Posts by Pookietoo

Re: it gives them time to engineer out those obvious mistakes

Unless you're holding it wrong.

Re: With just a handful of virii.

That's "viruses".

Re: hurray for eBay

Why the thumbs down? Does someone think people should be paying for pirated software?

Re: Optimax and Optical Express DO run websites

Of course they do, but my comment was that satisfied customers don't feel a need to launch personal crusades on the web, unlike dissatisfied customers who feel (for whatever reason) that they have been wronged.

On the one hand there are probably plenty of people running XP who would be just as happy running Linux, but on the other there are some things that XP does that Linux still can't manage (and possibly never will). Of course the obvious solution is to just open source XP. Haha.

Re: She does little else on the system

Surely she'd hardly notice if you stuck a Linux on it then?

Re: If you've ever tried to connect one in dim lighting

I have spectacles and pocket flash-lights to deal with "can't see small things in the gloom". Although I also have black, grey and white USB cables on my desk, in regular, mini and micro sizes - all have white tabs, so I probably wont need my specialist tools anyway.

Re: It would be nice if those live tile thingies could be placed on the desktop

"I think they should be called Wadgets or maybe Gidgets."

How about "Active Desktop"? Oh, no - that was a different nightmare.

Re: Marvel at the NORK technology

What sort of eejit puts fixed landing gear on a drone that presumably needs to optimise speed and range?

Re: Ubuntu

I wouldn't count on it for mainstream Ubuntu. Ubuntu GNOME OTOH says they'll release a PPA for GNOME 3.12 just as soon as it's ready (they're a bit busy preparing Ubuntu 14.04 ATM).

Re: Stop fiddling with my interface!

The thing about Linux is that you don't need to keep whatever interface the distro uses as default. I'm used to having window buttons on the left when using Ubuntu, and on the right with other distros and Windows, just as I got used to using my thumb with some trackballs and my fingers with others - it's really not a huge effort, although it might take a few days until you do it without thinking about it. If you hate having the buttons on the left you can switch them back to the right anyway. As for the car metaphor, some have the steering wheel on the left, some on the right - the first time I used a LHD car on the RHS of the road, when I'd only ever driven RHD on the LHS, I just got in it and drove, it really didn't seem strange at all.

Re: no such thing as user friendliness

You have to be kidding - to install something in any Debian based distro just fire up Synaptic, search for what you want by name or description, click "mark for installation" click "apply" and you're done (with all the dependencies handled for you, and the new software added to the main menu). Includes a centralised update tool that maintains everything in the software repository, without those resource-hogging popup-opening nags that Windows apps stick in the system tray, and without multiple reboots.

Re: the "off-switch"

You could always use the "shutdown" command, maybe even stick it in a shortcut on the desktop ... oh, yeah - no desktop.

Re: "cPanel is a Unix based web hosting control panel"

That's a ==<<WHOOSH>>== then?

Re: Whitehat Greyhat Blackhat

You forgot Arsehat.