I work in a computer custom-build / parts / repair store, and a HUGE chunk is backup/reinstall. Aside from that though, there's one other Linux user (or rather "I used Red Hat on a server a few years ago. Maybe I should try Linux again" but doesn't remember how to do a lot and isn't up to date on the new stuff). There's also one guy who thinks the two of us are nuts. I asked why, and he said "Linux is bad." "Why's it bad?" "It works. It actually works. I can't get paid to fix it like I can with Windows." Yesterday he was looking at my laptop when I had Beryl running. He thought it was Vista. I told him "Vista can't do this" and zoomed the octagon out (yeah, mine's not a cube) and showed the wobbly windows, and did the Expose thing. He said he saw something with Vista doing that, and I told him he was thinking of OSX which has the Expose thing and will soon have virtual desktop. He asked if it slows me down. I told him that with a DVD and all my regular apps going and Beryl, I never use any virtual memory (not going to swap to a Windows guy), but I use about 900MB of RAM. He asked how much RAM I have total and I said 1GB, and he was surprised that there were never any pagefiles used with those kind of graphics, while Vista slows down with its less-impressive graphics. Oh, I did run Vista on this laptop for 4 days. The screensaver couldn't even move properly.
Apt-get? Why is any non-techie even using that? That's what Synaptic is for!
My mom uses Ubuntu. She loves it. This is the woman who has to hold down backspace after double-clicking an old file in order to get a blank one in MS Word, and is afraid of right-clicking. For now I have it set so she's not a sudoer, and I told her she can't break it and should click around as much as she wants (even right-clicking is safe) without worrying about breaking it. Hopefully she'll take that advice and learn to use it without being afraid by the time I go home in May. Maybe then I can give her sudo rights and show her how easily Synaptic works.
Well, re the GIMP's multi-window thing, that's how Photoshop works on a Mac. They seem to have no issues with it.
And for those who like lowlevel and hate GUIs, drivers, please! The more often I get pleasant surprises like "that webcam that didn't work on Windows works OOTB on Linux" the happier I am about using Linux. That digital picture keychain I got for Christmas doesn't work. I'll take it as an opportunity to learn driver writing. Most would take it as evidence that Linux is useless because it doesn't work with random-gadget. I hate telling people that their stuff isn't Linux-compatible. The less we have to say it, the better. The more they get pleasant "wow, and I don't even need the little cd it came with?" surprises, the better.
No, I meant that it doesn't seem to be aimed at random-guy-who-shoots-up-a-school or an angry mob, but at an organized group defending their town. Back then, say the "Injuns" were attacking a village, the people could organize and fight off the attackers. Now, not so necessary, but if the US was invaded, that could come in handy.
haha the hardcore feminists on LinuxChix exaggerate about/. being all full of misogynists. it's mostly normal people (well, as normal as geeks get), IMO, but then, I guess to a feminazi we're all misogynists:-P
I switched my mom to Linux and OOo and now I get less (read: no) computer questions. The only question I got was "can I install updates, or do you have to do that?" She can even get new documents in OOo all by herself. In MS Office she opened and old one, then held down backspace to erase it all. That would give a her a blank document ^_^
K Street? The Center for American Progress is on Eye Street (I street, but I is easy to confuse with 1, so it's often spelled Eye, even on buildings) and I know I've seen lobbyists' buildings pointed out elsewhere by a guy I know at CAP.
I think the part about security was about it having AV, but not spyware and adware scans. You still need to get those separately. I don' think the AV is included free anyway. And well, aside from "you must put our stuff on there!!!bah!!!" what has MS ever done that wasn't copied off anyone (usually Apple, just look at Vista's UI) else? Not that I'm calling Apple terribly original either, Xerox invented the GUI;)
If they were a good black-hatter A) they know what they're doing better than some CEH who learned from a book and doesn't know the newest tricks B) they never got caught anyway. Heck, B is why I know hackers who call Kevin Mitnick "the first moron to get caught."
It's the same that's happening with MSN Instant Messaging: It's broken, the official client is the worst IM client I've ever seen, and it does not support important features as formatted text (multiple formatting in a single message), but people use it.
Also, when somebody wants to discuss something, or just talk, over the Internet, he/she asks "What's your MSN?".
Uh, since when? It's always "what's your sn?" and it's in reference to AIM. I know like 3 people who actually use MSN. Every other kid uses AIM (or signs onto AIM using Trillian).
Hey, me too. Used to speak Spanish along with Japanese, but haven't in so many years it wore off. Japanese kept popping into my head when I started studying Russian too though.
There was a girl seated directly next to me in the the first programming class I attended. She possessed a remarkable, innate inability to understand any of the topics, and stumbled through her first hello world without ever understanding it. I'm not saying the teacher was the best I've seen. He was, at best, mediocre. The problem is that, after talking to her, I found out that she was really in the class because she was challenging the attitude that women couldn't code. Unfortunately for her, and all women, she failed miserably, and only managed to get a passing grade because she combined her emotional pleading with accusations of sexism.
