Ok.. I get it.. I think..maybe this is an over simplification..
Desktop Icons & Launchers = links
Folderview = Link to a directory that has some customizing features.. to the point where it could even be like what is currently a destop.(not a knock as you could create multiple types of desktops)
Sounds interesting... I hope they do it correctly so that broken links are not a problem.
I heard there are no more icons on the desktop in KDE 4.1...
That is not entirely correct. You can have icons and launchers (shortcuts) by dragging them from Dolphin or the K-menu. What has changed is that the desktop will no longer display the contents of the Desktop folder. However, you can show an arbitrary number of folders (local or remote) on your desktop view, instead of being forced to display only the contents of the "Desktop" folder. To do so, a new applet has been introduced, the Folder View applet.
I've read it a few times.. and still vague on what the heck they are trying to do.. of course it's probably simpler to use than it sounds.. This whole thing has peaked my interest in KDE though.. I tried 4.0 on another partition, and immediately went back to gnome.. but I'll give 4.1 beta a shot what the hey.
Yeah, Windows 98 crashed even more than Windows 95
Depends.. Windows 98 SE was stable. Like the other poster I used it till about 4 years ago, and never went to XP.. but I was also a Linux user for years prior, and about 4 years ago Linux became good enough to go full time "for me". From what I have used of XP at work, it's pretty good but other than the widgets it never offered me anything that 98 didn't have. I can understand that from an IT point of view XP had better administration, but as a home user who watched what he was doing, I ran 98 and it was extremely stable to me.
What do you want me to say about your blood meter ?.. you already said it was an FDA thing.. I could go into using wine to run it, but I doubt that will satisfy you.
Your happy in your world and there is nothing wrong with that. I only pointed out the CASE tool thing because you said there was none for Linux.
Yep, way back when there was a lot of fuss about a foreign company owning a telephone utility in the US. (back when they were starting to buy voicestream). The reason I remember this is because voicestream at the time was about the only GSM provider in the US.. and as all of Europe (an most of the world) is GSM it made sense that DT would look at them.. And they have done a lot with the company that became T-Mobile.
I am not a mobile "power user".. but I am a customer, and I have not had any problems with them and I am happy with the service in my area.
Drinking alcohol is a contributor to jet lag, because of dehydration. I think one of the reasons people suffer less from jet lag these days, it that the airlines learned this and offer lots of water on long flights. I think the constantly recirculated air causes the dehydration.
The rule of sleeping when traveling east and staying awake traveling west, as well as no alcohol or coffee (and I love my coffee) on the flight works for me. The only other major problems with such long flights is proximity to so many other humans in tight quarters.. jet lag no problem, but occasional bug (cold or flu) really sucks.
On the screenshot page they show a system with a lot of foxes.. which had me thinking a bit. There is also a Fox Toolkit, which is a different animal than FLTK. They say this is a modified version of FLTK and the widgets are definately better (IMO) than the stock FLTK http://www.fltk.org/ and seem more in line with the FOX toolkit http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
That using the foxes thing is pretty weird.. don't know what that's all about.
To investigate further if there is actually a "sensitivity" then you would bring back all those that got 100 percent and run the test again.. I liked to see THOSE numbers.
Perhaps it's just the end of the world as you know it.. and the new one will be Apple dominated. (it's a stretch, but not impossible).. Maybe Microsoft collapses and folds in the "Neo Depression" years of 09'-11'
And on the Mayan thing.. I think it's impressive that the Mayan calendar went for as long as it did, but eternity is a long time to cover, so I am not surprised that it had a stopping point.. but that doesn't mean anything more than Staples only stocking calenders for a couple years ahead.
I don't "hate" the Star Wars movies, in fact almost all of them, I enjoy most of the movie.. It's just the damn puppets, that ruin it for me.. And then later (earlier) they make a CGI character which is cool technology, but they make him as annoying and goofy as a puppet.
Point releases are no big show stopper.. Firefox and Open office seem to deal with it just fine. Now it's true that they distribute software through the distro repositories... but there is know reason for major vendors not to work with the major distros and distribute through repositories as well. (And yes I am including commercial apps)
Check out Notetab Pro.. should have no problem dealing with your text files.. and you can get fancy and make imput dialog boxes, and little clips (macros) to deal with repetitive inputs... Deals well with text, if I remember right the clip engine was modeled after Perl.
