KDE is nice and cool, I like it. However, "REAL" users need apps. For geeks like us who just admin, play with graphics, etc., things are dandy. There are even nice games that come with KDE. But there's a long way to go before Linux will ever be a realistic replacement for Windows.
Key points being...
Apps users want and need
Apps users can install and uninstall without tracking down every bloody dependency ad infinitum
Standard UI across apps
A printing system that works AS EASILY as Windows
Until those things become standard across all distros, Linux taking over the desktop will be a sad joke.
I've purchased Slackware too, and it was about that. $45, considering retail off-the-shelf Windows is what, $200?, is quite a deal. The Windows you get with a new pc is quite likely to run just fine on all this 'innovative' new hardware. It's not like you pay $45 for Windows 3.1 with that shiny new pc. Is there really a point here?
At this place I worked at, there was this head of programming guy, a hippy who was very high-strung, stressed out. One day he was standing next to this monitor, about 30 feet from me. I forget the OS it was running, maybe AIX. From my desk, I remotely turned X on, on that monitor he was standing next to. I might've been rlog'd in, I don't recall. Then I would turn it on. Then back off again, etc, etc. After a while, he looked at it, and slapped it really hard, like it was a monitor on the fritz!!!!! What a goober.
Exactly. Right now people are very complacent, just update their virus definitions, or follow the advice of that newpaper moron Jim Coates and restore their system from their rescue cd whenever something doesn't work right on their pc. A nice big "Hello Baby" picture would get a lot of people thinking. Or at least it would give their televangelists something to whine about for a week.
The virus we need is one that changes the wallpaper on a Windows(tm) machine to a big crotch shot. It can't be that hard, maybe a simple registry key, or an ini file modification.
In light of the recent Janet Jackson breast fiasco, I think you'll agree that Jane and Joe Jackass End User need a little more exposure to such things so they won't get their knickers in a knot over such silly crap.
I've been using Opera for a long time on both win and lin, and don't recall it crashing on Linux any more than on Windows; which isn't much really, maybe once every few months, and usually due to other crap I've got running at the same time (though that really shouldn't matter).
Opera is the Cat's Pajamas. They should offer Slashdotters a discount on the ad-free version.
I thought about using the MS SFU, but didn't want to pony up $99. Now that it's free... maybe.
Can anyone shed some light on how they compare? I use mostly gawk, sed, grep, and general sh scripting.
Thanks!
Re:sorry ID. Single player games just dont swing.
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Uh, yeah.
I would be willing to bet $12 that there are more geeks out there WITHOUT a LAN and dedicated game server than there are WITH. Not to mention the hassle of getting other people to participate. Plus there's the convenience factor of popping in a cd and playing a while whenever you want. I was personally disappointed with Quake 3, as it's not great as a 1st person. In fact, I'd rather replay Quake 2 over and over. Multiplayer games are fine in geekland where you do have a LAN set up and a bunch of buddies sitting there waiting to do something, but in the real world, single player games do still make more sense for most casual game users.
If I were a more qualified sociologist, I'd think it may have inspired by the way that our children play today versus how they played twenty years ago.
Anyway, when I was a kid, we had Lego blocks. Maybe 4 major sizes, and a few gimick pieces thrown in. It required imagination. We had to improvise to build guns on our improvised spaceships. A favorite thing to do was to build space ships with a little chamber in the middle, closed off with one of those wheel socket blocks (these had a round hole bored all the way through, in which you would stick the 'wheels'). In this chamber would be a firecracker, with the wick sticking out of the wheel socket block. The challenge was to see if we could build a ship that could survive the internal explosion. Of course, they never would; they would blow all to hell, pieces flying 10 feet or more. Ahh, memories.
I hadn't heard from this Aunt of mine, or any of her relatives in about 20 years. And then, out of the blue, I get this call because she's having trouble with her Windows 95 computer! She calls me, long distance, expecting free tech support, because my mom told her I was a "computer guy" and gave her my number!!!!
I do what I can when I'm at people's houses, if they're having trouble and are nice. But, my immediate family live a few thousand miles away, so I don't do much support for them. Fortunately, they're fairly bright, and have a close friend who *THINKS* he knows everything, so he gets to do most of their tech support.
One of the biggest problems, as someone else posted, is that they think that because I do *computer stuff*, I'm a techie geek who fixes broken pc's all day, and loves nothing more than to fix everyone's broken pc's for free in my free time. Where in actuality, I almost never tinker anymore with pc's, having moved on to programming and admin'ing. Sometimes, yes, it's fun to build and upgrade my own machines, but that's a hobby, for me to enjoy geekily, in my free time.
Anymore, when people try to suck the life out of me via free tech support, I think of some obscure job somewhat related to theirs, and ask them to do it for me for free. For example, if a Doctor asks me for free help, I'll ask for a teeth cleaning in return.
The sender, when they use a password to login, would be able to use your private-public key, however, it could not be exported to anyone else.
Either way... whether you sit there and manually delete spams, or whether you have your machine or your mail server do it, it's going to take up resources. I just think we have technology more than sufficient to deal with this problem.
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Key points being...
Until those things become standard across all distros, Linux taking over the desktop will be a sad joke.
Really, I'm curious.
Perhaps Jane Public should read the requirements printed on the box first.
I agree though, it's silly to try to sell these to people who are bent on running Windows software with no Linux equivalents.
Here are some examples of the proper usage of these popular words:
1. Too. I am too drunk to walk.
2. To. Let's go to the store.
3. Two. I want two burritos.
Please, for the love of Pete, please, oh please try to use these correctly!
Thanks.
