How about something like the ability to remove the "Create Folder/Create Launcher/Create Document" options out of the right-click menu.
I don't know what brain dead school of GUI design the idea came from that folders would be created with such regularity that a shortcut for them needed to be placed not only in the right-click menu, but in an unmovable position at the TOP of the right-click menu, but damn, what an annoying as hell "feature". I must have created dozens of folders by accidentally hitting that option instead of what I wanted which was to open a terminal (usually on other non-GNOME systems I worked with, I would have the terminal as the top option in the menu).
Yes xfce has that and it makes no sense. Menus opened with button two are meant to operate on the object in focus. So if you right click on the inside of a folder (or desktop) you should get functions which operate on the folder. It makes sense to get options to create objects in the folder. It makes no sense to get an option to start an application. Doing so defeats the purpose of having a file manager.
What is wrong with having the options? And there is a very good reason why the terminal should have a separate setting for textfields: it's not a textfield and it doesn't act like one. I don't want an annoying blinking box of a cursor in my terminal. It is, however, nice to have a blinking cursor in textfields.
I get that option in gnome by installing aterm. It sounds like your issue is with the terminal program rather than with the desktop environment.
I suspect I'll be using something like Fluxbox again
Frankly I am surprised that Linus runs either of the big two desktop environments. I have an fvwm configuration which I use for serious work. I keep going back to it when gnome annoys me too much.
Yeah when you have a total market dominance and put your product on 90% of all computers sold you know it's time to quit before you make too much money.
Right now Google has a VERY good opportunity to hire and release a Google Earth-based flight simulator.
Flight sims take years of tweaking to get working well. Google do have a history of selling applications (sketchup comes to mind) but the things they do sell seem to be mere outlines of a mature product.
Its terrible when people get layed off- but come on? Who ever fucking uses this thing?
I've got a copy, but then I am a bit of an aviation geek. The last time I used it was ten years ago. I was feeling a bit down and committed suicide. It made a nice crash.
I've been feeling for a while now that Microsoft should probably just drop everything and become solely a games developer (with a possible exception of MS Office, their only real successful product, put that on the Xbox or something).
A lot of people seem to make a lot of money from software. Buffet is the kind of guy who will only invest in something which will still be sold in 100 years, but I don't see that as a real world issue. The fortunes earned by Bill Gates and the founders of google will still be around in a hundred years.
Laptops can be made a lot cheaper than the current price of an EeePC. It will be interesting to see what happens if mainland chinese computer makers start undercutting asus by a wide margin.
A week ago I took a ferry from Victoria to Tasmania. Most of the passengers were poor(er) people who prefer to take their own car on a boat rather than fly and rent. Some people used laptops during the crossing and more than half were little asus laptops.
Time Machine fixes that problem nowadays. Looks like all she needed was a few upgrades and she wouldn't have had that problem.
No her mac was one of the very first. All her data was on a 3.5 inch floppy. She just needed somebody to tell her that the computer and disks she used wouldn't have worked forever and that she should make backups. Unfortunately I only heard about this in the past tense so I never got to give her that advice.
My mother likes to line the mouse up on a button, draw her hand back, then jab at the mouse button with her finger. Inevitably this knocks the pointer off the component and she has to start again.
For years she has been destroying small electronic devices by breaking switches and battery compartment covers. I don't know what we can do about it. Her father was an optical mechanic and worked with small components all his life. He didn't have the same problem.
There is this lady who lives next door to my mother. She has a business gardening and is pretty low tech. For years she used an old mac to do her accounting. Apparently she made a mistake at one point and lost the lot. Overwrote a file or something.
The mac is easy enough for non technical people to use but they need to get advice some times on managing their data.
Great hardware. We have literally hundreds of DS10s at work and faults are rare. But DEC were terrified of Microsoft. They pushed hard to get Windows NT on alpha and it ran very well but there weren't enough good reasons for people to buy DEC hardware.
Apple had enough confidence (possibly Jobs's confidence) to go their own way and it paid off.
When a friend of my dads got one of the first macs we went around to his place to remonstrate with him. We pointed out that there was no software to buy for it. You couldn't see much on the tiny screen and the way you used it it looked like a toy.
But I noticed that they keyboard was small. It only had the buttons you needed, you could select with the mouse, and the whole system left a lot of space on a cluttered desk.
I wondered where the computer was. In the keyboard or behind the screen? I couldn't figure it out.
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Hmmm. Maybe we should get longer telephone numbers.
Maybe each list should be salted with a number which identifies the recipient of the list. When that number is called, sue the original recipient.
You just need to install pf on your phone then block all calls from certain countries.
How about something like the ability to remove the "Create Folder/Create Launcher/Create Document" options out of the right-click menu.
