Ups, yeah, I was a bit off topic.
But the GNOME "Human Interface Guidelines" are very interresting. In my opinion, they have a very good understanding on how things should work.
I installed a GNOME desktop for my wive. She has never used a computer before and just wants to use EMail and WWW.
The GNOME desktop works perfect for her. There are no obscure things that could mess up the system and she immediately was able to work with the system. I had explain almost nothing to her.
Before I installed GNOME for her, I had a look and KDE and found it terrific - from the UI point of view. Menus loaded with items rarely used, bloated toolbars and the like.
Afterwards I had once installed WINDOWS XP on a square patition to run a specific program which only runs on WINDOWS. She had a look at it and - immediately wanted GNOME back. She could not stand the "Lunar" style of XP and also complained about this tiny task bar at the bottom.
I find that currently there is nothing better than GNOME for people who just want to do some specific tasks with the computer and who do not want to bother with configuration and tweaking.
I do not say the CUPS interface is good in any way ( I only used it once to set up my printer and it worked for me without problems).
But thats what I had with WINDOWS:
1.) Setting up a network printer at work: We have a HP Laserjet in our network which I wanted to use for printing. I tried to add it with the Control Panel. It found this printer on several computers ( there is a list of "AUTO HP LaserJep MP5 on SomeMachine entries there ). Funny enough, the computer to which the printer is connected was not listed.
If I tried to print on any of the AUTO printers - no go!
Then I tried to add the printer with "Add printer" and selected "browse for network printer". The computer of interest was not listed and I could not find the printer. The "Aunt Tillie" would have thrown the computer out of the window by now.
I asked a collegue and he gave me a HP driver setup which scanned for network printers and installed the one it found as if it is a local printer. No help, no nothing told me that this printer needs its own driver to work over the network.
2.) A friend had a problem installing a HP DeskJet on his computer at home. The auto driver installation from HP seemed to detect the printer and installed the driver. But trying to print always lead to the error "Out of paper". But the self-test of the printer gave a good test print.
We tried several drivers ( from the WINDOWS CD and from the Website ) but nothing worked.
A few days later my friend told me he had connected the printer to another interface on his computer and it worked. Duh!
I bet the first version of this M$ AV tool will suck but then they will gradually improve until most people do not see the reason why they should buy another AV tool.
If I would work at Symantec/Sophos/... or whatever company that produces anti virus software, I would look for a new job now.
But why isnt it labeled as such? Eg. the first line of the processes in top is labeled "X". Is this nautilus?
The second line is labeled "top" then - hmm, obviously something is really screwed up. I would expect "top" to be on the top. And "nautilus" is not to be seen on top. What am I missing?
...if it is of any interest. I am not a native english speaker so I hope I did not miss the point...
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Dear Sir or Maddam,
I just read your article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" by Stephen Evans and I am very appalled by this article.
Mr. Evans should really have done a better job when researching facts for this article. To me there is no evidence - not even a hint - that the attacks are originated by Linux users. And in fact Mr. Evans also does not present such an evidence but he punishes Linux users to be criminals.
Oviously there are many Gilligans working at the BBC - reporters not taking their job seriously! From what I see, BBC is merely a source of rumours and coursing than serios news.
Regards,
Arne Caspari
Slashdot Mirror
I meant: Linus wrote Linux ;-)
I should have used the preview button...
Everybody knows that Bill Gates wrote Windows! Didn`t he?
So why does Mr. Brown wonder that Linux wrote Linux?
You say the US is still not using the metric system?
I did not know that the US is that much underdeveloped!
You can find the GNOME usability standards here:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/
Ups, yeah, I was a bit off topic. But the GNOME "Human Interface Guidelines" are very interresting. In my opinion, they have a very good understanding on how things should work.
I installed a GNOME desktop for my wive. She has never used a computer before and just wants to use EMail and WWW.
The GNOME desktop works perfect for her. There are no obscure things that could mess up the system and she immediately was able to work with the system. I had explain almost nothing to her.
Before I installed GNOME for her, I had a look and KDE and found it terrific - from the UI point of view. Menus loaded with items rarely used, bloated toolbars and the like.
Afterwards I had once installed WINDOWS XP on a square patition to run a specific program which only runs on WINDOWS. She had a look at it and - immediately wanted GNOME back. She could not stand the "Lunar" style of XP and also complained about this tiny task bar at the bottom.
I find that currently there is nothing better than GNOME for people who just want to do some specific tasks with the computer and who do not want to bother with configuration and tweaking.
I find Windows Rebooted would be a better name!
go to www.news.com and see what happens to your address bar.
I do not say the CUPS interface is good in any way ( I only used it once to set up my printer and it worked for me without problems).
But thats what I had with WINDOWS:
1.) Setting up a network printer at work: We have a HP Laserjet in our network which I wanted to use for printing. I tried to add it with the Control Panel. It found this printer on several computers ( there is a list of "AUTO HP LaserJep MP5 on SomeMachine entries there ). Funny enough, the computer to which the printer is connected was not listed.
If I tried to print on any of the AUTO printers - no go!
Then I tried to add the printer with "Add printer" and selected "browse for network printer". The computer of interest was not listed and I could not find the printer. The "Aunt Tillie" would have thrown the computer out of the window by now.
I asked a collegue and he gave me a HP driver setup which scanned for network printers and installed the one it found as if it is a local printer. No help, no nothing told me that this printer needs its own driver to work over the network.
2.) A friend had a problem installing a HP DeskJet on his computer at home. The auto driver installation from HP seemed to detect the printer and installed the driver. But trying to print always lead to the error "Out of paper". But the self-test of the printer gave a good test print.
We tried several drivers ( from the WINDOWS CD and from the Website ) but nothing worked.
A few days later my friend told me he had connected the printer to another interface on his computer and it worked. Duh!
Conclusion: Windows also sucks at this point.
...working at the anti virus companies.
I bet the first version of this M$ AV tool will suck but then they will gradually improve until most people do not see the reason why they should buy another AV tool.
If I would work at Symantec/Sophos/... or whatever company that produces anti virus software, I would look for a new job now.
Ahhh, this is nautilus!
But why isnt it labeled as such? Eg. the first line of the processes in top is labeled "X". Is this nautilus?
The second line is labeled "top" then - hmm, obviously something is really screwed up. I would expect "top" to be on the top. And "nautilus" is not to be seen on top. What am I missing?
Try that:
Open the "View" menu and select "Arrabge Items".
Now you see:
"o Manually"
"o By Name"
"o By Type"
"o By Modification Date"
"o By Emblems"
What is missing?
To create a panel that only takes up as much space as needed, I open the "Panel Properties" and deselect "Expand".
This works with the latest "dropline" Gnome installation - is this feature missing in plain Gnome-2.4?
...if it is of any interest. I am not a native english speaker so I hope I did not miss the point... ------ Dear Sir or Maddam, I just read your article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" by Stephen Evans and I am very appalled by this article. Mr. Evans should really have done a better job when researching facts for this article. To me there is no evidence - not even a hint - that the attacks are originated by Linux users. And in fact Mr. Evans also does not present such an evidence but he punishes Linux users to be criminals. Oviously there are many Gilligans working at the BBC - reporters not taking their job seriously! From what I see, BBC is merely a source of rumours and coursing than serios news. Regards, Arne Caspari
Well, THAT would be a distributed backup...