Reiver_Fluffi

IIRC you can only hold a patent for fixed time, it's never indefinite.

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Nice, what's the superkaramba theme?

I read that and it again mentioned per-copy licence fees for players - so how do the costless programs like Winamp etc provide gratis mp3 playing ability if they have to pay a per-copy licence? Doesn't sound like a good business model. Unless it's not true for players, just for encoders perhaps.Except I also read this. Hmmm, the mp3 license is surrounded by controversy in europe at the moment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5326660.stm

But then you wouldn't be compelled to go out and but the powerpack........ :huh: Although, lets be honest, who actually keeps the default desktop if they really don't like it. It wouldn't take much effort to gimp out the writing though!

I can vouch for horde as well, and yes the interface on squirrelmail is far from pleasant, they are working on theming for 2.0

That's only true for those people who saw other OSes. Those who worked only with Windows will be amazed by the new look. Xp is already behind KDE IMHO and still there are more Windows users. IMHO you just hit the nail in the coffin mate :D

Whoa, that looks sweet!

Generally I agree with all of the above, a very good idea Darkelve

This guy highlights transparent menu's in KDE as a feature? IIRC correctly they have been available since 2005LE, and it's a KDE selling point, not a Mandriva SP. If you are going to showcase a new product/beta it's better to focus on innovation and updates, not features that have been implemented by a third party a long time ago, and by and large haven't changed much. Aye, the main point of galaxy was to have a near unified desktop between KDE and GNOME!

Very similar to clearlooks IMHO, i'm sure i have seen a similar metacity theme somewhere as well!

Yes, but they are all mine :P

I take that back, unfortunately the feature isn't 100% efective. If someone you are not ignoring quotes a post of someone you are ignoring, you still see the quote okay......kinda defeating the purpose.

Thanks SoulSe, that will indeed be handy.

Mines for August....

Yip it ain't a stock GNOME icon, it's in a pixmaps directory somewhere in /usr (I think it's /usr/share/pixmaps). Either way the icon is for a mandriva app that uses perl-gtk, as it's not a stock GNOME app i'm not sure if you theme it in the same way as the stock gnome icons. (Hey arctic, you remember this icon was giving me a headache with transparency and kicker in KDE 3.2............kicker still does not display GTK system tray icons properly in 3.5.3, yuk)

You must have been unlucky there Ian, Jigdo worked fine for me when I downloaded sarge DVD1, although it did take a while, I reckon longer than a new release over bittorrent, but in this case I reckon jigdo (fingers crossed) would get the job quicker.

Yes, I am. It's a recent change: read here. If you are subscribed to the free circulation you should have received an e-mail earlier this week explaining the change and also informing you that previous free subscribers will continue to get 12 more issues (1 year) free - at the end of which you will have to pay the $9.95 for 12 issues. I also got notified of this when they emailed me the last issue, although it's not as if the subs are expensive. To be fair, the "verdict" should be taken with a pinch of salt, given the skewed bias in some areas (Like Mango and her endless GNOME bashing.....I'm sure we discussed this before)

I used to run Mandy on a P-III 550 with 384m ram, it worked fine for me with 2005 and 2006.

Sounds good, thanks for the tip

:P My onboard nvidia AC97 works fine :P

Oh right! Make that about an hour (on account of the fact that I generally, being the noob that I am, am very slow when it comes to configs). :D

You What :o Last time I did it, it took me 8 hours on my box: AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (939) with 2 x 512 mb DDR400 RAM (Dual chanelled). Meh! :unsure:

"umask=000" is usually enough for me

Yes it si BS, but it is also a sneaky marketing trick IMHO!