Oh my god.. 1.3 GB of hard drive space.. you can buy a 100GB hard drive for $100 now. Even Windows XP takes that much space for the initial install (Not counting all the crud Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc install for you). You're right, Windows XP and 2000 are 'good enough' for most people. So what if it took MS 10 years to write a decent operating system;)
Hmm, 1500 dollars or maybe spend a day or two figure out something on my existing computer.. which will it be? If you can afford a Mac, then of course the decision is a no brainer.
Have you even tried the latest Mandrake.. or even RedHat? If you just want to read email, browse the web and play mp3s then you never have to edit config files.
You have no right to tell a backbone provider to not stop blocking a website or block of IPs. If you really have a problem, just sign up with a different ISP with a different backbone connection to the Internet. And if enough people stop signing up with an ISP that blocks certain websites, no doubt the ISP will stop blocking.
I'm guessing you never used the NES Advantage.. the best joystick ever? The rapid/turbo buttons were the best (adjustable, even) and the heavy casing made the joystick really durable.
Those kde3 debs that are not officially in unstable have been tested for months, already. I use them on my laptop and workstation. I only get Konqueror crashes when using flash. They are not in unstable for good reasons (waiting for Woody to be released and gcc-3.1).
Yeah.. wait 12 hours for KDE and X to build, when I can have it installed and expertly packaged by Debian developers in less than 15 minutes (i'm on DSL). The, at most, 5% speed increase to me isn't worth the wait of compiling EVERY SINGLE PIECE Of software on your computer.
Cool! Does it run on my Dell though? Oh wait.. I have to shell out another $1200?!.. nah.. I'll stick to what I know (Windows) and work out the quirks.
If the person that wrote this article used Suse 8.0, for sure he must have noticed that in one of the KDE 3 submenus there is an item that says get Microsoft fonts.. with verdana and trubruchet (sp?) and built in anti-aliasing with X 4.x and QT, I have fonts that look that same as in Win XP.
Also, I tried out Nero.. I am NOT a newbie in anyway, but I had to look through about 5 pages of HOWTO's and Google in order to find out how to burn an ISO to cd! Personally, I stick to cdrecord for burning iso's onto cd-r's, dd for copying cds, and GnomeToaster for making music cds from my mp3 collection.
Also, many 'regular' computer users dont add any hardware to their system, but if a user is going to go out and buy a cd burner at least read dozens of howtos on how to add and use a cd burner.. just enter 'linux cd burner ide' in Google, and it'll take.. at the most 5 minutes to set everything up.
I can give you two reasons I upgraded my laptop from Windows 2000 to XP. Cleartype fonts and they finally fixed the Start button on the taskbar so that you can go to the extreme bottom left hand corner you can hit the Start button without having to move a couple pixels up.
s/key auth. is a one time use password system. first, you'd generate some passwords and write them down.the passwords only work once. They come in handy if you're in an insecure network.
I use Debian Unstable at home because I always want the latest and greatest software and I already know how to fix 95% of the apt/deb problems that occasionally happen. At work, I use Debian Stable because I never want to touch the server after it's been configured and tweaked.
The good thing about RedHat and Mandrake to some extent is that they do good testing on the RPMS on the cds. I figure they don't expect people to install some 3rd party RPM off the net.
"Send to previous workspace" i usually bind that to Alt+Control+Left Arrow key. same thing with send to next workspace using the right arrow key.
also i have bindings to send a window to a specific workspace. use the "Send to workspace" binding and enter the workspace number and whatever binding you want. works great!
a common protocol for copy/paste? this has been in X long before i started using it 5 years ago.
and a unified theme format would be kinda useless, since both qt and gtk can be styled. so if you want a microsoftish theme, qt and gtk both have microsoftish styles to choose from by default.. and if you want an aqua ish desktop use kde-liquid and any gtk aqua them.. and apply colors to non-kde apps in kcontrol.
huh? i dont see any gtkhtml programs on that screenshot.. the fonts are nicely anti-aliased and about half the people that use gtk+X hate it and the other half like it. just setting a variable turns it on/off.
And as far as printing goes, I installed CUPS on my laptop running Debian Unstable at work 2 days ago and it was the easier setup ive came across. good quality printing to the hp laserjet on a Windows 98 computer. no wonder Apple has licensed to use CUPS for printing.
I did the same thing, I never really used my thumb for the B and A buttons and looked down on anyone that did. There was always a chance I'd have my thumb on the A button when I only wanted my thumb on the B.
Well, good for you. Ive been using Yahoo Email for about three years now and I would NOT want to email everyone telling them about my new email address. Plus it's very easy to filter spam thru pop3 (yahoo inserts a mail header for bulk email and spamassasin, etc.).
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ha.. what corporations will do to insure a profit...
I wouldn't claim the wheel as modern, though. If Apple wanted a real modern OS with no legacy baggage, they should have used BeOS instead of NeXTStep.
Unix has been around for 30 yrs+...