I like notetab a lot, wish he'd port it over to Linux...
Doing complicated things... is complicated.. No matter what platform..
I don't know anything about voip, so I've never looked into anything like asterisk. In looking at their web page, not much help as it goes into installing from source and making config files from scratch, however, when I look at synaptic on Debian, if you click on asterisk to install it, it will install default config files.. how much "reconfiguration" you might have to do with the hardware you have, and whether or not these have to be edited by hand, I don't know. Easier for you to try... I am not saying that it is definitely the case in your case, but often people take the hard route by donwloading programs for linux instead of installing them from the repository.
As to Apache... again same problems exist all platforms.. If she wants to learn html, she could try a wysiwyg editor, but will eventually have learn a little on how a web server works, and about things like directories, when she decides to put it out to the world.. She also won't learn much without looking at the code, and for most pros and non pros alike, the best html editor is a text editor.
Squid, and net filtering for kids is another area that I have not really had a need to explore. So I will take your word for it that it is probably complicated.
My main complaint with most apps on Linux these days is being forced to use a text editor where I shouldn't have to.
Examples ??... What apps are forcing you to edit a config file ?.. I have had to mess around with xorg.config some on Debian because of Nvidia drivers, but Ubuntu handles it quite well.. other than that, I haven't had to edit any config files on anything in recent memory... perhaps you are compiling and installing from source ? then I could see it.. and then how many times do you have to do that ?.. most things are in repositories.. so when you say "MOST APPS" I gotta wonder what the heck your doing.
But there was human intervention in this case.. a human was operating the controls of the robot arm.
Not putting it down.. much nicer to tell the arm to start a cut at point A and a specific depth and end at point B.. I had some repair work done on my knee, and I have an extremely long scar.. did he start at the wrong place and just keep going till he found what he was looking for ?? don't really know, and better I don't think about it too much...
As I have done some CAD/CAM work before this is interesting stuff to me.. I wonder if they modeled her head in 3d and created reference points to know where they were.. or if this is just a case of moving the arm along x,y,z coordinates based on what they were seeing visually (or with camera) which would be more like manual machining than CAM.. As it took 9 hours, I kind of suspect this was more of a manual operation.
I didn't even bother with reading the article after the summary.. I have no mod points , but I agree with your assessment., I would also add that regardless of the "easy enough for my grandma to use" that is often talked about here.. the reality is most grand parents don't use a computer.. I also know plenty of people at work who use computers at work, but just don't have the interest in owning one at home. It doesn't make them Luddites or technophobic it just means they don't have an interest in it.... I like watching their eyes glaze when I bring up something like linux.
What I do, is I look at the CC info... Then I reply to everyone on the list telling them there is good news, and bad news.. the good news is that I chanted an incantation and waved my mouse 3 times over my head breaking the spell on their chain letter forever !.. The bad news is that if they send me chain letters again, I'll have to block them, as I only have so much magic available.
Speculative fiction ?... That would be all fiction, wouldn't it ?... all fiction is "what if".
1) The "tech" in sci-fi generally isn't possible. It's essentially magic whose origin is the extrapolation of current technology given a different set of circumstances (and hand-waving).
Debatable, and depends upon the author, many of whom are sticklers about the science.. That's why many of the things in early Sci-Fi have become reality today... This is the difference between Sci-Fi and Fantasy, there is a possibility that for instance FTL travel could be in existence in the future, there is NO possibility that people are going to learn spells to kill the troll under the bridge. Perhaps the closest we will come to dragons and the like, is to genetically engineer them.. but that speculation is Sci-Fi not fantasy.
I absolutely hate it that Science Fiction and Fantasy are lumped together.. now although a reader of one or the other may have the imagination to appreciate the other genera why are they so intertwined ?.. You don't find Mysteries and Westerns mixed in the bookstore like Sci-Fi and Fantasy are... They are different things !!!
I didn't know to use Synaptics because it's not intuitive.
Whatever meaning you had in your head did not translate to what you wrote.
Also, when you say.."Synaptics is actually very intuitive once you figure out that you have to use it."
