You can't (OK, shouldn't) mix up the system buttons on the windows frame with application buttons inside the frame.(P> The latter have always been left justified.
This is similar to one of the GUI problems with Office 2007, the large colourful blob in the left top corner that looks mostly like decoration but hides a bunch of non-trivial functions.
The fact that society (including the internet) can be controlled and is controlled is no excuse for western companies to cooperate with the Chinese version of control. I would go as far as to say a company that wants to be credible to their western customers can't possibly be compliant with present day Chinese restrictions re. freedom of information. It looks to me Google finds it difficult to console their 'Do no Evil' morality with the Chinese instructions for complete government control.
Along the same line I'm very happy with the recent EU decision to outlaw export of Internet filtering technology to countries where it's used dumb down the general population.
To Microsoft's credit, they finally sealed some of the fundamental security holes with Vista and Windows 7, and they offer a decent security suite for free,
You have an amusing way of explaining how MS applied a (yet to be proven) band-aid to their self-inflicted wounds.
The newer generation of *ubuntu users will only get their aps from the official repositories (yeah I know, a weird concept to the MS world) and be protected that way.
Hard core Linux fans would find your type of exploit before it could do harm, after all they'd only use Open Source aps, right?
Then why is it in super conservative countries like the USofA that you find most teenage pregnancies?
And even within the US you can see this trend towards the more conservative states.
When kids are raised in an atmosphere that respects sexuality as part of our life instead of vilifying it they will be so much more ready when the time comes.
Although I'm glad the Pirate Party is drawing attention to these very important but under exposed issues I feel the UK electoral system is an insurmountable barrier to a party with little more than a single issue.
Is reform from the present first-past-the-post system to for example the more democratic representative system maybe part of the Pirate party's program?
Years ago we had some pirate TV stations that would come on late at night with porn.
They were paid in cash by advertisers so you'd go to them to stop the financing right?
Wrong, these pirate stations would sprinkle in adverts for companies that had nothing to do with them, just to muddy the waters.
When your brother was looking for a Start menu on Ubuntu, how the hell did he get anything done on Windows 7?
And why didn't you supply the computer properly set up, that always include a proper vieo player with the multimedia package.
Not being able to find the calculator is just about inconceivable unless your brother is actually blind.
The average consumer wouldn't know the difference between Firefox and IE or Thunderbird and OE.
A media file is just that, you double click it and it plays, nobody cares for the name of the application playing it.
Even for a word processor or tool to display a PDF or PPS the name&make are not important, it should just open the document, nothing else.
But after a few weeks or months they will realise their support calls are much less frequent than with Windows.
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This is similar to one of the GUI problems with Office 2007, the large colourful blob in the left top corner that looks mostly like decoration but hides a bunch of non-trivial functions.
The fact that society (including the internet) can be controlled and is controlled is no excuse for western companies to cooperate with the Chinese version of control.
I would go as far as to say a company that wants to be credible to their western customers can't possibly be compliant with present day Chinese restrictions re. freedom of information.
It looks to me Google finds it difficult to console their 'Do no Evil' morality with the Chinese instructions for complete government control.
Along the same line I'm very happy with the recent EU decision to outlaw export of Internet filtering technology to countries where it's used dumb down the general population.
But it'll only prove itself over time.
Now go and read the definition for "reason d'etre".
Compare this to refilling a Black Label bottle with Red Label.
But, to be honest, wine is not my favorite Peruvian export, if you know what I mean ;)
Yeah they have some fine women, but to call them an export product?
To Microsoft's credit, they finally sealed some of the fundamental security holes with Vista and Windows 7, and they offer a decent security suite for free,
You have an amusing way of explaining how MS applied a (yet to be proven) band-aid to their self-inflicted wounds.
What does Microsoft have to do with a bug in BitDefender?
The reason d'etre for BitDefender = Microsoft...
You talk like a Microsoft marketeer.
The newer generation of *ubuntu users will only get their aps from the official repositories (yeah I know, a weird concept to the MS world) and be protected that way.
Hard core Linux fans would find your type of exploit before it could do harm, after all they'd only use Open Source aps, right?
And even within the US you can see this trend towards the more conservative states.
When kids are raised in an atmosphere that respects sexuality as part of our life instead of vilifying it they will be so much more ready when the time comes.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_tee_pre_percap-health-teenage-pregnancy-per-capita
Why should we (+6,000 million people) do one and leave the other?
Is reform from the present first-past-the-post system to for example the more democratic representative system maybe part of the Pirate party's program?
You probably paid for a licence, that's akin to prostitution so complain to the pimp.
Then run it from a Live CD dumbo!
Hopefully some enlightened (EU?) legislator will outlaw the use of such data unless it has been obtained through a court order.
But the majority of youth affected isn't per se hating the classical music played, it's the peer pressure that makes them leave these sites.
And as such it's a benign tool.
That's why TrueCrypt has the developed the concept of "plausible deniability", check it out!
But it isn't that simple.
Years ago we had some pirate TV stations that would come on late at night with porn.
They were paid in cash by advertisers so you'd go to them to stop the financing right?
Wrong, these pirate stations would sprinkle in adverts for companies that had nothing to do with them, just to muddy the waters.
That knowledge has now been implemented and apparently in a line of five the last one was favourite number.
Yep, we are born with our relatives but choose our friends :)
When you have limited RAM KDE is the better choice plus the experience is so much richer.
These days the LXDE desktop is the install of choice for low RAM systems, I've got it working well on 128MB.
There is hardly any need for the command line in a modern Linux DE, please leave the FUD to MS.
I'd say it's been easy since about RH5, RH4.2 was more work, unless you have the drivers or it's pre-installed forget about Windows
Your family and friends know NOTHING about Linux and the different distributions. They will be looking at you to fix everything,
You said it.
And because OP is the one doing the work he wants something low-maintenance and we all know Windows isn't that something.
And why didn't you supply the computer properly set up, that always include a proper vieo player with the multimedia package. Not being able to find the calculator is just about inconceivable unless your brother is actually blind.
A media file is just that, you double click it and it plays, nobody cares for the name of the application playing it.
Even for a word processor or tool to display a PDF or PPS the name&make are not important, it should just open the document, nothing else.
But after a few weeks or months they will realise their support calls are much less frequent than with Windows.