There is an actual case here in South Africa : http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelation-in-iburst-tower-battle.html
Residents were complaining of the usual suspects, rash, headaches, etc. iBurst agreed to turn of the tower (having actually turned it off 6 weeks earlier) and the residents symptoms improved suddenly while they had not improved over the previous 6 weeks.
My reading of the answers is different to yours. He openly said he has only been using Ubuntu for about 100 days and that his experience with it has been great. It is obvious that he has had no experience with KDE or Kubuntu and that is what comes across in his responses. Would you rather have him fob you off with some garbage?
I use terminal commands because it is often quicker and easier than using the GUI tools, and this goes equally for my Ubuntu machine or the Windows machines I have to use at work. Is using the terminal to tweak things any more difficult than having to wade through the registry on a windows machine?
One of the earliest issues raised is for Chrome to have a warning when closing multiple tabs (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147) but this has been marked as "won't fix". This is because the developers feel having such a dialog will interrupt the flow of the browser. This can be a pain as the keyboard shortcut for close tab (ctrl-w) is right next to close window (ctrl-q) As many posters have pointed out, this could be made optional like other browsers and even off by default. Also the developers say the browser will reopen the closed tabs but again as people have pointed out, this does not always happen with state aware web sites or if you are in privacy mode.
It is something as simple as this that can really frustrate people and is easily fixed (as was the case when they added a similar warning box when there are outstanding downloads)
This sounds a typical comment by one of my fellow white South African. Sure our government has made mistakes and has some bizarre policies, but which countries government does not. The government has been resolute enough to put a decent fiscal policy in place that is seen by the international community as one of the best in the world, even though large parts of the population would have preferred a more socialist policy rather than a capitalist one. We have an economy poised for a major upturn where as most of the rest of the world is teetering on a depression. If you are no longer living in South Africa then good riddance, if you are then get off your whinny butt and do something for your country or emigrate if you think the rest of the world is going to be so much better!
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No, Vivian (usually abbreviated to Viv) is a common male name, probably the most famous being Viv Richards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Richards)
There is an actual case here in South Africa : http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelation-in-iburst-tower-battle.html Residents were complaining of the usual suspects, rash, headaches, etc. iBurst agreed to turn of the tower (having actually turned it off 6 weeks earlier) and the residents symptoms improved suddenly while they had not improved over the previous 6 weeks.
Similarly you don't need to use the terminal to install a driver, or for that matter to do virtually anything a home user might want to do either
My reading of the answers is different to yours. He openly said he has only been using Ubuntu for about 100 days and that his experience with it has been great. It is obvious that he has had no experience with KDE or Kubuntu and that is what comes across in his responses. Would you rather have him fob you off with some garbage?
I use terminal commands because it is often quicker and easier than using the GUI tools, and this goes equally for my Ubuntu machine or the Windows machines I have to use at work. Is using the terminal to tweak things any more difficult than having to wade through the registry on a windows machine?
One of the earliest issues raised is for Chrome to have a warning when closing multiple tabs (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147) but this has been marked as "won't fix". This is because the developers feel having such a dialog will interrupt the flow of the browser. This can be a pain as the keyboard shortcut for close tab (ctrl-w) is right next to close window (ctrl-q) As many posters have pointed out, this could be made optional like other browsers and even off by default. Also the developers say the browser will reopen the closed tabs but again as people have pointed out, this does not always happen with state aware web sites or if you are in privacy mode. It is something as simple as this that can really frustrate people and is easily fixed (as was the case when they added a similar warning box when there are outstanding downloads)
This sounds a typical comment by one of my fellow white South African. Sure our government has made mistakes and has some bizarre policies, but which countries government does not. The government has been resolute enough to put a decent fiscal policy in place that is seen by the international community as one of the best in the world, even though large parts of the population would have preferred a more socialist policy rather than a capitalist one. We have an economy poised for a major upturn where as most of the rest of the world is teetering on a depression. If you are no longer living in South Africa then good riddance, if you are then get off your whinny butt and do something for your country or emigrate if you think the rest of the world is going to be so much better!