barking

I haven't read The Dead but I greatly enjoyed John Houston's film adaptation of it. I also never read Ulysses but the BBC produced a very listenable book at bedtime of it that I can remember listening to in the Summer of 1991 as the coup was underway in Russia (I wasn't there btw)

You need to ask what would you have done before condemning the German people. It's easier to believe the "safe" truth even if you have doubts about it than set yourself up for a knock on the door and a trip to a concentration camp as happened to very many Germans, both before and during the war. Most of us are cowards and wouldn't intervene if someone was being mugged on a public street. How much more courage does it take to stand up to a totalitarian regime.

You can still get duffers in such jobs as often a candidate is put forward who's agreeable all parties and as such can be the lowest common denominator who won't rock the boat.

I didn't know about that. As I have it set up though, I can hit the windows key and type 'fea' (from Programs and Features) and then enter.

I really wish one of the existing db technologies, Firebird, got a shot in the arm. It has both embedded and server modes which makes it unique as far as I know. Also the database is a single file which with firebirds "careful write" methodology remains consistent at all times so while you can make a backup at any time because it has MVCC, even a file copy of the database file with open transactions should not be corrupted. The installer size comes in under 10 MB. It's being actively improved, is open source with a very liberal licence but sadly it only gets a tiny fraction of the attention that SQLite, postgres etc receive

One of the first things I do is to pin the control panel and a couple of its icons to start so I can avoid the settings way of getting there.

Very good. I thought I'd have no trouble but did. On windows , where there's loads of room, if you had fake and true to either side of the cards that would be helpful

Are we talking about good old fashioned CRUD applications here or is this something different?

Since FSF only has 4800 paying supporters worldwide, does it matter to that many people, globally, as a point of principle.

That is one absolutely beautiful website.

Develop domain knowledge of the motor car. Ever more outlandish scenarios to enable you to make money from software in an open source way. Well I want to develop software for devices people already have, their PCs. Nobody but some software developers and those who don't want to pay anything cares if the software is open source or not. Proprietary software has worked well for business for decades. It's more likely to be maintained and extended because it's paid for. In my market there's cut throat competition between various proprietary software companies. All have developed software to migrate each others' data. Don't like software A then go with software B or C or D.