being acquired is supposed to improve things, I thought

[waider]

Is it just me, or is del.icio.us more flaky since it was bought by Yahoo?

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think of something that has improved after getting acquired.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Obviously you're in a somewhat biased position. But you're right. I just figured that with backing from Yahoo, deli wouldn't be quite so subject to site-wide outages and the like.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

BTW, what were you expecting Ctrl-Alt-Del to do in GNOME? My experience suggests that reboots a Linux or FreeBSD box (and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace exits X).

[waider.livejournal.com]

I was working on a VNC session to a Windows machine which had screenlocked. It seems, though, that the "but Linux is viable for a desktop" people would expect Ctrl-Alt-Del to do something slightly less destructive, since anyone coming from Windows land is going to know it as the way to get that handy Lock Screen/Log Out/Change Password/Task Manager/etc panel to appear.

Having Ctrl-Alt-Del kill an entire login session with no back-out option seems pretty abusive, even to a sometime BOFH like me.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Nobody said it was supposed to improve things for the Customer, and certainly not for employees: all the benefits are for the shareholders.