I don't know what brain dead school of GUI design the idea came from that folders would be created with such regularity that a shortcut for them needed to be placed not only in the right-click menu, but in an unmovable position at the TOP of the right-click menu, but damn, what an annoying as hell "feature". I must have created dozens of folders by accidentally hitting that option instead of what I wanted which was to open a terminal (usually on other non-GNOME systems I worked with, I would have the terminal as the top option in the menu).
Yes xfce has that and it makes no sense. Menus opened with button two are meant to operate on the object in focus. So if you right click on the inside of a folder (or desktop) you should get functions which operate on the folder. It makes sense to get options to create objects in the folder. It makes no sense to get an option to start an application. Doing so defeats the purpose of having a file manager.
What is wrong with having the options? And there is a very good reason why the terminal should have a separate setting for textfields: it's not a textfield and it doesn't act like one. I don't want an annoying blinking box of a cursor in my terminal. It is, however, nice to have a blinking cursor in textfields.
I get that option in gnome by installing aterm. It sounds like your issue is with the terminal program rather than with the desktop environment.
I suspect I'll be using something like Fluxbox again
Frankly I am surprised that Linus runs either of the big two desktop environments. I have an fvwm configuration which I use for serious work. I keep going back to it when gnome annoys me too much.
Yeah when you have a total market dominance and put your product on 90% of all computers sold you know it's time to quit before you make too much money.
Look out for that chair, talking like that.
Right now Google has a VERY good opportunity to hire and release a Google Earth-based flight simulator.
Flight sims take years of tweaking to get working well. Google do have a history of selling applications (sketchup comes to mind) but the things they do sell seem to be mere outlines of a mature product.
Its terrible when people get layed off- but come on? Who ever fucking uses this thing?
I've got a copy, but then I am a bit of an aviation geek. The last time I used it was ten years ago. I was feeling a bit down and committed suicide. It made a nice crash.
I've been feeling for a while now that Microsoft should probably just drop everything and become solely a games developer (with a possible exception of MS Office, their only real successful product, put that on the Xbox or something).
You give up on that idea of selling an OS?
You don't "copy" class notes, you write class notes. In your own words. There is a big difference. You are the author.
But what if you wrote them and I paid you to give me a photocopy?
Oh okay. NXT is BSD branded by Next Step.
They are both a bit fat around the equator though Earth is the worst offender in this regard.
When I read the summary I thought Velikovsky was coming back.
Yes he's quite an enigma that Barack Obama.
Did you guys invent a new word while I was away?
Considering he has Asperger's syndrome I doubt much social engineering was involved here.
More like persistence I think.
A lot of people seem to make a lot of money from software. Buffet is the kind of guy who will only invest in something which will still be sold in 100 years, but I don't see that as a real world issue. The fortunes earned by Bill Gates and the founders of google will still be around in a hundred years.
Laptops can be made a lot cheaper than the current price of an EeePC. It will be interesting to see what happens if mainland chinese computer makers start undercutting asus by a wide margin.
A week ago I took a ferry from Victoria to Tasmania. Most of the passengers were poor(er) people who prefer to take their own car on a boat rather than fly and rent. Some people used laptops during the crossing and more than half were little asus laptops.
Pretty much every Linux netbook is branded, somehow -- the EEE PC in particular.
MacOS is BSD branded by Apple.
Time Machine fixes that problem nowadays. Looks like all she needed was a few upgrades and she wouldn't have had that problem.
No her mac was one of the very first. All her data was on a 3.5 inch floppy. She just needed somebody to tell her that the computer and disks she used wouldn't have worked forever and that she should make backups. Unfortunately I only heard about this in the past tense so I never got to give her that advice.
My mother likes to line the mouse up on a button, draw her hand back, then jab at the mouse button with her finger. Inevitably this knocks the pointer off the component and she has to start again.
For years she has been destroying small electronic devices by breaking switches and battery compartment covers. I don't know what we can do about it. Her father was an optical mechanic and worked with small components all his life. He didn't have the same problem.
There is this lady who lives next door to my mother. She has a business gardening and is pretty low tech. For years she used an old mac to do her accounting. Apparently she made a mistake at one point and lost the lot. Overwrote a file or something.
The mac is easy enough for non technical people to use but they need to get advice some times on managing their data.
Great hardware. We have literally hundreds of DS10s at work and faults are rare. But DEC were terrified of Microsoft. They pushed hard to get Windows NT on alpha and it ran very well but there weren't enough good reasons for people to buy DEC hardware.
Apple had enough confidence (possibly Jobs's confidence) to go their own way and it paid off.
When a friend of my dads got one of the first macs we went around to his place to remonstrate with him. We pointed out that there was no software to buy for it. You couldn't see much on the tiny screen and the way you used it it looked like a toy.
But I noticed that they keyboard was small. It only had the buttons you needed, you could select with the mouse, and the whole system left a lot of space on a cluttered desk.
I wondered where the computer was. In the keyboard or behind the screen? I couldn't figure it out.