We need to start fixing their computers with Ubuntu and letting them know that it's the ONLY way we can guarantee that the issue won't happen again.
This is actually what I have started to do when someone tells me that their computer died from a virus. Well, that, and I explain that the differences between Windows and Linux are sort of like the differences between Windows and Mac, in terms of virus vulnerability and program compatibility.
So far, one friend is loving Kubuntu 8.04, which I happened to have on a Live USB that I had with me at the time that he told me that he caught Conficker. I showed him the basics, like where applications are, how to use the Package Manager, how to install stuff from binary packages, and some basic Bash stuff, and from what I can see, he's not switching back to Windows for as long as he can help it.
And I'm going to send an Ubuntu 9.04 CD to my aunt, who is getting a netbook soon, but wants her old laptop to be functional as well. I'm sort of looking forward to troubleshooting with my aunt, to see if I can overcome the challenge of the Average User. I told her that without spending money, her options for fixing her computer were either pirating Windows or installing Linux (she apparently doesn't have an OEM disc). She didn't want me to break copyright law for her sake.
Should I report back with more cases at a later date?
I just got back from seeing this movie.
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It was actually pretty good. As a standalone movie, it's a little confusing; I feel like the viewer needs knowledge of the Star Trek Canon in order to appreciate what this movie is doing. I've seen some of the original series, but I don't know my Trek backstories. Someone who knows Star Trek is likely going to enjoy this a lot more than someone who knows nothing. Going in, the newbie would have no idea who Vulcans or Romulans were, what Starfleet is, or who anyone outside of the famous Enterprise crew is, and by the end of it, they still might not know as much as they want to.
This could be a good springboard for anyone who wants to explore the original series. It's definitely not any sort of one-shot entertainment. And because it's a universe reboot, I kind of look forward to what they do with this now open alternate continuity.
I thought it broke because the God particle has to exist solely on faith, and would cease to exist if proof of it were found, so it keeps going back in time and screwing up the LHC....
I do. Sometimes, I find the AC troll comments hilarious (usually the ones specifically directed at certain comments, rather than the generic first post spam). AC trolls are the reason I keep my threshold at -1.:)
If 'any reasonable person' would find it unconstitutional, this legislation should have never been proposed in the first place.
Agreed. An extension of your logic: We have not elected reasonable people to positions of public office.
So, instead of sitting here, bitching about it on/., we should be taking political action ourselves, and doing what we can either to remove this bill before it has the chance to pass, or to change our government such that the system we put in place will satisfy us.
That's the beauty of our system - yes, the legislators can legislate whatever they want, but that's only as long as the People let the legislators do so. This is explicitly spelled out in one of our 200-something-year-old documents.
If you care enough, you will take your own political action against this bill.
Yeah, genius, except I was going more for the arrangement of the buttons on the controller.
For every button position on a PlayStation controller, there is a button in the same position on the Xbox360 controller. Two sets of shoulder triggers, four function buttons (ABYX), a D-Pad, two analog sticks with buttons underneath, a Start button, and some other button to pair with Start.
The difference is that Microsoft swapped the positions of the left analog stick and the D-Pad, and then they called it the Xbox controller.
It's like a Nintendo DS that's smaller and you always have with you
But I already have my Nintendo DS with me. And I already have a cell phone, too. How would an iPhone benefit me, when I can already be amused at my own whim?
More accurately, they made it from a PlayStation 2.
There is no other excuse for (a) the controller being so similar and (b) so many games being made for both systems.
I speak here purely from an end-user standpoint. Please do not act like you defeat my point if you spout off technical crap. Unless you are a developer for either system, you care approximately as much as I do about the technical stuff behind the PS2/Xbox or PS3/Xbox360. And I am not a dev for either system, so I can assure you that I don't care to hear the technical differences between them. They are game systems, and I am purely an end-user of consoles.
* Building a case for dismissal is so time-consuming, costly and draining for principals and administrators that many say they don't make the effort except in the most egregious cases. The vast majority of firings stem from blatant misconduct, including sexual abuse, other immoral or illegal behavior, insubordination or repeated violation of rules such as showing up on time.
Showing up on time is a violation of the rules? Geez, no wonder teacher performance is so poor. They can't even set a good example for the students by coming to class on time!
I hate Microsoft Office 2007's ribbons as much as any other hater, but my other problem is the incompatibility between MSOffice03's.doc and MSOffice07's implementation of.doc.
Has this been fixed yet? Can I edit/save/etc my.doc files in MSOffice07 as if it were MSOffice03, and not have to worry? Or is that backwards "compatibility" still broken beyond reason?
If this hasn't been fixed yet, then Microsoft has no business adding additional functionality to the suite. Why do they refuse to fix their software before adding new features?
