I keep my A+ certification card in my wallet. Sometimes when I visit a user's desk, I hold my wallet up next to my face, exposing the card, and say in an Agent Mulder deadpan voice "A+ certified technican. I'd like to ask you a few questions about your operating system."
An interesting idea. However, it might limit you a little more. Say you wanted to COPY and PASTE some text from your emulated screen. That type of emulator may not have support for it (since the actual terminal had no support for it). It might also limit you in the accessability department, with access to Text-to-Speech converters and magnifiers.
I have used windows machines since there WERE windows machines, and I have NEVER used the command netsh. In fact, typing netsh/?, it isn't clear what it even does. It makes some vague references to entry changes. I can only guess that there is an alternative way of performing the function that it does. Maybe there is a 3rd party piece of software that has a gui that does the same thing. Either way, I don't think a "dummy" would use the command.
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I saw a shot of Stallman on some Tech news show (maybe CNN) and thought to myself, "This guy's credibility would double if he would just get a haircut!".
You are totally right! It sounds like this book's main purpose is for repairing the problems that are CAUSED by dumb users.
There are stupid and dangerous users of Macs and PCs. Some people don't understand the user interface, no matter how simple or intuitive it is. On a Mac, to delete a file, drag it to the trash. On a Windows PC, you can do the same thing! When you show the users how to do it, they still say "I didn't know you could do that!"
I would consider this book a useful reference if I needed a way to "user-proof" some MACs, but a good technician would probably develop equivalent skills on his own, just from the experience of what CAN go wrong.
The map in the Simpsons Hit and Run seemed to have been designed more for playability than realism. In H&R, the Aztec theater is on a completely different map than the Jebediah Springfield statue, and it's more towards the waterfront.
The H&R map was purposely designed with shortcuts to certain destinations, as well as the long path.
It would be neat to see a 3D map of springfield though...
Where I work (a mid-sized/large company), there is an abundance of old Pentium 133/166 machines that were in use up until March. There are hundreds of them, but only 3 or 4 different models. While the older systems are a support nightmare for you, it's the newer systems that cause us more difficulty.
I can ghost an old pentium machine in 10/15 minutes and have the user up and running again. If we get a new Pentium 4 machine though, Windows 2000 or XP has to be installed manually on it, drivers updated, windows updated, and software installed. This can take HOURS to do.
Believe it or not, I have had more of the newer DELL machines fail due to bad hard drives than I have ever had any of the old pentium 133s fail for ANY reason. They are built to last, and they have!
HEH, just last week we replaced the only machine in the company that still had a 5.25" floppy drive.
Didn't Microsoft file a patent on XML a few months ago? This could be microsoft's way of leveraging everybody onto Exchange servers. "Use Exchange or we'll claim patent infringment."
I installed it on a notebook as well... One that is WAY older than yours.
* Detected the correct video driver - but I get artifacts (even during the graphical setup). I'm not terribly surprised, I haven't seen a distro that has a clean driver for this chipset yet. Where is that compatibility for using WINDOWS drivers that we heard about several months ago?
* Did not detect my sound hardware (a common ESS chip).
* Did not detect my PCMCIA network card (but not surprised about this either. When I checked the supported hardware list it said "unknown").
*During the setup, the cd became unbalanced in the drive and caused an irrecoverable error. I would have liked to just re-seat the CD and retried the operation.
Well, didn't they have an ad banner on their page? Didn't they know that any ad could appear there? Even one for a competitor?
This would be like the televisions for sale in Best Buy, just tuned to a local TV station. Suppose an ad for CompUSA comes on? Do you sue the TV station for broadcasting it? Do you sue Magnavox or Sony for making the TV? Do you sue CompUSA for MAKING a commercial? Or do you just slap yourself on the forehead and say "Jeez, I'm a fucking idiot!" and put in a DVD of Shrek?
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I keep my A+ certification card in my wallet. Sometimes when I visit a user's desk, I hold my wallet up next to my face, exposing the card, and say in an Agent Mulder deadpan voice "A+ certified technican. I'd like to ask you a few questions about your operating system."
Yeah, I'd use a Sun server for MP3s if I drove a school bus, too. But I have a CAR.
Does it have drivers for Windows?
How about Sound/modem Drivers for DOS (you heard me!)?
An interesting idea. However, it might limit you a little more. Say you wanted to COPY and PASTE some text from your emulated screen. That type of emulator may not have support for it (since the actual terminal had no support for it).
