From Wikipedia’s KDE entry, specifically, “Naming Conventions:”
Most KDE applications have a K in the name, mostly as an initial letter and capitalized. However, there are notable exceptions like kynaptic, whose K is not capitalized and Gwenview, which doesn’t have a K in the name at all.
And my first reaction to this was actually, God! Isn’t that just like her!
And I don’t even like that particular naming convention.
Here’s a gem I just ran across trying to troubleshoot a problem a client’s been having getting his global Finder settings to “stick”.
“But my problem is when I restart. They set back to there original form, small icons and arranged erotically.”
If ever a forum post cried out for a screenshot, it is this one.
As I’m sure you are completely unaware, I’ve lately been posting trivia at my designated work cube space, all of the “This Day In History” type, and all utilizing the day entries at Wikipedia, where “utilizing” means, in this case, “stealing from”.
Today I learned something so interesting I thought I’d share it with you: on this day, July 21, three important milestones in human progress were reached:
July 21, 1925: John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching blasphemous evolution.
July 21, 1969: humans walk on the moon
July 21, 1984: The Great Robot …
I pick up the phone and there’s this administrative assistant on the other end of the line who’s frustrated because her Internet connection seems to have dropped out on her. I ask her if anyone else in her office is having the same problem, and she says No, which is good because it means she could feasibly be knowledgeable enough to have asked others around her about the state of their connection, but is also bad because she says it in this tone of voice that conveys a smug satisfaction, like we’re playing a guessing game and I’ve just …
Pickton pig-farm searchers counselled.
I certainly can’t imagine a more gruesome way to spend a day, and I don’t think I’d want to meet the person who can. Those poor, brave people.
So I’m starting to think that when a movie critic calls a movie “edgy and stylish”, all he’s really trying to say is, “features a track by a band less than ten years old”, or “features a track in the Industrial genre” or even, “someone in it is wearing dark sunglasses and skintight pleather”.
Blogorrah draws our collective flash mob eye to a Bob Dylan/Van Morrison duet, “Cranky Love”.
Those Irish. First it’s bangers & mash, and now this.
“Everyone else is doing it, so why not me?” I wondered, and the wondering got me to thinking. Next thing I knew I had a weekend project on my hands, which I’m delighted to say, turned out most awesomely. My lovely powerbook is now a DUAL-BOOT linux/mac_os powerbook.
The installation and configuration were remarkably easy. Thumbs up to the Ubuntu team for making such a user-friendly distro. I only had one hiccup in the whole process: configuring the airport card’s firmware to play nice with ubuntu. …
In observation or perhaps honor of Bob’s 65th birthday, Some Velvet Blog offers Sunday Covers, a collection of links to covers of Bob Dylan’s songs.