Mozilla is working on something that will simplify the login process. It doesn't sound to me as though it is as advanced as the ideas you've discussed, but here's the link anyway.

"Sorry, this download is not supported by your system."

Both Firefox and Bing work on Linux. However, this partnership between MS and Mozilla seems to leave Firefox with Bing without support for Linux.

(Not that I would download it if it were available...)

This is not a mudslinging war between GNOME and KDE. If you actually followed the email thread, there are many regular users who will be affected by this conflict and this has been acknowledged. Also, a solution (apparently acceptable to both sides) has been found.

If you read the original email, the concern is that those who have both KDE and GNOME installed on the same installation (of their Linux distribution). Therefore, there will be real people who will have two menu entries in their menus. Slashdot has succeeded, yet again, to hype up and bring unnecessary attention to an issue that isn't as drastic and fought over as the post makes it appear.

Canonical has made many drastic changes in the last few releases. The Software Center has been around for a while now. "Add/Remove Software" (gnome-app-install) was, arguably, replaced a little earlier than it should have. You might have complained or heard others complain about the switch. At that point of time, I felt that add/remove should have remained the default for one more cycle. However, the Software Center improved very rapidly and it wasn't very long after the switch that it was hard to argue against removing "Add/Remove Software". The Software Center is now miles ahead of its predecessor.

Unity seems to be following the same course. Many had argued waiting at least one more release cycle before making Unity default. However, I think that Canonical sees this as an opportunity understand the direction in which people want to see Unity go, giving Canonical enough time to iron out issues and make Unity acceptable, at the very least, if not elegant and beautiful by the time they release the LTS.

Canonical seems to be focusing its efforts on getting finished products into LTS releases by prematurely including (and making default) new software and concepts in regular releases giving them a larger audience to test their proposed ideas. Come December/January, Canonical will have a very good idea as where Unity, the Software Center and their other new products are going to be so that they can be confident of making 12.04 a polished and finished release. While this may not work out exactly as expected, it appears as if this is the basic idea behind their planning and development.

... and you still use it to do rocket science?

"Ahoy captain! Boat to starboard!"
"What does it say?"
"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"
"Right you fellas, get ready to board!"

Normally, they try to hide their intentions.

The core mission of CSI is to win share against Linux and OpenOffice.org by ... engaging with Open Source communities and organizations...

That's Microsoft for you, ladies and gentlemen

Some email providers have a simple way of giving you a throw away id. E.g example+slashdotnospam@gmail.com is sent to example@gmail.com.

Say my name is Lary Page. If my email id is lary.page@gmail.com, I can still protect myself so that you will never get my email id.

MD5 (lary.page@gmail.com) = "1b8dbe98e2b1138fd3ba34e26fc55107".

So I provide my email id as lary.page+1b8dbe98e2b1138fd3ba34e26fc55107@gmail.com. If I gave you the md5 of that id, you'll find it hard to get back to lary.page@gmail.com.

Try, the MD5 hash of the above email id is 803efbc80ead933f28d0704d43d1f63b.

If the light will be sucked in completely, then how will the electricity leave the "black-hole"? Won't it be trapped inside it as well?

Considering that Vista's share is less than 1/3 of XP's share (72% vs 19%), Microsoft will be more worried about getting people to move from XP to Win7. The 19% who have Vista really won't (can't, to be more precise) stay with Vista for too long. They will definitely "upgrade" (let's hope it's really an upgrade, not a regression).

Microsoft surely doesn't want XP's ghost to haunt them like IE6's ghost has.

because I learn about stuff I never heard about before, everyday!

Well, just so you know, not very far from home (for me at least) there is this semi-Utopian place where people say "Windows? What's that?".

But everyone is still going to fuss because it is communist... and Linux is now being seen as a communist thing... and only Obama can change things... yes I know. It is still a ray of hope in a world of darkness. It should be worth mentioning, though, that this state elects a communist government every five years, and have the option not to and had the world's first elected communist government.

Outrageous! Single or limited function desktops (for example, data entry) Err, we are talking of modern day distributions of Linux, not some random software made by a random person for Linux!

• Kisok
• Call Centre
• Single or limited function desktops (for example, data entry)
• ...

The only thing that can be found out (about how this "information" was discovered) is the amount of money M$ paid to get this to be said!

So, I saw the add. It said at the end, "Install Google Chrome".

Good Morning Google, Wake Up! We haven't got Chrome as yet, just by the way...

I'll never understand why a lot FOSS is provided better (or only) on Windows and not Linux. Chrome, TortoiseSVN, KeePass, etc. Why is KeePassX so much worse than KeePass? Why are eSVN and RapidSVN just so bad?

Well, here I go once again:

That I believe will happen later this year. Shuttleworth announced that for the Karmic Koala (9.10) Ubuntu. No promises for Jaunty.