Security holes add up in second quarter 9899

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More like using Kynaptic, which installs non-working entries to the menus.

Or upgrading to the latest version of a distro and watching your 3d video quit working.

Or trying to compile and install from source and getting the endless dependency problems.

Or watching an installer eat your parbreastion off a drive you weren't installing to.

Or seeing how different the same version of the same app (say Konsole) looks and feels from distro to distro.

Or just dealing with the sheer frustration and quirks.

* Last night I installed Kubuntu on my P3-800mhz system. It defaulted to a 1280x1024 resolution (which matched the icon sizes of my Windows 1024x768 res?, but anyway), and it looked fine. Shut down last night, boot up this morning and it boots to a 640x480 screen res (with the huge icons), and there's no higher res option available under KDE. Reboot and suddenly I'm back at 1280x1024. WTF changed? My underwear I guess.

* opening Kontact and seeing there's no entry for News (Knode). Pick around the menus and I finally find 'Select Components' and there it is.

* having several useless laptop-related menu entries.

* go to burn a CD in K3b (still in Kubuntu) and it tells me it can't burn CDs because cdrdao isn't installed. The recommended solution provided on screen? "Install the cdrdao package". LMAO! I should have posted it to cola, but I was shuffling distros and earlier today I replaced Kubuntu with Mandriva LE 2005. Probably a mistake, since I like the Synaptic package mgr. in Kubuntu.

On the plus side, Kubuntu and Mandriva both run pretty well on that older system.

Left yourself a big out with that question mark, didn't ya Crocodile Dumbdee?

What 586 page doc? I'll download it and try it in Word 2000 (the latest version I have) and OO whatever for Windows.