I'm sure you have a fine and awesome solution but most people only ever used webmail. Can check e-mail from any place, without having to (at worst) ask for the root or admin password so you can install and configure your beloved mail client.
I looked OS/2 for PowerPC up and it indeed ran Windows 3.1.. Wow! If you wanted to run Windows 3.1 applications (because there's no OS/2 software), why not get a 486 with half the RAM instead. That's easier and cheaper.
Funny that, Gnome 3 is kind of an improved Windows 3.1. Afterall, you manage windows (mostly full screen but sometimes not) and there's no task bar. But instead of minimizing windows to icons, you hide them somehow and you find them back by zooming out. Program Manager is replaced by going top left to open the Dash menu or whatever it's called. Top bar is a bit useless but I suppose it's here so that people do not get lost (you need a bar anyway if only to display a handful tray icons)
Didn't Ubuntu introduce that crap years ago too? Ubuntu 11.04, which came with both Unity and Gnome 2 out of the box.
Meanwhile, these days I'm having an always-visible scrollbar but without the up and down button. Which will only suck very slightly if some day I'm stuck without a scrollwheel.
Indeed, Gnome 2 / MATE has little advanced configurability, yet it has basic configurability. Want to add an icon, drag'n'drop the icon to where you want it on the bar, how easy can that be.
Most visible part that gets maintained/updated : the file manager.
Applications/Places/System : corresponds to Programs, Favorites and Settings in the classic start menu from Windows 98 (and perhaps 95 + Internet Explorer shell) and XP. It's not convenient to add your own application shortcuts to the app menu though, so they go to the top bar (or bottom bar) or on the desktop.
Biggest pain in the ass is if you changed something with dconf-editor. Or did I change a start up script. I made it so caja doesn't manage the desktop anymore, but I can't manage to get the desktop back. That's customizability.
Moreover, I don't bother customizing/changing the theme! That's the fault of Gnome 3. I won't even bother or attempt anything till GTK3 is stable.
That is because I never tried and assumed the buffer was destroyed every time. Stupid maybe but when editing/etc/foo.conf etc. I usually only need to change a couple values, or I use ctrl-K to delete only. Pasted text comes from some terminal or from a web browser, or is often entered with cat rather than a text editor.
I would simply like if it explained how to cut and paste multiple lines of text at the same time. For that task I have to reach for the mouse (the block of text needs to fit on the screen) or use a graphical editor - that'd be pluma or leafpad, to be free of bullshit.
That was still easier in MS-DOS EDIT. By the way : (shit, I put it in a pastebin because of the slashdot filter)
It has qwerty-isms. That's perhaps one of my bigger peeves with Free software. The video games in linux are worst, they're likely to be playable with a qwerty keymap only. DOS/Windows games of the 90s at least just read the raw scan codes so the keyboard acted as if it was qwerty.
It was almost as long ago. Or what about Quantum Leap, or Sliders. Sorry.. 911 changed everything, they said. I'll like it if they make good anti-american episodes that deal with real conspiracy theories.. That's what changed since 15 years ago, real conspiracies rather than wanking about UFOs. Does Mulder still wank himself or what. Eight seasons and he never made out with Scully because he's either gay, or a wanker or both.
It is perhaps more useful now : for years, you could install linux (debian, buntu) on a ppc mac, but you got no binary for the adobe plugin Flash. So, it was shit, but now you can try to look at the HTML5 video, or try some software that loads the video in a regular video player.
Tractors often are allowed to run on untaxed fuel, so it is theoretically possible to ban everything except tractors and say, semi-trailer trucks and ambulances. Though, maybe people would then drive farm equipment to work.
Indeed, I have Windows 7 actually refusing to install on a motherboard from 2014. I did not try with the hard disk in MBR mode, but that's because I had already partitionned it in GPT with way more than four primary partitions and installed a linux dual boot (swap, linux OS, another linux OS, a home partition, a data storage partition, room for the Windows partition somewhere in there..)
I guess we're waiting for Windows 10 for that one.. or add another HDD so that Windows 7 can be installed on a MBR one. But here's hoping that we don't have to go to UEFI setup to toggle a setting everytime.
