The csifdocs server (the server you are reading this on) will be down for maintenance for short periods of time (less than 15 minutes) today. There should be no more than two periods of down time.

Maintenance is complete. The csifdocs server is back up.

The csifdocs server (the server that produces this page) will be down periodically for maintenance today. Expected total down time should be no longer than an hour.

Today the CSIF CVS server will be down, around noon, for some maintenance. Down time is expected to be less than one hour.

Maintenance is complete. the CSIF CVS server is back up.

The SSG is going to be doing some maintenance on the csifdocs server today. The server should be down periodically for no more than 4 times, and less than 15 minutes at a time.

Thunderbird, a popular email and newgroup reader, and Eclipse, an integrated development environment, have been installed on the CSIF systems. Their executables are thunderbird and eclipse.

In KDE, the desktop is refreshing frequently, flickering slightly as it
does so. If this happens when the user is saving a file on the desktop,
the kde save dialog will lose the filename the user is typing.

To reproduce:
1. Open a kde-based editor such as kwrite.
2. Type something in and save the file to the desktop.
3. Do a Save As, and click the file you just saved.
4. Edit the filename to save to, but don't hit save.
5. In a second or two when the desktop refreshes the filename will
revert to the one you clicked on.

I don't know if this is a bug in KDE 3.1, or if another program is
causing the desktop to continuously refresh, but I have seen the issue
on 3 different user accounts, including my own. I do know this issue
does not occur in KDE 3.3 on my laptop (running gentoo linux), not that
this helps much.

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