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A fairly well-known person in my circle of friends and associates once criticized me, less than gently, that I never passed up a chance to say in 1000 words, what could be said in 100. True. Guilty as charged. I tend to be verbose at times. Go get something to drink or a sandwich.

This is going to be one of those times. I want to thank you.

Even with the howls and gnashing of teeth over game-changing UI modifications, those folks over at Gnome are not done yet

I've spent a lot of my last year in and out of hospitals...both with my own problems as well as Diane's. One thing I noticed almost immediately is that every computer screen I saw was running Microsoft Windows XP Professional. With the numbers quoted in the following article, the cost of migrating large enterprises over to Windows 7, one would think switching to Linux might be the answer. Not according to an IT guy at Seton Williamson Hospital in Round Rock. I shook my head as I hung up the phone, realizing just what an uphill battle he faces, either way he goes. Switching to Linux would probably save them money in comparison, but getting vendors and other business associates in synch would be a nightmare. All they can do, seemingly, is pour their money into the Microsoft Monopoly and curse the cost of doing business.

Ikey, much like Clem Lefebvre, has heard the wail and gnashing of teeth over Unity and Gnome 3. He set out to make SolusOS user-friendly while maintaining a long term support operating system. Using patches and scripts mostly written himself, Ikey went about the business of making the Gnome Shell an almost identical replica of the Gnome 2 desktop. That will be the goal of the next release, SolusOS 2.

Many tell me that the default search tool, Kfind; is just spiffy.

No it's not. Putting in the search string "music" and setting it up to search my home folder should have a least triggered a response for the music folder within Home.

It didn't. It told me there was nothing referring to "music" in my home folder.

Uh, yes there is.

Kfind insisted that there wasn't.

We are still at odds over this. But more so, I need a good search client for my desktop. Kfind is Kfired.

You know, I normally don't take pleasure in other's discomfort or misfortune, but I make an exception for Apple. Hopefully, this order may reign in the flood of litigation Apple initiates in the ongoing patent war. One can hope but hubris has carried them this far. It will probably carry them further.

Apple must run a national ad campaign saying that Samsung did not copy them, a High Court judge ruled yesterday - according to this Bloomberg report and a draft court order seen by The Reg.

Judge Birss of the Patents Court instructed Apple to run ads displaying the notice in newspapers and magazines including the Daily Mail, Financial Times, Guardian Mobile magazine and T3 magazine.

It is with great pleasure and gratitude that the Directors of Reglue and The HeliOS Project name Carolyn Smith as our 2012 volunteer of the year. Wish I could buy you a new truck kiddo, but we can't so I will get you a cheesy certificate and I'll hug you for your efforts. You are indeed one of a kind.

Ahhhh, Sun Valley....Playground of the rich and famous. Music and Movie industry honchos will be meeting in Sun Valley soon to discuss how to better address online piracy. Their term....not mine. I found it refreshing to read an honest assessment of industry leader's reaction to the outrage over SOPA and PIPA. Spoiler alert here. Many voiced regret over trying to twist political arms to do their bidding. An amazing revelation in itself, methinks anyway.

NYTimes is mostly a pay site and this article may jump behind a paywall soon. If it does, my apologies. This is an interesting read for those interested in the ongoing and global flap over copyright, IP and the such.

Recently, LXer carried a story that highlighted several Firefox extensions that are a "must have" for any browsing experience. While there were a few in that list that I find newly-useful, it was lacking in some basic extensions that make life ever-so-much-easier for computer commandos.

Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death is the curse of Windows. Not just its appearance, mid way through some serious game play or spreadsheeting, but the messages themselves - digital monologues on the existence of a problem, its possible causes and how you can fix it. Yeah, right. Just shut down and re-start like everybody else. …

And don't miss the three pages of fist-fight...I mean comments on this piece. Who said entertainment had to be expensive? - Ken

I introduced you to Peter Hewitt some time ago. Peter is a retired Educator from Down Under that has dedicated much of his "leisure time" to writing software for kids.....

And he's done a good job of it.

However, we had some late submissions and I passed them onto our voting folks because they were just so good. One of them got a great deal of attention and it turned out that we have a tie. So, because we will have an opportunity to use both of them from time to time, we will award the prizes to both authors.

We are looking for some of our graphically-talented friends to submit to us some ideas for a Reglue logo. Of course, I am partial to the 1950's look bold neon idea but we are open to others.

Don came to us a while back and explained that he was going to have to give up his project but it wasn't all bad news. While HeliOS worked under the non profit umbrella of Software in the Public Interest, REGLUE is formed as a registered 501(C)(3). Since he knew our ultimate goal was to register HeliOS as a non profit, and we were no where able to afford doing so...Don graciously offered to "transfer" REGLUE to us.

I am not sure how this happened, and the last thing I want to do is criticize an over-worked single developer, but the Linux version was DOA on the download page. They were introducing a Linux-specific version of their product that didn't work. To make it worse, they didn't seem to have a clue that their Linux version did not work.

"Honey, this nice man with a plastic pipe sticking out of his neck is here to give you a computer. Isn't that special?"

While the Windows environment would represent the fine, civilized Kansas City, with its boardwalks, ladies in full-skirt regalia and parasols, Linux represents the best and the worst of the old west....Tombstone in its glory days. Muddy streets, bar brawls, gunfights and lowlife ruffians harassing the occasional good citizen with abandon. Chaos nicely contained within a Kernel.

I don't often fill my personal blog space with entire articles or comments from someone else, but every now and then, every blue moon or so, you run across something that is just so good, you can't let it go.

On this date, at approximately 8:31 PM CST, the petition requesting that Chris Dodd be investigated for bribery was validated by the required 25,000 signatures.

“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades", he added.