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  Contents:

   [93]¶: Greetings From Heather Stern

   [94](?) Language choice --or--
          [95]Generic installer locations

   [96](?) Mail forwarding
   [97](!) Process lifecycle --or--
          [98]Parent and Child
          The birth and death of linux processes

   [99](?) Upgrading KDE
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(¶) Greetings from Heather Stern

   Greetings, everyone, and welcome once more to the world of The Answer Gang.
   It's sunny September where I'm sittign but for some places the storms are
   rolling in. (See our [100]Mailbag for soggy details.)

   Meanwhile, it's getting toward Autumn. The blustering winds are starting to
   tug at the leaves, the blustering television sings of back to school and
   fall fashions. What have these to do with the world of techies? Not much...

   Well, hold on a second there. Actually, the start of new academic seasons
   give the open source world a new batch of bored students and busy computer
   science departments with fat links to work on new projects. Techie bits have
   come up in the fashion world - depending on just how far away from the
   techie world you are, fashion might have been what dragged Linux into your
   view, as the Burlington Coat Factory sometime ago ([101]about 5 years now)
   held a certain large hardware vendor over a barrel by taking them up on
   their system preload offer, but wanting the "ordinary consumer" class of
   systems  en  masse  rather  than  a few rackmount servers. Since then,
   [102]Burlington expanded their Linux use company wide and appear to be
   pretty darn happy with it.

   Let me take a woman's intuition on a little shopping trip, then, and see
   where else Linux has come into fashion... I'm not talking T-shirts, mind
   you. I can get those at trade shows. I can buy them at [103]ThinkGeek. I'm
   not talking about silly tidbits like a tie with 47 pictures of Tux on it.
   The ability to wear bumper sticker and /usr/share/games/fortunes sorts of
   wit is not fashion. I'm talking about the world where some crazy designers
   feel compelled to reinvent crayola colors every 6 months or so and force
   beautiful slinky babes (of both genders) to walk up and down a long stage
   wearing... err, well, sometimes it doesn't look silly, but often it does.

   What doesn't help is how hard this can be to shop for. Search engines are
   with "in this fashion..." and "accessories" will get you peripherals. I
   really had to pull out the stops for this. You won't find it on freshmeat
   either (though I did find yet another lightweight wm called [104]WMI).

   You want jewelry, you have to look for jewelry - amd apparently it helps if
   you spell this the long way. [105]Linux Jewellery has quite the debian
   collection, and some BSD stuff too.

   You ladies who want to show off your fondness for Red Hat instead, consider
   these. Sorry it's not a fedora:
   [106]http://www.thesilvermonkey.com/redhatsocietythemefashionjewelry.html

   OTOH, sometimes a hat is just a hat. As early as 3 years ago some people
   were seeking geek chic that didn't include looking like "the techie" from
   several hundred feet away. THis article from that time relates, and I'm
   pleased to say many of its links are ever still good. Dress shirts wired for
   techie bits? My goodness:
   [107]http://www.geek.com/pdageek/features/chic/index.htm

   That was 2001. In 2002, CNN wondered if wearable computing would hit the
   fall fashion highlights with an MP3 jacket. "We're just demonstrating the
   technology." they cried, it's not like we want money for this. Working with
   partners, etc. Get the giggles yourself while reding this:
   [108]http://news.com.com/2008-1082-941578.html

   Will wonders not cease. It was shown off, among other curious inncations of
   the fashion world, at a fashion conference earlier this year. Infineon