Two decades ago would be about when Hyundai cars were introduced to Europe. That is pretty significant, we don't hear of cars from Vietnam or even China (I believe China has a huge car industry, but it's not sold globally and we can't even cite one constructor from China whereas I know S.K. has Samsung, Kia, Hundyai and SsangYong. I forgot Daewoo cars)
A decade ago : South Korea known for being where most RAM is made, and then a ton of flash memory as well. We can't have our PC compatibles and shit without South Korea, in the same way we can't do without Taiwan for the motherboards or Thailand for the hard drives.
Let me make an ad hominem attack on your source. The Weekly Standard : they're no better than neo-nazis. It's a propanganda mouthpiece founded to get the US to invade and occupy Iraq for fuck's sake. They're more interested in killing people than in facts.
I learned of a new problem with some Hewlett Packard desktops : an incompatibility with newer graphics card on not so old models (with Intel Sandy Bridge) and no BIOS upgrade to fix the bug. That, and no way to lower the RAM speed on those OEM PCs to keep the PC stable when the RAM, motherboard or memory controller aged not too well.
On the other hand I've had some trouble with assembled hardware, software related, for doing dual boot or multiboot.. I have the bug of Windows-7-on-multiboot-fails-to-install-SP1 on my old BIOS based machine, and the friend's machine on UEFI gives me headaches : used to be that Windows 7 refuses to install (ha!) but I'm having trouble with grub2 seemingly failing to update itself (?) or stubborn on keeping the same configuration, so the dual boot to two linuxes still defaults to the "wrong" linux and the other linux doesn't use the new kernel I've installed. So, due to the transition to UEFI you still can suffer crap even if you stay away from OEM PC.
No option to pay a monthly fee and be able to draw money from every fucking ATM? That is a nice "luxury". Walk to any random ATM and that's all (though the "official" ones will also display account balance and allow a minimum draw of 10 euros rather than 20 euros)
That can be possible. Funny thing is I thus don't give a shit about paying by phone, "contactless payment" and such since I always have cash no matter how meager it is.. The modernity and computer networking can stay where it is, on fixed, wired and perhaps mildly armored hardware.
I'm on the continent from the other side of the pond and I don't pay ATM fees, monthly bill for the debit card covers it already. I can do wire transfer for free (in country or Europe) with no e-mail involved (except confirmation I receive). But it's mainly for paying the rent and similar, and I have to add the recipient account's "wire numbers" beforehand. Using e-mail for funds transfer seems weird, e-mail seems kind of crappy and insecure.
It's ridiculously good while still at the bottom of the price curve. While I still use whatever thing from the 90s, that's a keyboard I tried (in new condition) and gosh that's a keyboard I can pick and use and not miss a keyboard from the 1990s. For what it's worth I like it much better than the "gaming" Logitech keyboards.
No features, not even a key to launch the calculator. Too bad there's no PS/2, because fuck it that's what PS/2 is for. But it's available in white, or is it beige.
not only that : there surely is a way to put a keyboard on a tablet. And not a separate keyboard, or a keyboard that turns it into a baby laptop, but a keyboard on the tablet itself.
It is not that terrible, because a shit lof of "telemetry data" is collected and thus they should know what the printer was, error messages of the print spooler or even some internal state of the service. Or so I would think. When Firefox crashes and asks to send the crash report, I never add information, or perhaps once in a thousand time.
I don't get the hate about Mozilla, the "File Edit View..." menu bar is enabled back with a couple of clicks and then what I'm getting is good enough. Still gets faster, lighter and less crashy because all of the work is under the hood, and last month replacing Ad Block Plus with ublock made it faster/lighter too.
ISIS recruits idiots who grew up with Call of Duty and modern zombie movies (rather than say, Doom and Counterstrike 1.x). They do the killing and splatter for the fun of it. Some mix of dude bro fun and complacently useful fervor.
A friend comes over, before he leaves we copy about 7GB of data to his USB drive (empty, by the way) and that takes about half a hour. That's what I am bitching about. Copying from hard drive to hard drive on 100BaseT network was so much better (with no stall when doing concurrent copying)
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I'm sure you have a fine and awesome solution but most people only ever used webmail. Can check e-mail from any place, without having to (at worst) ask for the root or admin password so you can install and configure your beloved mail client.
