Are these real people live in vacuum? Do they read news? Did they know what the company they working for is doing? If yes, why didn't they found other job before it was too late? And if no, well, they are stupid and these are results of their stupidity. You may have no say but you always have an option to quit your job and find another when the company you work for is making a foolish actions.
...most people will either not be interested in me very much or will try to take advantage of me and this in fact is what happens. Well said. I totally agree.
"Iceweasel doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (firefoxurl) isn't associated with any program."
I think something broken there in my browser.
God, it sounds like the exact same ideas that the USSR had running puppet governments in the other Soviet States.
These weren't puppet governments: they were a local representatives of central government. It was one country with one government (in Moscow).
Puppet governments were all those in East Europe, such as Jugoslavia or Poland, or DDR or whatever. And even those were only ideologically "puppet".
You don't do that often why? Because you want at least some part of your life to be yours, not your employer's, i guess. It is very depressing when you cant go...hiking or something on weekend.:) No matter how comfortable your work environment is and how good you paid.
Users should be educated about the risks of conencting to the Internet - there is no doubt about that.
But they don't want to educate. They even don't want to learn how to use some basic stuff they need, like ICQ or something.
I use KDE on Linux. It happens every time i switch a desktop, clicking in the pager with mouse or just with Ctrl+Fn keys. It driving me nuts... I asked on MozillaZine forums and never got an answer. One more reason to make a switch to Konqueror or something. Another thing that happens very often to me: FF's window just disappears. I can see the header and even click the buttons to minimize it or operate it with keyboard, i see an animation effect when it minmizes/maximizes but whole thing is just invisible. Then it appears again like nothing happened. Enough troubles to one to start to think that Firefox is not as good as it promoted.
Firefox's incompatibility with KDE made me switch to Konqueror. I don't mean to troll, but it is faster and more stable. Unfortunately, it doesn't have all those nice firefox extensions:-(
I feel exactly the same. Switch to Konqueror will be a real pain for me: i use the same profile since FF 0.8, too much passwords that i just don't remember, very long browsing history (i set it to 9999 days) and so on. But i will do it one day, just because Firefox become more and more crap imho.
What about when I want to restart firefox for the fourth time today because I can't enter text into any text fields, or it's sucking up 1GB of memory?
It's even worse: each time my wallpaper changes Firefox freezes. Or reading some long discussion on Slashdot, especially when i'm in the middle of the page, switching desktop for a moment, then switcing back and see the page scrolled back to the top... I started to hate Firefox for this, but there's no good alternative:(
What would realy be awsome? If someone started making an mp3 player that accepted
removable flash memory cards so they could be swapped out like cd's (like on a pda).
SanDisk does. I have one, it uses SD cards: http://www.sandisk.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?I D=1208/
Note the price...if it dies one day, i will just buy a new one: no service needed.
One gigabyte of built-in memory and a slot for SD card which reads cards of up to 2 gigabytes. So capacity is unlimited. And i don't think i need 80 GB, i don't even bother to buy more cards: 20 albums that i have there are enough for me. It works with one rechargeable AAA battery which lasts for a week, so i need only two of them. No need for special software too, just mount it and access with any filemanager. It reads the tags from mp3 files, have a nice sound effects and equalizer, built-in FM radio and some features that i'm not really use, like timer or favorite songs. All this for less than 100 dollars... what i need an iPod for?
I can't say SuSE is novice-friendly... If you want really novice-friendly distro, why not choose Mandrake with it's M$-like installation interface? Or there is Yoper that didn't asks you nothing but a partitioning question and you get a working OS in minutes...
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Are these real people live in vacuum? Do they read news? Did they know what the company they working for is doing? If yes, why didn't they found other job before it was too late? And if no, well, they are stupid and these are results of their stupidity. You may have no say but you always have an option to quit your job and find another when the company you work for is making a foolish actions.
...most people will either not be interested in me very much or will try to take advantage of me and this in fact is what happens. Well said. I totally agree."Iceweasel doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (firefoxurl) isn't associated with any program." I think something broken there in my browser.
+10
#2. Run only what you absolutely need.
#3. Run it with the minimum possible rights.
#4. Profit!
You don't do that often why? Because you want at least some part of your life to be yours, not your employer's, i guess. It is very depressing when you cant go...hiking or something on weekend. :) No matter how comfortable your work environment is and how good you paid.
Have you ever tried to spend all of your time at work?
Users should be educated about the risks of conencting to the Internet - there is no doubt about that.
But they don't want to educate. They even don't want to learn how to use some basic stuff they need, like ICQ or something.
I use KDE on Linux. It happens every time i switch a desktop, clicking in the pager with mouse or just with Ctrl+Fn keys. It driving me nuts... I asked on MozillaZine forums and never got an answer. One more reason to make a switch to Konqueror or something. Another thing that happens very often to me: FF's window just disappears. I can see the header and even click the buttons to minimize it or operate it with keyboard, i see an animation effect when it minmizes/maximizes but whole thing is just invisible. Then it appears again like nothing happened. Enough troubles to one to start to think that Firefox is not as good as it promoted.
Firefox's incompatibility with KDE made me switch to Konqueror. I don't mean to troll, but it is faster and more stable. Unfortunately, it doesn't have all those nice firefox extensions :-(
I feel exactly the same. Switch to Konqueror will be a real pain for me: i use the same profile since FF 0.8, too much passwords that i just don't remember, very long browsing history (i set it to 9999 days) and so on. But i will do it one day, just because Firefox become more and more crap imho.
What about when I want to restart firefox for the fourth time today because I can't enter text into any text fields, or it's sucking up 1GB of memory? :(
It's even worse: each time my wallpaper changes Firefox freezes. Or reading some long discussion on Slashdot, especially when i'm in the middle of the page, switching desktop for a moment, then switcing back and see the page scrolled back to the top... I started to hate Firefox for this, but there's no good alternative
What would realy be awsome? If someone started making an mp3 player that accepted removable flash memory cards so they could be swapped out like cd's (like on a pda).I D=1208/
Note the price...if it dies one day, i will just buy a new one: no service needed.
SanDisk does. I have one, it uses SD cards: http://www.sandisk.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?
One gigabyte of built-in memory and a slot for SD card which reads cards of up to 2 gigabytes. So capacity is unlimited. And i don't think i need 80 GB, i don't even bother to buy more cards: 20 albums that i have there are enough for me. It works with one rechargeable AAA battery which lasts for a week, so i need only two of them. No need for special software too, just mount it and access with any filemanager. It reads the tags from mp3 files, have a nice sound effects and equalizer, built-in FM radio and some features that i'm not really use, like timer or favorite songs. All this for less than 100 dollars... what i need an iPod for?
I've got a requested CD's in couple of months. Maybe re-posting your request will help you?
Because in many cases you just can't say "no". It's your mother asking, can you just say "no" and forget about it?
Yep, that's true. Sad true, but it is. I know some folks having problem to find fonts configuration submenu in KDE's main menu interface...
I can't say SuSE is novice-friendly... If you want really novice-friendly distro, why not choose Mandrake with it's M$-like installation interface? Or there is Yoper that didn't asks you nothing but a partitioning question and you get a working OS in minutes...