On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Aside: I don't know about user-friendly, but Ubuntu is certainly
becoming more like Windows—half the time, the solution to weird
problems is to reboot.
PEBKAC - the same clueless user = same idiotic approach
I
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
As the one who got into that mammoth linux on the desktop fight with atul
chitnis a decade back .. linux is getting there and I am glad to see it.
It is still not there as much as I would like in some critical
On 04-Mar-10, at 1:47 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
[snip]
I disagree. 5-10 years ago, I had a pretty good idea of all the moving
parts behind my desktop. When something broke (which was often) a bit
of deduction would point me at the solution. Nowadays, there are a
whole bunch of things working under
On Thursday 04 March 2010 06:53 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
On 04-Mar-10, at 1:47 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
[snip]
I disagree. 5-10 years ago, I had a pretty good idea of all the moving
parts behind my desktop. When something broke (which was often) a bit
of deduction would point me at the
Dear all,
Based on some sage advice[1], I propose a Bangalore meet-up. Does this
Saturday work? Or is longer term of notice required?
Cheers,
Pranesh
[1]
(20:18:07) Pranesh Prakash:
So, when will the next FoU camp (or even just plain meet up) be?
(20:18:30) Udhay Shankar N:
whenever
On 4 March 2010 20:06, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote:
(And whatever
happened to the Renaissance women?)
Don't know about the Renaissance, but if it's Baroque women you're
looking for, try an image search for BBW. Wouldn't recommend it,
though.
Ram
Thank you all. :)
I am intrigued (sometimes confused) by the debate on this subject. I
trust that there will be more. But, in the meantime, fwiw let me define
a few perspectives as I see them.
Some of the technical language is obscure for me. But the basic fact,
from my angle, is that I am
On 04-Mar-10, at 8:06 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
[snip]
I don't really see any disagreement, really. The idea of something
being easier to use cannot exist without the category of persons
for whom it is so. D-Bus *does* make it easier for many programmers
by allowing them to worry less
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:32:45PM +0100, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
Some of the technical language is obscure for me. But the basic fact,
from my angle, is that I am looking at this from the point of view of
the end user. Who isn't, and shouldn't be, interested in the depth of
the
And, after all, when did we see the last Renaissance man?
(And whatever happened to the Renaissance women?)
They are alive an kicking. Though invisible in the overwhelming flow of
commonplace idiocy.
One called me by phone, out of the blue, a few minutes ago. She read
some things in my
Giancarlo Livraghi wrote, [on 3/4/2010 10:02 PM]:
Has the time come, at last, to bury windows, the microsoft monopoly
and the whole idea of proprietary systems? As far as I can see, the
answer is yes. But very few people around the world are aware of this
opportunity.
In my opinion, what
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Not that I
don't have one lying around, and my favorite HK retailer
dealextreme.com even sells one for $2 (incl. free shipping),
I just lost several hours and $10 on a trial order at that site. Wow!
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
I just lost several hours and $10 on a trial order at that site. Wow!
No kidding! Everything is exactly in the eh-who-cares-its-so-cheap sweet
spot.
--
Balaji
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