Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-14 Thread Guy Baruch
Guy Cohen wrote: Thats a good example. I'm starting to learn auto mechanics tomorrow. It will take me a while to learn, but next time my car brakes, I won't have to spend all that money at the shop. There is a point of diminishing return when trying to study _everything_ , while it may be

RE: A disturbing article...

2002-10-14 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
I don't think you understood my about my ADSL problem (BTW) I tried installing it and I still can't get it to work. I have read the how-to BEZEQ_ADSL_LINUX document but can't get the stupid thing to work! = To unsubscribe, send

RE: A disturbing article...

2002-10-14 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Eytan Heidingsfeld wrote: I don't think you understood my about my ADSL problem (BTW) I tried installing it and I still can't get it to work. I have read the how-to BEZEQ_ADSL_LINUX document but can't get the stupid thing to work! my memory fails me here - did you write

typing Vs. car mecahnics (was: Re: A disturbing article...)

2002-10-14 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Guy Cohen wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:44:48PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: So they didn't waste a month or so fighting their keyboards. But the poor guys still use their keyboards *for years* at a fraction of the speed I regularly type. Thats a good example. I'm

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-13 Thread Oron Peled
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 01:28:09 +0200 Eytan Heidingsfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. At my company I've installed many formatted machine with windows Exactly. So you have lots of experience doing it. Let some computer illiterate do it for the first time and silently watch the fun. I

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-13 Thread Oron Peled
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 02:36:41 +0200 Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: most users don't want to operate their everyday software and they certainly don't want to learn it. and you know what - they are right. To show how much their rightness is wrong, let's take a trivial example. Most of those

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-13 Thread Guy Cohen
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:44:48PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: So they didn't waste a month or so fighting their keyboards. But the poor guys still use their keyboards *for years* at a fraction of the speed I regularly type. Thats a good example. I'm starting to learn auto mechanics tomorrow. It

RE: A disturbing article...

2002-10-13 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: A disturbing article... I want to insert my 5 agorot :) In 96-97 i was computer technician and I remember first Windows 95 users. Firstly, nobody was able to install it completely(with all drivers) without help from experienced people, secondly, for the first users UI

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí ùìéùé, 8 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 23:11, Arie Folger ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:05, Michael Sternberg wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1883 The above article is about somebody who had a terrible

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Guy Cohen
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: most for the fact that a lot of user interactivity and system integrity aspects in Linux in general and Red Hat specificly suck nuts. Heh. Thats total bs. If you can't configure it properly, don't blame the system.

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áùáú, 12 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 17:38, Guy Cohen ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: most for the fact that a lot of user interactivity and system integrity aspects in Linux in general and Red

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
. This isn't a problem of dumb users, it's a design flaw in current Linux distributions. Regards, - yba On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áùáú, 12 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 17:38, Guy Cohen ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': On Sat, Oct 12, 2002

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 October 2002 21:41, you wrote: Hi List, I tend to concur with Oded, The first problem is that Linux advocates usually do not understand just how unusable and inappropriate Linux is for the average person, which leads to the second

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Guy Cohen
here here. Computers are to be *used* by users and installed/configured by the professionals. Even linux :) On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:17:36AM +0200, Mark Veltzer wrote: On Saturday 12 October 2002 21:41, you wrote: Hi List, I tend to concur with Oded, The first problem is that Linux

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oleg Kobets
explained a little bit on Linux. (ie, they scared because it's not like windows) - Original Message - From: Mark Veltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan Ben Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:17 AM Subject: Re: A disturbing article

RE: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
I disagree. At my company I've installed many formatted machine with windows and had a very easy time performing the installation including setting up servers connecting to the network etc. I just recently installed linux at home and I still can't get ADSL to work on it (a whole week playing

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002, Mark Veltzer wrote about Re: A disturbing article...: Actually Linux works much better out of the box than windows *** IF *** you compare two machine which come scratched (nothing on the hard drive). But since machines don't come that way it *** looks *** like windows

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:41:15 +0200 (IST) Jonathan Ben Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first problem is that Linux advocates usually do not understand just how unusable and inappropriate Linux is for the average person, which The guy in the story had most problems in *configuring* Linux,

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:00:37 +0200 Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I use the system's configuration program to switch to another desktop and then switch back - I do expect to get back to exactly the same desktop I left, otherwise its a bug. Definitely. A system that works 100% after

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí øàùåï, 13 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 00:17, Mark Veltzer ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': I beg to differ. I willing to wager that 90% of windows users NEVER install their operating systems. Either the sys admin at the company they are at does

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí øàùåï, 13 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 00:33, Oron Peled ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': A system that works 100% after you read the total of two large instruction books and spend several days writing configuration files still sucks. Many

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-10 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:05, Michael Sternberg wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1883 The above article is about somebody who had a terrible experience with RH8.0. It seems that his network settings and possibly some daemons and X ran amock. Anybody on list care to share

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:05:18AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1883 I think it was agreed a few months ago that such messages should contain a small description of the article, for those that do not have the whole day to read such things. It's