I looked OS/2 for PowerPC up and it indeed ran Windows 3.1.. Wow!
If you wanted to run Windows 3.1 applications (because there's no OS/2 software), why not get a 486 with half the RAM instead. That's easier and cheaper.
Just one modern web picture (downloaded full size and scaled down on the page) will take up more memory than a hosts file.
Funny that, Gnome 3 is kind of an improved Windows 3.1. Afterall, you manage windows (mostly full screen but sometimes not) and there's no task bar. But instead of minimizing windows to icons, you hide them somehow and you find them back by zooming out. Program Manager is replaced by going top left to open the Dash menu or whatever it's called. Top bar is a bit useless but I suppose it's here so that people do not get lost (you need a bar anyway if only to display a handful tray icons)
Add a notification that you've received a notifitcation, and you might have a notification bomb.
Didn't Ubuntu introduce that crap years ago too? Ubuntu 11.04, which came with both Unity and Gnome 2 out of the box.
Meanwhile, these days I'm having an always-visible scrollbar but without the up and down button. Which will only suck very slightly if some day I'm stuck without a scrollwheel.
Indeed, Gnome 2 / MATE has little advanced configurability, yet it has basic configurability. Want to add an icon, drag'n'drop the icon to where you want it on the bar, how easy can that be.
Most visible part that gets maintained/updated : the file manager.
Applications/Places/System : corresponds to Programs, Favorites and Settings in the classic start menu from Windows 98 (and perhaps 95 + Internet Explorer shell) and XP. It's not convenient to add your own application shortcuts to the app menu though, so they go to the top bar (or bottom bar) or on the desktop.
Biggest pain in the ass is if you changed something with dconf-editor. Or did I change a start up script. I made it so caja doesn't manage the desktop anymore, but I can't manage to get the desktop back. That's customizability.
Moreover, I don't bother customizing/changing the theme! That's the fault of Gnome 3. I won't even bother or attempt anything till GTK3 is stable.
That means the uranium is mined in Jordan, but it can be shipped elsewhere for enriching (France, US, Russia or other)
That is because I never tried and assumed the buffer was destroyed every time. Stupid maybe but when editing /etc/foo.conf etc. I usually only need to change a couple values, or I use ctrl-K to delete only. Pasted text comes from some terminal or from a web browser, or is often entered with cat rather than a text editor.
I would simply like if it explained how to cut and paste multiple lines of text at the same time. For that task I have to reach for the mouse (the block of text needs to fit on the screen) or use a graphical editor - that'd be pluma or leafpad, to be free of bullshit.
That was still easier in MS-DOS EDIT.
By the way : (shit, I put it in a pastebin because of the slashdot filter)
http://dpaste.com/3210G6K
It has qwerty-isms. That's perhaps one of my bigger peeves with Free software. The video games in linux are worst, they're likely to be playable with a qwerty keymap only. DOS/Windows games of the 90s at least just read the raw scan codes so the keyboard acted as if it was qwerty.
It was almost as long ago. Or what about Quantum Leap, or Sliders. Sorry.. 911 changed everything, they said. I'll like it if they make good anti-american episodes that deal with real conspiracy theories.. That's what changed since 15 years ago, real conspiracies rather than wanking about UFOs. Does Mulder still wank himself or what. Eight seasons and he never made out with Scully because he's either gay, or a wanker or both.
It is perhaps more useful now : for years, you could install linux (debian, buntu) on a ppc mac, but you got no binary for the adobe plugin Flash. So, it was shit, but now you can try to look at the HTML5 video, or try some software that loads the video in a regular video player.
Tractors often are allowed to run on untaxed fuel, so it is theoretically possible to ban everything except tractors and say, semi-trailer trucks and ambulances. Though, maybe people would then drive farm equipment to work.
Indeed, I have Windows 7 actually refusing to install on a motherboard from 2014. I did not try with the hard disk in MBR mode, but that's because I had already partitionned it in GPT with way more than four primary partitions and installed a linux dual boot (swap, linux OS, another linux OS, a home partition, a data storage partition, room for the Windows partition somewhere in there..)
I guess we're waiting for Windows 10 for that one.. or add another HDD so that Windows 7 can be installed on a MBR one. But here's hoping that we don't have to go to UEFI setup to toggle a setting everytime.
