
6. Profit

I do this at work, at home, on my "portable" version. I hate the location bar, even when the thing was considered innocuous...

except that the Apache that comes installed with OpenBSD is far different than the one you'll find on apache.org. Last I heard, there are about 4000 lines of code difference. They maintain that as part of the base. It is more secure than the stock apache you'd find elsewhere.

And this isn't coming from some AC. I've used OpenBSD since 3.4. I've seen the implementation of wireless, bluetooth, WPA/WPA2 without the "linux_supplicant" bullshit. Massive changes to PF, bioctl for raid, sound upgrades, DRI for 3D, OpenBGPd, OpenOSPFd, our own implementation of mail (ripping out the modified sendmail). All without an NDA.

We are the tortoise, not the hare. Linux/FreeBSD are the prison bitches of companies by signing NDAs just so they can "support" the latest technology. Video cards blobs may work, but when they go tits up, the companies either take forever to fix them, or it's just tough luck... "you don't have enough market share"

It's a popularity contest. OpenBSD won't win it, but we don't need to. I am happy to be sitting at the adult table, not eating the table scraps of the corporate world.

OpenBSD has been a desktop OS for years.

OpenOffice has been in ports/packages for about 2 years now. It's a bitch to build from ports. Before that, you could install it using linux_compat, and install the RPM of OO.org.

epdfview for pdf viewing
gimp for picture editing

I use fluxbox for X manager, but we have KDE/gnome if you enjoy the bloat.

I use grip for OGG/FLAC creation
MPlayer/FFMPEG for video conversion
Firefox for browsing, but we have Opera if you absolutely need things like flash for youtube.

We have torrent clients, the most powerful firewall created using PF, we are dropping sendmail in base to use our own maild.

Over 4000 ports/packages.

I've been using it since 3.4, and I love it. The releases are on time, many thanks to our dictator-in-chief, Theo. Free Software does not need a "committee".