Seven Years of KDE Celebrated

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Seven Years of KDE Celebrated

Posted by simoniker on Monday October 20, 2003 @06:51AM from the a-hearty-kongratulations dept.

Ashcrow writes "Almost exactly 7 years ago, Matthias Ettrich announced the start of a new desktop environment, originally called Kool Desktop Environment. Check out LinuxFrench's article (English translation) and the news at Dot KDE. Thanks to the KDE Team for a great 7 years!"

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aaa by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 06:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FIRST POSSST TBIITCHSTCH
1. Re:aaa by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-21 04:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  My sincere kondolences.
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 06:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fp
I thought about KDE this past weekend by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 06:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So I had me some Johnnie Walker Red, then some Black then some J&B Rare and then I found myself in a different place where things just didn't seem to matter. You see, I had crossed the line and now was sipping high. No guilt. No denial. Just a damned good honest legal controlable scotch high.

I have a plasma TV and I sat back in my reclinable surfing channels. Sipping. Sipping. I have a small library I've assembled over the last decade, about 3000 volumes. I picked out three books and sat down sipping (this time Red - dryer, lighter, harsher than the Black - but good) my scotch and water and purusing the books. Phantasties by MacDonald, Don Quijote de la Mancha (en Espanol), KDE Programming Tacticals by M. Witty, and The Intelligent Investor by Graham.

I opened a can of Planters Deluxe mixed nuts. Broke the vacuum seal and heard a whooshing sound. They smell so good when first opened! Took a small handful and ate. A perfect blend of nuts and scotch. Took another sip - boy that was good. Then I got an inspriation! Popped a VHS (a reasson for this) and watched Fantastic Planet, a very special 1970's animated feature. I chose the VHS instead of DVD because the DVD has embedded English subtitles you cannot turn off. The VHS is straight English sound track with no subtitles. Incredible scenery - hallucinagenic. I thought for a moment about an old girlfriend I HAD back in the 70's and felt a little sad we did not keep in touch. What happened to her?

My wife cooked up some really good ribs and burgers on the grill and brought them in with some Budweiser on ice (well, you can see why I chose this one over the previously mentioned girlfriend). After dinner, a little Glenlivet and some meditation on the week's events. I started The Lathe of Heaven DVD and explained to my wife how this movie was only shown once on PBS maybe about twenty years ago and then legal arguments kept it in the can until now. George Orr....... what a trip. A good scotch high. Bring em'
on!

- HK
The funny thing is... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 06:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

hackingthemainframe.com always comes first!
Re:KDE or Gnome by joeldg · 2003-10-20 06:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

umm.. actually if you want your box to not crawl (ever) you might be better off with something like evilwm (
http://lucifer.intercosmos.net/images/screensho t_2 003-05-08_16%3A25%3A34.png ) for a screenshot..
Takes a bit to get used to, but sits in memory at around 40k total and is easily hackable..

--
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
I generally enjoy offtopic posts... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 07:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

But then again, they aren't usually written by self-absorbed yuppie pricks. Fuck your expensive scotch, your wife and I will be laughing about it and your boring video collection this weekend. Then we will drink pure grain alcohol that I strained myself using pieces of burned toast, and fuck behind the 7-11. Enjoy the PBS!
1. Re:I generally enjoy offtopic posts... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 07:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Hey now, no need to flame the man for being a yuppy.
  for one, it makes you sound like the prick. second, you don't have to speak with him on daily basis, or even see him... evar.
  
  Some people like a good scotch as opposed to everclear, just like I prefer a nice Guinness over Coors Light (not big on the scotch, really.) You can walk around drinking turpentine and boinking behind a convenience store, that will just make you white trash.
  
  and really, what did your flame accomplish? you wasted some bandwidth someone else could have better utilized checking out some internet pron, just like my pointless flame. thats what. and dammit, I like my internet pron!
  
  Mods, Please mod me and that fruitcake down, way down.
  
  -1, stupid.
2. Re:I generally enjoy offtopic posts... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 07:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  There's no use in spending twice the money to get drunk, especially if you're just going to vomit all over yourself and wake up in a pool of piss.
  
  Personally, I buy a bottle of decent quality shit and have a drink or 2 of that to get started. Then I switch to low quality booze. Hey, at that point I can no longer taste the difference, nor do I care.
3. Re:I generally enjoy offtopic posts... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 07:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Oh look, the Prick Brigade is springing to the defense of Mr. Yuppie. Take a long look at what you're defending:
  
  opened a can of Planters Deluxe mixed nuts. Broke the vacuum seal and heard a whooshing sound. They smell so good when first opened! Took a small handful and ate. A perfect blend of nuts and scotch.
  
  If that doesn't make you want to punch whoever wrote that full-on in the cock, then buddy, you're a cold hearted snake!
Article (in case of slashdotting) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 07:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

France surrenders!
hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 07:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

$ nslookup kde.org
Server: xxx
Address: yyy

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: kde.org
Address: 80.232.38.131

$ nslookup trolltech.com
Server: xxx
Address: yyy

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: trolltech.com
Address: 80.232.38.135

-----

Other facts:
1) Ralph Yarrow runs Canopy.
2) Canopy owns SCO
3) Canopy and SCO own big chunks of Trolltech
(It looks like Trolltech removed their
information documenting this from their website
I can't find it anymore. )
4) Ralph Yarro is on the board of directors
of Trolltech.

---------

Trolltech, come clean on your relationship with
Canopy/SCO !!!! What agreements do you have
with them??? Do you owe them money ???
Does canopy own warrants on Trolltech ???
In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 07:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The 7-11 fucks behind YOU!!!
Calling KDE bloated is NOT trolling MR. Moderator. by zymano · 2003-10-20 08:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

X and KDE consume way too much memory.

Why is his statement trolling ?

Isn't trolling looking to create flames and stupid statements? So.....why is his statement a troll Mr. Moderator ?

I have an old computer and KDE slows it to a crawl.

Does anyone remember all the comments on this website about monopoly's win95 being SLOW and Bloated . Well ???? Do you ????

If I find the moderator that called this post a troll he will be META-moderated and hopefully moderation duties taken away.
BSD licensed software can't be stolen.... by FreeLinux · 2003-10-20 09:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

BSD licensed software can't be stolen....

Tell that to SGI and SCO.