I think your again expecting people to know your thoughts, because you do not HAVE to use it. There are many
other ways to install software. Synaptic is a GUI for apt, you can install using command line with apt. There is a program called aptitude that is similar to Synaptic.. dpkg will also install downloaded.debs, as will GDebi which is another graphics installer.. and then there is building from source, but that's a whole other issue.
I do think most people new to Linux should stick with Synaptic, because it is so easy to use. The Windows way, of downloading and double clicking to run an installer would be similar to downloading a.deb file, double clicking and using GDebi to install it.. BUT.. isn't is so much simpler to use Synaptic to search for the program, and install it from your repository where you know that it is compatible with your distro ?
What if our physical properties prevent it ?.. What if the absolute limit of our intelligence, and the artificial intelligence we create, cannot figure it out because there are laws and properties we are unexposed to in our universe ?.. What if we can only exist in this universe but the others can exist in multiple universes simultaneously ? What if the ability to exist like that is beyond our capability even if we understand it ?
I didn't know to use Synaptics because it's not intuitive.
Search (like google)... BTW.. "apache", "server", and "web" all included apache2 in results. Mark for install... Um lets see you check the box, or right click and "mark" Apply... Applies the changes (install or UNINSTALL) that you are making.
What kind of intuitiveness do you require ??? sheesh...
Exactly how would you make it simple enough FOR YOU ?
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Desktop Icons & Launchers = links
Folderview = Link to a directory that has some customizing features.. to the point where it could even be like what is currently a destop.(not a knock as you could create multiple types of desktops)
Sounds interesting... I hope they do it correctly so that broken links are not a problem.
I heard there are no more icons on the desktop in KDE 4.1...
That is not entirely correct. You can have icons and launchers (shortcuts) by dragging
them from Dolphin or the K-menu. What has changed is that the desktop will no longer
display the contents of the Desktop folder. However, you can show an arbitrary number
of folders (local or remote) on your desktop view, instead of being forced to display only
the contents of the "Desktop" folder. To do so, a new applet has been introduced, the
Folder View applet.
I've read it a few times .. and still vague on what the heck they are trying to do.. of course it's probably simpler to use than it sounds.. This whole thing has peaked my interest in KDE though.. I tried 4.0 on another partition, and immediately went back to gnome.. but I'll give 4.1 beta a shot what the hey.
Depends.. Windows 98 SE was stable. Like the other poster I used it till about 4 years ago, and never went to XP.. but I was also a Linux user for years prior, and about 4 years ago Linux became good enough to go full time "for me". From what I have used of XP at work, it's pretty good but other than the widgets it never offered me anything that 98 didn't have. I can understand that from an IT point of view XP had better administration, but as a home user who watched what he was doing, I ran 98 and it was extremely stable to me.
What do you want me to say about your blood meter ? .. you already said it was an FDA thing.. I could go into using wine to run it, but I doubt that will satisfy you.
Your happy in your world and there is nothing wrong with that. I only pointed out the CASE tool thing because you said there was none for Linux.
I am not a mobile "power user".. but I am a customer, and I have not had any problems with them and I am happy with the service in my area.
Your basically stating that you don't use Linux because you don't want to.. and that's ok.
The rule of sleeping when traveling east and staying awake traveling west, as well as no alcohol or coffee (and I love my coffee) on the flight works for me. The only other major problems with such long flights is proximity to so many other humans in tight quarters.. jet lag no problem, but occasional bug (cold or flu) really sucks.
That using the foxes thing is pretty weird.. don't know what that's all about.
To investigate further if there is actually a "sensitivity" then you would bring back all those that got 100 percent and run the test again.. I liked to see THOSE numbers.
And on the Mayan thing.. I think it's impressive that the Mayan calendar went for as long as it did, but eternity is a long time to cover, so I am not surprised that it had a stopping point.. but that doesn't mean anything more than Staples only stocking calenders for a couple years ahead.
I like notetab a lot, wish he'd port it over to Linux...
Again, don't know anything about squid, but "DansGuardian" looks promising for your filtering.
