I'm happily using TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment), because KDE3.5 has the features I need and have built up my work habits around, and Trinity is the maintenance fork preserving and enhancing it. (My particular layout uses an external taskbar up top and a window-selector in the panel-bar at the bottom so I can get at things quickly, the same layout I got used to in KDE1.1 on RHL6.2. Plasma, when I tried it out, didn't support that, so I turned around and didn't look back. YMMV; that's what works for me.)

If there's enough of a userbase for this particular stratum of KDE technology to make it worthwhile, maybe it's time for another maintenance fork, so Plasma users get to keep what they've invested time and attention in working effectively, while the KDE devs get to go on and invent their next paradigm. Elsewhere in this comment stream, mention was made of the value of stability to corporate IT; well, perhaps those corporate types will be willing to donate a bit of time and cash to support what they depend on.

> Then it got popular and quickly became useless for all the idiots on the air.

Nope, what killed it was the FCC's lousy choice of 11 meters, an HF band with excellent global propagation at sunspot maxima, for a service which, by Part 95 regulation, was only allowed to span a 150-mile distance.

In 1975~76, when CB got popular, the sunspot activity was low and thus so was propagation, so background noise was low enough that you could talk with a station some miles away. People put up base stations, 'home-channel' communities formed and tended to be self-regulating. Because of the 5-watt legal power limit, even with just 23 to start with there were enough channels to go around, enough for the idiots to go play in their own channels.

Then sunspot activity rose and the 'skip' came in, something entirely predictable from 11 meters' days as a ham band, and legal communications got drowned in the hash 'n' trash which was the global mixture of signals. Unless you ran illegal levels of power you weren't going to be heard. That's what killed it.

Palemoon gets through the Cloudflare "protection" at fanfiction.net, for what it's worth. AFAIK that's a fork of XUL-era Firebox, so I doubt it depends on blood-money from "You don't have any privacy; get over it" Google.

Trades from RAIDs to instance shares
with outsourced staffing in the air
and ready storage everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

And now they don't just come from Sun
They're put online by everyone
with promises they'll always run
and keep the crooks at bay

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
from boot to crash, and still somehow
With all the hype that I recall
I really don't trust clouds at all.

They've flipped the evil bit

It really *is* a bubblegum crisis...

Mine does. I run TrinityDE; USB drives show up as icons on the desktop. When I context-click "Safely Remove", the system syncs and unmounts the drive if there's no busy-connection holding it open. The drive's icon disappearing from the desktop is my signal that the drive is cleanly unmounted and safe to pull out.

I can't wait for the pod races on the fourth of May.

And, if we were dealing with an infrared emitter, they'd be right. We're not. We're dealing with something with roughly the same penetration as a microwave oven.

Mother (Nature), please, I'd rather do it myself.

> a highly resistant form of CRE typically found outside the United States

You mean, WAS typically found outside the USA. How many people did she pass this on to before she took to her bed?

Care to try to explain how all those links to kiddie-porn sites got on your computer in a courtroom?

Isn't that what The Game is about?

btw I just lost the game.

"Taxation without representation" -- where have I heard that before?

Nah, it's ten days early.