Now, if you needed to select 5 files from this list, probably still faster.
For someone experienced with a mouse, with will take about 2 seconds.
10 files, well nautilus might be easier. Of course now you have to browse to your destination directory...
Browsing to the destination directory will take about 2 or 3 seconds, unless you have outdated hardware.
If you've got a new PC, and are familiar with pointy clicky interfaces, then the chances are that using those interfaces for stuff like this does not slow you down.
IMO, a "power user" know how to use both, knows they're both valuable and important, and will also know (without having to think about it) when one approach will be better than the other.
What do you mean by that? Someone who has a valid opinion and facts to back it up, or someone who's obviosuly up for a good argument/debate that you're wanting to start?
Are you saying you get a stiffy because you you burn 1 less calorie every 10 minutes using tab completion compared to drag n drop?
Ah, I see what you were thinking now;-)
Computers were invented to make processes more efficient. If someone is still using them for that, then we should respect their choice.
I feel like I'm more productive when I'm using a computer with what I consider to be a friendly interface. That tends not the be the default UI of WIndows, Linux or any other OS I've seen. If it takes customizeability (which is probably not even a word) to make me more productive, then so be it.
People all have their own preference, and in most cases will be more productive when they're happy with what they've got.
I use Solaris more than Linux, and was so happy today when I got KDE 3.2.2 installed (was previously using KDE 2.x on that box).
KDE's "IO Slaves" allows all KDE applications to make use of a very extendable low-level (for a Desktop Environment) system in KDE for browsing filesystems and opening files. For example, like WIndows 200 onwards, all KDE applications can open/view/save files which are located on a remote FTP server. As time goes by, more protocols are added to the list that IO Slaves supports. I routinely access machines at work from home (and vice versa) using KDE's SFTP IO Slave. It lets me view the filesystem of my workstation at work as if it was my PC at home, and with almost the same speed and responsiveness.
If it wasn't for that feature, I'd probably be using one of the minimalist Window Mangers.
Have you looked at waimea? I've not tried it yet, but it certainly looks cool. Perhaps a bit over the top for you though, but would do the "4 terminal windows" very nicely indeed:-)
I got so frustrated with a PC at work when I kept trying to scroll in the "Workspace manager" pane of the Developer Studio program using the mouse wheel, and it just wouldn't do it. I then discovered you had to click in a window before being able to use the scroll wheel. Yeah, and that's meant to be easier/simpler to use? I've been scrolling without clicking first since I first got a wheelmouse. Thankfully the next time I had to use Windows XP, I found a freeware utility that makes scollwheels on Windows behave like scroll wheels on all the other operating systems I've used. The default Windows behaviour here is bad for the the same reason as KDE is good on Linux for a lot of people... being different to what pepople are used to just gets annoying.
Runs perfectly smoothly on an AthlonMP 1600+ as well, also with 256mb RAM. This machine has KDE 3.2.0. Also worth noting is that KDE on this box feels miles faster than KDE on a Intel P4 of the same clock speed, which feels only slightly faster than KDE 3.2.2 on a 500MHz UltraSPARC II.
I'd like to ask why this article is about "Linux desktops" in particular, and not "Unix desktops". I installed KDE 3.2.2 on my Sun Blade 100 (500MHz) today, and in terms of speed and responsiveness, it equals the Intel P4 1400MHz runinng FC1 which also sits on my desk (the FC1 machine also runs XP but I won't mention its speed since that's irrelevant to this thread).
I've found KDE 3.2.2 to be more responsive than both KDE 2.x and CDE on the SPARC machine. I did find that KDE 2.x used a lot of RAM on that machine (but nowhere near as much as Sun's X server), so it's currently running with 1.5GB or RAM. I'm sure KDE would be much slower with 256MB RAM, but a gig of RAM in a desktop workstation isn't unusual these days.
If I find that KDE 3.2.2 continues to perform well on the Sun Blade, then I'd seriously consider swapping my main PC at home for a Sun Blade with KDE 3.2.2.
Where are you from? In Scotland, we get taught that somewhere between the middle and the end of Primary school (which cater for ages 5 through 12). Yeah, I went to a small village school, so the ratio of pupils to teaches was lower than average - but still, this is something that everyone should know by the time they're at hight school.
The title of your post: "Infected Windows PC's"...where did that apostrophe come from? The original article title doesn't have one there. Why add it?
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This one doesn't weigh much (0.9kg) and looks very nice and small (25.1 x 20.6 cm, and 1.9cm tthick with the screen closed). The base thickens towards the back to accommodate the height of USB ports. No CD-ROM, but with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and using something like emerge, who needs a CD drive?
