obviously s/the/this/ in the last sentence

What the fuck? Why the hell do you even play games anyway? Cunting mother of shit I can't believe I still read the asswank website.

I believe the word you are looking for it 'assfucks'. I mean pvpers. Same thing

No, because I've *actually used* Vista, unlike those people who make these ridiculous claims based on their first ten minutes, which they spent running application installers.

Huh. I had no idea. Gmail works perfectly in Opera in normal mode. It's exactly the same as Firefox except for less random slowdown in extremely long threads (in fairness FF3.0 did improve matters there somewhat, but Opera is still marginally better for Gmail). For some reason, it's never redirected me to the basic HTML version...

I guess you could. I have a (now rather sizeable) list of bugs and wishlist items I've been assembling for KDE4.2 in the last couple of days, with the intention to go through it and file bugs as appropriate. I'll add that to the wishlist :D

I presume you mean 'uninstall Dolphin', which is what I said.

Are you saying that Konqueror in KDE4 can use something other than dolphinpart as the embedded viewer for files of type 'inode/directory'? In Debian at least there appears to be no other option, and I was under the impression that it was an intentional choice to use one shared part.

On the other hand, perhaps you are saying that it should be possible to uninstall the Dolphin application while leaving the kpart available for use? In that case, what distros have it packaged in such a way that that's possible?

Shared calendars in Public Folders. Evolution can't do them. Plus it's not cross-platform and it's slow and bloated. I tried really hard to like Evolution, but I couldn't stand it past the first afternoon.

That's correct (in KDE4 at least). It's possible to uninstall Dolphin, and then Konqueror will be unable to browse local directories.

TRWTF is what Dolphin (the application) is actually *for*. The UI is *more* cluttered than Konqueror despite providing *less* features. It's like they heard of the trade-off between features and ease-of-use[0] but didn't realise that one of those is supposed to be improved, rather than both get worse. I suspect I may not be the target market for this application :P.

[0] Not that I really believe in this trade-off, for reasons more-or-less described by this guy: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/userfriendly/userfriendly1.php

Unfortunately, ionice prioritises only I/O writes, not reads, which are the cause of the problem most of the time. In my experience, using ionice actually makes *no difference at all*, which really sucks.

On a related topic, I was recently amazed to discover that, despite the Linux kernel's shockingly awful I/O scheduling performance (face it folks, it really sucks hard), Windows XP is considerably worse. Want to move a large file from one disk to another? Might as well go and grab a coffee; your machine will be a doorstop while it's transferring. (I still think Windows is better at CPU scheduling though (my preference is to set it for a server load even on the desktop).)