It might also limit you in the accessability department, with access to Text-to-Speech converters and magnifiers.
I have used windows machines since there WERE windows machines, and I have NEVER used the command netsh. In fact, typing netsh /?, it isn't clear what it even does. It makes some vague references to entry changes.
I can only guess that there is an alternative way of performing the function that it does. Maybe there is a 3rd party piece of software that has a gui that does the same thing. Either way, I don't think a "dummy" would use the command.
I saw a shot of Stallman on some Tech news show (maybe CNN) and thought to myself, "This guy's credibility would double if he would just get a haircut!".
The same thing happened to Intel... Started a new building in Austin, TX, but was never finished. Now It's going to be a federal courthouse.
Funny, both 3COM and Intel make ethernet cards...
Forget windows! It doesn't even do CORNERS!
Doesn't anyone realize that the 2 most popular robotic vacuums are ROUND?
You are totally right! It sounds like this book's main purpose is for repairing the problems that are CAUSED by dumb users.
There are stupid and dangerous users of Macs and PCs. Some people don't understand the user interface, no matter how simple or intuitive it is. On a Mac, to delete a file, drag it to the trash. On a Windows PC, you can do the same thing! When you show the users how to do it, they still say "I didn't know you could do that!"
I would consider this book a useful reference if I needed a way to "user-proof" some MACs, but a good technician would probably develop equivalent skills on his own, just from the experience of what CAN go wrong.
The computers of 2034 will be impressive indeed! They will have many functions that will be illegal for you to perform.
I have NEVER seen a Java application RUN on Windows. Instead, they just seem to execute slowly...
I thought you said:
As cool as it is for a proof of concept, the idea is mice.
"Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But how about this: I give you 'the finger', and you give me my phone call?"
The map in the Simpsons Hit and Run seemed to have been designed more for playability than realism. In H&R, the Aztec theater is on a completely different map than the Jebediah Springfield statue, and it's more towards the waterfront.
The H&R map was purposely designed with shortcuts to certain destinations, as well as the long path.
It would be neat to see a 3D map of springfield though...
Will they drive around saying "Vote Quimby" through a megaphone?
I can see your house from up here!
What are you talking about? Once you discover Linux, you'll never have sex again (if ever).
Well, then, in that case, how about:
Microsoft Box(TM)
Only on slashdot can you be called an idiot if you don't know anything about nuclear fusion.
Where I work (a mid-sized/large company), there is an abundance of old Pentium 133/166 machines that were in use up until March. There are hundreds of them, but only 3 or 4 different models. While the older systems are a support nightmare for you, it's the newer systems that cause us more difficulty.
I can ghost an old pentium machine in 10/15 minutes and have the user up and running again. If we get a new Pentium 4 machine though, Windows 2000 or XP has to be installed manually on it, drivers updated, windows updated, and software installed. This can take HOURS to do.
Believe it or not, I have had more of the newer DELL machines fail due to bad hard drives than I have ever had any of the old pentium 133s fail for ANY reason. They are built to last, and they have!
HEH, just last week we replaced the only machine in the company that still had a 5.25" floppy drive.
Didn't Microsoft file a patent on XML a few months ago? This could be microsoft's way of leveraging everybody onto Exchange servers.
"Use Exchange or we'll claim patent infringment."
In this particular case... Wine is not an emulator.
I installed it on a notebook as well... One that is WAY older than yours.
* Detected the correct video driver - but I get artifacts (even during the graphical setup). I'm not terribly surprised, I haven't seen a distro that has a clean driver for this chipset yet. Where is that compatibility for using WINDOWS drivers that we heard about several months ago?
* Did not detect my sound hardware (a common ESS chip).
* Did not detect my PCMCIA network card (but not surprised about this either. When I checked the supported hardware list it said "unknown").
*During the setup, the cd became unbalanced in the drive and caused an irrecoverable error. I would have liked to just re-seat the CD and retried the operation.
Well, didn't they have an ad banner on their page? Didn't they know that any ad could appear there? Even one for a competitor?
This would be like the televisions for sale in Best Buy, just tuned to a local TV station. Suppose an ad for CompUSA comes on? Do you sue the TV station for broadcasting it? Do you sue Magnavox or Sony for making the TV? Do you sue CompUSA for MAKING a commercial? Or do you just slap yourself on the forehead and say "Jeez, I'm a fucking idiot!" and put in a DVD of Shrek?