I wouldn't say insightful, but definitely true. I work the front lines at an ISP, and 90% of my calls in the run of a day could be fixed by reading the user guide. Most people are just too lazy to do that.
Bah. For all your cross-platform p2p needs: limewire and bittorrent.
LimeWire:
Windows (English Only)
Mac OSX
Mac Classic
Linux*
Solaris
Bittorrent:
Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
I totally agree. Debian has to have absolutely the worst installer ever. Which sucks, because I've heard it's a really nice distro. I gave up and went back with what I know - Redhat (Fedora). Is there a decent deb-based distro with a decent installer like anaconda?
Not a bad idea, although it WILL be hard to implement. I think RedHat has the right idea so far - UI is pretty consistent throughout most apps (i'm currently on fedora). The problem with something like this is too many differences between KDE and GNOME, and how to make a program look consistent in both, using the default window manager's current settings.
Sounds like what is needed to implement this is (yet another) abstraction layer. Would this need to be built into the GUI toolkit??
Disclaimer: I have never tried making apps except in VB, or for the web. I have no idea how easy/hard this would be in Linux!!
I'll definitely agree to that. I've been trying out a few different flavours since I decided to can RH9. Slackware and mandrake didn't really appeal to me, and an old linux zealot recommended debian. What a horrible install! I'm now a somewhat-content Fedora user.
So you're saying that should also come without Mozilla, Evolution, mplayer, XMMS, etc. after all, an OS is just an OS. I don't think they should be forced to remove any of the above from their distro, but I think that MS should be forced to make their software easy to remove/replace. any OS that comes without a browser is just a pain in the ass.
I'm surprised that no one has brought up Slashdot's business model: if you pay, you don't need to see the ads. I think that's one of the better ideas I've seen for "Non-Corporate" websites so far.
Personally I tend to agree, especially seeing as how most of the tech support folks here seem to know what they're doing. Just policies from the upper management prohibit us from helping anyone but a windows/mac user.
See, the problem with this is that most ISP's don't priovide any technical support if you're running a router - it's unsupported. They'll only provide tech support to the people running windows 9x/2k/xp, and sometimes mac. And it's the "uneducated" people that would be calling in, asking how to set up a router. the tech support guy's gotta sit there and say that they can't help you with that, even though it'll help out the user and probably the network in the long run.
I gotta agree with that one, this is definitely one of the better physics books I've read in a while. To me, it's up there with "A Brief history of Time".
Slashdot Mirror
I wouldn't say insightful, but definitely true. I work the front lines at an ISP, and 90% of my calls in the run of a day could be fixed by reading the user guide. Most people are just too lazy to do that.
Bah. For all your cross-platform p2p needs: limewire and bittorrent. LimeWire: Windows (English Only) Mac OSX Mac Classic Linux* Solaris Bittorrent: Windows Mac OS X Linux
Ahhh, if I only had mod points ;)
Someone uses Amiga??
Well, no, ASCII is a standard for the representation of common (and some not-so-common) characters that (generally) are human-readable.
Not sure on #1, bu tif you're looking for a quiet brand name, nothing beats a Dell AFAIAC. The only problem is the MS tax.... oh well :(
... Then wouldn't a scanner with OCR software be considered a machine??
Yeah, my ISP does the same thing. It's a combinatin of nic mac address and modem serial number or mac addres, depending on the type of modem.
is calc.exe. These are the only 2 windows programs I have never seen crash
I totally agree. Debian has to have absolutely the worst installer ever. Which sucks, because I've heard it's a really nice distro. I gave up and went back with what I know - Redhat (Fedora). Is there a decent deb-based distro with a decent installer like anaconda?
Not a bad idea, although it WILL be hard to implement. I think RedHat has the right idea so far - UI is pretty consistent throughout most apps (i'm currently on fedora). The problem with something like this is too many differences between KDE and GNOME, and how to make a program look consistent in both, using the default window manager's current settings. Sounds like what is needed to implement this is (yet another) abstraction layer. Would this need to be built into the GUI toolkit?? Disclaimer: I have never tried making apps except in VB, or for the web. I have no idea how easy/hard this would be in Linux!!
I'll definitely agree to that. I've been trying out a few different flavours since I decided to can RH9. Slackware and mandrake didn't really appeal to me, and an old linux zealot recommended debian. What a horrible install! I'm now a somewhat-content Fedora user.
So you're saying that should also come without Mozilla, Evolution, mplayer, XMMS, etc. after all, an OS is just an OS. I don't think they should be forced to remove any of the above from their distro, but I think that MS should be forced to make their software easy to remove/replace. any OS that comes without a browser is just a pain in the ass.
Really? I thought it was 127.0.0.1
I'm surprised that no one has brought up Slashdot's business model: if you pay, you don't need to see the ads. I think that's one of the better ideas I've seen for "Non-Corporate" websites so far.
... or just re-direct google.fr to google.ca, which has a french translation as well.
But which filesystem? FAT32 !=NTFS != Ext3 != ReiserFS
Personally I tend to agree, especially seeing as how most of the tech support folks here seem to know what they're doing. Just policies from the upper management prohibit us from helping anyone but a windows/mac user.
See, the problem with this is that most ISP's don't priovide any technical support if you're running a router - it's unsupported. They'll only provide tech support to the people running windows 9x/2k/xp, and sometimes mac. And it's the "uneducated" people that would be calling in, asking how to set up a router. the tech support guy's gotta sit there and say that they can't help you with that, even though it'll help out the user and probably the network in the long run.
I gotta agree with that one, this is definitely one of the better physics books I've read in a while. To me, it's up there with "A Brief history of Time".
konquers
That'd be kind of interesting, could look something like a kind of large "planetary" nebula.