Until just recently, I'd been using fluxbox for the past several years. It's fast, light, and just does the minimum things that I really need it to do.

However, two things started bugging me:

1.) Zoom loses window decorations after a while, and the windows aren't even movable with alt-clicking once this happens. Restarting it doesn't fix it, instead, I have to restart the actual window manager.

2.) There's some sort of incompatibility with its window handling and chromium's drag-and-drop. It doesn't always happen, but if there are overlapping windows, but one window is "behind", sometimes it will act as if that window is in front during a drag/drop operation. I don't do a hell of a lot of intentional drag-and-dropping in the first place, but every now and then I mis-click some item (particularly if I'm using a touchpad), and accidentally drag, say, an image by like a pixel. If it knew that it landed two pixels away on the same window, it wouldn't be a problem--it just does nothing. But by interpreting that it's on the chromium window underneath, I get switched to that window with whatever thing I accidentally dragged loaded as the next page. Rare, but super annoying.

Zoom was the main thing, since I need to use it regularly for work, but my read is that it's just not an active enough project to keep up with recent stuff that's cropped up (last release was five years ago). Ended up switching to XFCE, trying the full-on desktop environment life, at least for now. Fine so far, and picked it since it's fairly "raw window manger-ish" as desktop environments go. The one thing I really miss about fluxbox is being able to add arbitrary windows to tabs managed by fluxbox (ie you could have chromium and firefox both in the same "window", switching back and forth via the title bar).

Honestly would probably just go back to fluxbox if the zoom issue was fixed, though I might explore some other raw window managers soon when I have more free time to futz around with trivial stuff.

* Astonishing Legends - Basically the "Unsolved Mysteries" of podcasts, and it's amaz... er, astonishing!
* The Eastern Border - Latvian Journalist's perspective on living in the baltic states in the soviet era
* The Dangerous History Podcast - An anarchist/libertarian college history professor's take on various historical events.

I found out about Astonishing Legends when I was reading up on Tamam Shud, and one podcast led to the other, which led to the other...

Astonishing Legends is both great and pretty universal. I think everybody should listen to it. The other two are great too, but probably appeal to more specific audiences. I will say, though, that if you're not particularly libertarian (I'm not), you might still give Dangerous History a chance. It's very good about calling out all the actors in any given event on what they've done, without slipping into a mythological "this was the good guy, this was the bad guy" simplified narrative.

...or just because he said his VP would be in charge of both foreign and domestic policy...

No, that's when you pull over and look at the Thomas Guide.

Google doesn't need our sympathy--Oracle needs our antipathy. The people behind Oracles side of the case are sociopaths attempting to do something that will set a precedent that is extremely negative for technological progress in American society. Once set, it could extend beyond the country as part of our continual series of copyright treaties, making Oracle responsible for doing serious damage to human society as a whole. They're monsters who should be locked up.

Nobody seriously should care whether Google has to pay a million or even a billion dollars to some company, but they should care about the dangerous precedent Oracle was trying to set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I distinctly hear: "The beat goes steady like a firm cock..."

Exim uses gnutls on debian (and ubuntu, and probably other derivates).

In Silent Hill 2, the main character wanders through a forest into the town of Silent Hill. Once in Silent Hill, if you enter a certain building, you're greeted with the following:

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/56/258639-sh2_neelybar_hole_super.jpg

If you happen across a 404 on Battle.Net's wow forums, you're greeted with the following:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/d

And admin here proposed naming our lab computers with the following scheme:

lab[lab #][computer a-z]

So... that way the first one would be lab1a.