Windows have its equivalent vfs thing. You can see My Computers Devices, Printers, Control Panel Applets, Windows Neighborhood, network shares and FTP sites and PocketPC filesystem in Explorer.

The main KDE 2 Desktop concepts (I mean Konqueror with kioslaves and kparts) was mostly embracing Win95/98 concepts, just doing them right, I mean, KDE devs did it because it could be cool and useful, not just because they were trying to steal Netscape's market share.

So, no, a number of features of KDE comes from Windows and KDE 4 is no exception, they just are there but most users don't notice about them.

Of course, KDE makes a better choice for me because their feature are usually better implemented, did at library level so the experience is more consistent, and of course there is the integration with the unix fundation.

Nobody is bashing Windows so far, yet it seems to be what the editor look for when he wrote the headline. Has Windows improved enough that nobody try to make fun of it anymore, or slashdotters are already older and more mature?

A regular burglar won't care abour your data. One up to the times would check if you are sloppy and kept home banking credentials on a file in your desktop, or something else he can make money of.

I guess you are anarchist, aren't you?

And while it can sound unfair, if you look on it on the right light, it isn't. A GPL'd project can be built on a platform where no free toolchain is available (hey, even GCC had to be compiled on a different compiler the first time!). Of course, the concept is about non-free but publicly available tools, as seems to be in this case.

Most consumer routers could support IPv6, just their firmwares don't.
The bad part? Most router vendors won't provide firmware upgrades, they will offer ISPs to buy new IPv6 capable ones instead.
The good part? A nice fraction of these devices run Linux, so theoretically ISPs could do bounties for third party IPv6 capable firmwares. I for one am available for such a task.

I doubt anybody would dare to work with Hans lately.

However, back in 1996, basically the only available toolkit besides Qt was Tk. GTK+, Fltk and others are newer. wxWidgets (wxWindows back then) didn't have native widgets, Motif was fully closed, etc, so choice of Qt probably was reasonable.

Best practices about CA management says you should have your secret key in a (physical) safe. Better yet, divide it in two pieces and put it along the passphrase in three different safes (part1+pass,part2+pass,part1+part2), so you can't lose key access even if you lose one safe, and nobody can take the key by opening a single safe.