For on the fly changes to the interface you should look at KDE's activities manager.
It enables you to have radically different desktop layouts at the click of the mouse, swipe of a finger.
Then why are you asking?
Did you get new information about some novel and previously unknown exploit for Linux desktop installs?
Nothing is infallible but the historic record has persistently shown the *nix development system delivers a rather robust OS.
So yes stay vigilant on any system that's exposed to the web or (USB) media but also do enjoy some peace from knowing you are running a from a security standpoint better designed OS than the de-facto industry standard for desktops.
Would the world be populated with your clones the American Indians would still be hunting their buffalo's and the Pyramids would not even be the dream of a king.
The answers you will get are New York, California, Florida, Washington, and so on.
Winning over the Republican Congressman from Nowhere, Nebraska, isn't going to help you,
You should take a wider look at US politics, people are majority voting for a particular party for various reasons, changes in the GOP policies might very well make the party more palpable for those that so far have voted D.
The gains in popular vote might indeed outweigh the losses in corporate or Teaparty support.
If they are in house applications, change them to accommodate 64-bit operating systems.
Hehe, during the last 10 years we were twice able to convince the guys with the budget to spend some on a new version of the software.
Both times they forgot to communicate with 'the field' and came up with something totally unacceptable.
The original software was developed by a field engineer (Hi Q!), right there on the job and he was always looking for input by the users and clients, it's near perfect but new engineers do have to get their head around the 8.3 file naming convention:)
The Maego family of GUI's are quite mature and far more standards compliant than Android, just imagine one could run Thunderbird on a Nexus 7!
This is why I'm interested in an MS Surface tablet, running some form of KDE on it must be really nice.
I have Kubuntu running on a 23" HP Touch and it works well, it's just a little clunky to use it as a tablet:)
First it's you making a wholly disingenuous remark about the memory use of a KDE desktop and then some dim moderator with an agenda sees it as insightful, what has come of this place?
I'm right now on an HP-mini running KDE-Plasma on 2 Gb of RAM with 6 tabs open in Firefox and looking at the system monitor less than 400 Mb of RAM is in use.
When on a bare desktop with a couple of widgets running it's below 300 Mb, and yes that's of course without the indexing service running.
Would you take the tablet version of KDE you'd get even better results.
It is only a week ago a study came out that concluded 71% of Dutch Works Councils in internationally owned companies did not get required information.
But it can work the other way around, some years ago our corporate management in the UK told IT to roll out heavily regulated internet access to virtually all personnel and they included a system whereby the logs of access could easily be monitored. The rules explicitly allowed for some private use like during lunch breaks.
There was a little icon you could click, enter a user name and follow their use.
This was available on all computers so you could see the use of your supervisor or even the CEO.
As a Works Council we complained with the example of someone doing repeated searches for a morning after pill would have this exposed to all and to our surprise our the icon was taken down within 24 hrs, logging is certainly still done but under normal circumstances only accessible to IT and they have to limit it to purely technical reasons, management can only request personal logs with a prior accord of the Works Council and company legal dept.
We recently had a case here in The Netherlands where the city of Amsterdam introduced a policy requiring team leaders to access the mail of absent personnel.
The Works Council was not consulted and asked the court to intervene and the court confirmed such a policy is not legal.
This does not mean no monitoring is possible but it'll have to be done according to standards set up in consultation with the Works Council and by an approved counsellor.
Even then an individual might find recourse when he has good reasons to oppose such.
Around the same time I sat in for my manager during his holidays and both of us had no objections to not share our log-in details, it is not impossible, it's just that a boss/company can't demand it without a proper agreement.
Clearly you are from a jurisdiction where companies are persons.
In Europe we have strong privacy regulation and by the time you use an account called jhon.doe@company.com the stuff you send and receive must be for... John Doe!
Now when said company would set up an account called dept.supervisor@company.com it becomes a wholly different matter.
Or do you think it's plausible mail for udanchny@gmail.com belongs to Gmail? It's got nothing to do with who owns the computer or pays for the power, it's your name and your message.
Won't work, a contract can never let you sign away legal rights.
What's this obsession with wanting to look into the mailbox of your employees?
When it comes to business mails you can easily stipulate they have to be cc'd to a supervisor, colleague or use a departmental mail box instead of one with a private name.
As member of a works council I can confirm that unapproved access to E-mail accounts of employees is strictly forbidden.
The approval can be given by the employee or in cases where the employer wants access for things like fraud investigation and without letting the employee know this approval has to pass the works council. This is similar for requests like installing camera's or other snooping equipment or tapping the telephone.
Works councils are mandatory in companies with 50 or more employees and are elected every couple of years.BR>
A union member can be a candidate for election via his union or he can chose to run under his own name like non-union members would.
Please keep in mind union membership is a wholly individual decision and it would be illegal to require such.
As a matter of fact, some unions are not very pro-works council as they see them as competition.
You are missing out on an important and interesting question, what is the total mass of the universe and would it have or allow for some yet unknown physical event?
BTW, I don't know why you included thoughts about religion, it has zilch to do with the discussion at hand.
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Ubuntu offers a fully configurable experience in the KDE desktop, just an apt-get away!
This is too late for your issue but apt-get can be told to not install recommended but not needed packages with “–no-install-recommends”.
