One the the coolest options right now for WFH, if your corporate environment is a Citrix environment, is that Dell Wyse (possibly others, haven't checked) have mobile thin clients. This way you can have company controlled/owned hardware in the home office for the WFH employee, plus MFA for logon. https://www.dell.com/en-us/wor...

^^ This times 1000. We used to produce all of our own shit. Sending production of that shit overseas is how we have screwed ourselves.

Last I checked, Microsoft switched up SQL licensing to be per-core as well. That is what my employer had to start paying last renewal. Completely annoying.

There are more than a few cases ongoing, and yes he actually has won some, and some have been won on his behalf by others.

An article that summarizes the results for you: https://www.lifesitenews.com/b...

The nitty gritty details as aggregated by the group of scientists mentioned in the article above: http://wiseenergy.org/Energy/E...

Came to say this.... you beat me to it.

I go camping at Burning Man style events, which are incredibly geek-laden. There are generators all over the place. There's even a video "room" at the one I camp at twice a year in Delaware. These are campouts that last five days, so people load the field with as many ways to enjoy the time as possible. Playing video games is definitely a thing there, and there is definitely no reliable Internet connection. Heck, even phone reception is iffy there.

Yeah, there's no rational reason you shouldn't be able to configure that out of existence, especially given that KDE is configurability-oriented.

For what it's worth, the "py-cashew" widget will make it disappear. Just click "Get New Widgets" when adding widgets, and search for "cashew". Not an optimal solution, but it seems to work fine from here.

Ah, easier way:

"GTK+ Style" in the same place puts OK button on the right without configuration (and looks a heck of a lot more "normal" than Bespin does by default).

That's apparently controlled by the "Widget style". If you use the "Bespin" style, for instance, then one of the things you can configure in "Input/System" is called "Dialog buttons layout". They offer four choices: Windows, OS X, KDE, and Gnome.

So, yes, you can put the OK button on the right in KDE dialogs.

Seriously, 20 years later and you are STILL fixed width with no direct copy/past? WTF?

Are you kidding? I've been doing copy/paste from the Windows command line (cmd.exe) since Windows NT 4.0. (Not to mention setting the width and the scroll back buffer size among many other options.) And all of that is available in PowerShell as well.

If you right-click anywhere in the title bar, you'll get a context menu, and at the bottom of that menu is properties. In there you'll find, on the options tab, a box labeled Edit Options that contains two check boxes: Insert Mode and QuickEdit Mode. These two check boxes are essential for doing copy/paste operations in cmd and PowerShell. Now if you go over to the Layout tab, you'll find you can tweak the height, width, and under "Screen Buffer Size", the "Height" setting there actually the scroll back buffer length. All very handy stuff. :)

Now once you have everything setup correctly, pasting into the terminal is done by right-clicking in the window and choosing paste. Now copying from the terminal is a little different. Generally, you just highlight what you want to copy with the mouse, then just right-click on top of the selected text. Your highlighting will disappear, but the text was put on your clipboard. If you paste into Notepad (or other app) you should get whatever you copied from the terminal.

There are so few games with such a large scope. Twenty-five years later, I can't even think of any modern graphical game off the top of my head that allows you quite as much opportunity for exploration than this half megabyte gem. Procedurally generated content can be truly mindblowing.

Well, I don't know which Gov't agencies you've dealt with, but this is not how it works at military installations. You can have Acrobat and Flash, but you don't get anywhere on the Internet that can do real damage save for Facebook and YouTube. You most certainly won't get to any porn sites. The web is heavily filtered at the AF base I work at.

Exactly what I was thinking... I don't have mod points unfortunately.

> MS Zealot here

Liar. You're no zealot. ;P

> Does anyone know a decent Windows-Linux Conversion guide which explains the parallels between the two - such as how to install drivers, where the hell is
> 'Program Files',

In POSIX systems (Linux, Unix, BSD, QNX, Mac OS X in some cases, et al), files are split up depending on their role. You know how your settings go in "%APPDATA%\", libraries to in "%SYSTEMROOT%" and other stuff goes in "%PROGRAMFILES%\"? Well, in these systems, it is split up moreso, Generally, all binaries (the executable files) go into "$PREFIX/bin/", global configuration files go into "$PREFIX/etc/", unchanging data files go into "$PREFIX/share/", libraries go into "$PREFIX/lib", log files and changing system files (the print spool, for instance) go into "/var/". Just like in Windows, the system magically handles it all. (note: $PREFIX is usually "/usr", but it is sometimes something else -- I won't get into it here, but there are pretty good reasons for this).