I don't know anything about voip, so I've never looked into anything like asterisk. In looking at their web page, not much help as it goes into installing from source and making config files from scratch, however, when I look at synaptic on Debian, if you click on asterisk to install it, it will install default config files.. how much "reconfiguration" you might have to do with the hardware you have, and whether or not these have to be edited by hand, I don't know. Easier for you to try... I am not saying that it is definitely the case in your case, but often people take the hard route by donwloading programs for linux instead of installing them from the repository.
As to Apache... again same problems exist all platforms.. If she wants to learn html, she could try a wysiwyg editor, but will eventually have learn a little on how a web server works, and about things like directories, when she decides to put it out to the world.. She also won't learn much without looking at the code, and for most pros and non pros alike, the best html editor is a text editor.
Squid, and net filtering for kids is another area that I have not really had a need to explore. So I will take your word for it that it is probably complicated.
Examples ?? ... What apps are forcing you to edit a config file ? .. I have had to mess around with xorg.config some on Debian because of Nvidia drivers, but Ubuntu handles it quite well.. other than that, I haven't had to edit any config files on anything in recent memory... perhaps you are compiling and installing from source ? then I could see it.. and then how many times do you have to do that ?.. most things are in repositories.. so when you say "MOST APPS" I gotta wonder what the heck your doing.
Not putting it down.. much nicer to tell the arm to start a cut at point A and a specific depth and end at point B.. I had some repair work done on my knee, and I have an extremely long scar.. did he start at the wrong place and just keep going till he found what he was looking for ?? don't really know, and better I don't think about it too much...
As I have done some CAD/CAM work before this is interesting stuff to me.. I wonder if they modeled her head in 3d and created reference points to know where they were.. or if this is just a case of moving the arm along x,y,z coordinates based on what they were seeing visually (or with camera) which would be more like manual machining than CAM.. As it took 9 hours, I kind of suspect this was more of a manual operation.
I don't think aMSN is ugly.. I like it better than pigeon... Hadn't heard about emesene till today, I'll give it a shot.
What I do, is I look at the CC info... Then I reply to everyone on the list telling them there is good news, and bad news.. the good news is that I chanted an incantation and waved my mouse 3 times over my head breaking the spell on their chain letter forever !.. The bad news is that if they send me chain letters again, I'll have to block them, as I only have so much magic available.
1) The "tech" in sci-fi generally isn't possible. It's essentially magic whose origin is the extrapolation of current technology given a different set of circumstances (and hand-waving).
Debatable, and depends upon the author, many of whom are sticklers about the science.. That's why many of the things in early Sci-Fi have become reality today... This is the difference between Sci-Fi and Fantasy, there is a possibility that for instance FTL travel could be in existence in the future, there is NO possibility that people are going to learn spells to kill the troll under the bridge. Perhaps the closest we will come to dragons and the like, is to genetically engineer them.. but that speculation is Sci-Fi not fantasy.
I didn't know to use Synaptics because it's not intuitive.
Whatever meaning you had in your head did not translate to what you wrote. .debs, as will GDebi which is
Also, when you say.."Synaptics is actually very intuitive once you figure out that you have to use it."
I think your again expecting people to know your thoughts, because you do not HAVE to use it. There are many
other ways to install software. Synaptic is a GUI for apt, you can install using command line with apt. There is
a program called aptitude that is similar to Synaptic.. dpkg will also install downloaded
another graphics installer.. and then there is building from source, but that's a whole other issue.
I do think most people new to Linux should stick with Synaptic, because it is so easy to use. The Windows way, of downloading and double clicking to run an installer would be similar to downloading a .deb file, double clicking and using GDebi to install it.. BUT.. isn't is so much simpler to use Synaptic to search for the program, and install it from your repository where you know that it is compatible with your distro ?
What if our physical properties prevent it ?.. What if the absolute limit of our intelligence, and the artificial intelligence we create, cannot figure it out because there are laws and properties we are unexposed to in our universe ?.. What if we can only exist in this universe but the others can exist in multiple universes simultaneously ? What if the ability to exist like that is beyond our capability even if we understand it ?
Search (like google)... BTW.. "apache", "server", and "web" all included apache2 in results.
Mark for install... Um lets see you check the box, or right click and "mark"
Apply... Applies the changes (install or UNINSTALL) that you are making.
What kind of intuitiveness do you require ??? sheesh...
Exactly how would you make it simple enough FOR YOU ?