No. Toolbars and menus worked well. In fact, for every other application out there, they still work well. And they stay out of the way of whatever I'm working on.
Ribbons take up entirely too much space on the screen. I need them to be hidden/minimized/whatever for two reasons: (1) My work, the main thing I'm focusing on, gets more space on the screen and (2) it gives me the illusion that I still have some sort of menu.
When I have a series of words on a bar at the top of my window, I expect them to yield menus, not toolbars, when I click on them. This is how every GUI I have ever known has worked, and I have never once had a problem with it, nor have I ever felt like there was a better way to lay everything out.
Give me one good reason why it was a good idea to use these bastardized toolbars instead of the usual menus and normal toolbars.
But that wasn't karma whoring. He was just whoring mod points. He got modded Funny. According to the Slashdot FAQs, "Funny" moderations do nothing for karma.
Posting "Insightful" posts is how you whore karma.
Some that I've played have been Armegatron Advanced, Chromium B.S.U., and Neverball.
I'm just saying that no big names in games ever throw us so much as source code for us to compile, let alone full binaries for installation....
The only reason I ever need access to Windows is a series called "Touhou Project". But, if there were a cross-platform version of that, I'd never need a Windows environment ever again. Too bad Touhou, like so many others, is written in DirectX.... >_
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$ unzip -v WolfsStickySituation.zip
Something like that?
C'mon, there's no way ninjas are better!
Have you ever heard of anyone ninjaing software? Or music? Or games? No one ninjas anything. It's all about the pirates! :D
This...this is commenting on a comment....
Is that a meta-comment?
We need to start fixing their computers with Ubuntu and letting them know that it's the ONLY way we can guarantee that the issue won't happen again.
This is actually what I have started to do when someone tells me that their computer died from a virus. Well, that, and I explain that the differences between Windows and Linux are sort of like the differences between Windows and Mac, in terms of virus vulnerability and program compatibility.
So far, one friend is loving Kubuntu 8.04, which I happened to have on a Live USB that I had with me at the time that he told me that he caught Conficker. I showed him the basics, like where applications are, how to use the Package Manager, how to install stuff from binary packages, and some basic Bash stuff, and from what I can see, he's not switching back to Windows for as long as he can help it.
And I'm going to send an Ubuntu 9.04 CD to my aunt, who is getting a netbook soon, but wants her old laptop to be functional as well. I'm sort of looking forward to troubleshooting with my aunt, to see if I can overcome the challenge of the Average User. I told her that without spending money, her options for fixing her computer were either pirating Windows or installing Linux (she apparently doesn't have an OEM disc). She didn't want me to break copyright law for her sake.
Should I report back with more cases at a later date?
It was actually pretty good. As a standalone movie, it's a little confusing; I feel like the viewer needs knowledge of the Star Trek Canon in order to appreciate what this movie is doing. I've seen some of the original series, but I don't know my Trek backstories. Someone who knows Star Trek is likely going to enjoy this a lot more than someone who knows nothing. Going in, the newbie would have no idea who Vulcans or Romulans were, what Starfleet is, or who anyone outside of the famous Enterprise crew is, and by the end of it, they still might not know as much as they want to.
This could be a good springboard for anyone who wants to explore the original series. It's definitely not any sort of one-shot entertainment. And because it's a universe reboot, I kind of look forward to what they do with this now open alternate continuity.
I thought it broke because the God particle has to exist solely on faith, and would cease to exist if proof of it were found, so it keeps going back in time and screwing up the LHC....
Silly me....
...it's about time the Linux desktop had its own killer app.
That KDE Widget layer is pretty nice. I like KDE's widget stuff more than the widget library in Windows Vista/7.
Maybe not the killer app that the FOSS community needs, but maybe a step in the right direction.
Take the AC racist comments. Who gives a shit?
I do. Sometimes, I find the AC troll comments hilarious (usually the ones specifically directed at certain comments, rather than the generic first post spam). AC trolls are the reason I keep my threshold at -1. :)
If 'any reasonable person' would find it unconstitutional, this legislation should have never been proposed in the first place.
Agreed. An extension of your logic: We have not elected reasonable people to positions of public office.
So, instead of sitting here, bitching about it on /., we should be taking political action ourselves, and doing what we can either to remove this bill before it has the chance to pass, or to change our government such that the system we put in place will satisfy us.
That's the beauty of our system - yes, the legislators can legislate whatever they want, but that's only as long as the People let the legislators do so. This is explicitly spelled out in one of our 200-something-year-old documents.
If you care enough, you will take your own political action against this bill.
You mean, having buttons??
