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On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:42:30PM -0800, felix@crowfix.com wrote
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:01:57 -0600
> > Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Since this is
> > > depreciated, which generally means no longer maintained
> > 
> > <nitpick>
> > 
> > The word you want is "deprecated".
> > 
> > "depreciated" is something else entirely, it's what your employer does
> > to the book value of your company car over 5 years to get the value
> > down to nothing.
> > 
> > </nitpick>
> 
> "Depreciated" is perfectly cromulent in this instance.

  You really think it's copacetic?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications