I was going to say that Longhorn wasn't used in the production version, but I just remembered that Ubuntu don't use the silly monikers in their final versions either? So you could almost get away with not using it. Though I think the repositories or something still use them?
The thing is that all people under 25 basically know how to use a computer these days, but there are some who just haven't had much experience with them. My grandpa never thought he'd use a computer, though then he got a hand-me-down from my aunt. I'm happy that he at least is learning to use them, if not learn about how a processor works and such. There are basic principles of sense and security that people need to follow (especially on Windows), and it would be nice if that were a mandatory requirement to use a computer, driving license style, but I don't see that happening anytime soon:P
Yarr. Though I tried Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3 and it isn't very responsive.. I think the lack of RAM is a sore point for a generalised OS? Or is it just from the lack of graphics acceleration being 'allowed' by the PS3 OS that Linux runs on top of?
Limping along with the current system of email is just a bad idea anyway, it needs to be secure from the ground up, not just tagged on after. Spammers can generate a whole lot of credit with a botnet as well, so the only person that gets inconvenienced here are those that are trying to send legitimate mails. They also have to contribute processor time and energy to a cause that they might not be wanting to support (if they contribute to another charity or whatever)..
Not really, they're talking about what is part of the OS. Windows doesn't have multibutton support either. Using the argument that "well, how come Windows has a 3rd party driver?" is pretty immature, because it's obvious that more obscure functionality (who the heck would even want a 10 button mouse? My current mouse has 5 or 6 buttons but I still only use 2 and the scroll wheel.. sometimes click the massive 'back' button by mistake too) isn't always going to be available on Linux right out of the box, and that the manufacturers probably won't be making their own Linux drivers. Someone has already pointed out that there is some free software that can configure multi-button bluetooth mice, called BTNX. And so the free hippy software vs evil commercial software balance is restored (for this case at least)
Bravo, I didn't even notice the ambiguity there:) far too early in the morning
I'm thinking the gravity gun would have been enough defense though. At least with the coconuts you can sense them with a geiger counter. You can't be so sure with the head crabs and drop bears though..:/
I was rather stunned when, planning my trip to AU a few years ago, I realized that ONE nuclear sub could take out the whole country!
Or at least send it to Mad Max-land. Hmm.. so did you ever go on holiday or did you just decide to keep enjoying the tinned food and cable TV in your basement.. uh.. I mean bomb shelter?
lol.. haven't heard of that one. I wasn't actually trolling above, I'm looking forward to trying out the new version of Ubuntu, but the name is.. rather unfortunate? How can you expect anyone to get their friends to let them install 'hardy heron' on their machine?
This is why you make those floppy boot disk thingies. Or, you could just do a repair of Windows, or Linux. When you play with OS installation, ye needs to be careful.
I'm pretty sure I managed 2 monitors after maybe 30 mins of googling to acquaint myself with xorg.conf or whatever it is;) was a while back though, can't remember. Last time I tried an Ubuntu live CD my Mac puked all over it:(
Does Windows have a GUI for configuring all the buttons of a multi-button mouse, or a GUI for configuring touchpads? AFAIK you'd need 3rd party software to do those things.
It may seem easy to you when you've been learning about computers for years.. it's really hard to get into the mindset of someone who doesn't know ANYTHING about computers - I'd probably say impossible in my case, because there are so many things that I just take for granted as I've been learning for 2 decades since I was four. Computers are actually pretty complicated:P Actually installing drivers these days is the same as installing any other piece of software really, but it has the potential to seriously screw things up if you do it wrong (again, pretty hard to install the wrong drivers on XP because by default it only lists 'compatible' drivers).. but meh yeah the whole concept of 'drivers' just is completely alien to a normal person. I guess a decent analogy would be that a driver is like a phrasebook to communicate with someone in another language, except it's a phrasebook for the OS to use to communicate with hardware.. so maybe easy enough to explain, but there are a million little things that you just take for granted, that have to be explained to people, and it's all too much to teach to them in a short space of time..
You do get some people who are willing to learn and pick things up pretty quickly, but you are right that you also get people who think that just because something is on a computer that it must be impossible compared to 'real life' stuff.. the type of person who always follows instructions to the letter and doesn't actually try to understand what they are doing when they are following the instructions (I hate just having a list of instructions to follow with no explanation of what is actually happening.. grrr). Okay.. rant over I guess. But even driving is a lot simpler than using a computer, despite the complexities of skill and attention necessary to drive safely
In-depth 3rd Party Analysis Linux & Windows Well, I guess they didn't say 'unbiased', so maybe it isn't quite as pathetic as it seems at first.. who would be enough of a moron to make their informed Windows Server vs Linux decision based purely on information on the MS website? -.-
"the masses" want to surf porn, buy stuff from ebay and play their stilly computer games. Interesting that they can do all of that on a console these days..:P I wonder if consoles becoming more networkable is having any direct effect on PC gaming, and possibly even some people are crazy enough to just use their console instead of their desktop machine, at least for the people you are describing who don't also use MS Word every so often
Do I see several Amiga fans' eyes glowing in the murky gloom?:)
I guess they will still be using drivers for the cards though, even if they are not using DirectX? But this is closer to bashing right on the hardware =p if cards were all made to conform to a certain set of intructions (presumably along the lines of how all x86 processors have the same basic instructions?), we'd be able to eliminate the need for drivers there:p Old systems could use the new cards by having a driver for the new instruction set. Not that today's cards are slow or anything, but it would be nice to get rid of parts of the OS that aren't really necessary if you do the hardware interfaces right..:p
Uh. I think I'd rather use the phone. And that's really saying something. Usually when someone needs my attention, they need it very soon.. talking about work situations here of course, for personal email your method would be crap to middling.
I used it to test out a new server once just to make sure it was stable, after having crashing/network card issues during installation of Windows. Being the IT manager (okay, so the only IT staffer, hehe) I didn't really need to get the go ahead to do that though:P I agree that for that many computers, the power consumption costs really would be too many. For your own workstation it would probably be fine. I've noticed one engineer at work had his screensaver set to do climate change calculations or something along those lines.
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I don't know, it has a certain cutesy appeal, rather than the spoonerised smut of the heron :P
I was going to say that Longhorn wasn't used in the production version, but I just remembered that Ubuntu don't use the silly monikers in their final versions either? So you could almost get away with not using it. Though I think the repositories or something still use them?
The thing is that all people under 25 basically know how to use a computer these days, but there are some who just haven't had much experience with them. My grandpa never thought he'd use a computer, though then he got a hand-me-down from my aunt. I'm happy that he at least is learning to use them, if not learn about how a processor works and such. There are basic principles of sense and security that people need to follow (especially on Windows), and it would be nice if that were a mandatory requirement to use a computer, driving license style, but I don't see that happening anytime soon :P
Yarr. Though I tried Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3 and it isn't very responsive.. I think the lack of RAM is a sore point for a generalised OS? Or is it just from the lack of graphics acceleration being 'allowed' by the PS3 OS that Linux runs on top of?
Limping along with the current system of email is just a bad idea anyway, it needs to be secure from the ground up, not just tagged on after. Spammers can generate a whole lot of credit with a botnet as well, so the only person that gets inconvenienced here are those that are trying to send legitimate mails. They also have to contribute processor time and energy to a cause that they might not be wanting to support (if they contribute to another charity or whatever)..
Hardy is fine. Try mixing around the letters from both words.
Not really, they're talking about what is part of the OS. Windows doesn't have multibutton support either. Using the argument that "well, how come Windows has a 3rd party driver?" is pretty immature, because it's obvious that more obscure functionality (who the heck would even want a 10 button mouse? My current mouse has 5 or 6 buttons but I still only use 2 and the scroll wheel.. sometimes click the massive 'back' button by mistake too) isn't always going to be available on Linux right out of the box, and that the manufacturers probably won't be making their own Linux drivers. Someone has already pointed out that there is some free software that can configure multi-button bluetooth mice, called BTNX. And so the free hippy software vs evil commercial software balance is restored (for this case at least)
Bravo, I didn't even notice the ambiguity there :) far too early in the morning
:/
I'm thinking the gravity gun would have been enough defense though. At least with the coconuts you can sense them with a geiger counter. You can't be so sure with the head crabs and drop bears though..
I for one welcome our redundant radioactive coconut welcoming overlords. I was going to go for the mutated coral angle myself.
lol.. haven't heard of that one. I wasn't actually trolling above, I'm looking forward to trying out the new version of Ubuntu, but the name is .. rather unfortunate? How can you expect anyone to get their friends to let them install 'hardy heron' on their machine?
This is why you make those floppy boot disk thingies. Or, you could just do a repair of Windows, or Linux. When you play with OS installation, ye needs to be careful.
I'm pretty sure I managed 2 monitors after maybe 30 mins of googling to acquaint myself with xorg.conf or whatever it is ;) was a while back though, can't remember. Last time I tried an Ubuntu live CD my Mac puked all over it :(
*cough*OSX?*cough*
Does Windows have a GUI for configuring all the buttons of a multi-button mouse, or a GUI for configuring touchpads? AFAIK you'd need 3rd party software to do those things.
It may seem easy to you when you've been learning about computers for years.. it's really hard to get into the mindset of someone who doesn't know ANYTHING about computers - I'd probably say impossible in my case, because there are so many things that I just take for granted as I've been learning for 2 decades since I was four. Computers are actually pretty complicated :P Actually installing drivers these days is the same as installing any other piece of software really, but it has the potential to seriously screw things up if you do it wrong (again, pretty hard to install the wrong drivers on XP because by default it only lists 'compatible' drivers).. but meh yeah the whole concept of 'drivers' just is completely alien to a normal person. I guess a decent analogy would be that a driver is like a phrasebook to communicate with someone in another language, except it's a phrasebook for the OS to use to communicate with hardware.. so maybe easy enough to explain, but there are a million little things that you just take for granted, that have to be explained to people, and it's all too much to teach to them in a short space of time..
You do get some people who are willing to learn and pick things up pretty quickly, but you are right that you also get people who think that just because something is on a computer that it must be impossible compared to 'real life' stuff.. the type of person who always follows instructions to the letter and doesn't actually try to understand what they are doing when they are following the instructions (I hate just having a list of instructions to follow with no explanation of what is actually happening.. grrr). Okay.. rant over I guess. But even driving is a lot simpler than using a computer, despite the complexities of skill and attention necessary to drive safely
wow, I've never seen a post by a graphics card before!
Hey man, you should try out this latest version of Linux!
Oh ya I heard about that Linux thing, there are so many versions of it though, it confuses me - what is this one?
It's Ubuntu! The latest release, hairy hardon[1]! I mean.. oh.. bleh, nevermind.. *retreats*
[1] does this mean it's the 'porn browsing' edition?
Do I see several Amiga fans' eyes glowing in the murky gloom? :)
:p Old systems could use the new cards by having a driver for the new instruction set. Not that today's cards are slow or anything, but it would be nice to get rid of parts of the OS that aren't really necessary if you do the hardware interfaces right.. :p
I guess they will still be using drivers for the cards though, even if they are not using DirectX? But this is closer to bashing right on the hardware =p if cards were all made to conform to a certain set of intructions (presumably along the lines of how all x86 processors have the same basic instructions?), we'd be able to eliminate the need for drivers there
Uh. I think I'd rather use the phone. And that's really saying something. Usually when someone needs my attention, they need it very soon.. talking about work situations here of course, for personal email your method would be crap to middling.
I used it to test out a new server once just to make sure it was stable, after having crashing/network card issues during installation of Windows. Being the IT manager (okay, so the only IT staffer, hehe) I didn't really need to get the go ahead to do that though :P I agree that for that many computers, the power consumption costs really would be too many. For your own workstation it would probably be fine. I've noticed one engineer at work had his screensaver set to do climate change calculations or something along those lines.
'S quantum that is.
In soviet russia-oh damnit I'm too late