Yeah, genius, except I was going more for the arrangement of the buttons on the controller.
For every button position on a PlayStation controller, there is a button in the same position on the Xbox360 controller. Two sets of shoulder triggers, four function buttons (ABYX), a D-Pad, two analog sticks with buttons underneath, a Start button, and some other button to pair with Start.
The difference is that Microsoft swapped the positions of the left analog stick and the D-Pad, and then they called it the Xbox controller.
It's like a Nintendo DS that's smaller and you always have with you
But I already have my Nintendo DS with me. And I already have a cell phone, too. How would an iPhone benefit me, when I can already be amused at my own whim?
More accurately, they made it from a PlayStation 2.
There is no other excuse for (a) the controller being so similar and (b) so many games being made for both systems.
I speak here purely from an end-user standpoint. Please do not act like you defeat my point if you spout off technical crap. Unless you are a developer for either system, you care approximately as much as I do about the technical stuff behind the PS2/Xbox or PS3/Xbox360. And I am not a dev for either system, so I can assure you that I don't care to hear the technical differences between them. They are game systems, and I am purely an end-user of consoles.
What do you tell a user with two black eyes?
You don't tell him anything; you just ban him already. Just telling him clearly didn't work the last two times.
If his account was worth keeping, he would have listened.
From TFA:
Among the findings:
* Building a case for dismissal is so time-consuming, costly and draining for principals and administrators that many say they don't make the effort except in the most egregious cases. The vast majority of firings stem from blatant misconduct, including sexual abuse, other immoral or illegal behavior, insubordination or repeated violation of rules such as showing up on time.
Showing up on time is a violation of the rules? Geez, no wonder teacher performance is so poor. They can't even set a good example for the students by coming to class on time!
I hate Microsoft Office 2007's ribbons as much as any other hater, but my other problem is the incompatibility between MSOffice03's .doc and MSOffice07's implementation of .doc.
Has this been fixed yet? Can I edit/save/etc my .doc files in MSOffice07 as if it were MSOffice03, and not have to worry? Or is that backwards "compatibility" still broken beyond reason?
If this hasn't been fixed yet, then Microsoft has no business adding additional functionality to the suite. Why do they refuse to fix their software before adding new features?
Forget menus and toolbars.
No. Toolbars and menus worked well. In fact, for every other application out there, they still work well. And they stay out of the way of whatever I'm working on.
Ribbons take up entirely too much space on the screen. I need them to be hidden/minimized/whatever for two reasons: (1) My work, the main thing I'm focusing on, gets more space on the screen and (2) it gives me the illusion that I still have some sort of menu.
When I have a series of words on a bar at the top of my window, I expect them to yield menus, not toolbars, when I click on them. This is how every GUI I have ever known has worked, and I have never once had a problem with it, nor have I ever felt like there was a better way to lay everything out.
Give me one good reason why it was a good idea to use these bastardized toolbars instead of the usual menus and normal toolbars.
But that wasn't karma whoring. He was just whoring mod points. He got modded Funny. According to the Slashdot FAQs, "Funny" moderations do nothing for karma.
Posting "Insightful" posts is how you whore karma.
It also doubles as a Linux update manager as well. Remember when Ubuntu 9.04 was released? :)
Swine flu and I'm pretty sure Hell freezes over in the Winter, if you're talking about the place in Michigan.
Somehow, I'm starting to get the feeling that this is a huge pun organized by some higher power.
What promises are people gonna have to start keeping next? The ones based on, "not in a million years"?
Yes. Touhou didn't run perfectly by default, and I didn't feel like learning how to configure Wine.
Maybe I will at a later date, but I don't feel like it right now.
I need to read my previews....
Typo fix: Armagetron
Also, lost a less-than sign at the end of the post.
Hmm...I'll have to try some of those.
Some that I've played have been Armegatron Advanced, Chromium B.S.U., and Neverball.
I'm just saying that no big names in games ever throw us so much as source code for us to compile, let alone full binaries for installation....
The only reason I ever need access to Windows is a series called "Touhou Project". But, if there were a cross-platform version of that, I'd never need a Windows environment ever again. Too bad Touhou, like so many others, is written in DirectX.... >_
See? Piss me off, and I can't spell.
That must be my superhero weakness....
Are you sure it isn't just an easter egg from when your parents raised you?
and I know a fair number of gamers who would love to use Linux, if only it were a gaming platform.
In theory, shouldn't this only require programmers getting their hands on the sources of DirectX games and writing OpenGL counterparts?
Linux could be a gaming platform, if only people would write games for it.
"Don't even know that there are more than one browser available"? Why not just, "Don't even know that their version of IE is outdated"?
I am certain that there are such users in the world, sad as it may be.