Two decades ago would be about when Hyundai cars were introduced to Europe. That is pretty significant, we don't hear of cars from Vietnam or even China (I believe China has a huge car industry, but it's not sold globally and we can't even cite one constructor from China whereas I know S.K. has Samsung, Kia, Hundyai and SsangYong. I forgot Daewoo cars)
A decade ago : South Korea known for being where most RAM is made, and then a ton of flash memory as well. We can't have our PC compatibles and shit without South Korea, in the same way we can't do without Taiwan for the motherboards or Thailand for the hard drives.
Let me make an ad hominem attack on your source. The Weekly Standard : they're no better than neo-nazis. It's a propanganda mouthpiece founded to get the US to invade and occupy Iraq for fuck's sake. They're more interested in killing people than in facts.
I learned of a new problem with some Hewlett Packard desktops : an incompatibility with newer graphics card on not so old models (with Intel Sandy Bridge) and no BIOS upgrade to fix the bug.
That, and no way to lower the RAM speed on those OEM PCs to keep the PC stable when the RAM, motherboard or memory controller aged not too well.
On the other hand I've had some trouble with assembled hardware, software related, for doing dual boot or multiboot.. I have the bug of Windows-7-on-multiboot-fails-to-install-SP1 on my old BIOS based machine, and the friend's machine on UEFI gives me headaches : used to be that Windows 7 refuses to install (ha!) but I'm having trouble with grub2 seemingly failing to update itself (?) or stubborn on keeping the same configuration, so the dual boot to two linuxes still defaults to the "wrong" linux and the other linux doesn't use the new kernel I've installed.
So, due to the transition to UEFI you still can suffer crap even if you stay away from OEM PC.
No option to pay a monthly fee and be able to draw money from every fucking ATM?
That is a nice "luxury". Walk to any random ATM and that's all (though the "official" ones will also display account balance and allow a minimum draw of 10 euros rather than 20 euros)
That can be possible. Funny thing is I thus don't give a shit about paying by phone, "contactless payment" and such since I always have cash no matter how meager it is.. The modernity and computer networking can stay where it is, on fixed, wired and perhaps mildly armored hardware.
I'm on the continent from the other side of the pond and I don't pay ATM fees, monthly bill for the debit card covers it already.
I can do wire transfer for free (in country or Europe) with no e-mail involved (except confirmation I receive). But it's mainly for paying the rent and similar, and I have to add the recipient account's "wire numbers" beforehand. Using e-mail for funds transfer seems weird, e-mail seems kind of crappy and insecure.
It's ridiculously good while still at the bottom of the price curve.
While I still use whatever thing from the 90s, that's a keyboard I tried (in new condition) and gosh that's a keyboard I can pick and use and not miss a keyboard from the 1990s. For what it's worth I like it much better than the "gaming" Logitech keyboards.
No features, not even a key to launch the calculator. Too bad there's no PS/2, because fuck it that's what PS/2 is for. But it's available in white, or is it beige.
not only that : there surely is a way to put a keyboard on a tablet. And not a separate keyboard, or a keyboard that turns it into a baby laptop, but a keyboard on the tablet itself.
It is not that terrible, because a shit lof of "telemetry data" is collected and thus they should know what the printer was, error messages of the print spooler or even some internal state of the service.
Or so I would think.
When Firefox crashes and asks to send the crash report, I never add information, or perhaps once in a thousand time.
I don't get the hate about Mozilla, the "File Edit View..." menu bar is enabled back with a couple of clicks and then what I'm getting is good enough. Still gets faster, lighter and less crashy because all of the work is under the hood, and last month replacing Ad Block Plus with ublock made it faster/lighter too.
ISIS recruits idiots who grew up with Call of Duty and modern zombie movies (rather than say, Doom and Counterstrike 1.x). They do the killing and splatter for the fun of it. Some mix of dude bro fun and complacently useful fervor.
A friend comes over, before he leaves we copy about 7GB of data to his USB drive (empty, by the way) and that takes about half a hour. That's what I am bitching about. Copying from hard drive to hard drive on 100BaseT network was so much better (with no stall when doing concurrent copying)