I can't figure out if it's she or I who should be ashamed of being a woman after that story. Maybe I should be ashamed that she's a woman. I have no problem demonstrating what she failed to demonstrate (in class at least...being told to implement something I've never heard of within one week of it first being mentioned and with no instruction whatsoever--a doubly linked list--doesn't work so great) and then helping the boys out. At least, I spent all of last year's programming class spending 1/4 of allotted time coding, 1/4 triple-checking that it would not crash, and the other 1/2 a combination of being bored, chatting, and debugging other people's code.
Well one of the techs at work looks at Linux-using-me and says "Linux is bad. It actually works, so I can't get paid to fix it." He doesn't listen when I point out that teaching Linux to future sys-admins will earn you more $$$ than fixing Windows will.
How DOES Outlook (or rather, given my OS of choice, Evolution) work? Can you only get your email from that specific computer? If so, that's really stupid, and I'll happily stick to web-based e-mail.
That's the difference between teaching applications and teaching computing concepts. The first and foremost concept is "GUIs are designed to be intuitive. What category does what you want to do fall under? Okay, so click THAT category then." If you can't figure out if Word or Writer or AbiWord falls under "Office" or "Games" or "Internet" you have some big issues.
or in my case "that's how much i broke stuff while trying to figure out how the heck my sister broke the darned thing"
I just told my mom that I set up Linux so that she has no administrative abilities, meaning she CAN'T break it. She's free to click whatever she wants and not be afraid of breaking anything, just explore. Hopefully, she'll take that advice, because she's never been one to click around. Maybe the knowledge that she really can't cause lasting harm will give her a bit less restraint in clicking on everything in sight. Now if only I could get my siblings to learn from their mistakes after clicking the wrong thing. You'd think at 17 years old they'd be able to get that "downloading things that are advertised in Flash ads is a bad idea" but they still do that crap.
BTW one reason women may not go into male dominated professions is the constant being hit upon, and the sexist attitudes displayed (exhibit A: slashdot)
You know, I joined/. because I heard about how bad it was toward women and I wanted to see for myself. Usually, not too bad, though I'm not a feminist so all the references to pr0n don't bother me one bit. I've seen one response where someone said bad computer users were called "women," but that's about it. I did get hit on on here (marriage proposal, I think) once. A guy I worked with in a guitar star did the marriage proposal thing too after I tipped my hand by making a binary joke. The creepy 40-something hitting on underage-at-the-time me because "zomg a girl who can talk about computers" was really really not cool, though. But hey, I'm dating a hacker now and rather than being told "you're a girl, no wonder you can't code" I get "you need some practice, but I know you can code that if you try." I think he's wrong about me being able to get a doubly linked list right by tomorrow, but I'd rather hear guys say it's the effort that matters, not the gender.
What would your professor say to the terms "ze" and "hir"? Or would it be best to write "he, she, or ze may do so"? Simply writing "ze went to the park with hir toys" could also work. Gender-neutral pronouns like these have yet to be put in the dictionary,though. Maybe it is best to simply stick with "one" for now.
hehe I'm a freshman. About six months before school started I was talking to a now-schoolmate on the internet while I was coding. When I said what I was doing, he replied, "wait, but I thought you were a girl." When I said I was, he asked why I was coding.
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rc6 is in there right now. I think rc7 exists (uh, or did) though
I work in a computer custom-build / parts / repair store, and a HUGE chunk is backup/reinstall. Aside from that though, there's one other Linux user (or rather "I used Red Hat on a server a few years ago. Maybe I should try Linux again" but doesn't remember how to do a lot and isn't up to date on the new stuff). There's also one guy who thinks the two of us are nuts. I asked why, and he said "Linux is bad." "Why's it bad?" "It works. It actually works. I can't get paid to fix it like I can with Windows." Yesterday he was looking at my laptop when I had Beryl running. He thought it was Vista. I told him "Vista can't do this" and zoomed the octagon out (yeah, mine's not a cube) and showed the wobbly windows, and did the Expose thing. He said he saw something with Vista doing that, and I told him he was thinking of OSX which has the Expose thing and will soon have virtual desktop. He asked if it slows me down. I told him that with a DVD and all my regular apps going and Beryl, I never use any virtual memory (not going to swap to a Windows guy), but I use about 900MB of RAM. He asked how much RAM I have total and I said 1GB, and he was surprised that there were never any pagefiles used with those kind of graphics, while Vista slows down with its less-impressive graphics. Oh, I did run Vista on this laptop for 4 days. The screensaver couldn't even move properly.
Apt-get? Why is any non-techie even using that? That's what Synaptic is for!
