4.7.3 is the last time I tried it... I have 4.7.4 now, but I haven't got around to trying kmail again just yet because my hopes weren't very high.

But thanks for the heads up!

Kmail2 has been a nightmare for me as well. I've switched to thunderbird and while it's not terrible, I don't particularly care for it. I'm hoping kmail2 will eventually be un-fucked so I can switch back.

In KDE 4.7, I have issues where sometimes when I click on apps in the task manager, it doesn't bring them up. I get this on my desktop and laptop (Kubuntu). It generally takes another click or 2 for it to work.

I have another issue where sometimes I get 2 programs overlapping in the task manager (you see the text of both), but only one of them is accessible. I can fix it by right clicking, and moving the accessible app to another virtual desktop, then moving it back. Then both apps have distinct task bar entries that work. I had this problem in 4.6 as well, but it also happened much more frequently in 4. so I guess there's been some improvement.

Hmmm... According to the article, these new chips seemed to be based on the bulldozer architecture, so it might be better to think of these opterons as 8 core chips that have really good hyperthreading.

I'm not sure what 'rpm -qs' does, but the equivalent of 'rpm -qf file' is 'dpkg -S file'.

I realize I'm being somewhat redundant here... But I also HIGHLY recommend system76. I'm on my 2nd bonobo class laptop, and I've been very pleased with both. As mentioned before, their systems all ship with ubuntu, but I always immediately reinstall with kubuntu while I leaving 1-2 partitions free for other OS's.

FreeBSD compatibility has been quite good with the exception of the intel wifi support, which FreeBSD eventually ends up supporting anyway. The only real issue I've had with FreeBSD on these laptops has been a distinct lack of power management (but FreeBSD's power management in general is almost non-existent with very very few supported systems). But if you want to install FreeBSD, I'd make sure you get a system76 laptop with an nvidia GPU as linux's open source radeon drivers aren't really there yet (especially in regards to power management)... and FreeBSD's open source radeon support is no where near linux's (and there are no proprietary radeon drivers for FreeBSD either).

I never knew Michael Mann was also a climatologist. I guess this explains the naming of one of my favorite movies: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/
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X runs on hurd. In debian hurd, KDE 4.6.3 is even available in the repo.

Nope. It's because of how the twitter trending algorithm works. They don't allow the same topics to continually trend, otherwise Justin Bieber would be almost all the top trends all the time. This was explained to me by my pro-wikileaks friend even before the wikileaks fiasco occurred and who also happens to work for twitter. He also re-explained this to me during the whole wikileaks mess. This is also the explanation twitter gave.

Everyone, can we please move on from this conspiracy theory?

That would be Iron Man 1. I own it on bluray, and I have a 55 inch samsung 8500 series LED/LCD TV. I can't see anything like that. Furthermore, film is a bit sharper than 1080p even, so wouldn't everyone who saw it in the theaters complain about the same problem?

I know there are live CD's out there, but can someone tell me where I can find a Live CD with the proprietary nvidia drivers (haven't had too much luck with google)? I know there are legal issues, but folks have made linux live CD's in the past that shipped with the closed drivers in the past. Nouveau (sic?) probably won't work for me since I have a GTX 580.

I'm a huge KDE fan (since kde 2). Once it got past the development releases (4.3?), I liked KDE4, I love KDE4.6. With all the constant whining even about recent KDE4 releases which I personally think are great, then I figure gnome 3.0 is at least worth a shot with all the hate it's getting. :)