I installed Lycoris Desktop/LX a few weeks ago, and was STUNNED to find that CD burning from KDE worked right out of the box. The UI was less than intuitive, but so was Easy CD Creator the first time I used it. It was amazing, because it just WORKED.
I installed Lycoris Desktop/LX a few weeks ago, and was >stunnedWORKED.
I'm now running a dual boot with Win2K, and boot into Windows for occasional gaming and audio recording -- and use Desktop/LX for everything else. I haven't done that since BeOS R5.
It does beg a question, but not "how (do) these guys really act to customers" -- I believe the better question is "when you financially reward sociopathic behavior, is it likely to stop?"
Consider: if I donated money or purchased the product outright, project members might begin treating me with respect and patience -- but that respect and patience would have been purchased, rather than genuine. I assume that the boorish behavior would have continued behind my back. Equally possible is the chance that the boorish behavior would have continued to my face.
Ultimately, it was this thought that led to me voiding a donation check I had written to the project. I voided the check two days after installing SmoothWall, a few hours after writing the check, and half an hour after being insulted by Richard Morrell on the users mailing list.
Actually, the reviewer seems to have contacted the developer. Daniel said:
>"...nor did i see anything to suggest he had even asked us about these so called "problems"."
In the review, the reviewer actually states:
>"My concrete indications of security problems within SmoothWall found sheer disinterest with Richard Morrell, developer and project initiator. "That doesn't matter" was about the politest of all comments comment (sic)."
The reviewer apparently did attempt to have a dialogue with one of the developers, and was rebuffed (apparently impolitely.) I have had a similar experience with at least one SmoothWall developer behaving somewhat less than tactfully.
I, too, found it extremely easy to configure. I have been using it, and appreciate the availability of it.
Ultimately, though, this is a very interesting notation by Daniel:
>"...nor did i see anything to suggest he had even asked us about these so called "problems"."
In the review, the reviewer actually states:
>"My concrete indications of security problems within SmoothWall found sheer disinterest with Richard Morrell, developer and project initiator. "That doesn't matter" was about the politest of all comments comment (sic)."
The reviewer apparently did attempt to have a dialogue with one of the developers, and was rebuffed (apparently impolitely.) I have had a similar experience with at least one SmoothWall developer behaving somewhat less than tactfully.
If the reviewer is wrong about the security issues, the development team may feel justified in treating him thusly -- At the same time, I sincerely hope that the development team keeps a reasonably open ear in case a legitimate bug is discovered.
I also have been fixing "things", be they computers , cars, furniture, stereo/tvs, cameras, etc. since I was a child.
When I was very young, I started taking things apart when nobody was looking. One day I took apart (and broke) a desktop thermometer, and my father caught me. He immediately created a new house rule: I could take apart anything I wanted, without asking -- if I could put it back together again afterwards.
Thus emboldened, I started taking apart everything in sight. In the early days, there were lots of parts left over, but the devices always worked when I was through with 'em.
When my father brought home our first computer (a Compaq 'luggable' portable computer, circa 1981) the same rules applied. I applied the same brute force techniques, and learned everything I could.
Ultimately, computers is cars is phones is musical instruments is printing presses is lighting fixtures...devices are devices. Some just get dirtier than others. I know how to recover after a hard drive crash, I know how to replace a starter, and I know how to do hundreds of other things that help me get through the day.
And believe you me, my wife's happy to have a handyman in the house.:)
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Er, correction on that severely typo'd reply:
I installed Lycoris Desktop/LX a few weeks ago, and was STUNNED to find that CD burning from KDE worked right out of the box. The UI was less than intuitive, but so was Easy CD Creator the first time I used it. It was amazing, because it just WORKED.
I installed Lycoris Desktop/LX a few weeks ago, and was >stunnedWORKED.
I'm now running a dual boot with Win2K, and boot into Windows for occasional gaming and audio recording -- and use Desktop/LX for everything else. I haven't done that since BeOS R5.
It does beg a question, but not "how (do) these guys really act to customers" -- I believe the better question is "when you financially reward sociopathic behavior, is it likely to stop?"
Consider: if I donated money or purchased the product outright, project members might begin treating me with respect and patience -- but that respect and patience would have been purchased, rather than genuine. I assume that the boorish behavior would have continued behind my back. Equally possible is the chance that the boorish behavior would have continued to my face.
Ultimately, it was this thought that led to me voiding a donation check I had written to the project. I voided the check two days after installing SmoothWall, a few hours after writing the check, and half an hour after being insulted by Richard Morrell on the users mailing list.
Actually, the reviewer seems to have contacted the developer. Daniel said:
>"...nor did i see anything to suggest he had even asked us about these so called "problems"."
In the review, the reviewer actually states:
>"My concrete indications of security problems within SmoothWall found sheer disinterest with Richard Morrell, developer and project initiator. "That doesn't matter" was about the politest of all comments comment (sic)."
The reviewer apparently did attempt to have a dialogue with one of the developers, and was rebuffed (apparently impolitely.) I have had a similar experience with at least one SmoothWall developer behaving somewhat less than tactfully.
I, too, found it extremely easy to configure. I have been using it, and appreciate the availability of it.
Ultimately, though, this is a very interesting notation by Daniel:
>"...nor did i see anything to suggest he had even asked us about these so called "problems"."
In the review, the reviewer actually states:
>"My concrete indications of security problems within SmoothWall found sheer disinterest with Richard Morrell, developer and project initiator. "That doesn't matter" was about the politest of all comments comment (sic)."
The reviewer apparently did attempt to have a dialogue with one of the developers, and was rebuffed (apparently impolitely.) I have had a similar experience with at least one SmoothWall developer behaving somewhat less than tactfully.
If the reviewer is wrong about the security issues, the development team may feel justified in treating him thusly -- At the same time, I sincerely hope that the development team keeps a reasonably open ear in case a legitimate bug is discovered.
I also have been fixing "things", be they computers , cars, furniture, stereo/tvs, cameras, etc. since I was a child.
:)
When I was very young, I started taking things apart when nobody was looking. One day I took apart (and broke) a desktop thermometer, and my father caught me. He immediately created a new house rule: I could take apart anything I wanted, without asking -- if I could put it back together again afterwards.
Thus emboldened, I started taking apart everything in sight. In the early days, there were lots of parts left over, but the devices always worked when I was through with 'em.
When my father brought home our first computer (a Compaq 'luggable' portable computer, circa 1981) the same rules applied. I applied the same brute force techniques, and learned everything I could.
Ultimately, computers is cars is phones is musical instruments is printing presses is lighting fixtures...devices are devices. Some just get dirtier than others. I know how to recover after a hard drive crash, I know how to replace a starter, and I know how to do hundreds of other things that help me get through the day.
And believe you me, my wife's happy to have a handyman in the house.