> what do I do if I want to install software but it's not an rpm or whatever it is suse uses. (Damn, I miss MSIs & EXEs!)

That's a weird one. What do you do if it's not an msi or an exe in a Windows system?

rpm is the equivalent of msi, except that the package management is generally easier to work with. In suse, you go into Yast's "Software Management" app and it will list most programs (several thousand, generally, organized in categories and easily searchable) that people would need to install. Think of it as "Windows Update", but instead of offering programs that Microsoft makes, it offers programs that everyone makes (or like an app store, except that it's been in Linux for over a decade and doesn't cost money). On the command line, the equivalent is "zypper". You'd type "sudo zypper install firefox", for example, and firefox would be updated. But anyway, if you're using Yast, I suggest going into the "Software Repositories" section, clicking the "Add" button, choosing the "Community Repositories" radio button, and clicking next. The "Packman" repository is highly recommended, as it has a lot of apps that the suse people lack.

rpm files are what you use as an *alternate* solution if the program is not in an available repository, not as your primary means of installing stuff. Repositories can manage installation of prerequisites. You might have tried to install a program requiring .NET in Windows at one point and received an error stating that it was not installed. In the repositories, and situations like that would be subverted by the repository manager going online and downloading/installing what it needs to install the package you actually want.

Sometimes, a developer will release the equivalent of an exe installer for their product. nvidia is an example. This is a TERRIBLE IDEA that you sometimes just can't work around. Running an unknown executable as the administrative user is just asking for pain. I know, because one of my scientists here wiped out his server's entire filesystem by running an install script as root, and I had to pick up after him. rpm (in suse, mandriva, pclinuxos, red hat, et al) and deb (in debian, ubuntu, mint, et al) and various others give limited powers which simply allow the application to get its files in the right place and do some basic maintenance (like starting a daemon if it's a server app).

The third option that people seem to think is ubiquitous in Linux (it isn't ... unless it's a hardcore science research app) is that you're given the source code and you have to compile it. In 90% of these cases, the only real problem is that you might not have a prerequisite app or library installed to complete the compilation. Package management helps with that, but it's better to avoid having to do this. Still, most of the examples you just go to the command line, visit the directory, type "./configure && make install" and have some coffee. I don't remember when I've had to do this on my home machine.

> Also, is there any mail client I can use to connect to my exchange server for work email? (using MAPI \ RPC over HTTPS)

Exchange is a tricky beast. I don't think the protocol is even now publicly available (I may be wrong), so mail apps have to do weird things like (in the background) access OWA (exchange webmail) and parse the data. I use a java app called Davmail ("http://davmail.sourceforge.net") which does this and converts the information on the fly to regular email protocols (like POP, IMAP, SMTP, Caldav, LDAP) that can be used with any mail program (you set the server to "localhost" in the mail program). I prefer kmail, and one of my coworkers here uses Thunderbird, in this way.

Unfortunately, I don't know anything much about the protocols you mention above, so this might not have been useful.

Heh, intense customization is kind of the point of KDE. I have no taskbar at all (except for very rare instances of minimized apps) -- my switching is through KDE's equivalent to the OS X Exposé (mouse to a corner, all windows appear). All my controls are along the left side (because monitors these days have a hell of a lot more horizontal real estate and sometimes less vertical real estate than they used to!), and I have all my virtual desktop and run dialog shortcuts optimized for easy right-hand-only use. Apps/Windows with similar functions are (sometimes automatically) moved to the same titlebar, but the titlebar is tabbed. Close button is on the right like in Win 3.x. My windows explode ("Fall Apart") when I close them, double-clicking on the titlebar shades so I can see what's behind in the rare circumstance that this is necessary, windows slide around when I change to a new desktop or switch to a different window. I've barely used the "K" menu in what feels like over half a decade due to that type-to-search run dialog thing. Lots of stuff like that.

If you use KDE as it looks by default, you might as well be using LXDE. That's a pretty good one, too, and it's customizable, just not as aggressively.