I work for a prominent IoT company and I agree with this. Additional in-house security via ZWave, etc, is good. Having every damn thing you own directly accessible from the internet is just plain stupid. M.

What are you taking about? Middle Click still pastes. That's an X Server thing. It's got nothing at all to do with your WM/DE. I'm up to Plasma 5.9.something. Still middle-click-pasting. I have no idea if Wayland does that though. M.

steam for games

Steam for Linux Beta Now Available to All

Open Office as a good-enough-replacement for MS office

OpenOffice is as good as dead. Use LibreOffice

it will need lightroom 4 working

I can't commetn here, but outlook not so good


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Since this is Slashdot, I expect the above well-written post to be marked flamebait within 10 minutes, because it dared to speak well of Microsoft.

I wonder if it's David Sell that typed that...


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Oh dear God, another ignorant Gentoo ricer.

I've been using Gentoo for about 10 years now. You really need to learn before opening your mouth. Please refer to Gentoo's GCC Optimization Guide. Especially pay VERY close attention to two very important parts:

1:

"In 3.x, -O3 has been shown to lead to marginally faster execution times over -O2, but this is no longer the case with gcc 4.x. Compiling all your packages with -O3 will result in larger binaries that require more memory, and will significantly increase the odds of compilation failure or unexpected program behavior (including errors). The downsides outweigh the benefits; remember the principle of diminishing returns. Using -O3 is not recommended for gcc 4.x."

(emphasis Gentoo's, not mine)

2:

"Some users boast about even better performance obtained by using -O4, -O9, and so on, but the reality is that -O levels higher than 3 have no effect. The compiler may accept CFLAGS like -O4, but it actually doesn't do anything with them. It only performs the optimizations for -O3, nothing more.

Need more proof? Examine the gcc source code:

Code Listing 3.1: -O source code

if (optimize >= 3)
{
flag_inline_functions = 1;
flag_unswitch_loops = 1;
flag_gcse_after_reload = 1;
/* Allow even more virtual operators. */
set_param_value ("max-aliased-vops", 1000);
set_param_value ("avg-aliased-vops", 3);
}

As you can see, any value higher than 3 is treated as just -O3."

Read this stuff. It actually is kinda important...

/me rolls his eyes.


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Heh. No it's not. "Um, excuse me, get that microphone out of my face."

OH!

So they have little gnomes inside the quarterback's helmets so their voice can be picked up calling plays ON THE FIELD to be broadcast on TV? Cool. I gotta order me a couple microphone holding mini-gnomes. Maybe I could finally find out the things my wife tells her mom...


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I just built a new machine, did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit

That's you're problem right there. M.

Yeah, but that kills all the other plasma functions on the desktop.

How so / what do you mean?

I have CWP (Customizable Weather Plasmoid) and a picture frame sitting on my Folder View enabled Desktop. I have for most of KDE4.*, actually.

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Do we get desktop icons yet?

• 1) Right-click Desktop --> Folder View Settings
• 2) Activity (on the left)
• 3) (on the right) Type: Folder View
• 4) OK

Been there a couple years now. M.

I can crash kwin at will sometimes.

Then file a bug report! http://bugs.kde.org. If you have a repeatable set of actions that can make KWin crash "on command", then TELL THEM and they'll fix it.

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Unless you leave the country, international roaming sucks big time.

Oh, *that* kind of roaming... Yea, I'd have to sell a several pints of blood and my first born to pay that bill...


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Unless you're with Sprint. Here's my plan:

Plan Includes:

* Everything Data Share Plan
* Line 1: $129.99 Minimum Monthly Charge
* Line 2:$0 Monthly Charge
* Lines 3-5: $19.99 Monthly Charge
* 1500 Shared Anytime Minutes
* Unlimited Any Mobile, Anytime
* Total Equipment Protection
* Unl Data/Msg/Amer Roam/Sprint Nav
* Nationwide Long Distance Included
* Unlimited Night & Weekend Mins. Included
* Nights: M-Th 7pm-7am Wknd: F 7pm-M 7am
* Caller ID
* Call Waiting
* Three-Way Calling
* Voicemail


$155.80 a month for three phones with full unlimited everything, early evening start, unlimited mobile to mobile (*ANY* carrier), unlimited data - and that also includes roaming. Hard to beat!


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Or distros should stop trying to include everything that came out last week, and do what Slackware does

Agreed. I hear some guy named "Mosfet" is writing some cool new look 'n' feel stuff that should make it into the next Slack release of KDE. It'll be cool like Cheetah or Puma!


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something will need to be done against those ugly, overloaded, panels. From where one needs to drop sub-panels with sub-menus, because the total, primary, real estate is just the screen width.

Wow.

Ummm... you are aware that the panels can be marked to auto-hide so they don't take up your real estate and you don't even have to see them then, right?


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