> Boards of directors of major corporations are comprised of privileged people, and are therefore more or less above the law.
Someone should tell Tyco's former CEO, Kozlowski. He can just go home, then.
Why don't they just make it a criminal offense to negligently disclose someone's personal information. There's nothing like the possibility of jail time to motivate a board of directors.
KDE is written for the kind of people who liked OS/2's Workplace Shell -- a complete disaster of a user interface, designed by geeks, for geeks.
I've been trying to get my wife and kids on Linux. KDE is horrible for new uers. Gnome, even with its numerous (in my opinion minor) shortcomings, is much better interface for someone who couldn't give a shit about computers -- they just want to send e-mail, type a school report, read web pages, maybe change the desktop theme or wallpaper.
I tried to interest them at first with a Knoppix CD and the interface was *way* too busy. At the moment, we're using Gnome 2.8 on Fedora Core 3 Test 2. Even my 8-year-old has had few problems understanding and using it, while my two hackers -- a boy, 13, and a girl, 15 -- had the interface customized in about an hour of first logging on.
That's the right balance. I sure hope we don't lose Gnome.
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> Boards of directors of major corporations are comprised of privileged people, and are therefore more or less above the law. Someone should tell Tyco's former CEO, Kozlowski. He can just go home, then.
Why don't they just make it a criminal offense to negligently disclose someone's personal information. There's nothing like the possibility of jail time to motivate a board of directors.
KDE is written for the kind of people who liked OS/2's Workplace Shell -- a complete disaster of a user interface, designed by geeks, for geeks. I've been trying to get my wife and kids on Linux. KDE is horrible for new uers. Gnome, even with its numerous (in my opinion minor) shortcomings, is much better interface for someone who couldn't give a shit about computers -- they just want to send e-mail, type a school report, read web pages, maybe change the desktop theme or wallpaper. I tried to interest them at first with a Knoppix CD and the interface was *way* too busy. At the moment, we're using Gnome 2.8 on Fedora Core 3 Test 2. Even my 8-year-old has had few problems understanding and using it, while my two hackers -- a boy, 13, and a girl, 15 -- had the interface customized in about an hour of first logging on. That's the right balance. I sure hope we don't lose Gnome.