Oh my god.. 1.3 GB of hard drive space.. you can buy a 100GB hard drive for $100 now. Even Windows XP takes that much space for the initial install (Not counting all the crud Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc install for you). You're right, Windows XP and 2000 are 'good enough' for most people. So what if it took MS 10 years to write a decent operating system ;)
Hmm, 1500 dollars or maybe spend a day or two figure out something on my existing computer.. which will it be? If you can afford a Mac, then of course the decision is a no brainer.
Have you even tried the latest Mandrake.. or even RedHat? If you just want to read email, browse the web and play mp3s then you never have to edit config files.
Wow. 15 pages full of corrections.. why didn't they just pay the author of Vim to write the book?
You have no right to tell a backbone provider to not stop blocking a website or block of IPs. If you really have a problem, just sign up with a different ISP with a different backbone connection to the Internet. And if enough people stop signing up with an ISP that blocks certain websites, no doubt the ISP will stop blocking.
I'm guessing you never used the NES Advantage.. the best joystick ever? The rapid/turbo buttons were the best (adjustable, even) and the heavy casing made the joystick really durable.
Those kde3 debs that are not officially in unstable have been tested for months, already. I use them on my laptop and workstation. I only get Konqueror crashes when using flash. They are not in unstable for good reasons (waiting for Woody to be released and gcc-3.1).
Yeah.. wait 12 hours for KDE and X to build, when I can have it installed and expertly packaged by Debian developers in less than 15 minutes (i'm on DSL). The, at most, 5% speed increase to me isn't worth the wait of compiling EVERY SINGLE PIECE Of software on your computer.
I might be missing something, but isnt that the reason Debian still has a libc5 compat library .deb and RedHat has all their -compat rpms?
Cool! Does it run on my Dell though? Oh wait.. I have to shell out another $1200?!.. nah.. I'll stick to what I know (Windows) and work out the quirks.
If the person that wrote this article used Suse 8.0, for sure he must have noticed that in one of the KDE 3 submenus there is an item that says get Microsoft fonts.. with verdana and trubruchet (sp?) and built in anti-aliasing with X 4.x and QT, I have fonts that look that same as in Win XP.
Also, I tried out Nero.. I am NOT a newbie in anyway, but I had to look through about 5 pages of HOWTO's and Google in order to find out how to burn an ISO to cd! Personally, I stick to cdrecord for burning iso's onto cd-r's, dd for copying cds, and GnomeToaster for making music cds from my mp3 collection.
Also, many 'regular' computer users dont add any hardware to their system, but if a user is going to go out and buy a cd burner at least read dozens of howtos on how to add and use a cd burner.. just enter 'linux cd burner ide' in Google, and it'll take.. at the most 5 minutes to set everything up.
I can give you two reasons I upgraded my laptop from Windows 2000 to XP. Cleartype fonts and they finally fixed the Start button on the taskbar so that you can go to the extreme bottom left hand corner you can hit the Start button without having to move a couple pixels up.
an anonymous coward gnome developer, huh? make some sense buddy.
you can use the gtkhtml2 html renderer in Nautilus .. it's decent for lightweight browsing
s/key auth. is a one time use password system. first, you'd generate some passwords and write them down.the passwords only work once. They come in handy if you're in an insecure network.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SKey
I use Debian Unstable at home because I always want the latest and greatest software and I already know how to fix 95% of the apt/deb problems that occasionally happen. At work, I use Debian Stable because I never want to touch the server after it's been configured and tweaked.
The good thing about RedHat and Mandrake to some extent is that they do good testing on the RPMS on the cds. I figure they don't expect people to install some 3rd party RPM off the net.
add a binding
"Send to previous workspace" i usually bind that to Alt+Control+Left Arrow key. same thing with send to next workspace using the right arrow key.
also i have bindings to send a window to a specific workspace. use the "Send to workspace" binding and enter the workspace number and whatever binding you want. works great!
a common protocol for copy/paste? this has been in X long before i started using it 5 years ago.
and a unified theme format would be kinda useless, since both qt and gtk can be styled. so if you want a microsoftish theme, qt and gtk both have microsoftish styles to choose from by default.. and if you want an aqua ish desktop use kde-liquid and any gtk aqua them.. and apply colors to non-kde apps in kcontrol.
huh? i dont see any gtkhtml programs on that screenshot.. the fonts are nicely anti-aliased and about half the people that use gtk+X hate it and the other half like it. just setting a variable turns it on/off.
And as far as printing goes, I installed CUPS on my laptop running Debian Unstable at work 2 days ago and it was the easier setup ive came across. good quality printing to the hp laserjet on a Windows 98 computer. no wonder Apple has licensed to use CUPS for printing.
I did the same thing, I never really used my thumb for the B and A buttons and looked down on anyone that did. There was always a chance I'd have my thumb on the A button when I only wanted my thumb on the B.
Well, good for you. Ive been using Yahoo Email for about three years now and I would NOT want to email everyone telling them about my new email address. Plus it's very easy to filter spam thru pop3 (yahoo inserts a mail header for bulk email and spamassasin, etc.).
the more competition... usually the better service and lower prices... or so the saying goes...