It's just mobile phones that need to be off. On any plane I've been on, laptops and other portable computer equipment should be turned off during takeoff and landing, but can be used during the flight.
All of the software I use at home is listed here. Most of it was not already installed on my computer when I decided I wanted it. It took a while to set up. If I'm moving to a new computer, I'll TAR up the software as well as my data. No point in installing/compiling twice.
Having to mess with drivers and registries sounds rather unpleasant. IMO, well written programs will re-create their default settings if the program starts and things appear to be missing. With the list of software in the above link, I just plug in my hardware and it works, although getting my PDA to sync required an extra driver I think.
I must be very lucky because I typically go weeks without rebooting.
What happens every few weeks that requires you to reboot? Last time I had to log out was when I put more RAM in my workstation. Before that, it was a powercut round about Christmas time.
Last time I got a new computer, I just put my home directory into a TAR file, and moved it across to the new machine, so I got all of my files, emails, bookmarks, etc. That takes about 10 minutes (including tweaking things for different versions of apps on the new machine)
I can't use all of the features in Office 200[0] yet....
Agreed, I don't think I even used all of the Office 97 features. To me the only difference I notice is the amount of disk space consumed by new office suites, and slightly different UIs.
Synchronization of our Internet bookmarks across all our computers Now wouldn't THAT be nice?
When I log into a machine at work or home, my home directory gets picked up via NFS, so I always get the same bookmarks and settings regardless of what computer I'm using. I'm sure there are other ways of doing that too, including keeping everything in CVS:-)
I wonder if there is anything interesting you can do with perhaps 10 or 20 of these devices (10 would probably be the same value as a desktop PC) in a clusster - a wireless cluster. I mean, the WRT54G is one of the cheapest computers on the market today that can run Linux along with any software you want to put on it. You could mount drives via NFS with it for access to data.
If he found an open proxy and told them about it (as the first post suggests), he's no worse than your neighbor pointing out that you left a window open in your house when you're heading out shopping or whatever.
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Now, if you needed to select 5 files from this list, probably still faster.
For someone experienced with a mouse, with will take about 2 seconds.
10 files, well nautilus might be easier. Of course now you have to browse to your destination directory...
Browsing to the destination directory will take about 2 or 3 seconds, unless you have outdated hardware.
If you've got a new PC, and are familiar with pointy clicky interfaces, then the chances are that using those interfaces for stuff like this does not slow you down.
IMO, a "power user" know how to use both, knows they're both valuable and important, and will also know (without having to think about it) when one approach will be better than the other.
Oh Oh, I think I smell an engineer here!
;-)
What do you mean by that? Someone who has a valid opinion and facts to back it up, or someone who's obviosuly up for a good argument/debate that you're wanting to start?
Are you saying you get a stiffy because you you burn 1 less calorie every 10 minutes using tab completion compared to drag n drop?
Ah, I see what you were thinking now
Computers were invented to make processes more efficient. If someone is still using them for that, then we should respect their choice.
I feel like I'm more productive when I'm using a computer with what I consider to be a friendly interface. That tends not the be the default UI of WIndows, Linux or any other OS I've seen. If it takes customizeability (which is probably not even a word) to make me more productive, then so be it.
People all have their own preference, and in most cases will be more productive when they're happy with what they've got.
What integration benefits do you mean?
Two words: IO Slaves.
I use Solaris more than Linux, and was so happy today when I got KDE 3.2.2 installed (was previously using KDE 2.x on that box).
KDE's "IO Slaves" allows all KDE applications to make use of a very extendable low-level (for a Desktop Environment) system in KDE for browsing filesystems and opening files. For example, like WIndows 200 onwards, all KDE applications can open/view/save files which are located on a remote FTP server. As time goes by, more protocols are added to the list that IO Slaves supports. I routinely access machines at work from home (and vice versa) using KDE's SFTP IO Slave. It lets me view the filesystem of my workstation at work as if it was my PC at home, and with almost the same speed and responsiveness.
If it wasn't for that feature, I'd probably be using one of the minimalist Window Mangers.
Have you looked at waimea? I've not tried it yet, but it certainly looks cool. Perhaps a bit over the top for you though, but would do the "4 terminal windows" very nicely indeed :-)
I got so frustrated with a PC at work when I kept trying to scroll in the "Workspace manager" pane of the Developer Studio program using the mouse wheel, and it just wouldn't do it. I then discovered you had to click in a window before being able to use the scroll wheel. Yeah, and that's meant to be easier/simpler to use? I've been scrolling without clicking first since I first got a wheelmouse. Thankfully the next time I had to use Windows XP, I found a freeware utility that makes scollwheels on Windows behave like scroll wheels on all the other operating systems I've used. The default Windows behaviour here is bad for the the same reason as KDE is good on Linux for a lot of people... being different to what pepople are used to just gets annoying.