I've purchased Slackware too, and it was about that. $45, considering retail off-the-shelf Windows is what, $200?, is quite a deal. The Windows you get with a new pc is quite likely to run just fine on all this 'innovative' new hardware. It's not like you pay $45 for Windows 3.1 with that shiny new pc. Is there really a point here?
Could fake Safeway numbers/stickers be created using a bar code font?
At this place I worked at, there was this head of programming guy, a hippy who was very high-strung, stressed out. One day he was standing next to this monitor, about 30 feet from me. I forget the OS it was running, maybe AIX. From my desk, I remotely turned X on, on that monitor he was standing next to. I might've been rlog'd in, I don't recall. Then I would turn it on. Then back off again, etc, etc. After a while, he looked at it, and slapped it really hard, like it was a monitor on the fritz!!!!! What a goober.
Frankenstein
Dracula
Jekyl & Hyde
King Kong.
PLEASE, enough of this recycled crap already. Someone please come up with something new... Or I will, damn it!
$5 says this jackass wears a Member's Only jacket and honestly thinks it makes him look cool.
Exactly. Right now people are very complacent, just update their virus definitions, or follow the advice of that newpaper moron Jim Coates and restore their system from their rescue cd whenever something doesn't work right on their pc. A nice big "Hello Baby" picture would get a lot of people thinking. Or at least it would give their televangelists something to whine about for a week.
I've said this before and will say it again.
The virus we need is one that changes the wallpaper on a Windows(tm) machine to a big crotch shot. It can't be that hard, maybe a simple registry key, or an ini file modification.
In light of the recent Janet Jackson breast fiasco, I think you'll agree that Jane and Joe Jackass End User need a little more exposure to such things so they won't get their knickers in a knot over such silly crap.
Thanks.
This is the perfect opportunity for someone to fix American Idol, by getting all those zombie computers to dial and vote for their favorite singers!
I just tried to use it... couldn't connect. I tried a few times and gave up.
Feel free to slashdot it!
KDE 3.2 Screenshot
Of note... the wacky font shadows on desktop. The icons are pretty nice.
I dl'd binary tgz's for my slack install. What are you smoking?
I've been using Opera for a long time on both win and lin, and don't recall it crashing on Linux any more than on Windows; which isn't much really, maybe once every few months, and usually due to other crap I've got running at the same time (though that really shouldn't matter).
Opera is the Cat's Pajamas. They should offer Slashdotters a discount on the ad-free version.
I enjoy using the Win32 ports of some gnu utilities found here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/.
I thought about using the MS SFU, but didn't want to pony up $99. Now that it's free... maybe.
Can anyone shed some light on how they compare? I use mostly gawk, sed, grep, and general sh scripting.
Thanks!
Uh, yeah.
I would be willing to bet $12 that there are more geeks out there WITHOUT a LAN and dedicated game server than there are WITH. Not to mention the hassle of getting other people to participate. Plus there's the convenience factor of popping in a cd and playing a while whenever you want. I was personally disappointed with Quake 3, as it's not great as a 1st person. In fact, I'd rather replay Quake 2 over and over. Multiplayer games are fine in geekland where you do have a LAN set up and a bunch of buddies sitting there waiting to do something, but in the real world, single player games do still make more sense for most casual game users.
WTF is this? :
If I were a more qualified sociologist, I'd think it may have inspired by the way that our children play today versus how they played twenty years ago.
Anyway, when I was a kid, we had Lego blocks. Maybe 4 major sizes, and a few gimick pieces thrown in. It required imagination. We had to improvise to build guns on our improvised spaceships. A favorite thing to do was to build space ships with a little chamber in the middle, closed off with one of those wheel socket blocks (these had a round hole bored all the way through, in which you would stick the 'wheels'). In this chamber would be a firecracker, with the wick sticking out of the wheel socket block. The challenge was to see if we could build a ship that could survive the internal explosion. Of course, they never would; they would blow all to hell, pieces flying 10 feet or more. Ahh, memories.
In 2.4.x, I was able to mount my Sony DSC-S85 camera via USB under /dev/sda1, using USB mass storage and scsi.
This seems entirely broken in 2.6.0. Can someone clue me in on how to go about doing this now?
Thanks.
No, More Dorks.
I hadn't heard from this Aunt of mine, or any of her relatives in about 20 years. And then, out of the blue, I get this call because she's having trouble with her Windows 95 computer! She calls me, long distance, expecting free tech support, because my mom told her I was a "computer guy" and gave her my number!!!!
I do what I can when I'm at people's houses, if they're having trouble and are nice. But, my immediate family live a few thousand miles away, so I don't do much support for them. Fortunately, they're fairly bright, and have a close friend who *THINKS* he knows everything, so he gets to do most of their tech support.
One of the biggest problems, as someone else posted, is that they think that because I do *computer stuff*, I'm a techie geek who fixes broken pc's all day, and loves nothing more than to fix everyone's broken pc's for free in my free time. Where in actuality, I almost never tinker anymore with pc's, having moved on to programming and admin'ing. Sometimes, yes, it's fun to build and upgrade my own machines, but that's a hobby, for me to enjoy geekily, in my free time.
Anymore, when people try to suck the life out of me via free tech support, I think of some obscure job somewhat related to theirs, and ask them to do it for me for free. For example, if a Doctor asks me for free help, I'll ask for a teeth cleaning in return.
Lighten up sparky, it was just a thought.
The sender, when they use a password to login, would be able to use your private-public key, however, it could not be exported to anyone else.
Either way... whether you sit there and manually delete spams, or whether you have your machine or your mail server do it, it's going to take up resources. I just think we have technology more than sufficient to deal with this problem.