Attention all planets of the solar federation Attention all planets of the solar federation Attention all planets of the solar federation We have assumed control. We have assumed control. We have assumed control.
that worked for a friend of mine until he got bitten by a mouse that he was supposed to capture safely and bring outside (even after my warnings that the dang thing would just come back..)
Now bugs and mice get squished, and everything is happy.
"I was getting calls from a fax line about 10 times per night from an 'unknown' number."
Should have just put a dang fax machine there and found out a) what they were trying to fax, and b) most fax machines display their number in the upper margin of the page.
What I wanted to do, but just didn't have the time or energy, was give them both "equal" machines, and give the windows disks to one, and the linux disks to another. of course with the windows disks I'd also have to include MS office disks and a slew of other applications that can be installed natively from linux.
I'd then start the timer and have them make the install. Maybe I'd allow them each 2 questions that they could ask me for assistance in installing.
Would be a pretty good experiment. Time and energy though...of which I have very little.
On the other side of the coin, I was asked to setup a computer for my Brother and Sister-In-Law. Both of them had somehow fallen through the cracks of the past 15 years and NEVER used a computer before. I installed SuSe Linux 10 for them, and it works great. Neither of them know the difference, or had a hard time learning it, because they had never used Windows before.
It's been said a few times in the comments on this article, as well as numerous other places, that switching to Linux has a learning curve. It sure does - but so does learning Windows - The only difference is most people are already familiar with windows.
It took only about 30 minutes to teach them.. "ok, click here to get your email, click here to get on the web, here is your word processor and spreadsheet.. you can play music and videos using this... " etc..
I just hope that the website works cross platform. I'd hate to miss my chance to appear on Jeopardy (not that I have much of one) just because I refuse to run IE and/or Windows
"I wanted to have 800 hours of interent access in January, but because of my ISP's "throttling", I was unable to exceed 744 hours of internet access, a far cry from the "unlimited" they advertised."
You're not going to be happy about this then....
This month, I heard they are only going to be allowing you 672 hours.
but if you give everyone a long list of all the places where you could get a new free screwdriver, you have.
And then, the company that makes the non-free flat head screwdrivers could choose if they would like to sell a bit for their flat head screwdriver that would turn the phillips head screws - and heck - people could choose to spend money on that if they wanted to, or they could get the free one.
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Attention all planets of the solar federation
Attention all planets of the solar federation
Attention all planets of the solar federation
We have assumed control.
We have assumed control.
We have assumed control.
That kid is SO gonna get beat up at school.
If we got rid of caps lock, I'd actually have to read someone's text to decide if they are a moron or not.
As it stands, if I see all caps, I can just instantly move on.
What if I reverse engineer the lyrics of my favorite songs and post them on a site for all?
that worked for a friend of mine until he got bitten by a mouse that he was supposed to capture safely and bring outside (even after my warnings that the dang thing would just come back..)
Now bugs and mice get squished, and everything is happy.
Here's a link to the Nashua PD Website...
Nashua PD
I wonder if they could come up with a crime to charge us with for visiting their website? Maybe we should find out.
"I was getting calls from a fax line about 10 times per night from an 'unknown' number."
Should have just put a dang fax machine there and found out a) what they were trying to fax, and b) most fax machines display their number in the upper margin of the page.
Not the first time that a Netware fix got broken by a Windows fix
But I'm sure Microsoft didn't do that ON PURPOSE.
yea, but it's actually on topic in this thread.
ya know, In Korea, only old people use email.
I really would love to do that. Maybe I can.
What I wanted to do, but just didn't have the time or energy, was give them both "equal" machines, and give the windows disks to one, and the linux disks to another. of course with the windows disks I'd also have to include MS office disks and a slew of other applications that can be installed natively from linux.
I'd then start the timer and have them make the install. Maybe I'd allow them each 2 questions that they could ask me for assistance in installing.
Would be a pretty good experiment. Time and energy though...of which I have very little.
On the other side of the coin, I was asked to setup a computer for my Brother and Sister-In-Law. Both of them had somehow fallen through the cracks of the past 15 years and NEVER used a computer before. I installed SuSe Linux 10 for them, and it works great. Neither of them know the difference, or had a hard time learning it, because they had never used Windows before.
It's been said a few times in the comments on this article, as well as numerous other places, that switching to Linux has a learning curve. It sure does - but so does learning Windows - The only difference is most people are already familiar with windows.
It took only about 30 minutes to teach them.. "ok, click here to get your email, click here to get on the web, here is your word processor and spreadsheet.. you can play music and videos using this... " etc..
you mean like crossover office?
I bet you're right. If not about the originalt problem, he very likely contacted them to see if they could make us stop talking about him.
haha.
Is that this guy just still hasn't got a clue..
Now I am being flooded with emails from CentOS users that after knowing the answer say the problem was simple.
What I can't stand more than anything is someone that can't admit that they were wrong, even at this stage of the game.
I just hope that the website works cross platform. I'd hate to miss my chance to appear on Jeopardy (not that I have much of one) just because I refuse to run IE and/or Windows
yea because that would require some serious programming ability. You could probably do it in 3 or less lines of script.
"I wanted to have 800 hours of interent access in January, but because of my ISP's "throttling", I was unable to exceed 744 hours of internet access, a far cry from the "unlimited" they advertised."
You're not going to be happy about this then....
This month, I heard they are only going to be allowing you 672 hours.
go grab the wires coming out of that socket on the wall over there and tell me you can't sense electricity.
quite possibly, but I'm sure it didn't stand up in court.
that can't be true - because then they could arrest everyone in the car for DUI, even if they had a sober designated driver.
you could sit on the passenger side
but if you give everyone a long list of all the places where you could get a new free screwdriver, you have.
And then, the company that makes the non-free flat head screwdrivers could choose if they would like to sell a bit for their flat head screwdriver that would turn the phillips head screws - and heck - people could choose to spend money on that if they wanted to, or they could get the free one.
Seriously... does that REALLY surpise ANYONE here?
I didn't think so.