Other solutions:
http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/01/07/howto-tell-apt-get-not-to-install-recommends-packages-in-debian-linux/
For on the fly changes to the interface you should look at KDE's activities manager.
It enables you to have radically different desktop layouts at the click of the mouse, swipe of a finger.
In the case of this Dell it's the small size, weight and SSD that makes it cost go up, just a pity it doesn't have a decent resolution screen.
I usually work in over pressurised labs, how's that for nice local weather?
Then why are you asking?
Did you get new information about some novel and previously unknown exploit for Linux desktop installs?
Nothing is infallible but the historic record has persistently shown the *nix development system delivers a rather robust OS.
So yes stay vigilant on any system that's exposed to the web or (USB) media but also do enjoy some peace from knowing you are running a from a security standpoint better designed OS than the de-facto industry standard for desktops.
“Good engineers are never unemployed and never seeking jobs.”
Unless they're living in India and over 40...
Would the world be populated with your clones the American Indians would still be hunting their buffalo's and the Pyramids would not even be the dream of a king.
The answers you will get are New York, California, Florida, Washington, and so on.
Winning over the Republican Congressman from Nowhere, Nebraska, isn't going to help you,
You should take a wider look at US politics, people are majority voting for a particular party for various reasons, changes in the GOP policies might very well make the party more palpable for those that so far have voted D.
The gains in popular vote might indeed outweigh the losses in corporate or Teaparty support.
But Google could stop any and all communication with the C&C server, even without checking for the presence of the Trojan.
No wonder the man is still troubled by the thought of free sex.
The UK is catholic, they are not Roman Catholic, meaning they don't follow the doctrine of the Bishop of Rome but instead of one of their own.
If they are in house applications, change them to accommodate 64-bit operating systems.
Hehe, during the last 10 years we were twice able to convince the guys with the budget to spend some on a new version of the software.
Both times they forgot to communicate with 'the field' and came up with something totally unacceptable.
The original software was developed by a field engineer (Hi Q!), right there on the job and he was always looking for input by the users and clients, it's near perfect but new engineers do have to get their head around the 8.3 file naming convention :)
You mean your breasts are in need of support?
So he wasn't so pedantic after all.
The Maego family of GUI's are quite mature and far more standards compliant than Android, just imagine one could run Thunderbird on a Nexus 7! :)
This is why I'm interested in an MS Surface tablet, running some form of KDE on it must be really nice.
I have Kubuntu running on a 23" HP Touch and it works well, it's just a little clunky to use it as a tablet
I'm right now on an HP-mini running KDE-Plasma on 2 Gb of RAM with 6 tabs open in Firefox and looking at the system monitor less than 400 Mb of RAM is in use.
When on a bare desktop with a couple of widgets running it's below 300 Mb, and yes that's of course without the indexing service running.
Would you take the tablet version of KDE you'd get even better results.
Stop trolling in a place with Real Users.
But it can work the other way around, some years ago our corporate management in the UK told IT to roll out heavily regulated internet access to virtually all personnel and they included a system whereby the logs of access could easily be monitored. The rules explicitly allowed for some private use like during lunch breaks.
There was a little icon you could click, enter a user name and follow their use.
This was available on all computers so you could see the use of your supervisor or even the CEO.
As a Works Council we complained with the example of someone doing repeated searches for a morning after pill would have this exposed to all and to our surprise our the icon was taken down within 24 hrs, logging is certainly still done but under normal circumstances only accessible to IT and they have to limit it to purely technical reasons, management can only request personal logs with a prior accord of the Works Council and company legal dept.
The Works Council was not consulted and asked the court to intervene and the court confirmed such a policy is not legal.
This does not mean no monitoring is possible but it'll have to be done according to standards set up in consultation with the Works Council and by an approved counsellor.
Even then an individual might find recourse when he has good reasons to oppose such.
Around the same time I sat in for my manager during his holidays and both of us had no objections to not share our log-in details, it is not impossible, it's just that a boss/company can't demand it without a proper agreement.
It *might* become a different discussion when the mail address is not including your name but instead something like dept.supervisor@company.com
In Europe we have strong privacy regulation and by the time you use an account called jhon.doe@company.com the stuff you send and receive must be for... John Doe!
Now when said company would set up an account called dept.supervisor@company.com it becomes a wholly different matter.
Or do you think it's plausible mail for udanchny@gmail.com belongs to Gmail? It's got nothing to do with who owns the computer or pays for the power, it's your name and your message.
What's this obsession with wanting to look into the mailbox of your employees?
When it comes to business mails you can easily stipulate they have to be cc'd to a supervisor, colleague or use a departmental mail box instead of one with a private name.
We have this extra piece of paper for you to sign; do it or you're fired. Thanks!
A condition that would make the demand illegal from the get-go and could bring the company in some very hot water :)
The approval can be given by the employee or in cases where the employer wants access for things like fraud investigation and without letting the employee know this approval has to pass the works council. This is similar for requests like installing camera's or other snooping equipment or tapping the telephone.
Works councils are mandatory in companies with 50 or more employees and are elected every couple of years.BR> A union member can be a candidate for election via his union or he can chose to run under his own name like non-union members would.
Please keep in mind union membership is a wholly individual decision and it would be illegal to require such.
As a matter of fact, some unions are not very pro-works council as they see them as competition.
BTW, I don't know why you included thoughts about religion, it has zilch to do with the discussion at hand.