My mom uses Ubuntu. She loves it. This is the woman who has to hold down backspace after double-clicking an old file in order to get a blank one in MS Word, and is afraid of right-clicking. For now I have it set so she's not a sudoer, and I told her she can't break it and should click around as much as she wants (even right-clicking is safe) without worrying about breaking it. Hopefully she'll take that advice and learn to use it without being afraid by the time I go home in May. Maybe then I can give her sudo rights and show her how easily Synaptic works.
Well, re the GIMP's multi-window thing, that's how Photoshop works on a Mac. They seem to have no issues with it.
And for those who like lowlevel and hate GUIs, drivers, please! The more often I get pleasant surprises like "that webcam that didn't work on Windows works OOTB on Linux" the happier I am about using Linux. That digital picture keychain I got for Christmas doesn't work. I'll take it as an opportunity to learn driver writing. Most would take it as evidence that Linux is useless because it doesn't work with random-gadget. I hate telling people that their stuff isn't Linux-compatible. The less we have to say it, the better. The more they get pleasant "wow, and I don't even need the little cd it came with?" surprises, the better.
No, I meant that it doesn't seem to be aimed at random-guy-who-shoots-up-a-school or an angry mob, but at an organized group defending their town. Back then, say the "Injuns" were attacking a village, the people could organize and fight off the attackers. Now, not so necessary, but if the US was invaded, that could come in handy.
There's also the part about it being for an organized militia. You left that out.
haha the hardcore feminists on LinuxChix exaggerate about /. being all full of misogynists. it's mostly normal people (well, as normal as geeks get), IMO, but then, I guess to a feminazi we're all misogynists :-P
I switched my mom to Linux and OOo and now I get less (read: no) computer questions. The only question I got was "can I install updates, or do you have to do that?" She can even get new documents in OOo all by herself. In MS Office she opened and old one, then held down backspace to erase it all. That would give a her a blank document ^_^
K Street? The Center for American Progress is on Eye Street (I street, but I is easy to confuse with 1, so it's often spelled Eye, even on buildings) and I know I've seen lobbyists' buildings pointed out elsewhere by a guy I know at CAP.
Maybe the ARE bad parents though for letting their kids go random places with strangers.
I think the part about security was about it having AV, but not spyware and adware scans. You still need to get those separately. I don' think the AV is included free anyway. And well, aside from "you must put our stuff on there!!!bah!!!" what has MS ever done that wasn't copied off anyone (usually Apple, just look at Vista's UI) else? Not that I'm calling Apple terribly original either, Xerox invented the GUI ;)
What makes you think they pay for software? From what I've heard, Asia's full of pirated Windows and such.
If they were a good black-hatter A) they know what they're doing better than some CEH who learned from a book and doesn't know the newest tricks B) they never got caught anyway. Heck, B is why I know hackers who call Kevin Mitnick "the first moron to get caught."
Uh, since when? It's always "what's your sn?" and it's in reference to AIM. I know like 3 people who actually use MSN. Every other kid uses AIM (or signs onto AIM using Trillian).
Hey, me too. Used to speak Spanish along with Japanese, but haven't in so many years it wore off. Japanese kept popping into my head when I started studying Russian too though.
It does.
I think the GP was talking about Accounting.
Well one of the techs at work looks at Linux-using-me and says "Linux is bad. It actually works, so I can't get paid to fix it." He doesn't listen when I point out that teaching Linux to future sys-admins will earn you more $$$ than fixing Windows will.
How DOES Outlook (or rather, given my OS of choice, Evolution) work? Can you only get your email from that specific computer? If so, that's really stupid, and I'll happily stick to web-based e-mail.
That's the difference between teaching applications and teaching computing concepts. The first and foremost concept is "GUIs are designed to be intuitive. What category does what you want to do fall under? Okay, so click THAT category then." If you can't figure out if Word or Writer or AbiWord falls under "Office" or "Games" or "Internet" you have some big issues.
or in my case "that's how much i broke stuff while trying to figure out how the heck my sister broke the darned thing"
I just told my mom that I set up Linux so that she has no administrative abilities, meaning she CAN'T break it. She's free to click whatever she wants and not be afraid of breaking anything, just explore. Hopefully, she'll take that advice, because she's never been one to click around. Maybe the knowledge that she really can't cause lasting harm will give her a bit less restraint in clicking on everything in sight. Now if only I could get my siblings to learn from their mistakes after clicking the wrong thing. You'd think at 17 years old they'd be able to get that "downloading things that are advertised in Flash ads is a bad idea" but they still do that crap.
What would your professor say to the terms "ze" and "hir"? Or would it be best to write "he, she, or ze may do so"? Simply writing "ze went to the park with hir toys" could also work. Gender-neutral pronouns like these have yet to be put in the dictionary,though. Maybe it is best to simply stick with "one" for now.
hehe I'm a freshman. About six months before school started I was talking to a now-schoolmate on the internet while I was coding. When I said what I was doing, he replied, "wait, but I thought you were a girl." When I said I was, he asked why I was coding.