Runs perfectly smoothly on an AthlonMP 1600+ as well, also with 256mb RAM. This machine has KDE 3.2.0. Also worth noting is that KDE on this box feels miles faster than KDE on a Intel P4 of the same clock speed, which feels only slightly faster than KDE 3.2.2 on a 500MHz UltraSPARC II.
I'd like to ask why this article is about "Linux desktops" in particular, and not "Unix desktops". I installed KDE 3.2.2 on my Sun Blade 100 (500MHz) today, and in terms of speed and responsiveness, it equals the Intel P4 1400MHz runinng FC1 which also sits on my desk (the FC1 machine also runs XP but I won't mention its speed since that's irrelevant to this thread).
I've found KDE 3.2.2 to be more responsive than both KDE 2.x and CDE on the SPARC machine. I did find that KDE 2.x used a lot of RAM on that machine (but nowhere near as much as Sun's X server), so it's currently running with 1.5GB or RAM. I'm sure KDE would be much slower with 256MB RAM, but a gig of RAM in a desktop workstation isn't unusual these days.
If I find that KDE 3.2.2 continues to perform well on the Sun Blade, then I'd seriously consider swapping my main PC at home for a Sun Blade with KDE 3.2.2.
Says me, who obviously can't even type properly tonight! Ah well, it's 11pm so I'm off to bed.
Where are you from? In Scotland, we get taught that somewhere between the middle and the end of Primary school (which cater for ages 5 through 12). Yeah, I went to a small village school, so the ratio of pupils to teaches was lower than average - but still, this is something that everyone should know by the time they're at hight school.
I think it's getting too close to bed time.
The title of your post: "Infected Windows PC's" ...where did that apostrophe come from? The original article title doesn't have one there. Why add it?
This one doesn't weigh much (0.9kg) and looks very nice and small (25.1 x 20.6 cm, and 1.9cm tthick with the screen closed). The base thickens towards the back to accommodate the height of USB ports. No CD-ROM, but with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and using something like emerge, who needs a CD drive?
If I was a moderator, I'd give you +1 informative :-)
That gives this error:
rm: Cannot remove any directory in the path of the current working directory
Sorry, I meant to write "Moderators:" in front of that sentence :-)
It's just mobile phones that need to be off. On any plane I've been on, laptops and other portable computer equipment should be turned off during takeoff and landing, but can be used during the flight.
It's called "humour" (or "humor") and is listed here as "Funny". Anyway, the story said "UK", and Scotland has much worse weather ;-)
...and probably still use less power.
All of the software I use at home is listed here. Most of it was not already installed on my computer when I decided I wanted it. It took a while to set up. If I'm moving to a new computer, I'll TAR up the software as well as my data. No point in installing/compiling twice.
Having to mess with drivers and registries sounds rather unpleasant. IMO, well written programs will re-create their default settings if the program starts and things appear to be missing. With the list of software in the above link, I just plug in my hardware and it works, although getting my PDA to sync required an extra driver I think.
I must be very lucky because I typically go weeks without rebooting.
:-)
What happens every few weeks that requires you to reboot? Last time I had to log out was when I put more RAM in my workstation. Before that, it was a powercut round about Christmas time.
Last time I got a new computer, I just put my home directory into a TAR file, and moved it across to the new machine, so I got all of my files, emails, bookmarks, etc. That takes about 10 minutes (including tweaking things for different versions of apps on the new machine)
I can't use all of the features in Office 200[0] yet....
Agreed, I don't think I even used all of the Office 97 features. To me the only difference I notice is the amount of disk space consumed by new office suites, and slightly different UIs.
Synchronization of our Internet bookmarks across all our computers
Now wouldn't THAT be nice?
When I log into a machine at work or home, my home directory gets picked up via NFS, so I always get the same bookmarks and settings regardless of what computer I'm using. I'm sure there are other ways of doing that too, including keeping everything in CVS
I wonder if there is anything interesting you can do with perhaps 10 or 20 of these devices (10 would probably be the same value as a desktop PC) in a clusster - a wireless cluster. I mean, the WRT54G is one of the cheapest computers on the market today that can run Linux along with any software you want to put on it. You could mount drives via NFS with it for access to data.
If he found an open proxy and told them about it (as the first post suggests), he's no worse than your neighbor pointing out that you left a window open in your house when you're heading out shopping or whatever.
It's time to get a proper democracy.
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If it's not available yet, then it's not been released.
Mono runs fine on Sparc64