The real question is, will it be worthwhile if some/all the employees have to learn to use a different OS all over again?
Oh, please. anyone who takes more than 5 minutes to "learn to use" linux via the menu gnome menus shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer in the first place.
I love to 'reply to all' when some idiot sends out a chain letter. Pointing out what a moron he is to his entire contact list goes some way towards discouraging him from doing it again.
At the end of the day they are more concerned in who is paying their fee's and not how it effects the public.
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Attention... all grammer nazi"s! Is they're anything; wrong with: my post,
If I can't, without a manual, install program X onto my computer in 3-6 clicks, it's too hard.
You should love synaptic--you can install with 2 clicks.
"Oh just use the package manager" No. I want to go to their website and click the fucking download button. Then I want to open that downloaded file. Then I want it to install. Anything else is unacceptable for a typical user.
The package manager is how it's done in Linux. If you want to do it your way instead of using the tools that were designed to make it easy for you, then don't be surprised if it's more complicated than you'd like. To use any computer you have to bring a smidgeon of intelligence to bear.
And "Mr." is an abbreviation for "Mister" and should be punctuated as such.
Horseshit. The rule in English is that if the first and last letters of the abbreviation are the same as the first and last letters of the word abbreviated, then the full stop is omitted. In American, this rule is ignored. You idiot retard.
And this is why I'm waiting a few weeks, until they get the initial bugs out.
Or a few months. The 3G bug in 9.10 was never fixed--the only way to get it to work was to install 3rd party work-arounds. I don't trust Canonical anymore, and won't install anything from them until I'm quite sure it doesn't have any show-stoppers.
This release-regardless-every-six-months policy is giving Ubuntu, and by extension Linux, an incredibly bad reputation.
Well of course he's having problems. He's wearing his hat with the shiny side out. Everyone knows that this concentrates the rays rather than deflects them.
I am a fairly large (and old) man. I learned to type on an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter (hunt & peck style) then learned to touchtype on a PC much later. I have large hands, however, and keyboards seem to be designed for petit feminine hands so I have to scrunch my fingers up unnaturally to hit the correct keys. Is this a glass basement that explains why so few men work as secretaries?
Another thing that bugs the crap out of me is the design of the keyboard. Why is the caps lock key so close to the left shift key. I've had to train myself not to use the left shift key because I kept hitting caps lock instead, expecially on the necessarily small keyboard of my laptop. Annoying.
I've had huge problems with 9.10, mostly fixing my screen resolution with the SiS 771/671 graphics (which still doesn't have a 3D driver; will the community come up with one eventually?) and 3G modem doesn't work at all. This last is a critical shortcoming which is going to force me to leave Ubuntu. The community suggests I go buy another brand of modem, but I'm not so rich I can just go out and buy new hardware every time a release of Ubuntu breaks stuff. What really pisses me off is that it is now 4 months since 9.10 was released and these things are still problems.
Matt saying that because he hasn't had a problem everything's fine makes me question his competency to perform in his new position.
Seriously, how about a physical random token generator where someone has to enter what the token currently displays each time...
We had that at my bank--it was called a digitag and you had to use it to log in. I think they deprecated it because people were pressing the button twice and getting it out of synch which was causing a lot of support calls.
Now they send you a one time PIN by SMS to your cellphone which you need if you want to perform certain transactions, e.g. adding a new payment beneficiary. The SMS is free.
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Oh, please. anyone who takes more than 5 minutes to "learn to use" linux via the menu gnome menus shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer in the first place.
I love to 'reply to all' when some idiot sends out a chain letter. Pointing out what a moron he is to his entire contact list goes some way towards discouraging him from doing it again.
Me too. My dog has more friends than I do.
Yes, it's fees, not fee's.
They would say, "Hello, hello, hello" first.
You mean fewer earthquakes.
Orange juice?
You should love synaptic--you can install with 2 clicks.
The package manager is how it's done in Linux. If you want to do it your way instead of using the tools that were designed to make it easy for you, then don't be surprised if it's more complicated than you'd like. To use any computer you have to bring a smidgeon of intelligence to bear.
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I've just finished playing Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1993?) on Ubuntu 10.04 with DOSbox. What's the problem?
viruses please. And octopuses, platypuses etc.
Videos please.
It is also the most addictive toxin on the planet. If you could stop breathing and not die of the withdrawal symptoms you would live forever.
Horseshit. The rule in English is that if the first and last letters of the abbreviation are the same as the first and last letters of the word abbreviated, then the full stop is omitted. In American, this rule is ignored. You idiot retard.
Viruses please. And calluses, octopuses, platypuses, polypuses. Thank you, that is all.
This hasn't been my experience--I find FF faster by far on Linux than XP. I haven't tried Chrome yet.
Or a few months. The 3G bug in 9.10 was never fixed--the only way to get it to work was to install 3rd party work-arounds. I don't trust Canonical anymore, and won't install anything from them until I'm quite sure it doesn't have any show-stoppers.
This release-regardless-every-six-months policy is giving Ubuntu, and by extension Linux, an incredibly bad reputation.
I have a dynamically assigned IP which changes every time I connect. Does this count me as about 600 users per annum?
I quit 9 months ago after reading Allan Carr's book. I had smoked for 39 years. I won't smoke again.
Well of course he's having problems. He's wearing his hat with the shiny side out. Everyone knows that this concentrates the rays rather than deflects them.
Cuba announce the results of their elections the day before polling. That's commie efficiency for you.
I am a fairly large (and old) man. I learned to type on an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter (hunt & peck style) then learned to touchtype on a PC much later. I have large hands, however, and keyboards seem to be designed for petit feminine hands so I have to scrunch my fingers up unnaturally to hit the correct keys. Is this a glass basement that explains why so few men work as secretaries?
Another thing that bugs the crap out of me is the design of the keyboard. Why is the caps lock key so close to the left shift key. I've had to train myself not to use the left shift key because I kept hitting caps lock instead, expecially on the necessarily small keyboard of my laptop. Annoying.
I've had huge problems with 9.10, mostly fixing my screen resolution with the SiS 771/671 graphics (which still doesn't have a 3D driver; will the community come up with one eventually?) and 3G modem doesn't work at all. This last is a critical shortcoming which is going to force me to leave Ubuntu. The community suggests I go buy another brand of modem, but I'm not so rich I can just go out and buy new hardware every time a release of Ubuntu breaks stuff. What really pisses me off is that it is now 4 months since 9.10 was released and these things are still problems.
Matt saying that because he hasn't had a problem everything's fine makes me question his competency to perform in his new position.
We had that at my bank--it was called a digitag and you had to use it to log in. I think they deprecated it because people were pressing the button twice and getting it out of synch which was causing a lot of support calls.
Now they send you a one time PIN by SMS to your cellphone which you need if you want to perform certain transactions, e.g. adding a new payment beneficiary. The SMS is free.
Like this one?